in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
the English Sectaries and of their foul dealing herein by partial and false translations c. Rhemes 1582. oct Answered in a book intituled A defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue c. Lond. 1583. oct Written by Will. Fulke D. D. Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Treatise of Christian Peregrination and relicks Printed 1583. oct Epistles to certain of his friends The last of which which is the largest dat 15. Oct. 1575. was written to Dr. Tho. Whyte then lately Warden of New Coll. touching his following the world and dissembling in Religion against his conscience and knowledge Of the love of the soul with questions to the Protestants Printed at Roan in Normandy He hath also written other books which remain in MS. in several Libraries beyond the Sea as I conceive treating of Divinity In the Year 1584 was set forth a certain book which one calls a horrid piece of Popish malice against Queen Elizab. wherein her Gentlewomen were exhorted to act the like against the Queen as Judith had done with applause and commendations against Holofernes The Author was never discovered but the suspicion lighted upon Gregory Martin one very learned in the Greek and Lat. tongues as my Author before quoted saith but how he could be Author having been dead two years before that time I cannot say He also was the chief Man that translated the New Testament printed at Rhemes 1582 for which work his name remains precious to this day among those of his party He also made other translations which are preserved in MS. in certain Libraries among which is the Tragedy of Cyrus King of Persia which is as some say in the Library of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon. See the titles of other books which are remembred by one that knew him while I in the mean time tell you that our Author dying 28. year 1582 Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Parish Church of St. Stephen at Rheimes There is an Epitaph over his grave comprehended in 16 verses the two first of which are these Quem tulit umbrosis tenerum Southsaxia sylvis Gallica qua spectat regna Britannus ager The rest I shall now omit for brevity sake and proceed to the next in order who was a Romanist also WILLIAM HART a most zealous young Man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Somersetshire entred in his puerile years into Lincoln Coll. an 1572 where after he had been instructed in Grammar and Logick left it without a Degree his relations and Country and going beyond the Seas to Doway compleated his studies in Philosophy Afterwards he travelled to Rome studied Divinity and was there made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England before he was 24 years of age settled in Yorkshire where he administred comfort to the afflicted Catholicks for a considerable time with little or no interruption At length being taken and imprison'd at York he wrot Letters to certaine Catholicks Letters to his spiritual Sons Letters to the afflicted Cath. and to those that suffer in Prison Letters to a noble Matron All which at least 10 in number were as I presume written by him in the English tongue The Latine copies with many things of their Author you may see in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia p. 104. mention'd in Joh. Bridgwater among the writers following under the Year 1594. This Will. Hart was hang'd drawn and quarter'd for being a R. Priest at York on the 15 of March in Fifteen hundred eighty and two and his quarters afterwards hanged up in publick places In his time were several young Scholars of Lincoln Coll. educated and afterwards professed themselves openly to be R. Catholicks having received instructions from some of the Fellows that were inclined that way but chiefly from the Rector thereof Job Bridgwater before-mentioned who always at last his Rectory to prevent expulsion Some of them I shall mention as they lay in my way NICHOLAS HARPESFEILD an eminent Theologist well skill'd in both the Laws and in Greek History and Poetry in all or most of which faculties having written very well do report him renowned by those of his own perswasion His first being in this World he received in the Parish of St. Marie Magd. in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and his Grammaticals in Wykehams School near to Winchester In 1536 he was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served 2 years of probation there about which time having with great industry gone through all the parts of Philosophy he applyed himself to the study of the Civil and Canon Law wherein he became very eminent In 1544 he being then Bach. of the Civ Law of about an year standing was admitted Principal of an ancient hostle mostly for Civilians called White hall on the Site of which Jesus Coll. was afterwards partly built and in 1546 he was appointed by K. Hen. 8. to be the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue in the University In 1553 he left his Fellowship took the Degree of Doctor of his faculty and had then considerable practice in the Court of Arches In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Canterbury in the place of Edm. Crammer Brother to the Archb. deprived for being married and in the beginning of Qu. Elizab. he was one of the 7 R. Cath. Divines who were to dispute with those of the Protestant party concerning matters of Religion when Qu. Eliz. was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England But that matter coming to nothing he was soon after imprison'd for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and thereupon had opportunity given to write several books some of which follow Dialogi sex contra summi pontificatûs monasticae vitae sanctorum sacrorum imaginum oppugnatores pseudo-Martyres Antw. 1566. qu. Which book being put into the hands of his friend Alan Cope he put it out under his name lest danger should befall the Author in Prison See before in Alan Cope an 1580. Our Author Harpesfeild wrot also Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica à primis gentis susceptae fi dei incunabilis ad nostra fere tempora deducta Duac 1622. fol. published by Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit 'T is a book no less learnedly than painfully performed and abating his partiality to his own interest he well deserves of all posterity The original of this Ecclesiastical history written with the Authors own hand is in the Cottonian Library under Vitellius C. 9. num 12. and a copy of it in two volumes is in the Archbishops Library at Lambeth L. 3. and 4. But in that copy in the Cottonian are several things expunged by the Licenser and not at all remitted into the printed copy Among which are these to be in p. 422. cap. 2. lin 4. and to come in between the words inter exitialem and Qui omnis c. Non
another hand but not without the help of that translation of Turbervile though not acknowledged The person that performed it was Tho. Harvey who writes himself Gent. But whether the same Tho. Harvey who was Master of Arts the first Master of Kington School in Herefordshire founded 1620. and the author of The Synagogue in imitation of divine Herbert I know not As for George Turbervile he lived and was in great esteem among ingenious men in fifteen hundred ninety and four 36. Reg. Elizab. but when he dyed I cannot yet learn I find one George Turbervile to be author of 1 Essays politick and moral Printed 1608. in oct 2 The noble art of Venery or hunting and hawking Printed with figures in 1611. in qu. c. Whether George Turbervile before-mentioned was the author of the said two books or another of both his names who was a Dorsetshire man born and a Commoner of Glouc. Hall An. 1581. aged 18. or a third G. Turbervile who was born in the said County and became a Student in Magd. Hall 1595. aged 17. I cannot justly tell you unless I could see and peruse the said two books of which I am as yet totally ignorant HENRY WALPOOLE elder Brother to Mich. and Rich. Walpoole Jesuits was born in the County of Norfolk educated in both the Universities but in what College or Hall in Oxon it doth not appear because not matriculated so that his stay here being I persume but short nothing occurs memorable of him only that he was inclined to Puritanism which made Pasquil in his Apology to challenge Oxford men to enquire and tell him whether the said Walpoole was not a Puritan when he forsook them Soon after his retirement from the University he became so zealous a Roman Catholick that endeavouring to perswade others to his Opinion he was forced to leave his station whereupon going to Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus in 1584. aged 25 years where continuing for some time he went afterwards into Spain and when he had spent certain years there he journeyed into Holland where he suffer'd much upon account of Religion In 1593. he was sent into England was seized on at his first entry therein and carried to York where he was imprisoned for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England The next year he was sent to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower where he suffered much misery After an years durance there in which time several Ministers were with to persuade him to recant but in vain he was sent back to York where he suffered death as I shall tell you anon He hath written in English Verse The Martyrdom of Edm. Campian the Jesuit and other things that are not printed having been secured by certain Protestants when the author was imprisoned at York at which place he was hanged drawn and quartered for Treason on the 17. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 See more of him in a book intit Bibl. Script Soc. Jesu written originally by Pet. Ribadeneira Lugd. 1609. in oct continued by Philip Alcgambc Antw. 1643. fol. and at length by Nath. Sotvellus commonly called Southwell of the Family of the Southwells in Norfolk Rom. 1676. fol. See also in Historia Provinciae Anglicanae Soc. Jesu lib. 5. nu 33 34. written by Henry More an English-man a descendant from Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England Which Hen. tells us that the said Hen. Walpoole was educated in Cambridge without any notice taken of Oxon. The learned Camden in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth doth make mention of one of the Walpooles an 1598. but which I cannot yet tell JOHN HARTE was educated in most kinds of literature in Oxon but in what College or Hall I cannot find One Mr. Harte was a Sojournour of Exeter College An. 1551. 5. Ed. 6. but him I take to be too soon for our author who was but a young Man when he encountred Dr. Jo. Rainolds in a disputation What degrees he took here it appears not though those of his Profession the Jesuits tell us that he was Bachelaur of Divinity of Oxon yet upon the strict perusal of our Registers I cannot find the least authority for it After he had left this University being then and before very unsettled and wavering in mind he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion took priestly Orders and was sent into the Mission of England but soon after taken and committed to Prison to a filthy dungeon as a noted author tells us who adds that after he whom he calls the happy young Confessor had been often by Famine tormented was unexpectedly brought out to encounter Joh. Rainolds before-mentioned An. 1583. or thereabouts Which disputation being smartly held on both sides those of Harte's Persuasion say that Rainolds was foiled though the opposite not upon some years after was published The summ of a conference between Joh. Rainolds and Jo. Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church c. Lond. 1588. qu. See more in Jo. Rainolds under the year 1607. Afterwards our Author Harte who is stiled by a learned Author Vir praecaeteris doctissimus being banished with divers other R. Priests in 1584. he went to Verdune where he entred into the Society of Jesus Thence he was called to Rome where making some stay till authority commanded him thence he went into Poland and settled for a time at Jareslaw At length giving way to Fate on the 14. of the Cal. of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 or thereabouts was buried at Jareslaw or Joreslaw Seven years after his Body was taken up and translated to another place belonging to the Jesuits who had an high esteem for his Person while living sanctity of Life and Learning and when dead for his memory I find another John Hart who was Chester Herald and wrote and published An Orthography containing the due Order and Reason how to write or paint the Image of Man's Voice most like to the Life or Nature Lond. 1569. And another Jo. Hart of later time who among other Books did publish The burning Bush not consumed wherein one may judge whether he be the Child of God or not Lond. 1641. 2. fourth edit But whether this last who was a zealous Puritan if not worse or the former who was an Herald were of this University I know not as yet THOMAS DIGGES Son of Leonard Digges mentioned before under the year 1574. by Sarah his Wife Sister to Jam. and Tho. Wilford two most valiant Knights of Hartridge in the Parish of Crainbrook in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated among the Oxonian Muses but in what House I cannot yet tell neither whether he be the same Mr. Digges which the famous Lampoon or Libel made by Th. Bulkley in the time of Q. Elizabeth on several Scholars and others of Oxon points at However of this I am sure he the said Tho. Digges did spend
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
in a matter concerning two manner of marriages corrected and somewhat augmented by the Author Lond. 1547. and 1598. in two parts in qu. All written in old English verse and printed in an English Character Three hundred Epigrams upon 300 Proverbs Lond. without date and there again 1598. qu. All in old English character The fourth hundred of Epigrams Lond. without date and there again 1598. qu. The Fifth Sixth hundred of Epigr. LOnd 1598. qu. The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie. Lond. 1556. in a pretty thick qu. and all in old English verse Before the title is the picture of Jo. Heywood from head to foot printed from a wooden Cut with a fur-gown on representing the fashion of that almost belonging to a Master of Arts but the bottom of the sleeves reach no lower than his knees On his head is a round cap his chin and lips are close shav'd and hath a dagger hanging at his girdle After the Preface which is in verse follows a table of all the Chapters in the Book then follows his picture again as is before described In the beginning of every chapter in number 77. is the Authors picture either standing or sitting before a table with a Book on it and the representation of a window near it with cobwebs flies and spiders in it 'T is one of the first printed Books in the English tongue that hath many Cuts and no doubt there is but that it was in high value in Qu. Maries Reign as the Author of it was who ending his days at Mechlin year 1565 about Fifteen hundred sixty and five was buried there leaving behind him several Children to whom he had given liberal education among which were Ellis and Jaspar Heywood the former Bach. of the Civil Law the other M. of Arts of this University and both afterwards noted Jesuits THOMAS HOBY of Bysham near to Maydenhead in Berks. Son of Will. Hoby of Leonminster commonly called Lemster in Herefordishire was born as I conceive in Herefordshire and after he had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses he went beyond the Seas lived in France Italy and other Countries several years became a perfect Master of the Languages there spoken and at length returned a compleat Gentleman well fuâ—nâ—shed with learning and for a time settled at Bysham Afterwards being introduced into the Court he became so much esteemed by Qu. Elizabeth that she not only conferr'd the honor of Knighthood upon but sent him Embasslador to the French King an 1565 or thereabouts where acting too zealous for his Mistress he was cut off in the prime of his years What he hath written I know not Sure I am that he hath translated from Italian into English Il cortagiano seu de Aulico written by 〈◊〉 Castiglione and from Lat. into English 1 〈◊〉 to the Church of England for the restitution of Christian Religion Lond. in oct without date written in Lat. by Martin Bucer 2 Answer unto the two railing Epistles of Steph. Gardiner B. of Winchester concerning the married state of Priests and Cloysterers Lond. in oct without date written also in Lat. by the said Bucer They were both printed in an English character after the Authors death as it seems which happing at Paris on Saturday 13. July between five and six in the morning to the great reluctancy of all good Men nay to the Queen her self in Fifteen hundred sixty and six year 1566 aged 36 years his body thereupon was conveyed into England and at length to Bysham where resting till his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Anth. Coke of Geddy-hall in Essex Knight had built a Chappel on the South side of the Chancel there was put into a Vault underneath it Which being so done the said Widow caused the body of his elder Brother Sir Philip Hoby a zealous Protestant in Qu. Maries Reign who dying issuless 31 May 1558. aged 53. made his Brother Sir Tho. before-mentioned his Heir to be removed from under the Chancel and to be laid by it in the said Vault That also being done she at her own charges caused a fair Table Monument breast-high to be erected over them with their statâ—a's from head to foot laying thereon and a large inscription in English prose and verse to be engraven which for brevity sake I shall now pass by This Sir Tho. Hoby left behind him several Children of whom the eldest was Edward as I shall tell you more hereafter in the latter end of the Year 1616. RICHARD EDWARDS a Somersetshire Man born was admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. under the tuition of George Etheridge on the eleventh of May 1540 Student of the upper table of Christ Church at its foundation by K. Hen. 8. in the beginning of the Year 1547. aged 24 and the same Year took the Degree of M. of Arts. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he was made one of the Gentlemen of her Chappel and Master of the Children there being then esteemed not only an excellent Musician but an exact Poet as many of his compositions in Musick for he was not only skill'd in the practical but theoretical part and Poetry do shew for which he was highly valued by those that knew him especially his associats in Lincolns Inn of which he was a member and in some respects an Ornament and much lamented by them and all ingenious Men of his time when he died He hath written Damon and Pythias a Com. Acted at Court and in the University Palaemon and Arcyte a Com. in two parts Acted before Qu. Elizab. in Ch. Ch. hall 1566. which gave her so much content that sending for the Author thereof she was pleased to give him many thanks with promise of reward for his pains And then making a pause said to him and her retinue standing about her these matters relating to the said Play which had entertain'd her with great delight for two nights in the said hall By Palaemon I warrant he dellieth not in love when he was in love indeed By Arcyte he was a right martial Knight having a swaâ—t countenance and a manly Face By Trecatio Gods pitty what a knave it is By Peritbous his throwing St. Edwards rich cloak into the funeral fire which a stander by would have staâ—d by the arm with an oath go fool he knoweth his part I 'll warrant you c. In the said play was acted a cry of hounds in the quadrant upon the train of a fox in the hunting of Theseus with which the young Scholars who stood in the remoter parts of the stage and in the windows were so much taken and surpriz'd supposing it had been real that they cried out there there he 's caught he 's caught All which the Queen merrily beholding said O excellent those boys in very troth are ready to leap out of the windows to follow the hounds This part being repeated before certain Courtiers in the lodgings of Mr. Rog. Marbeck one of the Canons of
from the riding tales of Bartello 'T is among Gascoignes Poems called Weedes And from Greek into English Jocasta a Tragedie written by Euripides This also was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted in Greys Inn 1566. In this translation the said Gascoigne had the assistance of Francis Kynwelmersh before mention'd who translated about half of it The Epilogue was written by an ingenious Gentleman of the said Inn called Christoph Yelverton afterwards an eminent Counsellour a Knight and a Judge who dying at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire 1607 left behind him several Sons of whom Henry was the eldest afterwards a Knight and a Judge also as I shall tell you elsewhere This Trag is among Gascoignes Poems called Hearbes All which poems and translations being gathered together were printed in an English character in two vol. in qu. One of which was printed at London about 1577 and the other there after the Authors death an 1587 at which time it was usher'd into the world by various copies of verses written by the Poets of that time As for the Author of them he made his last exit or yielded to nature in his middle age at his house in Walthamstow before-mention'd in Octob. or Nov. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 and was buried as I suppose in the Church there I find another George Gascoigne Esq but later in time than the former of whom I know nothing only but that he was of the Middle Temple and that he dyed about 1619. JOHN HARPESFEILD a grand zealot for the Rom. Cath. Religion was born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fishstreet within the City of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1534 took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders was made Chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London and left his Fellowship about 1551 being then beneficed in London About 1554 he being then D. of D. he was made by his Patron Archdeacon of that place in the room of Joh. Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild and it was then temp Mariae Reg. observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London shew'd himself the most severe of all Bishops against Hereticks as they were then called so our Author Harpesfeild of all Archdeacons which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of Religion In 1558 some months before Qu. Mary died he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwych upon the resignation of John Boxall but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560 to make room for John Salisbury suffragan Bishop of Thetford who had been ejected in the first year of Qu. Mary I find published under this Doctor Harpesfeilds name these things following Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli 16. Oct. 1553 in Act. cap. 20. 28. Lond. 1553. oct Homelies to be read in Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554-55 At the end of Bonners Catechisme Disputations for the degree of Doctor of Divinity 19. Apr. 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church by Joh. Fox In which disputation Archb. Cranmer bore a part Disputes talkings arguings examinations letters c. Printed also in the said book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where continuing for an year or more was released upon security given that he should not act speak or write against the doctrine of the Church of England Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his dwelling within the Parish of St. Sepulcher in the Suburb of London spent the remainder of his days in great retiredness and devotion At length paying his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 was buried as I conceive in the Church of that Parish On the 5. Dec. in the same year one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him had a Commission granted to her from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts and chattels of Joh. Harpesfeild D. D. of the Parish of St. Sepulcher in Lond. lately deceased so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nov. going before He had a brother named Nicholas whom I shall remember under the Year 1583. JOHN FOWLER was born in the City of Bristow educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation in 1555 resigned it in 1559 and the year after took the Degree of Master of Arts but did not compleat it by standing in the Comitia About that time leaving England he took upon him the trade of printing partly at Antwerp and partly at Lovaine whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholicks in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England He was well skill'd in the Greek and Latin tongues a tolerable Poet and Orator and a Theologist not to be contemn'd So learned he was also in Criticismes and other polite learning that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens Printers He did diligently peruse the Theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium To which he gave this title Loca communia Theologica c. lib. 1. He wrot also Additiones in Chronica Genebrandi A Psalter for Catholicks Answered by Tho. Sampson sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. Epigrams and other verses He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Osorius and The oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion Antw. 1566. oct answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge At length giving way to fate at Newmarck called by some Krainburg in Germany 13. Febr. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the Ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist there near to the body of John Harrys sometimes Father to Alice his Wife GEORGE FERRERS seems to have been born at or near to St. Alban in Hertfordshire was educated for a time in Oxon. whence going to Lincolns Inn did after he was Barrester became as eminent for the Law as before he was for his Poetry having been as much celebrated for it by the learned of his time as any This Person tho he hath not writ much as I can yet find yet he is numbred among the the illustrious and learned Men of the Age he lived in by Joh. Leland the Antiquary He hath written Miscellany of Poems And translated from French into Latin The Statutes called Magna Charta The beginning of which is Hic habes candide lector leges c. He ended his days at Flamsted in Hertfordshire in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was as I conceive buried there You may see more of him his character and employments in the Author before quoted In the Year 1542 I find
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
treatise very exquisitely penn'd as one saith entituled Answers to certaine questions propounded by the Citizens of Waterford Also Divers Sermons Soon after he left his Country for the sake of Religion went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where he was promoted to the Degree of Doctor of Divinity 23. June 1576 and afterwards as 't is said wrot and published divers other things See more in Peter White under the Year 1599. To him I now add his great friend and countryman Rob. Garvey of the Diocess of Kilkenny who was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1563 proceeded Master of Arts three years after and became noted for his skill in both the Laws and for a volubility in the English and latin tongues as my Author an Irish Man tells me but whether he published any thing I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in Ireland about 1579. MAWRICE CHAWNEY Chamney Chancy or Channy so many ways I find him written was from his juvenile years a Carthustan Monk in the house of that order near London now called by some the Charter-house and by others Suttons Hospital the Brethren of which place as of others in England did commonly study in an antient place of Literature near to London Coll. alias Burnells Inn within this University and no doubt there is but that this M. Chawney did receive instruction in Theological matters therein or at least in some other house of learning in Oxon. But so it was that at the dissolution of religious houses by K. Hen. 8. he with his brethren 18 in number being committed to custody for denying the Kings Supremacy over the Ch. of England did at length with much difficulty escape out of prison and so consequently death which all the rest suffered at several times before the Year 1539. At length settling himself at Bruges in Flanders became Prior of some of his English Brethren of the same order there And from him do our English Carthusians beyond the Sea at Neoport in Flanders derive their succession in the said house near London to this day having always been by them esteemed a most devout and pious Person He hath written a book entit Historia aliquot nostri saeculi Martyrum cum pia tum lectu jucunda nunquam antehaec typis excusa Printed at Mentz in Bavaria as it seems an 1550 in qu. and dedicated by Vitus à Dulken Prior of the Carthusians of St. Michael near to Mentz and William à Sittatis Procurator of the said house to Theodore Loher à Stratis Prior of the Carthusians house of St. Marie the Virgin in Buxia near to Memmingen in Schawben a Province of Germany This book contains 1 The Epitaph of Sir Tho. More written by himself in Latin fixed over his grave in Chelsey Church near to London 2 The captivity and martyrdom of John Fisher B. of Rochester 3 The capt and mart of the said Sir Th. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England 4 The martyrdome of Reynold Brigitt a pious Divine and of other 5 The passion of 18 Carthusians of London beginning with the life and passion of John Houghton the Prior of them all contained in 14 Chapters c. This passion and martyrdom of the said Carthusians was by the care of our Author represented in figures and being afterwards engraven on copper were printed at Colon. Ub. about 1608. He also reviewed corrected and put some additions to a book entit Vita Carthusiana written by Peter Sutor Prior of the Carthusians at Paris an 1522. Which being so done he wrot the Epistle dedicatory before it all printed together at Lovaine 1572. in oct Our Author Chancaeus as he writes himself in that book was then living in his Cell at Bruges before-mention'd with several English Carthusians under his government I have seen a MS. written by our Author Chancaeus bearing this title The divine clowde of unknowing The beginning of which is Goostly frende in God I pray the and besece the that thou wilt have a besy beholding to the course and manntr of thy calling c. It containeth 75 Chapters and with i is bound his Epistle of private counsel the beginning of which is Goostly frende in God as touching thy inward occupation c. And at the end of the book is this written Liber domus Salvatoris beatissimae virginis Mariae juxta London Ordinis Carthusiani per M. Chawncy quem exaravit secundum Willmum Exmâ—use The said Exmeuse or ex Mewe who had been bred in Christs Coll. in Cambridge did enter himself a Carthusian of the said house near London in the 28 year of his age being then sufficiently versed in the Gr. and Lat. tongues Afterwards he was made Vicar and thence removed to be Procurator thereof And being one of the number that denied the Kings Supremacy suffered death by hanging drawing and quartering 19. June 1535. As for our Author Chancy he submitted to fate on the 12. July in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 according to the accompt followed in Flanders Whereupon his body was buried as I suppose in the Chappel belonging to the Carthusians at Bruges before-mention'd He hath left behind him a most celebrated name for his rare piety which is preserved among those of his profession at Bruges Neôport in Flanders and at other places Neither is it denyed by any knowing and moderate Protestants but that his name is worthy to be kept in everlasting remembrance RICHARD DAVYES a Welsh Man born was educated as it seems in New Inn but what Degrees he took in Arts it appears not In Qu. Maries Reign he retired beyond the Seas upon account of Religion whence returning in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth was elected Bishop of St. Asaph on the deprivation of Tho. Goldwell the temporalities of which See he receiving 29. March 1560 was the year following translated to the See of St. David and in 1566 was actually created Doctor of Divinity He hath published several things among which are Epistle to all the Welsh especially within his Diocess wishing a renewing of the antient Cath. faith by the light of the Gospel of Christ Printed and bound with the New Test in Welsh an 1567. It was printed also among other things and published by Charles Edwards a Welsh Man Ox. 1671. in oct Funeral Sermon preached 26. Nov. 1576. in the Parish Church of Caermerthen at the burial of Walt. Earl of Essex on Rev. 14. 13. Lond. 1577. qu. Whereunto is added a genealogical Epitaph with memorials on the said Count but these were made by other Men. This Bishop paid his last debt to nature about the month of Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 aged about 80 years and was buried in the Parish Church of Abergwilly in Caermerthenshire leaving then behind him a Widow called Dorothie and several Children JOHN TWYNE Son of William Son of John Son of Nicholas Son of Sir Brian Twyne of Long Parish in Hampshire Knight was
Camden whom I follow in some things tells us that our Author N. Saunders was miserably ramish'd to death seems to be contrary to what a certain Author of Camdens time reports but he being one of Saunder's perswasion may perhaps not be believed by many He tells us that before the end of the said war wherein Desmond was kill'd Saunders was overtaken with the flux a usual disease with strangers in Ireland and tho he was strong and in the judgment of all near to him far from the approach of death yet in the beginning of the night he desired Cornelius the Bishop titular of Killaloa to give him the extreme unction for saith he this night I shall die having received a call from my Creator Whereupon Cornelius made answer that there was no need of it seeing that his body was strong and no sign of death near it Notwithstanding this his disease pressing forward he was anointed in the middle of the night and about the time of Cock-crowing he surrendred up his Soul to God In the night following he was carried to his grave by 4 Irish chevaliers whereof Dermitius Osullevan father to the Author whom I here quote was one and was buried by certain Priests according to their manner his body having been exposed to the sight of certain Persons as well of England as of Ireland who for privacy sake were prohibited their presence at his funeral Afterwards Cornelius went into Spain and died at Lisbon an 1617. Thus in effect the said Author who tells us not the name of the place where he died or was buried neither the time when EDMOND CAMPIAN another stiff defender of the R. Cath. Religion was born in London on St. Pauls day in Jan. 1540. educated in School-learning among the blew coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital within the said City spoke an eloquent oration before Qu. Mary there at her first coming to the Crown an 1553 put in Scholar of St. Johns Coll. by the worthy founder thereof at its first foundation took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1564 and was Junior of the Act celebrated on the 19. of Feb. the same year at which time speaking one or more most admirable orations to the envy of his contemporaries caused one of them who was afterwards an Archbishop to say that rather than he would omit the opportunity to shew his parts and dominare in una atque altera conciuncula did take the oath against the Popes Supremacy and against his conscience Soon after if not before he took holy orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Rich. Cheyney Bishop of Glocester who had encouraged him in his studies and became a florid Preacher In 1566 when Qu. Elizab. was entertained by the University of Oxon he did not only make an eloquent oration before her at her first entry but also was Respondent in the Philosophy Act in St. Maries Church performed by him with great applause from that Queen and the learned auditory In 1568 he was the junior Proctor of the University being the first of his Coll. who did undergo that office and in the Year following he took a journey into Ireland where improving his time very industriously did by the help of his admirable parts write in short time a history of that Country but then he being discovered to have left the Church of England and to labour for Proselytes was seized and detained for a time but getting loose from his keepers did with much ado obtain footing on the British shoare an 1571 where making but short stay took shipping again and went into the Low Countries and settling for a time in the English Coll. at Doway made an open recantation of his heresie as they there stil'd it studied Divinity and had the Degree of Bach. of that faculty conferr'd upon him Thence he went to Rome where he was admitted into the Society of Jesus in 1573 and being esteemed by the General of that order to be a Person every way compleat was sent into Germany where living for some time at Brune and afterwards at Vienna compos'd a Tragedy called Nectar Ambrosia acted before the Emperor with great applause Soon after setling at Pragne in Bohemia where had been newly erected a College for Jesuits taught there for about 6 years time Philosophy and Rhetorick and became amongst them a constant Preacher in the Latin tongue At length being called thence to Rome was with Father Persons sent at the command of P. Gregory 13 into England in 1580 where arriving at Dover on the day next following that of St. John Baptist was the day after that received with great joy by the Catholicks in London Afterwards he printed privately and by stealth his neat well penn'd book called Rationes decem of which many copies were dispersed in St. Maries Church at an Act-time an 1581. by one who was sometimes a Member of St. Johns Coll. in the time of Campian named Will. Hartley a R. Priest a native of Nottinghamshire and a learned Man who being taken in short time after was imprison'd and in Feb. 1584 being released was with other Priests and Jesuits put on Ship-board at Tower-wharf and thence at the Queens charge was wafted over the Seas to Normandy where he and his company were left to their shifts Afterwards it being commonly known that Campian was in England great inquisition was made after him At length at the desire and insinuation of Walsingham Secretary of State one George Eliot a Priest-catcher sometimes a zealous Catholick undertook for a considerable reward to find him out But all his searchings in London availing not he did at length upon some intimation received go into Berks. where with his attendants making great enquiries did with much ado find him out disguised like a Royster as 't is said in the house of Edw. Yates Esq at Lyford a little before which time Persons the Jesuit who had been with and accompanied him in his travels to and fro had left him and diverted his course towards Kent So that being carried as a Prisoner with triumph through Abendon Henly Colebroke and so through part of London with a paper fastned to his hat and a writing thereon to shew to the People that he was Edm. Campian a most pernicious Jesuit was chap'd up a close Prisoner within the Tower of London where he did undergo many examinations from several People abuses wrackings tortures and I know not what but scarcely answered the expectation raised of when certain Divines disputed with him About which time a little Pamphlet was published in oct containing a discourse of his apprehension which I have not yet seen All writers whether Protestant or Popish say that he was a Man of most admirable parts an elegant Orator a subtile Philosopher and disputant and an exact Preacher whether in English or Lat. tongue of a sweet disposition and a well polished Man A certain writer saith he was of a sweet nature constantly carrying
of England to Geneva in the beginning of Q. Maries reign and there joined with Joh. Knox as quiet a spirit as himself that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland c. The truth is Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist and for rigidness in opinion he went beyond his friend Calvin who remembers and mentions him in his Epistles 1561. There was no man more ready than he as Knox was for Scotland to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were when the said Queen came to the crown and where if any they were unless at Chester or in the county I know not Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sydney was Deputy of Ireland and had much to do with the popish rebels there Goodman shewed his faithful diligence in that service His works are these How superiour powers ought to be obey'd of their subjects and wherein they may be lawfully by Gods word be disobey'd and resisted Genev. 1558. in tw c. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman traitress bastard Proserpine c. But most of his doctrines in the said two books being destructive to the sacred persons of princes and their state and government were not only condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after but also by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon past in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay The first blast of the trumpet c. was esteemed by all especially the R. Catholicks a wicked seditious and base book and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian and the rather for this reason because as a Poet of that time saith No Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knocks or Goodmans books blow any true blast He hath also written A commentary on Amos This I have not yet seen Nor can I say any thing else of him only that when he laid on his Death-bed at Chester year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two he was visited by Mr. Jam. Vsher afterwards Archb. of Armagh at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library several of whose stories he heard with great delight which he would afterwards when an ancient man repeat to his friends He the said Goodman died that year and was as I have been informed by some of his relations buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester His sometimes friend and crony Job Parkhurst hath an Epigram upon him which you may take instead of an Epitaph Nemo bonus Servator ait sed solus Olympum Qui regit is bonus est Gudmane nemo bonus Yet an English Presbyterian who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine was according to his name good and holy WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards taking the degree of Master he left the Coll. his friends religion and the little all he had and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway where spending divers years in the study of Theology was at length made a Priest Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes lived there several years and composed a large volume intit The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine founded by Apostolical men and propagated from generation to generation even to our time by most holy Doctors and Catholicks in 10 books What else he wrote I find not not any thing material of him besides year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college but soon after leaving his Fellowship he went to Lovaine where he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he went to Doway where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy and at length became Confessor to the English coll at Rome where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight Justice of Chester by Susan his first Wife daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight was a Shropshire man born became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Maries Hall about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn and was afterwards a Barrester In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishops Castle in his own country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year where shewing himself an observing man made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceeding viz. 1. For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. 2. For that which began 19. Feb. 1592. and thirdly for that which commenc'd 9. Feb. 1597. he made a compleat collection in folio At length when the press was open and the author had been dead many years his labours were published under this title Historical collections or an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth wherein is contained the compleat Journals both of Lords and Commons taken from the original records of their Houses As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members during all the last notable sessions c. Lond. 1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood instead of Hayward Townshend whose time of death tho unknown to me yet sure I am that he died without Issue some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit The connexion being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign c. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and Rushworths collections but who the author of it was I cannot tell 'T is a trite thing WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son if I mistake not of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City particularly as it seems in the parish of St. Benedict wherein his Father lived and died became a commoner of St. Albans Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after and then translated himself to Glocester Hall Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had compleated it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws and as 't is said had
to and hated him Card. Allen and Sir Fr. Inglefield as bitter Enemies Of this Nic. Dolman who was a grave Priest and of a mild disposition you may read in a book intit A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich 1595 c. p. 12 13 14 c. 32. 47 c. A copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts of Cambridge to his Friend in London concerning some talk passed of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state and some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his Friends in England c. Written in 1584. but the certain year when prinâ—ed unless in 1600. I cannot tell It was also printed in oct as the other was in 1631. and hath this running title on the top of every leaf of the book A Letter of State of a Scholar of Cambridge The first edit and perhaps the second was printed beyond the Seas and most of the copies being sent into England bound with the outside of the leaves coloured with green the book was commonly called Father Persons Green-coat 'T is the same book with that intit Leicesters Common-wealth being a dialogue between a Scholar a Gent. and a Lawyer Lond. 1641. qu. This book tho' commonly reported to be Persons and that he had most of his materials for the composition thereof from Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh which I presume did arise from Dr. Tho. James his affirmation that he was the author of it yet Persons himself saith in his Preface to the Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword that he did not write Leicesters Commonwealth And certainly if he had been the author it Pitseus and Ribadeneira with his Continuators would have mentioned it in their respective Catalogues of our author's works whereas they are altogether silent in that matter Liecesters Commonwealth Lond. 1641. oct written in verse This is a small thing and containeth not the same sense with the former Leicesters Ghost in verse also To both which tho the name of Rob. Persons Jesuit is set in the title yet I cannot any where find that he was the author Apologetical Epistle to the Lords of her Maj. Council in defence of his Resolution in Religion Printed 1601. oct Brief apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and Subordination in England erected these later years by P. Clem. 8. and impugned by certain Libels printed and published of late c. S. Omer 1601. in oct Soon after were certain notes wrote on this by Humph. Ely Manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of certain in England calling them Secular Priests Printed 1602. qu. This is called a Libel in a Reply made to it by W. C. printed 1603. qu. And it was animadverted upon by A. C. in his Second Letter to his dis-jesuited Kinsman concerning the appeal state Jesuits c. Printed 1602. qu. A Decachordon of 10 Quodlibetical Questions about the contentions between the Seminary Priests and the Jesuits Printed 1602. qu. De perigrinatione lib. 1. Printed in tw This I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether it be in Lat. or Engl. The Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword Pr. 1602. in oct Answer to O. E. whether Papists ' or Protestants be true Catholicks Pr. 1603. in ect Treatise of the three conversions from Paganism to Christian Religion Published under the name of N. D. that is Nic. Doleman in three Volumes in oct The first Vol. which containeth two parts of the said treatise was printed at S. Omers an 1603. The second Vol. which containeth the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the Kalender or Catalogue of Protestant Saints Martyrs and Confessors devised by Joh. Fox c. for the first six months was printed at the said place in 1604. And the third Vol. which containeth also the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the said Kalender of John Fox for the last six months was printed at the same place in the same year under the initial Letters of N. D. When the said three Volumes were first published they were sold in Oxon for 20 shillings but some years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. I bought them for 3 sh The same year 1604 came out Around answer to Parsons alias Doleman the Noddy in qu. but whither to any of the former treatises I know not A relation of a trial made before the K. of France upon the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Pleffis Mornay about certain points of corrupting and falsifying authors whereof the said Plessis was openly convicted S. Omers 1604 in oct Published under the initial Letters of N. D. A defence of the precedent relation of a conference about Religion Printed with the Relation of a Trial c. Review of ten publick disputations or conferences held within the compass of four years under K. Ed. and Q. Mary concerning some principal points in Religion especially of the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar S. Omer 1604. in oct under the name of N. D. Fore-runner of Bells downfal or an answer to Tho. Bells downfal of Popery Pr. 1605. in oct An answer to the fifth part of Reports lately set forth by Sir Edw. Coke Knight the Kings Attorney Gen. c. S. Omer 1606. in qu. Published under the name of a Cath. Divine De Sacris alienis non adeundis quaestiones duae Ad usum praximque Angliae breviter explicatae Audomar 1607. in oct Treatise tending to mitigation towards Cath. Subjects in England against Tho. Morton Pr. 1607. qu. The said Morton was afterwards Bishop of Durham The judgment of a Catholick Gent. concerning K. James his Apology for the oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1608. in qu. Answered by Will. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Sober reckoning with Mr. Tho. Morton Pr. 1609. qu. Discussion of Mr. Barlowes answer to The judgment of a Catholick Englishman concerning the Oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1612. This book being almost finished before Persons's death was afterwards compleated and published by Tho. Fitzherbert See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. The Liturgy of the Mass of the Sacrament of the Mass Pr. 1620. in qu. A memorial for reformation or a remembrance for them that shall live when Catholick Religion shall be restored in England in 3 parts 'T is the same I suppose that is called The high Court or Council of Reformation for England The author of it tho twenty years as 't is said in compiling it all which time and after it was secretly kept yet it was never printed in his time 'T was finished by him 1596. and as I have been informed 't was published some years after his death At length a copy of it coming into his hands of Edw. Gee Rector of S. Benedict near Paul's Wharf in Lond. and Chaplain in Ord. to K. Will. and Qu. Mary he published it under this title A Memorial of the Reformation of England containing certain notes and advertisements which seem
of a learned and pious man and of one who by his daily labours had done eminent service to the private and publick WILLIAM JONES the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire the ancient Seat of his Family educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey whence at 14 years of age he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall an 1570. and continued there 5 years But taking no degree he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn according to the course of those times After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following and a Knight in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland in which place he continued three years and then left it upon his own request In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench He hath written and collected Reports of divers special cases as well in the Court of Kings Bench as of the Common Pleas in England as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James as in the years of K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby This book also coming into the hands after the authors death of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law he made very good notes on it as it appears in the original copy sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones Several Speeches in Parliament He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried under the Chappel standing on pillars of Lincolns-Inn on the fourteenth day of the same month Over whose grave tho no writing or Epitaph appears yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws will make his name live to posterity more especially in these parts where he had his education and when Justice did constantly keep Oxford circuit WILLIAM CHIBALD or Chiball a Surrey man born was entred a Student into Magd. coll 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitour or Clerk I know not Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function became a Preacher in London and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fishstreet there where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching He hath written and published A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear for our friends or own visitation by the Plague Lond. 1625. oct An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof Printed with the former Sum of all namely Gods Service and Mans Salvation and Mans duty to God concerning both by way of dialogue Lond. 1630. oct Several Sermons as 1 The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct with others which I have not yet seen Apology for the trial of Faith Lond. in oct when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it He deceased in Febr. about the 25. day in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named James who became a Student in Magd. coll 1623. afterwards a Minister in London and if I mistake not a sufferer there for the Royal Cause when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians MARTIN WESTCOMBE sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France and Bac. of Arts there left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there was sent to Exeter coll among his Countrymen of Devonshire was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and by the favour of the Chancellour of the University proceeded in Arts the next year as a Member of the said college He hath written Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae Ox. 1639. oct Soon after the author of it went beyond the Seas returned to his former Religion as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll have told me and wrote certain matters there in vindication of himself but what they could not tell me ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash Gent was born there or at least in that County and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq Solicitor General to the Queen had his Poetical Genie so far incouraged by that generous person that he sent him to Exeter coll to compleat it with Academical learning in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years What stay he made there or whether he was honoured with a degree it appears not Sure it is that he having about that time composed several poetical and other things had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house and published under these titles Nocturnal Lucubrations or meditations divine and moral Lond. 1638. in tw To which are added Epigrams and Epitaphs The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball before-mentioned and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir He hath also written The swaggering Damsel a Comedy Lond. 1640. qu. Sicelides a Pastoral When printed I cannot tell for I do not remember I ever saw it In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit Sicelides a piscatory several times acted in Kings coll in Cambr. and therefore I presume 't was made by one of that house This Rob. Chamberlaine lived many years after but when he died I cannot justly tell One Rob. Chamberlaine proceeded Master of Arts as a Member of Pemb. coll but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlaine a Physician must not be taken as some of this University have done to be the same with the Poet before-mentioned Will. Chamberlaine of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida an heroick Poem Lond. 1659. oct but whether he was ever an Oxford Student I am hitherto ignorant ATHENAE OXONIENSES The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640. â—_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh called Middleton educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School
three year 1563 and was buried in the Parish Church of Matherne where the Bishop of Landaff hath a Palace in Monmouthshire after he had gone through several changes of times and had taken the Oath of Q. Elizabeths Supremacy over the Church of England which no Popish Bishop in the beginning of her reign did besides this man ROWLAND MERRICK was born in the Isle of Anglesey mostly educated in Academical learning in S. Edwards hall a noted place for Civilians sometimes situated near S. Edwards Church became Principal while he was Bachelaur of the Civil Law of New Inn afterwards Doctor of his faculty Chancellour of the Church of S. David Canon residentiary thereof in the time of K. Ed. 6. being then one of the persons that drew up Articles against Rob. Ferrar Bishop of that place and at length Bishop of Bangor to which See being elected and consecrated an 1559. aged 54 years received the temporalities belonging thereunto 21. of March the same year He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred sixty and six year 1566 and was buried in the Chancel of the Cath. Church of Bangor under that place where the Table stood in the time of Communion Over his grave was an inscription afterwards put the contents of which I know not as yet He left behind him a Son named Gelly Merick of Hascard in Pembrokshire afterwards a Knight and a great Favourite of that most popular and generous Count Robert Earl of Essex in whose treasons having been deeply engaged suffered death at Tybourne in the beginning of the year 1601. In the See of Bangor succeeded Dr. Merick one Nich. Robinson a Welsh man and D. D. of Cambridge who after he had suffered calamities for the Protestant cause in the reign of Q. Mary became after her death domestick Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury and dignified Vir fuit prudens as 't is said of him illis humanioribus literis atque Theologia non minus excultus quam latina patriaque lingua facundus c. He died in the summer time an 1584. leaving then behind him a Widdow named Jane Robinson alias Brereton and several Sons After him followed Dr. Hugh Bellot of Cambridge who was consecrated Bishop of Bangor 25. Jan. 1584. THOMAS YONG a learned Civilian Son of John Yong of Pembrokshire by Elianor his Wife was born in that County became a Student in the Univ. of Oxon in Broadgates hall as it seems about the year 1528. where applying his muse to the study of the Civil Law took a degree in that faculty nine years after being then in sacred Orders In 1542. he was made principal of the said hall and soonafter Chantor and Canon of S. Davids where being much scandalized at the unworthy actions of Rob. Ferrar Bishop of that place did with others draw up articles against him which being proved before the Kings Commissioners the said Bishop was imprison'd in the time of K. Ed. 6. In the reign of Q. Mary Th. Yong fled from the nation for religion sake and remained in Germany in an obscure condition during her time But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and H. Morgan another accuser of Rob. Ferrar had been depriv'd of his Bishoprick of S. Davids the said Yong was design'd to succeed him Whereupon being consecrated thereunto 21. January 1559. aged 52 years or thereabouts the temporalities of the said See were delivered to him on the 23. of March following Where sitting till Feb. 1560. was then translated to York and about the same time was made President of the Queens Council in the north parts of England In Feb. 1564. he was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law and dying on the 26. June in fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1562 was buried at the east end of the Choire of his Cath. Ch. at York Over his grave was soon after laid a marble stone with this Epitaph on it Thomas Yongus nuper Eboracensis Archiepiscopus Civilis juris Doctor peritissimus quem propter gravitatem summum ingenium eximiam prudentiam excellentemque rerum politicarum scientiam illustrissima Regina septentionalibus hujus regni partibus Praesidem constituit quo magistratu quinque annos perfunctus est Sedit Archiepiscopus annos septem sex menses Obiit Vicessimo sexto die mensis Junii an 1568. He had taken to Wife in his elderly years one Jane daughter of Thom. Kynaston of Estwick in Shropshire by whom he had issue George Yong afterwards a Knight living in York 1612. for whose sake the father being covetous of wealth pulled down a goodly hall belonging to him as Archbishop for the greediness of the lead as 't is said that covered it Concerning which matter there is a large story extant related by an author who was no friend to married Bishops DAVID POLE or Poole of noble race as it seems became fellow of Allsouls coll in 1520. took the degrees of Civ and Can. Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1527. at which time being Archdeacon of Salop he was much in esteem for his great sufficiencies in those Laws Afterwards he was made Dean of the Arches Archdeacon of Derby and Chancellour of the diocess of Lichf and Coventry At length upon the death of Joh. Chambers being nominated to the See of Peterborough was consecrated thereunto on the 15. Aug. 1557. and on the 28. of January following had the temporalities thereof delivered to him In 1559. about the time of Midsummer he was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Queens supremacy being then esteemed a grave person and a very quiet subject Whereupon being committed to custody for a time was soon after set at liberty Principis beneficio as one tells us in agro suo matura aetate decessit He gave way to fate in the latter end of May or beginning of June year 1568 in fifteen hundred sixty and eight but where unless near to S. Pauls Cathedral in London or where buried I cannot tell All his books of Law and Divinity which were then at London and Peterborough he gave to the Library of Allsoules coll In the said See of Peterborough succeeded Edm. Scambler Bach. afterwards Doct. of div a native of Gressingham in Lancashire and Chaplain to Mathew Archb. of Canterbury to which being consecrated 16. Jan. 1560. held in commendam with it the Prebendship of Wistow in the Church of York and the first Canonry in the sixth stall in the Church of Westminster for the space of two or more years He was a learned man a zealous enemy against the Papists yet an impairer of the honour privileges and revenues of the Bishoprick of Peterborough After his translation to Norwych succeeded in Peterborough Dr. Rich. Howland Master of S. Johns coll in Cambridge who dying in 1600. was succeeded in the said See by Tho. Dove D. D. and Dean of Norwych sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge and one of the first Scholars of Jesus
exposition on Geneâ—is Whether the same with him who was incorporated I cannot yet tell Quâ—ere William Alabaster M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day He was bred in Trin. Coll. in that University was the rarest Poet and Grecian that any one age or nation hath produced Afterwards he attended as Chaplain on Robert Earl of Essex in Cadiz voyage where he changed his Religion and wrot Seven Motives for what he had done answer'd by one John Racster an 1598 and by Roger Fenton the year following But upon some discontent taken from the Rom. Party he return'd to the Church of England and was made Prebendary of St. Pauls Cath. in London D. of D. and Rector of Tharfield in Hertfordshire He hath written 1 Roxana Tragedia admirably well acted more than once in Trin. Coll. hall in Cambr. and was soon after published full of faults contrary to the Authors mind Whereupon he took great pains to correct and amend it Which being done 't was printed to the Authors mind at Lond. 1632. oct 2 Lexicon Pentaglotton Hebraicum Chaldaicum Syriacum Talmudico Raabinium Lond. 1637. fol. The titles of other books of his writing you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue He also began to describe in a Latin Poem intit Eâ—isaeis the chief transactions of Qu. Elizabeths Reign but left unfinish'd at the time of his death which hapning about the beginning of Apr. 1640. was buried according to the discretion of his dear friend Nich. Bacon of Greys Inn in Holbourn near London whom he made his sole Executor Rich. Her rick the Poet in his Hesperides doth highly celebrate Alabaster for his elaborate works Aug. 19. Hen. Wriothsley Earl of Southampton M. of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards deeply engaged in the treasons of his entire friend Robert Earl of Essex and therefore by his Peers he was condemned to dye but by the favour of the Queen he was saved When K. James 1. came to the Crown he was restored by Parliament was made Knight of the Garter and Captain of the Isle of Wyght and of Caresbrook Castle He died in the Netherlands an 1624 and was buried at Tichfield in Hampshire by the bodies of his Ancestors Dec. 18. Thomas D'oylie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. Doctor of Physick of the University of Basil in Germany Creations Aug. 19. Will. Somerset of Magd. Coll. in this University eldest Son of Edward Earl of Worcester was actually created Mast of Arts. These Persons following were created Mast of Arts 27. Sept. while the Queen was in Oxon being then entertained by the University Edward Earl of Worcester He was afterwards Master of the Horse to K. Jam. 1. and Knight of the Garter Geo. Clifford E. of Cumberl He was an excellent Mathematician a great Navigator and one that did more prodigious things at Sea to the great impoverishment of his estate than any Subject of this Realm had done before He died 30. Oct. 1605 and was buried at Skipton in Craven in Yorkshire by his ancestors Hen. Herbert E. of Pembroke Kt. of the most noble order of the Garter and President of the Council in the Marches of Wales He died 1601 and was succeeded in the Earldom of Pembroke by his Son and Heir called William afterwards the most noble Chancellour of this University Sir John Wingfield Tho. Coningsby Will. Knollis Knights The last of which who had been formerly of Magd. Coll. was afterwards Earl of Banbury Michael Stanhop Esq He was Brother to John Lord Stanhop of Harrington Tho. Knevet Esq He was afterwards as it seems Lord Knevet of Escricke Edward Darcey Joh. Stanhop Will. Pointz Rich. Brakenbury Esquires Thom. Lake Esq This Gentleman who was born at Southampton was bred a Scholar and afterwards was taken into the service in the condition of an Amanuensis of Sir Franc. Walsingham Secretary of State by whom being commended to Qu. Elizabeth he read to her French and Latin A little before her death she made him Clerk of her Signet and after her death he was chosen by this state into the place to attend K. Jam. 1. from Barwick who afterwards made use of his present service in some French affairs and confer'd upon him the honour of Knighthood After Sir Rob. Cecills time the place of Secretary was joyned in two Principals and not long after he was one of them and so continued with honorable esteem of all Men until that malice and revenge two violent passions over-ruling the weaker sex concerning his Wife and Daughter involved him into their quarrel the chief and only cause of his ruine Anth. Ashley He made additions for the use of English Men to The marriners mirrour c. written in Dutch by Luke Wagener of Ein husen set forth in English by the said Ashley in two parts adorned with variety of Sea-charts and Mapps printed at London in fol. 1588-89 and dedicated to Robert Earl of Leycester from St. James One Sir Anth. Ashley Knight was a courtier in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 and tho then a hater of Women yet he was induced to marry one of the Family and Relations of George Duke of Bucks which administred mirth to the Courtiers Whether this Sir Authony be the same with the former I know not Qu. Hen. Noell Esq He was younger Brother to Sir Andrew Noell of Leycestershire was one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to Queen Elizabeth a Man of excellent parts and well skill'd in Musick He died in the latter end of Feb. 1596 and was by the command of Qu. Elizabeth who had an especial respect for him buried in St. Andrews Chappel within the Precincts of the Abbey Church at Westminster In a convocation celebrated the same day after dinner for the former creations were made in a Convocation held in the morning were these following Persons actually created Masters of Arts also viz. Monsieur Beauvoys La Noude Embassador from the King of France to the Queen of England Monsieur Mauditor or Manditor Sir Edward Stafford an English Knight An. Dom. 1593. An. 35 Elizab. An. 36 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Edm. Lillye again July 17. Proct. Will. Aubrey of Ch. Ch. Rich. Latewarr of St. Job C. Apr. 26. Bach. of Musick Feb. 25. Arth. Cock Orgainst of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter Matthew Jeffrye Vicar choral in the Church at Wells Their Graces were then pass'd and no doubt there is but that they were admitted Some of the compositions of Arth. Cock I have seen in our publick Musick School and certain divine Services and Anthems were composed by one Jeffrye the words of which are extant but whether by this Matthew or George Jeffrye who were both eminent Musicians I cannot tell Bach. of Arts. May 21. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. June 20. Nathaniel Brent of Mert. Coll. Feb. 6. Joh. Marston of Brasn Coll. Qu. Whether not the same Person who was afterwards the celebrated Comedian Feb. 6. Rob. Wakeman 8. Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll.
