the sins of the times preached on the third Sunday after the Prince's death is on Ezech. 9. 4. And the fourth which is called Tears shed over Abner is on 2 Sam. 3. 31. All which four Sermons were printed at Oxon. 1613. qu. 5 Lamentation for the death of the illustrious Pr. Henry and the dissolution of his religious family Two Sermons on Matth. 26. 31. Lond. 1613. qu. 6 Maries memorial on Matth. 26. 13. Lond. 1617. qu. 7 Hearty Prayer in the needful time of trouble on Psal. 118. 25. Lond. 1625. qu. These eleven are all that I have seen of fifteen Sermons or thereabouts that he hath published He yeilded up his last breath at Worthyn or Worthing before mention'd on the 23. Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his Grave was a brass Plate soon after fixed to the Wall and thereon engraven a Latine and English Epitaph made by a fantastical Pedagogue The Latine is in four verses containing a Chronogram of the Doctors death the English his Dignities and Employments which I have before mentioned But that which I am to let the Reader now know is an odd story that hangs at the tayl reported by a R. Catholick Priest but whether true or no the Reader is to judge as he please Dr. Price saith he by the worth of his parts and learning was honoured by being particularly known and respected by his Majesty and then afterward was made Dean of Hereford a place of great estimation All his life time he enjoying his health shewed himself much averse to the Catholicks and troubled divers of them In his lest sickness he desired of his Doctor of Physick that he would senâ— to him a Romish Priest whereupon he was accordingly brought The Doctor told the said Priest that he was then in judgment a Catholick and did intend to dye a member of that Religion Whereupon he took the Sacrament and so was incorporated into the mystical of Christs Cath. Church and with a constant resolution died a member of the holy Church c. Dr. Hen. Butts Vicechancellour of Cambridge hanged himself in his garters in his own Chamber on Easter day 1632. being that day to preach to the Vniversity But Dr. Price like a worthy and Christian confessour of the true Catholick and Roman Religion by means of a natural death we hope now enjoyes the felicity of the Saints Dr. Butts maintaining as is reported the heretical doctrine of Predestination in the end died a Reprobate and by the help of a rope wherewith he hanged himself doth remain in insufferable torments with the Devils c. RICHARD PILKINGTON was descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Rivington in Lancashire but where born unless in the County Pal. of Durham I cannot justly say At about 17 years of age he was sent to Cambridge where continuing till after he was M. of A. retired to Oxon and setling in Queens coll was incorporated in the same degree an 1599. At that time being esteem'd eminent in the faculty of Theology he was admitted in the year following to the reading of the sentences and 7 years after was licensed to proceed in the same faculty In 1625. he was made Archdeacon of Leicester in the place of Robert Johnson deceased being at that time the rich Rector of Hambleton in Bucks which were all the preferments I think that he enjoyed His works are Parallela Or the grounds of the new Rom. Catholick and of the antient Christian Religion out of the holy Scriptures composed together in answer to a late popish Pamphlet intit A Manual of Controversies c. by A. C. S. Lond. 1618. qu. What else he hath written I find not nor any thing material of him besides only that he departed this life about the middle of Sept. year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Hambleton at which time was the most dreadfullest storm of Wind thunder and lightning as ever was known in those parts It occasion'd so great a darkness that the neighbours were forced to convey the Corps to the Grave by lights at four of the Clock in the afternoon I have been also informed by the Rector of that Church Dr. Fr. G. that the storm was so violent that it moved and broke some of the stones that were to cover the Grave and that it forced the Shovel out of the Clerks hand shatter'd it and made an impression on the Chancel Wall as he had received the story from Dr. Pilkingtons servant who then lived in the Parsonage House This last tho very improbable yet certain it is that that most unusual storm did occasion certain odd reports concerning the said Doctor to be made by the R. Catholicks to whom in general he had been a bitter enemy in his preaching and writing ROBERT BOLTON a most religious and learned Puritan was born at Blackbourne in Lancashire on Whitsunday 1572. educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. Yate in the Free-school founded at that place in the 9. year of Q. Elizabeth where in short time by the benefit of excellent parts strong memory labour and attention he became the best Scholar in that schoole At about 18. years of age he being full ripe for the University he was sent to Lincoln coll about 1590. where being put under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Randal a person then of consisiderable note in the University he profited in Logick and Philosophy to the admiration of all meerly occasioned by that ground-work of learning that he had got at School It was then observed that tho he was well skill'd in the Greek tongue yet that he might obtain an exactness in it he did with intollerable pains write out with his own hand either all Homer or Hesiod in a fair Greek character He wrote that language better than English or Latine and was so excellent a Disputant in it that he did with as much facility course or oppose his Antagonist in the publick Schools as in Latine Nay he wrote and spoke it stilo imperatorio as Lipsius calls it and 't was so familiar to him that he could not avoid it From the said college he removed to Brasenose purposely to get a Fellowship because the Society thereof consists mostly of Lancashire and Cheshire men In the beginning of December 1596. he as a member of that coll took the degree of Bach. of Arts but having few friends he stayed long without a Fellowship yet because he should not be disincouraged for he was poor and had little to maintain him Dr. Rich. Brett a very good Greecian of Linc. coll did contribute towards his relief At length with much adoe he became Fellow in 1602. and in the same year proceeded Master of Arts. So that growing famous he was successively chosen reader of the Lectures of Logick and of Moral and Natural Philosophy in that house In 1605.
