continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
antient copies particularly with a MS. in Vniversity Coll. Library entit Octoteuchus two Greek MSS. translated into Arabick in the Bodlcian Library and an antient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton but lost in the hands of a French Man to whom it was lent the said Pat. Young did promise to publish with notes added thereto and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers and no farther if Dr. Br. Walton saith right The effect of this undertaking being much expected and desired by learned Men especially beyond the Seas certain Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to have the business encouraged Whereupon in the latter end of the year 1645 they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it but what hindred them in going on with the work I find not In 1649 P. Young who had sided with the Presbyterians left his place of Library keeper to the King the books there being mostly embezell'd whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in Essex where I think he died an 1652 for in Sept. that year his next relation administer'd Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed Youngs notes and annotations with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from Youngs edition and Latine translation with some short running notes added thereunto Oxon. 1669. in tw In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum in qu. written by Gilb. Foâ—iot Bishop of London in the time of Hen. 2. and was one of the three Gottefridus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius being the other two who interpreted S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians Lond. 1687. oct After his death all or most of his Greek and Latine MSS. collected and written with his own hand came into the possession of Dr. John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Oct. 21. Daniel Calendar M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland These Persons following were incorporated while K. James 1. was entertain'd at Oxon. Aug. 30. Alexander Serle LL. Bach. of Cambridge To whose name is this added in the publick register ad causas negotia ecclesiastica civilia maritima forinseca Procurator regius generalis Thom. Howard Earl of Suffolk Rob. Cecill Earl of Salisbury M. A. of Cambr. The first of these two Counts was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Kings houshold L. Treasurer of England after Cecill Knight of the Garter and founder of the stately house called Aâ—dley Inne near to Walden in Suffolk He died in 1626 and was buried at Walden The other Ro. Cecill who was Son of Will Lord Burleigh was now Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge afterwards Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter He died in 1612 and was buried at Hatfield in Hertfordshire George Thomson M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland He was born in that City and afterwards became Pastor of the reformed Church at Chastegneraye in France He hath written several books among which are 1 De pompa in Jac. 1. introitâ— in Londinum Sylva Lond. 1604. oct 2 Vindex veritatis adversus Lipsium lib. 2. Lond. 1606. oct 3 Quatre harmonies sur la Revelation print 1607. oct 4 La Chasse de la Beste Romaine etc. Rochel 1611. oct c. Tho. Dempster in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam hath two George Thomsons that were Writers viz. George Thomson a Priest an 1595 and George Thomson a Heretick as he calls him an 1599 which last I presume is our Author who was incorporated at Oxon and the same whom Joh. Dunbar a Scot doth celebrate for his learning in his book of Epigrams George Ruggle M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge One Ruggle of the said hall was Author of that celebrated Comedy called Ignoramus acted before K. Jam. 1. at Camb. 8. Mar. 1614. Whether the same with George I cannot yet affirm … Craig a Scot Doctor of Phys of the University of Basil This is all that appears of him in the publick register So that whether he be the same with Dr… Craig the Kings Physician who died in Apr. 1620 I know not or whether he be Joh. Cragg Dr. of Phys Author of a MS. intit Capnuraniae seu Comet in 〈◊〉 subâ—mationis refutatio written in qu. to Tycho Brahe a Dane I am altogether ignorant One Dr. Joh. Cragg was buried in the Church of St. Martins in the Fields near London about 1653. Barnab Gouge Goch or Gooche Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr He was about this time Master of Magd. Coll. in that University afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Worcester and died at Exeter where he had an office or dignity in the latter end of 1625. One of both his names translated into English The pâ—pish Kingdom or Reign of Antichrist Lond. 1570. qu. written in Latine verse by Tho. Naogeorgius and Four books of husbandry Lond. 1586. qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius and something of Palengenius But this translator if I mistake not was Barnab Gooche of Albin 〈◊〉 or Alvingham in Lincolnshire Grandfather to Barnab Gooche living there in 1634 and after John Hammond Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was now Physician to Prince Henry and Father to Henr. Hammond afterwards the learned and celebrated Theologist Creations Jun. 28. Henry Rowlands Bach. of Div. and Bishop of Bangor was actually created Doctor of that faculty Aug. 13. Hen. Ashworth of Oriel John Cheynell of C. C. Coll. These two who were eminent and learned Physicians were then actually created Doctors of Physick because they were designed by the Delegates appointed by Convocation to be Opponents in the disputations to be had before the King at his entertainment by the Muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug. John Gourden Gordonius of Balliol Coll. was created D. of D. the same day Aug. 13. because he was to dispute before the King his kinsman After his disputation was ended he had his Degree compleated by the Kings Professor of Divinity purposely not that there was a necessity of it to shew unto His Majesty the form of that Ceremony This noble Person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley was instructed in his youth in the Schools and Colleges as well in Scotland as in France in liberal Arts and Sciences and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages and other Orientals Afterwards he was Gentleman of three Kings Chambers in France viz. Charles 9. Hen. 3. and 4 and while he was in the flower of his age he was there assailed with many corruptions as well spiritual
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
what reason it appears not he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree which was accordingly done to his desire and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign he obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex He hath written a Book Entit Arbor Reipublicae c. It is penned in a Juridic Stile and is now or at least lately was reserved as a choice Monument in the Cottonian Library Whether ever Printed I cannot tell At length after King Henry 7. who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill being dead his Successor King Henry 8. did for the Peoples satisfaction issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley then a Prisoner in the Tower of London Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons the eldest of which was John afterwards Duke of Northumberland Father to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester JOHN HOLTE called by some Holtigena was born in the County of Sussex and from being Usher of the School joyning to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College and Bachelaur of Arts was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University that were afterwards eminent in the Nation Since which time and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning by producing a right Grammar-Institution For tho before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure and less care of good Arts yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton Bishon of Ely and the times thereupon became more peaceable our Author Holte made a Grammar Entit Lac Puerorum c. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton then Archbishop of Canterbury Which Grammar Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge being the first of note or most fit for use that was ever Printed in England was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars Afterwards the said Stanbridge and his Scholar Robert Whittington with others did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar but more especially Dr. John Colet the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral who compiled the Eight parts of Speech and William Lilye the first Master of S. Paul's School an English Syntax whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School The learned Erasmus also intreated by Dr. Colet to revise Lilyes Syntax made a new Latin Syntax in 1513. upon which Henry Pryme a School-Master in a certain Monastery and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented the former in 1539. and the other in 1540. But these things being spoken by the by I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar which perhaps are now quite lost and past recovery as the time of his death and place of burial is One Holte who was Master to Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant Which Holte is in the Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John NICHOLAS MAGWIRE was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland Educated among the Oxonians and took one or more Degrees Afterwards returning to his Country he was made Prebendary of Hillard in the Diocess of Laighlin being then and after accounted famous among his Country-men for his great Learning and constant Preaching among them In 1490. he was by provision from the Pope promoted to the Bishoprick of Laighlin aged about thirty one years Where being settled he began to write several Books but being untimely snatch'd away by death finished only these following Chronicon Hiberniae of which Thaddeus Dowling made use when he Composed his Annales Hiberniae and Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc quondan Laighliensis This our Author Magwire year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve 4. Hen. 8. and was buried as it seems in his own Church of Laighlin In his Bishoprick succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws whom I shall remember in his proper place among the Bishops that have received their Education in Oxon. MAURITIUS de PORTU otherwise called O-Fihely who in his time was for his great Learning and Virtue called and written by many The Flower of the World was born in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universiâ—â— and not unlikely in other Learning after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World John Duns Scotus had spent some years in Religion and Learning and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved From Oxon he Travelled into Italy and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua then flourishing in Learning made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks School-Divinity and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns whom he had in so great veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren he became known to and much respected by Pope Julius 2. who for a reward of his Learning and Vertues conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran and in the year following minding to return to his Native Country he obtained a Faculty from the Pope of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there but at his arrival at Galloway being overtaken with a deadly Disease died before he could Celebrate it His Works which have been much admired and
written in Parchment as Comments of Paul's Epistles and Abbreviations with many such other I Will shall be disposed at the disposition of my Executors c. His body which was closed up in a leaden Coffin of six feet and two Inches long and of three feet and two inches broad was laid up and inclosed in the Wall near to the place where his Monument was afterwards put In 1680. or thereabouts when the Wall was taken down the said Coffin was discovered for it laid in the said Wall about two feet and an half above the surface of the floor whereon was a plate of Lead fastned with an Inscription ingraven thereon shewing the name of the person thee deposited his Fathers name his Dignity Obit benefaction c. Some of the Royal Society who out of curiosity went to see it did thrust a probe or little stick into a chink of the Cossin which bringing out some moisture with it found it of an ironish tast and fancied that the body felt soft and pappy like Brawn JOHN CONSTABLE Son of Roger Constable by Isabel his Wife was born in London Educated in Grammaticals under William Lilye in Academicals in an antient Hostle sometimes called Byham afterwards corruptly Bohem Hall opposite to Merton Coll. Church under the tuition as I conceive of Mr. John Plaisted the chief Moderator thereof About the time that he had taken the Degree of Master of Arts which was in 1515. 7. Hen. 8 he left the University being then accounted an excellent Poet and Rhetorician and had some preferment conferred upon him but what I know not He hath written and published Querela Veritatis The beginning of which is Destinavimus tibi hunc nostrum c. Joh. Bradford the Protestant Martyr wrote a Book Entit The complaint of Verity c. Lond. 1559. in oct Whether in imitation of the former I know not Epigrammata Lond. 1520. qu. which Book of Epigrams I have seen in the Bodleian Library given thereunto by that curious collector of Books Democritus Junior Other things as I conceive he hath written but of what Subject I cannot yet tell nor can I say any more of John Constable only this that one of both his Names who was Doctor of Decrees fourth Son of Sir◠Rob. Constable of Flamburgh in Yorkshire Knight and Residentiary of the Church of Lincoln became Dean of the said Church in the Year 1514. who dying 15. Jul. 1528. recommended his Body to be buried in the Cathedral Church of our Lady of Lincoln near to the Corps of George Fitz-Hugh sometimes Dean thereof who was buried in the Body of the said Church What relation our Author Jo. Constable the Poet who was in great renown among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and twenty had to John Constable the Dean I cannot yet find In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth lived one Henry Constable a noted English Poet not unfitly ranked with Sir Edw. Dyer Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter a poetical Writer and of good esteem in the said Queens time as living in the 39 Year of her Reign The said Henry Constable who had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses was a great Master of the English Tongue and there was no Gentleman of our Nation had a more pure quick and higher delivery of conceit than he witness among all others that Sonnet of his before the poetical Translation called The Furies made by King James the First of England while he was King of the Scots He hath also several Sonnets extant written to Sir Phil. Sidney some of which are set before the Apology for Poetry written by the said Knight THOMAS BRYNKNELL a Person of great Literature and a most skilful interpreter of the sacred Writ had most of his Education in Lincoln Coll. whence being taken to govern the Free-School joyning to that of S. Mary Magd. did exercise such an admirable way of teaching there that many were by him fitted for the University In 1507. he proceeded in Divinity and being afterwards a commoner for some time of University Coll. became so much known to and respected by Cardinal Wolsey who if I mistake not conferr'd some dignity on him that he was represented to the King as one of those most fit Persons in the University to encounter Mart. Luther Whereupon in the Year 1521. he being then Reader of the Cardinals Divinity Lecture which was by him founded in the University 3 or 4 Years before he wrot a Learned piece entit Tractatus contra doctrinam Martini Lutheri Whether Printed I know not sure I am that 't is commended for a good Book in one of our publick Registers What other Books he wrot I cannot tell nor when he died or where buried WILLIAM GROCYN a most singular light of learning in his time received his first breath in the City of Bristol in Somersetshire was educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual fellow of New Coll. after he had served two Years of probation in 1467 and in 1479 being then M. of A. he was presented by the Warden and Society of that House to the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks But his Residence being mostly in Oxon. the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Divinity Reade◠about the beginning of the Reign of King Rich. 3. which King coming soon after to Oxon and taking up his lodging in that College he was pleased to hear our Author Grocyn and some others of that House dispute And being much delighted with their disputations especially with those of Grocyn which were in Divinity he did most graciously reward them But Grocyn leaving his Readers place in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1488 being then accounted excellent in the Latin and Greek Tongues according to the then knowledge of them he did for the farther accomplishment of himself in those critical studies take a Journey into Italy where by the helps of Demetrius Calchondile and Politian he obtained his design So that returning into his own Country and at length to Oxon he became a Sojournor in Exeter Coll. in the Year 1491. or thereabouts took a Degree in Divinity at it seems taught and read the Greek Tongue to the Oxonians after that way which had not before I suppose been taught in their University became a familiar Friend of or rather Tutor to Erasmus and a Person in eminent renown for his learning Recens tunc ex Italiâ venerat Grocinus saith Stapleton qui primus eâ aetate Graecas literas in Angliam invexerat Oxoniique publicè professus fuerat à cujus sodali Thoma Lynacro Morus Graecas literas Oxonii didicit In 1504 or thereabouts he resign'd his rectory of Newton Longvill being about that time made Master of the College of Allhallowes at Maidston in Kent yet continued mostly in Oxon for several Years after He hath written Tract contra hostiolum Jo. Wyclevi Epistolae ad
Author saith who adds that he died at London in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 which was the eight and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. FRANCIS BYGOD a Yorkshire Man born spent some time among the Oxonian Muses but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King and wrot A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices The Epistle before which dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed or reprinted at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman's Larger work of Tithes by the care of Jerem. Stephens an 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope his Marriage with Anna Bolein and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth as 't is conjectured by circumstances The Author's purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession as it had been complained of long before his time especially be Dr. Tho. Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English which I have not yet seen At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage an 1536 at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull was thereupon apprehended imprison'd and at length executed at Tyburn near to London with other Knights and Esquires in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. ROBERT WAKFELD a Northern Man born and the greatest Linguist of his time was as he saith ex fidelibus natus fidelis ex Christianis Christianus and afterwards being fitted for the University he was sent to Cambridge where he took one or more degrees in Arts. But his desire being solely bent to improve his natural Genie in the Tongues he went to travel and in short time attained to a very considerable knowledge in the Greek Hebrew Chaldaic and Syriac Tongues About that time he read and taught the said Tongues at Tubing in Germany at Paris and in 1519 I find him to be Hebr. Professor at Lovaine in Brabant in the place of one Matthew Adrian But continuing there only 4 Months he returned into England where being made known to the King by his great friend and admirer Rich. Paice Dean of St. Pauls he was made one of his Chaplams took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity was beloved of many and patroniz'd in his studies by Thom. Bulleyn Earl of Wilts When the unlawfulness of Matrimony between the King and Catherine of Spayne Widow of his Brother Prince Arthur was called into question he began to defend the Queens cause and therefore gained the love of many bâ—t being afterwards courted by fair promises to change his mind and the rather because of his great skill in the Tongues and Divinity and therefore able to say more than another Man he came over to the Kings Party whereby he gained the hatred of many I have seen a Letter written by him to the King dated from Sion in Middlesex 1527. wherein he tells him that he will defend his cause or question in all the Universities in Christendome c. and afterwards tells him that if the People should know that he who began to defend the Queens cause not knowing that she was carnally know of Pr. Arthur his Brother should now write against it surely he should be stoned of them to death or else have such a slander and obloquy raised upon him that he would rather dye a thousand times than suffer it c. Afterwards upon the intreaty of the University of Oxon made to the King Wakfeld was sent thither about 1530. and at his first coming he made a publick Speech in the Hall of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. since called Ch. Church before the University and afterwards read publickly the Hebrew Lecture there as his Brother Tho. Wakfeld did at Cambridge by the Kings Authority beginning to read there in 1540. In 1532 he was made by the King the twelfth or junior Canon of his College at Oxon founded on the site of that of the Cardinal and in the same Year he was incorporated B. of Divinity So that continuing there some Years after and-instructing many in the Tongues I have therefore put him among the Oxford Writers In 1536 when he saw the King make havock of Religious Houses he carefully preserved divers Books of Greek and Hebrew especially those in the Library of Ramsey abbey which were partly composed by Laur. Holbeach a Monk of that place in the Reign of Hen. 4. among which was his Hebrew Dictionary As for the works of Wakfeld they are mostly these that follow Oratio de laudibus utilitate trium Linguarum Arabicae Chaldaicae Hebraicae atque idiomatibus hebraicis quae in utroque testamento inveniuntur Printed by Winand Worde in qu. Paraphrasis in librum Koheleth quem vulgo Ecclesiasten vocant succincta clara atque fidelis Printed in a black char in qu. Kotser codicis quo praeter ecclesiae sacrosanctae decretum probatur conjugium cum fratria carnaliter cognita illicitum omnino inhibitum interdictumque esse tum naturae jure tum jure divino legeque evangelica atque consuetudine catholica ecclesiae orthodoxae Printed at Lond. 1528 in qu. This is the same with his Book entit by Bale and Pits De non ducenda Fratria Syntagma de hebraeorum codicum incorruptione Printed in qu. In which Book are several things against Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester concerning Matrimony and the unlawfulness of the Kings Marrying with his Brothers Wife Oratio Oxonii habita in Coll. Regio Printed with the former in qu. De Laudibus Agriculturae Epistolae ad D. Th. Bulleyn comitem Wilts Joh. Fisherum Ep. Roff. Rich. Paceum c. Besides other things mentioned elsewhere which I have not yet seen He died at London on the eighth day of Octob. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven leaving Thomas his Brother his Heir but where he was buried I cannot yet tell Jo. Leland in one of his Books gives him the name of Polypus noting thereby he way of contumely that he was a crafty man for craftily conveying away the Hebrew Dictionary before-mention'd Rich. Paice Dean of Pauls in a Letter to K. H. 8. dat at Sion 1527. saith that Rob. Wakfeld is a Person of excellent learning as well in Divinity as in wonderful knowledge of many and divers Languages The University of Oxon in an Epistle to the said King doth also say that besides his various accomplishments he gives place to none for his admirable knowledge in the Hebrew Syriac and Arabick Tongues JOHN CLAYMOND who used to write himself Eucharistiae servus because he frequently received the blessed Sacrament and in the latter part of his life took it every day was the Son of Joh. Claymond and Alice his Wife sufficient Inhabitants of