Doct. of Div. May 12. Thomas Sutton of Qu. 23. Edw. Brunker of Wad Coll. Jun. 26. Anth. Morgan Principal of St. Albans hall formerly Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Dec. 18. Richard Hall of All 's Coll. Incorporations May 28. Thomas Rhead Rhaedus M. of A. of Aberdene in Scotland He had before been a Student in this University and this year published Paraphrisis Psalma 104. Lond. 1620. in oct and about the same time as it should seem Epist ad Episcopum Roffensem in oct Alex. Rhead M. of A. of the same University was incorporated the same day One Alex. Rhead was Proctor of the University of Cambr. four years before this time whom I take to be the same Person who was afterwards Minister of Yeatley in Hampshire where he died about 1628. I shall make mention of another of both his names among the Creations following June 6. Festus Hommius D. D. of the University of Leyden was incorporated in that Degree in a meeting called Simile primo or Assimilatio parva held at six of the Clock in the morning Hommius then having on his legs a green pair of stockings and a habit not altogether proper for his profession He was at this time a Divine of great note in the Low Countries and had lately been Scribe at the Synod of Dort The occasion of his coming into England with the Catalogue of the books he wrot John Meursius will tell you He was born at Hielsem in the territory of Leenwerden in Westfriesen and dying 5. July 1642 aged 66 years and six months was buried at Leyden in the Church of St. Peter as I conceive having been Pastâ—r of that Church forty and Rector of the College there twenty years June 26. Peter Chamberlayne Doct. of Phys of the University of Padua He hath written 1 The poor mans Advocate or Englands Samaritan c. Lond. 1649. qu. 2 Vindication of publick artificial Bathes and other things and from his Papers was published The accomplished Midwife c. printed with cuts in 1673. in oct Afterwards it was inlarged by others and several times published One Tho. Chamberlaine who was called and written Doct. of Phys did practise his faculty in the Parish of St. Gregory in London and died as I think in Mark-lane 1666 but whether he was ever of the Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell Jul. 7. Henry Briggs M. A. John Bainbridge Doct. of Phys of Cambr. Of the first I have spoken largely among the Writers under the year 1630 and of the other I shall God willing make mention in the 2. Vol. of this work July 11. Will. Jackson M. A. of the same University Perhaps he may be the same Will. Jackson who was now Term-Lecturer at Whittington Coll. in London and who before had published The Celestial husbandry or the tillage of the Soul Serm. at Pauls Cross 25. Feb. 1615 on Osea 10. 12. Lond. 1616. qu. Thomas Whitfield M. of A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day I take this Person to be the same Tho. Whitfield who was afterwards Minister of Great Yarmouth in Norfolke Author of 1 A refutation of the loose opinions and licentious tenets wherewith those Lay-preachers which wander up and down the kingdom labour to seduce the simple People Or an Examination of the erroneous Doctrines of Thomas More late a Weaver in Wells near Wisbich in his book The Universality of Gods free grace to mankind Lond. 1646. qu. 2 Full answer to the Arminian tenets concerning election redemption conversion and perseverance printed there the same year 3 Discourse of the Liberty of conscience c. Lond. 1649. qu. 4 The righteous mans rejoycing Or a treatise tending to shew the nature of true joy whence it ariseth and to whom it belongs c. Lond. 1649. in tw 5 Extent of divine providence c. print 1651. qu. 6 Doctrines of Arminianisme and Pelagianisme stated Print 1652. qu. 7 Perswasive to peace amongst the sons of peace c. pr. 1655. in tw and other things This Thomas Whitfield being a Person that ran with the times of the interval removed to the rectory of Bugbrook in Northamptonshire where a neighbour of his named Tho. Pierce animadverted upon one or more of his books as I shall hereafter tell you He had a Son named John Whitfield M. A. and sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Rector of Bugbrook beforementioned and a publisher of one or more Sermons I find one Thomas Whitfield admitted Bach. of Arts as a member of Magd. hall 4. May 1631 and another of Hart hall 9. February the same year but what relation they had to the former Thomas I know not July 11. John Johnson D. D. of Cambr. One of both his names and D. of D. also was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester 24. Nov. 1598. in the place of Godf. Goldsborough promoted to the See of Glocester Which Archdeaconry the said Johnson resigned an 1610. Qu. whether the same July 12. Rich. Evans D. D. of the University of St. Andrew of Scotland Creations May 18. Thom. Grent of New Coll. was actually created Doctor of Phys He was afterwards famous for the making of artificial Bathes and discovering those that were natural but wanted money to make them fit for use 29. Alexander Rhead or Read Reidus a Scotch Man was actually created Doctor of Phys in the house of Convocation by virtue of the Letters from K. James 1. for that purpose This learned Scot who was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians in London and a Brother of the Company of Barber-chirurgions hath written and published 1 A description of the body of Man by artificial figures representing the members c. Lond. 1616. oct 2 Chirurgical Lectures of tumours and ulcers Lond. 1635. qu. 3 Treatise of the first part of Chirurgery which teacheth re-unition of the parts of the body disjoynted Lond. 1638. qu. 4 Treatise of the muscles of the body of Man Lond. 1637. qu. All which except the first were reprinted in 1650. qu. the Author being then dead after he had practised his faculty about 50 years 5 The manual of Anatomy or the dissection of the body of Man c. in 6. books Lond. 1638. in tw I think it is the same which some call his Epitome of Crookes Anatomy 6 Approved Medicines and Remedies for the diseases of the body of Man when printed I know not In his last Will he bequeathed 200 l. to the Marischal College in Aberdene in which house I presume he had been educated and all his books to the Library there Nov. 4. A young Man named Will. Moyle the eldest Son of an Esquire was created M. of A in Convocation He was then sent to the chief members of this University by Francis Viscount Verulam with his learned book Instauratio magna I think to be presented from the Authors to the publick Library In the month of September this year came into England the famous Theologist named Daniel Tilenus and published at
for the same who was M. of A. because if I mistake not the Bach. of Div. died 1624. aged 45. Thom. Edwards M. of A. He was afterwards a Minister of Gods word a zealous Puritan and in the beginning of that rebellion raised by the Presbyterians an 1642 did with his Wife Children Estate and all that was dear to him imbark in the same Ship with them shew'd himself most zealous for the cause by preaching praying and stirring up the People to stand for them Also by going out in Person and lending money to carry on the War He hath written 1 Reasons against the Independent Government of particular congregations c. Lond. 1641. qu. Answer'd the same year by a Woman called Catherine Chidley 2 Antipologia or an answer to an Apologetical narration of Mr. Goodwin Nye Sympson Burroughs and Bridge members of the Ass of Divines Lond. 1644. qu. c. 3 Gangraena or a catalogue and discovery of many of the errors heresies blasphemies c. acted in England in these four last years As also a particular narration of divers stories remarkable passages letters c. Lond. 1645. qu. there again the second time 1646. qu. The second and third parts of the same book came out in 1646. qu. 4 Treatise against Toleration Lond. 1647. qu. the first part The other parts if any I have not yet seen He hath also written if I mistaken not Of the particular visibility of the Church Also A Treatise of the Civil power in Ecclesiasticals and of suspension from the Lords Supper which three were published in qu. an 1642. 44. Will. Fairfax who had been incorporated M. A. in 1622 was incorporated again this year in the same Degree He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of the Parish Church of St. Peter in Cornhill within the City of London and Vicar of East-Ham in Middlesex Of both which he was deprived by a Committee of Parliament after he had been plundred imprison'd in Ely-house and the Ships and his Wife and Children turn'd out of doors an 1642-3 You may read more of him in that most scandalous Libell entit The first century of scandalous and malignant Priests c. printed 1643. qu. p. 7. Sam. Hildersham Bach. Anthony Shert Doct. of Div. All which with many others were incorporated on the 14. July as 't is before said Aug. 4. Ferdinando Texeda Bach. of Div. of the University of Salamanca in Spain He had been a Monk in the said Country but left it and his Religion came over to the Church of England and at length receeding to Oxon was not only incorporated but found relief among the Scholars thereof He hath written Texeda retextus or the Spanish Monk his bill of divorce against the Church of Rome Lond. 1623. qu. It contains the chief motives of his conversion and 't is probable it was an Usher to other of his labours Oct. 14. Nich. Vignier M. of A. of Saumaur in France He afterwards took the Degree of Bach. of Div. in the year following Creations July 18. George Berkly Baron of Berkles Moubray Segrave and Bruce Knight also of the Bath was actually created Master of Arts. This most noble Person who had been sometimes of Ch. Ch. died in 1658 leaving then behind him a Son named George created Earl of Berkley by K. Ch. 2. Anthony Stafford sometimes a member of Oriel Coll. was created M. of A. the same day I shall mention this Person among the writers under the year 1641. or elshewhere Sam. Thomas of Brasn Coll. was created Bach. of Arts on the same day also which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1624. An. 22. Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Prideaux again July 26. Proct. Daniel Escote of Wadh. Coll. Rich. Hill of Brasnose Coll. Ap. 7. In the election of which Proctors was the greatest canvas as 't was thought in the memory of Man There were four Candidates for the two places viz. Henry Warner of St. Johns Coll. who had 229 voices Philip Parsons of the said house 247. Hill before-mention'd 253 and Esâ—â—te 255. For the taking of the Suffrages given partly by Country Parsons Carats Schoolmasters c. who were Masters of Arts of the University and had been invited thereunto for a time the scrutiny continued till after 9 of the clock at night In the year 1626 was a greater Canvas than this there being then 1078 voices given on all Sides Bach. of Arts. May 11. Joh. Dawson of Ch. Ch. June 5. Will. Denton of Magd. hall 10. Rich. Allen of Balliol afterwards Fellow of Pembr Coll. Will. Berkley of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day Nov. 6. John Davis of St. Edmunds afterwards of Magd hall See among the Masters 1628. Dec. 2. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. 15. Hen. Beesley Steph. Goffe of Mert. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Creations an 1636. Jan. 22. Roger Turner Feb. 17. Joseph Caryl of Ex. Coll. Of the first of these two last you may see more among the Masters an 1627. 19. Sam. Kem of Magd. Rich. Owen of Oriel Coll. 22. Christop Elderfield of St. Mar. Thomas Ford of Magdal Hall 25. Isaac Ambrose of Brasn Will. White of Wadh. Joh. Fairclough of All 's Coll. 26. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. Hall Franc. Davies of Jes Coll. The first of these two last was afterwards Bishop of Peterborough the other of Landaff All these Bachelaurs except Jo. Davis will be mention'd in the 2. vol. of this work or elsewhere Admitted 268. Doct. of Musick July 2. John Mundy Bach. of Musick and Organist of his Majesties Chappel within the Castle of Windsore was then licensed to proceed in that faculty On the 12 of the same month he solemnly proceeded as a Member of Ch. Ch. in the Act then celebrated being in high esteem for his great knowledge in the Theoretical and Practical part of Musick He hath published Songs and Psalmes composed into three 4. and 5. parts Lond. 1594. in large quartoes hath composed several Church Services and Anthems the words of some of which you may see in James Cliffords Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. and hath Madrigales in The triumphs of Oriana He gave way to fate in 1630 and was buried in the Cloister joyning to St. Georges Chappel at Windsore beforemention'd Bach. of Law Nine this year were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Some of them were afterwards Doctors and dignified as I shall tell you elsewhere Mast of Arts. Ap. 16. Will. Haywood of St. Joh. Coll. Joh. Tombes of Magd. Hall May. 8. Thom Paybody of Merton Coll. He hath written An Apologie for kneeling in the Act of receiving the blessed Sacrament printed 1629. qu. which is all I yet know of him June 2. Joh. Arnway of St. Edm. hall 10. William Streat of Exet. Jam. Cranford of Ball. Coll. 17. Will. Strode Joh. Trapp of Ch. Ch. 23. George Newton of Exeter July 5. Shakerley Marmion of Wadh.
kept in the School-Tower among the Books and Records of the said University The second Vol. which is written on Paper begins about the latter end of the 24. Hen. 7. Dom. 1508 and is continued to 1597 and hath added to it certain Epistles of a later date This Book endorsed with the Letters F F was borrowed from the School-Tower by Dr. Tho. James the first Keeper of the Bodleian Library who afterwards putting it into the Archives thereof did enter it as a Manuscript belonging thereunto into the Bodleian Catalogue of Books Printed in 4to An. 1620. The continuation of the University Epistles mostly Penn'd by the publick Orator are remitted into the Books of Acts of Convocation that follow F F. To pass by the Sentence or Opinion of the University of Oxon. concerning the divorce between King Henry 8. and Queen Catherine dated 8. Apr. 1530 and their Sentence in order to the expelling or ejecting the Popes Authority from England dat 24. July 1534. both which contain but little more matter than two Programma's I shall set down other things going under her name of a laterdate as An answer to the humble Petition of the Ministers of England desiring Reformation of certain Ceremonies and abuses in the Church Oxon. 1603. and 1604. in four or five Sheets in Quarto Decretum â—amnans propositiones Neotericorum sive Jesuitarum sive Puritanorum aliorum cujuscunque generis Scriptorum dat 6. Jun. 1622. Oxon. 1622. in one Sheet in 4to see the full Citation of the said Decree and Propositions in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 327. Epistola ad reverendiss in Christo patrem D. Gul. Archipras Cantuar. dat 10. Nov. 1640. It was Printed at the end of the said Archb. Letter which he sent with divers MSS. to the University of Oxon. Humble Petition to the Parliament in behalf of Episcopacy and Cathedrals dat 24. Apr. 1641. Oxon. 1641. Printed in one Sheet in 4to as also on a broad side of a Sheet It was answer'd by a certain Anonymus but very sillily Epistola ad ampliss reverendiss D. Gul. Archipraes Cant. dat 6. Jul. 1641. It was Printed at the end of the said Archbishop's Letter by which he resign'd his Office of Chancellor of the University of Oxon. This Epistle was published by command of the Chief Members of the said University upon occasion of a base Libel and Forgery that was Printed by Anon. under the said title Oxon. 1641. in one Sheet and half Reasons of their present judgment concerning 1 The Solemn League and Covenant 2 The Negative Oath and 3 The Ordinances concerning Discipline and Worship approved by general consent in a full Convocation on the first of June 1647. Oxon. 1647. in five Sheets and half in 4to These Reasons which were for the most part drawn up by the Profound and Learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Coll. were afterwards translated into several Languages and published Answer to the Petition Articles of grievance and Reasons of the City of Oxon presented to the Committee for regulating the University of Oxford 24. July 1649. Oxon. 1649. and 1678. 4to This Answer was drawn up by Dr. Gerard Langbaine of Queens Coll. but published in the Name of the University of Oxon. The said Petition of the City of Oxon the general part of which were then Presbyterians or at least very Factious was for the diminishing and taking away several of the Liberties and Privileges of the University Judgment and Decree past in the Convocation 21. July 1683. against certain pernicious Books and damnable Doctrins destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes their State and Government and of all Humane Society Printed at the Theatre in Oxon. in Latin and English in three Sheets in Folio 1683. Humble Address and Recognition Presented to His Sacred Majesty James 2. King of England c. according to an Act of Convocation bearing date 21. Feb. 1684 'T is Printed in Latin and English and was set before the Verses made by several Members of the University on the said Kings coming to the Crown of Great Britain Fol. The Case of shewing that the City of Oxford is not concern'd to oppose the Confirmation of their Charters by Parliament presented to the Honourable House of Commons 24 Jan. 1689. Oxon. 1690. in 2 Sheets in Fol. and in two and an half in 4 to drawn up by Ja. Harrington M. A. of Christ Church Judicium decretum latum in Convocatione habita Aug. 19. an 1690. contra propositiones quasdam impias haereticas exscriptas citatas ex libello quodam infami haud ita pridem intra dictam Academiam perfidè typis mandato ac divulgato eui tit est The naked Gospel Quae praecipua fidei nostrae mysteria in Ecclesia Catholica ac speciatim Anglicana semper retenta conservata impugnant ac labefactant Oxon. 1690. in two Sheets in Fol. This Book called The Naked Gospel was written by Arth. Bury D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll. and by him was first made publick in the beginning in Apr. of the same Year And tho it is said in the Title Page to be Printed at London yet it was really Printed at Oxon by virtue of his Authority as being then Pro-Vice-Chancellor But before Twenty Copies of it had been dispersed the Author by the persuasion of some of his Friends made certain alterations for the best as he thought in one or more Sheets in the middle of the said Book and thereupon several Copies so altered were exposed to sale yet in the Month of May following the remaining Copies of the Impression not alter'd were dispersed abroad The said Book was publickly Burnt in the School-quadrangle just after the said Decree had passed Whereupon about three dayes after the Author of it dispersed in Manuscript his Apology for writing the said Book called The Naked Gospel the beginning of which is this The design of the Book and the occasion of it were as followeth when the King had called a Convocation to reconcile as it was hoped to the Church of England the several Sects c. In which Apology the Author saith that certain Persons to him unknown got a Copy of the said Book unaltered and Printed it at London As for the several Books of Verses which were published on various occasions under the Name of the University of Oxon are not to be remembred here because the Names of all or at least most of the Persons that had composed Copies of Verses have their Names set at the end of them WILLIAM BEETH a Person Famous for his great knowledge in the Theological faculty was Educated from his Youth among the Dominicans commonly called Black-friers then noted in England and elsewhere for their Religion and Learning and in the prime of his Years obtained much of his Learning in the College or Convent belonging to that Order in the South Suburb of Oxon. In his middle Age he being then accounted by those of his Society a Person of
of the like opinion were many of his time yet the generality said that his witty discourses were biting his laughter opprobrious and scornful and his jokes commonly sharp and reflecting He hath written besides translations 50 several things upon various Subjects as well in Prose as Verse among which are these A Comedy of Virtue A Comedy of good Order Meditation on St. Anne On the Virgin of Kent Sonners on Dame Anne Elynor Rummin or Elynour of Rummyng the famous Ale-Wife of England This was several times Printed and one Impression which was the last I think was made at London 1624. in 2 Sheets and an half in 4to In the Title Page is the Picture of an old ill-favour'd Woman holding in her hand a black Pot of Ale and underneath her these Verses are written When Skelton wore the Lawrel Crown My Ale put all the Ale-Wives down This Book is the same I conceive which some Authors call The tunning of Elynor Rumpkin He hath also written The Peregrination of humane Life Solitary Sonnets The art of Dying well The art of Speaking eloquently Manners and fashions of the Court. Reasons why he goeth not to the Court. Invective against Will Lilye the Grammarian This being written in Verse and very carping was returned in its kind by the Grammarian Epitaphs on several Kings Princes and Nobles Two or more of which you may see in a Book intit Reges Reginae Nobiles alii in Eccl. collegiata B. Petri Westmonast sepulti usque ad an 1600. published by Will. Camden Lond. 1600. qu. See more in Will. Baldewyn among these Writers under the Year 1564. I have seen another Book of Skelton bearing this title Here after followeth a little Boke called Colyn-Clout compiled by Master Skelton Poet Laureate Printed in an old Engl. Char. at London in 8vo without date by Abraham Veale much about the time as I conceive of the Authors death The beginning of it is What can it avayle To drive forth a snayle Or to make a Sayle c. Poetical Fancies and Satyrs Lond. 1512. oct Verses on the creation of Arthur Pr. of Wales and other things which are slightly and unsatisfactorily set down by Baleus and his follower Pitseus At length our Poet dying in his Sanctuary was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Margaret within the City of Westminster in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine year 1529 21. Hen. 8. Over his Grave was this Inscription soon after put Johannes Skeltonus Vates pierius hic situs est Animam egit ejicit XXI Junii an Dom. MDXXIX Near to his Body was afterwards buried an old Court-Poet called Tho. Churchyard and not in the Church Porch as certain old Rhimes tell you beginning thus Come Alecto and lend me thy torch To find a Church-yard in a Church-porch I find another Joh. Skelton who lived in the time of King Hen. 4 but he was a D. of D. and a Dominican as I have elsewhere told you and therefore I conceive it the reason why Baleus stileth this Poet Dr. of Divinity which no other Author beside himself doth Another Job Skelton I find who was confirmed Abbat of Whitby in Yorkshire upon the Death of Tho. Bolton by the Archb. of York 6. Nov. 1413. THOMAS SPENSER Son of Leonard Spenser of the City of Norwich having from his Youth been much addicted to learning and piety especially the last became afterwards a Carthusian in the Monastery of that Order at Henton in Somersetshire whence for a time he receeded to Oxon as several of his Order did to improve himself or to pass a course in Theology After his return he obtained so much leisure from his divine exercise as to write several matters relating to his faculty among which were Comment in Epist D. Pauli ad Galatas Trialogue between Tho. Bilney Hugh Latimer and W. Repps Which Book was written partly to shew the great complaints of Bilney and Latimer two Protestants had against the said Repps a Roman Catholick the same Person I presume who became Bishop of Norwich in 1536. As for our Author Spenser he gave up the ghost after he had spent most of his time in the severities belonging to his Order year 1529 in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried in his Monastery of Henton before-mention'd leaving behind him a most rare example of Piety ROBERT WHITYNTON or Whittington was born in the City of Lichfield educated partly in Grammaticals under John Stanbridge in the School joining to the common gate of Magd. Coll. and afterwards made a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals but in what Coll. or Hall it appears not However his delight being much in the teaching of Youth he became so excellent in that way that it was thought especially by those that favour'd him that he surpassed W. Lilye In the beginning of the Year 1513. 5. Hen. 8. he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents under the name and title of Rob. Whytingdon a secular Chaplain and a Scholar of the Art of Rhetorick that whereas he had spent 14 Years in the study of the said Art and 12 Years in the informing of Boys it might be sufficient for him that he might be laureated This supplicat being granted he was after he had composed 100 Verses which were stuck up in publick places especially on the door or doors of St. Maries Church very solemnly crowned or his temples adornd with a wreath of Lawrel that is doctorated in the Arts of Grammar and Rhetorick 4 July the same Year At the same time also he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the degree of Bach. of Arts which was then esteemed equal with the degree of Doctor of Grammar or Rhetorick From that time he always wrot himself in several of his works Protovates Angliae which was much stomach'd by Will. Horman and W. Lilye and scorn'd by others of his profession who knew him to be conceited and to set an high value upon himself more than he should have done He was then notwithstanding esteemed by many for his great skill he had in the Greek and Latin tongues for his lepid and jocular discourse also but much blamed by Scholars for the biting and sharp reflections used in it and in his Books against several noted Persons of his Age. His writings were many of which some were against W. Lilye Rob. Aldridge and Will. Horman who esteemed him a Man of great vanities a Catalogue of some of which follow De difficultate justitiae servandae in reipublicae administratione MS. in 4to written in verse to and in praise of Cardinal Tho. Wolsey The beginning of which is Quae res in terris c. Before it is an Epigram and an Epistle in Prose written on and to the said Cardinal by our Author Whitynton De quatuor virtutibus Cardineis MS. written to the said Cardinal in prose The beginning is Cum tuas multifarias virtutes
celeberrimo conventu tum Archiepiscoporum cum Episcoporum caeteraeque multitudinis in occidentalis caenobii Westminster Sanctuario 27 Nov. 1527. in Psal 101. Tu exurgens Domine misereberis Sion These three Latin Sermons before-mentioned were printed at London in fol. by Rich. Pynsen the King's Printer and dedicated by the Author of them to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Quinque sermones sextis Quadragesimae feriis habiti coram R. Hen. 8. an 1517. Prima in Ezeck 18. Anima quae peccaverit ipsa morietur Reliquae in Matth. 21. Regnum Dei dabitur genti facienti fructus ejus Printed by Rich. Pynson before-mention'd and by their Author dedicated to Rich. Kedermyster Abbat of Winchcomb All the said Sermons are on one volume in fol. but not said when printed Expositio concionalis Psalmi sexti an 1518. Expositio conc 2di Psalmi paenitentialis coram Regia Majestate an 1519. This is Psal 31. Conciones expositativae in tertium Psalmum paenitent coram R. Maj. an 1520. This is Psal 37. Conciones expos in 50 Psal paenitent coram Rege an 1521 1522. All which Expositions and Sermons were except the first printed at London in fol. by Rob. Redman 1532. But the Reader is to note that all the Latin Sermons and Expositions that I have mention'd under this Author Longland having been all or most preached in the English tongue were translated into Lat. by Thom. Key of Allsouls Coll. as I shall tell you when I come to him Sermon before the King on Good Friday on Heb. 13. 10. 11. 12. 13. Lond. 1538. qu. A Copy of which or at least part you may see in J. Fox's Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. This Dr. Longland departed this mortal life on the 7. of May in Fifteen hundred forty and seven year 1547 Whereupon his body being opened his bowels were taken out and buried in the Church of Wooburne in Bedfordshire where he died his heart in the Cathedral of Lincolne under the blessed Sacrament of the high Altar and his body in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. near Windsore of which probably he had been Fellow Over his Grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with an Inscription thereon a Copy of which is printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 193. b. 194. a. In the Cath. Church at Lincoln near to the South door but somewhat Westward was a fair Tomb of Marble in the form of an Altar built in an arch in the Wall for the said B Longland On the Freeze above the same is this Inscription Longa terra mensura ejus Dominus dedit On the South side thereof is a beautiful Chappel wherein hath been a Chantry for the said Bishop as some think He gave divers Books to Magd. Coll. Library some to that of Oriel and others to the Students of Durham now Trinity Coll. in Oxon. He gave also the second Bell at Wooburne of fine mettal silver found which was always afterwards called Bishop Longlands Bell. He built an Alms house at the place of his nativity Henley Southward of the Chancel but for how many poor People or with what revenue he endowed it having been originally large I know not Sure I am that now seven Persons live therein and have weekly but six pence a piece for their allowance and is govern'd by the Corporation there ARTHUR KELTON seems to have been born of a gentile Family in Shorpshire though said to be a Welsh Man and after he had made a considerable progress in Arts applied his mind mostly to the reading of the Histories of Britain wherein he much excelled in his riper Years But being withal very poetically given he must forsooth write and publish his Lucubrations in verse whereby for rhime sake many material matters and the due timing of them are omitted and so consquently rejected by Historians and Antiquaries as his Chronicle of the Brutes Lond. 1547 in oct Printed in an old English Character The Preface of which being also written in Verse is by the Author directed to K. Ed. 6. At the end of the said Chronicle is A Genealogy of the Brutes This is drawn from Ofiris the first King of Egypt down to K. Ed. 6. of England and contains but about 32 Generations which shews that the Author was ignorant in Genealogies He hath also written another Book of Poetry in praise of the Welsh Men dedicated to Sir Will. Herbert but this I have not yet seen nor other if any of his things in Prose He was living at Shrewsbury in the time of King Ed. 6. and for ought I know to the contrary died also and was buried there ANDREW BORDE who writes himself Andreas Perforatus was born as it seems at Pevensey commonly called Pensey in Sussex and not unlikely educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester brought up at Oxford as he saith but in what house unless in Hart. Hall I know not Before he had taken a Degree he entred himself a Brother of the Carthusian Order at or near to London where continuing till he was wearied out with the seventy of that Order he left it and for a time applyed his Muse to the Study of Physick in this University Soon after having a rambling head and an unconstant mind he travelled through most parts of Eurepe thorough and round about Christendom and out of Christendom as he saith and into some parts of Africa At length upon his return he settled at Winchester where he practised his faculty and was much celebrated for his good success therein In 1541. and 42 I find him living at Mountpelier in France at which time I persume he took the Degree of Doctor of Physick and soon after being incorporated in the same Degree at Oxon lived for a time at Pevensey in Sussex and afterwards at his beloved City of Winchester where as at other places it was his custom to drink water three days in a week to wear constantly a shirt of hair and every night to hang his shroud and socking or burial-sheet at his beds feet according as he had done as I conceive while he was a Carthusian He always professed Celibacy and did zealously write against such Monks Priests and Friers that violated their Vow by Marriage as many did when their respective Houses were dissolv'd by King Hen. 8. But that matter being irksom to many in those days was the reason I think why a Calvinstical Bishop who was then as it seems married fell foul upon him by reporting openly that under colour of virginity and strictness of life he kept three Whores at once in his Chamber at Winchester to serve not only himself but also to help the Virgin Priests c. about 1547. How true this is I cannot say though the matter as the Bishop reports was examined before several Justices of Peace because the Book here quoted contains a great deal of passion and but little better language than that of Foul-mouth'd Bale
made him to be much esteem'd by learned Men in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. JOHN GRIFFIN or Griffith a Welsh Man born and a Monk of the Order of Cistercians in the Monastery of Hales Owen in Worcestershire was educated among those of his Order in the College of St. Bernard in the North Suburb of Oxon but what degree he took I cannot yet find Several of both his names and of his time have taken Degrees in the Canon Law and Divinity but which of them is this that I am now upon I cannot say He is reported to have been a pious and learned Man but being unacquainted with the dealings of the World had like to have been drawn over to the Reformed Religion but was in due time fastned in his faith again to the great joy of the Rom. Catholicks who held him to be a most excellent Preacher whether in the Lat. or English tongue He hath published Conciones aestuales Conciones hyemales With other things which I have not yet seen As for the time of his death and place of burial I cannot yet find he having been several Years thrust out of his Monastery at the dissolution of Religious Houses He was living in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. and perhaps in that of Qu. Mary NICHOLAS KRACH or Karche or Chracher Kratcher or Kratzer so many ways I find him written was born at Munchen in Bavaria and educated in the Universities of Colen and Wyttenberg till he was Bach. of Arts Afterwards coming into England and at length to the knowledge of Fox Bishop of Winchester was made by him Fellow of his College called Corpus Christi and admitted thereunto on the fourth of July 1517. About that time he reading Astronomy in the University by the command of K. Hen. 8. was soon after made by Cardinal Wolsey his Mathematick Reader when he first settled his Lectures there In Feb. 1522. he was incorporated Bach. of Arts as he had stood at Colen and Wyttenberg and in the same Month was licensed to proceed in Arts which Degree he compleated in an Act celebrated 23. March following being then esteemed ita bonus probus ut majore quam Mathematicorum fortuna sit dignus ita suae Artis peritus ut solus isthic artifex habere debeat He wrot at the desire of Will. Tyler one of the Grooms of K. Hen. 8. his Belchamber Canones Horopti MS. This Book which is dedicated to K. Hen. 8. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Library and no doubt there is but that other Copies of it are in other places De Compositione Horologeorum MS. in the said Library This is generally said to be his as the Annotation at the end may in part prove it He made the old Dial which is at this day in C. C. C. Garden and that standing on a Pillar in St. Maries South Church-yard in the High Streat of the City of Oxon. On which soon after was hung up the Universities condemnation of the Doctrin of Luther This famous Mathematician of his time was living in the Year 1550. 4 Ed. 6. and after his death which I think soon followed many of his Books came into the hands of that eminent Mathematician Dr. John Dee and some into those of Dr. Rich. Forster a noted Physician and Mathematician also See more of this Nich. Kratzer in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 247. b. lib. 2. p. 35. b. DAVID CLAPHAM the eldest Son and Heir of Job Claph and he the fourth Son of Tho. Claph of Beamesley in Yorkshire Esq was born as I conceive in that County and after he had spent some time in Trivials did solely addict his mind to the study of the Civil Law but whether he took a Degree in that faculty in doth not appear Afterwards he retired to Doctors Commons became a noted Proctor in the Arches and for his ingenuity and good natural parts was beloved of Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State to K. Ed. 6. and other noted Men of that time praeter Legis peritiam in qua plurimum excellebat as one who knew him well tell us in diversis scientiis eruditus fuit He hath translated from Latin into English 1 A Treatise of Nobility 2 The excellency of Womenâ—kind Both Printed at Lond. 1542. in oct and written originally by Corn. Agrippa 3 The praise of Matrimony Lond. in oct written by the said Agrippa and Erasmus What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that after by his endeavors he had obtained a considerable Estate he concluded his last day in his House near to Doct. Com. year 1551 on the 14 of July in Fifteen hundred fifty and one Whereupon his body was buried in the then now Church of St. Faith under part of the Cath. Church of St. Paul within the City of London leaving behind him several Children which he had by Joan his Wife the eldest of which was Thomas whose posterity did lately remain at Helpeston in Northamptonshire ANTHONY COPE Son of Will. Cope or Coope of Banbury in Oxfordshire Esq sometimes Cofferer to K. Hen. 7. by Joan his second Wife Daughter and Heir of John Spencer of Hodnell in Warwickshire was educated in this University but in what Coll. unless in Oriel wherein studied several of his Sirname in the time of K. Hen. 8. and K. Ed. 6. I know not Afterwards he went into France Germany Italy and elsewhere in which places visiting the Universities and joyning his company to the most learned Men of them became an accomplished Gentleman wrot several things beyond the Seas as well as at home as it appears from certain Authors and from an Epigram made in his praise by Joh. Bapt. Mantuan Among them is only this known to Authors Godly meditations on 20 select Psalms necessary for them that desire to have the dark words of the Prophet declared Also for those that delight in the contemplation of the spiritual meaning of them Lond. 1547. qu. The twenty Psalms that the meditations are on are the 1. 6. 12. 13. 23. 32. 49. 51. 73. 84. 90. 102. 103. 104. 116. 121. 130. 138. 139. 146. Afterwards he received the honor of Knighthood and dying in Summer time in Fifteen hundred fifty and one year 1551 was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Hanwell near to Banbury in Oxfordshire leaving then behind him a Son named Edward As for Will. Cope or Coope Cofferer to K. Hen. 7. before-mentioned he purchased an Estate in and near to Banbury and dying 7. Apr. 1513. was buried in the Church at Banbury I find one Michael Cope to have been a zealous Calvinist at Geneva and other places a frequent Preacher in the French Tongue and Author in the French Language of 1 A faithful and familiar exposition on Ecclesiastes an 1557. Which edition being amended and corrected was published again at Geneva 1563. in qu. 2 A godly and
in the Latin and Greek tongues He hath written several things but whether extant I know not Among them are Epistolae ad D. Will. Roperum Epitaphia diversa Opuscula Graece Latinè Written with his own hand and said to be tho I cannot yet in all my searches find them in the Bodleian Library He also translated into English several of the Greek and Latin Orations made by the said Daughter of Will. Roper as by his Epistles in appears What became of this Joh. Morwen when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown if he lived to that time I cannot tell unless he was received into the Family of the said Roper a great lover of learning and a reliever and comforter of distressed Catholicks JOHN LELAND or Leyland that singular light and ornament of Great Britain was born in London but in what Parish or Year it appears not howbeit the day of his Birth he himself is pleased to tell us In his younger Years being depriv'd of his relations he was taken into the protection of one Tho. Myles a great favourer of learning who not only exhibited to his wants but also took care to have him instructed in Grammar and other juvenile learning under the famous Will. Lilye From his School he was sent to Cambridge where as he himself saith he received the first seeds of Academical Learning in Christ's College and from thence as in another place he tells us he went to Oxon but to what College or Hall therein he adds not Howbeit by sure tradition from Thom. Key of Allsouls College to Thom. Allen of Glocest Hall it appears that he spent several Years in study in the said Coll. of Allsouls which is also noted by Will. Burton the Antiquary of Leicestershire in the Collorary of some part of Leland's Life before the first tome of his Collections After he had spent some time there he journied to Paris where he profited himself much by the reading and learning of Budaeus Faber Paulus Aemilius and Ruellus Returning thence he entred into Holy Orders became Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and Rector of Poppeling sometimes written Popering and Pepling in the Marches of Calais Afterwards he became Library-keeper to that King and had a Commission from him under the broad Seal an reg 25. Dom. 1533. whereby he was impowered to make a search after England's Antiquities and peruse the Libraries of all Cathedrals Abbies Priories Colleges c. as also all places wherein Records Writings and secrets of Antiquity were reposed Whereupon in few Years after obtaining a special dispensation 12. Jul. 28. Hen. 8. to keep a Curate at Poppeling and make his residence in England or elsewhere at his own liberty he spent more than six Years in rambling to and fro in this Nation and in making researches into the bowels of antiquity undertaking so immense a task that the very thoughts of compleating it did as 't is said distract him At the time of the dissolution of Monasteries he saw with very great pity what havock was made of ancient Monuments of learning and if no remedy should be taken they would all perish Whereupon for prevention sake he wrot a Letter to Cromwell the prime Secretary dat 16. July wherein he intreats him to give him aid and assistance in bringing to light many ancient Authors and in sending them to the King's Library who he knew well had no little esteem for them and adds that it would be a great profit to Students and honour to this Realm whereas now the Germanes perceiving our deridiousness and negligence do senddayly young Scholars hither that spoileth them and cutteth them out of Libraries returning home and putting them abroad as Monuments of their own Country c. On the 3. of Apr. 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1542. he was presented to the Rectory of Hasely near to and in the County of Oxon and in the beginning of the said Month 1543 the King gave to him by the name of Job Leland Scholar and the King's Chaplain a Canonry or Prebendship of Kings College now Ch. Ch. in Oxon and about that time the Prebendship of East-Knoll and W. Knoll near to Salisbury in Wiltshire but the Canonry of Ch. Ch. he lost in 1545 upon the surrender of that College to the King and in lieu thereof had no pension allow'd him as other Canons had but preferment elsewhere At length having made a grand collection of antiquities he retired to his habitation in the Parish of St. Michael in le Querne in London where spending about six Years more in composing such Books that he had promised to the King did at length upon a foresight that he was not able to perform his promise or as the Roman Catholicks say that he had degenerated from the ancient Religion fall distracted and lost his sense being but a little before esteemed a Person of a clear judgment and of great insight to discern between substantial and superficial learning This his distemper being made known to the King and his Council His Majesty by Letters Pattent dat 21. March 5. Ed. 6. Dom. 1550. did grant the custody of him by the name of John Laylond Junior of St. Michaels Parish in le Querne London Clerk to his Brother John Laylond senior and for his maintenance to receive the profits of Hasely Popplyng E. Knoll and W. Knoll before-mentioned He was esteemed by the generality of Scholars of his time an excellent Orator and Poet learned in the Greek Latin French Italian Spanish British Saxon Welsh and Scotish Tongues a most diligent searcher into antiquity and a favourer and lover of all those that bent their minds that way His enemies or such that cared not for him as Pol. Virgil Dr. Jo. Cay c. did use to say that he was a vain glorious Person and that he promised more than ever he was able to perform and others that his Poetical wit made him so conceited that it was the chief reason of his frensie He hath written Naenia in mortem Thomae Viati equitis incomparabilis Lond. 1542. 'T is a Lat. Poem in one sheet and an half in qu. Genethliacom illustriss Eadverdi principis Cambriae Ducis Coriniae Comitis Palatini c. Printed 1543. A Lat. Poem in 4. sheets in qu. Syllabus interpretatio antiquarum dictionum quae passim per libellum praedictum lectore occurrunt Printed with the former an 1543. Assertio inclytiss Arturii regis Britanniae Lond. 1544. qu. Elenchus antiquarum nominum Printed with the Assertio inc Cygnea Cantio Lond. 1545. 'T is a Lat. Poem in about 5 sheet in qu. There again 1658. in oct Commentarii in Cyg cantionem indices Britannicae antiquitatis locupletissimi Printed with the two said Editions of Cyg Cant. Laudatio pacis Lond. 1546. A Lat Poem in 2 sh in qu. A New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. 37 Year of his Reign concerning his laborious journey and search for Englands antiquities Lond. 1549. Oct. Published with
annotations thereon by Joh. Bale who hath added thereunto of his own A register of the names of English Writers whom the second part of his work De Scriptorib Britanniae shall comprehend Principum ac illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Angliâ virorum Encomia Trophaea Genethliaca Epithalamia c. Lond. 1589. qu. Published by Tho. Newton of Cheshire These are all the Books composed by him that are published Those that he left behind him in MS. are these following Collectaneorum volumen primum Collections from various Authors viz. from Chronologies ancient Charters Leiger-Books Histories Annals publick and private Writings c. Written with Lelands own hand mostly in Latin in folio containing 913 pages and all collected from MSS. and nothing from Authors that were then Printed There are in this Book many needless additions and illustrations put in by Will. Burton of Lindley whom I shall anon mention who hath written some part of the life of Leland before and has made a useful index to it Collect. vol. 2. Collections from various Authors in MS. viz. Chronologies Annals c. in fol. containing 382. pages Collect. vol. 3. Containing the Catalogues of MSS. in the Libraries of several religious Houses Cathedrals Colleges c. Collections also from Monkish Authors concerning the foundations restaurations c. of religious places and other matters of considerable moment In p. 117 is part of an Itinerary through Devonshire and p. 127 c. is something of Kent In p. 149 c. is something of Herefordshire and p. 204 of Lincolnshire Afterwards follow the meaning and original of words from several old Dictionaries This vol. contains in writing under Lelands hand 287 pages in fol. and hath at the end his New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. Collect. vol. 4. Containing the lives and characters of most of the eminent Writers of England written in Latin with Leland's own hand an 1546. and containeth 354 pages in fol. One or more Copies of this Book are in private hands An Itinerary throughout most parts of England In five volumes in qu. This Iter was began about 38. H. 8. Dom. 1538 and the volumes were written with his own hand but by the negligence of those who have had the custody of them after the Authors death most of them have taken wet and are not legible About the Year 1631. Will. Burton before-mentioned caused all the said five volumes to be transcribed into one folio which with the originals were by him soon after given to the publick Library of Oxon. Collections concerning English Families and their originals of relations of matters of antiquity from divers Persons of Towns and religious Houses which he accidentally found in record or by tradition of Rivers in several Counties and also collections from various MSS. c. All which are contained in two quartoes under Leland's hand writing and go under the names of the sixth and seventh volumes of his Itineraries and stand and are mix'd with the other five in the Archives of the publick Library Collectiones ex antiquissimis authoribus desumptae quae ad Britanniam spectant MS. in Cotton ' s Library under Julius C. 6. Codrus sive liber contra Polydorum Virgilium de erroribus in scriptis suis MS. An exemplar of which I have seen Naenia in mort Hen. Duddelegi Dudley Equitis MS. in qu. Bononia Gallo-Mastix in laudem victoris feliciss Hen. 8. Anglici Francici Scottici c. MS. in qu. With other things which you may see in Balcus and Pitseus All which MSS. and collections with many other matters of moment were after Leland's death taken by command from Ed. 6 into the custody of Sir John Cheek Tutor to the said King who not long after gave the four tomes or vol. of his collections before-mention'd to Humph. Purefoy Esq afterwards of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth in the North parts of England whose Son Tho. Purefoy of Barwell in Leicestershire giving them to Will. Burtâ—n of Lyndley in the same County in the Year 1612 came many Years after by his gift when he had made use of them in compiling his Description of Leicestershire to the Bodlcian or pub Library at Oxon together with the Itinerary in five with the other two quartoes where they yet in the Archives of that Library remain As for some other of his Collections they came after the death of Sir John Cheek into the hands of Will Lord Pagit and Sir Will. Cecyll but to whom from them I find not Perhaps among the said Collect. were those that came afterwards into Sir Rob. Cotton's hands and the Itinerary into those of Will. Burton before-mention'd Howsoever it is sure I am that several eminent Antiquaries have made use of them especially Joh. Bale in his second edition of British Writer but not in the same words that Leland wrot For as he delivered things impartially and in smooth language so Bale quite contrary and full of scurrilities Camden also though now and then he doth mention his Author Leland yet he made considerable use of his Collections in the composing of his Britannia Sir Will. Dugdale hath perused them several times and made great use of them in his Antiquities of Warwickshire and in his volumes called The Baronage of England but withal quotes him honestly for every thing that he hath taken from them To conclude this great Antiquary J. Leland dying on the 18 day of April in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 was buried in the Church of St. Michaels in le Querne in London Which Church having been situated near to the old cross in West-cheap and not far from the East part of St. Paul's Cathedral was totally burnt down in the grand conflagration an 1666. So that soon after its Parish being united to another the foundation of the said Church was level'd and pitched with Stones as the rest of the street adjoining was and at the East-end where stood the Altar or thereabouts was erected a Conduit of stone to serve the inhabitants of the neighbourhood with water JOHN CLERKE who is reported by a learned Author to be descended from famous and noble lineage was educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals among the Oxonians for a time but in what House I cannot as yet tell Afterwards he travell'd into several Countries fell into the company and acquaintance of Rich. Paice mention'd under the Year 1532. studied together in Italy and contracted between them such a faithful and constant friendship that the like could not be read in any Author All things were in a manner common between them and what was by either read or observed was forthwith communicated to each others great advantage After his return to his native Country he was highly esteemed for his accomplishments especially for his exact knowledge in the Latin French and Italian Tongues Whereupon being taken into the service of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk was by him made his Secretary a
place of credit and considerable profit and introduced into the acquaintance of most of the Nobility that frequented the Court He hath transmitted to posterity Opusculum plano divinum de mortuorum resurrectione extremo judicio in quatuor linguis succinctè conscriptum viz. Lat. Angl. Ital. Gall. Lond. 1545. and 47. in qu. Declaration of certain Articles with a recital of the capital errours against the same Lond. 1546. in oct Meditations on death declinatione verborum De Italica De Gallica He hath also translated from French into English A treatise of Nobility with other things written and translated which I have not yet seen At length being clap'd up Prisoner within the Tower of London whether for matters of Religion or any other thing I know not did to avoid publick shame as 't is thought hang himself in his Chamber with his girdle on the tenth of May in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 leaving this character behind him by a Calvinistical Author that he was an open Enemy to the Gospel and all godly Preachers The Reader is to note that several of both his names occur in records as first Joh. Clerke a Berkshire Man born who became Fellow of Magd. Coll. 1482. 2 Joh. Clerke of the same Coll. as it seems who proceeded M. of A. 1516. 3 Joh. Clerke a Cambridge Man afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells whom I shall elsewhere mention 4 Joh. Clerke who was originally of Cambridge afterwards of Cardinal College in Oxon and incorporated M. of A. 1525 but ejected the said Coll. soon after for Lutherisme 5 Joh. Clerke a Benedictine Monk incorporated Bach. of Divinity 13. July 1538 as he before had stood at Cambridge proceeded in that faculty at Oxon within few days after and stood in an Act to compleat that Degree 29. of the same Month in the said Year But of all the said Joh. Clerks not one as I conceive is Joh. Clerke the writer except you 'll say the second ALEXANDER de BARKLAY who seems to have been born at or near a Town so called in Somersetshire was for a time educated in this University particularly as it seems in Oriel Coll. of which his great Patron and Favourer of his studies Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne was then Provost Afterwards he travel'd beyond the Seas and at his return became by the said Bishops endeavours to whom he was Chaplain one of the Priests of the College of St. Mary at Otery in Devonshire founded by Joh. Grandison B. of Exeter But his Patron dying soon after he entred into the Order of St. Benedict or into that of St. Francis as one who gives him an ill report because he lived and died a single Man tells us but at what place I know not Sure 't is that living to see his Monastery dissolv'd he being about that time Doctor of Divinity became Vicar of Much Badew in Essex and in 1546 Vicar of the Church of St. Mathew the Apostle at Wokey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Rich. Eryngton which I think was all the preferment that he had to the time of his death In his younger days he was esteemed a good Poet and Orator as several specimens of his composition in those faculties shewed but when Years came on he spent his time mostly in pious matters and in reading the Histories of Saints His works are The figure of our Mother Holy Church oppressed by the French King Printed at London by Rich. Pynson in qu. The miseries or miserable lives of Courtiers Besides his answer to Job Skelton the Poet and other things which I have not yet seen He translated from Lat. into English The lives of St. Margaret St. Catherine St. Etheldreda St. George c. Several things also of Jo. Bapt. Fiera Mantuam and other matters as Baleus tells you But above all must not be forgotten his translation out of Latin French and Dutch into the English Language a Book intit The Ship of Fools an 1508. Printed at Lond. by Pich Pynson 1509. fol. and dedicated by the translator to the said Tho. Cornish B. of Tyne and suffragan Bishop of Wells This translation is adorned with great variety of Pictures printed from wooden cuts which could not be but very delightful to the Reader in those days The original Author of that Book was one Sebastian Brantius much famed in his time for his excellent works As for his translator Dr. Barklay who also translated from French into English The Castle of Labour lived to be an aged Man and dying at a Mercat Town called Croyden in Surrey before the 10. of June for on that day his will was prov'd in Fifteen hundred fifty and two was buried in the Church there year 1552 leaving then behind him among some the character of a good Scholar EDWARD SEYMOURE Son of Sir Joh. Seymoure of Wolfhall in Wilts Knight was educated in trivials and partly in quadrivials for some time in this University and whether he afterwards studied in Cambridge of which he was Chancellour in the Reign of Edw. 6. I cannot say If so 't is very strange that one that had conversed with the Muses of both Universities should be so unlearned as one who was an enemy to his memory reports that he could scarce write or read Afterwards K. Hen. 8. marrying his Sister Jane he ascended to and obtained great honours and places in the Realm of England as all Histories will tell you While he was Lord Protector there went under his name Epistola Exhortatoria ad pacem missa ad nobilitatem ac plebem universumque populum regni Scotiae Lond. 1548. qu. In which Year also came out his Expedition into Scotland written by another hand After he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for divers miscarriages in his Government he made very great shew of sanctity and seemed not to omit any opportunity whereby he might employ his time religiously as it well appears by a Book that he then wrot entituled A spiritual and most precious Pearl teaching all Men to love and embrace the cross as a most sweet and necessary thing c. Lond 1550 oct At that time before and after he was much courted by John Calvin and Peter Martyr as being the chief Person that carried on the reformation The former wrot to him the said Protector An Epistle of godly consolation 22. Oct. 1549. Writ before the time and knowledge of his trouble Which Epistle being delivered to him in the time of his trouble was translated by him from French into English Printed at Lond. 1550. oct The other P. Martyr wrot an Epistle to him about the same time in the Lat. tongue which being much pleasing to him was by his desire translated into English by that noted Zealot Thom. Norton Printed 1550. in oct From which Epistles it doth plainly appear what great respects they Calvin and Martyr and their Parties had for him and what solemn wishes and prayers they continually
Articles according to the order of the Creed of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct 1584. qu. Annexed to John Baker's Lectures on the Creed These 100 Articles were before Printed viz. an 1550. in oct Declaration of the 10 holy Commandments of Almighty God Lond. 1550. and 88. oct With other things which I have not yet seen the trite or slender titles of which you may see in Baleus He also translated from Lat. into English Turtullians second Book to his Wife concerning the choice of a Husband or Wife Lond. 1550. oct and perhaps other things At length he suffered death in the flames near to the College of Priests in the City of Glocester on Saturday the ninth of Febr. in Fifteen hundred fifty and four 1. and 2. of Philip and Mary being then near sixty Years of Age and much lamented by those that pretended to Reformation EDWARD WOTTON Son of Rich. Wotton superior Beadle of Divinity of this University of Oxon by Margaret his Wife was born within the City of Oxon. particularly as I conceive in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin wherein his Father lived and had Houses in Cat-street After he had been educated in the Grammar School joining to Magd. Coll. he was first made Semicommoner or Demie of that House and after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was 1513. he was as I conceive made Fellow At length upon the desire of John Claymond and Rob. Morwent who knew the singular virtues and learning of the Person he left that Coll. and by the favour of that most worthy Person Bishop Fox Founder of that of Corp. Christi was made socius compar thereof with leave to travel into Italy for three Years an 1520. So that after he had read the Greek Lecture there for some time he journied into Italy studied Physick and took the Degree of Doctor in that faculty at Padöua After his return he was settled Greek Reader of his Coll. was incorporated in the same Degree in the latter end of 1525 was made Physician to K. Hen. 8. and not only became famous for his happy practice in that faculty in these parts and afterwards in London for he was one of the College of Physicians there but also for his great knowledge in Philosophy and things natural He hath transmitted to posterity De differentiis Animalium lib. 10. Par. 1552. fol. By the publishing of which he obtained a famous name among learned Men especially with Mich. Neander who saith that no Author hath written of Animals more learned and elegant than Wottonus See more in Thom Mouffet under the Year 1590. What other things the said Wotton hath published I know not nor anything else of him or his only 1 That he dying 5. Octob. year 1555 in Fifteen hundred fifty and five in the climacterical Year of his Age 63 was buried in St. Albans Church in Woodstreet in the City of London 2 That Catherine his Widow dying 4 Dec. 1558. was buried by him and both had a stone with an inscription thereon laid over their Graves But that part of it which remained an 100 Years after was totally consumed in the grand conflagration of London an 1666. 3 That he is much celebrated by the Antiquarian Poet John Leland under the name of Eadverdus Ododunus 4 That among the Children he left behind him for he had a numerous issue Brian Wotton LL. Bach. and Fellow of New Coll. was one who bequeathed his Body to be buried in the yard belonging to St. Albans Church before-mention'd Another was called Hen. Wotton first a Student of Ch. Ch. and afterwards Proctor of the University Greek Reader and Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. who proceeding in the faculty of Physick an 1567. became afterwards famous for the practice thereof NICHOLAS RYDLEY was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Willymondswyke in Northumberland educated in Grammatical Learning at Newcastle upon Tyne in Academical at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he was elected into one of Walt. Skyrlaw's Fellowship of University Coll. 13. Apr. 1521. Which place he keeping but a little while and therefore the Members of that House can hardly lay claim to him he returned to Cambridge where he became D. of D. and Master of Pembroke Hall Afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Ed. 6. and at length through Rochester the temporalities of which See were restored to him 27. Sept. 1547. became Bishop of London 1549. He was a Person small in stature but great in learning and profoundly read in Divinity quo viro as one who knew him saith nihil integrius omnibus egregiis dotibus ornatius Anglia nostra multis hisce retro saeculis habuit c. Among several things that he wrot were these Treatise concerning images not to be set up nor worshipped in Churches Written in the time of K. Ed. 6. Brief declaration of the Lords Supper Printed 1555. and 1586. oct Written by him while he was a Prisoner in Oxon. It was translated into Lat. by Will. Whittyngham bearing this title Assertio de coena Dominica Genev. 1556. Answered by another Book entit Confutatio Catholica Nich. Rydley de Eucharistia Par. 1556. qu. Written by Alban Langdale D. D. of St. John's College in Cambridge Certain godly and comfortable conferences between him and Mr. Hugh Latymer during the time of their imprisonment Lond. 1555. 56. and 74 in oct A friendly farewell written during his imprisonment at Oxford unto all his true Lovers a little before his death Lond. 1559. oct A piteous lamentation of the miserable state of the Church of England in the time of the late revolt from the Gospel Lond. in oct A comparison between the comfortable Doctrine of the Gospel and the traditions of Popish Religion Print with the former An account of a disputation at Oxford an 1554 Oxon. 1688. qu. Written in Latin and published from the Original MS by Gilb. Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Col. and then Vicehanc of the Univ. of Oxon. Treatise of the blessed Sacrament The beginning of which is Many things confound the real memory c. published with the former by the aforesaid Person from an original MS. to which he added A Letter written by Mr. Jo. Bradford the Martyr never before Printed Letter of reconciliation written to Bishop Hooper Lond. 1689. qu. published by Sam. Johnson Author of the Short account of the life of Julian the Apostate Lond. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Rydley had a hand also in the compiling of the Common Prayer-Book now in use among us has also disputations arguings communications and conferences about matters of Religion in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church written by John Fox In which Book under the Years 1554. and 55. you may see a full account of his sufferings and afterwards of his burning near to Balliol College in Oxon. year 1555 on the 16. of Oct in Fifteen hundred fifty and
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
mention them in their respective places THOMAS PAYNELL or Paganell descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Lincolnshire was from his youth always exercised in virtue and good letters While he was in his juvenile years he was made a Canon Regular of Merton Priory in Surrey the Monasticks of which place having had interest in the College of St. Mary the Virgin situated in the Parish of St. Michael and St. Peter in the Baylie built purposely for the training up of young Can. Reg. in Philosophical or Theological learning or both he was sent thither where improving himself much in Divine learning returned to his Monastery and a little before the dissolution of that and others became Prior of a certain Monastery of Canon Regulars near to London as Baleus saith tho the name of the place he tells us not But being soon after ejected when his Monastery was to be imployed for a laical use had a pension allowed him during his life Whereupon retiring to London and sometimes to Oxon had the more leisure to write and translate Books the titles of which follow Pandicts of the Evangelical Law Lond. 1553. oct The pithy and most notable sayings of all the Scripture after the manner of common places c. newly augmented and corrected Lond. 1560. oct A Table of many matters contained in the english works of Sir Tho. More This is set before the said works that were published by Will. Rastell an 1557. A fruitful Book of the common places of all St. Pauls Epistles right necessary for all sorts of People c. Lond. 1562. oct Preface to the Book of measuring of Land as well of Woodland as Plowland Printed at Lond. in the time of Hen. 8. in oct The Book it self was written by Sir Rich. de Benese sometimes Canon of Merton Priory but corrected and made fit for the press by Paynell In the Year 1519. one Rich. de Benese a secular Chaplain supplicated the Ven. congregation for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether the same with the writer I cannot justly say because he is written secular Chaplain Neither can I say that Rich. Benese Clerk Parson of Long Ditton in Surrey in the time of H. 8. be the same also who in his last Will and Test dated 3. Nov. 1546. and proved 20. Oct. 1547. doth bequeath his body to be buried in the yard belonging to the Church there Our Author Thom. Paynell did also translate from Lat. into English 1 Of the contempt of the world Lond. 1533. oct written by Erasmus 2 Of the Medicine Guacum and of the French disease c. Lond. 1536. and 1539. oct written by Ulrich Hutten a Knight of Almaine It treateth of the wood called Guacum which healeth the French Pox the Gout Stone Palsey c. 3 Of the comparison of a Virgin and a Martyr Lond. 1537. oct written by Erasmus This translation is dedicated to John Ramsey Lord Prior of Merton 4 Sermon on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1539. oct written by St. Cyprian 5 A faithful and true story of the destruction of Troy Lond. 1553. oct written by Danus Phrigius 6 A devout prayer expedient for those that prepare themselves to say Mass c. Lond. 1555. oct written by St. Ambrose 7 Brief Chronycle of all the Earls of Holland Lond. 1557. oct written by Hadrianus Barlandus 8. Salerni sanit regim The Regiment of health teaching all People how to govern them in health Lond. 1558 oct 9 Of the examples of virtue and vice Lond. 1561. oct written by Nich. Hannape 10 Fruitful treatise of well living containing the whole summ and effect of all virtue Printed at Lond in oct written by St. Bernard 11 The Precepts teaching a Prince or a noble estate his duty print in oct written originally in Greek by Agapetus He also translated from French into English 1 The civility of Chidhood with the discipline and institution of Children Lond. 1560. oct 2 The assault of Heaven Lond. in qu. besides other translations which you may see elsewhere In my searches I once saw a Will without date made for Thom. Paynell Priest born at or near to Bothby-Paynell in Lincolnshire afterwards-Parson as it seems of Cotyngam lying between Hull and Beverley in Yorkshire to which place he was a Benefactor and left considerable Legacies to 20 poor Maidens born and dwelling there He gave to St. Johns Coll. in Oxon wherein as it seems he had studied in his elderly years in the latter end of H. 8. and in the time of Ed. 6. at which time it was called St. Bernards Coll. all his Books in his Chamber at London and desired that at his Funeral a Sermon be Preached by a Catholick Doctor or a Bach. of Divinity c. This will which seems to have been made at London was proved in the Praerogative Court of Conterbury on the 22 of March according to the English accompt in Fifteen hundred sixty and three year 1563 I do and always did take it to be made for Thom. Paynell the writer and conclude thence that he died in the Winter time 1563. but where buried I cannot tell EDWARD FERRERS a most ingenious Man of his time was of the same Family with those of Baldesley-Clenton in Warwickshire but the name of the particular place where he was born or the name of the House in Oxon wherein educated I cannot justly say Sure it is that he continued there several years being then in much esteem for his Poetry and about the time that he left the Univ. wrot Several Tragedies Com. or Interludes All which being written with much skill and magnificence in his meeter gave the King so much good recreation as the Author of the Art of English Poesie saith as he had thereby many good rewards and adds farther that for such things as he hath seen of his writing and of the writing of Tho. Sackvile they deserve the price c. Our Author Ferrers hath also written these two Poems following viz. The fall of Rob. Tresilian Cheif Justice of England and The unlawful murder of Tho. of Woodstok Duke of Glocester with several other things which I have not yet seen and was Author as one or more writers say of a Book intit A mirroure for Magistrates Lond. 1559 Published by Will. Baldwin whom I shall anon mention In which Mirrour are involved the two Poems before-mentioned and other things of the composition of the said E. Ferrers who was in great renown in Fifteen hundred sixty and four being if I mistake not the same Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley Clinton who died and was buried there in that year leaving behind him a Son named Henry whom I shall mention under the Year 1633. WILLIAM BALDEWYN who seems to have been a Western Man born spent several years in Logic and Philosophie in this University being the same Will. Baldwyn as 't is probable who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might take a Degree