person who mostly seemed to be a true Son of the Church of England a hater of Papists Arminians and Sectaries published 1 Seven Sermons on the 23. Psal of David Lond. 1603. oct 2 The Converts happiness Sermon on Rev. 3. 20. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The raging tempest still'd The history of Christ's passage with his Disciples over the Sea of Galilee c. Lond. 1623. qu. 4 Help to the best bargain c. Serm. in the Cath. of Canterb. 26. Oct. 1623. Lond. 1624. in oct and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Septemb. 1644. being then the Senior Prebendary of Christ-Church in Canterbury and died shortly after having before cast a stone against Archbishop Laud when he was to be tried for his life JOHN BALL Son of Will. Ball and Agnes Mabet his Wife was born of a plebeian family at Cassington alias Chersington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire in the beginning of Octob. 1585. and baptized the 14. of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School taught by the Vicar of Yarnton a mile distant from Cassington admitted a Student of Brasnose coll in 1602 where continuing under a severe discipline and Tutor about five years in the condition as it seems of a Servitour removed to S. Maries hall and as a Member thereof took the degree of Bac. of Arts in 1608. Soon after he was invited into Cheshire to teach the Children of the Lady Cholmondeley where continuing for some time fell into the acquaintance of several severe Puritans who working on his affections they brought him over to them About that time having gained a sum of money he went to London with some of them and made shift to be ordained a Minister there without subscription by an Irish Bishop Soon after he removed into Staffordshire and became Curate of Whitmore a Chappel of â—ase to Stoke where he lived and died a Nonconformist in a poor house a poor habit with poor maintenance of about 20 l. per an and in an obscure Village teaching School also all the week for a farther supply deserving as high esteem and honour as a noted Presbyterian observes as the best Bishop in England yet looking after no â—igher things but living comfortably and prosperously with these c. The Brethren report him to have been a excellent Schoolmaster and Schoolman qualities seldom meeting in the same person a painful Preacher and a profitable Writer And tho somewhat disaffected to Ceremonies and Church discipline yet he confuted such as conceived the corruption therein ground enough for a Separation He hath written A short treatise containing all the principal grounds of Christian Religion c. Fourteen times printed before the year 1632. and translated into the Turkish Language by Will. Seaman an English Traveller Treatise of Faith in two parts The first shewing the nature the second the life of Faith c. Lond. 1631. qu. 1637. qu. the third edition It hath a Preface to it in commendation of the work written by Rich. Sibbes Friendly trial of the grounds tending to Separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the unlawfulness of stinted Liturgy and set form of Common Prayer Communion in mixed Assemblies and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys c. Cambr. 1640. qu. The rude and imperfect draught of this book was first made for satisfaction of Mr. Rich. Knightley which by importunity of Ministers and others was afterwards enlarged into this treatise The answer returned to the first conceptions thereof is briefly examined in some marginal notes annexed p. 13. 15. 24. 33. An answer to two Treatises of Mr. Joh. Can the Leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam The former is called A necessity of separation from the Church of England proved by the Nonconformists principles And the other A stay against straying Wherein in opposition to Mr. John Robinson he undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of hearing the Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1642. qu. Published by Simeon Ash The Epistle to the Reader is subscribed by Tho. Langley Will. Rathband Simeon Ash Franc. Woodcock and Geo. Croft Presbyterians After our author Ball had finished this last book he undertook a large treatise of the Church wherein he intended to discover the nature of Schism and to deal in the main controversies touching the essence and Government of the Visible Church of which also 50 sheets of paper he left finished Notwithstanding all this yet by what our author hath written in his answer to Jo. Can and in his Friendly trial c. some dividing Spirits of his own party censured him as in some degree declining from his former profest inconformity in deserting the Nonconformists cause and grounds being too much inclined especially in the last of these two to favour the times in Ceremonies and the Service-book Yet if you 'll give credit to what these men deliver they 'll tell you that he lived and died a strict forbearer and constant opposer of all those pretended corruptions which the Nonconformists had commonly in their publick writings disallowed in the Church of England So that they of his own perswasion would willingly have it believed that altho he was in these his pieces against aggravating and multiplying conceived corruptions and that these were not of so great weight as to inforce the unlawfulness of our set forms or warrant a separation from our Churches and publick worship in regard thereof yet he acknowledged some things blame-worthy in the English Liturgy which he designed to have evidenced as these men tell us in some publick treatise had he lived but a little longer For all this he died abundantly satisfied in the justness of that cause which he so well defended against separation Trial of the new Church-way in New-England and Old c. Lond. 1644. qu. Treatise of the Covenant of Grace Lond. 1645. c. qu. Published by his great admirer Simeon Ash Of the power of godliness both doctrinally and practically handled c. To which are annexed several Treatises as 1 Of the affections 2 Of the spiritual combatâ— 3 Of the government of the tongue 4 Of prayer with an exposition on the Lords Prayer c. Lond. 1657. fol. Published by the aforesaid Simeon Ash sometimes of the University of Cambridge Chaplain to the Lord Brook afterwards to the Earl of Manchester an 1644. Minister of St. Michael Bashishaw and at length of St. Austins in London who dying 20. of Aug. 1662. being a little before the fatal day of St. Barthelmew was buried 23. of the same month in the Church of St. Austin before-mentioned Treatise of divine meditation Lond. 1660. in twelv published also by the said Ash These I think are all that have been written by our author Ball who dying 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 aged fifty and five or thereabouts was buried in the Chappel or Church of Whitmore aforesaid leaving then behind the character