as it seems at Digges Court educated for a time in this University but in what house unless in Univ. Coll. I know not where laying a foundation of greater learning departed without a Degree and afterwards became a most excellent Mathematician a skilful Architect and a most expert surveyour of Land At length lest it should be thought that he studied only for himself and not for the benefit of others he published a book entit Tectonicon Briefly shewing the exact measuring and speedy reckoning of all manner of lands squares timber stones steeples c. Lond. 1556. qu. Augmented and published again by his Son Tho. Digges Lond. 1592. qu. Printed there again 1647 qu. Our Author Leon. Digges wrot also A Geometrical practical treatise named Pantometria in 3. bookes Which being attempted in his younger years his said Son Thomas supplied such parts of it after his death as were left obscure and imperfect adjoyning thereunto A discourse Geometrical of the five regular and Platonical bodies containing sundry Theorical and Practical propositions arising by mutual conference of these solides Inscription Circumscription and Transformation Lond. 1591. fol. Prognostication everlasting of right good effect or choice rules to judge the weather by the Sun Moon Stars c. Lond. 1555 56. and 64 qu. corrected and augmented by his said Son Thomas with divers general tables and many compendious rules Lond. 1592. qu. what else he wrot I find not nor certainly when he died unless about the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and four or whether his death was at Eltham in Kent or at another place There is some memory of him and his Family in whose veines hereditary learning doth seem to run on a Monument in Chilham Church in Kent not to shew that he was buried there but to shew the genealogie of his Family set up by his Grandson Dudley Digges of whom I shall make mention in 1638 which being too long for this place I shall pass it by at present for brevity sake RICHARD WILLS who in his books writes himself Willeius which is the reason why some call him Willey was a Western Man born educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and in Academical for a time in his Coll. at Oxon but before he took a Degree or was made Fellow he left the University and travelled into France Germany and Italy where spending some years in several Universities return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman And being noted for his admirable dexterity and honorable advance in the Latine Empire as Joh. Brownswerd was at the same time wrot and published Lond. 1573. oct Poematum liber ad Gul. Baronem Burghleium De re poetica disputatio In suorum poemat Librum Scholia With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen In the Year 1574 Apr. 24. he by the name and title of Rich. Wills Master of Arts of the University of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated the ven congregation of Regents that he might be incorporated into the same Degree in this University but the said Regents suspecting his opinions did grant his desire conditionally 1 That he produce a testimony of his creation under the seal of the University of Mentz 2 That he render a testimony of his faith before the Vicechanc. and Proctors and 3 That he acknowledge the Queen to be his legitimate Governess or Monarch of all England c. whether he performed these conditions or was really incorporated appears not in any of the registers RICHARD TAVERNER Son of Joh. Taverner of Brisley in Norfolke was born at Brisley or else in that County in the Year 1505 descended from an ancient Family of his name living sometimes at North Elmham near to Brisley before-mentioned educated for a time in Logick in Bennet Coll. in Cambridge but before he had consummated an year and an half there did with others of that University go to Oxon for preferment about the same time that Card. Wolsey did begin his Coll. there At length being admitted one of the Junior Canons of that Coll. he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the Year 1529 and about that time obtaining a competent knowledge in Philosophy the Greek tongue and Divinity left Oxon some time before the said Coll. came into the Kings hands by Wolseys fall and forthwith went to an Inn of Chancery near London call'd Staire Inn otherwise Strond Inn pulled down when Edw. D. of Somerset built Somerset house in the Strond or Strand and thence to the Inner Temple for before his time and some years after students were not admitted into the Inns of Court before they had read the ground of Law in one of the Inns of Chancery where his humour was to quote the Law in Greek when he read any thing thereof In 1534 he went to the Court and was there taken into the attendance of Tho. Cromwell then Principal Secretary to K. Hen. 8. by whose commendation he was afterwards made by the said King one of the Clerks of the Signet in ordinary an 1537. Which place he kept till the first of Q. Mary having been in good repute not only with K. Hen. 8. but also with K. Edw. 6. and most of all with Edw. Duke of Somerset Lord Protector In 1552 he tho a mere Lay-man obtained by the name of Rich. Taverner Master of Arts being Master of Arts of both the Universities a special licence subscribed by K. Ed. 6. to Preach in any place of his dominions and the more for this reason because the scarcity and slackness of Preachers was so great that some of the Kings Chaplains were appointed to ride circuit about the Kingdom to preach to the People especially against Popery I have been informed by some notes of him written by his Grandson that he preached before the King at Court and in some publick places in the Kingdom wearing a velvet bonnet or round cap a damask gown and a chain of gold about his neck in which habit he was seen and heard preaching several times in St. Maries Church in Oxon. in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. In like manner other Lay-Gentlemen such that had been educated in the Universities did either preach or else write books concerning controversies in Religion or else make translations from Divinity books Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. Esq whom I have mention'd in Joh. Jewell sometimes of Univ. Coll. was often seen in the same habit in Pulpits in London and in his own Country and would often give the printed Catechismes in the book of Common-Prayer to Children as he walked in London streets to learn without book and would after call out those children and examine them and for encouragement would give especially to the poorer sort of them money silk points ribbands c. Sir Tho. More also after he was called to the bar in Lincolns Inn did for a considerable time read a publick Lecture out of St. Austin De civitate Dei in the Church of St.
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
was admitted it appears not in any of the registers of that time In 1601. he being then fam'd for his learning he was made canon of Windsore in the place of Rog. Browne B. D. sometimes of Kings coll in Cambridge deceased which with Eaton he held to his dying day He hath written Scholia ad Barlaami Monachi Logisticam Astronomiam Par. 1600. qu. Which book he also translated from Greek into Latin Treatise against Judicial Astrology Lond. 1601. qu. In which book having done no less than a christian learned man ought to have done he had reason to look for another reward of his labours than he found For instead of thanks and commendation for his labours so well placed he was roughly entertain'd by Sir Christop Heyden Knight sometimes of Cambridge University afterwards High-Steward of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych in his Defence of judicial Astrology Cambr. 1603. qu. a work full of no common reading and carried on with no mean arguments But our author not living to see his reply published he was some years after defended by his friend George Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1628. As for Sir Cristop Heyden who was a man of parts and had been Knighted at the sacking of Cadiz by Rob. Earl of Essex in 1596. was of Baconsthorp in Norfolk and died in the winter time as it seems in 1623. The reply which our author wrote but could not live to put it in the press hath this title A confutation of Astrological Daemonology or the Devils School in defence of a treatise intit Against judiciary Astrology and oppugned in the name of Sir Ch. Heyden Knight This is a MS. very fairly written in fol. richly bound and gilt dedicated by the author to K. James with an Epistle dated from Windsor Chappel 2. Feb. 1603. The beginning of which is In the midst of all my pains and labours most puissant and renowned Prince c. and the beginning of the work it self is In the setting down and delivery of Arts Galen in his book intit Ars Medicinalis c. 'T was the very same book as it seems that was given to the King which coming into the hands of Sir Hen. Savile he gave it to his Mathematical Library in Oxon. Astronomiae encomium ante annos 27. peroratum quo tempore Prolomei Almagestum in Vniversitate Oxon enarravit Lond. 1601. in Lat. and Engl. These I think are all the things that our author Jo. Chamber hath either written or published and therefore I have nothing more to say only that he yielding up his last breath at Windsore on the first of August in sixteen hundred and four year 1604 was buried on the north side of the entrance into the Choire of S. Georges Chappel there Over his grave was soon after a plain marble laid whereon is insculp'd the figure of a man in a mantle bearing an Escutcheon of S. Georges arms with this inscription under him Johanni Chamber Socio primum collegii Mertonensis an 1569. dein Etonensis an 1582. postremum canonico hujus Ecclesia an 1601. Theologo Medico Mathematico insigni Henricus Nevill Henricus Savile Milites posuere Natus apud Swillington in Com. Ebor. an 1546. Mense Maio obiit Etonae an 1604. ineunte Augusto corpus hoc marmore humatum jacit Praeter alia Legavit moriens collegio Mertonensi Mille Libras The said thousand pounds were by him given to Merton coll to purchase Lands in Yorkshire on this condition that two Scholarships of the said college should be supplied out of Eaton School by the nomination and election of the provost of Kings coll in Cambridge and the provost of Eaton This gift was soon after settled and the two Scholars were successively added to the number of the 12 Postmasters of the said house of Merton MEREDITH HANMER Son of Tho. Hanmer commonly called Ginta Hanmer of Porkington in Shropshire was born in that county but descended from the Hanmers of Hanmer in Flintshire became chaplain of C. C. coll in Apr. 1567. took the degrees in Arts and after some yeas spent in that house was made Vicar of S. Leonards Shoreditch in London Among the inhabitants of which place he left an ill name for that he converted the brass of several ancient monuments there into coine for his own use as an observing author tells us In 1581. and 82. he took the degrees of Divinity about which time he went into Ireland and at length became Treasurer of the Church of the Holy Trinity now called Ch. Church in Dublin which he kept to his dying day He was esteemed an exact Disputant a good Preacher Grecian and excellent for Ecclesiastical and Civil Histories He hath written Confutation and answer of the great braggs and challenge of Mr. Campion the Jesuit containing 9 articles by him directed to the Lords of the Privy Council Lond. 1581. oct The Jesuits banner displaying their original and success their vow and other their hypocrisie and superstition their doctrine and positions Lond. 1581. qu. A confutation of a brief censure upon two books written in answer to Mr. Campions offer of disputation-Printed with The Jesuits banner c. soon after came out A defence of the Censure c. See more in Rob. Persons under the year 1610. The Chronicle of Ireland in two parts The second of which was printed at Dublin in 1633. fol. Sermon at the baptizing of a Turk on Math. 5. 15. Lond. 1586. oct An Ephemeris of the Saints of Ireland A Chronography with a supputation of the years from the beginning of the World unto the birth of Christ and continued from the birth of Christ where Eusebius chiefly Socrates Evagrius and Dorotheus after him do write unto the twelfth year of the reign of Mauritius the Emperour being the full time of 600 years wanting five after Christ All chiefly collected out of Eusebius Socrates and Evangrius Lond. 1585. c. fol. Besides these he hath translated from Greek into English 1 The ancient Ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred years after Christ originally written by Eusebius Socrates and Evagrius Lond. 1577. 85. c. fol. 2 The lives ends and Martyrdoms of the Prophets Apostles and 70 disciples of Christ originally written by Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus Printed with the former translation This Dr. Hanmer as it appears had translated all the Church Historians except Eusebius his four books concerning the life of Emperour Constantine and the two orations subjoined thereunto which were afterwards done by Wye Saltonstal and printed in a fifth edition of Hanmers translation London 1650. fol. At length Dr. Hanmer being suddenly berest of his life by the plague raging in Dublin before he attained to the sixtieth year of his age year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four was as I presume buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity there Joh. Weevon whom I have here quoted tells us that he ended his days in Ireland ignominiously but what his meaning is to
of Broughton in Lincolnshire as being a younger Son of Thomas Anderson descended from the Addersons of Scotland who lived first in Northumberland and afterwards at Broughton before-mentioned did spend some time in Oxon in Linc. coll as it seems from whence being sent to the Inner Temple did by his indefatigable study obtain great knowledge in the Municipal Laws In the 9. of Q Eliz. he was either Lent or Summer Reader of that House in the 16. Double Reader and in the 19. of the said Queen's Reign Serjeant at Law In 1582. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas in the place of Sir Jam. Dyer deceased and in the year following he was made a Knight being then esteemed a zealous promoter of the established discipline of the Church of England as afterwards a severe prosecuter in his Circuits of the Brownists In 1586. he sate in judgment on Mary Q. of Scots at which time he was Chief Justicer of the Bench as a certain author stiles him being then a learned Man of the Law He wrote much but nothing is printed under his name only Reports of many principle Cases argued and adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth in the Common Bench. Lond. 1664. fol. Resolutions and judgments on the cases and matters agitated in all the Courts at Westminster in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Collected by Joh. Goldesburg Esque and by him published at Lond. in qu. This Sir Edm. Anderson died at London on the first of August in sixteen hundred and five year 1605 and on the 5. of Sept. following his Funerals were solemnized at Eyworth or Eworth in Bedfordshire where he had an Estate leaving issue several Sons whose Posterity remaineth there and elsewhere to this day In the place of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas suceeded Sir Francis Gaudy of the Inner Temple RALPH WARCUPP Son and Heir of Cuthb Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esq descended from those of Warcupp in Yorkshire became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1561. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts went to travel and became in time the most accomplished Gentleman of the age he lived in and Master of several Languages Afterwards setling in his Native Country he became Justice of Peace and Parliamentarian Knight for Oxfordshire in that Convention met at Westminster 43. Eliz. In the beginning of K. James's Reign he was by him designed Embassador either to France or Spain and had gone but was prevented by death He hath written and translated several things as 't is said but I have only seen his translation of Prayers on the Psalms Lond. 1571. in sixteens written originally by August Marlorat He died much lamented in the sixtieth year of his age on the Ides of Aug. in sixteen hundred and five and was buried in the Chancel year 1605 of Nuffield near to English before-mentioned Soon after came out a little book of verses on his death made by sixteen of the Members of New coll of which Will. Kingsmill his Kinsman was one and the chief from whence may be collected that the said R. Warcupp was the most compleat Esquire of his time FRANCIS TRESHAM Esq Son of Sir Tho. Tresham Knight who died 11. Sept. 1605. and he the Son of Sir John Tresham of Rushton in Northamptonshire was born in that County where his Family was ancient gentile and knightly educated either in St. Johns coll or Gloc. hall or both in which he laid the foundation of some learning that he afterwards improved by experience He hath written as 't is supposed A Treatise agaist Lying and fraudulent Equivocation MS. among those given by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to Bodlies Library See more in George Blackwell under the year 1612. After the Gunpowder Treason was discovered the said book was found by Sir Edw. Coke in a Chamber in the Inner Temple where Sir John Tresham used to lie 5. Dec. 1605. The said Fr. Tresham wrote De Officio Principis Christiani In which he maintains the lawfulness of deposing Kings an obstinate Heretick having no right to Dominion At length this person who was a strict R. Catholick being deeply ingaged in the Gunpowder-Treason as he had before been in that of Robert Earl of Essex in 1600. was taken and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died of the Stranguary say some others that he murthered himself yet a venerable author tells us that he being sick in the Tower and Dr. Will. Butler the great Physician of Cambridge coming to visit him as his fashion was gave him a piece of very pure Gold to put in his mouth and upon taking out of that Gold Butler said he was poysoned He died on the 20. of Nov. year 1605 in sixteen hundred and five aged 38. or thereabouts Whereupon his head being cut off and set with the rest of the heads of the Conspirators on London Bridge his body I suppose was buried within the Precincts of the Chappel of St. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London Quere This Francis Tresham was the person who wrote the Letter to the Lord Mount-Eagle who lived then at Bednall green near Algate who communicating it to the Secretary of State and he to the King the Plot for blowing up the Parliament House was thereupon discovered See in Tho. Habington under the year 1647. CHARLES TURNHULL a Lincolnshire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 24. Dec. 1573. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1581. about which time he was made Fellow of the said coll and became Famous for his admirable knowledge in the Mathematick Science He hath written A perfect and easie Treatise of the use of the Celestial Globe written as well for an introduction to the unskilful in Astronomy as for the use of such as be exercised in the art of Navigation Lond. 1597. oct Which I think was the second Edition He also built and made those several sorts of Dialls that stand upon a Pillar in the middle of C. C. coll Quadrangle an 1605. What other things he wrote or when he died I cannot yet find See more in Rob. Hegge an 1629. AEGEON ASKEW a person as well read in the Fathers Commentators and Schoolmen as any man of his age in the University was born in Lancashire became a Student in the University in 1593. aged 17. or thereabouts Chaplain of Queens coll in 98. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a noted Preacher and a great admirer of Dr. Jo. Raynolds and Ric. Crakenthorpe In the beginning of the Reign of K. James he lest the college and retiring to Greenwich in Kent became Minister I think of that place His works are Of brotherly reconcilement in several Sermons Preached in Oxon. Lond. 1605. qu. The author then lived at Greenwich An Apology of the use of the Fathers and secular learning in Sermons In which two books is shewed much