While he continued at Madrid in Spain in the quality of an Ambassador he was accused to have spoken somewhat unreverently of the Pope Whereupon he was excluded from the Court and afterwards thrust out of Madrid into a Country Village his Servants compelled to be present at Mass and the exercise of his own Religion forbidden and this whether in more hatred to the Queen of England or to Religion I cannot say whereas she in the mean time had shewed all kindness to Goseman the Spanish Ambassador allowing him his own Religion This Man-goose hath as I have been informed written and translated several things but none have I yet seen only his translation from Latin into English of Common places of Christian Religion gathered by Wolfg. Musculus c. Lond. 1563. fol. and 1573. in a thick qu. He paid his last debt to nature at London 18. March in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight and received sepulture in the Chancel of St. Anns Church near Aldersgate in the same City leaving issue by his Wife Frances Dau. of Edm. Herenden of London Mercer several Children some of whose posterity do now or at least did lately live at Hatfield-Braddock in Essex In his Deanery of Glocester succeeded Dr. Tho. Cooper afterwards B. of Winchester and in the Wardenship of Merton Coll. Dr. Tho. Bickley afterwards B. of Chichester Besides this Jo. Man I find another of both his names of New Coll. born at Writtle in Essex who being LL. B. was presented by the Warden and Fellows of the said Coll. to the rectory of Great-Horwood in Bucks an 1551 where he died 1565. EDMUND BONNER a Person much esteemed by those of his profession for the zeal he bore to the R. Catholick cause was the natural Son of George Savage Priest Parson of Davenham in Cheshire natural Son of Sir Job Savage of Clifton in the said County Knight of the Garter and one of the counsel to K. Hen. 7. Which Geo. Savage Priest had seven natural Children by three sundry Women viz. 1 George Savage Chancellour of Chester 2 Joh. Wymesley Parson of Torperley in Cheshire who was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Ed. Bonner 3 Randal Savage of Lodge in the said County 4 Edm. Bonner of whom we are to make further mention begotten on the body of Elizab. Frodsham who was the Wife after Bonner had been begotten of Edm. Bonner a Sawyer living with a Gentleman called Armingham of Potters Hanley in Worcestershire besides three Daughters named Margaret Ellen and Elizabeth Our Author who was called by his supposed Fathers name Edm. Bonner was born either at Elmeley or at Potters-Hanley in Worcestershire and in 1512 or thereabouts became a Student of Broadgates hall now Pembroke Coll. being then a noted nursery for Civilians and Canonists Soon after having made a sufficient progress in Philosophy and the Laws he was on the 12. June admitted Bach. of the Canon and on the 13. of July following an 1519. Bach. of the Civil Law About that time he entred into Holy Orders and performed many matters relating to his faculty in the Dioc. of Worcester by the appointment of the then Bishop In 1525 he was licensed to proceed in the Civil Law and about that time obtained the rectories of Ripple Bledon Dereham Cheswick and Cherriburton in Yorks Afterwards he was one of the Kings Chaplains a favourer of the Lutherans of the divorce between the K. and Catherine of Spain a favourer of the Kings proceedings in expelling the Popes authority from the Kingdom of England and Master of the Faculties under Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury In 1535 he became Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Edw. Fox promoted to the See of Hereford which Fox had been installed in that Archdeaconry upon the resignation of Steph. Gardener LL. D. 27. Sept. 1531. and by the endeavours of Thom. Cromwell Secretary of State he was employed Ambassador to the Kings of Denmark and France to the Pope and to the Emperour of Germany and made Bishop of Hereford 1538 the temporalities of which See were restored to him by the K. 4. March the same Year But before he was consecrated thereunto he was elected Bishop of London 1. Oct. 1539 being then in an Embassie had restitution made of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 18 Nov. following and was consecrated 3. Apr. 1540. After the death of K. Hen. 8. and Religion being about to be reformed by K. Ed. 6. Bonner seemed at first to be forward for it but recanting what he had done he was enjoyn'd to preach a Sermon at Pauls cross to make farther trial perhaps of his humour wherein leaving out the article of the Kings authority was upon the complaints of Joh. Hooper and Will some call him Hugh Latymer Bach. of Div. and Parson of St. Laurence Pountney who prosecuted him very zealously for it and his slowness in forwarding reformation in his Diocess first committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea 20. Sept. and in the beginning of Oct. following an 1549. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick Soon after which time his Mother Elizab. Frodsham died and was buried at Fulham at whose Funeral Bonner tho a Prisoner gave to several Persons mourning coats In the beginning of Aug. 1553. he was released out of the Marshalsea and restored to his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary in whose Reign he shew'd himself severe being put upon it by publick authority against the Protestants as may be fully seen in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church As for the writings of the said Bonner they are many but all that I have yet seen are only these viz. Preface to the oration of Stephen Bish of Winchester concerning true obedience Printed at London in Lat. 1534. 35 and at Hamburgh 1536. oct Translated and imprinted by a most zealous enemy to the Papists called Mich. Wood who wrot a bitter and libellous Epistle before and a conclusion after it to the Reader Print at Roan 1553. oct I have seen another translation of it perhaps by the same hand without the said lib. Epist printed in oct an 1536. In the said Pref. written by Bonner are several matters against the Popes power in England and in defence of the Kings divorce from Qu. Catherine Several Letters to the Lord Tho. Cromwell an 1538. A declaration to the Lord Th. Crom. describing to him the evil behaviour of Steph Bish of Winchester an 1538 These two last are mention'd in the Acts and Mon. of the Church under that year Responsum exhortatio Lond. 1553. in oct Which answer and exhortation to the Clergy in praise of Priesthood beginning Dum tacitus apud me considero c. were utter'd by our Author after Joh. Harpesfield had finished his Sermon to the Clergy in St. Pauls Cath. in Lond. 16. Oct. 1553 and the orations ended of John Wymesley Archdeacon of London before-mention'd and of Hugh Weston Dean of Westminster All which were printed and bound together in one volume Articles
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
troubles at Frankford in Germany printed 1575. in qu. p. 44. 45. c. 92. c. When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded he returned and the first thing that made him then to be noted was An Oration to Qu. Eliz. at her first entrance to her Reigne an 1558. It was not spoken but delivered in writing to her by a certain noble Man The beginning of it is Albeit there be innumerable gifts c. He also wrot a little book in favour of the house of Suffolk especially of the Children of Edw. Seymour Earl of Hertford eldest Son of Edward Duke of Somerset who was married to the Lady Cath. Grey Dau. of Hen. Duke of Suff. of near alliance in blood to the Queen in his house in Chanon row within the City of Westminster in Oct. 1560. The effect of which was to derive the title of the Crown of England in case Qu. Eliz. should die without issue to the house of Suffolk This Marriage notwithstanding the Archb. of Cant. did by his sentence pronounce unlawful yet our Author Hales who was esteemed a Man very opiniotive tho otherwise very learned did maintain in the said book that their sole consent did legitimate their conjunction Which pamphlet flying abroad came straight way to the Court Whereupon the Queen and the Nobles being highly offended the Author was quickly discovered and forthwith imprison'd in the Tower of London Soon after Sir Nich. Bacon then Lord Keeper was presumed to have had a finger in it for which he was like to have lost his office if Sir Ant. Browne who had been L. Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas in Qu. Maries time would have accepted of it which her Majesty offer'd to him and the Earl of Leycester earnestly exhorted him to take it but he refused it for that he was of a different Religion from the State and so Sir Nic. Bacon remained in his place at the great instance of Sir Will. Cecill afterwards L. Treasurer who tho he was to be privy to the said book yet was the matter so wisely laid upon Hales and Bacon that Sir Will. was kept free thereby to have the more authority and grace to procure the others pardon as he did Soon after Jo. Lesley Bishop of Ross a great creature of Mary Queen of Scots did answer that Book for which he got the good will of many tho of others not As for our Author Hales he gave way to fate on the fifth of the calends of January in Fifteen hundred seventy and two year 1571 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Peter's poor in London He died without issue so that his estate which chiefly laid in Warwickshire of which his principal house in Coventry call'd Hales place otherwise the White Fryers was part went to John Son of his Brother Christopher Hales sometimes also an Exile at Frankfort whose posterity doth remain there to this day ELIZE HEYWOOD sometimes written Ellis Heewood Son of Job Heywood the famous Epigrammatist was born in London and by the indulgence of his Father was carefully educated in juvenile learning in that City and in Academical in Oxon. In 1547 he was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals he applyed his genie to the study of the Laws in which faculty he took one degree an 1552 being the sixth year of K. Ed. 6. Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy continued for some time at Florence being patroniz'd by Card Pole and became such an exact Master of the Italian tongue that he wrot a book in that Language entituled Il Moro lib. 2. Fiorenz 1556 in octavo This book which is dedicated to the said Cardinal contains a discourse fancied to be in the house of Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England and in consolation with him Besides this book he wrot as 't is said other things in Italian or in Lat. or in his mother tongue which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom or never see them in these parts About that time our Author receiving instructions concerning matters of faith from an English Man called Hall he went into the Low Countries and at Antwerp performed the office of Preacher and Prefectship of the spirit Thence he went to Lovaine where he died in the twelfth year after his ingress into the society of Jesus year 1572 which was about Fifteen hundred seventy and two He had a younger brother named Jasper bred also in Oxford and leaving the Nation for Religion sake entred himself into the said Society as I shall tell you under the Year 1597. num 295. NICHOLAS GRIMALD or Grimoald received his first being in this world in Huntingdonshire and his first Academical education in Christs Coll. in Cambridge where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon and was incorporated there in the said Degree in Apr. 1542. In the next month he was chosen Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. he being then in the 23 year of his age In 1544 he proceeded in Arts and 1547 when the Coll. of King Hen. 8. was to be settled and replenished with Students he was put in there as a Senior or Theologist accounted then only honorary and the rather for this reason because he about that time did read a publick Lecture to the Academians in the large refectory of that place All that I have yet seen of his writings are these Archipropheta Tragedia jam recens in lucem edita Colon. 1548. in oct Oratio ad Pontifices Londini in aede Paulina an 1553. 17. Id. Apr. in Synodo publica Lond. 1583. oct In P. V. Maronis quatuor libros Georgicorum in oratione soluta paraphrasis elegantissima Oxonii in Aede Christi 2. Ed. 6. confecta Lond. 1591. oct Fama com Troilus Chauceri com with several such like things which you may see in Baleus who also tells us elsewhere that he wrot in English a Book intit Vox populi or The Peoples complaint c. which was against Rectors Vicars Archdeacons Deans c. for living remote from their Flocks and for not performing the duty belonging to their respective offices He hath also divers Lat. and English copies of verses occasionally printed before and in commendation of other Mens works and has also translated from Lat. into English Cicero's three books of duties to Marcus his Son Lond. 1558. oct with other things from Greek He was in great esteem among Men in the fifteenth year of Qu. Elizabeth LEWIS EVANS was a Monmouthshire Man born as it seems and mostly educated in Oxon Afterwards being a forward and zealous Man for the R. Cath. Religion at London where he had got some employment was brought into trouble by Dr. Grindal Bishop of that place So that being forced to fly he went beyond the Sea and settled for a time at Antwerp where to shew his zeal for the cause he translated a Book from Lat. into English entit Certaine tables set forth by
qu. Which being the first book of that nature that was ever printed in the English tongue was a pattern or platform to those that came after viz. to Will. Wyrley in his True use of Armory Printed 1592. qu. to Joh. Boswell when he wrot his Works of Armory in 3 books Lond. 1597. qu. and to others In the beginning of Apr. 1577. there was some dispute made among the relations of the said Ger. Legh who should administer his goods debts chattels c. So that I presume he died in Fifteen hundred seventy and six year 1576 18. Elizab. which is all that I yet know of him or his works WILLIAM BLANDIE was born at Newbury in Berkshire educated in Wykâ—hams School near to Winchester elected Probatione-Fellow of New Coll. in 1563 took one Degree in Arts three years after and the same year was removed thence by the Bishop of Winton in his visitation of that Coll. but for what reason unless for Popery I cannot tell About the same time he went to London became Fellow of the Middle Temple and afterwards translated from Lat. into English The five Books of Hicronimus Osâ—rius containing a discourse of Civil and Christian Nobility Lond. 1576. qu. What other things he hath translated or whether he hath written of any Subject I cannot tell ANTHONY RUSSHE a florid and frequent Preacher of his time was born in the Diocess of Norwych admitted Probationer-Fellow of Magd. Coll. in July 1554 did compleat the Degree of Master of Arts 1558 and soon after quitting his Fellowship became Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Dean of Chichester in the place perhaps of Barth Traheron Doctor of Divinity and in the Year 1567 Canon of Windsore He hath written A President for a Prince wherein is to be seen by the testimonie of antient writers the duty of Kings Princes and Governours Lond. 1566. in qu. and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature on the first day of April year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 or more and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Over his grave is an Epitaph containing a great Elogie of him which for brevity sake I shall now omit and in the mean time proceed to the next writer in order to be mentioned RALPH GUALTER Son of the famous Ralph Gualter was born at Zurich in Helvetia spent several years in this University mostly in Merton Coll. took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1573 and then returning to Zurich became Minister of St. Peters Church there where he was held in great admiration for his quick and forward parts He hath written Elegia de militia Christianorum in his terris adversus satanem carnem mundum militantium Epitaphium in Hen. Bullengeri obitum written in Greek Epicedium in obitum Joh. Parkhursti Episcopi Nordovicensis Tigur 1576. qu. Argos Helvetia Sive carmen de Tigurinorum navigatione Tiguro Argentoratum usque uno die confecta Carmina in imagines Doctorum nostri seculi virorum Varia Epigrammata Epitaphia At length having spent his short life in learning and virtuous industry surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 25 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried as 't is said in St. Peters Church before-mention'd at which time the chief Scholars there did much bewail his loss by their Poetry A certain Author tells us that this Ralph Gualter the Son hath written Homilies on the lesser Prophets but such I have not yet seen The Father hath and therefore I suppose there is a mistake in the matter MORGAN PHILIPPS or Philip Morgan a Monmouthshire Man born in the Dioc. of Landaff became a student in the University in 1533 or thereabouts made so great a progress in Logick and Philosophy and became so quick and undermining a Disputant that when he was Bach. of Arts he was commonly called Morgan the Sophister In the Year 1538 he was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. being then an year standing in the Degree of Bachelaur and taking that of Master of Arts he entred into the sacred function In 1546 he was made Principal of St. Maries Hall and three years after was one of the Triumviri that undertook a publick disputation in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr In 1550 he resign'd his Principality being then Bach. of Div. and in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign he became Chauntor of St. Davids Cathedral Whereupon and because of his absence from Oriel Coll. for more time than was allowed he was denounced non socitis in 1554. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he left his preferment friends and country for Religion sake spent most of his time at Lovaine and Doway and wrot several books as 't is said but I have seen only these following which go under his name viz. Defence of the honour of Mary Queen of Scotland with a declaration of her right title and interest to the Crowne of England Leig 1571. in 2 books in oct A treatise shewing that the regiment of Women is conformable to the Law of God and nature in one book Ib. 1571. oct These two treatises containing three books were published under his name but written as a noted Author tells us by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse in Scotland upon occasion of sundry Pamphlets that came out against the marriage of Mary Qu. of Scots to be had with the Duke of Norfolk and the right by which she claimed to become heir unto England Which Bishop as 't is farther added did afterwards ingeniously acknowledge in his Commentaries that he had his arguments for her right of succession secretly from Sir Anth. Browne Chief Justice of the Common-pleas and from Serjeant Joh. Carryll an excellent common Lawyer of the Inner Temple So that if Morg. Philipps was not the Author of the said treatises I cannot justly say that he wrot any thing else only his Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Univ. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem 31. Maii an 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. c. See more in Pet. Martyr an 1562. and in Will. Tresham 1569 c. But let our Author Camden and his follower here quoted say what of Leslie's being the Author of those books and other judge of the matter as he and they please while I tell you that a writer before Camden in time and equal with him in learning as to the studies he professed reports that the said Morgan Philipps a Man of good account for learning among those that knew him was thought to have written the said treatises divided into three books by the advice and assistance of Sir Anth. Browne which thing is made the more credible by the many authorities of our common Law which there are alledged The first book doth endeavour to clear Mary Q. of Scots for the murther of the Lord Darley her Husband which by many was laid
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
a copy of verses written to Thom. Legh of Adlington Esq must be understood of Bishop Coxe before mention'd NICHOLAS SAUNDERS the most noted defender of the R. Cath. cause in his time was born at Charlewood in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1548 Bach. of the Laws 3 year after and about 1557 Shagling Lecturer or as he himself saith tanquam regius professor juris canonici But Religion putting on another face in the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left England about 1560 and going to Rome was made Priest and D. of D. and soon after went with Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius to the Council of Trent where he shew'd himself to be a Man of great parts by his several disputations and arguings Which Cardinal having an especial respect for made him his individual comparison in his journey into Poland Prussia and Lithuania As for the chief actions of his life that followed his Sisters Son John Pitseus will tell you But that which I must not forget now to let you know is that when he was a Nuntio from P. Gregory 13 into Ireland where he with 3 Ships full of Spaniards landed at Smerwick in Kerrey about the first of July 1579 to encourage the Irish there to take up arms and rebel against Qu. Elizabeth was after they with the said Spaniards had been overcome by the English forced to abscond in caves dens woods c. At length after two years time being not able to hold out longer did miserably perish by hunger and cold at the same time as my Author saith but as it seems false that Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earl of Desmond chief captain of the rebels was taken in a poor cottage and kill'd Of which matter hear what the learned Canmden tells us The principal of whom meaning the priests that persuaded the said Earlto forfeit his allegiance to his Prince was Nich. Saunders an English Man who very near at the same instant of time was miserably famish'd to death when forsaken of all and troubled in mind for the bad success of the rebellion he wandred up and down among woods forests and mountains and found no comfort or relief In his pouch were found several speeches and letters made and written to confirm the rebels stuffed with large promises from the Bishop of Rome and the Spaniard Thus the divine justice if a Man may judge stopped that mouth with hunger which had been always open to encourage rebellions and to belch forth malicious lies and slanders For to omit other things he was the first Man that broached that abominable lye concerning the birth of Qu. Elizabeths Mother which no Man in those days though the hatred and the malice of the Papists was then fresh against her and might remember it ever knew England in full forty years after never heard of the computation of time doth egregiously convince of falshood and vanity and he forgetting himself which a lyar should not do doth himself plainly confute c. The things that he hath written are mostly these The supper of our Lord set forth according to the truth of the Gospel and Cath. Faith with a confutation of such false doctrins as the Apologie of the Church of England Mr. Al. Nowells challenge or Mr. Jewells reply have uttered touching the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament In seven books Lovain 1566 in a thick qu. Answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge A Treatise of the images of Christ and of his Saints and that it is unlawful to break them and lawful to honour them With a confutation of such false doctrine as Mr. Jewell hath uttered in his reply concerning that matter Lov. 1567. oct Brief declaration which is the true Church of Christ This is written by way of preface to the Treatise of the images c. The rock of the Church wherein the primacy of St. Peter and of his Successours the Bishops of Rome is proved our of Gods word Lov. 1567 and St. Omer 1624. in oct Answered by the said W. Fulke Brief treatise of Usurie Lov. 1568. oct De typicâ honorariâ imaginum adoratione lib. 2. Lov. 1569. oct Sacrificii missae ac ejus partium explicatio Lov. 1569. oct Tractatus utilis quod Dominus in sexto capite Johannis de sacramento Eucharistiae propriè sit locutus Antw. 1570. in tw De visibili Monarchiâ Ecclesiae lib. 8. c. Lov. 1571. ' Antw. 1581. Wiceburg 1592. fol. In which book written before the Author went into Ireland he doth avow the Bull of P. Pius 5. against Qu. Elizab. to have been lawful and affirmeth that by virtue thereof one Dr. Nich. Moreton an old English fugitive and conspirator was sent from Rome into the north parts of England to stir up the first rebellion there whereof Charles Nevile Earl of Westmorland was a head captain And thereby it may manifestly appear to all Men how the said Bull was the ground of the rebellions both in England and Ireland De clave David seu regno Christi lib. 6. contra columnias Acleri pro visibili Ecclesiae Monarchiâ Wiceburg 1592. fol. De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani lib. 3. quibus historia continetur maxima ecclesiastica annorum 60 lectu dignissima c. Col. Agrip. 1585. Rom. 1586. Ingolst 1588. Col. Agrip. 1590. c. oct Which book being left in many places imperfect was supplied augmented and corrected by Edw. Rishton Afterwards the book being translated into French and printed 1673-4 gave occasion to Gilbert Burnet D. D. to write his two volumes of The Historie of the reformation of the Church of England In the appendix to the first of which you may read more of Saunders and his work de Schismate as also of Edw. Rishton and his corrections and additions of and to that book De justificatione contra colloquium Altenburgense lib. 6. in quibus c. Aug. Trev. 1585 in a thick oct This sometimes goes under the title of De Lutheranorum dissidiis circa justificationem Col. Ag. 1594. oct De militantis Ecclesiae Rom. potestate Rom. 1603. qu. De martyrio quorundam temp Hen. 8. Elizab. printed 1610. oct with other things which I have not yet seen the titles of which you may see in Joh. Pitseus who tells us that he died in Ireland about 1580. yet Edw. Rishton who was his contemporary and knew him well saith in the preface to the first edition of the book De orig progressu schism printed at Col. Agrip. 1585 that he died in Ireland in the County of Kerrey in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 So that how it comes to pass that Camden should say that he died in 1583 I cannot justly tell unless his information was that he died at that instant of â—â—me as is before said when the E. of Desmond was killed which was 1583 as he saith The reader must now know that whereas
ignoro magna Innocentium Romanum pontificem invidiâ propter Johannem meaning K. John of Engl. apud quosdam laborare quâ de re non est hic disceptandi locus neque ego quidem idoneus arbiter neque volo eam mihi quam non habeo jurisdictionem prorogare qui ut non forsan omni culpâ immodicaque cupiditate librandus sit it a certe Johannes qui c. Also in the same page and chapter in the last line from the bottom saving one are these words omitted between Innocentio suggerente and Stephanum Langtonum aut ut quidam tradunt pontificiarum dirarum terroribus exprimente There are many other things of the like nature omitted in the printed copy which the MS. in Cottons Libr. had in it before they were expunged especially matters that laid open the discords broiles and ambitious poverty of the begging Fryers Historia haeresis Wicliffianae Published by the said Gibbon with the former book a MS. copy of which is also in Lambeth Library l. 5. Chronicon à diluvio Noae ad an 1559. Written in lat verse and is at this time in the Cottonian Library under Vitellius C. 9. nu 11. Impugnatio contra Bullam Honorii papae primi ad Cantabrigiam MS. A treatise concerning marriage ocasion'd by the pretended divorce between K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Catherine In 3 books MS. in New Coll. Library The beginning of the Epistle to the Reader is It is an old saying c. and of the work it self Forasmuch as this matter is incident to the life and doings of Sir Tho. More c. At the end of the said book is this note This copy was taken from the original which was found by Mr. Topcliff in the house of William somtimes servant to the said Dr. Harpesfield who confessed that two lines of the said original were of his said Masters own hand writing What other things he hath written whether published or in MS. I know not nor any thing else of him only that after he had been a Prisoner in London more than 20 years year 1583 he gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred eighty and three having had this Encomium given to him by the Antiquarian-Poet Joh. Leland Atticae Linguae interpres facilis disertus aptus I find another Nich. Harpesfeild who was bred in Oxon. and being 24 years of age 1496 became about that time Minister of Uphill in Somersetshire by the presentation of Joan the relict of Edward Viscount L'isle and Rector of Ashrengney alias Ryngesash in the Dioc. of Exeter but what relation the former I had to this know not JOHN NICOLLS a busie and forward Welsh Man was born near to Dunraven or as the R. Cath. writers say at Cowbridge in Glamorganshire did first of all apply his muse to Academical learning in White hall where Jesus Coll. now stands in the Year of his age 16. where spending one year he translated himself to Brasnose Coll. and continued there till he was Bachelaurs standing Afterwards leaving the University without a Degree he went into his own Country where at first he taught a Gentlemans Children and then became Curat of Withicombe under one Mr. Jones Vicar of Taunte◠in Somersetshire From thence he removed to Whitestanton where he exercised his function till 1577 at which time being possessed with certain motives left the Church of England went to London and ship'd himself for Antwerp where tarrying for some time he went to Rheimes and at length to Rome So that assoon as he was setled and had gained an opportunity he offered himself to the inquisition made a recantation of his heresie as 't is there call'd and forthwith was not only received into the bosome of the holy Cath. Church but also as a member into the English Coll. at that place where after he had continued about two years did under pretence of going to Rheimes return into England was seized on at Islyngton by London sent Prisoner to the Tower and there recanted his R. Cath. opinions before Sir Owen Hopton Lieutenant thereof several courtiers and others After which he published these books His pilgrimage wherein is displayed the lives of the proud Popes ambitious Cardinals lecherous Bishops fat bellied Monks and hypocritical Jesuits Lond. 1581. oct Declaration of his recantation wherein he desireth to be reconciled and received as a member into the true Church of Christ in England Lond. 1581. oct Soon after came out A confutation of Job Nicolls his recantation c. written by Anonymus but answer'd by an old puritan call'd Dudley Fenner Lond. 1583. qu. Which Fenner a noted dissenter from the Church of England died at Middleborough in Zeland in the winter time an 1589. Oration and Sermon pronounced before the Cardinals an 1578. or as another title saith An oration and sermon made at Rome by commandment of the four Cardinals and the Dominican inquisitor c. Lond. 1581. oct After which the R. Catholicks taking these things as unworthily and falsly done one of them named Rob. Persons a Jesuit published a book against him entit A discovery of Jo. Nicolls Minister misreported a Jesuit Printed 1581. in oct After which Nicolls to vindicate himself published An answer to an infamous libell maliciously written and cast abroad against him Lond. 1581. oct Notwithstanding which and the endeavours of D. Fenner and other Puritans who laboured to strengthen him in his Faith yet he went beyond the Sea again but upon what account I know not tho I am apt not to think upon any design of turning Mahumetan as N. Saunders or rather his continuator Rishton is pleased to tell us However it is sure I am that being got as far as Roan in Normandy he was there seized on clapt up in Prison an 1582 and like to pay for his old tales against the Romanists Soon after came out a Pamphlet entit A report of the apprehension and imprisonment of Jo. Nicolls Minister at Roan and his confession c. Printed 1583 in oct In this perplexity and restraint the said Rishton tells us how Nicolls recanted all that he had formerly divulged was either through vain glory envy fear or hopes of reward About that time he also wrot Literae ad D. Gul. Alanum Printed at the end of Saunders his third book De schism Anglican Col. Agr. 1590 and Literae aliae ad eundem Alanum 19. Feb. 1583. Printed there also in the same edition After which follows Confessio publica Job Nicolai qua fatetur se multa mendacia contra summum Pontificem Cardinales Catholicos Anglos protulisse to tempore quo in Anglia◠versabatur c. What became of him afterwards I cannot find nor do I know any more of him only this that it doth appear from his writings that he was an inconstant Man in his Religion timorous vain-glorious and a meer braggadocio I find another Job Nicolls who was born in Norwych educated in Cambridge and from the Popish Religion wherein he
in the Lâ—wcountries for the K. of Spain and William Prince of Aurange or Orange by the former of which tho at first he was lightly esteemed upon the account of his youth yet after some discourse he found himself so strucken with him that the beholders wondred to see what tribute that brave and high minded Prince paid to his worth giving more honour and respect to him in his private capacity than to the Embassadours of mighty Princes In the Year 1579 he tho neither Magistrate or Counsellour did shew himself for several weighty reasons opposite to the Queens matching with the Duke of Anjou which he very pithily expressed by a due address of his humble reasons to her as may be fully seen in a book called Cabola The said address was written at the desire of some great personage his Uncle Robert I suppose Earl of Leycester upon which a great quarrel hapned between him and Edw. Vere Earl of Oxford This as I conceive might occasion his retirement from Court next Summer an 1580 wherein perhaps he wrot that pleasant Romance called Arcadia In 1581 the treatise of marriage was renewed and our Author Sidney with Fulk Grevill were two of the tilters at the entertainment of the French Embassadour and at the departure of the Duke of Anjou from England in Febr. the same year he attended him to Antwerp On the 8. Janu. 1582 he with Peregrine Bertie received the honour of Knighthood from the Queen and in the beginning of 1585 he designed an expedition with Sir Francis Drake into America but being hindred by the Queen in whose opinion he was so highly prized that she thought the Court deficient without him he was in Octob. following made Governour of Flushing about that time delivered to the Queen for one of the cautionary towns and General of the Horse In both which places of great trust his carriage testified to the world wisdom and valour with addition of honour to his country by them and especially the more when in July 1586 he surprised Axil and preserved the lives and honour of the English Army at the enterprise of Gravelin So that whereas through the fame of his high deserts he was then or rather before in election for the Crown of Poland the Queen of England refused to further his advancement not out of emulation but out of fear to lose the jewel of her times What can be said more He was a Statesman Soldier and Scholar a compleat Master of matter and language as his immortal Pen shews His Pen and his Sword have rendred him famous enough He died by the one and by the other he 'll ever live as having been hitherto highly extolled for it by the Pens of Princes This is the happiness of art that although the sword doth archieve the honour yet the arts do record it and no Pen hath made it better known than his own in that book called Arcadia Certain it is he was a noble and matchless Gentleman and it may be justly said without hyperboles of fiction as it was of Cato Uticensis that he seemed to be born to that only which be went about His written works are these The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia Several times printed at London in quarto and fol. Which being the most celebrated Romance that was ever written was consecrated to his noble virtuous and learned Sister Mary the Wife of Henry Earl of Pembroke who having lived to a very fair age dyed in her house in Aldersgate-street in London 25. Sept. 1621. whereupon her body was buried in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury among the graves of the Pembrochian Family This Arcadia tho then and since it was and is taken into the hands of all ingenious Men and said by one living at or near the time when first published to be a book most famous for rich conceipt and splendor of courtly expressions yet the Author was not so fond a B. Heliodorus was of his amorous work for he desired when he died having first consulted with a Minister about it to have had it suppressed One who writes himself G. M. wrot the second and last part of the first book of the said Arcadia making thereby a compleat end of the first History Lond. 1613. qu. And in the eighth edit printed at Lond. 1633. Sir W. A. Knight made a supplement of a defect in the third part of the History and R. B. of Linc. Inn Esq added then a sixth book thereunto In 1662 came out the said Arcadia again in 6 books with several of his other works added to them In 1624 it was printed in French in 3. vol. or parts in oct and hath as I have been informed undergone several impressions in France It hath been also printed once or more in the Dutch language and in others Sir Philip also wrot A dissuasive Letter to Queen Elizab. her marriage with Monsier of France c. 'T is in a book called Scrinia Ceciliana Lond. 1663. qu. Astrophel and Stella wherein the excellencie of sweet poesie is concluded Lond. 1591. qu. Said to be written for the sake of one whom he entirely loved viz. the Lady Rich by whom was understood Philoclea in the Arcadia An Apologie for poetry Lond. 1595. qu. in prose There is a book in being called The Art of English Poesie not written by Sidney as some have thought but rather by one Puttenham sometimes a Gentleman Pensioner to Qu. Elizab. Sonnetts Remedie for love At the end of the 11th edit of Arcadia Lond. 1662. fol. Ourania a Poem Lond. 1606. published by N. B. An Essay upon valour so I find it mention'd in Cottoni posthuma yet others say it was written by Sir Thom. Overbury Quaere Almonzor and Almanzaida a Novel Lond. 1678. oct This book coming out so late it is to be enquired whether Sir Philip Sidneys name is not set to it for sale-sake being a usual thing in these days to set a great name to a book and to enhance the price of it by the esteem of the supposed Author Englands Helicon or a collection of Songs Sir Philip Sidneys name is also put to it as being the Author of most of the said Songs 'T was printed at Lond. in qu. Instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all nations states and countries This book which is printed in 12 o hath the names of Robert Earl of Essex and Sir Philip Sidney put to it but may be question'd whether either had a hand in it He also translated from French into English A work containing the trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists c. written originally by Philip Morney But the said translation being left imperfect by Sidney Arthur Golding finish'd it Lond. 1587. qu. He also Sidney turn'd the Psalmes of David into English verse which are in MS. in the Library of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton curiously bound in a crimson velvet cover left thereunto by his Sister Mary
Clemency could not be drawn into a Persuasion that in case of Religion Men should be burnt hang'd or quartered And therefore it was that one reporteth that he always was in animo Catholicus and another that he was of such credit and favour in Rome as if he was the greatest Papist in England He wrote as it is said several things pertaining to the Law but none of them are extant only this if I may say it is his and not his Name set to it for sale sake A Treatise concerning Statutes or Acts of Parliament and the Exposition thereof Lond. 1677. oct Whether ever before printed I know not Speeches spoken during the time of his Chancelorship MS. This great and worthy Person dyed on the 20th of November in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 51. and was buried in the upper part of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on the 16th of December following Soon after came out a little Book of Verses made on his Death by several Hands intit Musarum plangores Christopher Lord Hatton Son of John Hatton the nearest Knsman of the Male Line to the aforesaid Sir Christopher was not of St. Mary's Hall but of Jesus College in Cambridge and afterwards a Doctor of the Civil Law of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you He published the Psalms of David with Titles and Collects according to the matter of each Psalm Printed at Oxon 1644. in oct and afterwards enlarged and published several times These Collects or Prayers at the end of every Psalm were compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor and so were the Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian People which are at the end of every impression of the aforesaid Book yet notwithstanding they go all under the Name of the aforesaid Christop L. Hatton having his Arms in the Title of them who dying 4 July 1670. being then or lately a Member of the Privy Council to his Majesty was buried in a private Chappel of the Collegiate Church at Westminster dedicated to St. Peter opposite to the Capella Regum on the North side See more in Jer. Taylor under the year 1667. BARTHELMEW CHAMBERLAINE was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family in Oxfordshire admitted Scholar of Trinity Col. 7. June 1563. aged 17 years Probationer in 67 and Fellow the year after About that time entring into Holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts took both the Degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated 579. before which time he was beneficed and dignified in the Church but where I cannot justly say He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Passion of Christ and benefits thereby on Heb. 9. 28. Lond. 1581. and 1613. oct 2 Concio ad Academicos Oxomienses in Comitiis An. 1576. Lond. 1584. qu. 3 Sermon at Pauls on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1589. oct 4 Sermon at Farington in Berks on Lond. 1571. oct with others which I have not yet seen Between the time of the first coming of the said Barth Chamberlain to Trinity College to the year 1578. I find seven of his Sirname to be Students in the said College and some after but cannot in all my searches find out George Chamberlaine who was afterwards Bishop of Ypre and whether he ever abode in this University in the condition of a Student I cannot justly say it The said George Chamberlaine was the eldest Son of George Chamberlaine Esque by his Wife the Daughter of Moses Pring of Gaunt in Flanders and he the second Son of Sir Leonard Chamberlaine of Oxfordshire Knight Governor of the Isle of Guernsey who dyed there 2. Eliz. From which Sir Leonard are the Chamberlains of Sherburn in the said County desended the Heiress general of which Family named Elizabeth was married to John Nevile Baron of Abergavenny The said George Chamberlatine who was Bishop of Ypre was born at Gaunt before-mentioned An. 1576. and being bred up ro Learning and Religion became successively Canon Archdeacon and Dean of St. Bavon in Gaunt and at length in 1626. was made Bishop of Ypre within the Province of Machlin in Brabant on the Death of Antonius de Hennin where being settled he became much admired as he was partly before for his great Piety for his voluble Preaching in five Languages at least and beloved of Kings and Princes c. Had I time and room allowed I would give you a Copy of an Epitaph made on by one that knew and much admired him wherein no doubt but that high character of his Piety Learning and Worth is justly said but I must hasten and tell you that he dying to the reluctancy of all that knew him on the 19. Dec. according to the account followed at Ypre in 1634. aged 58 years one month and 19 days was buried in his own Cathedral Some years before his Death he came into England purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn before-mentioned and elsewhere which belonged to the noble Family of the Chamberlains sometimes Barons of Tanquervil in Normandy he being the first and true Heir And this he did for Religion sake and purposely to avoid the incumbrances of earthly things See more of him in Athenae Belgicae c. written by Franc. Sweertius printed at Antwerp 1628. where you will find several things that he had written and published ROBERT GWINN a Welsh Man born took one degree in Arts 1568. and in 1571. leaving the University went with Thom. Crowther another Batchelaur to Doway where being admitted into the English College made very great progress in Divinity Afterwards Gwinn returning into England and settling in Wales in the condition of a Secular Priest did write several Pious Works in the Welsh Tongue as Anton. Possivinus tells us but the Titles of them he omits and also translated from the English into the Welsh Language A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding Men to Eternal Salvation commonly called the Resolution Written by Rob. Persons the Jesuit which Translation was much used and valued and so consequently did a great deal of good among the Welsh People See more in Jo. Davies under the year 1634. WALTER BALEY or Bailey Son of Henry Baley of Warnwell in Dorsetshire was born at Portsham in that County educated in Wykchams School 〈◊〉 Win chester admitted perpetual fellow of New Colledge after he had served two years of probation an 1550 tok the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line was admitied to practice that faculty while he was Proctor of the University in the year 1558 and about that time was made Prebendary of Dultingcote alias Dulcot c. in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in 1579. In 1561 he was made the Queens Professor of Physick in this University proceeded in that faculty two years after and at length became Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much resorted to for his practice He hath written A discourse of three kinds of Pepper in
common use Printed 1588 in oct dedicated to Sir Jo. Horsey Knight Brief Treatise of the preservation of the Eye-sight Printed in the Reign of Qu. Eliz. in tw and at Oxon 1616 and 1654 in oct c. In that Edition of 1616 was printed another or second Treatise of the Eye-sight collected from Fernclius and Riolanus but by whom I know not They both now go under the name of Bailey who hath also written Directions for health natural and artificial with Medicines for all diseases of the Eyes Printed 1626 in qu. Explicatio Galeni de potu convaelescentium senum praecipuè de nosti ae Alae Biriae paratione c. MS. in qu. sometimes in the Library of Robert Earl of Aylesbury He the said Dr. Bailey surrendred up his last breath March 3. in fifteen hundred ninty and two aged 63 and was buried in the inner Chappel of New Coll. whose Epitaph you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. b. His posterity do live at this day at Ducklington near to Witney in Oxfordshire some of whom have been Justices of the Peace for the said County FRANCIS PUCCIUS Filidinus was born of the noble and renowned family of the Puccii at Florence from which had sprung before his time three Cardinals educated from his Childhood in good Letters and in the R. Cath. Religion exercis'd the trade of Merchandize at Lyons where many differences and disputes arising concerning Religion which were not then quite sopited our Author Puccius who was only a Spectator laid aside his trade and totally applied himself to the study of Sacred Letters to the end that he might perfectly understand the grounds of his belief and what was professed by the Protestants At length being satisfied in Conscience that those of the Ro. Church were in an errour he left France and Italy retired into England and being seemingly a Protestant he went to the University of Oxon got himself thro commendations of his sincerity to be entred into a Coll. or Hall wherein he studied Philosophy and Divinity very severely and took the degree of Master of Arts an 1574. About which time maintaining certain opinions contrary to those of the Grandees of the said University which were Calvinistical especially de fide in dcum quae qualis sit had many private disputes with Theologists there and at length publick Which disputes being altogether displeasing to them who esteemed them ridiculous and the author no better than an arrogant and an opinionative person they found means to remove him from the University much about the same time that he was endeavouring to be a Theol. or Catechistical Lecturer lest his Doctrine should take root among the juniors For at that time they being very zealous for a thro Reformation were jealous of all strangers that came among them and particularly of him whom they well knew to have been a zealous Papist and then no well-grounded Protestant From Oxford he went to London had several disputes there also and became acquainted with Ant. Corrano who living about that time in Oxon also his person could never be well relisht among them Afterwards Puccius went to Basil in Germany upon the invitation of Francisc Bettus a Roman then living there where meeting also with Faustus Socirus they had many discourses concerning the adventures of 〈◊〉 England and at length had several disputes 〈◊〉 himself with which he seeming 〈◊〉 Puccius wrote ten arguments de 〈…〉 primi hominis ante peccatum All which being answered by Socinus were by him with several disputations that had passed between them made publick Afterwards Puccius was forced to leave Basil because he had printed certain Theses to be disputed on in which he asserted universum humanum genus in ipso matris utero efficaciter particeps esse beneficiis Christi vitae immortalis beatae c. Whereupon he went into England and so to London where he began to publish his paradoxical opinions and that with such confidence as if Orpheus like he meant to charm all to follow him but his waters being narrowly watch'd he was seiz'd on imprison'd and suffered several calamities otherwise Oxford would have once more tasted of his Doctrine Afterwards being let loose he went into Flanders and Holland where he corresponded by Letters with Socinus From Holland he went to Antwerp where he did the like and had several cavilling disputes not only with such that he esteemed heterodox but with those of his own opinion Thence he removed to Cracaw in Poland where he had frequent disputes with the Jesuits and others nay and with some of his own perswasion Socinus being there also and wrote several matters in the Italian Tongue against the Church of Rome in 1585. While he continued in the said City of Cracaw it hapned that he became acquainted with two persons that had come to that place with Albertus Alaskie Prince or Vaywood of Sirad when he left England Their names were John Dee and Edward Kelley Magicians who having partly known Puccius in England did entertain and admit him into their secrets with great hope of some good to be done by his fellowship and in August the same year he was actually with them at Prague in Bohemia to which place they conveyed him while certain Spirits appeared to them Kelley being then Seer and d ee an observer or writer down of what was said by the Spirits and Kelley's seeing and interpreting At length Puccius did not deal truely and sincerely with them which much troubled Dee and thereupon he desired to be rid of him Puccius therefore perceiving it wrote a large and submissive Letter to the said Dee and Kelly and among other things gave him a very punctual account of what had passed between Philip Bishop of Placentià who was sent by the Pope as his Nuncio to have the said Magicians banished or else sent to Rome and himself concerning their cause apparitions high attempts c. But so it was that whither by the perswasions of the said Nuncio or some things utter'd by the Spirits that all the World should at length come to the Church of Rome he forthwith recanted before certain Rom. Priests and became a zealous Papist and at length a Priest All that I have seen of his works besides what are already mentioned are De Christi Salvatoris efficacitate in omnibus singulis hominibus quatenus homines sunt assertio Catholica c. Goudae 1592. oct Ded. to P. Clem. 8. Epistola ad Jo. Dee Edw. Kelly Dat. at Prag 15. Cal. oct 1585. 'T is a large Epistle in Latin and is the same with the submissive Letter before mentioned After the year fifteen hundred and ninty two he went to Rome and became Secretary to Cardinal Pompeius Arragon from whom he expected great matters but death snatching him untimely away in the midst of his aspiring thoughts about the year 1600 was buried in the Church of St.
the Roman Catholick Religion practised Physick in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign but soon after left the University and whether he went beyond the Seas and was Doctorated there I cannot tell Under this Hierom Rainolds our Author William who was the next Brother did receive most of his tuition while he was a Junior in Oxon. The third Brother was Edm. Rainolds before-mentioned Fellow of C. C. College also who leaving that House because he was in animo Catholicus retired to Glocester Hall where living many years in the condition of a Tutor dyed a wealthy Man The fourth Brother was James Rainolds Master of Arts and Fellow of Exeter Coll. The fifth and youngest was Nicholas who lived at Pynhaws on the Lands of his Ancestors Father to Will. Rainolds of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire Gentleman sometimes a Member of Glocester Hall under his Uncle Edmund from whom I formerly received a writing under his hand concerning his Ancestors and Relations for three Generations above him part of which is here mentioned WILLIAM ALLYN Allen or Alan so many ways I find him written was the second Son of John Allen by Joanet or Jennet Lyster his Wife Sister of Tho. Lyster of Westby in Yorkshire the Son of George Allen of Staffordshire who having an Uncle or near Kinsman called Allen Abbat of Delawise setled at Rossal in Lancashire by the endeavours of the said Abbat who demised to him divers Lands there which belonged to his Monastery At that place Rosial was Will. Allyn or Alan whome we are farther to mention born and being arrived to about the fifteenth year of his age was sent to Oxford in 1547. entred into Oriel Coll. and committed to the tuition of Morgan Philips the chiefest Tutor then in that House under whome having profited to a miracle in Logick and Philosophy was unanimously elected Fellow of that Coll. in 1550. 4. Ed. 6. Four years after he proceeded in Arts and stood in that Act wherein proceeded Tho. Hardyng and Nich. Harpesfield two noted Writers the former being then a Proceeder in Divinity and the other in the Civil Law In 1556. or thereabouts he became Principal of St. Mary's Hall and in that and the year following one of the Proctors of the University In 1558. or thereabouts he was made Canon of York but soon after upon the coming to the Crown by Q. Elizabeth and the alteration of Religion that followed he left his Country and Preferment about 1560. and going beyond the Seas he retired to Lovaine then an eminent Acamedy especially for the study of Divinity to which place did several eminent Theologists repair for a time as Saunders Harding Dorman Rastal c. purposely to avoid the places infected with Heresie as they called it While he continued at Lovaine he wrote a Book in the English Tongue against Mr. Jewel treating of Purgatory which afterwards was Printed About that time falling into a grievous disease by too careful attending a Pupil of his of gentile extraction in England had advice given him by his Physicians to retire to his Native Country for Health's sake Whereupon returning into England he kept himself unknown till he had recovered his former strength and then endeavouring to reconcile People to the Church of Rome and to terrifie them from going to the Meetings of Hereticks as he stiled them was forced by the Magistrates to leave that harbour Lancashire So that going to a certain place near Oxon he practiced the like and wrote two Books in English one Of the Authority of the Priesthood and the other Of Indulgences From thence he removed his Quarters to the County of Norfolk and lived sometimes in the House of the Duke of that Name and sometimes near it where he wrote Certain brief Reasons concerning Catholick Faith whereby the vanity of Heresie and excellency of Catholick Faith as therein it is said were evidently set down purposely to settle such who were wavering in other Opinion Afterwards tho advantage was given to him to return to Lovaine by the opportunity of a Ship then going from England yet he neglected it and went near to Oxon again went to the University and meeting with one of his Contemporaries did work so much upon him by his discourse that he promised him to abstain for the future from Protestant Company and their Meetings Which act of his being made known to the Parents of the said Contemporary they prosecuted Allyn so close that he was forced to leave England after he had continued there about three years So that retiring to a certain Monastery at Mâ—chlin in Brabant became a Divinity Reader there which Office he performed with great commendations for some time Afterwards being desirous to go to Rome in the company of Dr. Jo. Vendivile the King's Professor at Doway afterwards Bishop of Tournay did make some advance that way but for certain Reasons that then passed between them Allyn turned his Face and went to Doway at which place in Academy was setled about 1562. where he studied Divinity became Doctor of that Faculty and so much esteemed for his rare and active Parts that he was made Canon of the Church of Cambray Afterwards by his endeavours he began a Seminary at Doway about 1568. to receive all such learned English Catholicks that had fled their Country for Religion sake where soon after they framed for themselves a common Discipline after the manner of a College and got the Pope to assign them an yearly Pension Soon after our author Allyn being made Canon of Rheimes he procured another Seminary to be erected there by the Guises Kinsmen to Mary Q. of Scots For the Netherlands wherein Doway is situated being run into confusion the English Fugitives or Scholars were banished thence by the command of Don Lewis de Requesens so that thence going to Rheimes they setled there for a time Afterwards our active Author began another Seminary at Rome and two in Spain to the end that English Youths might be trained up purposely to keep up the Roman Catholick Religion in England At length for these his great and indefatigable labours he was created a Priest Cardinal of St. Martin in montibus by Pope Sixtus 5. on the 28. July according to our accompt An. 1587. and two years after was made Archbishop of Mechlin or Machlin the Metropolis of Brabant The character given of this Man by several of our English Authors of the reformed Party is That he with R. Persons the Jesuit and others did lay in continual wait for the destruction of Prince and People of England and who by exciting both Forreigners abroad and natural Subjects at home plotted the reducement of the R. Religion to its antient vigour c. Farther also That after he had put off both his love to his Country and his obedience to his Prince he incensed the Spaniard and the Pope of Rome to assault England And to that purpose adjoyned himself to all pernicious consultations about that
matter after that Pope Sixtus 5. had bestowed on him the title of Cardinal and the Spaniard had gave him an Abbacy in the Kingdom of Naples and nominated him Archbishop of Machlin When the Bull of Excommunication against Q. Elizabeth at that time that the great Navy was provided for England came forth he brought it into the Low Countries and caused it to be printed in English Withal he wrote an Admonition to the Englishmen that they should stick to the Pope and Spaniard but being deceived of all his hopes he returned again back to Rome where being wearied with the discords hatreds and dissentions of the English Run-aways both Scholars and Nobles at last he dyed in the 63 year of his Age c. Another saith That he was so ill deserving to be accounted English as that like another Herostratus he endeavoured to raise a combustion in the Church and State c. But let Writers say what they please certain it is that he was an active Man and of great parts and high prudence that he was Religious and Zealous in his Profession restless till he had performed what he had undertaken that he was very affable gentile and winning and that his personage was handsome and proper which with an innate gravity commanded respect from those that came near or had to do with him His Works as to learning are these A defence of the Doctrine of Catholicks concerning Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead Antw. 1565. in oct Brief Reasons concerning Cath. Faith Treatise made in defence of the lawful Power and Authority of Priesthood to remit Sins Lov. 1567. oct The People's duty for confession of their Sins to God's Ministers Printed with the Treatise made c. The Churches meaning concerning Indulgences commonly called Pope's Pardons Printed also with the Treatise made c. Which three last were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge De Antw. 1576. qu Sacramentis in genere Sacramento Eucharistiae Sacrificio Euch. Apology and true declaration of the institution and endeavours of the two English Colleges the one in Rome the other now resident in Rhemes against certain finiste informations given up against the same Printed at Mounts in Heâ—â—cault 1581. in a large oct This Books is said by one to be a princely grave and flourishing piece of natural and exquisite English Apologia pro sacerdotibus Societatis Jesu Seminariorum alumnis contra Edicta Regia Printed in a Book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct 1594. in qu. part 3. Piissima admonitio consolatio verè Christiana ad afflictos Catholicos Angliae Printed also in the said Book A true sincere and modest defence of the English Catholicks that suffer for their Faith both at home and abroad against a slanderous Libel entit The Execution of Justice in England Not expressed where or when Printed but by the character and some passages therein is shew'd that it was Printed beyond the Seas about 1583. in oct Printed also in Latin at Ingolst 1584. in oct and in a Book entit Concertat Eccles Cath. in Anglia c. 1594. This defence was answered by Dr. Tho. Bilson in the third part of his Book of the Supremacy or in that Book called The true difference between Christian Subjection and Vnchristian Rebellion As for The Execution of Justice which the defence answers was written as it was then and since reported by Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh The second impression of which made at Lond. 1583. in five sheets in oct I have and bears this Title The execution of Justice in England for maintenance of Publick and Christian Peace against certain stirs of sedition and adherents to the Traytors and Enemies of the Realm without any persecution of them for questions of Religion as is falsly reported c. Epistola de Daventriae ditione Cracov 1588. in oct Printed also about that time in English It must be noted that in 1587. Will. Stanley and Rowl York Englishmen did traiterously deliver up a Fort near Zutphen and the strong Garrison of Daventry to the Spaniard whereupon our Author Dr. Allyn did being provoked by the Bull of Pius 5. against Q. Elizabeth not only commend the Treason but excited others in the said Epistle to the like exploit or perfidiousness as if they were neither bound to serve nor obey an excommunicated Queen At which time the said Allyn dispatched away divers Priests to Rowl York whose Regiment of 13 hundred consisted all of English and Irish to be Chaplains and Confessors to them In the year 1588. our author Allyn compiled a Book to be published when the Spaniard should arrive into England to stir up all the English Papists to take up Arms against the Queen The first part of the said Book was intit A declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus 5. Grounded on the said Pope's Crusaido whereby he gave plenary Indulgence and Pardon of all Sins to all that gave their helping hand to deprive Q. Elizabeth of her Kingdom The second part was entit An admonition to the Nobility and People of England Which Book or Books coming straightway to the knowledge of the Queen she dispatched away D. Val. Dale to the Prince of Parma Vice-Roy of the Low Countries for the King of Spain who being introduced into his presence he did mildly expostulate with him about the said Book or Books written by Allyn wherein as Dale said he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to joyn with the Spanish Forces under him the said Prince to invade England c. but he pretended he knew nothing of such a Book and so sent him away unsatisfied However so it was that presently upon the overthrow of the great invincible Armado under their heroical Adlantado certain Roman Catholicks procured the whole impression to be burned saving some few that had been sent abroad beforehand to Friends and such as had otherwise been conveyed away by the Printer and others in secret wise What else our Author Allyn hath written Joh. Pitseus who speaks very honorably of him will tell you who adds that he gave up the ghost on the 6 of Oâ—â—ob according to our accompt in fifteen hundred ninety and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel of the English Colledge at Rome where there is an Epitaph for him which being printed by two several Authors at least I shall now pass it by The Jesuits triumphed openly as one saith at his Death and among other of the calumniations against him they said That God had taken him away in a good time for if he had lived longer he would have disgraced himself and lost the credit which he had got In one or more Books containing the lives or at least characters with the Arms of the Popes and Cardinals of Rome it appears that the Arms of Cardinal Allyn are Argent 3 Connies or Rabbets passant Sable yet the ancient Arms belonging to
his younger years even from his Cradle in the Liberal Sciences especially in searching the most difficult and curious demonstrations Mathematical by the assistance of the practices observations monuments and conferences of his Father He was a Person of great Piety well skilled in matters relating to Soldiers and War having been Muster-master General of all Q. Elizabeth's Forces in the Low Countries and learned to a miracle in Mathematical Sciences which made him much esteemed by Joh. Dee Tho. Allen and others He hath transmitted to Posterity Alae sive scalae Mathamaticae Lond. 1573. qu. Of which Work Tycho Brahe giveth a favourable and ingenious censure An Arithmetical Military Treatise containing so much of Arithmetick as is necessary towards Military Discipline Lond. 1579. qu. Geometrical Treatise named Stratiaticos requisite for the perfection of Soldiers Lond. 1579. qu. This was first of all attempted by his Father but finished by this our author Thomas his Son afterwards corrected and amended and sundry additions put to it Lond. 1590. qu. Perfect description of Celestial Orbs according to the most ancient Doctrine of the Pythagoreans c. Lond. 1592. qu. set at the end of his Fathers Prognostication Humble motives for association to maintain Religion established Printed 1601. in oct To which is added his Letter to the same purpose to the Archbishops and Bishops of England England's Defence a Treatise concerning Invasion or a brief discourse of what orders were best for the repulsing of Foreign Enemies if any time they should invade us by Sea in Kent or elsewhere Written 1599. but not printed till 1686. which was at Lond. in 5 sheets in fol. Besides these and his Nova corpora c. he had several Mathematical Treatises lying by him which were fit for the Press and by him intended for publick view but being diverted by Law-sutes his intentions were not only stopped but the happy Society of the Mathematical Muses were discontinued He concluded his last day on the 24. year 1595 of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Aldermanbury in the City of London On the North wall of the said Chancel was soon after set up a fair monument to his memory which continuing till 1666. was in the beginning of Sept. in that year consumed with the Church it self in the dismal conflagration that then hapned in London You may see more of this Tho. Digges in my discourse of his Father Len. Digges under the year 1574. EDWARD KELLEY otherwise Talbot was born in the City of Worcester at about 4 of the clock in the afternoon on the first day of Aug. in 1555. 3 of Q Mary whose Nativity being afterwards calculated it did appear that he was born to be a man of clear understanding quick apprehension of an excellent wit and of great propensity to Philosophical studies and the mysteries of Nature This Person being about 17 years of age at which time he had attained to a competency of Grammar Learning at Worcester and elsewhere he was sent to Oxon but to what House I cannot tell However I have been informed by an ancient Bach. of Divinity who in his younger years had been an â—manuensis to Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloucester Hall that he Kelley had spent some time in that House Whereupon I recurring to the Matricula could not find the name of Kelley only Talbot of Ireland three of which Name were Students there in 1573 74 c. about which time Mr. afterwards Sir John Davies was instructed in the Mathematicks by the said Allen. But this relation having been somewhat dubiously delivered to me I must tell you that Kelley having an unsettled mind left Oxon abruptly without being entred into the Matricula and in his rambles in Lancashire committing certain soul matters lost both his Ears at Lancaster and about that time caused by his incantations a poor Man that had been buried in the yard belonging to Law-church near to Walton in the dale to be taken out of his grave and to answer to such questions that he then proposed to him The story of which being to me incredible I shall refer you to the Writer of it who is too credulous in many matters About that time our author Kelley became intimate with Dr. John Dee the famous Mathematician with whom continuing several years in Philosophical Studies and Chymical Experiments they both became very famous among Scholars and therefore noted by Persons of high and noble extraction one for the Mathematicks and the other for Chymistry for though Dee was the most eminent man in his time for the first yet Kelly went far beyond him in the latter as by the sequel it will appear 'T is reported by a certain Rosacrucian that they were so strangely fortunate as to find a very large quantity of the Elixir in some part of the ruines of Glastenbury Abbey which was so incredibly rich in virtue that they lost much in making projection by way of tryal before they found out the heighth of that medicine In the beginning of 1583. Dr. J. Dee having contracted with certain Spirits to act and converse with them he appointed his Friend Kelley to be his Seer or Skryer or Speculator that is to take notice what the Spirits said and to tell it to d ee while he wrote down in a Book what was dictated to him Soon after Dee and Kelley being made known to and acquainted with the learned and most noble Polonian named Albert Alaskie Prince of Sirad who was come into England to see the fashions of the Court and to admire the Wisdom of the Queen he thereupon had so great respect for them himself being a Mathematician that in Sept. following when he left England he took them and their Wives with him in the same Ship and travelling with him afterwards by Land he saw them safely conveyed to Cracaw in Poland Where continuing for some time they removed to Prague and at length in Sept. 1586. to Trebona in Bohemia at all which places tho Kelley was several times troublesome inconstant and false to d ee yet he mostly performed the office of Skryer And further that notwithstanding Dee took the said Spirits to be Angelical yet Kelley not but rather meer delusions of the Devil which hath been since confirmed by Dr. Meric Casaubon who published the Relation of Dr. Dee's conversing with Spirits At Trebona Kelley made projection 9. Dec. 1586. with one small grain of the Elixir in proportion no bigger than the least grain of sand upon one ounce and a quarter of common Mercury and it produced almost an ounce of most pure Gold At another time he made projection upon a piece of mettal cut out of a Warming-pan and without his touching or handling it or melting the metal only warming it in the fire the Elixir being put thereon it was transmuted into pure Silver The said Warming-pan and piece were sent to Q.