violent and busie Person had got a license to read and preach it hapened that in a Lecture of his delivered at Thistleworth near to London he did therein inveigh much against the Poyson of Pelagius which had then infected the People very much in all parts of the Nation This Lecture of his being answered in print by one who was his auditor he staightway come out with a reply entit A Preservative or Triacle against the poyson of Pelagius lately renewed and stirred up again by the furious sect of the Anabaptists Lond. 1551. in tw which Book being dedicated to Hugh Latimer was usher'd into the world by several copies of Lat. and Eng. verses set before and at the end of it made by Nich. Grimoald of Merton Coll Tho. Norton of Sharpenhoe Randol Hurleston or Huddleston and Tho. Soame a Preacher Afterwards our Author Turner published A new Book of spiritual Physick for divers diseases of the Nobilitie and Gentlemen of England Said to be printed at Rome but false an 1555. oct by Marcus Antonius Constantius otherwise called Thraso miles gloriosus 'T is printed in an English Character and in the title are 4 Lat. verses directed by Turner ad nobilem Britannum The hunting of the Fox and the Wolfe because they did make havock of the Sheep of Jesus Christ printed in oct A Book of the natures and properties as well of the Bathes of England as of other Bathes in Germany and Italy Collen 1562. in a thin fol. and in an Eng. Char. Treatise of the Bath at Baeth in England Printed with the former Book Of the nature of all waters Printed with the former also The nature of wines commonly used here in England with a confutation of them that hold that Renish and other small Wines ought not to be drunken either of them that have the stone the rume or other diseases Lond. 1568. oct Of the nature and vertue of Triacle Printed with the next Book going before The rare treasure of English Bathes Lond. 1587. qu. Several things in this Book were published from his former Books of Bathes He also translated into English 1 A comparison between the old learning and the new Printed in Southwarke an 1538. originally written by Urb. Regius 2 The Palsgraves catechismi Lond. 1572. oct What else he hath written and translated you may see in Joh. Bale cent 8. nu 95. At length after all the rambles and troubles that our Author Turner had made and did endure he did quietly lay down his head and departed this life 7. year 1568 July in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hertstreet in London leaving then behind him several Children of whom Peter a Doctor of Physick was one Father to Samuel and Peter as I shall tell you elsewhere WILLIAM BARLOWE was bred a Canon Regular of the order of St. Austin in the Monastery of St. Osith in Essex and partly among those of his order in Oxon where besides a nursery for was an Abbey and Priory of that order and there obtained a competency in Theology of which faculty as 't is said he was a Doctor Afterwards he was made Prior of the Canons of his Order living at Bysham near Maydenhead in Berkshire and by that name and title he was sent in an Embassie to Scotland as I shall tell you elsewhere About the time of the dissolution of his Priory he was elected to the Episcopal See of St. Asaph the temporalities of which being delivered to him on the second day of Febr. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535. he was consecrated to the said See 22. of the same Month. Thence he was translated to St. Davids in the Month of Apr. 1536. and thence to Bathe and Wells in 1547 being then a zealous Professor and Preacher of the reformed Religion In 1553 upon Qu. Maries coming to the Crown he was deprived of his Bishoprick for being married whereupon retiring with many others into Germany under pretence of Religion lived there in a poor and exile condition At length when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he was made Bishop of Chichester in Decemb. 1559 where he sate to the time of his death and in 1560 he was made the first Canon or Prebendary of the first stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster then founded by Qu. Elizabeth which Dignity he held with his Bishoprick five years His works are these A Dialogue describing the original ground of these Lutheran factions and many of their abuses Lond. 1553. in oct Printed in an English Char. Christian Homelies Cosmography which two last I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life in the Month of Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester After this William Barlowe had been a Prior and a Bishop he took to Wife one Agatha Wellesbourne by whom he had issue five Daughters that were all married to Bishops viz. 1 Anne who after she had buried her first Husband named Austin Bradbridge bridge of Chichester sometimes Fellow of New College married Harbert Westphaling Bishop of Hereford 2 Elizabeth Wife of Will. Day Dean of Windsore afterwards Bishop of Winchester 3 Margaret Wife of Will. Overton B. of Lichf and Cov. 4 Frances who after she had buried her first Husband named Matthew Parker a younger Son of Dr. Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury was married to Tobie Mathew who died Archb. of York 5 Antonia the Wife of Will. Wykeham Bishop of Winchester The said Will. Barlowe had also a Son of both his names whom I shall mention in his proper place JOHN MAN being the next according to time to be mentioned I must tell you that he was born in the Parish of Lacocke in Wiltshire elected from Winchester School Probationer of New Coll. in 1529. and was made perpetual Fellow two Years after In 1537 he proceeded in Arts was the Southern Proctor of the University three years after and in 1547 he was made Principal of Whitehall since involved into Jesus Coll. After Qu. Elizabeth was settled in the Throne he became Chaplain to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury who having a respect for did put him in Warden of Merton Coll. 1562. upon a dissent among the Fellows in an Election of one for that office as I have told you at large elsewhere In 1565 he was made Dean of Glocester in the place of Will. Jennings deceased who from being a Monk of that place was made the first Dean 1541. and in 1567. in the Month of Aug. he was sent by the Queen her Ambassador to the K. of Spain who the Year before had sent to our Queen his Ambassador called Goseman or Gooseman de Sylva Dean as 't was said of Toledo Of which Ambassadors Qu. Eliz. used merrily to say that as her Brother the K. of Spain had sent to her a Goos-man so she had sent to him a Man goose