reading in ancient authors of the Church and indeed beyond his age What became of him when he left Greenwich I know not for he died not there as I have been informed by an ingenious person who lives in those parts THOMAS KINGSMILL born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Sidmanton in Hampshire became a Student in this University in 1555. or thereabouts and Fellow of Magd. coll in 1560. being then Bachelaur of Arts. In 1565. he was elected Publick Orator and in 69. he was made Hebrew Professor of the University In 1572. he was a candidate for the degree of Bachelaur of Div. but whether he was really admitted I find not Soon after being distempered in brain by too much lucubration the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker of C. C. coll supplied his place of Professor in 1579. and for some years following What became of him afterwards I know not nor any thing else of him only that he recovering his Senses wrote and published A complaint against Security Lond. 1602. oct Classicum Paenitentiale Ox. 1605. qu. Tractatus de Scandalo Printed with the Classicum There was another Tho. Kingsmill who was M. of A. Preacher of God's Word at Hyth one of the Cinque Ports in Kent an 1631. and the publisher of a Sermon called The Drunkard's Cup on Prov. 23. 21. Lond. 1631. oct but whether he hath published any thing else or was of this University I cannot justly say it THOMAS CAREW descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living in Devonshire and Cornwall was educated for a time either in Broadgates hall or Exeter coll but took no degree here Afterwards taking upon him the Sacred Function became a Minister of God's Word a frequent Preacher and a publisher of Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Psal 90. 12. 2 Serm. on S. Jo. 3. 3. called Necessity of Mans renovation 3 Serm. on 1 Tim. 3. 16. 4 On 1 Pet. 3. 3. 4 5 On Jam. 5. from ver 1. to 5. Which five Sermons were published in oct an 1603. Four godly Sermons viz. 1 Against Popery or false Religion on Matth. 16. 18. 19. 2 Against Atheism the Enemy to Religion on Psal 53. 1. 3 Against Hypocrisie the counterfeit of Religion on Matth. 7. 5. 4 Against Apostasie the falling from Religion on Matth. 12. 31. 32. Which four Sermons were published at Lond. in oct an 1605. and dedicated by the author to Sir George Carew Baron of Clopton Lord President of Mounster Vice-Chamberlain and Receiver-general to the Queen's Majesty and Lievtenant of the Ordinance FRANCIS TRIGGE a noted and godly Preacher did first begin to be conversant among the Oxonian Muses in Vniversity coll an 1564. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and at length became Rector of Wellbourne near to Beckyngham in Lincolnshire in which County if I mistake not he was born His Works are An Apology shewing that the days wherein we live are more good and blessed than those of our Forefathers Lond. 1589. qu. Analysis capitis 24 Evangelii secundum Matthaeum c. Oxon. 1591. Comment in cap. 12. ad Rom. Ox. 1590. Comemnt in Rev. S. Joh. Printed 1590. Serm. Preached at Grantham an 1592. on Isay 24. 1. 2. 3. Ox. 1594. oct Touchstone of Cath. Faith Printed 1599. qu. The true Catholick formed according to the truth of the Scriptures Lond. 1602. qu. At length paying his last debt to Nature at Welbourne before-mentioned was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the 12. of May in sixteen hundred and six year 1606 He was the first Founder of the Library at Grantham in Lincolnshire on the wall of which are these Verses written which you shall have instead of his Epitaph Optima Franciscus donavit Biblia Triggus Welbourniae quondam concionator amans Plurima permultis largitus munera Sanctis The saurum nobis condidit usque Sacrum Sic pie talis opus voluit sic pignus amoris Sic Christum coluit sic docet esse pium Beside the said Benefaction he and his Wive's Mother named Elizab. Hussey of Hunnington gave to the poor of Grantham 3. lib. 6 sol 8. den per an and for so doing they are entred among the Benefactors There goes about those parts a memorable story concerning the prediction of the death of this our author a very strict Puritan in his time but whether any credence may be given to it forasmuch as 't is propagated by dissenting Brethren I doubt it and therefore I shall now pass it by JOHN ARGALL third Son of Thom. Argall by Margaret his Wife Daughter of John Talkarne of the County of Cornwal was born in London entred a Student in Ch. Ch. in the latter end of Q. Mary took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1565. and was Senior of the Act celebrated the 18. of Feb. the same year Afterwards he studied the Supream Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and at length became Parson of a Market Town in Suffolk called Halesworth He was always esteemed a noted Disputant during his stay in the University was a great Actor in Plays at Ch. Ch. particularly when the Queen was entertained there 1566. and when at ripe years a tolerable Theologist and Preacher But so much was he devoted to his studies that being withal unmindful of the things of his World he lived and died like a Philosopher He hath written and published De vera paenitentia Lond. 1604 oct Introductio ad artem Dialecticam Lond. 1605. oct In which book ver facete and pleasant the author saith of himself in the Postpredicaments under Simul tempore that whereas the great God had raised many of his Cronies and Contemporaries to high dignities in the Church as Dr. Tho. Bilson to the See of Winton Mart. Heton to Ely Hen. Robinson to Carlile Tob. Mathews to Durham c. yet he an unworthy and poor old Man was still detained in the chains of poverty for his great and innumerable sins that he might repent with the Prodigal Son and at length by God's favour obtain Salvation What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was reputed by the neighbouring Ministers of Halesworth a great Scholar and that being at a Feast at Cheston a mile distant from that Town he died suddenly at the Table Afterwards his body being carried to Halesworth it was buried in the Church there 8. year 1606 Octob. in sixteen hundred and six Now I am got into the name of Argall I must let the Reader know that in my searches I find one Rich. Argall to be noted in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for an excellent divine Poet having been much encouraged in his studies by Dr. Jo. King Bishop of London but in what house educated in Oxon where he spent some time in study I cannot now tell you He wrote and published
and speak a Speech in praise of Sir Tho. Bodley every year on the 8. of Nov. on which day the Visitation of his Library is commonly made to be nominated by the Dean of Ch. Ch. and confirmed by the Vicechancellour for the time being But the said gift was not to take place till the death of his Widdow At length upon her decease which was at Great Wolford in Warwickshire 11. Nov. 1681. she being then the Wife of Tho. Keyt of that place Gent. the said annuity fell to the University Whereupon the year following Dr. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. nominating one of his own house Tho. Sparke M. A. there was a solemn Speech made by him in the Schola Linguarum on the 8. Nov. 1682. Which Speech is yet continued by Ch. Ch. men without any regard had to those of Allsouls coll wherein Dr. Morris had much of his education and had been Chaplain thereof or to any Master of another coll or hall The said Sir Thom. Bodley had a younger Brother named Josias Bodley who having received part of his education in Merton coll became afterwards a Soldier of note in Ireland a Knight and Overseer of the Trenches when the English laid Siege to Kingsale Baltamore Berehaven and Castlehaven in Ireland holden against them by the Irish assisted by the Spaniard an 1601. at which time Bodley behaved himself bravely both in their Works and Battle He left behind him to posterity 1 Observations concerning the Fortresses of Ireland and the British Colonies of Vlster MS. fol. sometimes in the Library of Sir Jam Ware now perhaps in that of Henry E. of Clarendon 2 A jocular description of a journey by him taken to Lecale in Vlster an 1602. MS. Sometimes in the same Library WILLIAM WARMINGTON a Dorsetshire Man born was as a Member of Hart hall then presided by one who was always in animo Catholicus matriculated 20. Dec. 1577. aged 21. or more having been there a Student for some time before Shortly after he left the Nation and his Religion and spending some yeâ—s in a Seminary in Philosophical and Theological studies was made a Priest and sent into the Mission of England but being soon after taken he was with others conveyed on Shipboard in the Month of Feb. 1584. and sent beyond the Seas with great menaces of utter ruine if they return again Afterwards being noted in Foreign Countries by those of his own Nation for his learning and piety he was made Chaplain to Cardinal W. Alan with whom continuing till about the time of his death did return again into England being then as he stiles himself An Oblate of the holy Congregation of S. Ambrose and did execute his Function very zealously among the Brethren At length being apprehended by two Pursevants 24. Mar. 1607. and committed Prisoner to the Clinke in Southwark the next day according to the English accompt by the Bishop of Londons order he entred somewhat more deeply into consideration of the controversie about the Oath of Allegiance than he had done before while at liberty So that in the end making sufficient proof of his Loyalty towards his Majesty by accepting of the Oath when it was required of him he did thereupon premeditate and provide reasons for so doing and at length reducing into method for the help of his memory certain notes in scattered papers that he had collected concerning that matter did frame thence a compleat discourse At length after it had laid by him for some time did publish it under this title tho he knew 't would displease his Holiness who in his breves had either admonished or prohibited all Rom. Catholicks to take the Oath of Allegiance or to teach the lawfulness of it A moderate defence of the Oath of Allegiance Wherein the author proveth the said Oath to be most lawful notwithstanding the Pope's Breves c. Printed by permission of the Superiours in 1612. qu. Whereunto is added The Oration of P. Sixtus 5. in the Consistory of Rome upon the Murther of K. Hen. 3. the French King by a Fryer Strange Reports or News from Rome Printed with the former book Upon the publishing of these things the Friends of the author Warmington and his kindred of the Rom. Perswasion became his Enemies and withdrew from him all the benevolence they used to allow him Warmington therefore being put to his shifts for maintenance for this his Loyalty and Obediencce petitioned the King for some allowance His petition thereupon was received and he commended by his Majesty to Dr. Bilson Bishop of Winchester with order to take him to himself to his own house there to provide for him The Bishop obeyed Warmington lived with him wanted nothing had his liberty as he pleased and freedom of his Religion ROBERT WOLCOMBE or Wollocombe born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Wollocombes of Wollocombe in Devonshire was educated for a time in Exeter coll left the University without a degree and became beneficed in his own Country where he was much resorted to especially by the precise Party for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching His works are Sinners Salve which applied and practiced as well of impenitent may be moved to conversion as the penitent armed against disputation Lond. 1595. in tw Armour for the Soul against the assaults of Death Printed with Sinners Salve c. A glass for the Godly containing many comfortable Treatises to perswade man from the love of this World to the love of the world to come c. Lond. 1612. oct in two Parts The first dedicated to Sir Edw. Seymour of Bury-pomery in Devon containeth 7 Treatises which are no other than the effect of Sermons The first is entit The seeking of Heaven on Mat. 6. 33. The second part dedicated to Sir Edw. Giles Kt. containeth likewise 7 Treatises the first of which is entit Spiritual balm for the afflicted on Joh. 16. 20. A Letter to a pensive friend Printed and bound with the former parts He also translated from Lat. into English The restitution of a Sinner entit The restoring again of him that was fallen Lond. 1581. oct Written by St. John Chrisostome What other things he hath written and translated I cannot tell nor when he died I find one of both his names a Ministers Son of Devonshire to have been matriculated as a member of Exeter coll an 1584. aged 16. which I take to be Son to the Writer THOMAS TWYNE Son of Joh. Twyne mention'd under the year 1581. was born in the City of Canterbury admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 6. Jul. 1560. and Probationer 9. Nov. 1564. being then Bac. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he applyed his Muse to the study of Medicine retired to Cambridge where he continued for a time and then setling at Lewes in Sussex where his Patron Tho. Lord Buckhurst lived practiced his faculty and became successful therein In 1593. he was admitted Bach. of Physick
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
not a little pleasing and delightful But that which I must farther note of him is that being always troubled with the disease that attends Poets indigence he was received into the patronage of his countryman and Kinsman Dr. Jo. Williams B. of Lincoln and L. Keeper of the great Seal who for several years exhibited to his wants He hath written Epigrammatum lib. 3. ad Mariam Nevill comitis Dorcestriae filiam dicati Lond. 1606. oct printed twice that year Epigrammatum lib. singularis ad doctiss Heroinam D. Arbellam Stewart Epigram lib. 3. ad Hen. Principem Cambriae duae ad Carolum Ebor. unus Epigram ad tres Maecenates libri tres Ad Car. Noel Eq. Baronettum unus Ad Gul. Sedley Eq. Bar. alter Ad Rog Owen Eq. aur tertius Monostica quaedam Ethica Politica veterum sapientum All which coming out as successive additions to the several editions of the three first books of Epigrams were at length published all in one vol. in oct and twelves not only in England but beyond the Seas In the year 1619. Joh. Vicars Usher of Ch. Church hospital in London and a puritanical Poet having selected many of them from several of the books that were then extant did tanslate them into Engl. verse and were that year printed at London in oct Thomas Pecke also of the Inner Temple Gent. did translate 600. of the said Epigrams in Eng. verse which were printed with Martial de spectaculis or of the rarities to be seen in Rome and with the most select Epigr. of Sir To. More To which is annexed a Century of Heroick Epigrams c. All published under the general title of Parnassi puerperium at Lond 1659. in oct And lastly Tho. Harvey hath Englished most or all of them but these I have not yet seen The first Latin impressions of the author Owen being greedily bought and taken into the hands of all ingenious Scholars and forthwith conveyed beyond the Seas they came at length into the hands of the Romish Inquisitors after Heretical matters in printed books who finding dangerous things in them especially these two verses following the book was put into the the Index expurgatorius An 〈…〉 Romae sub judice lis est 〈…〉 Romae nemo suisse negat For which verses and others of the like nature Owen's Uncle who was a Papist or at least Popishly affected from whom he expected Legacies dashed his name out from his last Will and Testament which was the chief reason that he ever after lived in a poor condition He died in sixteen hundred twenty and two year 1622 and two and was buried in St. Pauls Cathedra within the City of London at the charge of the before-mentioned Dr. Williams who also soon after caused a monument to be erected to his memory on a pipâ—â—â— next to the Consistory stairs with his Effigies a shoulder-piece in brass crown'd with Laurel and six verses to be engraven under it The two first of which runs thus Parva tibi status â—st quiae parva statura supellex Parva volat 〈◊〉 magna per ora liber The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 144. a where the Reader is to note that by the errour of the Printer 't is said that Joh. Owen died 1623. and not in 1622. as before 't is told you As for the generosity of Dr. Williams done to the memory of this little Poet Richard â—rach hath an Epigram in his Epigrammatum Hâ—catontades duâ— Lond. 1627. oct num 3. But that which I must note of him farther is that whereas he had made many Epigrams on several People so but few were made on or written to him Among which few one was written by Joh. Stradling and another by Joh. Dunbar a Scot. CLEMENT EDMONDS Son of Sir Tho. Edmonds Comptroller of the Kings houshold was born in Shropshire at Shrawardine as 't is said became either Clerk or Chorister of Allsouls coll in 1585. aged 19. took one degree in Arts and then was chosen Fellow of that house 1590. Four years after he proceeded in that Faculty and then leaving the coll was mostly by his Fathers endeavours made successively Secretary as 't is said for the French tongue to Q. Elizab. about 1601. Remembrancer of the City of London Master of the Requests Muster-Master at Brill in Zeland one of the Clerks of the Council and in 1617. a Knight He was a learned person was generally skill'd in all Arts and Sciences and famous as well for military as for politick affairs and therefore esteemed by all an ornament to his degree and profession He hath written and published Observations upon the five first books of Caesars commentaries c. Lond. 1600. fol. Observat on the sixth and seventh book of Caesars com Lond. 1600. fol. Observat on Caesars com of the Civil Wars in 3 books Lond. 1609. fol. On which or the former observat Ben. Johnson hath two Epigrams All or most of these observations are reprinted with an addition of an eighth commentary on the Wars of Gallia written by A. Hirâ—â—us Paâ—sa beginning where Caesar left and deducing the History to the time of the Civil Wars with our authors short the observâ—◠〈◊〉 upon them Printed at the 〈◊〉 in the Strand 〈◊〉 London 1677. fol. Before which edition is the life of 〈◊〉 with an account of his Medals 〈◊〉 conected and enlarged In 1565. Arthur Golding of 〈…〉 published 〈◊〉 English translation of Caesars commentaries but whether he made any observations or notes on them 〈…〉 Our learned author Sir Clem. 〈◊〉 died within the Perish of Sr. Martin in the Fields near to London on the twelfth day of Odoâ— in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the little Chappel belongâ—â—â— to his Mâ—nnour of Preston near to the ancient Bâ—rough of 〈◊〉 Over his grave is a comely mon. erected having an English and a Lat. epitaph inscribed thereon The last of which being already printed you shall therefore have the other as most proper for this place Here lyeth Sir Clement Edmonds Knight one of the Clarks of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council His dextrous Pen made him worthily esteemed excellent in his own vocation and in the art Military ly Caesars confession an understanding Souldier He lived faithfully industrious in his place and died religiously constant in the belief of the resurrection c. One Sir Tho. Edmonds Knight a Member of the Privy Council died in Nov. 1639. and left behind him a Daughter named Muriel the Wife of Rob. Mildmay Esq Which Sir Thomas I take to be the same with Tho. Edmonds Brother to Sir Clem. who being made Treasurer of the Kings houshold 19. of Jan. 1617. was about that time sent by his Majesty Embassadour to Bruxells and elsewhere NICHOLAS BYFIELD Son of Rich. Byfield who became Minister of Stratford upon Avâ—n in Jan. 1596. was born in Warwickshire became a Batler 〈◊〉 a Servitour of