England and changed his Name to Smyth for adhering to the deposed King Rich. 2. Further also I find another John Smyth commonly called Captain Smyth who wrote 1. A Map of Virginia with a Description of the Country the Commodities People Government and Religion Oxon. 1612. qu. 2. New Englands Trials c. Lond. 1620. qu. 3. General History of Virginia c. Lond. 1624. qu. 4. Travels in Europe c. Lond. 1630. with other things but this Captain Smyth was a Cheshire man and whether he had received any Education in this University of Oxon I cannot say to the contrary JOHN PRIME Son of Rob. Prime a Fletcher was born in the Parish of Halywell in the North Suburb of Oxford received his Grammatical Literature in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Col. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted puritanical Preacher in the City of his Nativity and much favoured by Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winchester In 1589. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time Vicar of Adderbury alias Eabburbury in Oxfordshire where he became much followed for his edifying way of preaching He hath written A short treatise of Sacraments generally and in special of Baptism and of the Supper Lond. 1582. oct Treatise of nature and grace Lond. 1583 oct Sermon briefly comparing the State of King Solomon and his Subjects together with the condition of Queen Elizabeth and her People preached at S. Maries in Oxon. 17. Nov. 1585. on 1 Kings 10. 9. Oxon. 1585. oct Exposition on the Galathians Ox. 1587. oct The consolations of David applied to Queen Elizabeth in a Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon. 17. Nov. 1588. on Psal 23. 4. Oxon. 1588. oct These as I think were all the books and Sermons that he hath published tho he intended more had he not been cut off in his middle Age. At length after he had been Vicar of Adderbury about 7 years he concluded his last day there about the 12 of April in fifteen hundred ninety and six year 1596 and was buried in the Church of that place but hath neither Epitaph or Inscription over his Grave FRANCIS KNOLLIS Son of Robert Knollis of Rotherfield-Gray commonly called Grays near to Henley in Oxfordshire did receive for a time his Grammatical and Dialectical Education in this University particularly as it seems in Magd. coll Afterwards he retired to his patrimony and at length to the court and became one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to K. Hen. 8. in the latter end of his reign When a reformation was set on foot by King Ed. 6. he was so zealous for the religion then professed as that when Qu. Mary began to reign and grow severe towards the Reformed party he fled into Germany where he sorted himself for a time among several of the English Divines that went away about the same time for conscience sake After the death of that Queen he returned and became so much in esteem by Q. Elizabeth who stood totally affected to the reformation as that in the first year of her reign he was made choice of for one of her privy Council and shortly after that she made him Vice-chamberlain of her houshold and employed him in matters of concern beyond the Seas In 1566. he was actually created Master of Arts being then chief Steward of the City of Oxon Captain of the Halbertiers and about that time Treasurer of the Queens Chamber in the place of Sir John Mason deceased Afterwards he was trusted with the custody of Mary Qu. of Scots while she was a prisoner in Bolton-castle in Yorkshire and in the 29. Elizab. being then a Knight he was one of those who by commission sate in judgment upon the said Queen at Foderingey At length he was made Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter being always by many accounted a faithful subject an honest and learned man and a person of great prudence and wisdom and by others so a great a friend to Calvin in his heart whose principles he embraced while he lived at Geneva that he was never a cordial friend to Episcopacy but rather a patron of the Non-conformists which appeared by several of his actions while he was a privy Counsellour His writings are these Treatise against the usurpation of Papal Bishops Printed 1608. in oct some attribute it to Jo. Rainolds the famous Divine A General Survey of the Isle of Wight with all the Castles and Fortresses near adjoining This is a MS. in fol. and was sometimes in the Lib. of Arthur E. of Anglesey From whence we may suppose that the author had some office in or relating to the said Isle but what in truth I cannot tell I have seen also several of his speeches spoken in Parliaments letters of state and letters written by him to the said Jo. Rainolds between whom there was great amity and intercourse but few or none of those letters or speeches I think are printed At length paying his last debt to nature in the Summer time before Septemb. year 1595 in fifteen hundred ninety and six was as I presume buried at Grays before mentioned By his Wife Catherine daughter of Will. Cary Esque by Mary his Wife daughter of Thom. Bolein Earl of Wiltshire as also Sister to the Lady Anne Bolein second Wife to K. Hen. 8. he had issue Henry his Eldest Son bred in the Free-School joyning to Maga College under the care as it seems of Tho. Robertson Afterwards he went with his Father and others into Germany and at his return if not happily before became a Commoner of the said College where he obtained so much literature as afterwards to gain the character by a learned Author of homo virtute animi dotibus non infimus and of homo religionis studiosissimus liberalissima literatura egregic ditatus c. But he dying without issue the estate went to the next Son called William afterwards Earl of Baâ—bury He had another Son named Francis 2 Knight whom I shall mention elsewhere as also a fourth who was a member of the said College and all four admired by some and envied by others for their great vertue and towardliness JOHN SMITH was a Berkshire man born as it seems became Fellow of St. Johns coll in the Founders time Master of Arts in in 1560. and afterwards Schoolmaster at and Vicar of the Church of St. Laurence in Reading in the aforesaid County He hath written The Doctrine of Prayer in general for all men that is universally for all Mankind c. Lond. 1595. qu. What else he hath published I know not being a difficult matter to distinguish his Works from others of both his names and time And whether he was author of The use of the Gospel printed 1580. in qu. which is said to be written by Jo. Smith I cannot tell The said Joh. Smith of Reading did give way to Fate there and was buried
time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine He was a Person of a strict life and conversation as those of his Perswasion say of great gravity of severity and a lover of vertue and vertuous men He hath written A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks Lov. in oct and other things as I have been told but such I have not yet seen which if printed few or no copies come into England He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman on the 9. year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there near to the horn of the Gospel leaving then behind him this character that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON a most excellent Latin Poet Philosopher and Physician of his time was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. 2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar. left it after he was M. of Arts and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School in the place of Tho. Hyde where by his industry and admirable way of teaching were many good Scholars sent to the Universities All the time that he could get at vacant hours he spent upon his beloved study of Physick which he practiced in the City of Winchester but not to the neglect of his School At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty did shortly after resign his School and repairing to London practiced with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West where being accounted eminent was admitted as it seems a Member of the Coll. of Physicians He hath written and published Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi Written in 140 long and short Verses 14. Dec. 1564. Printed 1 on the broadside of a sheet of Paper with Wykehams Arms encompassed with the Garter before them 2 At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius Lond. 1573. And 3 in a Book intit A brief view of the State of the Church of England as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 37 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight an 1608. and made publick by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son then no Friend to the Church of England Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton Series Written in Verse also and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus In Verse also at the end of the said Poems Counsel against the Plague or any other infectious Disease Lond. 1577. oct Question Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no Printed with the Counsel c. Ranarum murium pugna Latino versu donata ex Homero Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh in qu. with other things as it is probable but such I have not yet seen See more of him in Rich. White under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there as it seems situated and being in Fleetstreet He dyed wealthy left several Sons and Daughters behind him and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law a Student in Physick his Executor who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books and succeeded him in his Practice JASPER HEYWOOD a quaint Poet in his younger days Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigramatist of his time was born in London sent to the University at about 12 years of age an 1547. educated in Grammar as well as in Logic there took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll where remaining about 5 years in all which time he bare away the Bell in disputations at home and in the publick Schools did upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanors for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild to the great grief of their Father resign his Fellowship to prevent expulsion on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master and in Nov. ensuing he was elected Fellow of All 's coll where abiding for a little while left the University and soon after England and entred himself into the Society of Jesus But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following Various Poems and Devises Some of which are Printed in a Book intit The Paradise of dainty Devises Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer an 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse 1 Thiestes the second Tragedy of Seneca Lond. 1560. oct Published again with other Tragedies of that author by Thom. Newton Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him in an 1607. 2 Hercules furens another Trag. of Seneca And 3 Troas a third published also by the said Newton 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion and in 1562. being then at Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus 21. May in the then professed house of the Jesuits there After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them he was sent to Diling in Switzerland where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Hereticks in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity and of the four Vows At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him with others the same year into the mission of England and the rather because the Brethren there told his Holiness That the Harvest was great and the Labourers few Being setled then in the Metropolis of his own Country and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England it was noted by all that knew him That he kept many Men Horses and Coaches that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priest-like c. At length going into France about publick matters relating to the Order was when ready to land in Normandy drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore where being taken and examined was with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship and set on shore in France in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity he made a copy of verses mentioned by a noted Poet of his time concluding with these two Thanks to that Lord that will me good For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the City of Dole where he was troubled much with Witches thence to Rome and at length fixed in the City of Naples where as at Rome he became familiarly
Sackvile being afterwards a noted Man in the Eye of Q. Elizabeth to whom he was an Allie and in the State the composition of the whole was attributed to him and the ingenious men of that age did esteem the said Tragedy to be the best of its time even in Sir Philip Sidney's judgment who tells us that it is full of stately Speeches and well sounding Phrases climyng to the heighth of Seneca's stile and as full of notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very and of Poâ—sie yet in truth it is very desectious in the circumstances c. Our author Sackvile also wrote Induction to the Mirrour of Magistrates Not to that Mirrour published by Will. Baldwyn but to that I suppose which was published by Joh. Higens an eminent Poet of his time whom I shall farther mention in Rich. Nicolls an 1615. Which Induction with the Mirrour it self were highly valued by Scholars in the time of Q. Elizabeth What else this Noble Person hath made publick I know not nor any thing besides material of him only that dying suddenly at the Council board being one of the Privy Council to K. James on the 19. year 1608 of Apr. in sixteen hundred and eight was buried in the Church of Withyam before-mentioned From him is lineally descended Charles Sackvile now Earl of Dorset and Middlesex a person that hath been highly esteemed for his admirable vein in Poetry and other polite learning as several things of his composition while Lord Buckhurst shew LAURENCE TOMSON was born in Northamptonshire elected Demy of Magd. coll 1556. aged 17. and soon after being a great proficient in Logick and Philosopy was admitted Probationer 11. Sept. 1559. and the year after perpetual fellow of the said coll In 1564. he proceeded in Arts was with Sir Tho. Hoby in his Embassie to France and in 1568. he resigned his fellowship What became of him afterward let his Epitaph following speak while I tell you that he translated from Lat. into English 1 Sermons on the Epistles to Timothy and Titus Lond. 1579. qu. written by John Calvin 2 Version and annotations on the New Test Lond. 1589. in oct Which version and annot were made in lat by Theod. Beza He also translated from French into English 1 A Treatise of the excellency of a Christian man Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct written by Monsieur Peter de la Place one of the Kings Councel and chief President of the Court of Aides in Paris 2 The life and death of Pet. de la Place c. Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I cannot tell year 1608 He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Chertsey in Surrey Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after fastned on the east wall of the said chancel Laurentio Tomsono honesta Tomsoniorum familia in agro Northamptoniensi oriundo in collegio Magdal Oxon. educato perigrinatione Sueviae Russiae Daeniae Germaniae Italiae Galliae nobilitato duodecem linguarum cognitione instructo Theologiae Juris civilis municipalis nostri totiusque literaturae politioris scientiae claro ingenii acumine disputandi subtilitate cloquenai suavitate lepore virtute omni pietateque insigni linguae Hebraicae publica Genevae professione celebri accurata Novi Testamenti translatione notabili In politicis apud Walsinghamam Elizabethae Reginae Scribam pracipuum diu multumque exercitato post cujus mortem vitae privatae umbratilisque jucunditate annos XX. continuos Lalamiae Middlisexiae persuncto septuagenario placidissime religiosissmoque desuncto quarto calendas Aprilis an 1608. Vxor Jana Jana filia ex quinque una superstes filiabus amoris ergo posuerunt pietatis The report at Chersey is that he built the House which now stands on the top of S. Anns-hill in Chertsey parish out of the ruins of S. Anns-chappel and on the very place where that chappel stood having a prospect into several Counties In which House the Inhabitants of the neighbourhood will tell you that this learned author died WILLIAM WARFORD received his first breath in that part of Bristow which is in Sommersetshire was admitted a Scholar of Trinity coll 13. June 1576. probationer two years after being then Bach. of Arts Fellow 1579. and Master of Arts in 82. But having more a mind to the Ro. Cath. religion in which he was partly educated than to Protestancy he left the college his friends and the nation went to Rome and obtaining entrance into the English coll there profited very much in Divinity At length being ordained Priest he was sent into the mission of England where making but little stay he returned to Rome and in the year 1594. he was entred into the society of Jesus Afterwards being sent by his Superiors into Spain he spent the remainder of his time in the English Seminaries there He hath written A short institution containing the chief mysteries of Christian religion collected from the holy Scriptures and Fathers Sevil 1600. and at S. Omers in 1616. Translated into Latine by Tho. More a Jesuit descended from the famous Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chancellor of England Printed at S. Omers in 1617. The said Warford also translated into English several of the Histories of Saints written by Pet. Ribadeneira but died before he could finish them at Valladolid in Spain on the 3. Nov. according the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred and eight and was buried in the college of the Jesuits there year 1608 leaving behind him other matters which were in a manner fit for the Press and the character among those of his profession of a godly and learned man WILLIAM WILKES a most excellent preacher in the Court of K. James 1. was born within the diocess of Lichfeild and Coventry elected Probationer-fellow of Merton coll in 1572. entred into the sacred function when Master of Arts and in 1580. became Vicar of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon by the presentation thereunto of the Warden and Society of the said coll where for his excellent Sermons he was much frequented by Scholars and Citizens Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity he resigned the said Church being well beneficed in Wiltshire and dignified After K. James came to the English Crown he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary preached often before him to his great content and wrote Of obedience or Ecclesiastical union Lond. 1605. oct A second memento for Magistrates directing how to reduce all offenders and being reduced how to preserve them in the Unity and Love both in Church and Commonwealth Lond. 1608. oct As for the first memento I have not yet seen unless it be meant of the book Of Obedience c. He died at Barford S. Martins in Wiltshire of which he was Rector leaving behind him one only daughter named Mary who
him an 100 l. per an Pension for his Life howbeit on condition that he should not depart the Realm In the beginning of Q. Elizabeth he was called again to the service of the Commonwealth was restored to his Deanery was present with the Divines at the correcting of the English Liturgy and afterwards with great commendations performed several Embassies At length being one of the Secretaries of State again and Chancellour of the Order of the Garter and several times a Parliament-man became very beneficial to the Common-wealth of learning by procuring the Laws concerning Corn for the colleges of Students in both the Universities This person who was a noted Orator Grecian and Civilian and worthy to be remembred for other learning hath written 1 The Commonwealth of England and the manner and government thereof in 3 books Printed in an old Engl. character at Lond. 1583. 94. in qu. and several times in oct notwithstanding it was left unfinished by the author Translated into Lat. by Dr. Jo. Budden who caused it to be printed at Lond. in oct 'T was also published in Lat. by Joh. Laet of Antwerp at Leyden 1630. in tw 2 De recta emendata linguae Graecae pronuntiatione ad Gardinerum Ep. Winton Epistola Lutet 1568. qu. 3 De recta emendata linguae Anglicae scriptione Printed dialogue ways with the former book 4 De re nummaria 5 The Authority form and manner of holding Parliaments This book being lately 1685. published may be doubted whether Sir Tho. Smith was the author of it He hath also extant Many Letters in the Compleat Embassador c. collected by Sir Dudley Digges He departed this mortal life in the climecterical year of his age in the month of July 1577. and was buried in the Church of Theydon-Mount or Theydon at Mount in Essex All his Latin and Greek books he gave to Queens coll in Cambridge as also a great Globe of his own making besides maintenance for two Scholars to come from Saffron-Walden to that house There was a very fair monument ordered to be put over the bodies of him and his Wife and no doubt there is but that it was done accordingly yet what the Inscription on it is I cannot yet learn not any thing else of him only that Jo. Lâ—â—and doth highly extol him in his Encomiae of illustrious and learned men of England JOHN SANSBURY or Sandsbury an eminent and ingenious Latin Poet was born in London educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns coll in Midsomer Term an 1593. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the North Suburb of Oxon 1607. and the year after was admitted Bach. of Divinity He hath written Ilium in Italiam Oxonia ad protectionem regis sui omnium optimi filia pedi sequa Oxon. 1608. oct In the said book are the Arms of each coll and verses under them Tragediae diversae MS. Acted several times by the Scholars of the aforesaid coll in their common refectory in the time of Christmas He was buried in the Church of S. Giles before-mentioned in the month of Jan. in sixteen hundred and nine The next writer according to time that is to be mentioned is one that had learning enough to be a Dean or Bishop yet could never rise higher than a Vicar and Pedagogue His name is THOMAS PYE born at Darlaston-near Wednesbury in Staffordshire educated for the most part in Logicals and Philosophicals in Merton coll of which he became one of the Chaplains in 1581. being then esteemed among the learned to be one of them Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity as a Member of that house he became Vicar and Schoolmaster of Bexhill near Hastings in Sussex about 1590. being then and before accounted an eminent Linguist excellent in Sacred Chronology in Ecclesiastical Histories and Polemical Divinity His works are A computation from the beginning of time to Christ by ten Articles Lond. 1597. qu. A confirmation of the same for the times controverted before Christ As also that there wanteth a year after Christ in the usual computation Printed with the former book and both under the general title of An Hour-glass Epistola ad ornatiss virum D. ` Johan Howsonum S. T. D. Acad. Oxon Procancellarium qua dogma ejus novum admirabile de Juderum divortiis refutatur suus SS Scripturae nativus sensus ab ejus glossematis vindicatur Lond. 1603. qu. Epistola responsoria ad clariss virum D. Alb. Gentilem MS. 'T is on the same subject with the former and are both answered by Rob. Burhill Scholastical determination of Usury Lond. 1604. qu. Answer to a Treatise written in defence of Usury Printed there the same year He gave way to fate at Bexhill in the latter end of sixteen hundred and nine at which time he by his Will dated 20. Dec. and proved 20. March an 1609. desired that his body might be buried in the School house at Bexhill before-mentioned lately repaired and new paved by him In his said Will he leaves certain Monies to the poor of Brightling near Battle in Sussex at which place as 't is probable he had a Cure About two years before his death he bestowed much money in building the Campanile or Tower at Darleston before-mentioned which before was built of timber JOHN AGLIONBY was born of a gentile Family in Cumberland became a Student in Queens coll in 1583. where after he had gone through the servile duties several years was made Fellow whereupon entring into Holy Orders became a most polite and learned Preacher Afterwards travelling he was introduced into the acquaintance of Cardinal Bellarmine who shewing to him the picture of the profound William Whittaker of Cambrige which hung up in his Library told him pointing to the picture that he was the most learned Heretick that ever he read or to that effect After his return he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to Q. Elizabeth took the degree of D. of D. in 1600. was made Principal of S. Edmunds hall the year after being about that time Rector of Islip near to and in the County of Oxon and soon after Chaplain in Ord. to K. James 1. He was a person well accomplished with all kind of learning profoundly read in the Fathers and in School-Divinity an exact Linguist and of an aquiline acumen as one who is profuse in his praise tells you What he hath published I find not however the reason why I set him down here is that he had a most considerable hand in the translation of the New Testament appointed by K. James in 1604. which is all that I know material of him saving only that he dying at Islip to the very great reluctancy of all learned and good men on the 6. Febr. in sixteen hundred and nine aged 43. was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Soon after was set up an Inscription to his memory on the East
others to advance the Romish affairs with power then given by P. Greg. 13. for moderating the severe Bull of P. Pius 5. While he continued there which was in the quality of a Superior he travelled up and down in the Country to Gentlemens houses disguised in the habit sometimes of a Souldier sometimes like a Gentleman and at other times like a Minister and an Apparator And being a person of a seditious and turbulent spirit and armed with a confident boldness tampered so far with the R. Catholicks about deposing Qu. Elizabeth that some of them as they afterwards confessed thought to have delivered him up into the Magistrates hands About which time Campian being seized and committed he made haste out of England for fear of being snap'd also and forthwith went to Rome where making profession of the four vows he was constituted Rector of the English coll there an 1587. Afterwards he went into Spain where by his great learning expressed in disputing writing and promoting the Cause he became known to and respected by the King of that place About 1597. he returned to Rome in hopes of a Cardinals Cap but missing it died as 't is said with grief He was a restless active man and tho of a violent fierce nature and rough behaviour yet he was more zealous for the promoting of the Jesuits interest than any of and perhaps before his time witness his unwearied endeavours of instituting Novices of the Society at Sevill Valladolid Cadiz Lisbon Doway S. Omers and at Rome Also his continual publishing of books as well in the Latin as in the English tongue which did no great good to the Church of England and the noted professors thereof And lastly his endeavours of keeping Spain and England in difference and of his inciting the Spaniard to invade England or Ireland again of breaking the lawful Succession of the Crown by confirming the right of it to a Daughter of Spain and what not to promote the interest of that Country and his Society As for those books which he hath written published either without a name or else in the names of other persons I shall here give you the titles of as many that have come to my hands and they are these A brief discourse containing the reasons why Catholicks refuse to go to Church Said to be Printed at Doway but really at Lond. 1580. in oct Published under the name of Jo. Howlet and dedicated to Q. Eliz. with a large Epist subscribed by the said J. Howlet See more in the Fasti 1569. I have seen a book in Bodlies Lib. being one of the Copies which was seized before the title page was printed intituled in the first page of the book it self thus Reasons that Catholicks ought in any wise to abstain from heretical conventicles The running title at the top of every leaf of the book is A Treatise of Schisme Printed at London by Will. Carter executed for Treason in the year 1584. who confessed when that book came to be seized on in his house on Tower-hill near London that there had been printed 1250. Copies of the said book At that time the Searchers found the original sent from Rheimes and allowed under Dr. Will. Allens own hand to be truly Catholick and fit to be published This book without doubt is the same which a certain author stiles Nine reasons why Catholicks should abstain from heretical Conventicles said by him to be written by Rob. Parsons The same year that the Brief discourse containing c. was published came out an answer to it intit A check to Mr. Howlets Shreechings to her Majesty c. but whether any reply followed I know not The next books that F. Parsons wrote were Reasons for his coming into the mission of England with a proffer or challenge to dispute with the Protestants This book or Treatise tho afterwards put under the name of Rob. Persons in the Bib. Soc. Jesu yet in the answer to it made by Mer. Hanmer and Will. Charke it is by them said to be written by E. Campian Brief Censure given upon the two books of W. Charke and M. Hanmer written against the Reasons and Proffer Lond. 1581. oct To which W. Chark made a reply Printed in oct A discovery of Joh. Nichols Minister misreported a Jesuit Printed 1581. in octav Answered by Tho. Lupton in a book intit Answer against a Jesuits book entit A discovery c. Lond. 1582. qu. See more in Joh. Nicholls an 1583. A defence of the Censure given upon two books of Will Charke and Meredith Hanmer Ministers which they wrote against Mr. Edmund Campian Priest of the Society of Jesus and against his offer of disputation Printed 1582. oct Taken in hand since the death of Campian Against this book came out another intit A treatise against the defence of the censure c. Cambr. 1586. oct De persecutione Anglicanâ Epistola Quâ explicantur afflictiones aerumnae calamitates gravissimae c. Rom. Ingolst 1582. Printed also in a book intit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Angliâ c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct p. 79. Both which editions the former I am sure were published under the name of the English coll at Rome See more in Joh. Bridgewater an 1594. A Christian directory or exercise guiding men to eternal Salvation commonly called The Resolution First published in 1583. in oct From which edition and book were framed two more published An. 1584. One of which was done by a catholick Gent. living at Roan in Normandy full of errors but in sense the same Another by Edm. Bunny of Merton coll in Oxon but all altered to the Protestant use as may be seen in the Preface to Rob. Persons's edition of the same book in the year 1585. The second part of a Christian directory or exercise c. Lond. 1594 92. in tw Printed also in 1650. in a large oct But these two parts as it seems being falsly printed at London the author came out again with them bearing this title A Christian directory guiding men to their Salvation divided into three books The first thereof pertaining to Resolution is only contained in this volume and divided into two parts and set forth now again with many corrections and additions by the author himself with reproof of the falsified edition lately published by Mr. Edm. Bunny Lovaine 1598. in a thick oct c. These books of Resolution won our author Persons a great deal of praise not only in the judgment of R. Catholicks but of very learned Protestants Yet not to heap more praises upon him than he justly deserves his Enemies and those of the Protestant party say that he was but a Collector or Translator at most and that the book was not of his own absolute invention but taken out of other authors They say farther also that his praise was for well translating close couching and packing it up together in a very smooth stile and singular good method
jus civile pertinent lib. 1. Lond. 1583. oct De legationibus lib. 3. Lond. 1585. qu. Hannov. 1607. oct Legalium comitiorum Oxoniensium actio Lond. 1585. oct De nascendi tempore disputatio Witeberg 1586. oct De diversis temporum appellationibus liber Witeberg 1586. oct Condicionum lib. unus Lond. 1587. oct De jure belli cemmentatio prima Lugd. Bat. 1588. qu. c. De jure belli com sec Lond. 1588. qu. c. De jure belli com ter Lond. 1589. qu. c. De injustitiâ bellicá Romanorum actio Ox. 1590. qu. Before which is an Epistle dedic to Rob. Earl of Essex wherein the author saith that he had then lying by him fit for the Press Defensio Romanorum disputatio de ipsorum justitia bellica But whether afterwards printed I cannot tell De Armis Romanis libri duo Hannov. 1599. oct c. Disputationes duae 1. De Actoribus Spectatoribus fabularum non notandis 2. De abusu mendacii Hannov. 1599. oct c. Duae literae ad Joh. Rainoldum de Ludis Scenicis Middleb 1599. Ox. 1629. qu. They are at the end of a book called The overthrow of Stage-plays See more in Jo. Rainolds and Will. Gager Ad primum Macbaeorum disputatio Franc. 1600. qu. It follows the notes of Joh. Drusius made on the said book De linguarum mixturâ disputatio pà rergica This disputation with the other immediately going before are remitted into the fifth vol. of Criticks p. 8073 8093. Disputationum de nuptiis libri vii Hannov. 1601. oct c. Lectionis Virgilianae variae liber Hannov. 1603. Written to Rob. Gentilis his Son Ad tit cod de Maleficis Math. de caeteris similibus commentarius Hannov. 1604. Item Argumenti ejusd commentatio ad lib. 3. cod de professoribus medicis Han. 1604. Laudes Academiae Perusianae Oxoniensis Hanov. 1605. oct Dedicated to Dr. Ralph Hutchinson President of S. Johns coll by Rob. Gentilis his Son then a Student in that house Disputationes tres 1. De libris juris Canonici 2. De libris juris Civilis 3. De latinitate veteris Bibliorum versionis male accusatâ Hannov. 1605. oct Disp 3. 1. De â—â—testate Regis absolutâ 2. De unione Regnorum Britanniae 3. De vi Civium in Regem semper injustâ Lond. 1605. qu. In Titulos codicis si quis Imperatori maledixerit ad legem juliam majestatis disputationes decem Hannov. 1607. Epistola ad Joh. Howsonum S. T. P. In which Epistle our author doth learnedly interpose his judgment concerning Dr. Pyes book of divorce Printed at the end of Dr. Burhills book intit In controversiarum c. an 1606. qu. See more in Tho. Pye an 1609. and in Rob. Burhill an 1641. The Reader is to note that besides the answers of Pye and Gentilis one Joh. Dove did prepare a third answer but whether it was ever printed I cannot tell Hispanicae advocationis libri 2. Hannov. 1613. qu. Comm. in tit Digestorum verborum significatione Hannov. 1614. qu. Discourse of Marriages by proxy Written to Egerton L. Chancellour of England These are all and enough too that I have seen written by this eminent Doctor Gentilis and whether any title is omitted I cannot justly say it He concluded his last day in the beginning of the year either in the latter end of March or beginning of Apr. in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 but where buried unless in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon is yet uncertain I have seen a copy of his Will written in Italian dat 14. June 1608. wherein he desires his body to be buried in the place and in such manner as his Fathers was as deep and as near to him as may be c. Where his Father Matth. Gentilis died or was buried it doth not yet appear to me Sure it is if the information of Sir Giles Sweit LL. D. who well remembred Alb. Gentilis be right it is evident that he the said Alb. Gentilis died in Oxon. He left behind him a Widdow named Hester who afterwards lived at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire where she died in 1648. ult Car. 1. and two Sons Robert and Matthew the first of which being afterwards a translatot of books I shall elsewhere remember RICHARD MULCASTER Son of Will. Mulcaster of Carlile in Cumberland Esq was born in that City or at least in the County educated in Grammaticals in Eaton School near Windsore elected Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge in 1548. took one degree in Arts there retired afterwards to Oxon where he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. an 1555. and the next year being incorporated Bach. of Arts here was licensed to proceed in that Faculty in Dec. 1556. Which degree being compleated by his standing in the Act celebrated 5. Jul. in the year following he became eminent among the Oxonians for his rare and profound skill in the Greek tongue Afterwards spending more than 4 years in Oxon in a continual drudgery at his book made so great proficiency in several sorts of learning which was exceedingly advanced by his excellencies in Grammar Poetry and Philology that he was unanimously chosen Master of the School erected in London 1561. in the Parish of St. Lawrence Pountney by the worshipful Company of the Merchant-Taylors of that City In which place exercising his gifts in a most admirable way of instruction till 1586. 28. Elizah in all which time it happily prospered under his vigilancy St. Johns coll in Oxon was supplied with such hopeful plants that it soon after flourished and became a fruitful Nursery In 1596. he succeeded one Joh. Harrison in the chief Mastership of St. Pauls School in London being then Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Sarum and soon after if not happily before had the rich Parsonage of Stanford-Rivers in Essex bestowed on him by Q. Elizabeth which he kept to his dying day He hath written Positions wherein those primitive circumstances be examined which are necessary for the training up of Children either for skill in their book or health in their body Lond. 1581. 87. qu. The first part of the Elementary which intreateth chiefly of the true writing of the English tongue Lond. 1582. qu. Whether there was a second part published I know not for I have not yet seen such a thing Catechismus Paulinus in usum Scholae Paulinae conscriptus Lond. 1599. 1601. c. oct Written in long and short vers He died at Stanford-Rivèrs before-mentioned 15. Apr. in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 having resign'd Pauls School 3 years before and was buried 26. of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there under a stone which he two years before had laid for his Wife Katherine on which he caused to be engraven that she was Wife to Richard Mulcaster by ancient parentage and lineal descent an Esquire born who by the most famous Q. Elizabeth's prerogativegift was made Parson of this Church c. JAMES COOK
who writes himself Cocus received his first breath at Chale in the Isle of Wight his Grammatical education in Wykehams School his Academical in New coll of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1592. being then accounted a good Latin Poet as several of his copies which afterwards were printed testifie In 1608. he proceeded in the Civil Law being about that time Rector of Houghton in Hampshire and in good esteem for his profession and excellencies in the Greek tongue His works are Juridicum trium questionum ad majestatem pertinentium determinatio in quarum primâ ultimâ processus judicialis contra H. Garnetum institutus ex jure civili canonico defendetur c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Dedicated to Bilson Bishop of Winchester to whom he was then Chaplain Poematavaria year 1611 He gave up the ghost in sixteen hundred and eleven but where buried unless in his Church of Houghton I know not One James Coâ—k of Warwick Chirurgeon and a pretender to Physick hath published certain matters relating to Physick and Chirurgery in the Reign of Oliver and after and therefore not to be taken for the same with the Civilian JOHN BLAGRAVE the second Son of John Blagrave of Bulmarsh Court near to Sonnyng in Berkshire by Ann his Wife Daughter of Sir Auth. Hungerford of Downe-Ampney in Gloucestershire Knight was born in Berks. educated in School-learning at Reading in Philosophical among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in St. John's coll about the time of its first Foundation But leaving Oxon without the honour of a degree retired to his Patrimony which was at Southcote Lodge in the Parish of S. Mary at Reading and prosecuted with great Zeal his Mathematical Genie to so considerable an height that he was esteemed the flower of Mathematicians of his age He hath written and published these books following A mathematical Jewel shewing the making and most excellent use of an Instrument so called the use of which Jewel is so aboundant that it leadeth the direct path-way through the whole art of Astronomy Cosmography Geography c. Lond. 1585. fol. Of the making and use of the Familier Staff so called as well for that it may be made usually and familiarly to walk with as for that it performeth the Geometrical mensurations of all altitudes c. Lond. 1590. qu. Astrolabium Vranicum generale A necessary and pleasant Solace and Recreation for Navigators in their long journeying containing the use of an Instrument or general Astrolabe c. compiled 1596. Printed in qu. The Art of Dyalling in two parts The first shewing plainly c. Lond. 1609. qu. with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen This worthy Mathematician who had a most generous love for his kindred gave way to fate in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 and was buried in the Church of S. Laurence within the antient Borough of Reading Soon after was a fair Monument erected in the Wall with his Bust to the middle over-against the Desk there where his Mother was before buried Part of the Epitaph which is engraven under his said Bust or proportion runs thus Johannes Blagravius totus Matthematicus cum matre Sepultus Obiit 9. Aug. 1611. Here lyes his Corps which living had a Spirit Wherein much worthy knowledge did inherit By which with zeal one God he did adore Left for Maid-Servants and to feed the Poor c. From one of the brethren of this Mathematician was descended Daniel Blagrave a Counsellour at Law who running with the rout in the beginning of the Rebellion was chosen a Burgess for Reading to serve as a Recruiter in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. About the same time he was made Steward of Reading and Treasurer of Berks and had given to him the Exegenters Office of the Common Pleas then esteemed 500 l. per an Afterwards he was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. bought the Kings Fee-Farm of the great Mannor of Sonnyng before-mentioned and other Estates at very easie rates was Master extraordinary in Chancery a constant Rumper and a great persecutor of the ministers in and near Reading especially when an Act of Parliament issued out for the ejection of such whom they then 1654. called Scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters At length upon the approach of his Majesties Restauration in 1659-60 he fled from the justice retired to Acon in Germany where living some years under a disguised name died in an obscure condition an 1668. and was buried in a certain piece of ground somewhat distant from that City appointed to receive the bodies of such whom they there call Hereticks RALPH BUCKLAND an Esquires Son was born of and descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at West-Harptre in Somersetshire became a Commoner of Mag. coll in Mich. term 1579. aged 15 or thereabouts but before he took a degree he went to London and studied the municipal Laws for some time At length being inflam'd with a love to the Rom. Cath. Religion he left his Parents Country and the prospect of a fair Inheritance for he was the first Heir to his Father and went forthwith by the instigation without doubt of some Priest to the English coll at Rheimes in which place and at Rome he spent about 7 years in the eager obtaining of knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity Afterwards being made Priest and sent into the mission of England lived chiefly I presume in his own Country and spent above 20. years in doing offices belonging to his profession The things that he hath written and published are these Seven sparks of the enkindled Soul Four lamentations which composed in the hard times of Qu. Elizabeth may be used at all times when the Church happeneth to be extreamly pesecuted â—Drawn out of the holy Scriptures after the form of Psalms Printed in twelves In the Title or end of these two little things with which was printed A Jesus Psalter but by whom written or published it appears not there is no place or time mentioned where or when they were printed neither is the Epistle dedicatory to his Mother B. B. dated However that they were printed after K. James 1. came to the Crown of England appears in the first Psalm p. 12. thus By the hand of thy great Servant James Shake off our Yoake that we may find him an honourable Comforter Beautifie him with a name more precious than his Crown by the true name of a good King c. A Copy of the said two little things which contain Ejaculations very full of most servent devotion for the reconcilement of England and Scotland to the Rom. Church coming afterwards into the hands of the most learned Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland he took occasion in a Sermon preached in S. Maries Church in Oxon 5. Nov. 1640. to tell the learned Auditory then present that the said two books having been printed at Rome in 1603. or thereabouts the Gunpowder-Treason
concerned in the matter Some time after Carre then Earl of Sommerset and his Lady Frances before-mentioned were brought to their trials for contriving his death and hiting others to make him away who being both found guilty had the sentence of death passed on them but through the clemency of the King being spared they were only banished the Court. As for our author Overbury who in learning and judgment excelled any of his years which as 't was generally thought made him while living in the Court to be proud to overvalue himself undervalue others and affected as 't were with a kind of insolence hath written A Wife Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the choice of a Wife c. Printed several times at Lond. while the author lived In 1614 it was printed there again in qu. being the fourth or fifth impression bearing this title A Wife now the Widdow of Sir Tho. Overbury being c. Characters Or witty descriptions of the properties of sundry persons Which Characters as 't is observed were the first that were written and published in England To them are added 1 Certain Edicts from a Parliament in Eutopia written by the Lady Southwell 2 Newes from any whence or old truth under a supposal of novelty occasioned by divers Essays and private passages of Wit between sundry Gentlemen upon that subject 3 Paradoxes as they were spoken in a Mask before his Majesty at Whitehall 4 The Mountebanks Receipts 5 Songs Of the remedy of Love In two parts A Poem Lond. 1620. in about 2 sh in oct Observations in his travells upon the state of the 17. Provinces as they stood an 1609. Printed 1627. qu. This goes under his name but doubted by some whether he wrote it Observations upon the Provinces united And on the state of France Lond. 1651. oct with his picture before it an aetat 32. This also is doubted whether ever he wrote it The arraignment and conviction of Sir Walt. Ralegh at the King's Bench Bar at Winchester 17. Nov. 1603. c. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh in qu. Said to be copied by Sir Tho. Overbury but doubtful He yielded up his last breath occasioned by poyson as I have before told you on the 15. Sept. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 and was buried as some authors say presently and very unreverently in a pit digged in an obscure and mean place But the Register of the Tower -Chappel dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula saith he was buried in the said Chappel 15. Sept. being the day of his death an 1613. as I have been informed by the Letters of that learned Gent. Sir Edw. Sherburne Knight late Clerk of his Maj. Ordinance and Armories within the Kingdom of England Over his Grave tho no memory by writing was ever put yet Ben. Johnson's Epigram written to him will eternize it and other verses by the Wits of his time set before his Poem called A Wife and in particular that Epigram written by Owen the Welsh Bard running thus Vxorem angelico describis carmine talem Qualem oratorem Tullius ore potens Qualem describis quamvis tibi nuberet Vxor Aequalis tale non foret illa viro Our author Sir Tho. Overbury had a Nephew of both his names a Knight and Justice of the Peace for the County of Gloucester who lived and injoyed the inheritance of the Overburies at Boorton on the hill before-mentioned He wrote 1 A true and perfect account of the examination trial condemnation and execution of Joan Perry and her two Sons John and Rich. Perry for the supposed Murder of Will Harrison Gent c. Lond. 1676. in 4 sh and half in qu. Written by way of Letter to Thom. Shirley Doctor of Physick in London 2 Queries proposed to the serious consideration of those who impose upon others in things of divine and supernatural revelation and prosecute any upon the aecount of Religion with a desire of their candid and christian resolution thereof Printed 1677. Answered by George Vernon Rect. of Boorton on the water the same year in his Ataxiae obstaculum Whereupon Sir Tho. came out with a reply intit Ratiocinium vernaculum or a Reply to Ataxiae obstaculum Being a pretended answer to certain Queries dispersed in some parts in Gloucestershire Lond. 1678. oct This Sir Tho. Overbury was not educated in any University only was a great Traveller in parts beyond the Seas and afterwards a favourer of Protestant Dissenters which is all I know of him only-that he sold his Inheritance at Boorton on the hill to Alex. Popham Esq about 1680. and afterwards retiring to an Estate that he had at Adminton in Queinton Parish in Gloucestershire died there 28. Feb. 1680. and was buried in Queinton Church JOHN HARMAR a most noted Latinist Grecian and Divine was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1574. took the degrees in Arts was made the Kings Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University 1585. being then in holy Orders one of the Proctors thereof two years after chief Master of Winchester School for nine years Warden of the coll there 17 years and at length Doctor of Divinity being always accounted a most solid Theologist admirably well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and in his younger years a subtile Aristotelian The chief actions of his Life an account of his travels of his disputing at Paris with the great Doctors of the Rom. Party and also of the things that he had written and published his Nephew John Harmar whom I shall mention under the year 1670. promised to give unto me a full narration in writing but sickness and death soon after following prevented him He hath published 1 Chrysostomi Archiep. Constant Homeliae sex ex MSS. cod in bib coll Novi Oxon. 1586. 2 Chrysostomi Homeliae ad populum Antiochenum omnes exceptâ primâ cum Latinâ versione Homeliae decimae nonae quae in latinis etiam exemplaribus hactenus desiderata est Lond. 1590. He also translated from French into English Sermons on the three first Chapters of the Canticles Ox. 1587 qu. Written by Theod. Beza And from Lat. into English Sermons on the 10. Commandments Lord. 1581. qu. written by Joh. Calvin and had a prime hand in the translation of the New Testament into English at the command of K. Jam. 1. an 1604. At length paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 was buried at the upper end of New coll Choire His Epitaph you may read in a book intit Historia Antiquit Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. a. He was a considerable Benefactor to the Libraries of both Wykehams colleges EDWARD BREREWOOD Son of Rob. Br. Wet-Glover thrice Mayor of the City of Chester was born and educated in Grammar learning there applyed his Muse to Academical studies in Brasenose coll in the latter end of 1581. aged
citari solent Lond. 1614. and 23. qu. Which is all I think he hath published He gave way to fate at Leedes before-mentioned on the first of Jan. in sixteen hundred and fourteen and was buried the day following in the Church there Alex. Cooke his Brother whom I shall mention under the year 1632. succeeded him in the Vicaridge of Leedes and there died MATHEW SLADE second Son of Joh. Slade of the West Country Son of Joh. Slade of Roughley in Staffordshire the second Son of Joh. Slade of the ancient and gentile Family of the Slades of Norton-Slade in Lancashire was born in Devonshire became a Batler of St. Albans hall in 1584. and in that of his age 17. took a degree in Arts four years after and about that time was a candidate for a Fellowship of Morton coll but what put him by unless the want of Friends for Philosophy he had sufficient I know not Afterwards he retired to his native Country taught School for a time and Married as I shall anon tell you At length upon an invitation he went to Amsterdam in Holland where by the High and Mighty States he became Rector of the learned Academy or Gymnasium situated and being in the old part of that famous City where he was esteemed by all that knew him an excellent Lâ—tinist a good Grecian one well read in profound authors a stiff Enemy to the Socinians and a walking Library His works are these Cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. de blasphemiis haeresibus atheismis à Jacobo Rege Angliae 1. in ejusd Vorstii de dei tractatu c. Scholasticae disputationis pars prima In qua fides Orthodoxa de vera immensitate infinitate triunius dei opponitur c. Amstel 1612. qu. Appendix prioris disceptationis Amstel 1614. qu. Which is set before this book following Disceptationis cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. pars altera de immutabilitate simplicitate dei Qua docetur R. Jac. 1. juste merito notasse blasphemum Vorsti dogma Deum esse mutabilem accedentibus subjectum adserentis Amstel 1614. qu. C. Vorstii F. Socini concentus sive Bicinii exemplum cum rerum verborum atque testium Syllabo Printed with the former viz. Disceptationis altera pars These things were replied upon by Vorstius in 1615. but whether our author Slade put out a rejoynder I know not as yet or any thing else that he hath published He took to Wife Alethea Daughter of Rich. Kirford of or near to Honiton in Devon on the 20. of Sept. 1593. by whom he had Issue Cornelius Slade born in Amsterdam 14. of Oct. 1599. and made Rector of the Gymnasium there perhaps on the death of his Father on the 9. of May 1628. who taking to Wife Gertrude the Daughter of Luke Ambrose a Preacher of Amsterdam begot on her among other Children Mathew Slade born 9. of June 1628. and being strictly educated in learning became a Doctor of Physick and a learned Man and thereupon often mentioned with honour by Swammerdam as also by Scrader who dedicates a book to him This Matthew Slade did publish under the borrowed name of Theodorus Aldes Slade Anglus a book intit Dissertatio Epistolica de Generatione Animalium contra Harveium Amstel 1666. in tw Reprinted with other Anatomical Works at Francfort twice in the year 1668. in qu. and is extant in the Bibliotheca Anatomica The Collectors of which have unveiled him and put him down under his true name Mattheus Sladus Amstelodamensis M. D. He hath also written Observationes in Ovem Amstel 1673. in tw which is also in the said Bibliotheque and Sciagraphia nutritionis Foetus in utero de ejus urinâ Ibid. At length coming into England in Sept. or Oct. 1689. retired to Oxon in Dec. following to see it the Colleges Libraries and learned Men there And after he had tarried at that place about a fortnight went in the Stage-coach towards London but being taken suddenly with an Apoplectical fit on Shotover hill two miles distant from Oxon died thereof before he came to Wheatley on Friday the twentieth day of the same month being the Eve of St. Thomas the Apostle Whereupon his body being lodged in a common Inn there was by the care of James Tyrrell Esq and Dr. Edw. Bernard one of the Savilian Professors conveyed thence the next day to the Angel Inn in Oxon where lying till the day following was buried in the yard near to and behind the West door leading therein belonging to the Church of St. Peter in the East at which time were present certain Doctors of and Graduats in Physick and Masters of Arts. THOMAS FREEMAN a Gloucestershire Man born of the same Family with those of Batsford and Todenham near to Morton in Marsh became a Student in Magd. coll an 1607. aged 16 years or thereabouts and Bach. of Arts four years after At length retiring to the great City and setting up for a Poet was shortly after held in esteem by Sam. Daniel Owen the Epigrammatist Dr. Joh. Donn Shakspeare George Chapman Tho. Heywood the Play-maker and others To some of whole judgments he submitted these his two books of Epigrams following Rubbe and a great Cast In 100 Epigrames Lond. 1614. qu. Runne and a great Cast The second bowle in an 100 Epigrams Printed with the former Epigrams and both dedicated to Thomas Lord Windsore who seemed to patronize his studies The reason for Rubbe and Runne he gives in these four verses Sphaera mihi calamus mundi sunt crimina nodi Ipse sed est mundus Sphaeromachia mihi Sive manere Jubes Lector seu currere spaeram Lusori pariter curre mane que placent THOMAS CHALONER Son of Sir Thom. Chaloner Knight by Ethelreda his Wife Daughter of Edward Frodsham of Elton in Cheshire was educated in Magd. coll where he was held in esteem for his Poetry but taking no degree travelled beyond the Seas and at his return became a compleat Gentleman In 1591. he received the honour of Knighthood and being esteemed a learned prudent and sober person when K. James the first came to the English Crown he therefore by him was appointed Tator and afterwards Chamberlain to his Son Prince Henry the lively joy and delight of Britain and about that time was actually created Master of Arts as in the Fasti under the year 1605. I shall tell you This person who was a learned searcher into Natures Works did first discover an Allum-mine near to Gisburgh in Yorkshire being possessed of Land there about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but being adjudged to be a Mine-Royal was rented by several and little benefit came to Sir Thomas At length the Long Parliament which began in 1640. voted it a Monopoly and restored the benefit thereof to the former Proprietaries He hath written several things but all that I have seen is only The Virtue of Nitre wherein is declared the sundry cures by the same
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
Rob. Canutus 18 Rog. Junius c. 4. nu 23. seems to be the same with Rog. Herefordiensis nu 238. p. 237. See more fully in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 53. 19 Roger Varro c. 4. nu 27. seems to be the same with Gul. de Waria nu 384. p. 349. 20 Simon Dominicanus c. 4. nu 35. is the same with Sim. Henton nu 591. p. 486. 21 Steph. Anglicus cent 4. nu 38. seems to be the same with Steph. Langton nu 326. p. 302. 22 Tho. Wicket c. 4. nu 68. the same with Tho. Wiccius nu 425. p. 379 23 Anonymus alter c. 1. nu 20. the same with Rich. Canonicus nu 283. p. 267. c. And as our author Pits hath repeated many writers in the said Appendix which were before in the work it self so hath he mixed a great many outlandish writers among them supposing them to be English among whom are 1 Alacenus cent 1. nu 8. who was an Arabian as from his works may be gathered 2 Anonymus Sacerdos c. 1. nu 26. who hath written In Apocalypsim S. Johannis lib. 8. Which book divers writers do attribute to Peter Scaliger Bishop of Verona 3 Joh. de Muriis c. 2. nu 97. Who was a French man of Paris 4 Joh. Major c. 3. nu 15. he was a Scot born 5 Joh. Mearus c. 3. nu 18. whom I take to be Joh. de Meara an Irish man 6 Guido Folla Episc Eliensis c. 2. nu 13. He is the same with Guido Elnensis in Majorica who sometimes writes himself Guido Perpinian Elnensis No Guido Folla was ever Bish of Ely 7 Gilla Lincolniensis c. 2. nu 93. He was an Irish Man was Bishop of Limerick and died about 1139. 8 Anton Pacinus c. 1. nu 28. he was an Italian c. At length after our author Jo. Pits had spent most of his time in rambling and but little at Liverdune he gave way to fate there on the 17. Octob. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 whereupon his body was buried in the collegiate Ch. at that place and had soon after this inscription put over his grave Hic jacet D. Pittz quondam Decanus Officialis Canonicus hujus Ecclesiae Doctor SS Theologiae qui decessit ex hâc vita 17. Oct. an 1616. As for the other volumes which our author saith he hath written viz. a vol. of the Kings another of the Bishops and a third of Apostolical men of England they were not buried with him as he desired in case he should not live to finish them but were saved and are to this day preserved as rarities in the Archives of the Coll. or Church at Liverdune One of the said volumes if not more were used and quoted by Edward Maihew a Benedictine Monk sometimes Scholar to our author Pitscus in a book which he published at Rheimes an 1619. intit Congregationis Anglicanae Ordinis S. Benedicti Trophaea Which Maihew was a Salisbury Man born and a professed Monk of the Congregation at Cassino called by the French Mount-Cassin about 48 miles distant from Naples The other book of Bishops which our author wrote and often refers to in his book De scriptoribus is chiefly a collection taken from the Catalogue of the Bishops of England published by Francis Godwin Sub-Dean of Exeter an 1601. as I have been informed by one that hath seen and perused the book HENRY AIRAY was born in Westmorland educated in Grammatical learning by the care of Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle and by him sent to S. Edmunds hall an 1579. aged 19. or thereabouts of whose benefaction he did not only then participate but also of his Legacies in his last Will dated 27. Oct. 1582. Soon after our author Airay was translated to Queens coll where he became Pauper Puer Serviens that is a poor serving Child that waits on the Fellows in the Common hall at Meals and in their Chambers and do other servile work about the College After he was Bachelaurs standing in 1583. he was made Pauper Puer or Tabardus or Tabardarius that is a Tabarder or Tabitter so called because anciently they wore Coats or upper Gowns much according to the fashion of those belonging to Heralds and in the year 1586 Master of Arts and Fellow Which servile work belonging to Pauper Puer Serviens when Under-graduats all are to undergo before they can be Fellows About the time he was Master he entred into Holy Orders and became a frequent and zealous Preacher in the University particularly in the Church of S. Peter in the East joyning to Qu. coll and taking the degree of B. of Div. in 1594. was four years after chose Provost of his College In 1600. he proceeded in Divinity and six years after did undergo the office of Vicechancellour wherein as always before he shewed himself a zealous Calvinist and a great maintainer of such that were of his mind which then went beyond the number of those that were true English Ch. men He is reported by those of his party especially such that had an admiration for him that he condemned himself to obscurity and affected a retired and a private life but being generally noted and esteemed for his holiness integrity learning gravity and indefatigable pains in the discharge of his Ministerial Function c. he could not hide himself from the eyes of the World Also that by his singular wisdom and dexterity in the Government of his College many learned Ministers were sent thence into the Church and many worthy Gentlemen into the Commonwealth c. To pass by other commendations which are needless now to repeat I shall only tell you of his writings which were published after his death viz. Lectures upon the whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians Lond. 1618. qu. Which Lectures having been Preached in the Church of St. Peter in the East in Oxon were published after his death by Christop Potter Fellow of Queens coll with an Epistle before them of his composition The just and necessary Apology touching his suit in Law for the Rectory of Charlton on Otmore on Oxfordshire Lond. 1621. oct Published also by the said Potter a great admirer of this author and his doctrine Treatise against bowing at the Name of Jesus When printed I know not for I have not yet seen it Tho. Beacon an old Calvinist had long before written on that subject and about Airay's time Dr. W. Whittaker and Andr. Wille◠did the like As for our author he died in Queens coll on the sixth of the Ides of Octob. year 1616 in sixteen hundred and sixteen aged 57. and was buried in the inner Chappel of the said coll Over his grave was soon after put two Monuments one on the ground and another in the South wall with inscriptions on both of them the copies of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. FRANCIS TATE Son of Barthelm Tate of
à Jesu printed at S. Omer in 1613. quarto Curry-comb for a Coxcombe Or Purgatories Knell In answer to a Libel by Jebal Rachel against Sir Edw. Hobies Counter-snarle intituled Purgatories Triumph over hell Lond. 1615. qu. Several motions speeches and arguments in the four last Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth Published in the Historical collections of Hayw. Townsend Esq He translated from French into English Politique discourses upon truth and lying An instruction to Princes to keep their faith and promises Lond. 1586. qu. Composed by Sir Mart. Cognet Knight one of the Privy-Councel to the most Christian King master of the Requests to his Houshold and lately Embassador to the Cantons of Zwitzers and Grisons And also from Spanish into English The Origine and practice of War Lond. 1597. oct Written by Don Bernard de Mendoza At length he giving way to fate in Queenburgh Castle on the first day of March St. David's day in sixteen hundred and sixteen his body was conveyed to Bysham before mentioned and buried there in a Chappel called Hoby's Chappel on the south side of the Chancel of the Church there near to the body of his Father Sir Thomas The said Sir Edward left behind him a natural Son named Peregrin Hoby born of the body of one Katherin Pinkney an 1602. From which Peregrin are the Hobyes now of Bysham descended THOMAS EGERTON the natural Son of Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire was born in that County applyed his Muse to learning in this University about 1556. particularly as 't is said in Brasnose coll of which he was a Commoner in the year of his age 17 or thereabouts where continuing about 3 years laid a foundation whereon to build profounder learning Afterwards going to Lincolns-Inn he made a most happy progress in the municipal laws and at length was a Counsellour of note In 1581. June 28. he was constituted by the Queen her Solicitor General and soon after he became Lent-reader of the said Inn. In 1592. June 2. the said Queen made him her Attorney General in 1594. he being then a Knight he was made Master of the Rolls and two years after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal In which emiment office he continued during the whole remainder of Qu. Elizabeths happy Reign On 21. of Jul. 1603. he was raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of L. Ellesmere and upon the 24. of the said Month he was made Lord Chancellour of England In the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was unanimously elected Chanc. of the University of Oxon. and in 14. Jac. 1. dom 1616. he was advanced to the dignity of Vicount Brackley He was a most grave and prudent man a good Lawyer just and honest of so quick an apprehension also and profound judgment that none of the Bench in his time went beyond him He hath written Speech in the Exchequer Chamber touching the Post-nati Lond. 1609. in qu. in 16. sheets Certain observations concerning the office of Lord Chancellour Lond. 1651. oct and left behind him at his death four MSS. of choice collections fit to be Printed concerning 1 The prerogative Royal. 2 Priviledges of Parliament 3 Proceedings in Chancery 4 The power of the Starr-chamber He resigned up his last breath in York-house in the Strand near London 15. March in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church of Dodleston in Cheshire His memory was much celebrated by Epigrams while he was living and after his death all of the long Robe lamented his loss We have his Picture drawn to the life in the habit of Lord Chancellour setting in a Chair hanging in the Gallery belonging to the Bodleian Library called the School-gallery WILLIAM MARTYN Son of Nich. Martyn of the City of Exeter by his first Wife Mary Daughter of Leonard Yeo of Hatherley in Devon Son of Rich. Martyn of the said City and he the second Son of William Martyn of Athelhampton in Dorsetshire Knight was born and educated in Grammar learning within the said City of Exeter where making early advances towards Academical learning was sent to Broadgates hall now Pomb coll an 1579. aged 17. In which place falling under the tuition of a noted Master laid an excellent foundation in Logick and Philosophy Afterwards going to the Inns of Court he became a Barester and in 1605. was elected Recorder of Exeter in the place of John Hele Serjeant at Law But his delight being much conversant in the reading of English Histories he composed a book of the Kings of England as I shall tell you anon Upon the publication of which K. James as 't is said taking some exceptions at a passage therein either to the derogation of his family or of the Realm of Scotland he was thereupon brought into some trouble which shortned his days He hath written Youths instruction Lond. 1612. qu. dedicated to his Son Nich. Martyn then a Student in Oxon. In the said book is shewed a great deal of reading and consequently that the author was no loser of his time The History and Lives of the Kings of England from William the Conquerour to K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1616. and 28. fol. usher'd into the world with the copies of Verses of Nicholas William and Edw. Martyn the Sons of the author and by Pet. Bevis his Son-in-Law To this History was afterwards added the History of K. Edw. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth by B. R. Master of Arts Lond. 1638. fol. At the end of all the impressions was Printed The succession of the Dukes and Earls of this Kingdom of England from the Conquerour to the 12. of James 1. with the then Viscounts Barons Baronets c. which was drawn up by the author and continued after his death by R. B. before-mention'd What other books the said Will. Martyn hath either written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of S. Petrock in the City of Exeter 12. year 1617 Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen The inscription which was on the Stone supposed to be laid for him is worn out and a new inscription cut thereon for one of the same family buried there The next who must follow according to time was a severe Puritan as Martyn was FRANCIS BUNNRY Younger brother to Edmund whom I shall anon mention was born in an antient House called the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks on the 8. of May 1543. became a Student in the University in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Mary an 1558. and perpetual Fellow of Madg. coll in 1562. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders and began to preach Gods word on the first of Nov. 1567. Whose Sermons being noted among many he became soon after Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford but continuing with him not long he left his Fellowship in 1571. and retiring into the north parts of