year 1533 July in Fifteen hundred thirty and three where he suffer'd Death by burning See more of him in Jo. Fox his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the Year 1533 and in Rob. Persons his animadversions on Fox's words concerning Fryth in The third part of a treatise entit Of three conversions of England Chapt. 11. p. 45. 46 c. as also in Joh. Gwynneth among these Writers under the Year 1557. JOHN ROPER born in Berks. in the Dioc. of Sarum was first a Semicommoner or Demy of Magd. Coll. and afterwards being M. of A. was admitted perpetual Fellow of that House in 1483. When he was some Years standing in that degree he was made Reader of Philosophy and when Bach. of Divinity Reader of the Sentences or Divinity in the said College In 1502 he was confirmed Margaret Professor by the Foundâ—ess of that Lecture was afterwards Vicar of St. Maries Church in Oxon Principal of Salesurry and George Hall in that Parish Doctor of Divinity Canon of the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. now Ch. Ch. in Oxon to which he was admitted 1532 and Rector of Witney Church in Oxfordshire This Person who was esteemed one of the eminent Theologists of this University was appointed by the King in 1521. to write Tract contra Doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Which whether ever printed I know not He was a zealous Enemy against the Kings divorce from Queen Catherine in the Year 1530 but did not dare to write openly or publish any thing against it tho Preach he did This learned Person died in the Month of May year 1534 in Fifteen hundred thirty and four and was as I conceive buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel JOHN ALLEN had his first Academical Education in this University whence going to Cambridge was there made M. of Arts as 't is said tho I rather think Bach. of the Laws Afterwards he was sent to the Pope at Rome by Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury about certain matters relating to the Church where remaining about 9 Years was in that time created Doctor of the Laws either there or in an University in Italy After his return he became Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey who knew him as I conceive while he was in Oxon was Judge of his Court as he was Legat à latere but in that Office he was thought to be a perjur'd and wicked Person and assisted him in visiting first and afterwards in that great matter of dissolving 40 little Monasteries at least for the erection of his Coll at Oxon and that at Ipswych In the latter end of the Year 1525 he was incorporated LL. Dr. of this University on the 13. March 1528. he was consecrated Archb. of Dublin and about that time was made Chancellor of Ireland He hath Written Epistola de Pallii significatione activa passiva Penn'd by him when he received the Pall to be Archbishop De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tuitoriis causis observandis Besides other things concerning the Church At length being taken in a time of rebellion by Tho. Fitz-Gerard or Gerald eldest Son to the Earl of Kildare was by his command most cruelly murder'd by being brain'd like an Ox at Tartaine in Ireland 28. Jul. in Fifteen hundred thirty and four year 1534 aged 58. The whole story of which several of the Irish Chronicles will tell you See more among the Bishops under the Year 1534. WILLIAM HORMAN was born within the City of Salisbury educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1477. which place he resigning in 1485 being then M. of A. he became Schoolmaster and Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsor and at length Vice provost of the same College In which place spending many Years in pleasant retirement became one of the most general Scholars of his time as may appear by the diffusiveness of his Learning and Books written in all faculties All the Academical Education that he received was in the University of Oxon where he also took the Degrees in Divinity So that whereas Joh. Baleus and Jo. Pitseus say that he was of Kings Coll. in Cambridge is false being led I presume into that error from one Godfrey Harman a Cantabrigian who from being a Junior Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd where he died and was buried in 1533. As for our Author Will. Horman he hath written many things of which I can only give you an account of some as they follow Antibossicon ad Gul. Lilium Lond. 1521. qu. Apologeticon contra Rob. Whittintoni Protovatis Angliae incivilem indoctanque criminationem Lond. 1521. qu. part 2. Before the said Books is printed from a Wooden Cut the Picture of a Bear baited by six Dogs and at the end is some of Whittington's poety taken in pieces by Horman and by him severely answer'd Vulgaria puerorum c. They are elegant sentences written in English and Latin and dedicated to Will Atwater Bishop of Lincolne Compendium Hist Gul. Malmsburiensis Epitome Historiae Joh. Pici com Mirandulae Elegiae in mort Gul. Lilii Anatomia membrorum hominis In one Book Anatomia corporis humani In two Books The titles of the rest you may see in Jo. Baleus and therefore I can say no more of our Author Horman than this that he paid his last debt to nature on the 12. year 1535 Apr. in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was buried in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd Over his Grave are certain Verses engraven on a brass plate the two first of which run thus Hâc Hormannus humo requiescit amice viator Pene annos numerant lustra vicena suos The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 135. THOMAS MORE one of the greatest prodigies of Wit and Learning that this Nation ever before his time produced Son of Sir Joh. More Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was born in Milk-street within the City of London an 1480. trained up in Grammar learning in St. Anthonies School there and afterwards received into the Family of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Canterbury merely for the towardliness of his Person and the great hopes that the pregnancy of his parts then promised About the Year 1497. 't is said by some late Authors that that worthy Cardinal did send him to Canterbury College in Oxon to obtain Academical Learning but upon what grounds they report so it appears not Miles Windsore whom I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1624. who came to the University of Oxon in the time of Queen Mary doth tell us more than once that he had his Chamber and studied in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin and constant tradition doth say the like and 't was never reported to the contrary before those two Authors here cited Tho. More and J. H. published their respective Books What