Involved in a book intit Monumenta Westmon â—r an historical account of the original increase and present State of S. Peter's or the Abby Ch. of Westminster c. Lond. 1682. in oct Published by Hen. Keep of the Inner Temple Gent. sometimes a Gent. Com. of New Inn in Oxon. Remains concerning Britain their Languages Names Surnames Allusions c. Lond. 1604. 14. c. qu. Published at first under the two letters of M. N. which are the two last letters of the authors name To this book were several additions made by Jo. Philipot Herald of Arms under the title of Somerset Lond. 1637. c. qu. afterwards in oct with Camden's picture before all the editions Rerum 〈…〉 regnante Eli 〈◊〉 in 4 parts The first half with an Apparatus beâ—ore it reaching from the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. to the end of the year 1588. was printed at Lond. in fol. 1615. having had several things therein before that time expunged especially such that related to the story of Mary Q. of Scots The other half reaching from the beginning of 1589. to the death of Q. Elizab. and an Appendix were printed at the same place in fol. 1627. Both printed in two tomes at Leyden in oct and in a thick oct at Amsterdam 1639. and all translated into English by B. N. Gent. and several times printed in fol. The last half was translated into English by Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. afterwards Canon of Windsore and by him intit Tomus alter idem or The History c. Lond. 1629. in qu. His opinion concerning the High Court of Parliament Lond. 1658. oct Printed with the opinions on the same subject of Joh. Doderidge Arth. Agard and Franc. Tate I have seen also a discourse of his concerning the High Stewardship of England but 't is not as I conceive printed Epistolae variae ad viros doctos Written mostly in Latin Annales Regis Jacobi These reach from the death of Q. Elizab. 24. of March 1602-03 to the 18. of Aug. 1623. and no farther because the author being then very ill in body remaining in that condition till his death he could not well continue them any farther So that there wants memories more than for a year to the end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. These Annals are written with the authors own hand in fol. being only a Skeleton of a History or bare touches to put the author in mind of greater matters that he had in his head had he lived to have digested them in a full History as that of Q. Elizabeth The original came after his death into the hands of Mr. Joh. Hacket afterwards D. D. and at length Bishop of Lichfield who as I have been divers times informed did privately convey it out of the Library of the author Hacket being then a Master of Arts of some years standing This original being communicated by the said Dr. Hacket while he was living at Lichfield to Mr. afterwards Sir Will. Dugdale then Norroy King of Arms he contrary to the Doctors knowledge took a copy of it which I have seen and perused at Sir Williams house called Blith hall in Warwickshire but therein I found many mistakes as it afterwards more evidently appeared to me when that Transcript was put into the Ashmolean Musaeum Another copy I have seen in the hands of Sir Hen. St. George Clarenceaux King of Arms which having been transcribed by one that understood not Latin are innumerable faults therein and therefore not at all to be relyed upon After Dr. Hacket's death the original was put into the Library of Trin. coll in Cambridge where it now remains Our author Camden did also put into Latin Actio in Henricum Garnet Societatis Jesu in Anglia Superiorem c. adjectum est supplicium de Hen. Garnet Londini sumptum c. Lond. 1607. qu. And also viewed corrected and published certain old writers to whom he gave this title Anglica Normanica Hibernica Cambrica per varios authores c. Francof 1603. 04. fol. The first of which writers is Asser Menevensis his book De vita rebus gestis Regis Aelfredi At length our author Camden paying his last debt to nature in his house at Chiseihurst in Kent on Sunday the ninth of Nov. about 4 or 5 of the clock in the morn in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 his body afterwards was conveyed to Westminster to the house there where he used to dwell where laying in State for some time 't was on the 19. day of the same month carried to St. Peters commonly called the Abby-Church within that City accompanied by several of the Heralds in their formalities many of the Nobility Clergy Gentry and others All which being placed Dr. Christop Sutton a Prebendary of that Church stept up into the Pulpit and made a true grave and modest commemoration of his life Adding that as he was not sactious in Religion so neither was he wavering or inconstant of which he gave good testimonies at his end prosessing in the Exordium of his last Will that he died as had lived in the Faith Communion and Fellowship of the Church of England Sermon being ended the body was carried into the S. Cross Isle where it was buried in the west side or part of it As soon as the news of his death was certified to the Sages or Governours of the University they in gratitude of so worthy a Benefactor as he had been caused his memory to be celebrated in an Oration publickly delivered by the mouth of 〈…〉 M. of A. and Student of Ch. Ch. who was then the Deputy Oâ—â—tor To which Speech many of the Academians adding verses on the Benefactors death they were with the Speech printed under the title of Camdeni Insignia Oxon. 1624. qu. After these things were done was a Monument erected on the west Wall of the said S. cross isle with the bust of the Defunct resting his hand on a book with Britannia insculp'd on the Leaves thereof This Monument which was composed of black and white Marble was somewhat defaced in 1646. when the Hearse and Effâ—gies of Robert Earl of Essex the Parliamentarian General were cut in pieces and defaced The Inscription however being left intire I caused it to be printed elsewhere In the last Will and Testam of this great Scholar which I have more than once perused I find besides his publick benefactions his Legacies of 16 l. 10 l. and 5 l. to all his learned acquaintance then in being as to Ja. Gruter Library Keeper to the Prince Pal. Elector of Heidelberg 5 l. To Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. hall in Oxon. 16 l. To Jo. 〈◊〉 of the Inner Temple 5 l. c. besides a piece of plate to Sir 〈◊〉 Grevill Lord Brook Chancellour of the Exchequer who preferr'd him gratis to his Office and another of 16 l. price to the Company of Painter-Stainers of London and this to be engraven thereon Gul. Camden Clarenceaux
trial of a Christian's sincere love to Christ in four Sermons ca 1 Cor. 16. 22. on Ephes 6. ver ult c. Oxon. 1630. c. in tw He died much lamented in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 30. year 1629 or thereabouts and was buried in Magd. coll leaving then beâ—â—â—â— him other things fit to be printed as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man HENRY YELVERTON Son â—f Sir Christop 〈◊〉 of Eston-Manâ—uit in Northamptonshire one of the Justices of the Kings 〈◊〉 and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at 〈◊〉 in Norfolk was born on S. Peters day in 1566. educated for a time 〈◊〉 the Oxonians and afterwards among the Students 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Inn near London where after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrâ—ster he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religiâ—us Gentleman and a person well read in the Municipal 〈◊〉 In 1613. he was made Solicitor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the endeavours of Carr Earl of 〈◊〉 March 1616. he was constituted Attorney 〈◊〉 that time committed Prisoner to the Tower for denying to appear and plead publickly against his Patron Carr in the matter of Sir Thomas Overbury's death In 1621. May 5. he was discharged of his office of Attorney fined and committed Prisoner to the Tower again upon a late sentence in the Star-Chamber for passing some clauses in the City-Charter of London when he was Attorney Gen. not agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant These things being mostly done by the power and aggravation of the D. of Bucks who hated him because he had been a friend to Somerset Yelverton continued where he was without any hopes of release or future advance At length upon some things utter'd in Buckingham's care when he came incognito to speak with and examine him concerning certain matters in the Tower he was afterwards released taken into favour and in 1625. was made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and afterwards of the Common Pleas which last he enjoyed to the time of his death and had not the Duke been untimely cut off he would in all probability been made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Under his name goes Several Speeches spoken in Parliament One of which was in answer to matters charged against him by the Commons before the H. of Lords in 1621. Soon after the Lords declared that for sundry things uttered in the said Speech which touched the Kings honour he should be fined to the K. ten thousand marks be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure and make a submission to his Majesty And for the scandal committed in some words against Buckingham he should pay him five thousand marks and make his submission to him Several years after his death was published under his name this book following Reports of divers special cases in the Court of Kings Bench as well in the latter part of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth as in the first ten years of K. James Lond. 1661. and 74. fol. It was printed by the original in French written with the authors own hand remaining with Sir Tho. Twisden Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and published by Sir Will. Wild Knight and Baronet then 1661. Serjeant at Law the Kings Serjeant and Recorder of the City of London and since one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench He died near Westminster 23. Nov. or thereabouts 1679. Rights of the People of England concerning impositions Lond. 1679. oct He also gathered and published 32 Sermons of Edw. Philips a zealous and Puritannical Preacher as I have told you under the year 1603. and other things as 't is probable of the like nature but such I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 in winter time before February and was buried I suppose where his chief Seat was viz. at Eston-Manduit or Maudet in Northamptonshire leaving then behind him a Son named Robert and a Brother called Sir Christopher who was about that time one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. From this Sir Hen. Yolverton was descended Charles Yelverton who was called up to the House of Lords by the name of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen as being the Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Yelverton Baronet by Susan his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen JOHN ELYOTT or Elliot â— Cornish man born and an Esquires Son became a Gent. Com. of Exeter Coll. in Mich. Term an 1607. aged 15 years left the University without a degree after he had continued there about 3 years went to one of the Inns of Court as it seems and was made a Barrester In 1618. May 10. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj at Whitehall and ever after to the time of his death was either elected a Knight of his County or a Burgess for some Borough therein to serve in all Parliaments But so it was that he shewing himself in them an active man for the publick a generous assertor as he pretended of the ancient liberty of the Subject and an enemy to the incroachments made by rising Favourites was several times committed to custody He hath going under his name Several Speeches spoken in Parliament as 1 Speech against George Duke of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 grievances 2 Sp. by way of Epilogue concerning the Duke of Bucks impeachment These two were spoken in 1626. and soon after he with Sir Dud. Digges who spoke the Prologue to the said impeachment were committed both prisoners to the Tower but soon after were released whereupon Elyott spoke 3 A Sp. to clear himself as to the particulars charged against him In the same year he was imprison'd in the Gatehouse at Westm for refusing to part with money on the Loan and thereupon in a Petition to the King he set forth the illegality of the said Loan or of any Tax without a Parliament Which way he took when his Council would not assist him otherwise alledging farther that his conscience could not submit to it and prayed for his liberty but could not obtain it 4 Speech upon the Kings giving notice to both Houses that he did intend shortly to end the Session of Parliament an 1628. 5 Sp. against the D. of Bucks interrupted in it by the Speaker 6 Sp. concerning Religion an 1628. This was printed in 1641. in one sh in qu. 7 Sp. against particular persons spoken in 1628. and therefore a little before the dissolution of the Parl. he with other Members were committed to the Tower All which Speeches with Certaine Debates of the said Sir Joh. Elyott you may see in the first vol. of Historical Collections made by John Rushworth What more to be added is that about the same time 1628. was an information exhibited against Sir John in the Court of the Kings Bench for a sower of discord for his murmurings seditions c. against the King Nobles Prelates
several propositions made to the states MS. Particular observations of the military affaires in the Palatinate and the Low Countries an 1621. and 1622. MS. Letters relating to State affairs written to the King and Viscount Rochester from Venice an 1613 MS. He paid his last debt to nature in his house situated within the City of Westminster on the 15 day of Febr. between 10. and 11. of the clock at night in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Chappel of S. Paul on the north side of the Abbey Church dedicated to S. Peter within the said City Over his grave was soon after erected against the east Wall a well composed plain Monument of black and white Marble with a half canopy supported by dorick Pillars with the image of a man in his robes of estate and Viscounts Coronet leaning on a Pedestall all formed of the like black and white marble He left behind him a Nephew of both his names who was admitted Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 1614. and had the degree of Master of Arts of that University confer'd upon him during his absence in the Low Countries being then Secretary to his Uncle while he was Embassador there In 1629. March 1. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at New-Market and in 1637. he was made one of the Clerks of the Councel NICHOLAS VIGNIER received his first being in this World at Bloys in France educated mostly in the University of Saumour retired to Oxon to improve his studies by the hearing and doctrine of Dr. John Prideaux an 1623. was incorporated master of Arts in Octob. the same year as he had stood at Saumour being about that time entred a Sojournour of Exeter coll of which house Prideaux was then Rector and numbred among the Academians Soon after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences as a member of the said college being at that time reputed to be a person of great erudition singular piety and of a most polite ingenie After he had tarried there for some few years he returned to the place of his nativity where he became a zealous Minister of and preacher to the Protestant Church Before he came to Oxon he published Theses Theologicae de satisfactione dei domini nostri Jes Ch. c. Lugd. Bat. 1622. qu. Highly commended by And. Rivet and by him annexed to his own disputations After he had left Oxon. he published several Sermons in the French tongue as 1 L'Art de bien mourir on Luke 2. 25. c. Rochel 1625. oct 2 La mere Ecclesiastique on Gal. 4. 19. 3 De la priere pou les Rois Magistrats on 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. 4 Le Trisagion on Esay 6. 1 2 3. 5 De la chente des Auges c. on the 6. ver of S. Jude 6 Two Sermons at Bloys on Rev. 2. 12. 7 Serm. of the call confirmation and authority of the Ministers of the Gospel on Joh. 20. ver 21. 22. 8 Panegyrique de la paix on Psal. 122. All which were printed at Rochel 1625. in oct 9 Practique de repentance twenty Sermons on Psal. 51. Bloys 1631. oct Besides several others which I have not yet seen This Nich. Vignier who was Minister of the Protestant Church at Bloys before mentioned was Son of Nich. Vignier of Bar on the river Sene a learned Frenchman Physitian and Historiographer to the K. of France while our Qu. Elizab. reigned and after several of whose works are in our publick Library at Oxon. Among which are 1 Theatre de l' Antichrist c. printed 1610. fol. 2 Dissertatio de Venetorum excommunicatione contra Caes Baronium Franc. ad m. 1607. qu. Which two books are said by a certain author but false to have been written by N. Vignier the Son GEORGE CALVERT Son of Leonard Calvert by Alice his Wife Daug. of John Crossland of Crossland was born at Kypling in the Chappelrie of Bolton in Yorks at which place he bestowed much mony in building in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. became a Commoner of Trinity coll in Lent Term 1593 and in the year of his age 15. took one degree in Arts and then leaving the college travelled beyond the Seas for a time At his return he was made Secretary to Sir Rob. Cecill while he was one of the prime Secretaries of State being then esteemed a forward and knowing person in matters relating to the State All which time and after for several years when Sir Robert was advanced to higher offices he retained him and made use of his prudence and faithfulness in many weighty matters In 1605. he was actually created Master of Arts when K. Jam. 1. was entertained by the University Afterwards by the endeavours of the said Sir Robert Cecill he was made one of the Clerks of the Council and in 1617. Sept. 29. he with Cl. Edmonds sometimes of All 's coll Albert Morton whom I shall anon mention both Clerks of the Council also received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Hampton Court On the 15. February 1618. he was made Secretary of State to his Majesty who as before he had used his help in many matters of moment so he did oftner afterwards to his great benefit and advantage At the same time also his Majesty judged it very convenient that he should assist and help Sir Robert Nauton the other Secretary who had not then that faculty of managing and expediting matters of State as Calvert had On the 2 May 1620. the King gave him an yearly pension of a thousand pounds to be received from the Customs and on the 16 Feb. 1624. he being then a Parliamentary Burgess for this University was by the name of Sir George Calvert of Danbywiske in Yorkshire Knight c. created Baron of Baltimore in the County of Longford in Ireland being then a Roman Catholick or at least very much addicted to their Religion As for his adventures into America where he was absolute Lord and Proprietary of Avalon in the New-found-land and of his first venturing and taking possession of a Peninsula lying in the parts of America between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesopeake on the West and divided from the other part thereof by a right line drawn from the Promontory or Cape of Land called Watkyns point situate in the aforesaid Bay near to the River Wighco on the West unto the main Ocean afterwards called and named by him Mary-Land let the Histories and relations of Travellers tell you while I acquaint you of his works which are Carmen funebre in D. Hen. Vntonum ad Gallos bis Legatum ibique nuper fato functum Printed 1596. qu. Parliamentary Speeches Various Letters of State The answer of Tom Tell-Troth The practice of Princes and the Lamentation of the Kirk Lond. 1642. qu. He hath also written something concerning Mary-Land but whether printed I cannot tell He ended his days on
the 15. Ap. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet near London As for Albert Morton before mention'd who was Nephew to Sir Henry Wotton was elected Scholar of Kings coll 1602. went with his Uncle in the quality of Secretary when he went on his Embassie to the States of Venice Afterwards he was thrice Agent in Savoy Secretary to the Lady Elizabeth in Heidleburg and there imployed as Agent for the King with the Princes of the Union Afterwards he became one the Clerks of the Council and a Knight as I have before told you and at length one of the Secretaries of State He ended his days in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in the winter time in Nov. as it seems an 1625. having a little before been elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Univ. of Cambridge He then left behind him a Widdow named Elizabeth by whom he had if I mistake not a Son of both his names who was elected Scholar of Kings coll in the said University 1638. but left that house soon after and became a Leiuetenant Colonel in the Wars in Ireland NATHANIEL TORPORLEY a Shropshire man born applied his Muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church an 1579. aged 16. about which time he became one of the Students of that house Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University and whether he then travelled beyond the Sea I cannot tell For that he was in France for two or more years and was Amanuensis to the celebrated Mathematician Fran. Vieta of Fontenay in the Province of Poictau is notoriously known but the time when whether before or after he was M. of A. we cannot tell Sure it is that his Genie being mostly enclined to the Mathematicks and Astronomy in which faculties he had obtained in his absence a sufficicient knowledge he returned to the University and entring himself into Brasnose coll did as a member thereof take the degree of Master of Arts an 1591 being then eight years standing in that of Bachelaur Afterwards he retired to the great City and became so famous for his singular knowledge that being made known to the great Earl of Northumberland named Henry Piercy the generous favourer of all good learning was received into his Patronage and had a pension paid yearly unto him for several years from his Purse About the same time he was made Rector of Salwarp in his native Country in the place of Tho. Forest deceased 1608. where residing sometimes but mostly in Sion coll in London of which he was a Student and a most eminent member continued in the last till the time of his death He hath transmitted to posterity Diclides Caelometricae seu Valvae Astronomicae universales omnia artis totius munera Psephophoretica in sat modicis finibus duarum tabularum methodo nova generali facilimâ continentes Lib. 2. Lond. 1602. qu. Tabula praemissâ—is ad declinationes caeli mediationes Printed with the former book in five parts Directionis accuratae consummata doctrina Astrologis hac tenus plurimum desiderata Written by way of Preface to the two former books He hath also printed something against Fr. Vieta under the name of Poulterey which is Torpurley's name transpos'd but that book I have not yet seen and hath also written MSS. in Bib. coll Sion Congestor Opus Mathematicum Imperfect Pholosophia Atomorum atopia demonstrata Imperfect Corrector Analyticus artis posthumae Imperfect He took his last farewel of this world in Sion coll before mention'd and was buried in the Church of St. Alphage near to that college on the seventeenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 By his nuncupatory Will which he spake on the 14. day of the same month he gave to the use of those that study in the Library of the said coll all his mathematical books and others all his Astronomical instruments notes mapps and his brass clock Among the said books were some few MSS. of which one contained Certain definitions of the Planisphere made by Walter Warner a most noted Mathematician of his time LEWES BAYLY was born in the antient Borough of Caermerthen in Wales but in what house educated unless in Exeter coll or what degrees he took in Arts I find not only that as a member of the said coll he was admitted to the reading of sentences an 1611. being about that time Minister of Evesham in Worcestershire Chaplain to Prince Henry and Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London and that he proceeded in Divinity two years after Much about the same time he being fam'd for his eminence in preaching was made one of the Chaplains to King James 1. who nominating him Bishop of Bangor in the place of Dr. H. Rowlands was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth with Dr. Lake to the See of B. and Wells on the 8. of Dec. an 1616. On the 15. July 1621. I find this passage of him Episcopus Bangoriensis examinatur in Le Fleet datur sed paulo post liberatur What his crime was my author tells me not nor do I lift further to inquire unless it concern'd the Princes match with the Infarta of Spain He hath published The practice of Piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God Printed about 40 times in oct and tw the eleventh edition of which was printed at Lond. 1619. It was also printed once or more in the Welsh tongue and once or more in the French an 1633. c. And in France having been much cried up did therefore cause John Despagne a French writer and a Preacher in Somerset-house Chappel an 1656. to make some complaint of not for any ill thing in it because the generality of the Plebeians do look upon the authority of it equal with that of the Scripture It is said by an author who takes all advantages to speak against the Bishops and Church of England that this book called The practice of Piety was written by a Puritan Minister and that a Bishop not altogether of a Chast life did after the Authors death bargain with his Widdow for the Copy which he received but never paid her the money Afterwards he interlopating it in some places did publish it as his own c. But let this report which hath been common with some as also that which saith it was written by one Price Archdeacon of Bangor remain with their authors while I tell you that Dr. Bayly dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two was buried in his Church of Bangor year 1632 He left behind him four Sons Nicholas John Theodore and Thomas John was Fellow of Exeter coll and a publisher of certain Sermons as I have already told you Thomas Bayly the youngest Son was not educated in