as usually he did alone Upon which the Embassador willed him to stay longer with him but he then thankfully refused that offer and turned his face presently after towards Surat which was 300. miles distant from the place where the Embassador was and he lived to come safely thither But there being over-kindly used by some of the English who gave him Sack which they had brought from England he calling for as soon as he first heard of it and crying Sack Sack is there such a thing as Sack I pray give me some Sack and drinking of it moderately for he was very temperate it increased his flux which he had then upon him and this caused him within few days after his very tedious and troublesome travels for he went most on foot at that place to come to his journeys end as I shall anon tell you What became of his notes and observations which he had made in his long journeys I know not only these following which he sent to his friends in England who printed them in his absence Letters from Asmere the Court of the Great Mogul to several persons of quality in England concerning the Emperor and his Country of E. India Lond. 1616. qu. In the title of which is our authors Picture riding on an Elephant The first letter is written to Sir Edw. Philips of Montagâ—e in Somersetshire Kt. Master of the Rolls A Letter to his Mother Gertrude dated from Agra in E. India ult oct 1616. containing a speech that he spoke to the Gr. Mogul in the Persian Language See in the Pilgrimages of Sam. Purchase part 1. book 4. chap. 17. and also at the end of his Letters from Asmere before mentioned 'T is reported that in an Oration which our author Coryate did speak to the said Mogul he brought in that story of the Queen of Sheba 1 Kings 10. in which parts of that sacred History the Maâ—umetans have some knowledge and told him that as the Queen of Sheba having heard of the fame of K. Solomon came from far to visit him which when she had done she confessed that tho she had heard very much of him and many things beyond her belief yet now seeing what she did acknowledged that she had not heard half of that which she now saw concerning the wisdom and greatness and revenue and riches of Solomon So our Orator Coryate told the Mogul that he had heard very much of him before he had the honour to see him when he was very far off in his own Country but now what he beheld did exceedingly surmount all these former reports of him which came to his Ears at such a distance from him Then larding his short speech with some other piece of Flattery which the Mogul liked well concluded Afterwards the Mogul gave him one hundred Roopus which amounts to value of 12l 10s of our English money looking upon him as a Derveese or Votary or Pilgrim for so he called him and such that bear that name in that Country seem not much to care for money and that was the reason I conceive that he gave him not a more plentiful reward Certain observations from the Moguls Court and E. India See in Purchase before-mention'd Travels to and observations in Constantinople and other places in the way thither and in his journey thence to Aleppo Damasco and Jerusalem Ibid. part 2. lib. 10. cap. 12. His Oration purus putus Coriatus quintessence of Coryate Spoken extempore when Mr. Rob. Rugg dub'd him a Knight on the ruins of Troy by the name of Thomas Croyate the first English Knight of Troy Ib. cap. 12. Observations of Constantinople abridged Ib. cap. 12. Divers Lat. and Greek Epistles to learned men beyond the Seas Some of which are in his Crudities as those to Gasp Waserus Radolp Hospinian Hen. Bullinger descended from the famous Henry Bullinger Marc. Buellerus c. At length our author Coryate giving way to fate occasion'd by a Flux at Surat in E. India before-mention'd in the month of December in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 was buried there under a little Monument like to one of those that are usually made in one of our Chyards Sic exit Coryatus Hence he went off the Stage and so must all after him how long soever their parts seem to be For if one should go to the extremest part of the world East another West another North and another South they must all meet at last together in the field of Bones wherein our traveller hath now taken up his lodging and where I leave him to make way for the next as eminent almost for the Law as he for his Travels FERDINANDO PULTON alias Pâ—ulton Son of Giles Pulton Esq who died 1560. was born at Deusborough in Northampton-shire became commoner of Brasnose coll in the beginning of Q. Marys Reign laid there a foundation of Academical literature which he found useful to him afterwards when he grew eminent in the common Law But leaving that house before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the said Law took the usual degrees and became eminent for the knowledge in and practice of it not only in London but the usual place of his residence in the country viz. at Borton in the Parish and County of Buckingham He hath written and published An abstract of all the Penal Statutes which be general Lond. 1600. qu. Digested alphabetically according to the several subjects they concern Abridgment of the Statutes of England that have been made and printed from Magna charta to the end of the Session of Parliament 4. Jac. 1. Lond. 1606. and 12. c. fol. Collection of Statutes repealed and not repealed Lond. 1608. fol. De pace regis regni declaring which be the general offences and impediments of Peace Lond. 1610. and 15 fol. Collection of sundery Statutes frequent in use with notes in the Margent and reference to the book Cases and books of Entry and Registers where they be treated of Lond. 1618. in two vol. in fol. theâ—e again 1632. fol. c. which collection reaâ—hes from 9. 〈◊〉 3. to 7. â—â—c 1. The Statutes at large concerning all such Acts which at any time heretofore have 〈◊〉 extant in 〈…〉 Charâ—a to the 16. of Jaâ— 1. c. divided 〈…〉 with marginal Notes c. Lond. 1618. c. fol. He departed this Life on the 20. January in sixteen hundred and seventeen aged 82. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Deusborough before-mention'd Over his grave was a large plain Stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon wherein 't is said that he was Vir omni virtutis doctrinarum genere quondam illustrissimus necnon sedulus scriptor propagator legum hujus regni But if you are minded to read his English Epitaph see in Sir Joh. Beaumont's Tast of the variety of Poems at the end of his Bosworth-field Lond. 1629. oct The said Ferdinando Pulton left behind him
expulsion wherein he disclaimeth the aforesaid Libel beginning thus Jenkin why Man Why Jenkin fie for shame c. But the Reader must know that none of these were printed JOHN DOVE a Surrey Man born of Plebeian Parents was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1580. aged 18. and after he had taken the degrees in Arts became a Preacher of note in the University In 1596. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time well beneficed if not dignified but where I cannot yet tell His works are A perswasion to the English Recusants to reconcile themselves to the Church of Rome Lond. 1603. qu. Confutation of Atheism Lond. 1605. and 1640. oct Defence of Church-Government wherein the Church Government in England is directly consonant to the Word of God c. Lond. 1607. qu. Defence of the Cross in Baptism as 't is used in the Church of England Printed with the Defence Advertisement to the English Seminaries and Jesuits shewing their loose kind of writings and negligent handling the cause of Religion c. Lond. 1610. qu. The conversion of Salomon A direction to holiness of life handled by way of Commentary upon the whole book of Canticles c. Lond. 1613. qu. Sermons on Ezek. 33. 11. and S. Matth. 19. 9. Lond. 1597. 1601. oct c. See more in Alb. Gentilis an 1611. where you will find him author of another book but whether printed I know not He concluded his last day in Apr. about the 19. day in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 but where buried I know not as yet I find one John Dove to be author of Polydorian or a miscellany of Moral Philosophical and Theological Sentences Printed 1631. oct But whether he was the same with the Doctor or another I cannot tell unless I see the book it self which I have not yet done RICHARD MOKET was born in Dorsetshire in the Dioc. of Salisbury elected from Brasnose to be Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1599. being then near four years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts. Afterwards he proceeding in that Faculty took on him the Sacred Function became Domestick Chaplain to George Archb. of Canterbury Warden of Allsouls Rector of Monks-Risborow in Bucks and of Newington near Dorchester in Oxfordshire D. of D. and one of the Kings Commissioners concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs He published in the Latin tongue Lond. 1616. fol. The Liturgy of the Church of England Greater and Lesser Catechisms Thirty nine Articles Book of ordination of Bishops Priests and Deacons Doctrinal points extracted out of the Book of Homilies To which he added his own book written in Latin intituled De politiâ Ecclesiae Anglicanae Reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct Which collection he published in a pious zeal for gaining honour to the Church of England amongst Foreign Nations But this his zeal was so little accompanied in the Constitutions of the said Church or so much byassed towards those of Calvins Platform that it was thought fit not only to call it in but to expiate the errours of it in a publick flame And the true cause which was conceived why the book was burn'd was that in publishing the twentieth Article concerning the authority of the Church he totally left out the first clause of it viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus caeremonias statuendi jus in controversiis fidei authoritatem By means whereof the Article was apparently falsified the Churches authority disowned and consequently a wide gap opened to dispute her power in all her Canons and Determinations of what sort soever He yielded up his last breath with grief as 't is thought for what had been done to his book on the day before the nones of July year 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried at the upper end of Allsouls coll chappel just below the steps leading to the high Altar In his Wardenship succeeded Richard Astley D. of D. who dying in Febr. 1635. was succeeded by Gilb. Sheldon who was afterwards Bishop of London and at length Archbishop of Canterbury JOHN GOLDESBURG descended originally from those of his name living at Goldesburg in Yorkshire was born 18. oct 1568. spent some time among the Oxonians for form-sake about 1584. went thence to the Middle Temple were after he had continued in the degree of Barrester and for some years been resorted to in matters relating to his profession was made one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas. He wrote and left behind him fit for the Press Reports or collection of cases and matters agitated in all the Courts in Westminster in the latter years of the reign of Qu. Elizabeth with learned arguments at the Barr and on the bench Lond. 1635. c. qu. Published by Will. Shepphard Esq Upon which cases and matters Sir Edm. Anderson and Sir Jo. Popham Judges wrote Resolutions and Judgments year 1618 Our author Goldesburg concluded his last day on the 9. oct in sixteen hundred and eighteen Whereupon his body was buried near to the high Altar of the Church belonging to the Temples He left behind him other things as 't is said fit for the Press but in whose hands they are I could never learn WALTER RALEIGH a person in his time of a good natural wit better judgment and of a plausible tongue Son of Walt. Raleigh Esq by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Philip Champernoon Kt. was born at a place called Hayes in Parish of East-Budeleigh in Devonshire an 1552. Which Hayes is a farm and his Father having had a remnant of a Lease of 80 years in it came after the expiration thereof to one Duke unto whom afterwards our author W. Raleigh having a desire to purchase it wrote a Letter dated from the Court 26. July 1584. wherein he says that for the natural disposition he has to that place being born in that house he had rather seat himself there than any where else c. His Father was the first of his name that lived there but his ancestors had possessed Furdell in the same County for several Generations before where they lived in gentile estate and were esteemed antient Gentlemen In 1568 or thereabouts he became a Commoner of Oriel coll at what time C. Champernoon his kinsman studied there where his natural parts being strangely advanced by Academical learning under the care of an excellent Tutor became the ornament of the Juniours and was worthily esteemed a proficient in Oratory and Philosophy After he had spent about 3. years in that house where he had laid a good ground and sure foundation to build thereon he left the University without a degree and went to the Middle-Temple to improve himself in the intricate knowledge of the municipal Laws How long he tarried there 't is uncertain yet sure I am from a Epistle or copy of Verses of his composition which I have seen that he was abiding in the said Temple in Apr. 1576. at which time his vein for ditty and amorous Ode was esteemed
c. Andrew Henley son of the aforesaid Henley was his Executor who had his library remaining at â—ramsell wherein mostly in the books he found as I have been credibly informed about a thousand pound in gold I shall now proceed to give you a farther account of Sir W. Raleigh's works The Prerogative of Parliaments in England proved in a dialogue between a Counsellour of State and a Justice of Peace Middleburg some copies have it Hamburge 1621. Lond. 1640. qu. Instructions to his son and posterity Lond. 1632. 36. 1651. oct 56. in tw The life and death of Mahomet the conquest of Spaine together with the rising and ruin of the Sarazen Empire Lond. 1637. in tw In another title printed the year following 't is called The History of Mahomet The Prince or Maxims of State Lond. 1642. in 7 sh in qu. there again in 51. and 56. in tw 'T is the same with his Aphorisms of State Lond. 1661. oct published by John Milton Lond. 1651. and 56 in tw The Sceptick or Speculations Observations of the magnificency and opulency of Cities State of Government Letters to the King and others of quality Demeanour before his Execution His Pilgrimage in verse Certain verses Observations on the first invention of shipping or invasive War the Navy-Royal and Sea-service Lond. 1650. 1667. oct Apology for his Voyage to Guiana Printed with the Observations c. 'T was by him penned at Salisbury in July 1617. I have a copy of it in MS. bound with his Confession which is in MS. also and begins thus I thank God of his infinite Goodness that he hath sent me to die in the light and not in the darkness c. Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollanders and other Nations as it was presented to King James Lond. 1653. 56 in tw The Cabinet-Council containing the chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State Lond. 1658. oct This book was published by John Milton before-mentioned of whom you may see more in the Fasti an 1635. Historical and Geographical description of the great Country and River of the Amazons in America c. Lond. 1661. published by W. H. Wars with Foreign Princes dangerous to our Common-wealth Or Reasons for Foreign Wars answered When printed I know not Various Letters See in the Cabala or Screnia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Divers Speeches and Arguments in several Parliaments towards the latter end of Q. Elizab. See in H. Townsend's Historical Collections Lond. 1680. fol. The Sons advice to his Father The great Cordial Upon which N. le Febure hath written an English discourse Lond. 1664. oct I have seen a book in MS. containing Sir Walt. Raleigh's Speech at the time of his death and His Ghost or a conference between Sur Gundamoure his Maj. Embassadour of Spain the Fryer Confessor and Father Baldwyn the Jesuit at Ely House in Holbourne in 1622. but whether ever printed I know not However the Reader is to understand that Sir Walter 's Ghost before-mentioned is not the same with his Ghost or Apparition to his intimate Friend willing him to translate into English the learned book of Leonard Lessius intit De providentia numinis animi immortalitate Lond. 1651. in tw translated in compliance with Sir Walter 's late request because he had been often soully aspersed for an Atheist There is also a MS. going about from hand to hand said to have been written by our author Sir Walter which is concerning The present state of Spain with a most accurate account of his Cath. Majesty's power and riches c. Whether this or his Discourse touching a consultation about Peace with Spain MS. sometimes in the Libr. of Arthur Earl of Anglesey were ever printed I know not He hath also written The life and death of Will the Conquerour MS. sometimes in the Library of Sir Ken. Digby afterwards in that of George Earl of Bristow Of Mines and trials of Minerals MS. c. with other things which I have not yet seen But I say it again that I verily think that several of those things before-mentioned which go under his name were never written by him At length he was beheaded in the old Pallace-yard in Westminster year 1618 on 29. 〈◊〉 in sixteen hundred and eighteen aged 66. Whereupon his body which he sometimes designed to be buried in the Cath. Church at Exeter was conveyed to St. Margarets Church in the said City of Westminster and buried in the Chancel there at the upper end almost near to the Altar Over whose grave tho there was never any Epitaph put yet this following among others was made for him Here lieth hidden in this pit The wonder of the World for wit It to small purpose did him serve His wit could not his life preserve He living was belov'd of none Yet at his death all did him moan Heaven hath his Soul the World his fame The Grave his Corps Steukley his shame Some writers in the long Rebellion under K. Ch. 1. especially such who were not well-wishers to Monarchy have reported that his death was no less than a downright Murder having had his blood spilt upon a Scaffold meerly to satisfie some unworthy ends and the revenge of the Spaniard Nay and farther they have not stuck to say that the Conspiracy of Gowry seemed rather a Conspiracy of the K. of Scots against Gowry as many of that Nation have declared The said Sir Walt Raleigh left behind him a Son named Carew Raleigh born in Middlesex in the Tower of London as it seems while his Father was Prisoner there became a Gent. Com. of Wadham coll in 1620. aged 16. but proved quite different in Spirit from his Father Afterwards he was Gent. of the Privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. who honoured him with a kind token at his leaving Hampton Court when he was jugled into the Isle of Wight cringed afterwards to the Men in Power was made Governour of Jersey by the favour of General George Monk in the latter end of January 1659. and wrote a book as 't was generally reported intit Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately made publick intit A compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Q. of Scotland and of James K. of England written by Will. Sanderson Esq Lond. 1656. in 3 sh in qu. I have seen also some Sonnets of his composition and certain ingenious discourses but whether ever printed I know not I have seen also a Poem of his which had a Musical composition of two parts set to it by the incomparable Hen. Lawes Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private Musick Sir Hen. Wotton gives him the Character of a Gentleman of dextrous abilities as it appeared in the management of a publick concern in Sir Henries time and so by others he is with honour mentioned but far god wot was he from his Fathers parts either as to the Sword or Pen. He was buried in his Fathers grave in the
his Countryman and another by a Scot. Which last stiles our author Carew another Livie another Maro another Papinian and highly extolls him for his great skill in History and knowledge in the Laws Besides the Rich Carew was another but later in time author of Excellent helps by a warming-stone Printed 1652. qu. RICHARD KILBYE was born at Radcliff on the River Wreake in Leicestershire elected Fellow of Lincoln coll 18. Jan. 1577. being then about three years standing in the University Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted Preacher in the University In 1590. he was elected Rector of his College took the degrees in Divinity was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln and at length Hebrew Professor of this University He hath written Commentarii in Librum Exodi Part. 2. MS. in the hands sometimes of Will. Gilbert Fellow of Linc. coll The chief part of which is excerpted from the Monuments of the Rabbins and Hebrew Interpreters He also continued Jo. Mercers notes on Genesis and would have printed them but was denied had a hand also in the translation of the Bible appointed by K. Jam. 1. an 1604. and did other very laudable matters relating to learning Serm. in S. Maries Church Oxon 26. Mar. 1612. at the Funeral of Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity in this Univ. on 1 Cor. 5. 55 56 57. Oxon. 1613. qu. He the said Dr. Kilbye was buried in that Chancel in Allsaints Church in Oxon. which is commonly called The College Chancel because it belongs to Linc. coll on the 17. year 1620 Nov. in sixteen hundred and twenty aged 60. or thereabouts Whereupon Paul Hood Bac. afterwards D. of Divinity succeeded him in his Rectorship and Edward à Meetkerk Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in his Professorship Besides this Rich. Kilbye was another of both his names and a writer too as I have under the year 1617. told you JOHN CARPENTER received his first breath in the County of Cornwal was entred a Batler in Exeter coll about 1570. where going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy for the space of four years or more with unwearied industry left the University without a degree and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon He hath written and published A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct Remember Lots Wise two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct Preparative for Contentation Lond. 1597. qu. Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard or two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599. oct Christian Contemplations or a Catechism Lond. 1601. oct K. Soloman's Solace Lond. 1606. qu. Plain Man's Spiritual Plough Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh before-mentioned in the latter end of the year viz. in March in sixteen hundred and twenty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there before the 25. of the said month as it doth partly appear in the Register of that place leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accompts by way of Debtor and Creditor Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian WILLIAM TOOKER second Son of Will. Tooker by Honora Eresey of Cornwall his Wife Son and Heir of Rob. Tooker was born in the City of Exeter educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1583. in which year he shewd himself a ready Disputant before Albertus Alaskie Prince of Sirad at his being entertained by the Oxonian Muses in S. Maries Church In 1585. he left his Fellowship being about that time promoted to the Archdeanconry of Barnstaple in his own Country Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth and Prebendary of Salisbury took the degrees in Divinity 1595. became Canon of Exeter and at length Dean of Lichfield on the death as it seems of Dr. George Boleyne in the latter end of 1602. He was an excellent Grecian and Latinist an able Divine a person of great gravity and piety and well read in curious and critical authors as may partly appear by these books following which he wrote and published Charisma sive donum Sanatiâ—nis seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilium Sanitatum gratiâ c. Lond. 1597. qu. In this book he doth attribute to the Kings and Queens of England a power derived into them by Lawful Succession of healing c. Which book is reflected upon by Mart. Anton. Delrius the Jesuit who thinks it not true that Kings can cure the Evil. With him agrees most Fanaticks Of the Fabrick of the Church and Church mens livings Lond. 1604. oct Singulare certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuitâ futiliter refutante apologiam monitoriam praefationem ad Imperatorem Reges Principes quaedam Orthodoxa dogmata Jacobi Regis Magnae Britaniae Lond. 1611. oct This learned author Dr. Tooker died at Salisbury on the 19. of March or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there 21. of the said month in sixteen hundred and twenty leaving behind him a Son named Robert Tooker of East-Grinsteade in Surrey In June following Dr. Walt. Curle of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanry of Lichfield and him Dr. Augustin Lindsell another Cantabrigian an 1630. HENRY SWINBURNE Son of Thomas Swinburne of the City of York was born there spent some years in the quality of a Commoner in Hart hall whence translating himself to that of Broadgates took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law married Helena Daughter of Barthelm Lant of Oxon and at length retiring to his native place became a Proctor in the Archbishops Court there Commissary of the Exchecquer and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York He hath written Brief Treatise of Testaments and last Wills In 7 parts Lond. 1590. 1611 35. 40. 77. c. qu. Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts c. Lond. 1686. qu. In which two books the author shâ—ws himself an able Civilian and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty He paid his last debt to â—â—â—ure at York and was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral there Soon after was a comely Monument fastned to the wall near to this grave with his Effigies in a Civilians Gown kneeling before a deske with a book thereon and these verses under Non Viduae caruere viris non Patre Pupillus Dum stetit hic Patriae virque paterque suae Ast quod Swinburnus viduarum scripsit in usum Longius aeterno marmore vivet opus Scribere supremas hinc discat quisque tabellas Et cupiat qui sic vixit ut ille mori There is no day or year on the Monument to shew when this H. Swinburne died
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâ—ctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâ—s delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
and Lat. at Paris in 5 volumes at the charges of the Bishops and Clergy of France an 1621. The sixth vol. was put out by him in 1624. and the other volumes four in number came out before at different times at Heidleburg by other hands at it seems Sir Hen. Savile also procured six Manuscript copies of Bradwardins book De causa Dei to be compared and corrected to his great charge and afterwards published a true copy thereof under this title Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis De causa Dei contra Pelagium de virtute causarum ad suos Mertonenses lib. 3. Lond. 1618. fol. Before which Sir Henry put of his own writing Vita Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis He also wrote and was author of Praelectiones tresdecem in principium elementorum Euclidis Oxoniae habitae an 1620. Oxon. 1621. qu. Some of which Lectures he read when he was a Junior Master as I have before mentioned Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita an 1592. Oxon. 1658. qu. Published by Mr. afterwards Dr. Tho. Barlow of Queens coll from the original in the Bodleian Library and also by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in the second edit of Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct Tract of the original of Monasteries Orations Tract concerning the Union of England and Scotland at the command of K. James 1. MSS. in the Bodleian Lib. Concerning the last of these John Thornborough B. of Bristow did write a book about the same time Our author Savile also did publish Nazianzen's Steliteuticks Zenophon's Institution of Cyrus c. and had many choice Exemplâ—rs in his Library which were by others published as from Bibliotheca Saviliana He also translated into elegant Lat. K. James the first his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance Which flâ—ing in that dress as far as Rome was by the Pope and the Conclave sent to Francis Suarez at Salamanca with a command to answer it When he had perfected the work which he calls Defensio fidei Catholicae c. cum responsione ad Apologiam pro juramento fidelitatis c. it was transmitted to Rome for a view of the Inquisitors who blotted out what they pleased and added whatsoever might advance the Pope's power Which matter Joh. Salkeld his his Assistant when he wrote at Salamanca did often profess when he came over to the Church of England and lived for some time in the House of Dr. King Bishop of London that the good old Man Suarez whose piety and charity he magnifyed much did not only disavow but detest it However printed it was at Colen I think an 1614. but so soon as any of the copies came into England one was burnt in detestation of the fact by publick command Sir Hen. Savile also made several notes with his Pen in many of his books in his choice Library particularly on Eusebius his Ecclesiastical History made use of by Hen. Valesius in his edition of that History an 1659. as he 'll tell you more at large if you 'll consult the Preface to that elaborate work He also made several notes on those books which he gave to the Mathematical Library in the School-Tower and on others which I have seen Divers of his Tracts of various subjects in MS. were greedily procured after his death sometimes also while he lived by industrious and ingenious Scholars which do now or at least did lately go from hand to hand At length after he had lived beyond the age of Man and had done many noble and generous works for the benefit of learning he departed this mortal life in Eaton coll near to Windsore on the nineteenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred twenty and one and was buried in the Chappel there near to the body of Henry his Son who died 1604 aged 8 years leaving behind him one only daughter named Elizabeth begotten on the body of his Wife Margaret Daughter of George Dacres of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire who was married to Sir Jo. Sedley of Kent Baronet Soon after the News of his death being sent to Oxon the Vicechancellour and Doctors ordered a Speech to be publickly spoken to the Academians in memory of so worthy a Benefactor and Scholar as Sir Henry was Which being accordingly done by Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch. the Speech was shortly after made publick with many copies of verses made by the best Poets of the University added to it with this title Vltima Linia Savilii Oxon. 1622. qu. These things being done was a black Marble stone laid over his grave on the south side of the Communion Table in the said Chappel of Eaton coll and a most sumptuous honorary monument to his memory on the south wall at the upper end of the Choire of Merton coll the inscription on which you may see elsewhere In the Provostship of Eaton coll succeeded Tho. Murrey a Scot Tutor and Secretary to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 1. who died as one observed on the first day of Apr. 1623. being then newly cut for the Stone and was buried in the Chap. of that Coll. whose Epitaph there saith that he died on the ninth day of the same month aged 59 years Afterwards the King designed Sir Will. Beecher to succeed but by Friends and many intreaties Sir Hen. Wotton had that place conser'd on him In the Wardenship of Mert. coll succeeded Nath. Brent LL. D. afterwards a Knight who minding wealth and the setling a Family more than generous actions that College did nothing near so well flourish as under the Government of Sir Henry ROGER HACKET an eminent Theologist in the time he lived was born in the Parish of St. James within the City of London educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after was cried up for an eminent Preacher In 1591. or thereabouts he was made Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks And four years after proceeded in Divinity All that I have yet seen of his writing or publication are only Several Sermons viz. 1 Serm. at Pauls Cross on 1 Sam. 11. 5 6 7. Oxon. 1591. oct dedic to the Lord Norrys 2 Serm. on 2 Cor. 5. 20 21. Lond. 1593. oct 3 A Marriage present on Gen. 2. 22. Lond. 1607. qu. 4 Sick mans glass on Isaiah 30. 1 2 3. Lond. 1607. qu. 5 Serm. on Psal. 122. 6. c. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and one or thereabouts for in 1622. were several books conveyed into the publick Library at Oxon by his bequest and was buried as it seems in his Church of North-Crowley before-mentioned HERBERT CROFT Son of Edw. Croft Esq descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Croft Castle in Herefordshire was educated in Academicals in Ch. Ch. as his Son Col. Sir Will. Croft use to say tho his name occurrs not in the Matricula which makes me think that his stay was short there Afterwards
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
righteousness of Christ Treatise of the providence of God The book of Ecclesiastes briefly explained Printed 1628. qu. The period of the Persian Monarchy wherein sundry places of Ezra Nehemiah and Daniel are cleared Lond. 1631. qu. Exposition on the first nine chapters of Zacharie Lond. 1629. qu. Five godly and profitable Sermons Lond. 1628. 29. qu. Fruitful Sermons upon the 1 Cor. 15. 18 19. Lond. 1629. qu. Introduction to the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1628. 29. Lond. 1639. oct De formarum origine Ibid. 1629. in tw dedic to Dr. Accepted Frewen Printed also at Camb. in tw De sensibus internis Lond. 1629. Ox. 1647. in tw Enchiridion oratorium Ox. 1633. qu. c. A summ of moral Philosophy Oxon. 1630. qu. All which books or Treatises those only that were written in English were remitted into one volume and printed several times The third impression was at Lond. 1635. and the fourth impression at Ox. 1659. both in fol. Introduction to Geography Ox. 1685. qu. At length our author a zealous Calvinist retiring to the house of the before-mention'd Rich. Capell minister of Eastington alias Easton near to the City of Gloucester to make some continuance there for the sake of study and health died of a burning Feaver in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in the yard under the great Yew-Tree year 1623 on the north side of Eastington Church Over his Grave was a stone soon after laid with these words engrav'd thereon Here lyeth the body of William Pemble master of Arts and preacher who died 14 Apr. an 1623. JOHN SPRINT Son of Dr. Joh. Sprint descended from those of his name living in the City of Bristow was born as I conceive there or in Glocestershire near to it elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592. took the degrees in Arts and some time after became Vicar of Thornbury in the said county Thence he removed to London was cried up by the Citizens for a godly and frequent preacher and by them much followed but was cut off in the prime of his years when great matters were expected from him He was a grave and pious Divine yet for the most part disaffected to the ceremonies of the Church of England while he continued at Thornbury At length upon the gentle perswasions of Mr. Sam. Burton Archdeacon of Glouc. he did not only conform but was a great instrument in perswading others to do the like by a book that he wrote and published call'd Cassander Anglicus which I shall anon mention His works are these Propositions tending to prove the necessary use of the Christian Sabbath or Lords day c. Lond. 1607. qu. and in 1635. in tw or oct The practice of that sacred day framed after the rules of Gods word printed with the former The summ of Christian religion by way of question and answer Lond. 1613. oct Cassander Anglicus shewing the necessity of conforming to the prescribed ceremonies of our Church in case of deprivation Lond. 1618. qu. dedic to Sam. Burton Archd. of Glouc. Whereupon came out a brief and plain answer to the first reason of it which was replied upon by Sprint but I have not yet seen it The Christians sword and buckler or a letter sent to a man seven years greviously afflicted in conscience and fearfully troubled in mind c. Lond. 1638. oct These are all the pieces I think that he hath written which are published and therefore I shall only let the reader know that he was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Anne situated in the place called the Blackfriers in London of which he seems to have been Minister or Lecturer on the seventh of May in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 See more of him in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 309. b. His Father Dr. Sprint who was Dean of Bristow and a frequent preacher but a Calvinist I shall mention more at large in the Fasti under the year 1574. not as a Writer but as a D. of D. and rich Dignitary PHILIP CLUVER Cluverius the Son of a maker or coyner of money was born at Dantzick the chief town of the province of Prussia in Poland but descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living in the Dutchie of Bremen in Lower Saxony instructed in his puerile years at home in his youthful in the royal Court of Poland where he learned among the Courtiers the exact speaking of the Polish tongue and their manners Thence his Father sent him into Germany where he received a command from him to apply his mind solely to the study of the Civil Law Whereupon he journeyed to Leyden in Holland and did endeavour to follow it but his Genie being naturally enclined to Geography he followed for altogether that study especially upon the perswasions of Joseph Scaliger who had perused his Table of Italy which he had composed while he was a youth in Poland Thence partly to see the world but more for the conversation of Just Lipsius he took a journey into Brabant but missing him was dispoiled by thieves who left him in a manner naked Thence he returned to Leyden and afterwards went into Bohemia and Hungarie where coming to the knowledge of one Popel a Baron who had been closely confined by the Emperor for some misdemeanours did translate his Apologie written in his own defence into the Latine tongue Which coming to the ear of the Emperour Cluver was thereupon imprisoned Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Scotland England France Germany and Italy In England his chief place of residence was in this University particularly in Exter coll of which he became a sojournour for the sake of Holland and Prideaux in 1609. age 29 where being setled he wrote his book De tribus Rheni alveis as I shall tell you anon In Italy he became acquainted with some of the Cardinals who held him in great esteem for his curious and exact knowledge in Geography the Greek and Latine tongues and for his marvellous knowledge in the Dutch German French Italian Bohemian Hungarian Polonian and British Language Afterwards he returned to Oxon again being then highly valued by Mr. Prideaux for one or more of his things then published and had offers of promotion tender'd unto him But Leyden being the place of his delight he retired thither and tho he could get no place of benefit there yet the curators of that University gave him an yearly stipend for the encouragement of his studies as being a person repleated with all humane literature antient Histories and Geography He is stiled by a certain author vir stupendae lectionis curae and by another princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus and magnum Germaniae ornamentum His works are De tribus Rheni alveis ostiis item de quinque populis quondam accolis c. Lugd. Bat. 1611. qu. This book was written in Oxon with the helps of the
who was well known to John Sâ—â—w was living in Northampton in sixteen hundred twenty and three 21. J. c. 1. In his time was one Samuel Wastell a Master of Arts of New Inn 1628. but him I find not to be a writer or publisher of books WILLIAM BISHOP Son of John 〈◊〉 who died 1601. aged 92. was born of a gentile family at Brayles in Warwickshire sent to this University in the 17 year of his age in 157â— or thereabouts particularly as I conceive to Gloucester hall at which time it was presided by one who was a R. Catholick or at least suficieâ—tly addicted to the R. perswasion and that therein did then and especially after study 〈…〉 or else in 〈…〉 who was in anino Catholicus After he had continued in Oxon. about 3 or 4 years he left it his paternal estate which was considerable and all his friends and his native Country which was more So that setling himself in the English coll at Rheimes he applyed himself partly to the study of Divinity Soon after he was sent to Rome where making a fruitful progress in Philosophy and Divinity he was made Priest and sent into England to convert Souls but being taken in the haven was kept prisoner several years as one of his perswasion reports Afterwards being set at liberty an 1584. he went to Paris where he was honorably received and worthily numbred among the Sorbon Doctors At length he took another journey into England and laboured 9 years in the R. C. harvest Upon the expiration of which he was sent for to Rome about certain matters depending between the Jesuits and Secular Priests of which business a certain author hath a large story all which being determined he return'd the third time into England and after 8 years labouring therein to advance his religion was taken and committed prisoner to the Gate-house in Westminster where he was remaining in 1612. Afterwards being released and sent back beyond the Seas again lived at Paris in the Arras or Atrebatian coll newly rebuilt for Benedictin Monks by Philip Caverell Head or Prefect of the Monastery of S. Vedastus at Arras About the year 1622. our author being made Bishop of Chalcedon by the Pope he was sent into England to execute the office of a Bishop among the Catholicks and was by them received with great honour and respect He hath written Reformation of a Catholick deformed by Will Perkins Print 1604. in qu. Part 1. The second part of the reform of the Cath. c. Printed 1607. qu. An answer to Mr. Perkins's advertisement Pr. with the former A reproof of Dr. Rob. Abbots Defence of the Cath. deformed by W. Perkins Pr. 1608. in 2. parts in qu. Disproof of Dr. R. Abbots counter-proof against Dr. Bishops reproof of the defence of Mr. Perkins reform Cath. Par. 1614. in oct part 1. Defence of the Kings honour and of his title to the Kingdom of England He also published and added several things besides a Preface to Joh. Pits his book De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus and was one of the principal authors of the Libels written against the Archpriestship in England mentioned in George Blackwell an 1612. I find a book written by the Bp. of Chalcedon entit A treatise of the best kind of Confessors pr. in oct but whether written by this Bishop or Dr. Ric. Smith who was his Successor in that titular See I know not At length after this learned person who was in his latter time of the order of S. Benedict had lived 71. years he paid his last debt to nature near to London on the thirteenth day of April in sixteen hundred twenty and four year 1624 but where buried unless in S. Pancras Church near to the said City I know not One that remembers the man hath told my friend that he died at Bishops Court in London but where that place is unless in the Parish of S. Sepulchre I am yet to seek A Latine Manuscript containing the obits and characters of many eminent Benedictines since the reformation hath this character of Dr. Will. Bishop that he was carceribus exilio Apostolicis sudoribus inclitus qui a Sancta sede in patriam ad solamen Catholicorum missus clericis Religularibus ac ipsis laicis ob innatum unionis ac pacis affectum juxta charus extitit c. This obitat book which I have in my little Library was written by a Benedictin Monk of Doway named Tho. White alias Woodhop who having spent several years in the Sheldonian family at Beoly in Worcestershire in which County he was born retired at length in the time of the civil War to Doway was chosen Prior of the coll of English Benedictines and died there of the Plaâ—ue in 1654. From the said book wherein 't is said that Dr. Bishop died near to London was another composed in English with additions and therein is this said of that Doctor he was sent into England by the holy See for the comfort of Catholicks where he so modestly behaved himself that he was by all both Clergy and Seculars dearly beloved and honoured And after imprisonments and all sorts of afflictions patiently endured for the true religion died in peace near London c. This English obital was pen'd by another Benedictine named Tho. Vincent alias Vincent Sadler author of The Childes Catechisme c. pr. at Paris alias London 1678. in oct who died as I remember much about the time that K. Jam. 2. came to the crown He was nephew or near of kin to Fath. Vincent Sadler of the same order who died at Lond. 11. June 1621. after he had been Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury for some years MILES WINDSORE Son of Thomas Son of Andrew Lord Windsore was born in Hampshire at Stanwell I think elected from Balliol coll Scholar of that of Corp. Ch. in Jan. 1556. aged 15 or thereabouts made Probationer-Fellow 16 Feb. 1560 took the degrees in Arts left the coll soon after because popishly affected and spent the remaining part of his time within the City of Oxon. in a most retired condition He was a tolerable Latine Poet but a better Orator as was sufficiently witnessed by his speech intended to have been spoken in C. C. C. when Qu. Elizab. was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses 1566. and more especially by that which he most admirably well delivered before her at the Lord Windsores house at Bradenham a little after she left Oxon. Which giving the Queen great content she in an high manner did commend it before Dedicus Gosemannus de Sylva the Spanish Embassador then present and looking wistly on Windsore who then had a beard according to the fashion said to Goseman is not this a pretty young man At riper years he applyed himself to the study of Histories and Antiquities and had a hand as 't was frequently reported in the Apologia of B. Tuyne who stiles our author Windsore Antiquae Historiae artifex
ingratitude 4 Afflictions the Christians portion 5 Duty and affinity of the faithful 6 No peace with Rome c. Oxon. 1629. qu. Status quaestionum inter nos pontificios MS. in qu. containing 92. pages in Lat. in the Libr. of Dr. Tho. Barlow At length after he had lived 34. years he was to the great grief of many untimely snacth'd away by the Plague that was then in Oxon. 25. July in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and was privately buried late at night in the south yard belonging to S. Maries Church within this University leaving then behind him a disconsolate Widdow named Elizabeth Daughter of Dr. Râ—b Hoveden sometimes Warden of All 's coll besides children Over his grave was soon after an altar-monument erected with an Epitaph engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 181. b. RAPHAEL THORIUS commonly called Thoris a French man born was in his younger days conversant among the Oxonians in the condition of a Sojourner and made a considerable progress in the faculty of medicine but took no degree therein only numbred among those of the Physick line Afterwards he setled in London practiced that faculty with good success and was in his time accounted Corypheus Medici gregis and as a Physitian famous so no vulgar Poet. The works that he hath written are many but none were published till after his death the titles of some of which follow Hymnus Tabaci sive de Pacto libri duo Which books being procured from the author in Feb. 1624. by Ludov. à Kinschot were by him published at Lond. 1627. oct This elegant Lat. Poem was translated into English verse by Pet. Hansted M. A. of Cambridge afterwards D. D. Lond. 1651. oct Cheimonopegnia A winter song in Lat. verse published also by the said Kinschot 1627. oct and translated into English by P. Hausted before mentioned Epistolae duae de Isaaci Casauboni morbi mortisque caussa written in 1614. Put at the end of Isaac Casaubons epistles published by Joh. Freder Gronovius 1638. qu. In the first of Car. 1. when the plague raged in London he acted more for the publick by exposing his person too much than his most dear concern Wherefore being deeply infected with that disease died of it in his house in the parish of S. Bennet Finck in Jul. or Aug. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 but where he was buried I know not unless in the Church or Ch. yard of that parish He left behind him a Son named John whom I shall elsewhere mention and a most dear friend who lamented his death in a Lat. Poem not to be contemn'd entit Lessus in funere Raphaelis Thorii Medici Poetae praestantissimi c. In which if it can be seen which I think not for I never saw but one you may read many things justly said of him JOHN FLORIO the Resolute as he used to write himself was born in London in the latter end of the raign of K. H. 8 a little before which time his Father descended from the Florii of Sienna in Tuscany and Mother who were Waldenses had fled from the Valtoline into England for religion sake But when K. Ed. 6. died and the protestant religion silenc'd by the succession of Qu. Mary they left England and went to another Country where Jo. Florio received his puerile literature After Protestancy was restored by Q. Elizab. they return'd and Florio for a time lived in this University At length Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham sending his Son Emanuel to Magd. coll to obtain Acad. literature in the quality of a Commoner about 1576. Florio was appointed to attend him as a Tutor in the Italian and French tongues At which time wearing a Gown he was matriculated as a member of that house in 1581. aged about 36 years and as a teacher and instructor of certain Scholars in the University After K. James came to the Crown he was appointed Tutor to Pr. Henry for those languages and at length made one of the Privy Chamber and Clerk of the closet to Qu. Anne to whom he was a Tutor also He was a very useful man in his profession zealous in the religion he professed and much devoted to the English nation His works are His first fruits which yield familiar speech merry proverbs witty sentences and golden saying Lond. 1578. qu. 91. oct Perfect introduction to the Italian and English tongues Printed with the former and both dedicated to Rob. Earl of Leicester His second fruits to be gathered of twelve Trees of divers but delightsome tastes to the tongues of Italian and English men Lond. 1591. oct Garden of recreation yielding six thousand Italian Proverbs Printed with the former Dictionary Ital. and English Lond. 1597. 98. fol. Which Dictionary was by him afterwards augmented and to the honour of Queen Anne did intitle it Queen Anna's new world of words Lond. 1611. fol. which for the variety of words was far more copious than any extant in the world at that time But this notwithstanding being also defective our author did out of other Dictionarys and Italian authors which came accidentally into his hands collect out of them an addition of many thousand words and phrases relating to Arts Sciences and Exercises intending if he had lived to come out with a third edition After his death his additions being transmitted to Gio Torriano an Italian and professor of the Italian tongue in London were by him diligently perused and in very many places supplied out of the generally approved Dictionaries of the Academici della crusca and several others that were set forth since Florio's death The said Torriano also did much correct the English interpretations and where there was cause he reduced them to their genuine sense as they are now used in these modern times Which additions and corrections were printed at Lond. 1659. fol. Florio also translated from French into English The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne Lond. 1603. 13. 32. fol. and others things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen At length retiring to Fulham in Middlesex to avoid the plague raging in London was there overtaken by it in his old age of which he died in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five and received year 1625 as I suppose sepulture either in the Ch. or yard there I have several times sent for his Epitaph but receiving none you may take this for one Virtute suâ contentus nobilis arte Italus Ore Anglus pectore uterque opere Floret adhuc adhuc florebit floriat ultra Florius hâc specie floridus optat amans THOMAS LODGE was descended from those of his name living in Lincolnshire but whether born there I cannot tell made his first entry into this University about 1573. and was afterwards Servitour or Scholar under the learned and vertuous Mr. Edward Hobye of Trinity coll where making early advances his ingenuity began
at first to be observed by several of his compositions in Poetry After he had taken one degree in Arts and had spent some time in exercising his fancy among the Poets in the great City he was esteemed not Jos Hall of Emanuel coll in Cambridge excepted the best for Satyr among English men At length his mind growing more serious he studied Physick for the improvement of which he travelled beyond the Seas took the degree of Dr. of that faculty at Avenion returned and was incorporated in the University in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth Afterwards setling in London he practiced it became much frequented for his success in it especially by the R. Catholicks of which number he was by many suspected to be one and was as much cried up to his last for Physick as he was in his younger days for his poetical fancy He hath written Alarum against Usurers containing tried experiences against worldly abuses Lond. 1584. qu. History of Forbonius and Prisaeria with truths complaint over England Printed with the Alarum Euphues Golden Legacy found after his death in his cell at Silexedra bequeathed to Philautus Sonnes nursed up with their Father in England Lond. 1590. c. qu. The wounds of a civil War lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla Lond. 1594. qu. A fig for Momus Pr. in qu. Looking-glass for London An historical Comedy Lond. 1598. qu. In the composure of which he had the assistance of Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge Liberality and prodigality Comedy Lady Alimony Com. Luminalia a Maske Lawes of nature Com. Assisted also in these by the said Rob. Green who is accounted the half author of them Treatise of the Plague containing the nature signs and accidents of the same c. Lond. 1603. qu. Countess of Lincol. Nusery Oxon. 1622. in 2. or 3. sh in qu. Treatise in defence of Plays This I have not yet seen nor his Pastoral Songs and Madrigals besides several other things which are as it were lost to the generality of Scholars He also translated into English 1 Josephus his History or Antiquities of the Jews Lond. 1602. 09. 20. c. sol 2 The works both moral and natural of Luc. An. Seneca Lond. 1614. 20. fol. c. This eminent Doctor who practiced his faculty in Warwick Lane in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. and afterwards on Lambert-hill removed thence a little before his last end into the parish of S. Mary Magd. in Old Fishstreet London where he made his last exit of the Plague I think in September in sixteen hundred twenty five year 1625 leaving then behind him a Widdow called Joan but where buried unless in the Church or yard there I know not His memory is celebrated by several Poets whose Encomiums of him being frequent I shall for brevity sake pass them now by and proceed to the next who had a name among those of his perswasion for an eminent Theologist HENRY HOLLAND was born at Daventry commonly called Dantry in Northamptonshire educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near to Winâ—sore elected Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1565. took one degree in Arts left that house soon after his Friends Country and Religion and went to Dâ—way in Flanders where making a considerable progress in the Theological faculty was made Priest and Bach. of Div. Afterwards he went to Rheims and in the English coll there was a most noted preacher for several years and at length gave his assisting hand to the Translation of the Rheimish Testament Soon after he was sent into the English Harvest to gain souls to his religion but finding that imployment dangerous he retired to Doway again where being made 〈…〉 Divinity read and interpreted divine Letters fâ—r many years in the Monastery of Anchine near to that place His works are De venerabili Sacramento De Sacrificio Missae Duac 1609. Carmina diversa with other things printed beyond the Seas which seldom or never come into these parts He gave way to fate in a good old age within the said Monastery of Anchine year 1625 on the 28. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five and was buried in the Cloyster there Over his grave is an Epitaph beginning thus Dantria me genuit me clara Vigornia fovit Aetona me docuit post doeet Oxonium The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 307. b. In this Hen. Holland's time were one two or more writers of both his names as 1 Hen. Hol. who wrote A treatise against Witchcraft c. Camb. 1590. qu. and the same as it seems who published Spiritual preservations against the Pestilence and added thereunto An admonition concerning the use of Physick Both printed 1603. qu. 2 H. Hol. who published the Hist of Adam or the fourfold state of Man c. Pr. 1606. qu. and Christian Exercise of Fasting private and publick c. Pr. 1596. qu. Whether this H. Holland be the same with the first who was of Cambridge as it seems I cannot tell unless I see their respective books neither can I say to the contrary but that he may be the same H. Holland who published the Posthuma of his Brother Abrah Holland sometimes of Trin. coll in Cambridge Lond. 1626. Which Abraham who was author also of a Poem called Naumachia or Hollands Sea-fight Lond. 1622. qu. died on the 18. of Febr. 1625. 3 Hen. Holland Son of Philemon Holland a Physician and Schoolmaster of the City of Coventry who was born there travelled with John Lord Harington into the Palatinate in 1613. and collected and wrote Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiae S. Pauli Lond. Printed in qu. Also Herologia Anglica sive effigies vitae elogia clarorum doctorum aliquot Anglorum ab an 1500. ad 1620. Lond. 1620. in two tomes fol. and did engrave and pub a book intit A book of Kings being a true and lively Effigies of all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present c. 1618. But this Hen. Holland was not educated either in Oxon or Cambridge having been a Member of the Society of the Stationers in London See in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1572. HENRY FINCH second Son of Sir Thom. Finch of East well in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated in this University particularly as I conceive in Oriel coll wherein several of his sirname and Family studied in the time of Q. Elizabeth From Oxon he was translated to Greys Inn wherein making great proficiency in the Municipal Laws became a Councellour of note Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house 2. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law 1614. and one of the Kings Serjeants and a Knight two years after being then in great esteem for his knowledge in his profession He hath written Nomotexnia cestascavoir un description del common Leys d' Angleterre solonique les rules del Art c. Lond. 1613. fol. in 4 books Done into English by the same author under this
title Of Law or a discourse thereof in 4 books Lond. 1627. 36. 61. c. oct From the said book is mostly extracted another intit A summary of the Common Law of England Lond. 1654. oct done by another hand Our author Finch also wrote Of the calling of the Jews By which book it appears that the studies of the author were not altogether confin'd to the Common Law But his judgment therein as to the subject matter dissenting from the opinions of ingenious persons yet they cannot otherwise but allow him to have learnedly maintained an Errour He departed this life on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and was buried as I conceive in St. Martins Church near Canterbury leaving then behind him a Son begotten on the body of his Wife Vrsula Daughter and Heir of Will. Thwayts called John Finch born the 17. Sept. 1584. educated in the Common Law in Greys Inn afterwards a Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Finch of Fordwyche forced out of England by the severity of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1640. had leave afterwards to return and lived privately at the Mote near Canterbury and dying the 20. Nov. an 1660. was buried in the Church of S. Martin before-mentioned This John Lord Finch who had a younger Brother called Henry seems to have had some considerable knowledge in Mathematicks and Astronomy as it appears by a Manuale Mathematicum curiously written on Velom with his own hand preserved to this day as a rarity in Dugdale's Press among the MSS in the Ashmolean Musaeum RICHARD FOWNS a Ministers Son and a Worcestershire man born was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1577. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts became Chaplain to Prince Henry Bach. and D of D. 1605. and about that time Rector of Stoke upon Severn commonly called Severnstoke in his own Country He hath written Trisagion or the three Offices of Christ Lond. 1619. qu. He was buried in the Church of Severnstoke 25. Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and soon after was put a Mon. over his grave with an inscription thereon but so miserably defaced in the Civil War that brake out 17 years after that 't is not now as I have been informed legible otherwise I should have given you a copy of it here A Latin Sermon of one Rich. Fowns preached on 2 Thess 2. 34. was published in 1660. but whether preached by our author or another of both his names I cannot tell because I have not yet seen it CHRISTOPHER BAGSHAW was originally descended from the Bagshaws living at Ridge or Abney in Derbyshire but the name of the place wherein he received his first breath I cannot yet find In 1572 he was by the endeavours of Rob. Persons afterwards a Jesuit elected Probationer-Fellow of Balliol coll being then a Bach. of Arts and a celebrated Logician and Philosopher Soon after proceeding in his Faculty he was much noted for his zeal to Protestancy yet proved troublesome in his publick disputes and in his behaviour towards Persons About the year 1579. he was Principal or at least Deputy for a time of Gloucester hall where also being disliked he left that place soon after and his Fellowship in 1582. which was pronounced void the year following About that time he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion and being made a Priest in France and getting helps and directions from Fa. Persons he journied to Rome where for some time he lived in the English college But being troublesome there also and raising great garboyles among the Scholars of that place Cardinal Boncompagno Protector of the English Nation expelled him thence as one that had no good will for him saith Yet our author in his own vindication tells us that he had a Benedicessit and departed very orderly Afterwards he returned to Paris where as 't is said he was made Doctor of Div. and one of the Sorbon at which time and after the Jesuits used to stile him Doctor Erraticus and Doctor per Saltum Afterwards he was sent into England to gain Souls to his Religion but taken and committed Prisoner to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire where I find him in 1593. among many other Priests and Gentlemen of the Rom. Cath. Religion that had some years before been secured in that place 'T is said while he continued there that he carried away the glory and fame of all that was heretofore laudably done in that Castle before Fa. Edmonds alias Weston a Jesuit began to shew his tricks and then that Party and those Lay-persons that favoured them would condemn Bagshaw as a man of no worth unruly disordered and a disobedient person not to be favoured or respected by any c. Afterwards being freed from that prison he went beyond Sea again where he ended his days He hath written An answer to certain points of a Libel called An Apology of the Subordination in England Par. 1603. oct He had a considerable hand also in writing a book intit Declaratio motuum ac turbationum inter Jesuitas Sacerdotes Seminariorum in Anglia Rothomag 1601. in qu. Set out under the name of one Joh. Mush a Yorkshire man born and a learned Priest who engaged himself much in composing the differences that happened among the Priests and Jesuits in Wisbich Castle Dr. Bagshaw had also a hand in A true relation of the Faction began at Wisbich by Father Edmunds alias Weston a Jesuit 1595 and continued since by Father Walley alias Garnet the Provincial of the Jesuits in England and by Fa. Persons in Rome Printed 1601. qu. This Dr. Bagshaw died and was buried at Paris after the year sixteen hundred twenty and five as I have been informed by Franc. Ã Sancta Clara who remembered and knew the Doctor well but had forgotten the exact time of his death JOHN GEE the Son of a Minister of Devon but whether of John or George Gee whom I have before mentioned in Edw. Gee under the year 1618. I cannot justly say was entred into Brasnose coll in 1613. aged 16. where making no long stay he entred himself a Batler among his Countrymen of Exeter college and having holy Orders confer'd on him after he had taken one degree in Arts became beneficed at Newton near to Winwick in Lancashire of which last place Mr. Josias Horne being then Parson Gee had oftentimes several conferences with him concerning matters of Religion but they savouring much of a mind inclining to Popery Mr. Horne and the neighbouring Ministers concluded among themselves that he had changed his Religion before he had left that place Thence taking his rambles he retired to London and became acquainted with the noted persons of the R. Cath. Perswasion that then lived there But at length being moved to leave them and his opinions newly embraced by the urgent letters of his Father and by the valid reasons concerning the vanity as he term'd