Laurence in the Old Jewrie to which the learneder sort in the City of London would resort Afterwards also when he was L. Chanc. of England he wrot treatises against the Lutherans and when at home on Sundays he would sit in the choir in a surplice and sing service But to return as for our Author Rich. Taverner he for security sake when Qu. Mary came to the Crown did receede to his house called Norbiton hall in Surrey where he mostly continued all her Reign But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he presented to her a gratulatory Epistle in Latin by which being made more known to her than formerly she had so great respect for and confidence in him that she not only offer'd to him the Degree of Knighthood but put him into the commission of peace for the County of Oxon wherein he had several mannors that had belonged to religious houses entrusted him with a considerable share of the concerns thereof and in the 12 Year of her Reign Dom. 1569 made him High Sherriff of the said County In which office he appeared in St. Maries Pulpit with his sword by his side as 't is said and a chain of gold hanging about his neck and preached to the Scholars a Sermon there being then a great scarcity of Divines in the University beginning thus Arriving at the mount of St. Maries in the stony stage where I now stand I have brought you some five biskets baked in the oven of charity carefully conserv'd for the chickens of the Church the sparrows of the spirit and the sweet swallows of salvation c. Which way of preaching was then mostly in fashion and commended by the generality of Scholars This Rich. Taverner hath written and published The sum or pith of the 150 Psalmes of David reduced into a forme of prayers and meditations with other certaine godly orisons c. Lond. 1539. oct Recognition or correction of the Bible after the best exemplars Lond. 1539 fol. Allowed to be publickly read in Churches in the English tongue with an Epist dedic to the King whose servant Taverner then was But after the death of the Lord Cromwell the Kings Secretary an 1540 the Bishops caused the Printers of the Bible in the Engl. tongue to be imprison'd and punished and this our Author for his labours was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but he so well acquitted himself that he was shortly after released and restored to his place in Court and in the Kings favour The Epistles and Gospels with a brief postill upon the same from Advent to Low Sunday which is the Winter part drawn forth by divers learned Men for the singular commoditie of all good Christian Persons and namelie of Priests and Curats Lond 1540. qu. The Epist and Gosp with a brief postill upon the same from after Easther till Advent which is the summer part set forth c. Lond. 1540. qu. Fruite of faith containing all the prayers of the holy Fathers Patriarks Prophets Judges Kings renowned Men and Women in the Old and New Test Lond. 1582. in tw Various Poems in Latine and English Hortus sapientiae lib. 2. Sententiarum flores In Catonis disticha lib. 4. In Mimum publianum Catechismus fidei These are mention'd by Jo. Bale but I have not yet seen any of them and therefore I cannot tell you whether they are in Engl. or Lat. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Rob. Capito Grosthead his prayers on the Psalmes Lond. 1539. oct 2 Confession of the Germans exhibited to the Emperour Charles 5. in the Councell of Augusta in the Year 1530 to which is added The Apologie of Melancton of the said confession Lond. 1536 in oct Translated at the command of the Lord Cromwell Lord Privy Seal 3 Common places of Scripture orderly and after a compendious forme of teaching c. Lond. 1577. oct Written by Erasmus Sarcerius 4 An introduction to a Christian concord and unitie in matters of Religion Translated from Erasm Roterd. De sarciendâ ecclesiae concordiâ Which translation was done by our Author upon K. Hen. the eighth his coming into the Parliament house an 1545 at which time he exhorted the members thereof of which number R. Taverner our Author was one to charity unity and concord At length after he had lived beyond the age of Man and had been a zealous promoter of reformation and the Protestant Religion laid down his head in peace and willingly resign'd up his last breath at Woodeaton near to and in the County of Oxford in the mannour-house now standing there which he did build from the ground about 1544 on the 14 day of July in Fifteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church there by two Heralds or Officers of Arms about 5 days after year 1575 was buried in the Chancel with great solemnity near to the body of his first Wife Margaret Soon after the said Officers caused to be hung up on the North wall of the said Chancell an helmet standard pennon and other cognisances belonging to Esquires All which continued there several years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and then were pulled down by Mr. Joh. Nourse the Lord of that mannour to make room for a monument and banners for his Relations He the said Rich. Taverner had married two wives the first was Margaret Dau. of Walt. Lambert Esq by whom he had several Sons whose male issue is now as I conceive worn out except that of Peter his second Son of Hexton in Hertfordsh His second Wife was Mary Daughter of Sir Joh. Harcourt of the noble and antient family of the Harcourts of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire by whom having only one Daughter that survived named Penelopie she was married to my Grandfather by the Mothers side named Robert Le Petite commonly called Pettie of Wifald near to Henlie and of Cottesford near Bister in Oxfordshire Gentleman a younger Son of Joh. Pettie of Tetsworth and Stocke-Talmache near Thame in the said County Esq The next Brother in order to the said Rich. Taverner was named Roger born in Norfolk also and educated for a time in Cambridge afterwards surveyour general on this side of the river Trent of the Kings woods to Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizabeth who in the Year 1560 wrot a book De fame viz. of the means to prevent famine in this land dedicated to Qu. Elizab. who delivering it to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury he gave it afterwards with many other MSS. to Bennet Coll. Library in Cambridge where it now remains and hath had this testimony given of the writer by some of that house in the beginning of Ch. 1. that tho the Author was no professed Scholar yet he was competently learned well versed in the affairs of the Commonwealth and of the Estates of Kingdoms in Forreign parts and that the book was worthy of publication He died at Upminster in Essex where he had a fair Estate and was buried