Preacher and therefore much followed by ingenious men At length being made one of the Chaplains to his Maj. K. Jam. 1. who highly valued him for his fine fancy and preaching he was by his favour promoted to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon an 1620. being then D. of D. Senior Student of that house Vicar of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire and Prebendary of Beminster Secunda in the Church of Sarum At length upon the translation of Dr. Howson to the See of Durham he by vertue of the Kings Letters was elected Bishop of Oxon 30. July 1629. and afterwards consecrated at Lambeth 19. Octob. and installed in his Chair 3. Nov. following Upon the translation of Dr. White to Ely he was elected Bishop of Norwich 7. Apr. 1632. and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 12. of May the same year His writings that are published are only Poetica Stromata or a collection of sundry pieces of Poetry Lond. 1647. 48. c. oct made in his younger years and never intended to be published by their author He was buried at the upper end of the Choire belonging to the Cath. year 1635 Church of Norwich in sixteen hundred thirty and five and soon after was a large Free stone of a sandy colour laid over his body with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Richardus Corbet Theologiae Doctor Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi Oxoniensis primum Alumnus inde Decanus exinde Episcopus illinc huâ— translatus hinc in Coelum Julii 28. an 1635. On the said stone are the ancient Arms of the Corbets of Shropshire viz. Or a Raven passant sab This person was hospitably disposed and ever ready to express himself generous towards publick designs Upon the repair of S. Paul's Cathedral an 1634. he used his utmost endeavour both by his excellent speech and exemplary gifts to advance that pious work not only contributing largely himself but also giving monies to some Ministers that had not to give to incourage others to contribute that might better give JOHN COLLETON or Collington Son of Edmund Colleton of Milverton in Somersetshire Gent. was born there and at 17 years of age an 1565. was sent to the University of Oxon particularly as 't is thought to Lincoln coll but leaving the place without a degree and his Country he crossed the Seas and went to Doway where applying himself to the study of Divinity in the English coll was made a Priest and returned into England with Father Campian an 1580. But being taken and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London was afterwards upon his trial for conspiring the death of the Queen at Rome or Rheimes set at liberty and charged to depart the Land within few days after In obedience therefore to that command he with others of his profession went or rather were sent accordingly in 1584. but tarrying there not long returned and spent many years in administring to the Brethren and gaining Proselytes In which time as Father Persons reports he was a principal author of the Libels against the Archpriestship See more in Christop Bagshaw under the year 1625. In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he was made Archdeacon of London only titular Vicar General of the East parts of England and at length Dean of Chalcedon but when age grew upon him Greg. Fisher alias Musket Archdeacon of Surrey and Middlesex was added as a Coadjutor in the Office of Vicar-General 10. Feb. 1626. to assist in the East parts of England namely in Essex Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgshire Isle of Ely Bedfordshire Bucks Middlesex and Hertford He hath written and published A just defence of the slandred Priests wherein are contained reasons against their receiving Mr. George Blackwel to be their Superior c. Printed 1602. qu. concerning which book and Father Persons his character therein you may see in The Anatomy of Popish Tyranny c. written by Tho. Bell lib. 4. cap. 5. sect 4. Supplication to the King of Great Britain for a toleration of the Cath. Religion Epistle to P. Paul 5. with other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days in the house of a Rom. Catholick at Eltham in Kent on the fourteenth of the Calends of Novemb. year 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five aged 87. and was buried in the Church there dedicated to S. John Bapt. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with an inscription round the verge a copy of which was sent to me by his Sisters Son named Joh. Kynn O. S. B. living at Beoly in Worcestershire Much about the time that this Joh. Colleton studied according to report in Linc. college one Joh. Filby an Oxfordshire man born studied there also who leaving that coll before he was Bac. of Arts went to Rheimes where he studied Divinity in the English coll and was made a Priest Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England he was taken imprisoned and at length being condemned to die was executed at Tyburn 30. May 1582. ALEXANDER GILL born in Lincolnshire on the 27. Feb. 1564. was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in Sept. 1583. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1590. left the coll and became an instructer of Youth but where unless in the City of Norwich where he lived 1597. and then wrote his treatise of the Trinity I know not Sure I am that in 1608. he became the chief Master of S. Pauls School within the City of London in the place of Rich. Mulcaster was esteemed by most persons to be a learned man a noted Latinist Critick and Divine and also to have such an excellent way of training up youth that none in his time went beyond him Whence 't was that many noted persons in Church and State did esteem it the greatest of their happiness that they had been educated under him His works are Treatise concerning the Trinity in unity of the Deity Lond. 1601. oct written to Tho. Manering an Anabaptist who denied that Jesus is very God of very God Logonomia Anglica Qua gentis sermo facilius addiscitur Lond. 1621. qu. Sacred Philosophy of holy Scripture Or a Commentary on the Creed Lond. 1635. fol. At the end of which is printed also his Treatise of the Trinity before mention'd He died in his house in St. Pauls Ch. Yard on the 17. year 1635 Novemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and five and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in Mercers Chappel in London in a vault near to the Monument of Mr. Brown and Mr. Fishbourne He left behind him a Son of both his names whom I shall hereafter mention EDMUND DEANE Brother to Richard Deane Bishop of Ossory and both the Sons of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire was born there or in that County entred a Student in Merton coll in Lent-Term 1591. aged 19. took one degree in Arts and then retired to St. Albans hall where prosecuting his Genie
Arts and all that he knew he own'd to him Thence his silly Mother who had married to her second Husband a Bricklayer took him home and made him as 't is said work at her Husbands trade At length being pitied by some generous Gentlemen Camden got him a better imployment which was to attend or accompany a Son of Sir Walt. Raliegh in his adventures whereby gaining experience made his company acceptable among many After their return they parted I think not in cold blood and thereupon Ben went to Cambridge and was as 't is said statutably elected into St. Johns coll but what continuance he made there I find not Sure 't is that his Genie being mostly Poetical he did afterwards receed to a Nursery or obscure Play-house called The Green Curtain about Shoreditch or Clerkenwell but his first action and writing there were both ill At length improving his fancy much by keeping Scholastical company he betook himself again to write plays which he did so admirably well that he was esteemed paramount in the dramatick part of Poetry and to teach the stage an exact conformity to the Laws of Comedians Whereupon Sir Jo. Suckling bringing him into the Session of Poets Ben broke silence spoke to the Poets and Bid them remember how he had purg'd the Stage Of Errours that had lasted many an age His own proper industry and addition to books especially to ancient Poets and Classical authors made him a person of curious learning and judgment and of singular excellence in the art of Poetry Which with his accurate judgment and performance known only to those few who are truly able to judge of his works have gain'd from the most eminent Scholars of his time particularly from the learned Selden an increasing admiration Dr. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and other Poets of this University did in reverence to his parts invite him to Oxon where continuing for some time in Ch. Ch. in writing and composing Plays he was as a Member thereof actually created M. of A. in 1619. and therefore upon that account I put him among the Oxford writers for at Cambridge his stay was but short and whether he took a degree in that University I cannot yet learn of any His works are these Every Man in his humour a Comedy Acted 1598. Every Man out of his humour Com. Act. 1599. Cynthia's Revels Com. Act. 1600. Poetaster or his arraignment Com. 1601. Sejanus his Fall a Tragedy Act. 1602. Volpone or the Fox Com. 1609. Alchemist Com. 1610. Cataline his Conspiracy Trag. 1611. Epigrams in number 134. Epigrams called the Forrest in number 15. Part of the Kings entertainment in passing to his Coronation in prose and verse A panegyre on the happy entrance of K. James to his first high Session of Parliament 19. March 1603. A Poem A particular entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Apethorp at the house of the Lord Spencer 25. June 1603. A Poem Private entertainment of the K. and Q. on May day in the morn at Sir Will. Cornwallis his house at Highgate 1604 In verse and prose Entertainment of the two Kings of Great Britain and Denmark at Theobalds 24. Jul. 1606. In Lat. and Engl. verse Entertainment of K. James and Q. Anne at Theobalds when the house was delivered up with the possession to the Queen by the Earl of Salisbury 22. May 1607. Written in verse Twelve Masks at Court Barthelmew-Fair Com. Acted 1614. Devil is an Asse Com. 1616. Staple of News Com. 1625. Magnetick Lady or humours reconciled Com. Tale of a Tub Com. Sad Shepherd or a tale of Robin Hood Trag. Masks Underwoods Consisting of divers Poems entertainments and of some Odes of Horace translated Mortimer his fall Trag. imperfect Horace his Art of Poetry made English This last was afterwards printed by it self Lond. 1640. oct and with it 1 Execration against Vulcan 2 Masque of the Gypsies 3 Epigrams to several noble personages about 23. in number All composed by B. Johnson English Grammar for the benefit of all strangers Discoveries made upon men and matter All which are contained in two vol. in fol. printed 1616. and 1640. Tragedy of Thierry K. of France and his Brother Theodored The New-Inn or the light heart Com. Lond. 1631. octav His Motives Printed 1622. oct He also had a hand in a Com. called The Widdow Lond. 1652. qu. Jo. Fletcher and Th. Middleton were his Assistants Also in Eastward hoe Com. assisted by Geo. Chapman c. and did with Dr. Hacket afterwards B. of Lichfield translate into Latin the Lord Bacons Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral At length B. Johnson after he had arrived to the sixty third year of his age marched off from the stage of this vain World on the 16. year 1637 of August in sixteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried three days after in S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster commonly called the Abbey Church not among the Poets but at the west end near to the belfry under the Escoheon of Rob. de Ros or Roos with this engraven on a common pavement stone laying over his grave at eighteen pence charge given by Jack Young of Great Milton in Oxfordshire afterwards a Knight by the favour of K. Ch. 2. O rare Ben Johnson There was a considerable sum of money gathered from among the Wits and Vertuosi of his time for the erection of a monument and a Statua for him but before they could be done the Rebellion broke forth and hindred the design whereupon the money was refunded I have been informed by a worthy Prelate several years since deceased that this Poet Ben had a pension of an 100. l. per an from the King a pension also from the City of London and the like from several of the Nobility and from some of the Gentry particularly from Sutton Founder of the Hospital that now bears his name which were commonly well paid either out of pure love to him or out of fear of his railing in verse or prose or both When he was in his last sickness the said Prelate who was then M. of A. did among other of his acquaintance often visit him and as often heard him repent of his prophaning the Scripture in his Plays and that with horrour c. Many years after his death did appear to the World another Poet of both his names who writes himself in his Poems published 1672. Ben. Johnson Junior but what relation there was between him and the former I know not ROBERT FLUDD or de Fluctibus second afterwards eldest Son of Sir Tho. Fludd Knight sometimes Treasurer of War to Q. Elizabeth in France and the Low Countries Grandson of Dav. Fludd of Shropshire was born at Milgate in the Parish of Bearsted in Kent became Convictor of S. Johns coll in 1591. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts studied Physick travelled into France Spain Italy and Germany for almost six years In most of which Countries he became acquainted with several of
an years time he was got into his Greek Grammar for he was one of a prodigious memory and of wonderful strength of body After he had spent one year at Westminster School he was sped a Child in Wykehams coll near Winchester where making very great proficiency in the School there he was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll an 1584. and two years after was admitted Verus Socius In Feb. 1591. he had the degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him and being Terrae filius in the Act following he was so bitterly satyrical that he was not only denied the completion of that degree by being admitted ad regendum but was expel'd the University Afterwards being put to his shifts he went into Somersetshire where he taught a School for about an year or more at Ilchester and compiled a Greek Lexicon as far as the Letter M. About that time having married a rich Fortune in those parts named Benedicta the Widdow of one Bourne but Daughter of Rob. Moyle of Buckwell in Kent he entred himself a Student in the Middle Temple where after he had spent some years and performed certain exercise he was called to the Bar. In 1614. he sate as a Burgess in Parliament then in being wherein in speaking his mind he made a desperate allusion to the Scicilian Vesper for which being committed Prisoner to the Tower of London 7. June was examined whether he well understood the consequence of that Vesper to which he alluded Whereupon making answer that he had a hint thereof and afterwards a general information from Dr. Lionel Sharp of Cambridge that Doctor therefore with Sir Charles Cornwallis Son of Sir Tho. Cornwallis of Brome in Suffolk were imprison'd in the Tower on the 13. of the same month At the same time that our author Hoskyns was committed to custody were others also imprison'd with him for behaving themselves turbulent in the H. of Commons as Walt. Chute a Kentish man who had lately been put out of his place of Carver to the King one Wentworth Tho. Wentworth mentioned under the year 1627. esteemed by some then living a silly and simple creature and a third named Christopher Nevil second Son to the Lord Abergavenny who was newly come from School and made the House sport with his boyish speeches wherein were these words reiterated O tempora O mores After our author Hoskyns had continued a Prisoner for a full year he with Sharp and Cornwallis were released and ever after were held in great value by the Commons In the 17. of Jac. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader of the Middle-Temple and in the 21. of the said King made a Serjeant at Law and soon after a Judge or Justice itinerant for Wales and one of the Council of the Marches thereof He was the most ingenious and admired Poet of his time and therefore much courted by the ingenious men then living There were few or none that published books of Poetry but did celebrate his memory in them especially his contemporary in New coll named Joh. Owen the Epigrammatist and fewer but did lay them at his feet for approbation before they went to the Press 'T was he that polish'd Ben. Johnson the Poet and made him speak clean whereupon he ever after called our author Father Hoskyns and 't was he that view'd and review'd the History of the World written by Sir W. Raleigh before it went to the Press with which person he had several years before especially during their time of imprisonment in the Tower been intimate He was also much respected and beloved by Camden Selden Sam. Daniel Dr. Joh. Donne Dean of Pauls Rich. Martin Recorder of London Sir H. Wotton and Sir Benj. Rudyerd with the last of whom it was once his fortune upon a quarrel that fell out to fight a duel and to hurt him in the knee but were afterwards soon reconcil'd He was a person always pleasant and facete in company which made him much desired by ingenious men He was an excellent Master of the Latin and Greek tongue well read in Divinity but in the Common Law which was his profession not so well He hath written Lexicon Graecum MS. imperfect Epigrams in Engl. and Lat. Some of which are printed in several books and among them I suppose are his verses on a F t let in the Parliament house which are printed in some of the books of Drollery He had a book of Poems neatly written bigger than those of Dr. Donne which were lent by his Son Benedict to a certain person in 1653. but could never retrieve it Epitaphs in Lat. and English The Art of Memory He was so excellent in it whether artificial or natural that no man ever went beyond him in his time When he was a School-boy at Winchester and had an exercise of verses to make he neglected through idleness the making of them So that fearing a whipping he read the exercise of one of his School-fellows over his shoulder just as he had finish'd it Whereupon the Master entring and the exercise called upon him first he drew up to and told him he had lost it yet nevertheless he would repeat it without book if that would serve his turn so that the Master being contented he repeated 16 or 20 verses that he had before read of the other boys making and so was excused At length the other boy being called and he shewing the verses that Hoskyns had repeated he was esteemed the thief that had stole them away from Hoskyns and thereupon was sorely whip'd for so doing Method of the Law reduced under the heads of Rights Wrongs Remedies All which books with others of various subjects are in MS. and for the most part kept in the hands of his Grandson Sir Joh. Hoskyns Knight and Baronet He departed this life in his house at Morehampton in Herefordshire 27. Aug. in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1638 aged 72. and was buried on the south side of the Choire of Dowr Abbey in the said County Over his grave was erected soon after an Altar-monument with 24 verses ingraven thereon made by Thomas Bonham of Essex Esq The four first run thus Hoc tegitur tumulo totus quem non tegit orbis Hoskinus humani prodigium ingenii Vsque adeo excoluit duo pugnacissima rerum Et qua non subeant nomina pectus idem Pieridumque legumque potens c. RICHARD JAMES was born at Newport in the Isle of Wight admitted Scholar of C. C. coll from that of Exeter 23. Sept. 1608. aged 16. or thereabouts and on the 30. of Sept. 1615. Probationer-Fellow About that time he being involved in the studies of Theology he entred into Orders preached often and at length was Bac. of that Faculty This person tho humorous was of a far better judgment than his Uncle Thom. James mentioned under the year 1629. and had he lived to his age would have surpassed him in published books He was a great traveller also was
admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1589 took the degrees in Arts and at length was numbred among the best of Preachers in that house In 1597 he left the coll being then beneficed at Westmean in his own Country was afterwards made Prebendary of Winchester and in the year 1614. took the degrees in Divinity His younger years were adorned with variety of learning and his elder with solid and substantial Divinity which last made him as much respected in his native country towards his latter end as he was before in the University for this book following of his writing and publication when he was a young man Diarium Historico-poeticum In quo praeter constellationum utriusque Hemisphaerii Zodaici ortus occasus numerum Stellarum causarumque ad Poesin Spectantium varietatem declaratur cujusque mensis dies fere singuli Regum Imperatorum Principum Pontificum virorumque doctorum natalibus nuptiis inaugurationibus morte denique aut ralia quacunque insigniores celebriores sic ut nihil c. Lib. 12. Oxon. 1595. qu. What other things he hath published I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he died on the 20. of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine having had for some years before divers contests with Neile his Diocesan for his introducing certain ceremonies into the Cath. at Winchester and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Westmean before mention'd Over his grave was soon after a Monument put with six verses thereon the two first of which run thus Ortus stirpe bonâ titulo Doctoris adauctus Oxonii conjux bis deciesque pater PHILIPP MASSINGER Son of Phil. Massinger a servant belonging to the Pembrochian family made his first entry on the stage of this vain world within the City of Salisbury was entred a Commoner in St. Albans hall in the seventeenth year of his age 1601. where tho incouraged in his studies by the Earl of Pembroke yet he applied his mind more to Poetry and Romances for about four years or more than to Logick and Philosophy which he ought to have done and for that end was patronized Afterwards leaving the University without the honour of a degree he retired to the great City to improve his fancy and studies by conversation At length being sufficiently fam'd for several specimens of wit wrote divers Comedies and Tragedies for the English Stage besides other things much applauded and cryed up in their time when acted and published Their names are these The Duke of Millaine a Tragedy Lond. 1623. qu. Powerfull Favourite or the life of Sejanus a Hist Printed 1628. qu. Roman Actor Tr. Lond. 1629. qu. Renegado Picture Tr. co Lond. 1630. qu. Virgin Martyr Tr. Lond. 1631. 1661. qu. In this Trag. he was assisted by Tho. Dekker a high flier of wit even against Ben Johnson himself in his Com. called The untrussing of The humerous Poet. Emperour of the East Maid of Honour Tr. co Lond. 1632. qu. Fatal Dowry Tr. Lond. 1632. qu. assisted therein by Nathan Field New way to pay old debts Co. Lond. 1633. qu. Great Duke of Florence A comical Hist London 1636. qu. The Bond-man An antient story Lond. 1638. qu. Tr. Lond. 1639. qu. Unnatural Brother Unnatural Combate Lond. 1655. oct with the authors picture before them Bashful Lover Tr. Co. The Guardian Co. Hist Very Woman or the Prince of Tarent Tr. Co. City Madam Com. Lond. 1659. qu. published by one who calls himself Andr. Penniewicke He was also one of the three Thom. Middleton and Will. Rowley being the other two who had a hand in The old Law Com. Lond. 1656. qu. and was sole author if a cat of Plays at the end of The old Law may be believed of Virtuous Octavia Trag. and of Rom Alley Com. As to this last there is without doubt a mistake for all readers of Plays cannot but know that Ram Alley or merry Tricks was pen'd by the Lord Barry an Irish man and that it was acted by the Children of the Kings revels before 1611. As for our author Ph. Massenger he made his last exit very suddenly in his house on the Bank-side in Southwerk near to then Play-house for he went to bed well and was dead before morning Whereupon his body being accompanied by Comedians was buried about the middle of that Ch. yard belonging to S. Saviours Church there commonly called the Bull-head Church yard that is in that which joyns to the Bull-head Tavern for there are in all four yards belonging to that Church on the 18. day of March in sixteen hundred thirty and nine Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Lond. 1658. oct hath in pag. 186. an Epitaph on Mr. Joh. Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church alias S. Saviours in Southwerk See more in Sir John Beaumont under the year 1628. where you 'll find more of those two persons One Walt. Messenger or Massenger was a student in S. Alb. hall in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths raign whom I take to be either Father or Uncle to Philip the Poet. JOHN VICCARS was originally of the University of Cambridge where taking one degree in Arts retired to Oxon setled in Lincolne coll in the condition of a Commoner an 1624 and the next year proceeded in Arts as a member of that house Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas visited divers Academies and Recesses of learning and gained from them and their respective Libraries great experience and knowledge He hath written Decapla in psalmos Sive commentarius ex decem Linguis antiquis paetribus Rab. Historicis Poetis c. Lond. 1639. fol. which book doth plainly demonstrate that he was a most admirable Linguist and the best for the Oriental tongues in his time I shall make large mention of John Vicars the Poet among the writers under the year 1652. JOHN SPEED Son of Jo. Sp. the Chronologer was born in London elected Scholar of S. John's coll from Merchant Taylors School in 1612. aged 17. Afterwards he was made Fellow thereof M. of A. Bach. and Doctor of Physick of this Univ. In which last faculty he became eminent especially for the practick part among the Academians and had if death had not snatched him too soon away published several matter of it He hath written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 utriusque sexus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 MS. written in Latine dedicated to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cantab. and reserved in S. John's coll Library as a rarity The said MS. points at and hath relation to the two Skeletons one of a man another of a woman standing at the north end of the Mathematick Library of the said college which Skeletons were made and given to the said Library by our author Dr. Speed who hath also written Stonehenge a pastoral Acted before Dr. Rich. Baylie the President and Fellows of the said coll in their common
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
the Univ. of Oxon and became a considerable benefactor thereunto particularly to the reparation of Canon Law School in S. Edwards parish to the finishing of the re-edification of S. Maries Church and of the edification of the Divinity School In all which places were his Arms set up in colours in the Windows or else engraven in Stone But such is the vicissitude of time that nothing of Arms or any thing like them doth at this time remain Those that belonged to him were Quarterly gules and ermine a Goats head erased in the first and fourth quarter argent given or else taken in allusion to the Arms of the Corporation of Shomakers of which Corporation the Father of this Archb. was as 't is said a member They were curiously engraven on Stone at the bottom of the Stone-pulpit in St. Maries Church as also the rebus of his name an M. upon a Tun. Which Pulpit was pulled down when the inside of that Church was alter'd while Dr. Ralph Bathurst was Vicechancellor an 1676. They were also engraven on the Respondents Pew or Seat of Stone in the Divinity School which also were taken away when the inside of that School was altered an 1669. to what it now is But tho these monuments are decayed yet the memory of the person is fresh among some men who have said that he was a wife and eloquent man but in his nature harsh and haughty that he was much accepted by the King but envied by the Nobility and hated by the people He won the Kings mind with secrecy and diligence chiefly because he was his old servant in his less fortunes and for that also he was in his affections not without an inveterate malice against the House of York under which he had been in trouble Whatsoever else was in the man he deserveth a most happy memory in that he was the principal means of joyning the two Roses At length dying of great years about 90. but of strong health and powers about the latter end of Septemb. in fiveteen hundred year 1500 was buried in the Cath. Church of Canterbury before the image of the Virgin Mary commonly called Our Lady of Vndercroft Over his Stone-coffin or Sepulcher which was but just deposited in the ground was a marble-stone laid even with the surface of the pavement which stone being afterwards crack'd and broken several parts of his body wrap'd up in divers Cear-cloathes were taken away by certain rude and barbarous people At length the head being only in a manner remaining in the said Stone-coffin 't was beg'd out of a pious mind purposely to save it of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury in 1670. by that truly noble and generous Rophe Shedon of Beoley in Worcestershire Esquire who esteeming it as a choice relique provided a leaden box to preserve it with its Cear-cloathes about it and with great devotion kept it to his dying day an 1684. Afterwards that choice relique with very many rarities which he in his life time had gathered together came by vertue of his last Will into the hands of his Uncles Daughter named Frances Sheldon sometimes one of the maids of honour to Catherine the Royal Consort of King Charles 2. The said Cardinal Moreton did by his last Will and Testament leave maintenance for a Priest to celebrate Mass for 20. years space in the Church of Bere in Dorsetshire for the Soul of him the said Archbishop and for the Souls of his relations and parents buried there He also left maintenance during that time for 20 poor Scholars in Oxon and ten in Cambridge I find one John Moreton to be made Prebend of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells on the resignation of Robert Stillington afterwards B. of Bath and Wells in July 1447. and Minister of Axbridge and Charlton Mesgrose in the Dioc. of B. and Wells but this John Moreton who died about the month of Dec. 1463. is in the registers belonging to the Bish of B. and Wells written Sacrae Theologiae Professor I find also another Joh. Moreton who translated into English Speculum Vitae Christi written by S. Bonaventure Which John was living in 1438 in which year he with his Wife Juliana were admitted among the Suffrages and Prayers of the Dominicans or Black Fryers at York THOMAS LANGTON was born in a Market Town called Appleby in Westmorland where being educated in Religion and Grammar learning among the Carmes or White Friers was at ripe years sent to Oxon particularly as it seems to Queens coll but a pest breaking out in the University soon after he went to Cambridge and became a member of Clare hall one saith of Pembroke hall took the degrees in the Canon Law in which afterwards he was incorporated at Oxon and had considerable Dignities in the Church bestowed him among which was the Prebendship of S. Ducaman in the Church of Wells an 1478. In 1483 he being about that time Provost of Qu. coll in Oxon and Master of S. Julians Hospital in Southampton was consecrated Bishop of S. Davids whence being translated to the See of Salisbury on the death of Leonel Woodvill had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto 4. May 1 Rich. 3. dom 1484. In a certain writing in Queens coll treasury dat 19. Aug. 4. Hen. 7. dom 1489. he occurs by the titles of Doctor of the Laws Bishop of Salisbury and Provost of Qu. coll Whence we may conclude that he kept the said Provostship in Commendam with Salisbury as probably he had done with S. Davids In 1493. he was translated to the See of Winchester and had restitution made to him of the temporalities thereof 27. June the same year Where being setled he put in practice his good deeds which he had done at Sarum viz. by shewing himself a Mecaenas of learning for which I find he had so great respect that he took care to have youths trained up at his own charge in Grammar and Musick the last of which he was infinitely delighted in in a School which he set apart within the precincts of his house It was usual with him and he took a great pleasure in it to make his scholars or exhibitioners repeat at night before him such dictates that they in the day time had learned from their Master and such that could give a laudable account he either encouraged with good words or small rewards saying to those about him that the way to increase vertue was to praise it c. In his episcopal office he behaved himself so well that he was in great authority with three Kings especially for his learning religion and experience in civil affairs annd had not death snatch'd him untimely away would have succeeded Moreton in the See of Canterbury He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred and one and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester near to the tomb and shrine of S. Swithune By his last will and test which I
Hen. 8. for which he incur'd that Kings displeasure He paid his last debt to nature on the sixth day of Apr. 1533. Whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Elye in the middle of a Chappel by him a little before erected on the south side of the same Church Soon after was a large marble laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Of your charytye pray for the Sowle of Nicholas West sometymes Bishop of this See and for all Christian Sowles For the whych prayer he hath graunted to every person so doying fortye days of pardon for every tyme that they shall so pray c. In the said See of Elye succeeded Thom. Goodrick D. of Div. Son of Edward Goodrick of Kirbye in Lincolnshire Son of John Goodricke of Bullingbrook in the said County which Thomas was educated in Kings colledge in the University of Cambridge JOHN THORNDEN sometimes written Thornton was Doctor of Div. and several times Commissary or Vicechancellour of this University while Dr. warham Archb. of Canterbury was Chancellour viz. between the years 1506 and 1514. in which time he is often stiled Episcopus Syrynensis and Syrymensis perhaps the same with Sirmium in Hungary as being a Suffragan to the same Archbishop which is all I know of him MENELAUS Mac-CARMACAN sometimes written among our imperfect Records Carmgan Hibernicus spent some time among his Countrymen in this University but whether he took a degree we have no Register to shew it Afterwards retiring to his Country he became Dean of Raphoe and at length Bishop of that place in 1484. He died in the habit of a Grâ—y-Frier on the seventh of the Ides of May in fifteen hundred and fifteen year 1515 and was buried in the Monastery of the Franciscans commonly called the Grey-Friers at Dunagall Whereupon one Cornelius O-Cahan succeeded him in his Bishoprick RICHARD MAYHEW or Mayo received his first breath in Berkshire in a Market Town if I mistake not called Hungerford was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1459. and on the 28. March 1467. took holy Orders from the hands of George Archb. of York Soon after he was elected one of the Proctors of this University and in 1480. was made President of Magd. coll by the Founder thereof W. Waynfleet and about that time D. of Div. In the beginning of May 1501 he was made Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire in the place of Joh. Hole Bach. of Decrees deceased who on the first of May 1497. was from being Archdeacon of Clievland admitted to that Dignity on the resignation of Cornbull and being installed Archdeacon of Oxon on the 10. of the same month and in the same year was sent into Spain to conduct the Infanta Katherine to England to be wedded to Prince Arthur In 1503. he was elected Chancellour of this University and in the year after he being one of the Kings Council his Almoner and elected to the See of Hereford had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the first of Nov. 1504. He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. of Apr. in fifteen hundred and sixteen year 1516 and was buried on the south side of the high Altar within his own Cathedral near to the foot of the Image of the Glorious King and Martyr Ethelbert By his Will he gave to 50 Priests studying in the University of Oxon six shillings and eight pence a-peice to pray for him as also several books to New coll Library One Rich. Mayow Doctor of Decrees of this University and Canon resid of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter died in the year 1500. whose Executor then was Thom Harrys Archdeacon of Cornwall but what relation there was between this Rich. Mayow who was a Westâ—rn man and the Bishop before-mentioned I know not In the said See of Hereford succeeded Charels Bothe LL. D. of Cambridge who after election received the temporalities thereof 9. Feb. 1516. By his last Will and Testam proved 8. May 1535. he desired to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of Hereford juxta hostium ex parte boreali Ecclesiae ubi construxi as he saith sepulchrum meum After him succeeded in the said See Edw. Fox another Cantabrigian who had the temporalities thereof restored to him 4. Oct. 1535. This person who was an eminent Scholar of his time was born at Duresley in Gloucestershire educated in Eaton School near Windsore admitted Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 27. March 1512. became Provost of it 27. Decemb. 1528. and afterwards the Kings Almoner one of his Privy Council and a great promoter of the Kings divorce from Q. Katharine particularly in the University of Cambridge where he and Dr. Steph. Gardiner procured with much difficulty and earnest engaging of themselves the testimony of the Members of the said University for the Kings divorce before-mentioned an 1530. In Sept. 1531. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester upon the resignation of Dr. Steph. Gardiner and in Nov. 1533. he was made Archdeacon of Dorset on the death of Will. Bennet About which time or rather before he had been Embassador divers times into France and Germany and afterwards was secretly a favourer of the reformed religion insomuch that Martin Bucer dedicated his Cemmentary on the Evangelists to him He the said Fox wrote a book De vera differentia regiae potestatis Ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque Lond. 1534-38 for which and other learned labours as his Annotations on Mantuan he is celebrated and numbred among the learned men by Joh. Leland There is also extant a short oration of his in the story of the Lord Thomas Cromwell which you may see in the Acts and Mon of of the Church and other matters elsewhere By his last Will and Test made the 8. May 1538. and proved 20. March following it appears that he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Church of S. Mary Hault in London now called S. Mary Mounthaw de monte alto the Patronage of which belongs to the Bishop of Hereford After him succeeded John Skâ—ppe D. D. sometimes of Gonvill coll in Cambridge who after his election to the See of Hereford had the Kings consent to it 7. Nov. 1539. He died in his house at Mount-hault in London in the latter end of the year after or on the 18. March 1551. Whereupon his body was buried near to that of his Predecessor Edward Fox before-mentioned JOHN HATTON a Yorkshire man born as it seems and among the Oxonians for a time educated became well beneficed in that County and at length Suffiragan Bishop to the Archbishop of York under the title of Nigrepont which is as I suppose near to the Archipelago In the year 1503. he was made Prebendary of Gevendale in the Church of York and in the year following Preb. of Vlleskelf in the same Church