cuts engraven from the representations drawn with great curiosity by him which hath advantaged the sale of it much And I am verily perswaded had the said book been published two years before I mean before the first edition of Camdens Remaines which first saw light in 1604. it would have been more cried up and consequently would have sold more But however so it is that the book hath been so much valued by learned and curious men in times following that a second impression of it was made at Lond. 1653. in large oct and another in 1674. oct He hath also written The sundry successive regal governments of the Realm of England Antw. 1620. printed in one long sheet wherein are the pictures of a Britain Roman Saxon Dane and Norman wrought off from a Copper plate And was the same person without doubt with him who writes himself R. V. author of Odes in imitation of the seven penitential Psalms with sundery other Poems and Ditties bending to devotion and piety Printed beyond the Sea in 1601. with the Jesuits mark in the title for as I have been informed Verstegan had some skill in Poetry as well as in Painting In the said Poems he toucheth on many matters of antiquity and antient Saints of England The same R. V. also hath translated into English A dialogue of dying well Antw. 1603. oct written in Ital. by Don Peeter of Luca a Can. regular and D. of D. and by the translator dedicated to the Lady Joan Berkley Abbess of the English Nuns of S. Benedict in Bruxells The said Verstegan hath written and translated other things but few of them coming into England we seldom or never see them He was living in good condition among the English at Antwerp who had fled for the sake of Religion under the notion of a Spanish stipendary having several years before been married to so thirâ—ty and prudent a woman that she kept up his credit in the latter end of K. James and beginning of K. Ch. 1. as one or more Letters written by him to the great Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton which I have seen in his Library shew And thus much of Rich. Verstegan alias Rowland of whom Will. Watson Priest will give you a sharp character and another stuff enough beyond the rules of charity to run down a Dog JOHN STRADLING Son of Franc. Stradling by Elizabeth his Wife was born near to Bristow in Somersetshire but descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donats in Glamorganshire was educated in puerile learning under a learned and pious man named Edw. Green Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Bristow became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1579. aged 16. years or thereabouts and in 1583. he took a degree in arts as a member of Magd. hall being then accounted a miracle for his forwardness in learning and pregnancy of parts Soon after his great worth being discovered in the Metropolis while he continued in one of the Inns of Court but especially after he had return'd from his travels beyond the Seas was courted and admired by the Learned Camden Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Tho. Leyson mention'd before under the year 1607. and above all by that most noted Critick and Physitian Dr. Jo. Dav. Rhese He hath written and published De vita morte contemnenda lib. 3. Francof 1597. in oct written to his Uncle Sir Edw. Stradling of S. Donats whom I have mention'd under the year 1609. Epigrammatum libri quatuor Lond. 1607. in oct Two years after he became heir to his Uncle before mention'd setled at S. Donats Castle and was made a Baronet in 1611. at which time he was esteemed a wise and most learned Gentleman Afterwards being involved in secular affairs and the services of his Country was taken off from writing till the latter end of the raign of K. Jam. 1. at which time he published a book intit Beati pacifici Printed 1623. but whether in prose or verse I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it Afterwards he published Divine Poems in seven several Classes written to K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1625. qu. At the end of which is an Epitaph made by him on K. Jam. 1. I have sent several times to several persons in Wales to have some account of this person his last end and his Epitaph but no returns are yet made ARTHUR LAKE brother to Sir Tho. Lake Knight principal Secretary of State to K. Jam. 1. Son of Almeric Lake or du Lake of the antient borough of Southampton was born in S. Michaels parish and educated for a time in the Free-School there Afterwards being transplanted to Wykehams School to perâ—ect his Grammar learning was thence elected probationer Fellow of New coll and after two years of Probation he was made perpetual Fellow thereof an 1589. Five years after that he proceeded in Arts entred into the sacred function was made Fellow of Wykehams coll near to Winton about 1600. and three years after Master of the hospital of S. Cross in the place of Dr. Rob. Bennet promoted to the See of Hereford In 1605. he took the degrees in Divinity and the same year he was installed Archdeacon of Surrey Afterwards he was made Dean of Worcester in Apr. 1608. in the room of Dr. Jam. Monutague promoted to the See of Bath and Wells and at length Bishop of those Cities to which he was consecrated at Lambeth 8. Dec. 1616. In all these places of honour and employment he carried himself the same in mind and person shewing by his constancy that his virtues were virtues indeed in all kind of which whether natural moral Theological personal or pastoral he was eminent and indeed one of the examples of his time He always lived a single man exemplary in his life and conversation and very hospitable He was also well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and had such a command of the Scripture which made him one of the best preachers that few went beyond him in his time The things that he hath written were not by him published but by his Friends after his death the titles of which follow Exposition of the first Psalm Exposition of the 51. Psalm Nine Sermons on Matth. 22. verse 34 35 36 37 38 39 40. Ten Serm. on Exod. 19. Five Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon. on Luke 3. ver 7 8 9. Eight Serm. on Isa 9. Six Serm. on Haggai 2. Sundry Sermons de tempore preached at Court Meditations All which being collected into a large volume were printed under this general title Sermons with religious and divine meditations Lond. 1629. fol. Ten Sermons upon several occasions preached at S. Paul's Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1641. qu. The first is on Psal 160. 29 30. the second on Jude 5. c. He dyed in sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in an Isle on the north side of the Choire of Wells Cathedral Over his grave was soon after laid a plain
Independent-party fled with Will. Lenthal their Speaker to the Head Quarter of the Army then at Windsore 30. Jul. 1647. In which office he continued but till the 6. of Aug. following at what time the General of the Army Fairfax restored Lenthall to his Chair but suffered Pelham to keep his Recordership of Lincoln City which he had confer'd upon him by the Presbyterians upon the ejection of Sir Charles Dalison JOHN TERRY received his first breath at LongSuttoâ— in Hampshire was elected Probationer Fellow of New college from Winchester School in 1574. and two years after he was made compleat Fellow In 1582. he proceeded in Arts and about 8 years after had the Parsonage of Stockton in Wilts confer'd upon him where he always expressed himself a zealous Enemy against the R. Catholicks not only in his Lectures and Sermons but also in his writings the titles of which follow Theological Logick Or the trial of truth containing a discovery of the chiefest points of the doctrine of the great Antichrist and his Adherents the false Teachers of the times Oxon. 1600. qu. In 1602. was published the second part of Theol. Logick and in 1625. the third part both in qu. and the last dedicated to the B. of Bath and Wells Reasonableness of wise and holy truth and the absurdity of foolish and wicked errour Serm. on Joh. 17. ver 17. Oxon. 1617. qu. Defence of Protestancy proving that the Protestants Religion hath the promise of Salvation c. Lond. 1635. second edition Before which time the author was dead ANTHONY HUNGERFORD Son of Anth. Hungerford of Dewne-Ampuâ—y in Gloucestershire by Bridget his Wife Daughter of one Shelley a Judge was educated in this University with other R. Catholicks but for a short time for his Father being much troubled with the incumbranceâ— of his Estate and therefore could not well look after the Son the Mother who was a zealous Papist caused him to be trained up in her Religion from his Childhood So that carrying his opinion on till 1584. about which time he had left Oxon being then 20 years of age stagger'd somewhat in his opinion upon the reading of Capians book called Decem rationes wherein he found some undecent passages but confirmed in his mind soon after by Mr. Tho. Neale of Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire and at length totally setled by one Twiford a Priest or Jesuit who was brought to him by George Etheridge a Physician of Oxon. In this setled course he held on till the beginning of the year 1588. at which time it pleased God as he said to make a hand that had given the wound the means to make good the cure when it aimed at a further mischief being occasioned mostly from certain words unwarily dropt from one Hopton a Priest and his acquaintance concerning an invasion then about to be made for the relief chiefly of Rom. Catholicks who laid under the heavy hand as they said of Q. Elizabeth In 1594. one of both his names was actually created Master of Arts and 't is supposed that he was the person because he had formerly spent some time in this University In 1607. he received the honour of Knighthood and about that time being then of Blackbourton near Witney in Oxfordshire wrote The advice of a Son professing the Religion established in the present Church of England to his dear Mother a Rom. Catholick Oxon. 1639. qu. Which book lying by him till his death and several years after in his Cabinet his Son Sir Edw. Hungerford carried it at length upon a sight as he thought of the increase of Popery in England to one of the Chaplains of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to have it licensed an 1635. but he refusing so to do because there were several offensive passages in it against the Papists he therefore got it to be printed at Oxon and added to it another thing of his Fathers writing intit The memorial of a Father to his dear Children containing an acknowledgment of God's great mercy in bringing him to the profession of the true Religion at this present established in the Church of England Finished and compleated for the Press at Blackbourton in Apr. 1627. This person who hath written other matters of the like nature but not printed gave way to fate about the latter end of June in sixteen hundred twenty and seven year 1627 and was buried in the Church at Blackbourton He left behind him Issue by his Wife Lucy Daughter of Sir Walt. Hungerford of Farley Castle in Somersetshire Sir Edward Hungerford who had Issue another Edward made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. who most unworthily squander'd away the Estate of his Ancestors JOHN DAY Son of a famous Printer of both his names in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth was born near or over Aldersgate in London entred a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1582. aged 16. elected Fellow of Oriel coll in 1588. being then Bach. of Arts proceeded in that Faculty entred into holy Orders and became the most frequent and noted Preacher in the University In the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he with leave from his Society travelled for 3 years beyond the Seas whereby he improved himself much in learning and experience and as I was about to say in Calvinism After his return he was made Vicar of S. Maries Church in Oxon in Jan. 1608. where by his constant and painful Preaching he obtained great love and respect not only from those of the University but City But missing the Provostship of his Coll. upon the resignation of Mr. Will. Lewis in 1621. he left his Fellowship and Vicarage in the year following and by the favour of Sir Will. Sâ—ame Knight became Minister of one of the Thirlows Great Thirlow I think in Suffolk where he continued to his dying day not without some discontent for the loss of the said Provostship He was a person of great reading and was admirably well vers'd in the Fathers Schoolmen and Councels He was also a plain Man a primitive Christian and wholly composed as 't were to do good in his Function His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Davids desire to go to Church in two Sermons on Psal. 27. 4. Ox. 1612. oct and 1615. qu. 2 Day 's Festivals or twelve of his Sermons Ox. 1615. qu. The first of which is of our Saviours Nativity on Esa. 9. 6. To these twelve Sermons are added Several fragments concerning both the Sacraments in general and the Sacrament of the Supper in particular He hath also written Day 's Diall or his twelve hours that is twelve Lectures by way of Catechism as they were delivered in Oriel coll Chappel an 1612. and 13. Oxon. 1614. qu. Conciones ad Cierum viz. 1 In 2. Reg. 6. ver 1 2 3 4. Oxon. 1612. and 1615. qu. 2 Iâ— Joh. 9. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. Commentaries on the first eight Psalms of David Ox. 1620. year 1627 qu. He concluded his last day
had in favour by all such that were lovers of Arts and Sciences At length obtaining an honourable Office under the Queen he became one of her favourites which he held for no short term but had the longest lease of any and the smoothest time without rub In the beginning of 1588. he among other persons of honour and quality was actually created Master of Arts which I think was the highest degree that was conferred upon him in this University In 1603. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. and soon after obtained the grant of the ruinous Castle of Wâ—rwick In the 12. year of the said Kings reign he being constituted under Treasurer and Chancellour of the Exchequer he was made choice of for one of Kings Privy Council And meriting much for his faithful services in those employments was by Letters Patents bearing date 9. Jan. 18. Jac. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Brook of Beauchamps court In Sept. 1621. he was made one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Bedchamber whereupon giving up his Chancellourship of the Exchequer Rich. Weston afterwards Earl of Portland succeeded him He was always esteemed a brave Gentleman and honourably descended as being sprung from the family of Willoughby Lord Brook was favoured by Qu. Elizabeth and such that knew he had interest in the Muses His life was always single and tho he lived and died a constant Courtier of the Ladies yet he prosecuted his studies in History and Poetry In which consider him as a Gentleman of noble birth and great Estate he was most excellent in his time as these things following shew composed in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Ph. Sidney Poems A Treatise of humane learning Inquisition upon fame and honour Treatise of Wars Tragedy of Alaham. Trag. of Mustapha Caelica containing 109 Sonnets Letter to an honourable Lady Letter of Travels Written to his Cousin GrevilVerney residing in France c. Some of the said things having been singly published were all remitted into a little thin Folio printed at Lond. 1633. and had this general title put to them Certain learned and elegant works of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke c. The first five years of King James or the condition of the State of England and the relation it had to other Provinces Lond. 1643. qu. The life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all foreign Princes c. Lond. 1652. oct Published by P. B. Short account of the Maxims and Policies used by Qu. Elizab. in her Government Printed with the former book Remains containing Poems of Monarchy and Religion Lond. 1670. oct never before printed with other things among which is his Trag. of Marc. Tull. Cicero which I have not yet seen At length our author who was Counsellour of State to Ch. 1. neglecting to reward one Haywood who had spent the greatest and chiefest part of his time in his personal service for which he expostulated the matter with his Master but was sharply rebuked for it the said Haywood thereupon gave him a mortal stab on his Back they two being then only together in his Bed-chamber in Brook house in Holbourne near London of which wound he died 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight aged 74. year 1628 Which being done the Assassianate discerning his own condition desperate went into another room and there having lock'd the dore murdered himself with his own Sword On the 27 of Oct. following he the said Lord Brook was buried in a Vault situate on the north side of the collegiat Church at Warwick which formerly had been a chapter house belonging thereunto wherein he had in his life time erected a fair Tomb with this Epitaph thereon Fulke Grevil Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellour to King James and friend to Sir Philip Sidney In his honour and dignity succeeded his kinsman Robert Grevil being then 1628. one and twenty years of age educated in Academical learning not in this but in the other University of Cambridge as I have been informed where being well tutor'd became learned considering his quality But being afterwards unhappily attainted with fanatick and antimonarchical principles by the influence of one of his near relations and some Schismatical preachers tho in his own nature a very civil and well humour'd person was without much difficulty drawn in by those fiery spirits of the Long Parliament which began 1640. By whom being back'd on he became an active man in the House against the Prerogative Bishops and the establish'd discipline of the Church insomuch that no less than the abolishing of all decent order in the service of God would satisfie him So that the members of the said Parliament looking upon him as a faithful person for the cause that they then drove on appointed him a Commander in their Army as I shall anon tell you As for the things which he wrote and published are 1 The nature of truth c. Lond. 1643. oct Animadverted upon by John Wallis a Minister in London afterward Geom. Professor of Oxon Printed at Lond. 1643. 2 A discourse opening the nature of Episcopacy which is exercised in England Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Assisted therein by some puritanical Minister and printed when the Press was open to receive all books against the Prerogative and Bishops 3 Two speeches spoken in the Guild-hall in London concerning his Majesties resusal of a Treaty of peace Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Answer to the speech of Philip Earl of Pembroke concerning accommodation Which answer was spoken in the House of Lords 19 Dec. 1642. Pr. in one sh in qu. by order of the House 5 Speech at the election of his Captains and Commanders at Warwick Castle Lond. 1643. qu. In the beginning of the Civil War an 1642. he became Commander in chief of those Forces which were sent to assault the Church-Close at Lichfield then defended by a small Garrison placed there by his Majesty out of a pious intent for the preservation of the stately Cathedral which the Lord Brooke intended presently to destroy when taken by his Forces But so it fell out that he having planted his great Guns against the South-east gate of the Close he was tho harnessed with plate-armour cap-a-pe shot from the Church in the Eye by one Diot a Clergy-mans Son who could neither hear or speak as he stood in a dore whether he came to see the occasion of a sudden shout made by the Soldiers of which he instantly died This memorable accident hapned on the second day of March an 1642. which is the festival of that sometimes famous Bishop S. Cedd or Chad to whose memory Offa King of the Mercians did erect the said Cathedral and devoutly dedicate it Archbishop Laud being then a prisoner in the Tower of London did make this memoire of it in his Diary under the year 1642.
the Parliament forces in the year 1646. at which time the Wars were ceased he was sent to S. Johns coll in Cambridge where he had not been there many months e're came forth the first issue of his prodigious wit entit Horae vacivae or Essayes with some occasional considerations Lond. 1646. oct with his Picture before them aged 19. The sudden breaking forth of which amazed not only the University as I am instructed by one of his Fellow Collegiats but the more serious part of men in the three Nations where they were spread The same year about New-years time came out his Poems Lond. 1646. and with them The second book of divine Poems Pr. in oct Both which books were much admired After he had continued more than an year at Cambridge in the condition of a Commoner and Gent. Com. he was translated to Greys Inn where he added to the Structure of a most admirable Romance intit Lucenia which he had began in Cambridge but by the lending it forth to a friend it was smother'd In 1648. his mind being sufficiently known to encline towards a Commonwealth he sided with the Independent and wrote A Satyr against Presbytery and in 1649. he published An humble motion to the Parliament of England concerning the advancement of Learning and Reformation of the Vniversities Printed at Lond. in 6. sh in qu. In which taking occasion to court the then Rulers got him a present sum of Money and a Pension of 100. l. per an from the Councel About the same time he wrote Four Paradoxes to which he added two more in 1653. Published at Lond. 1653. in tw under the name of Joh. de la Salle by Joh. Davies of Kidwelly And in 1650. being commanded by the Councel of State into Scotland to attend Oliver Cromwell to make such observations on affairs there as might conduce to the setling of the interests of the Commonwealth he wrote a book intit The grounds and reasons of Monarchy with an Appendix of An Epitomy of the Scotish affairs Both printed at Edenburgh in qu. and afterwards at London About that time he was called to the Barr and sometimes pleaded and in 1651. he published A Gag to Loves Advocates c. wherein he justified the Parliaments proceedings in the execution of Christop Love a forward and busie Presbyterian What other things he either wrote or published are briefly these 1 A Preface before with remarks upon a book intit A true relation of the unjust cruell and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the E. Indies by the Netherlandish Government and Councell there Which book tho it had been published in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and the third time at Lond. 1632. in qu. Joh. Hall thought it necessary to revive it at that time 1651. because of the then differences between the Dutch and the English This book he dedicated to the General O. Cromwell and was much bought up Whereupon the Dutch Embassador residing then in Westminster made a complaint of that book and demanded punishment on the reviver of it but the Parliament thinking it a seasonable service done to the publick took no notice of it 2 He rendred into English from the Original The height of Eloquence written by Dionis Longinus Lond. 1652. oct Dedicated to Balstrade Whitlock one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 3 He wrote A Letter from a Gent. in the Country concerning c. an 1653. just after the Long Parliament was dissolv'd tending to settle the humours of the people in that great emergency 4 Answer to the grand politick Informer Printed 1653. fol. which Politick Informer being a virulent Pamphlet writen upon the Assembly of Barbone's Parliament and therefore censured and suppressed it was thought expedient that Hall should answer it and he was well rewarded for it from the Exchequer He put out Lusus Serius in 1654. written in Lat. by Mich. Majerus Half of which almost was done in one afternoon over a glass of Wine in a Tavern 6 He made a translation of Hicrocles upon the golden verses of Pythagoras teaching a vertuous and worthy life Published after his death by his friend John Davies of Kidwelly Lond. 1657. oct with other things as Poems Translations Treatises which were never published At length being overtaken with a disease which he could not thoroughly shake off he left London in Jul. 1655. and retiring to Durham died there on the first of Aug. 1656. having not fully arrived to the 29th year of his age and was buried there near to the grave of his Father who died about an year before just after his Sons arrival there To conclude had not his debauches and intemperance diverted him from the more serious studies he had make an extraordinary person for no man had ever done so great things at his age So was the opinion of the great Philosopher of Malmsbury Besides this John Hall of Durham were others of both his names and writers as Joh. Hall of Richmond author Of Government and Obedience in four books Lond. 1654. fol. and of other things and another John Hall author of The true Cavalier examined by his principles and found not guilty either of Schism or Sedition Lond. 1656. besides other matters A third also who was Bach. of Div. now or lately living was author of Jacobs Ladder or the 〈◊〉 souls ascension to heaven in Prayers c. WILLIAM HINDE was born at 〈◊〉 in Westmorland became a poor serving Child of 〈◊〉 in Mich. Term 1586. aged 17. afterwards 〈…〉 M of A. and perpetual Fellow of the said house wherein having been alwaies a close and severe 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 and beloved by the famous Jo. Rainolds a Commoner of the said Coll. during his time Whose doctrine making impressions on the Juniors there our author Hinde became an admirer of him At length being full ripe for a removal he left the Society about 1603. being then much in esteem among them for his excellent Theological Disputations and Preachments and became Minister of Gods word at Bunbury in Cheshire where he was much noted among the puritanical party for his piety and so much followed by them for his frequent preaching that he was esteemed the Ring-leader of the Nonconformists in that County during the time that Dr. Tho. Morton sate Bishop of Chester with whom our author had several contests about Conformity He hath written The office and use of the Moral Law of God in the days of the Gospel justified and explained at large by Scriptures Fathers and other Orthodox Divines c. Lond. 1623. qu. Path to Piety a Catechism A faithful remonstrance or the holy life and happy death of John Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford in the County of Chester Esq exhibiting variety of many memorable and exemplary passages of his life and at his death c. Lond. 1641. oct Published by Sam. Hinde a Minister Son of William the author The said John Bruen who was a noted Calvinist and
several Faculties that he was esteemed by some a living Library He was also indefatigable in reading old MSS. and subtle in finding out the forgeries in them He and Allen of Glouc. hall were esteemed as most knowing in the ancient Statutes and Customs of this University and therefore their helps in the several attempts made of framing an intire and compleat body of them were often desired He was a Member of the Convocation held with the Parliament at Oxon 1. Car. 1. wherein he made a motion that some persons might be commissioned to peruse the Manuscript Fathers in all publick and private English Libraries that thereby the forgeries of Forreign Popish editions might be detected but what the event of it was I know not His designs were always for the publick benefit of learning and English Church which being well known to his learned friend Will. Camden he therefore saith thus of him He is a learned man and a true lover of books wholly dedicated to learning who is now laboriously searching the Libraries of England and purposeth that for the publick good which will be to the great benefit of Students Our author Dr. James saith also of himself thus in 1624. that if Cambridge will set up and set forward the like that is to collate and examine ancient MSS. as he hath done and will do I dare undertake more good to be done for the profit of learning and true Religion than by building ten Colleges I have of late given my self to the reading only of MSS. and in them I find so many and so pregnant testimonies either fully for our Religion or against the Papists that it is to be wondred at that the Religion of Papists then and now do not agree c. He also farther tells us that not only the Rabbins but the Thalmud in six volumes at Rome hath felt the smart of the popish indices would God we were but half as diligent to restore as they abolish and put out the truth I have restored 300 citations and rescued them from corruption in thirty quier of paper with sundry other projects of mine which if they miscarry not for want of maintenance it would deserve a Princes purse If I was in Germany the States would defray all my charges cannot our estates supply what is wanting If every Churchman that hath an 100. l. per an and upward will lay down but a shilling for every hundred towards these publick works I will undertake the reprinting of the Fathers and setting forth five or six volumes of Orthodox writers comparing of books printed with printed or written collating of popish translations in Greek and generally whosoever shall concern books or the purity of them I will take upon me to be Magister S. Palatii in England if I should be lawfully thereunto required c. As for his works that are printed they are these Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis lib. 2. Lond. 1600. qu. This Ecloga doth contain a Catalogue of all the MSS in each college Library in the University of Oxon but not of those in the publick and in each college Library in Cambridge and in that of the publick there In the making of which Catalogue he had liberty given to him by each coll in Oxon. to peruse their MSS. and from that Society which he perceived was careless of them he borrow'd and took away what he pleased and put them forthwith into the Publick Library Several such MSS were taken from Ball. coll and some from Merton and do yet bear in their respective fronts the names of the donours of them to those Houses This Ecloga is very useful for curious Scholars and is much commended by Joseph Scaliger in an Epistle to Rich. Thompson as I have told you elsewhere Cyprianus redivivus hoc est elenchus eorum quae in opusculo Cypriani de unitate ecclesiae sunt vel addita vel detracta vel lapsu Typographi vel alio quovis modo supposita c. Printed with the Ecloga Spicilegium D. Augustini hoc est libri de fide ad Pet. Diaconum cum antiquiss duob MSS. postremis ac ultimis editionibus excusis tam Basiliensi quam Parisiensi diligens collatio ac castigatio c. Pr. with the Ecloga Bellum paepale seu concordia discors Sixti v. Clementis viii circa Hieronymianum editionem Lond. 1600. qu. there again 1678. oct Catalogus Librorum in Bib. Bodleiana Oxon. 1605. in a large oct or rather a small qu. printed again with many additions in a thick qu. 1620. To which was added an Appendix 1635. 6. In this Catalogue is remitted the Cat. of all such MSS. that were then in the Bod. Library Concordantiae Sanctorum patrum i. e. vera pia libri Canticorum per Patres universos tam Graecos quam Latinos expositio c. Oxon. 1607. qu. Apology for Joh. Wicliff shewing his conformity with the now Church of England c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Written in answer to the slanderous objections urged against by Father Parsons the Apologist and others Life of Joh. Wicliff Printed with the Apology Treatise of the corruption of the Scripture Councells and Fathers by the Church of Rome Lond. 1611. qu. lb. 1688. oct Sufficient answer unto Jam. Gretser and Ant. Possevine Jesuits and the unknown author of the grounds of the Old Religion and the New Printed with the Treatise of the Corruption c. The Jesuits Downfall threatned against them by the Secular Priests for their wicked Lives accursed Manners heretical doctrine and more than Machiavillian Policy Oxon. 1612. qu. Life of Father Parsons an English Jesuit Printed at the end of the former book Index generalis sanctorum patrum ad fingulos versus cap. 5. secundum Mathaeum c. Lond. 1624. oct Notae ad Georgium Wicelium de methodo concordiae Ecclesiasticae cum Catologo authorum qui scripserunt contra squalores Ecclesiae Romanae Lond. 1625. oct Vindiciae Gregorianae c. Genev. 1625. qu. Manuduction or Introduction unto Divinity containing a confutation of Papists by Papists throughout the important articles of our Religion c. Oxon. 1625. qu. His humble and earnest request to the Church of England for and in the behalf of books touching Religion Pr. in one sh in oct 1625. Explanation or enlarging of the ten articles in his supplication lately exhibited to the Clergy of England for the restoring to integrity authors corrupted by Papists Ox. 1625. qu. Specimen corruptelarum Pontificiarum in Cypriano Ambrosio Gregorio M. authore operis imperfecti in jure canonico Lond. 1626. qu. Index Librorum prohibitorum a Pontificiis Oxon. 1627. oct Admonitio ad Theologos Protestantes de libris Pontificiorum caute legendis MS. Enchiridion Theologicum MS. Liber de suspicionibus conjecturis MS. These 3. MSS. I saw formerly in Lambeth Library under D. 1. 2 3. but whether printed I know not perhaps the Enchiridion is He also translated from French into English The moral
Philosophy of the Stoicks Lond. 1598. oct And published Two short Treatises against the orders of the begging Fryers written by Joh. Wicliffe Also as 't is said a book intit Fiscus Papalis Sive Catalogus indulgentiarum reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae ex vet MS. discriptus Lond. 1617. qu. The Latine out of the MS. is set down in one Colum and the English in another by the publisher This I say is reported to have been published by our author James tho others tell us that it was done by Will. Crashaw of Cambridge Howsoever it is sure we are that it hath supplyed with matter a certain scribler named Henry Care in his Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome when he was deeply engaged by the Fanatical party after the popish Plot broke out in 1678. to write against the Church of England and the members thereof then by him and his party supposed to be deeply enclining towards Popery c. I say by that Hen. Care whose breeding was in the nature of a petty Fogger a little despicable wretch and one that was afterwards much reflected upon in the Observators published by Rog. L'estrange which Care after all his scribbles against the Papists and the men of the Church of England was after K. James 2. came to the Crown drawn over so far by the R. Cath. party for bread and money-sake and nothing else to write on their behalf and to vindicate their proceedings against the men of the Church of England in his Mercuries which weekly came out intit Publick occurrences truly stated The first of which came out 21. Feb. 1687. and were by him continued to the time of his death which hapning 8. Aug. 1688. aged 42. was buried in the yard belonging to to the Black-friers Church in London with this inscription nailed to his Coffin Here lies the ingenious Mr. Henry Care who died c. This person I can compare to none more than to Marchemont Nedham whose parts tho he wanted yet they were Weather-Cocks both alike as I shall tell you more at large when I shall come to that person which will be in the 2d Vol. As for our learned and industrious author Dr. James he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the north Suburb of Oxon in the month of Aug. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged about 58. years and was buried towards the upper end of New college Chappel leaving behind him this character that he was the most industrious and indefatigable writer against the Papists that had been educated in Oxon since the Reformation of Religion Which character being made manifest by his writings it would have been esteemed as generous an act for the Society of that House to have honoured his reliques with a Mon. and Epitaph as they did those of Tho. Lydiat the Mathematitian I shall make mention of another Thomas James in my discourse of Hen. Gellibrand under the year 1637. ROBERT WAKEMAN Son of Tho. Wakeman of Fliford-Flavel in Worcestershire Minister of Gods word was born in that County became a student of Ball. col in the beginning of 1590 aged 14. made Chaplain-Fellow thereof 17. Jul. 1596. being then Bach. of Arts. About that time entring into Orders was a frequent preacher for some years in these parts At length being made Rector of Beer-Ferres and afterwards of Charlton in Devon took the degrees in Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Christian practice at S. Maries in Oxon. on Act. Sunday 8. Jul. 1604. on Acts 2. 46. Lond. 1605. in oct 2 Solomons exaltation before the King on 2 Cor. 2. 8. Ox. 1605. oct 3 The Judges charge on 2 Cor. 19. 6. printed 1610. oct 4 Jonahs Sermon and Ninevehs repentance at Pauls Cross on Jonah 3. ver 4. 5. Ox. 1606. oct 5 The true Professor opposed against the formal Hypocrites of these times on Luke 10. 28. Lond. 1620. oct and others which I have not seen among which is a Serm. on Eccles 11. 1. printed 1607. he gave up the ghost in Septemb. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of the Church at Beer-Ferres on the nineteenth day of the same month leaving then behind him several Children who were all in the beginning of the civil war as the Tradition goes there perswaded from their Religion to that of Rome by one Capt. Rich. Read as 't was supposed who quarter'd in the house where they lived and married one of the Doctors Daughters Afterwards they retired into Worcestershire where they or at least their issue now live JOHN SANFORD Son of Rich Sanford of Chard in Somersetshire Gent. descended from those of his name in Devon was born in Somersetshire entred a Commoner of Ball. college about the time of the Act in 1581. where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was then made one of the Chaplains of Magd. coll At length having contracted a friendship with John Digby Commoner of that House did travel with him into France Spain and Italy whereby he did much advantage himself in the modern languages Afterwards he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the said Digby then known by the name of Sir John Digby at which time he as sent into Spain to treat of a marriage between the Infanta Sister of the King of that Realm and Prince Charles of England After his return Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. made him his domestick Chaplain and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and Rector of Ivychurch in Kent He was a person of great learning and experience and a Solid Divine well skill'd in several languages and a tolerable Lat. Poet. His works are Gods arrow of Pestilence serm on Psal. 38. 2. Oxon. 1604. oct Le Guichet Francois Janicula scu introductio ad linguam Gallicam Ox. 1604. qu. A brief extract of the former Lat. Grammar done into English for the easier instruction of the Learner Oxon. 1605. qu. Grammar or introduction to the Ital. tongue Oxon. 1605. qu. An entrance to the Spanish tongue Lond. 1611. and 1633. qu. and other things as 't is probable with I have not yet seen year 1629 He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the 24. Septemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 60. and more and was buried in the middle almost of the north Isle joyning to the nave er body of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over his Grave was soon after laid a white free-stone with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 199. b. wherein is mention'd his great charity to Widdows Orphans and the Poor EDWIN SANDYS Second Son of Edwin sometimes Archbishop of York was born in Worcestershire particularly as I suppose within the City of Worcester when his father was Bishop of that Diocess before his translation to York admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Sept. 1577. and
of the Spanish and Italian Monks into one Congregation While he continued there he wrote Dissertatio contra Aequivocationes Par. 1625. oct c. dedicated to P. Vrban 8. at which time the author was the prime person of the English Mission for assisting the Spanish Congregation In 1627. I find him in Oxon again in the condition of a Gentleman and a Sojournor to the end that he might obtain materials from the Bodleian Library towards the composition of a work by him then in hand and about that time published a book against the Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia published by Clem. Reyner D. D. and Secretary to the Congregation of the Benedictines an 1626. fol. Which being esteemed a piece savouring of too much impudence and contradiction if not Heresie it was prohibited the reading by the Brethren and thrown aside among unlicensed and heretical books and soon after had a reply published against it which in some copies of the Apostolatus is put at the end without a name to it or any naming of Barnes It must be now known that this learned person being a very moderate man in his opinion and deeply sensible by his great reading and observation of several corruptions of the Romish Church and doctrine which partly were expressed in his discourse but mostly in a book which he wrote called Catholico-Romanus Pacificus became for that tho not printed and his answer to Apostol so much hated by those of his Order that endeavours were made to seize upon and make him an example Whereupon Barnes perceiving a storm approaching he fled to Paris and was there protected by the English Embassador But so it was that by the endeavours of Clem. Reyner before-mentioned and his interest made with Albert of Austria he was carried out from the midst of that City by force was divested of his habit and like a four-footed Brute was in a barbarous manner tyed to a Horse and violently hurried away into Flanders Where continuing for some time was thence soon after carried to Rome where by command of the Pope he was as a contriver of new doctrine thrust into the dungeon of the Inquisition Soon after being distracted in mind as a certain Jesuit saith was removed to a place for the reception of Mad-men behind the Church of S. Paul the less there to continue till he came to his senses Afterwards several copies in MS. of Cath. Rom. Pacificus flying abroad a true copy of it was made up by comparing it with others and printed at the Theatre in Oxon an 1680. oct Several years before that some of the sections therein were made use of by another person as that 1 Of Councils Popes Schism 2 Of the priviledges of the Isle of Great Britain 3 Of the Pope's Supremacy and the Supreme Power of Kings both in Temporals as also in Spirituals c. Our author Barnesius hath written also a Tract of the Supremacy of Councils which I have not yet seen and other things and also hath translated from the Spanish into the Latin tongue Pugna Spiritualis c. written by Joh. Castiniza a Benedictine Monk It was also afterwards translated into the same tongue by Jodochus Lorichius D. D. of Friburg Duac 1625. in sixt By those of the reformed party he the said Barnes who was living in sixteen hundred and thirty is stiled the good Irenaeus a learned peaceable and moderate man but by the R. Catholicks especially by those of his Order a person of a turbulent and contradictory Spirit occasioned by too much confidence and presumption of his own parts and wit which was greater than his humility and so consequently did expose him to great danger as they say of Apostacy and disobedience to his Superiours as also unworthy gratitude towards some who had deserved better returns from him The time of his death or place of burial I cannot yet obtain nor any thing else of him only this that certain fierce People at Rome being not contented with his death have endeavoured to extinguish his fame boldly publishing that he died distracted JOHN DONNE a person sometimes noted for his Divinity knowledge in several languages and other learning was born of good and vertuous Parents in London became a Commoner of Hart hall with his younger Brother Henry in the beginning of Michaelmas-Term an 1584. being then but eleven years of age where continuing about three years in which time Sir Hen. Wotton had a Chamber there he went to Cambridge and spending three more there he was transplanted to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the Municipal Laws where he had for his Chamber fellow for some time Mr. Christop Brook an eminent Poet of his time After he had continued there two years in exercising his poetical fancy he began to survey the Body of Divinity wherein he made very good notes and observations Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas advanced himself much in the knowledge of countries men manners and languages and was at his return made by Egerton L. Chanc. of England his chief Secretary and soon after was admitted M. of A. of this University as I shall tell you elsewhere But continuing not long in that beneficial imployment he did upon the solicitations of some of his Friends especially upon the motion of K. James 1. enter into the Sacred Function and not long after was made one of the Kings Chaplains Doctor of Div. of Cambridge and at length in 1621. Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London upon the promotion of Dr. Val. Carey to the See of Exeter He was a person of great wit virtue and abilities learned in several Faculties and religious and exemplary in his life and conversation In all which being eminent he was therefore celebrated and his memory had in great veneration by the Wits and Virtuosi of his time among whom were Ben. Johnson Sir Lucius Cary afterwards L. Faulkland Sydney Godolphin Jasp Mayne Edward Hyde afterward L. Chancellour Enâ—ymion Porter Arthur Wilson c. As for those things by him written few of which were published in his time are these Pseudo-Martyr a treatise shewing from certain propositions and gradations that those that are of the Rom. Religion in England may and ought to take the Oath of Allegiance Lond. 1610. qu. See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. Devotions upon emergent occasions and several steps in his sickness Lond. 1624. in tw second edit An anatomy of the World Wherein by occasion of the untimely death of Mrs. Elizab. Drury the frailty and decay of this whole World is represented Lond. 1625. oct a Poem in two anniversaries The second anniversary is intit The progress of the Soul c. which is a Poem also Juvenilia or certain Paradoxes and Problems Lond. 1633. and 1652. in qu. Divine Poems with Epistles to Sir H. Goodeere Lond. 1633. qu. Poems Songs Sonnets Satyrs Letters Funeral Elegies c. Lond. 1633. qu. 35. oct In which are involved Divine
Religion which is set before it and Discourse concerning such Englishmen as have either been or in our histories reputed Cardinals of the Church of Rome which is put at the end of it But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses being very full of faults and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader he put them forthwith into Latine entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius c. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of Bathe Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire who dying near to the Bishops Pallace of and in London 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Pauls Cathedral and he the Son of Alex. Harrington descended from a younger brother of the Harringtons of Brierley in Yorkshire I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eaton Scholar and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry wrote a discourse for his private use intit A brief view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Qu. Elizabeths and King James's raign to the year 1608. c. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times and was written to the said Prince Henry as an additional supply to the before mention'd Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin upon occasion of that Proverb Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells In the said book the author Harrington doth by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth shew himself a great enemy to married Bishops especially to such that had been married twice and many things therein are said of them that were by no means fit to be published being as I have told you before written only for private use But so it was that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind Grandson by a Daughter to the author a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenents did when the Press was open print it at London 1653. in oct And no sooner it was published and came into the hands of many but 't was exceedingly clamour'd at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy condemning him much that published it The truth is that tho it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit The Court and character of K. James which was publish'd three years before yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Diffenters And there is no doubt but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned he would have raked out many things thence and aggravated them to the highest to furnish his Common Place book when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. Our author Godwin wrote also Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh in qu. Râ—rum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII Edwardo VI. Maria regnantibus Annales Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr coll Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty Which English translation hath been several times printed The man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither Lond. 1638. and 57. oct written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the seigned name of Domingo Gozales and published some years after the authors death by E. M. of Ch. Ch. This book which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies men of solid judgments have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity Among which Dr. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester composed by hints thence given as 't is thought a learned piece called A discovery of a new World in the Moon Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct Translated into English by Anon. who intitles it The mysterious Messenger unlocking the secrets of mens hearts Printed with The man in the Moon Lond. 1657. oct in two sheets only At length after our authors many labours wherein he aimed mostly at the publick he was taken with a long lingring disease which bringing him to his desired haven year 1633 in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred thirty and three was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne which with the mannour thereof belongs to the Bishops of Hereford situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City To the said See after his death was elected Dr. William Juxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London as I shall tell you elsewhere That which I have forgot to let the Reader know is that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff A treatise on the blessed Sacrament printed in oct and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin but to his predecessor as I suppose in Landaff called Gerv. Babington Sed de hoc quaere HUGH HOLLAND Son of Rob. Holland by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh Son of Lewys Holland Son of Llewellin Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre by Gwervilla his Wife Daughter of Howell ap Madock ap Jem ap Einion was born at Denbigh bred in Westminster School while Camden taught there elected into Trinity coll in Cambridge an 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow Thence he went to travel into Italy and was at Rome where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher and in his return touch'd at Constantinople where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador for the former freedom of his tongue At his return into England he retired to Oxon spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library and as I have been informed had his Lodging in Ball. coll which is partly the reason why I insert him here He is observed by a Cambridge man to have been no bad English but an excellent Latine Poet and by some thought worthy to be mention'd by Spencer Sidney and others the chiefest of our English Poets His works are these MSS. Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. raign Life of Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Armes A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of
the late Soveraign K. James Lond. 1625. a Poem and other things which I have not yet seen but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops as one or more think He died within the City of Westminster having always been in animo Catholicus in sixteen hundred thirty and three whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter there near to the door entring into the Monuments or the door thro which people enter to see the Monuments on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator musarum amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus c. and another made by a second person which for brevity sake I now pass by In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington afterwards a Jesuit in Mich. Term an 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll an 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house but whether any of them were authors I cannot yet tell or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu. GEORGE ABBOT younger brother to Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was bred also in the same School under Mr. Franc. Taylor entred a student in Ball. coll 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow thereof 29. Nov. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into holy Orders and became a celebrated preacher in the University In 1597. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in the same year being elected Master of Vniversity coll gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship In the latter end of 1599. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Glocester On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 29. of the same month In Febr. following he was translated to London and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury had the Kings consent to it 29. March 1610. On the 9. of Apr. 1611. he was translated to the said See of Canterbury and on the 4. of May following had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto On the 23. of June ensuing he was sworn a member of his Majesties Privy Council and accordingly took his place So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of Gods word was the cause as some think why he was harsh to them and why he shew'd more respect to a Cloak than a Cassock He was a person pious and grave and exemplary in his life and conversation He was also a learned man and had his erudition all of the old stamp He was stiffly principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine which they who understand it not call Calvinism and therefore disrelish'd by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets Those that well remember him have said that tho he was a plausible preacher yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar and tho an able Statesman yet Robert was a deeper Divine The things that he hath written are these which shew him to be a man of parts learning vigilancy and unwearied study tho overwhelm'd with business Questiones sex totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae pro formâ habitis discussae disceptatae an 1597 in quibus è sacra scriptura Patribus quid statuendum sit definitur Oxon 1598. qu. Francof 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah Scultetus Exposition on the Prophet Jonah contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613. The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry unmasked and shewed to be very weak c. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion with as many brief answers of refusal Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome He was also answer'd by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Div. of Cambridge in a book intit A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered and proved a quartron of follies Cambridge 1603. qu. Preface to the examination of George Sprot London 1608. qu. Sermon at Westminster 26 May 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu. Brief description of the whole world Lond. 1617. qu the 9th edition Other editions in oct followed and the book is commonly called Abbots Geography Treatise of perpetual visibility and succession of the true Church in all ages Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it and 't is generally reputed to be his and none but his History of the Massacre in the Valtoline At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox hs book of Acts and Mon. of the Church Lond. 1631. 41. c. His Judgment of bowing at the name of Jesus Ham. 1632. oct Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere At length he being found guilty of casual homicide the particulars of which are mention'd by Historians he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey the place of his nativity where he had erected an Hospital for men and women Afterwards removing to Croyden he gave way to fate in his Pallace there on the fourth day of August year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three aged 71. Whereupon according to his desire his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady within Trinity Church in Guildford Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar or Table-monument with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon supported by six pillars of the Dorick order of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books with a large inscription thereon beginning thus Sacrum memoriae honoratiss Archipraesulis c. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript which begins also thus Aeternae memoriae Sacrum Magni hic Hospes Hospitis monumenta vides c. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury I find another of both his names to have been a writer also but later in time and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased c. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to
refectory at what time the said Doctor was returned from Salisbury after he had been installed Dean thereof an 1635. The said Pastoral is not printed but goes about in MS. from hand to hand Dr. Speed who was by all persons that knew him accounted an ingenious man year 1640 died in the month of May in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in the Chappel of S. John's coll leaving then behind him a Son named Samuel who was aftera Student of Ch. Ch. and M. of A. installed Canon of the said Church on the death of Dr. Seb. Smith on the sixth day of May 1674. and another named John afterwards Fellow of St. John's coll and Doctor of Physick living now at Southampton THOMAS FITZHERBERT Son of Will. Fitzherbert by Isabell his Wife Daughter and one of the heirs of Humph. Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Staffordshire fourth Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the famous Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire was born in the said County of Stafford an 1552. in which County being initiated in Grammer learning was sent either to Exeter or Lincoln coll in 1568 But having been mostly before trained up in the Cath. Religion the college seemed uneasie to him for tho he would now and then hear a Sermon which he was permitted to do by an old Roman Priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon for to him he often retired to receive instructions as to matters of Religion yet he would seldom or never go to prayers for which he was often admonished by the Sub-Rector of his house At length he seeming to be wearied with the heresie as he stil'd it of those times he receeded without a degree to his Patrimony where also refusing to go to his parish Church was imprison'd about 1572. But being soon after set at liberty he became more zealous in his Religion defended it against the Protestant Ministers and not only confirm'd and strengthned many wavering Catholicks therein but wrote also several valid reasons for the not going of Catholicks to Protestant Churches for which being like to suffer he withdrew and lived abscondedly In 1580. when Campian and Persons the Jesuits came into the mission of England he retired to London found them out shew'd himself exceeding civil and exhibited to them liberally Whereupon bringing himself into a promunire and foreseeing great danger to come on him and all Catholicks he went as a voluntary exile into France an 1582. where he continued a zealous sollicitor in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots with the K. of France and Duke of Guise for her relief tho in vain After her decollation and all hopes of the Catholicks frustrated for the present he left that Country and the rather because that he about that time had buried his Wife and forthwith went into Spain For some years there he became a zealous agitator in the Royal Court for the relief of Catholicks and their Religion in England but his actions and the labours of many more of that nature being frustrated by the Spaniards repulse in 1588. he under pretence of being weary with the troubles and toyles of this life receeded to Millaine with the Duke of Feria Whence after some continuance there he went to Rome where he was initiated in sacred Orders took a lodging near to the English college and observed all hours and times of Religion as they in the college did by the sound of their bell and there composed certain books of which that against Machiavel was one A certain author of little or no note named James Wadsworth tells us that the said Tho. Fitzherbert had been before a Pensioner and Spye to the King of Spain in France and his service being past and his pension failing him out of pure necessity he and his man were constrained to turn Jesuits or else starve And he being a worthy Scholar and a great Politician was very welcome to that Order But let this report remain with the author who is characteriz'd by a Protestant writer to be a Renegado proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade now living 1655. a common hackney to the basest Catch-pole Bayliffs c. while I proceed In 1613-4 he took upon him the habit of the Society of Jesus on the feast of the Purification initiated therein on the vigil of the Annuntiation following and on the next day he sung his first Mass Afterwards he presided the mission at Bruxells for two years and at length much against his will he was made Rector of the English coll or seminary at Rome which he governed with great praise about 22. years He was a person of excellent parts had a great command of his tongue and pen was a noted Politician a singular lover of his Country men especially those who were Catholicks and of so graceful behaviour and generous spirit that great endeavours were used to have him created a Cardinal some years after Allens death and it might have been easily effected had he not stood in his own way He hath written A defence of the Catholick cause containing a Treatise in confutation of sundry untruths and slanders published by the Hereticks c. S. Omers 1602. Apology or defence of his innocence in a fained conspiracy against her Majesties person for the which one Edw. Squire was wrongfully condemned and executed in Nov. 1598. Printed with the Defence before mention'd This is the book which the learned Camden tells us was written by Walpole a Jesuit or one under his name Treatise concerning policy and religion Doway 1606. qu. Wherein are confuted several principles of Machiavel The second part of the said Treatise was printed also at Doway 1610. and both together in 1615. qu. A third part was printed at Lond. 1652. qu. being then cried up for a good book as the other parts had been An sit utilitas in scelere vel de infelicitate Principis Machiavellani Rome 1610. oct Suppliment to the discussion of Mr. Dr. Burlows answer to the judgment of a Cath. Engl. Man c. interrupted by the death of the author F. Rob. Persons Jesuit S. Omer 1613. qu. published under the two letters of F. T. Censure of Dr. Joh. Donnes book intit Pseudo-Martyr Additions to the Suppliment These two last are printed at the end of the Suppliment to the discussion c. against Dr. Will. Barlow B. of Line before-mentioned Confutation of certain absurdities in Lancelot Andrews's answer to Bellarm. Printed 1603. qu. and published under the two letters of F. T. instead of T. F. This was written in vindication of Card. Bellarmine's Apology for his answer made to K. James's book De jure fidel Whereupon came out a book intit Epphata to F. T. or a defence of the Bishop of Ely Lanc. Andrews concerning his answer to Card. Bellarmine's Apology against the calumnies of a scandalous Pamphlet Cambr. 1617. qu. written by Sam. Collins D. D. a Buckinghamsh man born Provost of Kings coll in Cambridge elected the Kings
Watkin and Jeffry published in octavo perhaps written also by a canting and severe Lutheran who writes himself N. O. But so it was that he the said T. Wolsey being very apt to learn when he was a Child his Parents and other good Friends made shift to maintain him in Oxon particularly in Magd. coll where making a most wonderful progress in Logick and Philosophy be became Bach. of Arts at 15. years of age an 1485. Soon after he was elected fellow and when he had taken the degree of M. of A. was made Master of the Grammar School joining to the said College In the 14. Hen. 7. Dom. 1498. he was Bursar of that House in which year the stately Tower was finisht In the beginning of Oct. 1500. he became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire on the death of Joh. Borde by the presentation thereunto of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset which Rectory he conferr'd upon him for the great care he had of his Sons under his Tuition in the Grammar School before-mention'd But that great man dying in Sept. 1501. and his hopes of being introduced into the court frustrated he struck into acquaintance with one Sir Joh. Naphant Treasurer of Calais a Gent. of the said county who forthwith made him his chaplain And finding him to be a man of parts committed his employment to him he himself being grown old and consequently unfit for business At length he being mindful of his chaplains good service he never left him until he had found means to make him the Kings chaplain Which matter being according to his mind effected he became known to one of the Kings grave Counsellors and Favourites named Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester who finding VVolsey to be not only an active but a witty man did with one Sir Tho. Lovel another grave Counsellor commend him to the service of the King who also upon discourse with him finding him to be a man of Eloquence and to understand State affairs sent him in the quality of an Embassador to Maximilian the Emperour then abiding in Flanders not far from Calais Which Embassage he performed with so great dexterity and quickness that the K. taking especial notice of it did soon after confer upon him the Deanery of Lincoln void by the death of Jeffrey Simeon sometimes Fellow of New college Proctor of this University of Oxon and Dean of the chappel Royal to K. Hen. 7. which Jeffrey died 20. Aug. 1508. Of which Church I say being made Dean 2. Feb. 1508. was installed by proxy 25. March 1509. and in person 21. of Aug. 1511. After the death of K. Hen. 7. he quickly got into the favour so much of his successor Hen. 8. that he was by him presented to the Rectory of Turrington in the dioc of Exeter 28. Nov. 1510. being then Bach. of Div. and on the 17. Feb. following was made Canon of the collegiate church of VVindsore and about that time Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1512. Jan. 31. he by the name of the Kings Almoner was made Prebendary of Bagthorp in the church of York by the favour of Cardinal Bainbridge Archb. thereof in the place of James Harryngton Dean of that church who died in Dec. 1512. and on the 21. Febr. following he was admitted Dean in the said Harryngtons place who had been installed in that dignity in the room of the said Bainbridge 31. Januar. 1507. In 1513. he being then with the King at the taking of Tournay in France his Majesty not only gave him the revenues of the Bishoprick of that City but also made him actual Bishop thereof as some are pleased to say In 1514. March 26. he was consecrated B. of Linc. in the place of Will. Smyth deceased and in Nov. the same year he was made Archb. of York In 1515. Sept. 7. he was created cardinal of S. Cecilia and in the year following Dec. 7. he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and about the same time Legate a latere for the Kingdom of England In 1518. Aug. 28. he had the temporalities of the See of Bathe and VVells conferr'd upon him with liberty of holding the same See being perpetual Commendatarie thereof with the Abbatship of S. Albans and other Ecclesiastical Livings in commendum with York About the same time he laid in by his Factors at Rome for the Papacy especially upon the death of Leo 10. and Adrian 6. but the reasons why he was not elected were 1 That he would never to go to Rome in Person 2 That he was nimis potens 3 That he was not old enough as by the Letters of Dr. Tho. Hannyball and Jo. Clerk the Kings Orators and the Card. Agents at Rome appears In 1523. he had the Bishoprick of Durham given to him and thereupon resign'd B. and Wells and soon after began the Foundations of his two most noble and splendid colleges at Oxon and Ipswych as I have largely elsewhere told you In 1529. he had the See of Winchester conferr'd upon him whereupon renouncing Durham the profits and revenues of the said See were given to the Lady Anna Boleyne for the space of one year But before he was quite warm in Winchester he fell into the Kings displeasure and thereupon being soon after commanded to live in his dioc of York about the beginning of 1530. retired to the Archbishops Palace at Cawood where spending the Summer following in great Hospitality was about the latter end of Octob. ensuing arrested for High Treason Whereupon being to be conveyed to London to answer for it he died at Leycester in the way thither year 1530 on the 29. Nov. following and was buried in S. Maries Chappel within the precincts of the Abbey-church there Of all the Clergy-men of his time and before and after him Wolsey was indisputably the greatest He managed a most inflexible King with so great dexterity that of one who always threw his Riders none held the reins either so long or so succesfully He had a vast mind and a great sense of regulation and glory which by some is construed Pride He lived always with great splendour and yet left the most lasting and most noble monuments of his bounty No Prelate indeed especially in this Nation had ever so many and large but withal none ever imployed them more generously so that his vast revenues were hardly proportionable to his great and extraordinary designs His parts were prodigious and it must be owned that he wanted not a sense of his own sufficiency and therefore his demeanor and management of himself was such as was more fitted with the greatness of his mind and his fortune than to the meanness of his birth Many Historians of that time whether out of envy of his order or contempt of his birth or hatred of his Religion have not been very favourable to his fame and the traditionary reporters since who have pretended to an exact account of his actions have upon too slight enquiries and