Elizabeth by her Embassador then residing at Prague that by fitting the piece with the place whence it was cut out it might exactly appear to be a part of the said Warming-pan At another time Kelley who was openly profuse beyond the modest limits of a sober Philosopher did give away in Gold-wyer-rings or rings twisted with three Gold-wyers at the Marriage of one of his Maid Servants to the value of 4000 l. but this I think was acted after Dee had left him at Trebona which was in May 1589. otherwise it had not been done and so consequently Rodolph 2. Emperor of Germany who had a great respect for him and Dee would not for his Prodigality or open management of the secret or rather as some say for a chymical cheat put upon him have committed him to close custody The Writings of Kelley that are made publick are these Poem of Chymistry Pr. in Theat Chemic Britannicum an 1652. Poem of the Philosophers-Stone Written to his Friend G. S. Gent. Printed there also De lapide Philosophorum Hamb 1676. in oct Qu. Whether this be not falsly fathered on him He hath also several Lat. and Engl. discourses in a Book intit A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. Joh. d ee and some Spirits c. Lond. 1659. fol. Published by Dr. Meric Casaubon before-mentioned At length our author Kelley who had been Knighted by the Emperor as it seems being imprisoned the second time at Prague by the aforesaid Emperor after he had been at Liberty for some Months and in a manner had crept into his favour attempted an escape out of an high Window by tying his sheets together after he had divided each into two parts at least but he being too weighty for them he fell to the ground before he was half way down so that bruising his Body and breaking his Legs he dyed soon after in Octob. as it seem in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 for on the 25. Nov. following the news of his death came to Dr. d ee then in England which he inserted in his Diary thus Nov. 25. an 1595. news that Sir F. K. was slain Jo. Weever before quoted tells us otherwise viz. That Q. Elizabeth sent very secretly Capt. Peter Gwinne with some others to perswade Kelly to return back to his Native Country which he was willing to do and thinking to escape away in the night by stealth as he was clambering over a wall in his own House in Prague which bears his name to this day and which sometimes was an old Sanctuary he fell down from the battlements broke his Legs and bruised his Body of which hurts within a while after he dyed c. Thus Weever before-mentioned a Lancashire man born educated in Queens coll in Cambrige under the tuition of Dr. Rob. Pearson Archdeacon of Suffolk afterwards a great traveller beyond the Seas and collector of several Epitaphs of English-men that he met with in his rambles Soon after his return he travelled though most parts of England for the obtaining of English Antiquities and through some of Scotland being encouraged thereunto by those excellent Antiquaries Sir Rob. Cotton and Joh. Selden At length after he had arrived to the 56 years of his age his little body being then in a manner worn out with continual motion he yielded to nature in his house in Clerkenwelclose near to London an 1632. Whereupon his body was buried towards the west end of the Church of St. James in Clerkenwel As for Edw. Kelley before-mention'd you may see more of him before in Franc. Puccius and afterwards under the year 1651. in Arth. Dee ROGER WILLIAMS Son of Tho. Williams of Penrose in Monmouthshire by Elianour his Wife daughter of Sir Will. Vaughan Knight was born in that County of a Family rather ancient than wealthy and being from his childhood more given to Military than Scholastical matters yet for form sake he was sent to the University but to what house therein unless to Brasenose whereof one of both his Names and a Welsh-man was a Student in 1554. 2. of Q. Mary I know not Soon after he left Oxon became a Souldier of Fortune under the Duke of Alva ran through all the degrees of Military Offices was a Colonel in the French and Belgick Wars and might have been sided with the best of those times if his discretion could have but well tempered his hot furious valour which was the reason that Q. Elizabeth would not commit any place or Employment of great trust to his care In 1586. he had the Honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him was then beloved of all Souldiers and so much noted for his martial prowess that he went beyond the commendation of Panegyrick which was specified in the said year when at midnight he assaulted the Camp of the Prince of Parma near Venlow slew some of the Enemies and pierced the Tent of the General as a noted author tells us He hath written The Actions of the Low Countries Printed at Lond. in time of Q. Eliz. as it seems and 1618. qu. The author being unlearned and only tutored by experience hath penn'd the said History with very exquisite judgment he being an actor in the said Actions or Wars A brief discourse of War with his opinion concerning some part of martial discipline Lond. 1590. qu. In this excellent book the author defends the military art of his against that of former days but to the great envy then and discontent of some old-beaten Souldiers and the Lovers of Archery He paid his last debt to Nature in his House in the Parish of St. Benedict near to Pauls Wharf in London in the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 and was buried on the 23. of the same month by the care of Tho. Powell of Vsk in Monmouthshire and Gellie Merick of the Parish of St. Clements without Temple-Bar Gent. his Kinsmen within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul at whose Funeral Rob. Earl of Essex and all the warlike men of the City of London mourned Whether any Epitaph was ever set over his grave I know not Sure it is that one who knew him hath commended to Posterity a learned Epigram on him the beginning of which is Quid tumulum lachrymis violas murmure vexas Fortissimi manes Ducis c. You may be pleased to satisfie your self concerning this valiant Colonel in a Book intit A true discourse historical of the succeeding Governors of the Netherlands and the Civil Ware there began in the year 1565. c. Translated and collected by Tho. Churchyard Esq and Rich. Ro. out of the reverend E. M. of Antwerp his 15 books of his Historia Belgica c. Lond. 1602. I find another Rog. Williams later in time than the former an inhabitant of Providence in New England and author of 1 A Key to the Language of New England Lond. 1643. oct 2 The hireling Ministry