decease of the said W. Worslley who had held with it other dignities among which was the Archdeaconry of Nottingham in which he was succeeded by Thom. Crosley in Aug. 1499. In 1505. he the said Rob. Sherebourne being elected Bishop of S. Davids under the title of Consiliarius regius had restitution of the temporalities of that See made to him on the 12. of Apr. the same year done in requiral of the many services and embassies which he had performed for his Master K. Hen. 7. In 1508. he was translated to the See of Chichester and had the temporalities belonging thereunto delivered to him on the 13. Dec. that year He was a person much given to hospitality was very charitable to the poor munificent to the coll that had given him Acad. education as may elsewhere be seen and bestowed much mony in beautifying and adorning his Cath. Ch. at Chichester At length after he had resigned his Bishoprick he gave way to fate on the 21. Aug. in fifteen hundred thirty and six aged 86 years or thereabouts and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. in a poor remembrance that he had made there on the south side of the same Church A certain note which Sir Will. Dugdale Garter K. of Arms collected by himself and afterwards communicated to me informs that the said R. Sherebourne founded a Free School in the time of Hen. 8. at Rowlston in Staffordshire at which place he was born of mean parentage But this note which he could not then tell whence he had I reject because the register of New coll tells us that he was born in Hampshire where is a Town called Sherbourne in which he or at least his Father or Grandfather was as 't is probable born After he had resigned his Bishoprick Mr. Rich. Sampson Dean of the Kings Chappel being elected thereunto had the temporalities thereof given to him 4. July 28. Hen. 8. Dom. 1536. JOHN KYTE was born as 't is said within the City of London and for a time educated in this University but in what house or what degrees he took it appears not Afterwards he had several dignities confer'd upon him was made Subdean of the King's Chappel and by K. Hen. 7. was sent Embassador into Spain In the latter end of 1513. he was made Archb. of Armagh by provision from P. Leo 10. the temporalities of which were given to him on the 20. May in the year following But he resigning the said Archbishoprick on the third of Aug. 1521. being newly made Bishop of Carlile in England on the death of Joh. Penny was made Archbishop of Thebes in Greece All these things were done by the endeavours made to the Pope by Card. Wolsey whose creature Kyte was And because the Bulls of translation and of Carlile with the retention of his other benefices should be expedited and done to the desire of Wolsey and Kyte the fees came to 1790. duckets but whether all was paid I think not because it partly appears by the letters of Joh. Clerk the Kings Orator at Rome afterwards B. of B. of Wells that for the sake of the said Card. 275 duckets were released to Kyte tho the World was then very hard at Rome He the said Kyte took his last farewell of this World after he had bestowed much money on Rose-castle the Seat of the Bishop of Carlile on the nineteenth day of June in fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 and was buried as 't is said in the middle almost of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Stepney near London Over his grave is a marble-stone yet remaining with an English Epitaph thereon contained in barbarous verses shewing that he was a person of great hospitality The five first run thus Under this ston closyde and marmorate Lyeth John Kitte Londoner natyff Encreasyng in vertues rose to high estate In the fourth Edwards chappel by his yong lyffe Sith whych the sevinth Henryes servyce primatyff Proceeding still c. How it came to pass that he was buried at Stepney I cannot tell Sure I am that by his Will and Test made the 18. June 29. Hen. 8 dom 1537. and proved 21. of the same month wherein he writes himself John Kyte Archb. of Thebes and Commendatory perpetual of Carlile he bequeaths his body to be buried by the body of his Father in St. Margarets Church in Westminster JOHN HILSEY a Dominican or Black Frier was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 1535. and died in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1538 Under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Nich Heath whom I shall mention at large in his proper place JOHN STOKESLIE was educated in S. Mary Magd. coll of which he was Fellow and much noted for his excellent faculty in disputing whether in Philosophy or Divinity In 1502. he being then M. of A. of some years standing was admitted Principal of S. Mary Magd. hall and in the year following was elected the northern Procter of the University because he had been born in the north parts of England Afterwards he became Vicar of Willoughby in Warwickshire for a time and Rector of Slimbridge in Gloucestershire both by the gift of the said college Prebendary of the Kings Chappel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Rich. Paice Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Rich. Fox B. of Winchester who gave him as I think the Archdeaconry of Surrey At length upon the translation of Tonstall to Durham he was made Bishop of London in 1530. In which See being installed 19. Jul. in the same year and about that time made the Kings Almoner fate there to the time of his death which hapning on the eighth of Sept. year 1539 in fifteen hundred thirty and nine was buried on the 14. of the said month in the Chappel of S. George within the Precinct of S. Pauls Cathedral Soon after was a memorial put over his grave running thus Hujus in obscuri tumuli c. Which in English is this as P. F. tells me Th'obscure recesses of this key-cold Tomb Do Stokeslies ashes and remains inhume Whose general name good life dexterity Of Pen Tongue Brain were known both far and nigh Who studied still to serve God and the King And benefit the publick in each thing What good he did in Forreign parts retrieve He brought it home like honey to his hive He knew the intreagues of Italy and Spain And of the Grecian Wyles did make much gain To many Kingdoms of the World being known And honour'd more returning to his own Who on our Blessed Ladies day being born Did on the self same day to dust return In 1529. he was sent to the Emperiour and Pope and to several Universities concerning the marriage of King Hen. 8. with his brother's Wife c. and was with Tho. Cranmer at
coll to which he was partly in his life time but more at his death a special benefactor Afterwards he became Chancellor of the diocess of Worcester in the place of Dr. Thomâ— Hanybal an 1518. and about that time Archdeacon of Glocester and Warden of the collegiate Church of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire At length his abilities being made known to K. Hen. 8. he was by him employed beyond the Seas concerning state affairs was made Doctor of the Laws there one of the Kings Counsellors at his return a chief agitator for the King in defence of his divorce from his first Wife Qu. Catherine especially in the University of Oxon by endeavouring to gain the opinion of the members thereof concerning that matter as I have told you elsewhere and in 1531. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty as he had stood beyond the Seas In 1539. he was elected Bishop of Worcester the temporalities of which being restored to him on the fourth of Aug. the same year he was soon after consecrated In 1543. he abdicated or rather resigned his See but for what cause is yet uncertain Whereupon retiring to Clerkenwell near London lived there for some years year 1556 and dying on the eleventh day of August in fifteen hundred fifty and six was buried on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Islyngton near London By his last will k and test dated 10. of Aug. 1556. he bequeathed very liberally to the poor people of Stratford upon Avon before-mention'd to the poor of Bromesgrave in Worcestershire Tadcaster Wymbersley c. at which places 't is probable he had been beneficed He also gave 100 marks to certain poor Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge in which last University he seems to have received a part of his education One Joh. Bell D. D. was Dean of Ely and dying 31. of Octob. 1591. was buried in the Cath. Ch. there but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell HENRY MAN was bred a Carthusian Monk and of the Carthusians at Shene in Surrey became Prior which Monastery he with his brethren surrendring into the Kings hands at the dissolution of Religious houses had a Pension allowed to him for some years In 1539. he took the degrees in Divinity in this University of Oxon and in the latter end of Hen. 8. was made the second Dean of Chester in the place of one Tho. Clerk and about that time tho the year when appear not was promoted to the Episcopal See of the Isle of Man He departed this mortal life at London on the 19. of Oct. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 and was buried in the chancel of the Church of S. Andrew Vndershaft within that City In his Deanery succeeded VVill. Clyve or Clyffe LL. D. who had been Chantor and afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at York but the year when I cannot justly say or whether the said Dr. Man kept the said Deanery in commendam with his Bishoprick and in the See of Man succeeded Thom. Stanley as I shall hereafter tell you JOHN BYRDE was made Bishop of Bangor in 1539. and translated thence to Chester in 1541. but deprived of that See by Qu. Mary for being married in the year 1553. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded George Cootes of whom I have made mention before but died about an year before Byrde JOHN CHAMBERS a Benedictine Monk was partly educated in Oxon but more in Cambridge in which University he was as it seems admitted to the reading of the sentences In 1528. he was made Abbat of Peterborough in which Town he was born upon the decease of one Rob. Kirton and living to see his Monastery dissolved was by the favour of K. Hen. 8. nominated the first Bishop of that place when the said King by his charter dated 4. Sept. 1541 erected an Episcopal See there On the said day the temporalities of it were delivered to him and on the 23. of Oct. following was consecrated thereunto which is all I know of him only that he was a worldly man and that dying in the winter time before the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Peterborough The reader is now to know that Dr. Fr. Godwin doth in his Commentary of English Bishops tells us that the said Joh. Chambers was Doctor of Physick bred up in Merton college and afterwards Dean of S. Stephens cell in Westminster but very much mistaken for that John Chambers Bach. of Div. and Bishop died in 1556. as 't is before told you and the other who was Dr. of Physick and Dean died 1549. Pray be pleased to see more in the Fasti under the year 1531. among the incorporations ROBERT KYNGE was descended from the ancient Kings of Devonshire as the posterity of his brother Thomas say but where he was born unless in Oxfordshire I cannot justly tell While he was young being much addicted to religion and learning was made a Cistercian Monk and among those of that order did he for some years live in Rewley Abby in the West suburb of Oxon and partly as I conceive for the sake of learning among the Bernardins in their coll in the North suburb of the said City In 1506. he as a Cistercian Monk was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in 1510. 13. and 15. he supplicated to be licensed to proceed in Divinity by the title of a Monk of the order of S. Benedict in the last of which years he occurs Abbat of Bruerne near to Burford in Oxfordshire anciently founded for Monks of Cisteaux which is a branch of the Benedictine order as the Bernardins are In 1518. he proceeded in Divinity in an Act celebrated on the last of Febr. and afterwards was made Abbat of Thame in Oxfordshire the Monks of which were also Cistercians About the time that the Abbey of Osney near Oxon was to be dissolved he was made Abbat commendatary thereof being then a Suffragan or titular Bishop under the title of Roven Rovenesis in the province of Athens by which name or title I find him to occur in 1539. In 1542. when Oxford was made an Episcopal See by K. Hen. 8. and the Abbey of Osney appointed to be the place of habitation of the Dean and Canons of the Cathedral to be there he the said Rob. Kynge was made and constituted the first Bishop in the beginning of Sept. the same year at which time Glocester coll was appointed his Palace or place of residence the Abbats lodgings at Osney for the Dean and the other lodgings in that Abbey for the Canons and Officers belonging to the Cathedral In 1546. when the said Cath. Ch. at Osney was translated to Cardinal coll alias Kings coll or the coll of K. Hen. 8. in
May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal daugh of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire After him followed in the said See of Carlile Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire but born in London his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester and from thence was sent to Qu. coll in Camb. where he continued several years Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. Davids cath ch and Dean of Rochester as I shall elsewhere tell you At length he being made B. of S. David was after he had sate there about 6. years translated to Carlile where he continued till 1624. In which year dying he left monies as 't is said for the endowing of a School and monies for the building of an Hospital He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands preached while he was Minister of Sevenoke at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct To him succeeded in the said See of Carlile Rich. Senhouse Dean of Glocester who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. Johns of which he was made Fellow and continuing there many years took the degree of D. of div as a Member thereof about 1622. He was first chaplain as 't is said in the Earl of Bedfords family afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlile for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms which are not as I conceive made yet publick HENRY PARRY or ap Harry sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll was consecrated B. of Gloucester 12. Jul. 1607. translated thence to Worcester in the latter end of Sept. 1610. the temporalities of which See were restored to him 23. Oct. the same year He yielded to nature in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 under which year you may see more of him among the writers He was succeeded in Gloucester by Dr. Giles Tomson and in Worcester by Dr. Joh. Thornborough Of the first I have made mention already among the Bishops and of the other I shall speak in the second volume of this work under the year 1641. WILLIAM JAMES sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. became Bishop of Durham in 1606. and died in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death Rich. Neile Bishop of Lincoln was translated to Durham and thence to Winchester as I shall elsewhere tell you WILLIAM LYON a Cheshire man born was partly educated in this University but whether in Oriel or S. Johns coll where several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell Afterwards he went into Ireland became Vicar of Naas and Chaplain to Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton L. Lievtenant of that Country who promoting him to the Episcopal See of Ross was consecrated thereunto in the year 1582. and the year following was constituted commendatory of Cork and Cloyne by the favour of Qu. Eliz. He bestowed a thousand pound in building the Bishops house at Cork and other monies in repairing the Bishops house at Ross which three years after was burnt by the Rebel O-Donow This W. Lyon died in a good old age on the 4. Oct. year 1617 in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Cork leaving then behind him a Son of both his names who in the 17 year of his age 1610. became a Com. or else Gent. Com. of S. Johns coll in this Univ. In the said Sees of Ross Cork and Cloyne succeeded Dr. Joh. Boyle whom I shall anon mention ROBERT ABBOT Master of Balliol college was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherby Son of Maurice Fotherby of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge was after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendred up his last breath on the eleventh day of March an 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave with a large inscription thereon but destroyed by the great Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons besides his Atheomastix which being put into the press before his death was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson or Tonson Dean of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Queens coll in Cambridge who was consecrated thereunto on the 9. July 1620. See more in the Fasti among the incorporations under the year 1599. JOHN BOYLE a Kentish man born and brother to Rich. Boyle the first Earl of Cork in Ireland received some education with us but whether D. of div of this Univ. as one reports it appears not in the publick Registers He was consecrated B. of Cork before-mentioned in 1618. at which time liberty was allowed him to keep the See of Ross in Commendam He died in sixteen hundred and twenty year 1620 and was buried at Youghall of which place his brother before-mentioned was Baron In the said See of Cork and Ross succeeded Rich. Boyle Dean of Waterford and Archd. of Limerick brother to Michael Boyle B. of Waterford and Lismore which Richard kept the See also of Cloyne in Commendam with the two former JOHN KING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Dean of that house was consecrated Bishop of London in 1611. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers To him succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne Bishop Almoner sometimes Dean of Westminster who was translated from Loncoln to London 20. July 1621. ROWLAND SEARCHFIELD a Londoner born was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School admitted Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1582. aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house Proctor of the University Doct. of div and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire Vicar of Cherlbury in and Justice of
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
which being very worthy of perusal I refer the Reader for his farther satisfaction In Waterford and Lismore succeeded Dr. Archibald Adair a Seer and him Dr. George Baker who died in Octeb or thereabouts an 1668. JOHN BANCROFT Son of Christ 〈…〉 by Andrey Andrews his Wife eldest Son of 〈…〉 of Farnworth in Lancashire by Mary his Wife daughter of John Curwyn brother to Hugh Curcoyn sometimes Bishop of Oxford was born in little Village called Astell or Eâ—well lying between 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 was admitted a Student of 〈…〉 more took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a Preacher for some years in 〈…〉 being newly admitted to proceed in Divinity was by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. a younger Son of John Bancroft before-mentioned elected Master of Vniversity college where he continued above 20 years In which time he was at great pains and expence to recover and settle the antient Lands belonging to that foundation In 1632. he was upon the translation of Dr. Corbet to Norwych nominated Bishop of Oxford whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter in April the same year had the temporalities of that See given to him on the 6. of June following being about that time consecrated In 1640. when the Long Parliament began and proceeded with great vigour against the Bishops he was possessed so much with fear having always been an Enemy to the Puritan that without little or no sickness he surrendred up his last breath in his lodging at Westminster Afterwards his body was carried to Cudesden in the diocess of Oxon and was buried near to and under the south wall of the Chancel of the Church there on the twelfth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred and forty leaving then behind him the character among the Puritans or Presbyterians then dominant of a corrupt unpreaching Popish Prelate The Reader is now to know that before this Mans time the Bishops of Oxford had no house left belonging to their Episcopal See either in City or Country but dwelt at their Parsonage-houses which they held in Commendam tho Dr. Jo. Bridges who had no Commendam in his diocess lived for the most part in hired houses in the City For as I have before told you in Dr. Rob. Kynge tho at the foundation of the Bishoprick of Oxford in the Abbey of Osney the King appointed Gloucester coll for the Bishops Pallace yet when that foundation was inspected into by K. Edw. 6. and a recital thereupon made of the foundation thereof done by his Father that place was left out of the Charter as being designed then for another use So that from that time till this Man Dr. Bancroft came to be Bishop there being no settled House or Pallace for him or his Successors he did resolve by the perswasions of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. to build one Wherefore in the first place the impropriate Parsonage of Cudesden before-mentioned five miles distant from Oxon which belonged to the Bishop in right of his See he let the lease thereof run out without any more renewing that in the end it might be made an improvement to the slender Bishoprick The Vicaridge also of his own donation falling void in the mean time he procured himself to be legally instituted and inducted thereunto All which being done he thro the power and favour of Dr. Laud before-mentioned obtained an annexation of it to the See Episcopal the design of bringing in the impropriation going forward still and soon after began with the help of a great deal of timber from the Forest of Shotover given to him by his Majesty to build a fair Pallace which with a Chappel in it being compleatly finished an 1635. was then out of curiosity visited by the said Dr. Laud which he remits into his diary thus Sept. 2. an 1635. I was in attendance with the King at Woodstock and went thence to Cudsden to see the house which Dr. Jo. Bancroft then Lord Bishop of Oxford had there built to be a house for the Bishops of that See for ever he having built that house at my perswasion But this house or Pallace which cost three thousand and five hundrend pounds proved almost as short liv'd as the Founder being burn'd down by Col. Will. Legg during the short time that he was Governour of the Garrison of Oxford in the latter end of 1644. for fear it might be made a Garrison by the Parliament Forces tho with as much reason and more piety as one observes he might have garrison'd it for the King and preserved the house Being thus ruined it laid so till Dr. Joh. Fell became Bishop of Oxon and then with monies out of his own purse and the help of timber which one of his Predecessors named Dr. Will. Paul had laid in in his life-time for that purpose did rebuild it upon the old foundation with a Chappel in it as before The outside of which being finished in 1679. the inside followed soon after METROPHANES CRITOPYLUS a Greecian born came into England to be instructed in the doctrine and discipline of the Church and in order thereunto to learn the Latin and the English tongues To these ends he addressed himself to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent him forthwith to Baliol college where he had for his interpreter the noted Grecian Mr. Edw. Sylvester and continued there till the time of his departure from England which was about 1622. at which time he was Chancellour to the Patriarch of Constantinople After his return to his own Country he became Patriarch of Alexandria in the place of Cyrill Lucaris translated to Constantinople and wrote as some suppose The Confession of Faith which went under the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople published in the Greek tongue 1629. Which Confession was with a censure upon it printed at Rome 1632. the title of which rendred into English is this The condemnation of the confession of the Calvinists as it was set forth in the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople With this condemnation and confession is printed an answer to the Anathematisms of Cyrill Patriarch of Alexandria Predecessor to Critopylus wherein the said Anathematisms are acknowledged to be genuine tho they decry the said Confession as spurious This Critopylus was in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred and forty but when he died I cannot yet find FASTI OXONIENSES THESE Oxonian Fasti or Academical Annals contain in exact Order Method and Time from the Year of our Lord 1500 to the end of 1640. 1. A Catalogue of the Chancellours Commissaries oâ— Vicechancellours and Proctors of the Univ. of Oxon 2. The Names and Characters of eminent Grammarians Rhetoricians and Musicians who have been admitted to One or two Academical Degree or Degrees with the Titles of such Books if any that they have written The Names of 3. Writers Archbishops and Bishops Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 4.