moity of the Church of Cotgrave He gave way to fate about the beginning of Dec. as it seems in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 whereupon one Thomas Milner was instituted in the said moity on the 18. of Dec. the same year and Cuthb Scot. D. of D. of Cambridge was much about that time nominated to succeed him in the See of Chester the temporalities of which were given to him 25. of Sept. 1556. ARTHUR BOKELY or Bulkley was descended from an ancient Family of his name living in the Isle of Anglesie but in what coll or hall he was educated unless in New Inn I cannot justly tell About the time that he took the degree in the Canon Law he was beneficed and dignified in Wales where he was held in esteem for a good Canonist At length being promoted to the See of Bangor and consecrated thereunto had the temporalities of that See given to him on the eleventh of Febr. 1541. After his death which happened in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 succeeded in the said See Dr. Will. Glynn of Qu. coll in Cambridge an excellent Scholar and a very good disputant of his time who dying about the latter end of May 1558. was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor under that very place where the Sepulcher on Goodfriday and in Easter time use to stand Not long after his death Qu. Mary nominated to succeed in that See one Maurice Clennock a Welsh man Bach. of Law of this University Preb. of York and an Officer in the Prerogative Court under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury but the said Queen dying before he was consecrated thereunto he with Goldwell Bish of S. Asaph fled beyond the Seas and going to Rome Clennock some years after became the first Rector of the English Hospital there after it was converted into a college for English students where he was mostly called by the name of Dr. Maurice and much noted by the said students for his great partiality used towards his own Country-men of Wales which always caused during his time a great faction between the Welsh and English students abiding in that college ROBERT ALDRICH Doctor of divinity of this University an eminent Orator and Poet of his time became Bishop of Carlile in 1537. and died in the latter end of the year fifteen hundred fifty and five under which year you may see more among the writers In the See of Carlile succeeded Dr. Owen Ogelthorpe of whom I shall make large mention among these Bishops under the year 1560. JOHN HARLEY was born as it seems in Herefordshire or at least extracted from those of his name there admitted Fellow of Magd. coll about 1537. being then Bachelaur of Arts and Master of the Free-school joyning to that college Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy orders became Preacher to the Earl of Warwick and Tutor to his children a zealous Preacher in Oxon against the R. Catholicks upon the coming to the crown of K. Ed. 6. as I have elsewhere told you and at length chaplain to that Prince who for the zeal Harley had in Preaching up the reformed religion gave him a Prebendship in the Church of Worcester on the decease of Humph. Webley Bach. of Div. an 1551. Where being settled he had the rectory of Vpton upon Severne and the Vicaridge of Kederminster in Worcestersh bestowed on him he being then Bach. of Div. Afterwards the See of Hereford being void by the death of Joh. Skipp he was elected Bishop of that place So that being consecrated thereunto on the 26. May 1553. was within few months after deprived of it by Qu. Mary for his wilful avoiding the hearing of Mass and for being married Joh. Leland the famous Antiquary who knew the said Harley well doth in an high manner praise him for his great vertue and learning especially in the classical Authors and Poets for his fine vein in Poetry c. but what he hath published that author tells us not nor Baleus or his follower Pitseus Afterwards Harley absconding for a time did at length go from place to place in an obscure condition to consolate the poor remnant of Protestants and confirm them in their belief but died soon after in his wandring to and fro in England In the See of Hereford succeeded one Rob. Perfey sometimes called Warbington and VVarton formerly Abbat of the exempt Monastery of S. Saviour of Bermondsey educated in the University of Cambridge of which he was Bach. of Divinity who dying in the time of winter 1557. was buried in his own Church at Hereford Afterwards Tho. Raynolds D. D. Dean of Exeter and Warden of Mert. coll was design'd to succeed him by Qu. Mary but she dying before he was consecrated he was laid aside whereupon Joh. Scory a Norfolcian born Doct. of Div. and Chaplain to the Queen succeeded in 1559 having been a sufferer upon account of religion during Qu. Maries reign in which time he wrote An Epistle unto all the faithful that be in prison in England or in any other trouble for the defence of Gods word c. printed at Waterford in Ireland 1555. oct Wherein he doth by the example of divers holy Martyrs comfort encourage and strengthen them particularly to suffer for Christs sake persecution In the same year also he published his translation of S. Augustin's two books the one of Predestination of Saints the other of Perseverance unto the end with the determination of two general Councils concerning that matter Printed in oct And in the year following he published his translation of S. Ciprian's Sermon of Mortality or the willing for saking of this life Also his Exhortation to Martyrdom and his Exhortation to keep and endure the faith of Christ c. Printed in oct This Joh. Scory dyed in his house or palace at VVhitbourne in the country of Hereford 26. June 1585. and was as I suppose buried there He left behind him a Son named Silvanus Scory a very handsom and witty man and of the best education both at home and beyond the Seas that that age could afford His Father lov'd him so dearly that he fleec'd the Church of Hereford to leave him an estate but Silvanus allowing himself the liberty of enjoying all the pleasures of this world reduced it to nothing so that his Son Edm. lived by hanging on Gentlemen and by his shifts Silvanus was also esteemed a learned man and upon that account did Ben. Johnson dedicate to him a piece of his Poetry but whether he published any thing I cannot yet tell nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate in the Parish of S. Peter near Pauls Wharff in London in Sept. or Oct. 1617. was buried in the chancel of S. Leonards Church by Shore-aâ—tch near to the grave of his Mother Elizabeth who dyed 8. March 1592. JOHN BELL a Worcestershire man born as it seems had most of his education in Balliol
Pentrerpant or Pentrepant near to Oswestrey in Shropshire 23. July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried the next day in the Church at Sillatin or Selattyn To the poor of which place as also of Oswestrey and S. Asaph he gave to each five pounds In his Prebendship succeeded Giles Thornborough M. of A. afterwards D. D. Nephew to Dr. John Thorborough B. of Worcester who kept it to the time of his death 1663 and in the See of S. Asaph succeeded Joh Owen D. D. of Cambridge and Archdeacon of S. Asaph who was consecrated thereunto 20. of Sept. 1629. He died at Perthkinsey 15. Oct. 1651. and was buried on the 21. of the said month in the Cath. Church of S. Asaph under the Bishops Throne This Dr. Owen who was the Ministers Son of Burton-Latimers in Northamptonshire and born there as also bred Fellow in Jesus coll in Cambridge hath written Herod and Pilate reconciled Or the concord of Papists Anabaptists and Sectaries against Scripture Fathers Councils and other Orthodox Writers for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings Published 1663. and by the author dedicated to the Loyal Subjects of Great Britain What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he was a great Loyalist a true Son of the Church of England and had been much respected by Laud Arch. of Canterbury who obtained for him from his most gracious King the said Bishoprick of S. Asaph which lying void after his death till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Dr. George Griffith was consecrated thereunto JOHN BUCKRIDGE sometimes Fellow afterwards President of S. Johns college became B. of Rochester in 1611. and from thence was translated to Ely in 1627. He was conducted to the habitation prepared for old age in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt Curle and in Ely Dr. Francis White both Cambridge men by education JOHN HOWSON sometimes Student and Canon of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Oxford in the month of May 1618. was translated thence to Durham in 1628. and departed this moral life towards the latter end of sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631-2 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Durham succeeded Dr. Thom. Morton B. of Lichfield and Coventry the temporalities of which he received from the King 12. Jul. 1632. and dying in the house of Sir Hen. Yelverton of Easton-Manduit in Northamptonshire on the morrow after S. Matthews day in 1659. aged 95 years was succeeded in the year following by Dr. Joh. 〈◊〉 of Cambridge LEWES BAYLY sometimes a Member of Exeter coll was consecrated Bishop of Baâ—ger in 1616. and departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of 〈◊〉 succeeded a Native of Segroet near Denbigh a certain learned Doctor of div named David Dâ—lben of S. Johnâ— coll in Cambridge a younger Son of Robert 〈◊〉 Dâ—lben of 〈◊〉 before-mentioned in Denbighshire who dying in Bangor-house situated in Shoe-lane near S. Andrews Church in 〈◊〉 in the Suburb of London on the 27. of Nov. 1633. was buried in the Church at 〈◊〉 which he kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick He was succeeded in the See of Bangor by Edm. Griffith of whom I shall speak by and by JOHN RIDER sometimes a Student in Jesus coll was consecrated Bishop of 〈◊〉 in Ireland on the 12. of Jan. 1612. and concluded his last in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and two 〈◊〉 which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said Bishoprick succeeded one Lewes Jones a Welshman sometimes a Student in this University whom I shall mention at large among the Bishops in the second vol. of this work FRANCIS GODWIN sometimes a Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Landaff in 1601 thence translated to Hereford in 1617 and died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among ther writers To the said See after Goodman of Glocester had endeavoured to obtain was elected Dr. Will. Juxon of Oxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London whereupon Dr. Augustin Lindsell Bishop of Peterborough was translated thereunto in Dec. 1633. After him followed Mathew Wren D. of D. of Cambridge the temporalities of which See Hereford were given to him 24 March 10. Car. 1. Dom. 1634-35 But he being soon after translated to Norwych Theophilus Field of Pembroke hall in Cambridge born in the parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond. succeeded The temporalities also of which were restored to him 23. Janu. 1635. This Dr. Field dying soon after George Cook sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge brother to Sir Joh. Cook Secretary of State succeeded and had the temporalities thereof given to him 7. July 1636. He was the Son of Rich. Cook of Trusley in Derbyshire by Mary his wife daughter and heir of Tho. Sacheverell of Kirby in Nottinghamshire and he the Son of Will. Cook of the same place by his wife the daughter of Ralph Fitzherbert of Tyssyngton in the said county of Derby Which George Cook dying in 1646. 22. Car. 1. the see of Hereford laid void till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and then 't was supplied by Dr. Nich. Monk of Oxon of whom I shall make large mention in his proper place GEORGE ABBOT sometimes of Balliol college afterwards Chaplain to Thomas Lord Buckhurst and then to the Earl of Dunbar with whom he was solemnly sent into Scotland for an effecting of an Union in the Hierarchie was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 3 Dec. 1609 translated to London about the latter end of January following and in 1610 he was translated to Canterbury on the death of Dr. Richard Bancroft He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Canterbury succeeded Dr. William Laud as I shall tell you at large when I come to the next Vol. of this work JOHN PHILIPPS was a Welsh-man born as it seems and having received his Academical education in Oxon became afterwards Parson of Thorp Basset and Slingesby in Yorkshire which last he obtained in the latter end of March 1591. About that time he being Chaplain to Henry Earl of Derby became Archdeacon of Clievland on the resignation of Rich. Bird Bach. of div in Apr. 1601 also Archdeacon of the Isle of Man and at length about 1614. Bishop of that place but in whose room I cannot tell for between the translation thence of Dr. George Lloyd to Chester 1604. some person yet unknown to me did succeed
Johnson one of their Society to take the degree of Bach. of Arts in the University with certain conditions to be by him performed but whether he took the said degree it appears not Afterwards he went to Doway and studied Philosophy and Divinity thence to Rheimes where he was made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England in Feb. 1579 changed his name to Lawrence Richardson because he was the Son of Rich. Johnson of Lancashire but being soon after taken and imprison'd was executed at Tybourne 30 May 1582. Adm. 84. Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. John Chardon of Ex. Coll. Edw. Graunt The last was the same who was adm Bach. of Arts 1571. 29. Mardochey Aldem of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards a Physitian as well as Divine became Canon of Windsore in 1607 in the place of Joh. King sometimes Fellow of Peter House in Cambridge and about that time Fellow of Eaton Coll. He died in 1615 and was succeeded in the said Canonry by Dr. John King of Merâ— Coll. Nephew to the former John May 12. Franc. Trigge of Vniv. 17. Jo. Rainolds of Corp. Ch. Coll. Jun… Meridith Hanmer of Corp. Ch. Adam Hyll of Balliol John Case of S. Johns Coll. Jul. 11. Hen. Vsher of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Armagh Dec. 2. Rob. Persons of Ball. Coll. Feb. 26. John Norden of Hart Hall Mar. 17. Joh. Lane of C. C. Coll. He soon after resigned his Fellowship of that House travelled with Fa. Persons the Jesuit entred into the Society of Jesus and died with great opinion of Holiness in the University of Complutum in Spain an 1578. Adm. 61. Bach. of Div. Four were admitted of whom Joh. Chandler Prebendary of Winchester was one Jan. 22. and nine supplicated for the said Degree among whom were 1 John Oxenbridge but whether the same with Dr. Oxenbridge who was committed to custody in Wisbich Castle with Dr. Tho. Watson Bishop of Linc. Dr. John Fekenham sometimes Abbat of Westminster Dr. Yong c. an 1580 I cannot tell 2 Thom. Kingesâ—ill of Magd. Coll. remembred before among the Writers and 3 Jeffry Downes M. A. of Cambridge not that Jeffr. Downes Tutor to John Bale who became Chancellour of the Church of York in Aug. 1537 in the place of Henry Trafford D. D. deceased but another of the same University who was a learned man ☞ Not one Doct. of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations March 28. James Wats M. A. of the University of Lovaine Jun… Petrus Pitheus a Licentiate in the Civil Law of the University of Bourges in France was incorporated Doctor of the same Faculty He was at this time a Sojournour in Oxford for the sake of Study and Converse and afterwards became famous for his exact knowledge in all Antiquity Ecclesiastical History Laws c. All the great men of his time did make honorable mention of him in their respective books and some did dedicate their Writings to him and his Brother Francis Pitheus as the Lights of France Thuanus doth very much commend and at length concludes thus of him that In the Civil Law of the Romans he came to that height that it might be justly said of him and his famous Master Cujacius hunc discipulo praeripuisse ne primus Jurisconsultus esset illum praeceptori ne solus c. Many of his works are mention'd in the Oxford Catalogue Jul. 1. Hen. Vsher Bach. of Arts of Cambridge He soon after took the degree of Master as I have told you before 14. Felix Lewys LL. Bach. of Doway 15. Rich. Fietcher four years standing in the degree of M. of A. at Cambridge He was a Kentish man born as 't is said bred in Bennet commonly called Corp. Christi Coll. in Cambridge became Dean of Peterborough in 1583 and was present with Mary Queen of Scots when she suffer'd death at Foderinghey in Northamptonshire in the month of Febr. 1586. At which time being the person appointed to pray with and for her did perswade her to renounce her Religion contrary to all Christianity and Humanity as it was by many then present so taken to her great disturbance In 1589 he was made Bish of Bristow there being then many leases to be past in that Bishoprick and about that time Bish Almoner Whereupon Thomas Nevill D. D. of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanery of Peterborough an 1590. From Bristow he was translated to Worcester and soon after to London At length he took to him a second Wife a very handsome Widow called the Lady Baker Sister as 't is said to George Gifford the Pensioner At which Marriage the Queen being much displeased as she was at the marriage of all the Clergy he died discontentedly by immoderate taking of Tobacco on the 15 of June 1596 and was buried before S. George's Chappel within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul He had a Brother named Giles Fletcher a Kentish man born also as 't is said bred in Eaton School elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1565 where he became a learned Man an excellent Poet and Doctor of the Laws Afterwards he was sent Commissioner into Scotland Germany and into the Low Countries Embassador to Russia was made Secretary to the City of London and Master of the Requests At length he wrot and published The History of Russia c. Or Of the Russian Commonwealth Lond. 1591. oct Which book was quickly suppressed lest it might give offence to a Prince in amity with England Afterwards it was reprinted in tw an 1643 c. This Dr. Gil. Fletcher died in the Parish of St. Catherine in Colemanstreet in London in the month of Feb. 1610 and was buried I presume in the Ch. of St. Cath. there leaving then behind him a Son of both his names Bach. of Div. of Trin. Coll. in Camb. equally beloved of the Muses and Graces who died at Alderton in Suffolk an 1623. He left also behind him another Son named Phinees Fletcher of Kings Coll. in the same University where he was accounted an excellent Poet. Afterwards he was beneficed at Hilgay in Norfolke and became Author of several books among which one is entit A Fathers testament written for the benefit of his particular Relations Lond. 1670. oct at which time the Author had been dead several years The titles of two other books written by him you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue Rob. Bennet of three years standing in the Degree of M. of A. of Camb. was also then July 15. incorporated This Person who was of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. was afterwards Chaplain to Will Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winchester was installed Dean of Windsore 24. March 1595 sworn Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter on the Feast of St. George 1596 and at length on the 20. of Feb. 1602. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford as I have told you before
Jam. Mabbe of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day March 16. Joh. Davies of Jesus Coll. Afterwards a reviver of the Welsh Language As for Brent and Mabbe they are to come among the Writers in the second vol. Admitted 117. Bach. of Law Jul… Griffith Powell of Jesus Coll. the eminent Philosopher and Disputant was then tho M. of A. of 4 years standing admitted Bach. of Law Besides him were but three more admitted of whom Tho. May of St. Johns Coll. was one Jan. 17. Mast of Arts. Apr. 3. Sebastian Bonefeild of C. C. Coll. June 19. Tho. Cooper of Ch. Ch. 28. Lancelot Bulkley lately of Brasn C. now of St. Edm. hall He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin Jul. 4. Jo. Parentius a Forreigner of Ch. Ch. who had studied two years in the University of Caen five at Paris and three at Oxon was then admitted One or more of his Sirname were learned Men and Writers but whether this John was a Writer I cannot tell Oct. 14. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Jan. 30. Sam. Slade of Mert. Coll. This Person who was a Dorsetsh Man born and Fellow of the said Coll. became afterwards a famous Traveller throughout most parts of the World was employed by Sir Hen. Savile to procure what fragments he could of St. Chrysostome in order to have them compared and published And while he was at Venice he became acquainted with that noted Person famous for his speaking and writing pure Greek called Gabriel Archb. of Philadelphia who finding Slade to be admirably well skill'd in the said Language he communicated to him some rare manuscript Fragments of St. Chrysostoms Greek works Which being by him well approved were conveyed into England to Sir Henry In his further travels also for he was in Greece a considerable while he met with other fragments and was so useful in bringing to light a true copie of the works of the said Author that the said Sir Henry could not but acknowledge with due commendations what he had done in that matter See in the eighth vol. of St. Chrysost works published by Sir Henry pag. 215. 920 c. This Mr. Slade who was elder Brother to Matthew Slade whom I have mention'd among the Writers an 1614 died in the Isle of Zant near Peloponesus in his return from his travels before the publication of St. Chrysostomes works and was there buried Adm. 72. Bach. of Phys Jul. 10. Thom. Twyne M. of A. of C. C. Coll. in Oxon afterwards a Student for some years in Cambridge was then admitted Bach. of Physick He took the Degree of Dr. of that faculty at Cambridge as I have before told you among the Writers 17. Matthew Gwinne of St. Johns Coll. See among the Creations â—ollowing Besides these two who were the only Men admitted this year were two admitted to practise of whom Jo. Woolton M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was one Son of Joh. Wâ—olton Bish of Exeter Bach. of Div. Nov… Joh. Dove Feb. 11. Franc. Godwin of Ch. Ch. Mar. 4. Rob. Abbot George Abbot of Ball. Coll. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day All these except the first were afterwards Bishops Adm. 15. Doct. of Law Jul. 10. Will. Wilkinson of Cambridge He was about this time Chancellour of the Diocess of Salisbury and died about the latter end of Oct. 1613. ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. Leonard Tayler of C. C. Coll. Mar. 23. Tho. Aubrey of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity Incorporations July 10. Francis Meres M. A. of Cambridge This Person who was the Son of Tho. Meres of Kirton in Holland in the County of Lincolne was about this time a Minister and Schoolmaster and afterwards Author of a noted School-book called Wits Common-wealth part the second Lond. 1598. oct The first part was put out by N. L. He hath also published Gods Arithmetick Serm. on Eccles 4. 9. Lond. 1597. oct and Sinners guide or the whole regiment of Christian life c. printed 1614. qu. c. and translated into English The devotions of Lewis of Granada Lond. 1598. oct Which is all I know of him only that he was Grandfather to Rob. Meres D. D. and Chancellour of the Church of Lincolne Jul. 10. Gilbert Bourne Doct. of the Laws of the University of Orleance He was Nephew to Gilb. Bourne sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells being Son of his Brother Rich. Bourne of Wyvelscombe in Somersetshire which is all I know of him only that his Testimonial for his Degree in the said University dated in a Congregation celebrated there 8. June 1583 was subscribed by Maximilian de Cobham Tertullian Pine Doct. of the Civil Law lately of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon George Talbot Giles Wroughton Nich. Wilson and George Manwaring English-men that also he was Vicar-general to the Bishop of B. and Wells and dying in Decemb. or thereabouts an 1595 was buried in the Cath. Church of St. Andrew in Wells near the body of his sometimes Wife Jan. 28. Joh. Pilkington M. A. of Cambridge of whom I know no more One of both his names who was Bach. of Divinity was collated by his Brother Jam. Pilkington Bishop of Durham to the Archdeaconry thereof upon the resignation of Joh. Ebden 5. Dec. 1563 and dying 16. Sept. 1581. was buried in the Cathedral Church at Durham Who succeeded him in that Dignity the registers of that Church which are imperfect shew not In July this year was a supplicate made in the ven congregation for one W. L'isle M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated in the said Degree but whether he was really incorporated it appears not I take him to be the same with Will. L'isle who after he had been educated in Eaton School was admitted into the society of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1584. And after he had continued some years in the Degree of M. of A. left his Fellowship because he had Lands fallen to him at Wilburgham in Cambridgshire He became afterwards a rare Antiquary one of the Esquires extraordinary of the Kings body and published A Saxon treatise concerning the old and new Testament written about the time of King Edgar 700 years ago by Aelfricus Abbas thought to be the same that was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1623. qu. published from an antient Copy in Sir Rob. Cottons Library with a large and learned Epistle to the Readers set before it by the said L'isle To this book he added these things following first found out by Joh. Josselin servant to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury which had been printed in oct by Joh. Day in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. 1 A testimony of Antiquity shewing the antient faith in the Church of England touching the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord c. 'T is the same with A Sermon of the paschal Lamb on Easter day and of the sacramental body and blood of Christ c. Before which is a
large and learned Pref. of about 16 leaves in oct written by the said Josselin and reprinted by L'isle 2 The words of Aeilfric Abbot of St. Albons and also of Maâ—â—sbury taken out of his Epistle written to Wulfine Bishop of Sâ—yrburne c. 3 The Lords Prayer the â—reed and ten Commandments in the Saxon and English tongue This W. L'isle died in 1637 and was buried as I presume at Wilburgham beforemention'd Creations Jul. 17. Matthew Gwinne M. A. of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon who had studied Physick ten years was then actually created Doct. of Physick by virtue of two Letters of the Chancellour of the University for that purpose Sept. 24. The most illustrious heroe Pre-Johannes de la Fri Eques Charnotensis so he is written in the publick Reg. Embassadour from the King of France to the Queens Majesty of England Nichol. Ruffus Dominus St. Aubin Ludovic Baro D'Orbee created the same day Which three Nobles were actually created Masters of Arts and were with great civility treated by the Heads of the University An. Dom. 1594. An. 36 Elizab. An. 37 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Lillye to continue in the said office till the Chancellour otherwise please Proct. Hen. Foster of Brasn Coll. Hen. Cuffe of Mert. Coll. Apr. 10. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 5. Tobias Matthew of Ch. Ch. He was Son of Tob. Matthew who was afterwards Archb. of York and after he had taken the Degree of M. A. he became a Jesuit and at length a Knight as I shall tell you at large in the 2d vol. 22. Will. Burton of Brasn Coll. He is to be remembred also in the 2. vol. Jul. 1. Will. Laud of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Archib of Canterbury Dec. 11. Edm. Deane of Merton Jan. 27. Tho. Thomson of Qu. Feb. 22. Hayward Townshend of St. Maries hall Coll. Thom Ireland of Linc. Coll. was admitted the same day See among the Doct. of Div. an 1611. 28. Alexander Spicer of Exeter Mar. 1. Will. Vaughan of Jes Coll. 7. Thom. Cheast of Oriel Coll. See among the Masters an 1598. Adm. 195. Bach. of Law Jul. 1. James Whitlock of St. Johns Coll. Jul. 12. Franc. Clerke or Clarke Besides these two were 4 more admitted and two that supplicated who were not admitted this year Mast of Arts. Apr. 16. Tho. Fryth of All 's Coll. May 13. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Qu. Coll. 3. Walt Wylshman of Broadgates lately of Exeter Coll. Dec. 12. Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. Jan. 15. Rob. Moor of New Coll. Adm. 7â— Bach. of Div. May 16. George Carleton of Mert. Jun. 27. Joh. Williams of All 's Jul. 2. Rich. Latewarr of St. Joh. Coll. 4. Will. Tooker of New Dec. 16. Hen. Ayray of Qu. Coll. Adm. â—1 Doct. of Law Jul. 9. Christopher Helme of Merton Coll. In 1618 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Barnabas Goch or Gough Doct. of Law being about that time Rector of Bredon in the said Diocess in which office he was succeeded by Jam. Littleton Bach. of Law an 1628. The said Goch or Gough did succeed Tho. Wood LL. D. an 1610. and Wood Rich. Cosin the eminent Civilian an 1598. but whom Cosin succeeded in 1578 or thereabouts I cannot tell Dec. 10. Rob. Masters of All 's Coll. He was about this time Principal of St. Albans hall and afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Rochester and of the Dioc. of Lichfield and Coventry He died 10. Jul. 1625. aged 63 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield Jan. 25. Edward Spurroway of All 's Coll. On the sixth of July Ralph Winwood M. of A. and Bach. of the Civ Law of Magd. Coll. supplicated to be admitted Doct. of the faculty but whether admitted it appears not Doct. of Phys Jul. 1. Barthelmew Warner of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of Physick and superior reader of Lynacre's Lecture He was buried in the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of Oxford 26. January 1618 as I have else where told you Doct. of Div. Jun. 25. Rich. Lewys of Exeter Coll. July 4. Francis Cox Will. Tooker of New Coll. Henry Ball of New Coll. also was admitted the same day being about this time Archdeacon of Chichester 〈◊〉 He died in the beginning of the year 1603. Jul. 4. Miles Smith of Brasn Coll. The same who was afterwards Bishop of Glocester Incorporations Jul. 9. Hen. Nevill M. A. of Cambridge Son and Heir of Edward Nevill Lord Abergavenny Rich. Milbourne M. of A. of Qu. Coll. in the same University was incorporated the same day On the eleventh of Decemb. 1611 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Blague deceased and in July 1615 he being promoted to the See of St. David Rob. Scot D. D. was installed Dean 13. of the same month of whom by the way I desire the reader to know that he was born at Banston in Essex was originally a Fellow of Trin. Coll. in the said University and afterwards Master of Clare hall and esteemed by those that knew him a learned Man He died in Winter time in December I think an 1620. and was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Godf. Goodman Jul. 9. Joh Racster M. A. of Cambridge He was Author of a certain book entit The seven planets or wandring motives of Will Alabasters wit retrograded and removed Lond. 1598. qu. and perhaps of other things Joh. Hull M. of A. of Cambr. was incorp the same day He was of Gonvill and Caius Coll. in that University was afterwards Bach. of Div. and a Preacher of Gods word at Cork in Ireland He hath written and published 1 St. Peters Prephecy of these last days printed 1610. qu. 2 Christs proclamation to Salvation Lond. 1613. oct 3 Exposition on a part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah c. Lond. 1618. qu. c. Jul. 9. Richard Kilby M. A. of the said University The number of Cambridge Masters who were incorporated on that day comes to 30. Creations On the ninth of July being the day after the Act had been finished these following Persons were actually created Mast of Arts. Sir Joh. Hungerford Knight Anthony Hungerford Esquire Rich. Baker Esq He was afterwards a Knight and Author of that Chronicle that goes under his name Joh. Aske Will. Monson Esquire A proposal was made in the ven house of Convocation this year that the Degree of M. of A. should be bestowed on the honorable Sir Will. Russel Knight the design'd Lord Deputy of Ireland but whether it was accordingly confer'd upon him it appears not because it standeth not in the register He was the fourth Son of Francis Earl of Bedford and was with his brethren brought up in Magd. Coll. Oxon at the feet of Dr. Lawr. Humphrey Afterwards he travelled through France Germany Italy Hungary and other Countries and upon his return he spent not his time idely in the Court but
Sir Tho. Windebank of Haines hill in the Parish of Hurst in Berks. Knight sometimes one of the Clerks of the Signet and became intimately acquainted with Dr. Will. Laud while he studied in the said Coll. of St. John by whose endeavours when Bish of London he obtained for him of his gracious Master K. Ch. 1. the secretaryship of State in the place of Sir Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester deceased to which office he was sworn 15. June 1632 and about that time received the honour of Knighthood Afterwards he became ungrateful to his promoter and much hated by the Puritan for his high acting in his office Which being by that Party made notorious several articles were drawn up against him and presented to that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. Whereupon flying beyond the Seas wrot a Letter to the Lord Chamberlain in his own defence dat at Calais XI Jan. 1640 which was soon after printed When K. Ch. 1. retired to Oxon after Edghill battel Sir Francis returned înto England went to and endeavoured to speak with his Majesty but his Maj refusing to have any communication with him he went beyond the Seas again and died at Paris 1 11 Sept. 1646. Among the Sons he had Sir Thomas Windebank the eldest was one who was of the Privy Chamber to His Majesty and another called Colonel Franc. Windebanke Governor of Blechingdon house in Oxfordshire who for surrendring it to Col. Oliver Cromwell upon first summons about the 24. Apr. 1645 was shot to death in Broken hayes near Oxon whereupon his body was buried in one of the Chancels of the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of that City on the third of May following Feb. 11. Sam. Turner of St. Maries hall See among the Masters 1604. 13. Daniel Fairclough Joh. Bery or Bury George Webbe of C. C. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Canon Fairclough Bury and Webbe will be mention'd in the second vol. Admitted 177 Mast of Arts. May 17. Thom. Winniff of Exeter Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch. He published a Sermon entit A Summons to judgment on Job 31. 14. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps others which is all I know of him only that he was a Cheshire Man born and that in seeking after the Rectory of the Church of St. Sepulcher in London found a sepulcher therein being buried there on which his pleasant friend Tho. Freeman the Poet hath an ingenious Epigram 25. Mich. Boyle Joh. Sandsbury of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 1. Henry Tilson of Vniv. 10. Robert Johnson of Magd. Jan. 21. Robert Pink of New Coll. Adm. 86. Bach. of Physick Not one was admitted to the said Degree only some to practise Physick among whom were Nov. 28. Henr. Savile M. A. Edm. Deane B. A. Both originally of Merton Coll. now of St. Albans hall Bach. of Div. Dec. 17. Joh. Howson of Ch. Ch. Besides him were but 4 admitted among whom Ralph Ironside of Vniversity Coll. was one Father to Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow an 1660. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Sampson Hussee of New Coll. He was Brother to Jam. Hussee mention'd in the year before ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. John King John Howson of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated and both were afterwards Bishops Feb. 15. Charles Ryves of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 6. Rob. Dallyngton M. of A. of Cambridge He was born in Northamptonshire educated in Pembroke hall of which he was Greek-Scholar and after became a Schoolmaster in Norfolk where having gained some money he travelled all over France and Italy was exact in his observations and after his return became first Secretary to the Earl of Rutland then one of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles Master of the Charter-house into the School at which place he brought the custome of Chapter verses or versifying on passages of Holy Scripture and at length a Knight He hath written 1 A survey of the great Dukes state in Tuscany an 1596. Lond. 1605. qu. 2 A method for travel shewed by taking view of France as it stood in the year 1598. printed at Lond. in qu. 3 Aphorismes Civil and Military amplified with authorities and exemplified with history out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine Lond. 1615. fol. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died in the latter end of the year 1637 and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the Charter house By his will dated 25. Apr. 1636 and proved 1. March 1637 he gave to the poor People of Geddington in Northamptonshire the place of his nativity 300 l. for the buying of an annual pension of 15 l. per an for their relief At which place in his life time he built a Free-school and was a benefactor in other respects July 16. Walt. Curle M. of A. of Cambridge This Person who was born at Hatfield in Hertfordshire was now Fellow of Peter house in the said University was promoted first in the Church by the Cecillian Family afterwards he became Chaplain to His Majesty Doctor of Divinity Dean of Lichfield in June 1621 upon the death of Dr. Will. Tooker Bishop of Rochester in 1627. upon the translation of Buckridge to Ely translated thence to B. and Wells in 1629 upon the death of Dr. Maw and thence to Winchester upon the removal of his Patron Dr. Neile to York being about that time made Lord Almoner Afterwards he suffered much for the Kings and his own cause was among the Royalists when they were besieged in Winchester whence marching in safety after its surrender for the use of the Parliament lived retiredly at Subberton in Hampshire till the time of his death which hapned in the Spring or Summer time an 1647 leaving then behind him a Widow named Elizabeth and certain Children All that I have yet seen which goes under his name is A Sermon preached at Whitehall 28. Apr. 1622 on Heb. 12. 14. printed in qu. Rich. Boyle M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland Richard Parker another M. of A. of that University was also then incorporated Whether he be the same R. Parker who was bred in and became Fellow of Caius College and Author of Sceletos Cantabrigiensis MS. I cannot justly say or the same Richard Parker who was second Son of John Parker first Son of Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury which Richard was born at Cambridge 20. May 1577 I cannot also tell Quaere On the same day also were 13 more Masters of that University incorporated among whom Miles Spencer was one and Andrew Perne another the same I suppose who was Proctor of Cambridge 1616. See before in these Fasti an 1553. Aug. 7. Will. Barlow Doct. of Div. of the said University was also then incorporated in the
as temporal and in many dangers of his life which God did miraculously deliver him from At length K. James the first of England did call him into England and to the holy Ministry he being then 58 years of age and upon the promotion of Dr. John Bridges to the See of Oxon in the latter end of 1603 he made him Dean of Salisbury in Febr. 1604. He hath written 1 Assertiones Theologicae pro vera verae Ecclesiae nota quae est solius dei adoratio contra falsae ecclesiae creaturarum adorationem Rupell 1603. oct 2 England and Scotlands happiness in being reduced to unity of Religion under K. James Lond. 1604. qu. 3 Orthodoxo-Jacobus Papa apostaticus c. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Anti-Bellarmino-tortur sive Tortus retortus Juliano papismus c. Lond. 1612. qu. 5 Of the ceremonies of the Church of England Lond. 1612. qu. besides Sermons and other things He departed this mortal life in August 1619 and was I suppose buried in the Cathed Ch. at Salisbury whereupon Dr. John Williams succeeded him in the Deanery of that place about the 10. of Sept. and installed in the middle of Oct. following To Sir Rob. Gourden of Sudderland who married his only Daughter and Heir named Lucy he left his MSS. of his own composition written in Latine and English desiring him that the English may be published in Scotland and the Latine beyond the Seas to the end that the great pains that he had taken about them may not be lost These Noble Men Knights and Esquires following were actually created Masters of Arts on the 30. of August the King being then in Oxford The illustrious Prince Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox near of kin to the King James 1. of England He was Father to Lodowick the first Duke of Richmond of his name Henry de Vere Earl of Oxford He was Son of Edw. de Vere called by some the Poetical Earl of Oxford and died at the Siege of Breda in the Netherlands an 1625. Henry Percy the most generous Count of Northumberland a great encourager of learning and learned Men especially Mathematicians who as others have in a high manner celebrated his worth He died 5. of Nov. 1632 and was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex Robert D'Evereux Earl of Essex now a young Nobleman of Merton Coll. See more in the year 1636. Will. Herbert Earl of Pembroke the very picture and Viva effigies of Nobility a Person truly generous a singular lover of learning and the professors thereof and therefore by the Academians elected their Chancellour some years after this His Person was rather Majestick than elegant and his presence whether quiet or in motion was full of stately gravity His mind was purely heroick often stout but never disloyal and so vehement an opponent of the Spaniard that when that match fell under confideration in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he would sometimes rouze to the trepidation of that King yet kept in favour still for His Majesty knew plain dealing as a jewell in all Men so was in a Privy Counsellour an ornamental duty and the same true heartedness commended him to K. Ch. 1. Philip Herbert his younger Brother now Earl of Montgomery He was quite different in nature from the aforesaid William being a Person esteemed a very frequent swearer and one so intolerably cholerick quarrelsome and offensive while he was Lord Chamberlain to K. Ch. 1. that he did not refrain to break many wiser heads than his own Mr. Thomas May the translator of Lucan and afterwards Historian to the Long Parliament felt the weight of his staff which had not his office and the place being the Banquetting-house protected it might have been a question whether ever he would have struck again See more of him in Will. Herbert among the writers under the year 1630. William Cecill Viscount Cranbourne Son of Robert Earl of Salisbury He was after the death of his Father Earl of Salisbury and Knight of the Garter and lived to 1668. John Bridges Bishop of Oxon sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge and lately Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Dr. John Piers to the See of Rochester was then also created He was now famous for the several books that he had published the titles of some of which you may see in Bodlies or Oxford Catalogue He died on the 26. March 1618 and was buried in the Church of Marsh-Balden or Balden in the Marsh near to and in the County of Oxford as I have elsewhere told you He was Doctor of Divinity and therefore I presume the Registrary of the University should have put him among such that were incorporated this year and not among the Creations of Masters of Arts. Theophilus Howard Baron of Walden Son and Heir of Thomas Earl of Suffolk He was afterwards Earl of Suffolk and Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter He died 3. June 1640 and was buried in the Church at Walden beforementioned Charles Howard Baron of Effingham Son of Charles Earl of Nottingham He was afterwards Earl of Nottingham Thomas West Lord La Warr commonly called Lord de la Ware Grey Brugges or Bridges Lord Chandois He was commonly called King of Cotswould because of his numerous attendants when he went to Court He died at the Spaw in Italy 1621. Will. Compton Lord Compton He was afterwards the first Earl of Northampton of his name and dying 14. Jun. 1630 was buried by his ancestors in the Church at Compton in the hole in Warwickshire Edward Bruce Master of the Rolls and Baron of Kinloss in Scotland He died 14. Jan. 1610 aged 62 years and was buried in the Chappel of the Rolls in Chancery-lane London He was Father to Thomas Earl of Elgin in Scotland and Baron of Whorlton in Yorkshire as I shall tell you elsewhere … Erskeine a noble Man of Scotland Perhaps he was the same with Sir James Erskeine Knight of the Bath Son to the Earl of Marre or with Alex. Erskeine who was after his Fathers death Viscount Fenton in Scotland and died in the beginning of the year 1633. Sir Hen. Nevill Knight He was afterwards Leiger Embassador at Paris being the same I think of Billingbere in Berks who died about the later end of June 1629. Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. now Tutor to Prince Henry William Herbert John Egerton afterwards Earl of Bridgwater Valentine Knightley John Ramsey a Scot Knights Sir Roger Aston Knight He was the natural Son of John Aston Gentleman second Son of Rich. Aston of Aston in Cheshire had all his breeding in Scotland which made some to take him to be a Scot born was originally the Barber to K. James 1. while he was King of the Scots as a libellous Author tells you though from record it appears that he was Groom of the Bedchamber to him and belonged to it in the time of that Kings Father and Grandfather He was
receipts and experiments in Cookery with the best way of preserving c. printed 1658. in tw 4 Praxâ—os in morbis internis praecipue gravioribus chronicis Syntagma c. Lond. 1690. oct with his picture before it aged 82 published by his Godson Theod. de Vaux From the experiences also of the said Sir Theod. Mayerne and from those of Dr. Chamberlaine and others was written a book entit The compleat Midwife's practice c. printed several times in oct Before he came into England he wrot Apologia c. Rupel 1603. oct and perhaps other things He paid his last debt to nature in the beginning of the year about 26. March 1655 and was buried 30. of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields near to London by the bodies of his mother first Wife and five of his Children at which time Thom. Hodges a Presbyterian Divine and Minister of Kensington in Middlesex preached his funeral Sermon in the conclusion of which he spoke much in praisâ— of Sir Theodore who left behind him a Widow named Isabella and a rich Daughter called Adriana de Mayerne Baroness of Aubon afterwards married to a French Marquess of Mountpellion Over his grave was soon after a fair Monument put with a flourishing and high flown Epitaph thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by and only tell you that Quercitan and several famous Men of France and Germany did make honorable mention of him near 60 years before his death Jul. 10. Sam. Walsall Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty and Master of C. C. C. commonly called Bennet Coll. in that University on the death of Tho. Jegon He hath published The life and death of Jesus Christ Serm. before the King at Royston in Esay 53. 4. Lond. 1615. in oct and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the Summer time an 1626 and was buried in the Chap. of that Coll. 12. Thom. Morton D. D. of the same University He was of St. Johns Coll. and through various promotions became at length the most learned and religious Bishop of Durham His life is at large written by John Barwick D. D. printed at London 1660. qu. to which I refer the reader 14. Tho. Sheafe D. D. of Cambridge He was Son of Tho Sheafe of Cranbroke in Kent was bred Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University where he had the repute of a good Scholar was installed Canon of Windsore 29 March 1614 being about that time Rector of Welford in Berkshâ—re and beneficed at another place in that County When he was about 80 years of age he wrot Vindiciae senectutis or a plea for old age c. Lond. 1639. oct Which being published the Author soon after died viz. 12. Dec. 1639. Whereupon his body was buried in St. Georges Chap. at Windsore He left behind him a Son named Grindall Sheafe sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. beforementioned afterwards D. of D. Vicar of Colâ—shall and Horstead in Norfolk Archdeacon Canon and Prebendary of Wells and had other preferments in the Church From which raking and scraping a great deal of wealth together for he troubled himself not with learning or the encouragement thereof it had redounded much to his honour and name to have left it to the Church which he did not but to Lay-people and Servants who cared not for him only for pelf-sake He died 28. Apr. 1680 and was buried in the Cathedral Church at Wells Whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed by the Bishop on Charles Thirlby Vicar of St. Cuthberts Church in Wells his Canonry on Henry Dutton Bachelaur of Divinity sometimes of Corp Chr. Coll. in Oxon. and his Prebendary commonly called the Golden Prebendary on Edward Waple Bachelaur of Divinity of St. Johns Coll. in the said University Thomas Erpenius born at Gorcome in Holland studied in this University in the condition of a Sojournor about this time but how long his stay was here I cannot tell He was admirably well skill'd in the Oriental tongues the Hebrew Chaldee Arabick Syriack Aethiopick Persian and Turkish He is celebrated throughout the whole Christian World as the restorer of the Arabick tongue and died at Leyden in the flower of his Age an 1624. An. Dom. 1607. An. 5 Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Joh. King D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 17. Proct. Nath. Brent of Mert. Coll. Joh. Tolson of Oriel Coll. Apr. 15. Bach. of Musick Jul. 11. Thom. Tomkins of Magd. Coll. This eminent and learned Musitian was Son of Thom. Tomkins Chauntor of the Choir at Glocester descended from those of his name of Listwithyel in Cornwal educated under the famous Musitian Will. Bird and afterwards for his merits was made Gentleman of his Majesties Chappel Royal and at length Organist as also Organist of the Cath. Church at Worcester He hath composed 1 Songs of three four five and six parts printed at London in qu. but not said when 2 Musica deo sacra ecclesiae Anglicanae or Musick dedicated to the honor and service of God and to the use of Cathedrals and other Churches of England especially of the Chappel Royal of K. Ch. 1. in ten books c. when first printed I cannot tell 3 Divine Services and Anthems the words of which are published by James Clifford in his Book entit Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals c. Lond. 1663 Oct. 4 A set of vocal Church Musick of four and five parts MS. given to Magd. Coll. Library in Oxon by Jam. Clifford before mention'd where they yet remain in the Archives thereof and also hath Compositions in the triumphs of Oriana published by Tho. Morley 1601. qu. He was living after the grand Rebellion broke out but when he died I cannot justly tell you He had a Son named Nath. Tomkins Bach. of Div. of Oxon who was Prebendary of Worcester from the Month of May 1629 to the 21 of Oct. on which day he died an 1681 as also several Brethren among whom were 1 Giles Tomkins a most excellent Organist and Organist of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury who died about 1662. 2 Joh. Tomkins Bach. of Musick who was one of the Organists of S. Pauls Cathedral and afterwards Gentleman of the Chappel Royal being then in high esteem for his admirable knowledge in the theoretical and practical part of his Faculty At length being translated to the celestial choir of Angels on the 27 Sept. an 1626 aged 52 was buried in the said Cathedral 3 Nich. Tomkins one of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to his Majesty Charles 1. who was also well skill'd in the practical part of Musick and others but their order according to seniority I cannot tell Bach. of Arts. Apr. 21. Hugh Robinson of New Coll. 23. Tho. Prior of Broadgates Hall See among the Mast of Arts 1611. Joh. Seller of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day See more of
Member of that Coll. he was admitted to practice his Faculty 13 July 1604. After he had been admitted Doctor he retired to London became one of the Coll. of Physitians and eminent for his practice One Will. Turner Doct. of Phys wrot a Pamphlet entit Ad nobilem Britannum or an abstract of Englands Royal Peers When written I cannot tell sure I am 't was printed at London in 1641. qu. Whether this Will. Turner be the same with the former of Ball. Coll. I cannot justly say nor whether he was one of the Sons of Dr. Pet. Turner mention'd among the Incorporations an 1599. yet that he was descended from William Father of the said Dr. Peter Turner 't is not to be doubted Doct. of Div. May 12. Sebast Benefield of C. C. June 1. Joh. Lea of S. Johns Coll. The last of these two who was of the gentile Family of the Leas or Lees of Quarendon in Bucks and of Dichley in Oxfordshire was Chaplain to the most noble Knight Sir Hen. Lea was beneficed in the said Counties and dying about 1609 was buried in S. Johns Coll. Chappel to the adorning of which he was an especial Benefactor He gave also many Books to that Coll. Library Rich. Thornton Canon of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day In the beginning of Sept. an 1611 he became Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Gervace Carrington deceased and dying 1 Jan. 1614 was buried in the Cath. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Jun. 6. Will. Laude Joh. Rawlinson of S. Joh. Rob. Wakeman of Ball. Coll. 25. Edw. Wickham of Ball. Coll. now Prebendary of Winchester and Archdeacon of Dorset This person who was of the Family of the Wickhams of Swacliff near Banbury in Oxfordshire died in 1620 or thereabous and was if I mistake not buried in the Chancel of the Church of Storington in Sussex near to the Bodies of his Father and Mother In his Archdeaconry succeeded as I suppose Rich. Fitzherbert Thom. Higgons of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day He was Father to Sir Tho. Higgons of Grewell in Hampshire 30. Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. who accumulated He was now Prebendary of Canterbury where dying in 1609 left behind him a Son named John who was afterwards D. of D. and Preb. of the same Church and dying 1630 aged 51 left behind him a Son named Nicholas who also was Prebendary there This last who was of C. C. Coll. in Oxon died 22 Aug. 1680. aged 56 and was buried in or near the graves of his Father and Grandfather in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over their Sepulchres was a stone soon after put with an Inscription thereon which for brevity sake I now pass by Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was now Prebendary of Canterbury and dying 7 Oct. 1613 aged 63 being then Subdean of that Church was buried therein 3 days after at which time Thomas Wilson a Member thereof preached his Funeral Sermon entit Christs farewel to Jerusalem on Luke 23. 27 28 29 c. To which a Testimony is added concerning the said Rich. Colfe of his great piety and learning June 30. Joh. Browne of Vniv. Christop Sutton of Linc. Tho. Alleyn of C. C. Coll. July 7. Tho. More 12. Will. Leonard of Exet. Coll. Mar. 11. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards nominated Bishop of Chester but died before consecration 14. David Ellis of Jesus Coll. These two last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations May 30. Rich. Butler Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was formerly of S. Joh. Coll. in Oxon and now Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty which is all I yet know of him Jun. 14. Christop Musgrave Bach. of Arts of Cambr. One of both his names was about this time a Carthusian at Leige in Germany and afterwards wrot Motives and reasons for his secession and dissevering from the Church of Rome Lond. 1621. qu. But this last I cannot affirm to be the same with him who was Bach. of Arts because he saith that before he seceeded from the Church of Rome he had been a Carthusian Monk for the space of twenty years David Owen M. of A. of Clare Hall in the same University was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and Chaplain to John Ramsey Lord Viscount Hadington afterwards D. of D. and Chaplain to the said person when he was Earl of Holderness He hath written and published 1 The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings Cambr. 1610. qu. 2 Anti-Paraeus sive determinatio de jure regio habita Cantabrigiae in scholis Theologicis 19 Apr. 1619 contra Davidem Paraeum caeterosque reformatae religionis Antimonarchos Cantab. 1632. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was born in the Isle of Anglesey July 8. Will. Eire Eierus Doct. of Phys of Leyden Will. Cavendish M. of A. of Cambr. Son and Heir of Will Lord Cavendish was incorporated the same day in the house of Convocation He was afterwards the second Earl of Devonshire of his name 12. Walt. Curle M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated again See among the Incorporations an 1601 and in 1636. Eliazer Hodson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day See among the Incorporations 1615. Joh. Williams M. A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated This noted person who was the Son of Edmund Williams of Conway commonly called Aberconway in Caernarvanshire by his Wife Mary Daughter of Owen Wynn of Eglarsnache the sixth Son of William Williams of Cogh-Williams was educated in S. Joh. Coll. in the said University of which he was Fellow Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Lord Egerton Lord Chanc. of England and in 1611-12 one of the Proctors of the University of Cambridge in which Office he gave so noble and generous Entertainment as well in scholastical Exercises as in edibles and potables to the Spanish Embassadors conducted thither by his Patron the Lord Chancellour that when they took their leaves of him the Chancellour with the approbation of the Embassador told him that he had behaved himself so well in his Entertainment that he was fit to seâ—ve a King and that he would be glad to see him as welcome at the Court as they were in the Vniversity About that time he had several Benefices confer'd upon him of which the Rectory of Waldgrave in Northamptonshire was one Dinam and Grafton two more a Residentiaryship in the Church of Lincoln one or more Prebendships therein and the Office of Chauntor besides a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough and a Donative in Wales Afterwards he was made sacerdotal Rector of the Savoy Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and on Sept. 10 an 1619. Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Gourdon deceased Whereupon giving up the Savoy upon his Majesties desire it was by him confer'd on M. Ant. de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ— 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâ—th right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. and Clerk of the Council In 1640 he was employed by his Majesty to go to Henry Frederick Prince of Aurange or Orange about the marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince his Son as also to the Queen of Bobemia and the Prince Elector an 1641 to hinder that Prince his coming over into England at the then juncture of affairs with promise to take into his consideration the concern of the Palatinate and other matters of state In the same year the said R. Browne was sent to Paris where he continued Resident in the Court of France for K. Ch. 1. and Ch. 2. to the French King Lewis the 13 and his Son Lewis 14 till the Restauration of his Majesty an 1660. In which time which was 19 years I find these things following to occur relating to him 1 That divers important matters of state were transacted by him with those great Ministers Cardinal Richlieu and Mazarine 2 That many advantages were offer'd him by the Usurpers of England to be false to his Masters but he resisted them 3 That he did to his great expence but more to his everlasting glory keep up in the large house which he hired at Paris the publick Service and Liturgy of the Church of England whither his Maj. Ch. 2. and then Duke of York did constantly resort From whence divers Ministers of the Church of England Exiles for their Loyalty had many disputes with the R. Catholicks and others concerning the visibility of their Church which they then kept up while it was ecclipsed in England 4 That he was employed by his Maj. Ch. 1. to carry the George and Garter to Bernard Duke of Espernon 5 That he did negotiate about the Queens portion out of which he had I think 1000 l. which with 200 l. more was all he touched in the said 19 years whilst he spent of his paternal Estate much more than that yearly during his abode at Paris 6 That on the first of Sept. 1649 he was created a Baronet being the first that K. Ch. 2. made by virtue of a dormant Warrant sent to him by Ch. 1. dated 1 Febr. 1643 and on the 19 of the said Sept. he received the honour of Knighthood at St. Germaines from his said Maj. Ch. 2. he being then also Clerk of the Council to him In 1660 he returned into England with his Majesty and did execute the said Office for some time But years then coming on he resign'd it and retired to Charlton in Kent where he spent the remainder of his time in a pleasant retiredness and studious recess At length giving way to fate in a good old Age on the 12 of Febr. 1681 was buried according to his desire in the Churchyard at Deptford close to the Wall of the Church where is a black Marble ballastred over his body On the other side of the Wall in the Church lies buried his Father Christop Browne Esq who died in March 1645 aged 70 years and his Grandfather Sir Rich. Browne Knight a younger Son of an antient Family at Hitcham in Suffolk seated afterwards at Horsley in Essex who being a Student in the Temple was by Robert Dudley the great Earl of Leycester taken into the service of the Crown when he went Governour of the Vnited Netherlands and was afterwards by Qu. Elizab. made Clerk of the Greencloth In which honorable office he also continued under K. James 1. untill the time of his death which hapned in May 1604 aged 65 years The before mentioned Sir Rich. Browne Grandson to this last Sir Richard lest behind him a Daughter named Mary who being his Heiress was several years before married to the learned Vertuoso Joh. Evelyn of Says-court in the Parish of Deptford Esq in which house or at least in that Parish Sir Richard was born as also three folio's of his dispatches several Letters some in cypher c. as well from his Maj. Ch. 1. at Oxon as from his Royal Consoâ—t and other great persons Jun. 27. Geâ—v Warmstrey Rich. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. July 8. Oliver Thomas of Hart Hall The time when he took the degree of Bach. of Arts appears not nor when or of what house he was matriculated And therefore all that I can say of him is that he was afterwards perhaps now beneficed in Shropshire that he wrot and published a book in Welsh entit Carwry Cymru c. printed 1630 or thereabouts and that dying at Felton in that County was there buried In the year 1647 one Oliver Thomas Minister of Oswestry did subscribe among other Ministers of Shropshire to the lawfulness of the Covenant who I suppose is the same with the former Jul. 11. Rich. Jones of Jesus Coll. Jan. 22. George Bate of S. Edm. Hall 29. Christop Ayray Guy Carlton Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. March 19. Joh. Price of Jesus Coll. This year Jun. 25. Joh. Davis of Magd. Hall sometimes of that of S. Edm was licensed to proceed Master of Arts and accordingly compleated that degree in the Act following which being all I know of him he therefore is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Davis M. of A. afterwards Lecturer of Christ Church in London and at length Pastor of a Congregation in Dover Author of Heaven and Earth shaken A treatise shewing hâ—w Kings Princes and their Government are turned and changed by Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1656. oct For this Joh. Davis the Author was originally of Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards siding with the Faction was first a Presbyterian and took the Covenant afterwards an Independent and took the Engagement for which he stickled in his Lectuers at Ch. Ch. At length being discovered by the then godly Party to be every way fit to carry on the trade of Faction he was translated to Dover where he kept a Conventicle in a noted Brewhouse by the Reer and soon after was made Chaplain to the Castle there by Col. Tho. Kelsey then Governour and preached constantly at S. James Church tho he was no setled Incumbent Where continuing officiating till after the Kings Return he was then outed and afterwards kept a Conventicle in S. James street in Dover where he continued to the time of his death which was about 1663. Adm. 149. Bach. of Phys I find but three admitted this year of whom John Speed a learned Physitian of S. Joh. Coll. was one Jun. 20. Bach. of Div. May 7. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 14. Meric Casaubon of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. Jerem. Stephens Gilb. Sheldon Rob Gomershall of Ch. Ch. of All 's Coll. Mar. 13. Will. Paul Tho. Lawrence of All 's Coll. Adm. 28. Doct. of Law Mar. 26. David Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Warden of Ruthin in Denbighshire Prebendary of Chester and afterwards Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Andr. Morrice sometimes Chaplain of All 's Coll. This Dr. Lloyd died about
in the Parish of S. Giles in the fields near London in the house of one Mr. Cothorne a Reader in the Church there on Saturday 12 Dec 1685 and was buried by the charity of Dr. Rich. Busby Schoolmaster of the Coll. School at Westm and Dr. Joh. Sharp Minister of the said Church of S. Giles in the Vault under part of the said Church commonly called the Vicars or Rectors Vault His Books and Papers came after his death into the hands of the said Busby among which is the last thing that he wrot The Tables which are according to his promise in the last line of his printed Tables of squares drawn up and finished and which Sir Cyrill Wych when President of the Royal Society did license for the Press There only wants a leaf or two for the explanation of the use of them which his death hath prevented See more in Tho Branker among the Writers in the second Vol. an 1676. Creations Dec. 17. Edmund Wright of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the house of Congregation which is all I know of him Georg. Alberti of Wad Coll. was created Mast of Arts the same day which is all I know of him also only that he had been lately a Student in the University of Heidelberg in Germany and that he was forced to leave that place because of the Wars in that Country An. Dom. 1632. An. 8 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud. Bishop of London Vicechanc. Brian Duppa D. D. and Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 19. Proct. Rich. Chaworth of Ch. Ch. Joh. Meredith of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. April 26. John Warner Rich. Hayter Joh. Charlton of Magd. Hall The last of these three who was Son of Rob. Charlton Esq was born in London and much about the time that he took the degree of B. of A. was entred a Student of Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister and a Counsellor of some note After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660 he was created Sergeant at Law and in the year following being elected a Burgess for Ludlow in Shropshire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 8 of May was made Deputy for Sir Geffry Palmer Chief Justice of Chester by the name of Job Charlton of Ludford in Herefordshire Esque and in Octob. the same year 1661 was made the first Judge of the Council of Wales and Marches of the same In 1662 he being then a Knight was made Chief Justice of Chester and on the 5 February 1672 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in the place of Sir Edw. Turner Knight At which time he spake two Speeches to his Majesty and Parliament upon his admission to that Office which were soon after printed in folio papers On the 15 of the said month he gave up the said honorable office under pretence of indisposition of body yet a certain Writer tells us that he whom he calls a dull welsh Judge had 500 l. per an for giving it up at which time succeeded Edw. Seymour Esq In the latter end of April 1680 he was constituted one of the Justices of the Common Pleas whereupon his Chief Justiceship of Chester was confer'd upon Sir George Jeffries Recorder of London Afterwards he was made Chief Justice of Chester again and was living in 1688 and perhaps may be still being a great friend to the Ch. of England May 12. Will Thomas of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards B. of Worcester June 7. John Bishop of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters an 1635. 11. Joh. Owen of Qu. 21. Charles Hoole of Linc. Tho. More of Mert. Coll. July 5. Henry Killigrew of Ch. Ch. Franc. Goldsmith of S. Joh. Coll. Oct. 20. Hen. Bignell of S. Maries Hall Hen. Bridgman of Oriel Coll. The first of these two was originally of Brasn Coll. the other was afterwards of the same Coll. 25. Will. Eyre of Magd. Hall Dec. 4. George Ashwell of Wadh. Randal Sanderson of Qu. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters in 1636. Feb. 27. Franc. Woodcock of Brasn Coll. All which except Jâ—b Chaâ—lton I. Bishop and R. Sanderson will be mention'd at large elsewhere Adm. 198. Bach. of Law Nov. 9. Rob. Price of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of Fernes and Leighlin in Ireland 27. Will. Fuller of St. Edm. Hall He was also afterwards a Bishop in Ireland and at length Bishop of Lincoln Besides these two were admitted nine more among whom were Giles Sweit of St. Maries Hall Justinian Lewin of Pemb. Coll. and John March of St. Edmunds Hall which last I take to be the same Joh. March who afterwards published several things of the common Law Qu. Mast of Arts. May 8. Constantine Jessop of Jesus Coll. June 5. Clem. Barksdale of Glouc. Hall Thom. Powell of Jes Coll. 26. Franc. Roberts of Trin. July 5. Obadiah Grew of Ball. Coll. Admitted 152. Bach. of Phys But two were this year admitted of whom Thomas Simpson of Ch. Ch. was one and one admitted to practice in the same faculty Bach. of Div. May 2. Joh. Gumbleden of Ch. Ch. 9. Thom. Wetherell Joh. Strickland Joh. Ellis of Jes Coll. of Qu. Coll. The first of these three Th. Wetherell who was a Cumberland Man born and eminent for his knowledge in the Greek tongue wrot Radices Linguae Graecae which are put at the end of one of the editions of Jo. Riders Dictionary One Tho. Wetherell Bac. of Div. published five Sermons in 1635. But he is not the same with the former as the Seniors of Queens Coll. tell me June 30. Bruno Ryves of Magd. July 6. Joh. Lewgar of Trin. Coll. Oct. 23. George Griffith of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Alex. Grosse of Exet. Coll. Besides these were nineteen more admitted of whom Thom. Cook of Brasn Coll. was one being then accounted a most learned Divine He was after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire and Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in the Diocess of Hereford in the place as it seems of Dr. Morgan Godwin You are now to understand that one Tho. Cook Bach. of Div. wrot a book entit Episcopacy asserted as it now stands established in our Church and Commonwealth c. Lond. 1641. qu. Which Th. Cook having been bred as I conceive in Cambridge and afterwards beneficed in the East parts of England he is not to be taken to be the same with the former of Brasnose who afterwards was a Covenanteer and never lived in those parts or tho very able published any thing He died 6. Apr. 1669. aged 73 and was buried in the Church at Bampton whereupon his Vicaridge and Archdeaconry were confer'd on Steph. Philipps M. of A. of Brasnose who married his only Daughter and Heir Doct. of Law June 30. Giles Sweit of St. Maries Hall lately of Oriel College accumulated the Degrees in the Civil Law He was afterwards Principal of St.