they are descended from the said Family of the Savelli I cannot in the least conjecture being the name of a Town nor can I believe it no more than that the Corbets of Shropsphire are descended from the Corvini another ancient Family in Italy GEORGE CORYAT received his first being in this World in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City Salisbury educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1562. took the degrees in Arts and in June 1570. became Rector of Odcombe in Sommersetshire on the death of Tho. Reade and at length Bach. of Divinity In 1594 he was made Prebendary of Warthill in the Church of York and had some other Dignity but what I cannot tell He was a person much commended in his time for his fine fancy in Latin Poetry and for certain matters which he had written quoted by John Case the Philosopher Jam. Middendorp Joh. Cay and others All that I have seen of his composition are only these things following Poemata varia Latina Lond. 1611. qu. Published by his Son Thomas after his death and by him intit Posthuma fragmenta Poematum Descriptio Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Written in Lat. verse as it seems and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth He died in the Parsonage house at Odcombe on the fourth of March in sixteen hundred and six whereupon his Son Tom upon some design preserving his body from stench above ground till the 14 of Apr. following was then buried in the Chancel of the Church at Odcombe at which time one Gibbs Gollop M. A. who was admitted to that Rectory 23. Mar. 1606 did officiate Gertrude Widdow of the said G. Coryate lived many years after at Odcombe and near to it where dying was buried near to the Reliques of her Husband on the 3. Apr. 1645. 21. Car. 1. as I have been informed by the searches by Mr. Humph. Hody M. A. of Wadham coll a Native of Odcombe At the same time that George Coryat was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll was elected also one John Mundyn born at Maperton in Dorsetshire who being a Civilian and not conforming himself to the Protestant Religion was ejected thence by the B. of Winchester in his Visitation of that coll 1566. Afterwards he went beyond the Seas was made a Seminary Priest and sent into the Mission of England But being taken on Hounslow-heath in his journey from Winchester to London was by Sir Fr. Walsingham Secretary of State committed to Prison Afterwards being convicted according to the Law against Seminaries was with 4 other Priests executed at Tybourne 12 Feb. 1583. See more in a book intit Concertatio Eccles Catholicae in Anglia Printed at Trier 1594. fol. 140 141. WILLIAM BURTON a Native of the City of Winchester was educated in Wykchams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1563. and left that house after he had taken one degree in Arts. This person I take to be the same Will. Burton who was a Minister in Bristow and afterwards at Reading in Berks. And author of these things following Several Sermons as 1 Sermon Preached at Norwith 21. of Dec. 1589. on Jer. 3. 14. Lond. in oct 2 Davids Evidence or the assurance of Gods love in 7 Sermons on Psal 41. 11 12 13. Lond. 1592. oct 1602. qu. 3 A Caveat for Sureties two Serm. at Bristow on Prov. 6. from 1. to the 5. verse Lond. 1593. oct 1602. qu. 4 The rousing of the Sluggard in 7 Sermons on Prov. 6. from 6. to the 11. verse Lond. 1595. oct 5 Sermons on the Churches Love to Christ her Husband on Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. These Sermons are intit Gods Wooing his Church 6 Davids Thanksgiving for the arraignment of the Man of Earth two Sermons on Psal 10. 17 18. Lond. 1598. oct dedicated to Sir Will. Periam Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer a favourer of the authors Muse 7 Ten Sermons on Matthew 5. 3 4. Lond. 1602. qu. 8 The Anatomy of Beliel in 10 Sermons on Prov. 6. 12 13 14 15. Lond. 1602. qu. dedic to Ralph Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esque a great favourer of the author Catechism containing certain Questions and Answers concerning the knowledge of God and the right use of the Law Lond. 1591. oct Conclusions of Peace between God and Man containing comfortable meditations for the Children of God on Prov. 7. 1 2. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. Exposition of the Lords Prayer drawn into Questions and Answers Lond. 1594. oct 1602. qu. Certain Questions and Answers concerning the attributes of God Lond. 1602. qu. second edit Questions and Answers concerning the right use of the Law of God Lond. 1602. qu. An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath briefly yet fully and plainly set forth Lond. 1606. oct These are all and enough which I have seen published by Will. Burton a Minister in Bristow and afterwards in Reading Whether he be the same Will. Burton of the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in Lond. Clerk who died in that Parish in Oct. or Nov. in 1612. 16. Jac. 1. and left behind a Widdow called Dorothy I know not WILLIAM MONSON a Lincolnshire Man born a Knight's Son and of the same Family with those of South Carleton in that County was a Gent. Com. or at least a Commoner of Balliol coll where he continued for at least two years But his mind being more Martial than Mercurial he applied himself to Sea-service wherein he attained to great perfection was a Captain in several Expeditions against the Spaniard Vice-Admiral and Admiral In 1594. he was actually created Master of Arts and in 1596. he received the Honour of Knighthood from Robert Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz In 1602. when Ireland was cleared of the Spanish Forces he was appointed Vice-Admiral under Sir Rich. Levison Admiral to carry on the War by Sea against the Spaniard lest they should invade England wherein he performed most admirable Service especially in the taking of a great Carack of 1600 Tun from them at Cezimbria against Barbarum the Promontory of Portugal This heroical person left behind him at his death written with his own hand A true and exact account of the Wars with Spain in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth being the particulars of what hapned between the English and Spanish Fleets from the year 1585. to 1602. shewing the expeditions attempts c. Lond. 1682. fol. dedicated to his Son John Monson In some copies of this book the Title runs thus A particular and exact account of the last xvii years of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign both Military and Civil Lond. 1682. fol. The first written by Sir Will. Monson the other by Heywood Townshend This worthy Knight was in great renown in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. and the last time I find him mentioned in his Sea-service is in 1605. in which year he conveyed over Sea
several Sons whereof two were R. Cath. Priests WILLIAM WYRLEY Son of Augustin Wyrly of Netherseile in Leicestershire by Mary his Wife Daughter of Walt. Charnells Son of Will. Wyrley of Handsworth in Staffordshire descended from an antient family of his name sometimes living at Rowley in the said County was born in Staffordshire and in those parts educated in Grammar learning This person whom we are farther to mention having from his childhood had an excellent Genie for Arms and Armory was entertained in the family of Sampson Erdswyke of Sandon Esq mentioned under the year 1603. called then by some the Antiquary of Staffordshire where making a considerable progress in Heraldical and Antiquarian studies under his inspection published a book under his own name entitled The true use of Armory shewed by History and plainly proved by example c. Lond. 1592. qu. Reported by some to be originally written by the said Erdeswyke but he being then an ancient man thought it fitter to have it published under Wyrley's name than his However the reader is not to think so but rather to suspend his thoughts being only a bare report that came originally from Erdeswykes mouth and to know this that Wyrley was an ingenious man and fit to compose such a book and that Erdeswyke being often times crazed especially in his last days and fit then for no kind of serious business would say any thing which came into his mind as 't is very well known at this day among the chief of the college of Arms. Soon after the publication of that book Wyrley left him and retired to Balliol coll purposely to obtain Academical learning where being put under the tuition of a good tutor and in great hope to obtain the grounds of the said learning was matriculated in the University as a member of that house in Act term an 1595. he being then about 29. years of age How long he continued there or whether he took a degree it appears not However for diversion sake he employed his time so admirably well during his abode in that house that he made several collections of Arms from Monuments and Windows in Churches and elsewhere in and near Oxon which have given me much light in my searches after things of that nature in order to the finishing the great work that I have been many years drudging in He also made divers remarks and collections from various Leiger books sometimes belonging to Monasteries in these parts and elsewhere The Original of which written with his own hand I have in my little Library which tho partly perished by wet and moisture yet I shall always keep them as monuments of his industry On the 15. May 2. Jac. 1. dom 1604. he was constituted Ronge-Crâ—ix Officer or Pursivant of Armes Which place he holding several years was always reputed among those of the coll of Arms a knowing and useful person in his profession and might had a longer life been spared have published several matters relating thereunto but being untimely cut off in the midst of his endeavours about the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred and seventeen we have enjoyed only besides the printed book and collections already mentioned various collections of Arms and Inscriptions made in and from which several Churches and Gentlemens habitations in his own Countie Leicestershire have assisted Burton the Antiquary thereof and in other Counties and from Churches in and near to London Some of which I have seen and perused in the Sheldonian Library I mean in that Library which belonged sometimes to that most worthy and generous person my friendly acquaintance never to be forgotten Raphe Sheldon of Boely Esquire the same Raphe for there are several of his family of both his names who died on Midsomer-day an 1684. aged 61. or thereabouts Which Library the MSS. only to the number of about 300. besides very many Parchment rolls and Pedegrees he bequeathed to the Coll. of Arms situated on Bennet-hill near to St. Paul's Cathedral in London where they yet remain As for the body of Wyrley 't was buried as I have been informed in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls Wharff EDMUND BUNNEY elder brother to Francis Bunney before mentioned was the Son of Rich Bunney of Newton otherwise called Bunney-hall in the Parish of Wakefield and of Newland in the Parish of Normanton in Yorkshire Esq by Bridget his Wife Daughter and coheir of Edw. Restwold of the Vache near to Chalfont St. Giles in Bucks who died 1547. descended from Richard and Philipp de la Vache Knights of the illustrious Order of the Garter in the time of K. Rich. 2. These Bunneys by the way it must be known pretend that their Ancestours descended from the Bunneys of Bunney a Town so called near to the ripe of the River Lâ—ir by Orleans in France came with William the Conquerour into England and setled themselves at a place in Nottinghamshire called from them Bunney rise but how they can make that out seeing their name is not in the original and genuine Copy of Battle-Abbey roll I cannot yet understand This our author Edm. Bunney whom I am farther to mention was born at a house called the Vache before mention'd being then imparted an 1540. sent to this University at 16 years of age in the fourth year of Q. Mary and about the time he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he was elected Probationer Fellow of Madg. coll being then noted to be very forward in Logick and Philosophy Soon after he went to Staple Inn and thence to Greys Inn in either of which he spent about two years for his Father intended him for the Common-Law being his eldest Son but he resolving for Divinity was cast off by his Father tho a good man as he the Son faith and one that fled for his Religion in Qu. Marys days so that returning to Oxon he took the degree of Master in the latter end of 1564. and in the year following was elected fellow of Merton coll at which time Hen. Savile was elected Probationer For which a act tho the Society had no preceedent yet there was a necessity for it because there was not one then in that Society that could or would preach any publick Sermon in the college turn such was the scarcity of Theologists not only in that House but generally throughout the University In the year 1570. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time became Chaplain to Dr. Grindall Archbâ— of York who gave him a Prebendship of that Church and the Rectory of Bolton Percy about six Miles distant thence Which Rectory after he had enjoyed 25. years he resigned and maintaining himself with the profits of his Prebendship being also Subdean of York and other Dignities mention'd in his Epitaph following he preached and catechized where there was most need I have heard Dr. Barten Holyday say that when he was a Junior in the University this