Ignorance Treachery and Hypocrisie 33 Brief History of Muscâ—via and of other less known Countries lying eastward of Russia as far as Cathay c. Lond. 1682. oct 34 The right of the People over Tyrants printed lately in qu. These I think are all the things that he hath yet extant those that are not are The body of Divinity which my friend calls Idâ—a Theologiae now or at least lately in the hands of the Authors Acquaintance called Cyr. Skinner living in Mark lane London and the Latin Thesaurus in those of Edw. Philipps his Nephew At length this great Scholar and frequent Writer dying in his house at Bunhill near London in a fit of the Gout but with so little pain that the time of his expiring was not perceived by those in the room on the ninth or tenth day of Novemb. 1674 was buried in the grave of his Father who died very aged about 1647 in the Chancel of the Church of S. Giles near Cripplegate London See more of him in Sir Walter Raleigh among the Writers numb 458. He was of a moderate Stature and well proportion'd of a ruddy Complexion light brown hair and had handsome features yet his eyes were none of the quickest When he was a Student in Cambridge he was so fair and clear that many called him the Lady of Christs Coll. His deportment was affable and his gate erect and manly bespeaking courage and undauntedness On which account he wore a sword while he had his sight and was skill'd in using it He had a delicate tuneable voice an excellent ear could play on the Organ and bear a part in vocal and instrumental Musick The Estate which his Father left him was but indifferent yet by his frugality he made it serve him and his Out of his Secretaries Salary he saved 2000 l. which being lodg'd in the Excise and that bank failing upon his Majesties Restauration he utterly lost that sum By the great Fire which hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 he had a house in Breadstreet burnt which was all the real Estate that he had then left To conclude he was more admired abroad and by Foreigners than at home and was much visited by them when he liv'd in Petty France some of whom have out of pure devotion gone to Breadstreet to see the House and Chamber where he was born c. Creations Jun. 16. Henry Bridgman of Brasnose lately of Oriel Coll. was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Jul. 30. David Smart of Hart Hall was actually created Master of Arts which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1636. An. 12 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Rich. Baylie D. D. President of S. Johns Coll. and Dean of Salisbury Jul. 22. Proct. Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. John Good of New Coll. April 27. Bach. of Arts. May 3. John Good Will. Walwyn of S. Joh. Coll. Of the last you may more among the Bach. of Div. 1647. Rich. West of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the created Doctors of Divinity in Dec. 1660. 5. Edm. Gregory of Trin. 24. Christop Bennet of Linc. Coll. June 30. Rob. Wickins of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. George Laurence of New Inn. 5. Tho. Holyoake of Qu. Coll. Oct. 15. Benj. Wells of S. Albans afterwards of S. Maries Hall and at length of All 's Coll. 20. Jerem. Turner of S. Edm. Hall Nov. 14. Edmund Ludlow of Trin. Coll. This person who was born at Mayden Bradley in Wilts did upon the breaking out of the Rebellion side with the Presbyterians became a Colonel Governour of Wardour Castle in his own Country one of the prime Officers in the Parliament Army and at length sate as one of the Judges when K. Ch. 1. was condemn'd to dye Afterwards he went into Ireland where he was Lieutenant General of the Army appointed by the Parliament and Lord Deputy for a time upon the death of Ireton In the time of Oliver he was a Major General a grand fanatick and a zealous favourer of all such who were anti-monarchical but upon a foresight of the Kings Restauration he fled into a strange land to avoid the halter was at Losanne with Goff Whaley Fare when Lisle was kill'd there in Aug. 1664 and soon after as 't was then said he with his Wife retired to Zurich He was the Son of Sir Hen. Ludlow of Mayden Bradley before mentioned Knight elected a Knight for his Country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 where he shewed himself an enemy to the King and his party and dying at Mayden Bradley 1660 or thereabouts was there buried By Letters dated at London 19 of Sept. 1689 I was informed that the said Edm. Ludlow who had lived several years in Switzerlandt was daily expected at Westminster with four Deputies from the Cantons to make an Offer to his Majesty K. Will. 3. to raise men in that Country for his service How true this is I know not yet sure I am that the said Ludlow was then in London and that his being there being notoriously known an Address was presented to his Majesty from the House of Commons on the 7 of Nov. following or thereabouts by the hands of Sir Edward Seymour a Member of Parliament that he would be pleased to put out a Proclamation for the apprehending of Col. Ludlow attainted for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. c. Whereupon Ludlow hastning away as soon as he heard of the motion of an Address to the sea side lay almost a Fortnight before he could be accommodated with a good Wind and then returned to Switzerlandt in the year of his age 74 at least In the beginning of March 1690 was published a pernicious Pamphlet entit A Letter from Major Gen. Ludlow to Sir E. S. Seymour comparing the Tyranny of the first four years of K Charles the Martyr with the Tyranny of the four years reign of the late abdicated King James 2. occasion'd by reading Dr Pelang's leud Harangues upon the 30 of January being the Anniversary or general madding day Amsterd alias Lond. 1691 in 4 sheets in qu. Written as a Preface to a larger work to come to Justifie the Murder of King Charles 1. not by the said Ludlow but by some malevolent person in England Much about which time was published under Joh. Milton's name The right of the people over Tyrants such is the liberty since the late Mutation allowed to the Press Jan. 15. John Birkenhead of Oriel afterwards Febr. 11. Henry Birkhead of Trin. afterwards of All 's Coll. March 9. Joseph Brookbank of Brasn 17. Hen. Vaughan of Jesus lately of Oriel Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Ludlow will be mentioned elsewhere Adm. 233. Bach. of Law Jun. 18. Hen. Janson of Ball. Coll. Jul. 3. John Godolphin of Gloc. Hall Besides these were sixteen more admitted and two created but not one of them can I yet find was afterwards a Writer or
Scotland He was afterwards made a Baron of England by the Title of Lord Bruce of Whorlton in Yorkshire and departed this life 21 Dec. 1663 leaving then behind him a Son named Robert created Earl of Aylesbury in Bucks by K. Ch. 2. who dying on the 19 of Octob. or thereabouts an 1685 he being then Lord Chamberlain to the houshold of K. Jam. 2. was buried at Ampthill in Bedfordshire where if I mistake not the body of his Father had been interr'd He was a learned Person and otherwise well qualified was well vers'd in English History and Antiquities a lover of all such that were Professors of those studies and a curious collector of MSS especially of those which related to England and English antiquities Besides also he was a lover of the regular Clergy as those of Bedfordsh and Bucks know well enough Henry Spencer of Magd. Coll. eldest Son of William Lord Spencer Baron of Wormleighton This Henry was afterwards Earl of Sunderland and taking part with K. Ch. 1. when he was opposed by his rebellious Subjects was slain in the Battel at Newbury in Berks 20. Sept. 1643. whereupon his body was carried to Braynton commonly call'd Brinton in Northamptonshire and there buried George Lord Digby of Magd. Coll. the eldest Son of John Earl of Bristow William Lord Craven of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Earl of Craven and is now 1690 living Will. Herbert of Exet. Coll. a younger Son of Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Coventrie Bach. of Arts and Fellow of All 's Coll. Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie Keeper of the great Seal See among the Bachelaurs of Law an 1638. Rich. Lovelace a Gentleman Commoner of Gloc. Hall Afterwards eminent for his valour and poetry as I shall tell you either in the next Vol. or elsewhere Hen. Jacob the curious critick of Merton Coll. Ralph Brideoakâ— of New Coll. sometimes a Student in that of Brasn He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester Frederick Schlâ—de of the Palat. in Germ. Nich. Oudart Esq This Person who was born at Mechlin in Brabant and brought from beyond the Seas by Sir Henry Wotton who afterwards trusted him with his domestick Affairs studied Physick of which faculty he was Bachelaur as I shall tell you among the Creations under the year 1642. About which time he became Secretary to Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State at Oxon and afterwards attending King Charles 1. in the Treaty in the Isle of Wight an 1648. lived for some time obscurely At length he became Secretary to the Princess of Orange then Latin Secretary to William Prince of Orange and of his Council in which capacity I find him in 1669. and afterwards Latin Secretary to King Charles 2. He paid his last debt to nature in or near to Whitehall about the day of the nativity of our Saviour an 1681. One Nich. Oudart of Bruxells who was official of Mechlin died 1608 whom I take to be Father or Uncle to the former Paul Becker of the Palatinate George Kendall of New Inn. Joh. Suatosius c. Bach. of Div. Sam. Keme or Kem of Magd. Hall sometimes of Magd. Coll. Mark Zeiglier of Exeter Coll. who entitles himself Archipalatinus He was a learned Man and whether he hath published any thing I cannot justly tell He became a Sojournor in the University 1623. Doct. of Law Sir Dudley Carleton of Holcombe in Oxfordshire Knight He was soon after made one of the Clerks of the Council and whether Secretary of State as an Author of no good credit tells us I cannot tell See more of him in Sir Dudley Carleton among the Writers under the year 1631. num 519. Sam. Henton or Hinton He died at Lichfield in 1668. Will. Turner of Wadham Coll. He was now or soon after a Civilian of Doctors Commons and in the time of the rebellion he sided with those that were uppermost In the middle of Jan. 1659 he was appointed by the Rump Parliament then newly restored by General Geor. Monk one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and of the Court for Probat of Wills Dr. Walt. Walker and Mr. W. Cawley being the other two And after his Majesties restauration he became Chancellour of Winchester a Knight and Advocate to the Duke of York He died at Richmond in Surrey as I conceive an 1670. At the same time that these were created Doctors of the Civil Law was a proposal made in the Convocation that Sir John Finet Knight Master of the Ceremonies should be also created or at least diplomated Doctor of the said faculty but whether he was really so it appears not in the publick register However what I have to say of him shall be briefly this viz. 1 That he was the Son of Rob. Finet of Soulton near Dover in Kent Son and Heir of Thomas Son and Heir of John Finet of Siena in Italy where his name is antient who came into England in the quality of a Servant to Cardinal Laur. Campegius Legat a latere from the Pope by his Wife the Daughter of one Mantell sometimes a Maid of honor to Qu. Catherine the Royal Consort of K. Hen. 8. 2 That the said John Finet was always bred in the Court where by his wit innocent mirth and great skill in composing songs he pleased K. Jam. 1. very much 3 That he was sent into France an 1614. about matters of publick concern and in the year after he received the honour of Knighthood at Whitehall about which time he was made Assistant to the Master of the Ceremonies with reversion of that place 4 That upon the death of Sir Lewis Lewknore Master of the Ceremonies he had that office confer'd upon him 12. March 1626 being then in good esteem with his Majesty King Charles 1. 5 That he wrot Fineti Philoxenis Some choice observations touching the reception and precedency the treatment and audience the punctilio's and contests of foreign Ambassadors in England Lond 1656. oct Published by James Howell and by him dedicated to Philip Lord L'isle 6 That he translated from French into English The beginning continuance and decay of Estates c. Lond. 1606. qu. Written originally by R. de Lusing And lastly that dying 12. July 1641 aged 70 years was buried in the North side of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster by the body of Jane his sometimes Wife daughter of Henry Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead in Suffolk Sister to the Earl of Cleevland Doct. of Phys Peter Turner of Mert. Coll. lately Geometry Professor of Gresham Coll. now the Savilian Professor of Geometry in this University John Carter of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a practitioner of his faculty near to Chancery-lane in Lond. Gaspar Hopfius of the Palat. in Germany Doct. of Div. George Warburton of Brasn Coll. was the first and senior Theologist that was actually created Doct. of Div. He was a Cheshire man born of an antient Family had been Chaplain in Ord. to K. Jam. 1.
to that Declaration and not according to the antient Laws and Customs of the Land and Church Wherefore he being uncertain whether the Kings Declaration would stand or pass into a Law he delayed to see the certainty and when he saw that the Declaration was dead and Prelacy was as 't was before he utterly refused it So that continuing in the said Cure of S. Mary Aldermanbury till S. Bartholomew's day in 1662 he was then ejected for Nonconformity Notwithstanding which he preached soon after in the said Church on a Sunday and on the 28 of Dec. following when then among other dangerous passages he said the Ark of God was lost and the glory was departed from Israel For which his contempt to the then late Act of Parliament for Uniformity he was by virtue of the L. Mayor's Mittimus committed Prisoner to Newgate on the 6 Jan. 1662 where continuing for some time Dr. Rob. Wild the Presbyterian Poet made and published a Poem on his Imprisonment as did the Author called Hudibras Most of the things that he hath written and published are Sermons seven of which at least were preached before the Long Parliament as 1 Englands looking glass before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 22 Dec. 1641 on Jer. 18. 7 8 9 10. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Gods free mercy to England before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 23 Feb. 1641 on Ezek. 36. 32. Lond. 1642. qu. 3 The Noblemans pattern of true and real thankfulness at a solemn Thanksgiving 15 Jun. 1643 on Josh 24. 15. Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Englands antidote against the plague of Civ War before the House of Commons at their Fast on Acts 17. latter part of the 13 verse Lond. 1645. qu. 5 An indictment against England because of her self-murdering divisions before the House of Lords at their Fast 25 Dec. Christmas day 1644 on Math. 12. 25. latter part Lond. 1645. qu. c. Afterwards he published The great danger of Covenant refusing and Covenant breaking c. preached before the L. Mayor Sheriffs Aldermen Ministers c. of London on 2 Tim. 3. 3. Lond. 1646. qu. Serm. at the funeral of Sam. Bolton another before the L. Mayor called The monster of self-seeking anatomized five Sermons entit The godly mans ark or a city of refuge in the day of his distress printed several times in tw The eighth Edition of which was printed at Lond. 1683. The first Sermon was preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Moore to which are added her Evidences for Heaven and the other four were preached on several occasions Another Serm. to the native Citizens of London called The City remembrancer in oct Sermon at the funeral of Rob. Earl of Warwick an 1658. Sermon at the funeral of Simeon Ash an 1662 and about the same time A farewel Sermon when he was to leave S. Mary Aldermanbury c. He hath also written A just and necessary Apology against an unjust invective published by Mr. Hen. Burton in a late book of his entit Truth still Truth though shut out of doors c. Lond. 1646. qu. Also The art of divine Meditation in oct and A leading case c. At length having lived to a fair age gave way to fate in Octob. 1666 being soon after the grand Conflagration of the City of London which hastned his end but where buried unless within the precincts of the Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury which a little before was consumed by the said Fire I cannot yet tell He left behind him a son named Benjamin afterwards D. of D. a loyal person excellent preacher and a zealous man for the Church of England Of Edm. Calamy see more in Jos Caryl in the other Vol. Jul. 10. Thom. Fleetwood Doctor of the Laws of Padua He was now or lately of All 's Coll. Oct. 12. George Hammond Scholar of Trin. Coll. near to Dublin and Bach. of Arts there Nov. 9. Dudley Loftus of Trin. Coll. before mention'd was incorporated Bach. of Arts as he had stood there which degree was confer'd upon him in that University Dublin 19 Jan. 1637. Dec. 17. Richard Rolle Bach. of Arts of Cambr. He was now of Gloc. Hall but originally of New Inn which is all I know of him March 16. Edw. Harrison Bach. of Arts of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge Creations Jun. 14. Joh. Birkenhead of Oriel Coll. was declared Master of Arts and admitted to the degree in the Congregation house by virtue of the Diploma of the Archb. of Canterbury dated 5 Octob. 1639. I shall make mention of this person at large in the second Volume of this Work An. Dom. 1640. An. 16 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Christop Potter D. D. Provost of Queens Coll. and Dean of Worcester Proct. Peter Allibond of Linc. Coll. Nich. Greaves of All 's Coll. Apr. 15. But the senior dying in the Parish of S. Bride in London about the beginning of Feb. Will. Watson of the same Coll. was within few days after elected into his place and admitted according to the Caroline Cycle Bach. of Musick July 9. Arthur Philipps Organist of Magd. Coll. and publick Professor of the musical Praxis of this University Afterwards upon the change of the times and a perfect foresight of the ruin of the Church he changed his Religion for that of Rome and became Organist to Henrietta Maria Qu. of England From whose service being dismist he returned into England and was entertained by a Roman Catholick Gent. called Caryll of Sussex He hath made several vocal compositions of two and three parts which have been tried and commended by several great Masters of Musick but whether any of them are extant I cannot yet tell One Pet. Philipps an English man and Organist to Albert the Archduke of Austria hath composed and published Madrigals for eight voices Antwerp 1599. qu. dedicated to Sir Will. Stanley a Colonel of a Regiment of English and Walloons To which Peter Philipps Arthur before mention'd was nearly related if not descended from him Bach. of Arts. Apr. 22. Humph. Brooke of S. Johns Coll. June 4. Henr. Stanhope of Exeter Coll. Son of the Earl of Chesterfield George Jolliff of Pembr afterwards of Wadham College was admitted the same day 11. Sim. Ford of Magd. Hall July 7. Martin Llewellin of Ch. Ch. Oct. 24. John Fell Rich. Allestrie of Ch. Ch. Nov. 3. Will. Joyner of Magd. Coll. 6. George Strading of Jesus afterwards of Allsoules Coll. See among the created Doct. of Div. 1661. 10. Philip Stephens of S. Alb. Hall See among the Doct. of Phys an 1633. Feb. 9. Will. Jackson of Magdalen afterwards of Brasnose Coll. a noted Grammarian All which Bachelaurs except Stanhope will be at large mention'd elsewhere Adm. 181. Bach. of Law May 19. Rich. Whitlock of All 's Coll. 21. John Manley of Magd. Hall He afterwards as it seems studied the common Law and became eminent therein Besides these two were nine more admitted among whom Joh. Hall
122. k Jac. War ut sup p. 26â— l Ibid. p. 130. m Ibid. p. 2721. a Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul Angl. in t episc Elien b See the Brief view of the state of the Ch. of Engl. c. quoted before in Tho. Godwin p. 80. c Ib. in Fr. Godwin in t ep Gloc. d Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. sub an 1607. e In Jo. Stow's Survey of London printed 1633. and in W. Dugdales History of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. f Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul Hibâ—rn edit 1665. p. 260. Clar. 1611. * Bries view of the state of the Church of England c. p. 152. g Pat. 9. Jac. 1. p. 21. h Ibid. in War p. 140 a Ibid. p. 28. b Sir Joh. Harrington in his Brief view of the state of the Ch. of England p. 96. c Godwin in t ep Salisb. d By Sir Jo. Harr. ut sup p. 93. alias 95. 1â—16 e So it is on his monument in the Ch. of S. Pet. and S. Paul at Bathâ— f Pet. Heylin in his Observations on the History of the reign of K. Charles published by Ham. L'Estrange-printed 1656. oct p. 77. a Ib. in Godwin in t ep Bang b Vide Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 316. b. c Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1616. d In Offic. 〈◊〉 cant in reg Cope part 2 Q 19. e Author of the 〈…〉 c. before mention'd p. 208. f Pat. 1â— Jac. â— p. 30. u Pat. 8. Jac. 1. p. 52. w Jac. War ut sup p. 224. 1617-18 a Idem Jac. War p. 213. 224. 1621 b Fr. Godw. ut sup in t ep S. Asaph c Pat. 2. Jac. 1. p. 31. d In Offic. praerog Cam. in reg Berkley part 2. Qu. 65. e See the Preface to Aulieus Coquinariae f Will. Sanderson in his Proem to the Reign and death of K. James 1. printed 1655. fol. g So in the said Preâ— to Aul. Coq 1625-6 a 〈…〉 p. 189. b In Britannia in 〈…〉 a Pat. 21. Jac. 1. p. 28. b 〈…〉 of England in Northampâ—â—â—shirc * Pat. 8. â—ar 1. p. 14 163â— 163â— a Pat. 10. Car. 1. p. 39. b Pat. 11. Car. 1. p. 14. c Pat. 11. â—ar 1. p. 17. c Jac. War ut supra p. 189. d Ibid. p. 130. e Pat. 11. Car. 1. p. 25. f Pat. 14. Car. 1. p. 35. g Ib. in Jac. War ut supra p. 20â— a Reg. antiq coll Aenean fol. 95. a. b Pat. 9. Car. 1. p. 1â— c Paâ— 1â— Car. 1. p. 15. †Iac. War ut up in 〈…〉 paâ—â—ul 〈…〉 * Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 13. 1640-1 †See in Canterburies Doom printed in fol. 1646. p. 353. * Dr. P. Heylin in his History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud lib. 3. part 1. †See more in Ballio-Fergus written by Hen. Savage printed at Oxon. 1668. p. 119. Clar. 1640. a 〈…〉 b 〈◊〉 Hobbes of Malmsbury in his Hist. of 〈…〉 of England printed 1680. pg. 54. c In reg Epistol Univ. Oxon. â— Epâ—â—t â— d 〈…〉 e Paâ— 4. Ed. 6 part 5. f 〈…〉 g 〈…〉 h 〈…〉 i 〈…〉 k 〈…〉 l 〈…〉 m 〈…〉 n 〈…〉 o Tho. Hatcher of Kings Coll. in his Catalogue of Provosts Fellows and Scholars of Kings Coll. in Cambridge MSâ— under thâ—â—ear 〈◊〉 p In Hist 〈…〉 q In 〈◊〉 Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib…pag 417 〈◊〉 * Reg. Act. Congâ—â—g G. fol. 110. a. b. * In Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. a In the 〈◊〉 Office near S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in Lond. in Reâ— Hâ—â—der Qu. 18. in the Will of Rich Bishop of Hereford b In the Transcript of his Itineraries in bib Bod. fol. 172. 2. * Laur. Humfred in 〈◊〉 morte Jo◠〈…〉 p. 〈◊〉 a Camden in his Remains printed 163â— p. 14â— among the Sirnames a 〈…〉 an 1566. b Edit London 1589. p. 5â— c In reg 〈…〉 a In Visib Monarch edit 1592. lib. 7. pag. 666. b Reg. Congreg H. fol. 81. a. * See in The natural history of Staffordshire written by Dr. Robert Pâ—ot cap. 8. pag. 277. 296. * In lib Epist 26. Epist 39. †〈…〉 Communi omnium linguarum a Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an 1559. b At the end of the first Edition of Antiq. Britan. Ecclisia c. by Matth. Parker Archb. of Cant. c Pat. 26. Hen. 8. p. d In the Act. and Mon. of the Church under the year 1533. e In Offic. Armorum in lib. C. 10. fol. 96. f George carltonus in Vita Bern. Gilpin Edit 1628. p. 32. a Reg. Congreg H. fol. 1 4. b. 17â— b a In Principum cruâ—itorum in Aug iâ— Virorum 〈◊〉 Trâ—phâ—is c. Lond. 1589. p. 96. b In 〈…〉 Lond. 1573. p. 45. 4â— * In his Acts and Monumments of the Church under the year 1554. †See more of him in Jâ— Fox his Book of Acts and Mon of the Church c. under the year 1554. a 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 ‡ In Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. l. â— p. 〈…〉 a 〈…〉 p. 23. 45 c. * Lâ—ur Humfredus in Vit. 〈…〉 †〈◊〉 Univ. 〈◊〉 fol. 12. â— a 〈…〉 Monarch edit 1592. p. 6â—0 b 〈…〉 in 〈◊〉 Decanorum 〈…〉 Winds MS. pene◠〈◊〉 A. W. c Tâ—o â—ouchier in Hist Ecclesiastica de Martyrâ— fratrum 〈…〉 c. edit Ingolstad 1583. part 2. fol. 15. b. d Franc. a S. 〈◊〉 in Hist 〈…〉 Frotrum Minorum c. edit 〈…〉 1665. Sect. 15. p. 4. 〈◊〉 60. a 〈…〉 p. 690. * Vid. 〈◊〉 Saunders De 〈◊〉 Monarch edit 1592. lib. 7. p. 666. a â—d Grant in Orat de Vit. Ob. Reg. 〈◊〉 Edit 1577. b Gul. Camden in Annal 〈…〉 sub an 1568 c 〈◊〉 Fox in his Book of Acts and Moâ— c. under the year 1558. d Joh. pitt in Append. nom 2â— c. e In his Hist of Cambridge sect 6. p. 91. a 〈…〉 Coll. Magd. B. fol. 〈…〉 b In Cygn Cant. c Rich. Stanyhurst in Descript 〈◊〉 cap. 7 * George 〈◊〉 Bishop of 〈◊〉 c In the reg of Administrations in the 〈◊〉 near St. Pauls Cathedral beginning on the first day of Jan. 1571. fol. 42. a. d See in John Whytes 〈…〉 c. Lond. 1553. fol 95. e In his book of 〈◊〉 Acts and 〈◊〉 of the Church c. under the years 1556. and 58. * 〈…〉 c. Lond. 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 a See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 boo◠〈…〉 b The Author of 〈…〉 Justice in England printed the second time 1563. c 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * In his Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the year 1558. 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 †〈…〉 in his Review of the Court of K. 〈◊〉 by Sir A. W. MS. 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 in his last volume of 〈◊〉 Printed 15â—7 p. 1874. c. * See A view of 10 publick disputations published by Robert 〈◊〉 cap. 4. p. â—4 a In 〈…〉 S. Joh. Bapt. Oxon. Script per Christop 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 or his
treatise of predestination Lond. 1581. oct De Christo gratis justificante contra Jesuitus Lond. 1583. oct Disputatio contra Jesuitas eorum argumenta quibus inhaerenâ—â—n justitiam ex Aristotile confirmant Rupell 1585. oct Eicasmi seu meditationâ—s in Apocal. S. Johannis Apostoli Evangelistae Lond. 1587. fol. Genev. 1596. oct Papa consutatus vel sacra Apostolica Ecclesia papam confutans Translated into English by James Bell a great admirer of Joh. Fox pr. at Lond. in qu. Brief exhortation fruitful and meet to be read in the time of Gods visitation where Ministers do lack or otherwise cannot be present to comfort them Lond. in oct He translated also from English into Latin Concio funebris in obitum Augustae memoriae Ferdinandi Caesaris recens defuncti in Eccles Cath. S. Pauli habitae 3. Oct. 1564. Also from Latin into English 1 A Sermon of Joh. Oecolampadius to young Men and Maidens Lond. in tw 2 An instruction of Christian Faith how to lay hold upon the promise of God and not to doubt of our salvation Or otherwise thus Necessary instructions of faith and hope for Christians to hold fast and not to doubt c. Lond. 1579. sec edit in oct Written by Urbanus Regius He finished also and compleated An answer Apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective Lond. 1577 and 1581. qu. began in Latin by Walt. Haddon LL D. and published The four Evangelists in the old Saxon tongue with the English thereunto adjoyned Lond. 1571. qu. What else he wrot and translated you may see in Baleus but the reader is to understand that several of those books that he mentions were never printed At length after our Author had spent 70 years or more in this vain and transitory world he yielded to nature on the 18. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate before-mention'd year 1587 Over his grave is set up an inscription to his memory on the South wall a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq Univ. Oxon. lib. 2 p. 195. but not one word of him which is a wonder to me is mention'd in the Annalls of Q. Elizab. written by Will. Camden or by any Epigrammatist of his time only Joh. Parkhurst who was his acquaintance in this University He left behind him a Son named Samuel born in the City of Norwych made Demie of Magd. Coll. 1576. aged 15 afterwards Fellow of that House and Master of Arts who about 1610 wrot The life of his Father Joh. Fox which is set in Latin and English before the second Volume of Acts and Monuments printed at Lond. 1641. I find one Joh. Fox to be Author of Time and the end of time in 2 discourses printed at Lond. in 12 o but that Joh. Fox was later in time than the former While Joh. Fox the Martyriologist was Prebendary of Sarum he settled the Corps belonging thereunto which is the impropriation of Shipton Underwood near Burford in Oxfordshire on his Son whose Grand-daughter named Anne Heir to her Father Tho. Fox was married to Sir Ric. Willis of Ditton in Essex Knight and Baronet sometimes Colonel-general of the Counties of Linc. Nott. and Rutland and Governour of the Town and Castle of Newark who or at least his Son Tho. Fox Willis enjoyeth it to this day an 1690. JOHN FIELD was a noted Scholar of his time in this University but in what house he studied I cannot yet tell One of both his names was admitted Fellow of Lincoln Coll. in the Year 1555 but took no Degree if the register saith right Another took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1564 and that of Master three years after And a third Jo. Field took the Degree of Bach. of Arts only in 1570. Which of these three was afterwards John Field the famous Preacher and Minister of St. Giles Cripplegate in London who saith in one of his books which I shall anon mention that he was educated in Oxon I cannot justly say unless it be he that was Mast of Arts. The works of that Joh. Field who saith that he was of the Univ. of Oxon are these Prayers and meditations for the use of private families and sundry other Persons according to their divers states and occasions Lond. 1581. 85. 1601. c. in tw Caveat for Persons Howlet and the rest of the dark brood Lond. 1581. oct Exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct Godly Exhortation by occasion of a late judgment of God shewed at Paris garden 13. Januar. 1583. upon divers Persons whereof some were killed and many hurt at a Beare-baiting c. Lond. 1583. oct Printed there again 1588 with this title A declaration of the Judgment of God shewed at Paris garden c. The said Jo. Field also hath translated into English 1 A treatise of Christian righteousness Lond. 1577. oct Written in French by Mr. J. de L'espine 2 Notable treatise of the Church in which are handled all the principal questions that have been moved in our time concerning that matter Lond. 1579. oct Written in French by Phil. de Mornay 3 Sermons on Jacob and Esau on Gen. 25. ver 12. to the 38. verse of 27. of Gen. Lond. 1579. qu. Written by Joh. Calvin 4 Four Sermons entreating of matters very profitable for our time the first of which is on Psal 16. 3. With a brief exposition of the 87 Psalm Lond. 1579. qu. Written in French by John Calvin 5 Second part of questions which is concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1580. Written by Theod. Beza 6 Com. on the Creed Lond. 1582. oct Written by Gasp Olevian 7 Prayers used at the end of the readings upon the Prophet Hosea Lond 1583. in 16. Which prayers were made and written by J. Calvin 8 Christian Meditations on the 6. 25 and 32 Psalmes Lond. in 16o. written by P. Pilesson c. besides other things which I have not yet seen At length our Author Field dying about his middle age in the latter end of the year after the 16. year 1586 Febr. Fifteen hundred eighty and seven was buried in the Church of St. Giles before mention'd leaving behind him several Children of which the eldest was named Theophilus Field educated in Cambridge afterwards Chaplain to King James the first Bishop of Landaff and at length of Hereford as I shall more at large tell you elsewhere WILLIAM HARRISON was a Londoner born educated in Grammar learning at Westminster under Mr. Alex. Nowell in the latter end of King Hen. 8. or beginning of King Edw. 6. sent to Oxon to obtain Academical learning but to what house therein unless Ch. Ch. I cannot justly tell From Oxon he went to Cambridge and making some stay there became at length domestick Chaplain to Sir Will. Brook Knight Lord Warden of the Cinque ports and Baron of Cobham in Kent who if I mistake not preferr'd him to a benefice He hath written
Historical description of the Island of Britain with a brief rehearsal of the nature and qualities of the People of England and such commodities as are to be found in the same In 3. books They were first published in the first and second volume of Chronicles that go under the name of Raphael Holinshed printed at Lond. 1577. in fol. and there again in 1587 with augmentations by Jo. Hooker alias Vowell The collection is made from divers choice Authors many of which were then in MS. A Chronologie Gathered and compiled with most exquisite diligence after the example of Gerardus Mercator and other late Chronoligers So saith Raph. Holinshed in his Preface to the third volume of Chronicles What he hath written besides I know not nor any thing else but that he was living in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven I find one Will. Harrison born in the Dioc. of London elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1557 admitted M. of Arts in 1560 being then beneficed near to Northampton but he dying 1564 cannot be understood to be the same with the writer Another Will. Harrison I find to be installed Canon of Windsore 1586. being about that time Rector of Radwynter in Essex who dying 1593 was buried at Windsore leaving behind him several Children which he had by his Wife Marian Daughter of Will. Isebrand of Anderne near to Guisnes in Picardie Whether this Will. Harrison be the same with the writer I cannot tell WILLIAM WATKINSON was educated in Ch. Ch. became Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts afterwards he was one of the Proctors and Bach. of Divinity of this University He hath translated into English 1 Of the happiness of this our age and the ingratitude of Men to God for his benefits Lond. 1578. qu. Written by Joh. Rivius 2 Meditations on the 32. Psalm Lond. 1579. oct and other things which I have not yet seen How long he lived beyond Fifteen hundred eighty and seven 29. Elizab. in which year he took the Degree of Bach. of Div. I know not ULPIAN FULWELL a Somersethire Man born and a Gentlemans Son became a Commoner of St. Maries Hall in the Year 1578 aged 32 but whether he took any Degree among us it appears not While he continued in the said House where he was esteemed a Person of ingenuity by his contemporaries he partly wrot The eighth liberal science called Ars adulandi or the Art of flattery Printed 1579. qu. Afterwards having learned the art of Poetry among the Academians he wrot and published A pleasant enterlude intit Like will to like quoth the Devil to the Collier Wherein is declared what punishment follows those that will rather live licentiously that esteem and follow good counsel Lond. 1587. qu. Written in time and printed in an English Character The name of Ulp. Fulwell stands quoted by Jo. Speed in his life of K. Ed. 6. in his Chronicle and therefore I suppose he hath other things printed for I cannot conceive that Joh. Speed should quote him for any thing out of the two former books ROBERT CROWLEY or Croleus as he writes himself a very forward Man for reformation in the time of K. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizab. was born in Glocestershire became a Student in the University about 1534 and was soon after made Demie of Magd. Coll. â—â— 1542 he being then Bach. of Arts was made Probationer-fellow of the said House by the name of Rob. Crule but whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts it appears not for likely it is that he left the University when K. Hen. 8. began to settle a mongrel Religion in the Nation When K. Ed. 6. began to Reign he exercised the profession of Printing in Ely rents in Holbourn near to London sold books and at leisure times exercised the gift of Preaching in the great City and elsewhere But upon the succession of Queen Mary he among several English Protestants lest the Kingdom went to Frankfort in Germany and setled there purposely to enjoy the Religion which had been practised in England in the days of K. Ed. 6. After her decease he returned and had several benefices bestowed on him among which was the Vicaridge of St. Giles by Criplegate in London of which Church he wrot himself Vicar 1566. where continuing his pretended gifts in preaching was followed and respected by the neighbourhood of those parts and by others for his skill in rimes and poetry He hath written The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the sixth of John and the XI of the 1 Epist to the Corinthians c. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Mr. Tho. More against Joh. Frith Printed 5. Apr. 1533 in a small oct Confutation of Nich. Shaxton Bishop of Sarum his recantation of 13 Articles at the burning of Mistris Anne Askew Lond. 1546. oct Explicatio petitoria ad Parliamentum adversus expilatores plebis Printed in the Engl. tongue 1548 in oct Translated into Lat. by John Heron. Confutation of Miles Hoggard's wicked ballad made in defence of transubstantation of the Sacrament Lond. 1548. oct The voice of the last Trumpet blown by the seventh Angell c containing 12 several lessons Lond. 1549. oct Written in meter Pleasure and pain heaven and hell Remember these four and all shall be well Lond. 1550 51. in oct Written in meter Way to wealth wherein is plainly taught a most present remedy for sedition Lond. 1550. oct One and thirty Epigrams wherein are briefly touched so many abuses that may and ought to be put away Lond. 1550. in tw This was printed by the Author Crowley in his house in Ely rents before-mention'd An apologie of those English Preachers and Writers which Cerberus the three-headed dog of hell chargeth with false doctrine under the name of Predestination Lond. 1566. qu. Of which book you may see more in Canterburies doome written by Will. Prynne p. 169. Of the signes and tokens of the latter day Lond. 1567. oct A setting open of the subtile sophistry of Tho. Watson D. D. which he used in his two Sermons preached before Qu. May in Lent 1553 concerning the real presence in the Sacrament Lond. 1569. qu. Sermon in the Chappell at Gilde hall in London 29. Sept. 1574. before the Lord Mayor and the whole state of the Citie on Psalme 139. ver 21. 22. 23. 24. c. Lond. 1575. oct Answer to Tho. Pound his six reasons wherein he sheweth that the Scriptures must be judged by the Church Lond. 1581. qu. Brief discourse concerning those four usual notes whereby Christs Catholick Church is known c. Lond. 1581. qu. Replication to that lewd answer which Frier Joh. Francis of the Minimies order in Nigeon near Paris hath made to a letter that his Mother caused to be sent to him out of England Lond. 1586. qu. Deliberate aunsweare to a Papist proving that Papists are Antichristian Schismaticks
maxims of the Laws of England Lond. 1641. qu. Afterwards printed in oct and tw Perfect conveyancer or several select and choice Precedents Lond. 1655. qu. 2d edit collected partly by Will. Noy and partly by Sir Rob. Hendon Knight sometimes one of the Barons of the Exchequer Rob. Mason sometimes Recorder of London and Henry Fleetweod formerly Reader of Greys Inn. Reports and cases in the time of Qu. Elizabeth K. James and King Charles 1. containing the most excellent exceptions for all manner of Declarations Pleadings and Demurs exactly examined and laid down London 1656. fol. The compleat Lawyer or a Treatise concerning Tenures and Estates in Lands of inheritance for life and other hereditaments and chattels real and personal c. Lond. 1661. and 74. in oct with his picture before it Arguments of Law and Speeches He also left behind him several choice collections that he had made from the Records in the Tower of London reduced into two large paper books of his own hand-writing One contained collections concerning the Kings maintaining his Naval power according to the practice of his Ancestors and the other about the privileges and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical Courts Dr. Tho. James of Oxon. when he compiled his Mannduction or Introduction unto Divinity printed 1625. he afterwards acknowledged himself beholding to the Extracts out of the Tower fairly and largly transcribed as he saith by the said Mr. Noy a great Antiquary of Law Which extracts I presume are the same with those before mention'd At length his body being much out of Order by continual toyling and drudging he retired to Tunbridge-wells to gain health in the month of July but the waters effecting nothing he died there on Saturday the 9. of Aug. following in sixteen hundred thirty and four year 1634 whereupon his body being conveyed to New Brentford in Middlesex was privately buried on the Munday following under the communion table of the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a stone soon after laid with a brass plate fastned thereunto and an inscription thereon but soon after defaced The next day after his departure the news of it came to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury then at Croydon who thereupon made this observation of him in his Diary I have lost a dear friend of him and the Church the greatest she had of his condition since she needed any such His body being opened after his decease his heart was found shrivel'd like a leather penny Purse nor were his Lungs right which caused several conjectures by the Puritans But that which was most observable after his death was his Will dated 3 June 1634. at which all the world wondred because the maker thereof was accounted a great Clerk in the Law for therein after he had bequeathed to his Son Hamphrey an hundred marks per an to be paid out of his tenements in the hundred of Pydar in Cornwall he concludes reliqua omnia c. and the rest of all my Lands Goods c. I leave to my Son Edward Noy whom I make my Executor to be consumed and scattered about nec de so mellus speravi c. But Edward lived not long to enjoy the estate for within two years after he was slain in a Duel in France by one Captain Byron who escaped scot-free and had his pardon as Will. Prynn an inveterate enemy to Will. Noy his Father reports As his Majesty was somewhat troubled at his loss and the Clergy more so the generality of the Commons rejoyced The Vintners drank carouses in hopes to dress meat again and fell Tobaco Beer c. which by a fullen capricio Noy restrained them from The Players also for whom he had done no kindness did the next Term after his decease make him the subject of a merry Comedy stiled A projector lately dead c. He had his humours as well as other men but certainly he was a solid rational man and tho no great Orator yet he was a profound Lawyer and none more better vers'd in Records than he In his place of Attorney General succeeded Sir Joh. Banks and the next year Sir Rob. Heath being removed from the Ch. Justiceship of the Kings Bench for bribery Sir John Finch came into play whereupon these verses were made Noyes Flood is gone The Banks appear Heath is shorn down And Finch sings there THOMAS HICKS or Hyckes Son of Francis Hicks mention'd under the year 1630 was born at Shipson in the parish of Tredington in Worcestershire became a Student in Balliol coll in Mich-Term an 1616. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and at length by the favour of Doctor Duppa Dean of Christs Church became one of the Chaplains or Petticanons of that House about 1628. He hath written The life of Lucian gathered out of his own writings Oxon. 1634. qu. Which life is set before his Fathers translation of certain dialogues of that author Notes and illustrations upon each dialogue and book of Lucian c. Besides his great skill in the Greek rongue he was esteemed among the Academians a good Poet and an excellent Limner And without doubt had not death cut him off in the prime of his years on the sixteenth day of December in sixteen hundred thirty and four he might have benefited the Commonwealth of learning with other matters He died in Christ Church and was buried in the Cathedral there which is all I yet know of him only that Dr. J. F. the publisher of Hist Antiq. Oxon. committed a grand mistake of him in that book lib. 2. p. 283. b. Another of both his names was author of A dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker c. To which a continuation was added by the same author in 1673. in oct ARTHUR PITS or Pitsius as he writes himself a younger Son of Arthur Pits Bach. of Law sometimes Fellow of All 's coll afterwards Registrary of the Diocess and Achdeaconry of Oxford and Impropriator of Eifley near to and in the County of Oxon. was born at Eifley educated for a time either in All 's or Brasnose coll or in both successively having been a Chorister of the first as it it seems but before he took a degree he left the University Country and Relations went to Doway spent some time in the English coll there return'd into his Country was taken and imprison'd but at length being released and ship'd with other Priests and Jesuits at Tower-Wharf at the Queens charge in Febr. 1584. was set on shoar in Normandy Whereupon retiring to Doway passed a course in Divinity became Doctor of that faculty and at length was made Chancellour to the Cardinal of Loraine being then a person much in esteem for his great knowledge in the supream faculty He hath written In quatuor Jesu Christi Evangelia Acta Apostolorum commentarius Duac 1636. in a thick quarto Which being all that he hath written as I suppose was published after his death by
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