of D. 1518. Mar. Richard Ferys a Carme See among the D. of D. 1513. Besides these three were seven more admitted of whom John Combe a Cistercian was one Doctors of the Civil Law June 28. Brian Hygden LL. Baâ—â— of Broadgates Hall now Pembroke Coll. was then admitted Doctor On the 26 May 1515 he was admitted Archdeacon of York or of the West Riding in Yorkshire on the Resignation of John Carver LL. D. On the 20. of June 1516 he was admitted Prehendary of Vlleskelf in the Church of Yorkâ— and on the 27 of the same Month Dean thereof in the place of John Young LL. D. Master of the Roâ—ls deceased He paid his last debt to Nature 5 June 1539 having before been a Benefactor to Learning as I have elsewhere told you and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of York In his Deanery succeeded Rich. Layton or Leighton LL. D. on the 26 of July the same year who on the 31 of June going before was admitted to the said Prebendship of Vlleskelf purposely to capacitate him for the Deanery This Dr. Layton was Chaplain and Counsellor to K. Hen. 8. and did act much to please the unlimited desire of that King In Oct. 1541 he under pretence of his Majesty's Pleasure converted the Silver Capsula gilt in which were then the bones of the head of S. William Archbishop of York reposed with the Jewels and Ornaments of it to the public use and benefit of the Church of York In 1544. Dec. 24. Nich. Wotton LL. D was installed by proxy Dean of York in Dr. Layton's place and in Wotton's Dr. Matthew Hutcon 8 Apr. 1567. Feb. 29. Rob. Froost was then admitted Dr. of the Civil Law but never stood in the Act to compleat that degree This year March 29. John Ashdowne mentioned before did supplicate just after he had been admitted Bac. of the Canon Law to be licensed to proceed in that Faculty but was not granted Robert Coke also LL. B. and Principal of Henxsey Hall in S. Aldates Parish did supplicate to be licensed to proceed in the Civil Law but was then denied Doct. of Div. May 12. John Heskins a Preaching or Black Fryer June 26. Edward Powell of Oriel Coll. stiled in his Admission perdoctus vir Oct. 24. Rob. Holyngbourne a Benedictine Monk and Warden or Guardian of Canterbury Coll. now part of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Dec. 13. Will. Gylbert a Canon regular and Prior of the Monastery at Brewton in Somersetshire Dec. 13. Tho. Mychell of Exeter Coll. Canon of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and of Wells Will. Fauntleroy of New Coll. was admitted the same day His Sister Elizabeth was Abbess of Amesbury Jan. 22. John Smyth a Minorite or Franciscan These also supplicated this year for the said degree viz. 1. Will. Gydyng M. of A. and Bac. of Div. 2. Sim. Pykeryng a Carme 3. John Wetwang B. D. a Cistercian c. Incorporations June 28. Will. Smyth Commissary to the Bishop of Lincoln and Doctor of Decrees in another University was then incorporated He was Nephew or near of kin to Dr. Will. Smyth Bishop of Lincoln was Archdeacon of Lincoln and dying in 1528 was succeeded in that Dignity by Rich. Pate M A. of Oxon as I have told you elsewhere among the Bishops An. Dom. 1507. An. 22 23 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Will. Warham before mentioned Commiss Will. Fauntleroy again John Thornden again John Avery D. D. of Linc. Coll. John Kynton again Proct. John Lane of New Coll. as it seems Austr Will. Thomson of Vniv. Coll. Bor. Apr. 15. But the junior Proctor dying in the Long Vacation Mr. Hugh Pole or Pool of All 's Coll. about this time Principal of Biham Hall supplied his place as senior Regent in the University till the fourth day of Nov. following and then Mr. Thom. Bentley of New Coll. being elected Proctor served out the remaining part of the year Bach. of Arts. June 19. John Blysse He hath this Character added to his Name in the Cat. of Fellows of Mert. Coll. he being of that Society Medicus Astronomus quam doctus Feb. 27. Rog Egworth or Edgworth of Oriel Coll. whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1560. Besides these two were at least 55 Bachelaurs admitted this year and 23 that supplicated for that degree that were not this year admitted Bach. of Law Four in the Civil and eight in the Canon Law were admitted Nine in the Civil and five in the Canon Law supplicated for that degree One was admitted Bach. of both the Laws and one to the Volumes One Hen. Rawlyns occurs Bach. of the Civil Law this year but his Admission is omitted and therefore all that I can say of him is that he became Archdeacon of Salisbury 10 Apr. 1524 upon the death of James Bromwich who had that dignity confer'd upon him 2 March 1523 after the decease of George Sydenham This H. Rawlyns who was Prebendary of Faringdon and had been thrice Preb. of Combe and Harnham in the said Church within the space of four years was made at the same time 10 Apr. 1524. Preb. of Husborne and Burbach in the said Church of Sarum He was also dignified in the Church of Wells Mast of Arts. Oct. 13. Hugh Aston Ashtyn or Ashton so many ways I find him written He became Archdeacon of York that is of the Westriding of Yorkshire upon the resignation of Brian Hygden in Sept. 1516 and dying in Decemb. 1522 was succeeded in that dignity by Tho. Winter in the year following as I shall tell you under the year 1525. I have made mention of one Hugh Aston a Musitian in Will. Forest among the Writers under the year 1558. Mar. 8. Thom. Makerel of Vniv. Coll. One Dr. Makerel Prior of Berlings in Lincolnshire headed the Commons of that County under the Name of Capt. Cobler when they rose against the King in 1536 upon the beginning of the desolution of Religious Houses or as some say because they would not pay a certain Tax Whether this Tho. Makerel be the same I cannot tell till I know the Christian Name of the Doctor John Stow saith that Dr. Makerel an Abbat and a Suffragan Bishop was drawn and hang'd at Tybourne about 29 March 1537 for denying the Kings Supremacy which I suppose is the same with him who was Prior of Berlings and the same perhaps who was incorporated Doctor of Cambridge 1516. Besides these two were eleven more that were admitted and four that supplicated that were not admitted this year Opponents in Div. May 10. Peter de Campo a Portuguese Dec. 10. Walt. Goodfield a Minorite See under the year 1510. Feb. 4. Edm. Vessy or Veysey a Benedictine Besides seven that supplicated who were all except one Benedictineâ— and Black Fryers Bach. of Div. Jun. 22. John Claymond the most deserving President of Magd. Coll. stiled in his Admission Vir discretus gravis multa doctrina percelebris Feb. 6. Gerardus Smyth a Minorite and others of no great account
shew the Author to be eminent in his faculty in the time he lived Among the said compositions which were written in a large book were mixed with them the compositions of William Newarke Richard Davyes Edmund Turges Sir Thomas Phelippis William Cornish jun. and of one Sheryngham Hampshire Browne c. All which lived in or near the time of the said Dr. Fairfax who was of the same family with those of York-shire Jan. 24. John Hampton Abbat of the Monastery of St. Austin at Canterbury D. of D. beyond the Seas An. Dom. 1512. An. 4. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Edmund Wylsford William Fauntlery John Kynton D. D. Proctors Thomas Pulton of New Coll. Austr elected 21. Richard Symons of Mert. Coll. Bor. elected 23. Apr. Rhetoricians Or such who were admitted to inform and instruct in the art of Rhetorick Jan. ult Richard Smyth a secular Chaplain who in the art of Rhetorick had spent 16 years of which 10 were spent in the informing and instructing youths in Grammar Bach. of Musick Apr. … John Dygon a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict was then admitted Bach. of Arts. Apr. ult Malachias Arthur Afterwards a learned Physician See in the year 1515. Jan. ult William Bennet One of both his names became Archdeacon of Dorset upon the consecration of John Stokesley Bishop of London 20. of Dec. 1530 and afterwards was the Kings Orator at Rome Whether the same with the former I cannot tell See among the Bach. of the Civil Law an 1527. About 51. Bachelers of Arts were admitted this year and 15 at least that supplicated for that Degree Bach. of Civil Law Jul. … Hugh ap Rice He was afterwards Founder of Jesus Coll. Jul. … John London of New Coll. See in the year 1518. Besides these two were but five more admitted and two supplicated This year 7 were admitted in the Canon Law and two only or thereabouts supplicated Mast of Arts. Twenty or more were admitted of whom John Moreman of Exeter College was one and 5 only supplicated Bach. of Div. Nov. 4. William Wall a Canon regular and Prior of the Monastery at Kenilworth in Warwickshire See another William Wall in 1518. among the D. of D. Feb. 4. Fr. Nich. Peter or Peter Nicholas a Carme or White Fryer Prior of the College of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon. Besides these two were six more admitted and about eleven that supplicated that were not as I can yet find admitted this year Among those that supplicated were first William How M. A. and the Kings Chaplain See among the Doctors of Divinity 1526. 2 John Lleson Abbat of the Monastery of St. Mary of Neath of the Cistercian order in Glamorganshire now studying in St. Bernards Coll. In a certain writing dated some years after the dissolution of religious houses I find mention of one Thomas Leyson late Abbat of Neath which I presume is the same and his Christian name mistaken See in the year 1510. 3 Thomas Knolles M. A. and Subdean of York whom I shall mention elsewhere Doct. of Civil Law Not one admitted only four supplicated viz. 1 Richard Benger LL. Bach. 2 Maurice Glynn Bach. of the Civil Law who was afterwards Doct. of that fac and died in July 1525. 3 John Incent or Innocent of All 's Coll. 4 Thomas Myllyng LL. Bach. and Chaplain to Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury He was afterwards a Benefactor to New Coll. as I have elsewhere told you Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Hugh Myllyng of Exeter Coll. Dec. 6. Thomas Coke Four also supplicated this year who were all afterwards admitted Doctors of Div. except Thomas Hamden a Minorite or Grey Fryer Incorporations May 3. John Stokys or Stokes D. of D. of Cambr. and Provincial of the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit May … Simon Pickeryng a Carme Bach. of Div. of this Univ. and D. of D. of Cambr. was incorp D. D. Dec. … William Sparke M. A. of Cambridge Jan. 28. William Heryson M. A. of the Univ. of Paris Jan. … William Bark M. and an Archdeacon Jan. 29. Edward Burrell M. A. of Paris Besides several Bach. of Arts of Cambridge An. Dom. 1513. An. 5. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss William Fauntleroy John Kynton John Thornden D. D. Proctors Thomas Mede of Ex. c. Austr Thomas Hobson of Vniv. c. Bor. Bach. of Musick Oct… Christopher Wodde did supplicate for that Degree but whether he was admitted it appears not Bach. of Arts. Jul. 4. Robert Whityndon or Whittington was then admitted Bach. of A. and in the same Congregation Doctor of Grammar and Rhet. Thomas Abell was admitted the same day See among the Writers under the year 1540. Oct. 29. John Rogers Quaere Feb. 9. Edward Wotton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician Besides these were about 57 admitted and about 24 that supplicated for that Degree that were not this year admitted Doct. of Grammar and Rhetorick July 4. Robert Whityndon the most famous Grammarian of his time had his head crown'd or his temples adorned with Laurel At which time and the time also when that Degree was compleated it was allowed to him by the venerable Regents that he might wear a hood lined with silk but not to be used for the future by any body else See more among the Writers under the year 1529. Bach. of Law Nineteen were admitted in the Canon and about 18 in the Civil Law Eight also supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Canon and about 12 for the Degree of Bach. of Civil Law Master of Arts. About 20 were admitted this year and about eleven that supplicated for the same Degree among whom was John Ramsey a Canon regular Nov. 18. He was afterwards Prior of St. Maries Coll. in Oxon. the great of which is almost opposite to the common gate of New Inn. This College was a nursery to train up young Canon regulars in Academical learning Bach. of Physick Apr… Peter Coloniensis Bach. of Arts of the University of Colen and a Student in Physick was then admitted The same year he supplicated to be Doctor of that faculty under the name of Petrus Coloniensis de Nonovigio and Novonigio Others supplicated for the said Degree of Bach. and one to practise Physick Bach. of Div. June 16. Edward Bockyng a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict and now Warden or Gardian of Canterbury College in Oxon. He was afterwards much concern'd in promoting the matter of Elizabeth Barton the holy maid of Kent as the Chronicles will tell you at large See more in 1518. June 20. Edward Hynmersh of the same Order He was afterwards Warden or Gardian of Durham College in Oxon. Besides these were 7 more admitted who had all before opposed in Divinity and eight that supplicated all of religious Orders who were not admitted this year Doct. of Civil Law Not one admitted this year only five supplicated among whom was John Incent or Innocent of All 's College who supplicated in
writers under the year 1537. Feb. 21. John Robyns John Mason of All 's Coll. Only twelve more were admitted and about four supplicated Bach. of Div. Four only were admitted to and eleven or more supplicated for that Degree whom I cannot find admitted this or some years after Among them were 1 William Sandwych a Benedictine Monk afterwards Warden of Canterbury College in Oxon. 2 Robert Carter of Magdalen College about this time Steward of the Houshold of Cardinal Wolsey and afterwards Canon of the College of King Hen. 8. in Oxon. 3 Oswald Benson Minister of the House of St. Robert near to Knaresborough of the Order of the Holy Trinity Doct. of Civ Law June ult Edwarde Carne or Kerne now or lately Principal of Greek hall in St. Edwards Parish He was the Son of Howell Carne of Cowbridge in Glamorganshire by his Wife Cicely Daugh. of William Kemys of Newport and lineally descended from Thomas Le Câ—rne second Son of Ithyn King of Gwent He was a wise Man learned in the Civil Law and afterwards Knighted by the Emperour Charles 5. In 1530 I find him the Kings Orator at Rome to remonstrate to his holiness that the King was not bound by the Law to make his appearance either by Person or by proxy in the Court of Rome according to a citation which was coming to him for his appearance in the matter of his divorce from Queen Catherine In the Reign of Queen Mary who valued him he was Ambassador there for her as also for Queen Elizabeth but when the Pope was stirred with anger upon the resolution of the last to expel his power from England he commanded Sir Edward Carne to lay down his Office of Ambassador and to take upon him the Government of the English Hospital at Rome Yet as 't is thought by some this crafty old Knight did voluntary chuse his banishment out of a burning zeal to the Roman Catholick Religion and eagerly desired to continue there though sent for to come home by the Queen rather than return to his Country which was then ready to be overspread with Heresie as he call'd it He died at Rome on the 14 of the Cal. of Febr. according to the accompt there followed in 1561 about which time the Abbat of Martinego the Popes Nuncio was denied entrance into England and was buried there in the Church belonging to the Monastery of St. Gregory in Coelo He was always accounted the last Ambassadour of the Kings of England to the Pope till Roger Earl of Castlemain was sent thither by King James 2. an 1687. Jim ult Richard Gwent of Allsouls College Principal or Chief Moderator of Canon Law School situated near St. Edwards Church He was about this time Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards of London in the place as it seems of one William Clyffe Dean of the Arches and at length in 1542 Archdeacon of Huntingdon upon the promotion of William Knyght to the See of Bath and Wells He gave way to sate in 1543 being then Archdeacon of two places at least London and Huntingdon and was buried in the middle of St. Pauls Cathedral in London This Person who was a Welsh Man born was well known to John Leland the Antiquary who in his Encomia illustrium eruditorum virorum in Anglia doth highly celebrate him by the name of Richard Ventanus Juridicus for his virtues and learning Feb. 13. Henry Morgan about this time Principal of St. Edwards hall situated in the Church-yard of St. Edward and near to Canon Law School He was afterwards Bishop of St. David Doct. of Can. Law Mar. 10. Richard Muge or Mugg of Allsouls College He was now beneficed and dignified in the Church and was accounted by all that knew him a learned Canonist Doct. of Div. Not one was admitted this year nor one supplicated for the said Degree only Richard Stubbs or Stubbys Master of Arts Bachelaur of Divinity and Master of Balliol College Incorporations May… William Middleton Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine June…Richard Brynckley a Minorite or Franciscan Fryer Dr. of Divinity of Cambridge and as our publick register saith General Minister of the Minorites throughout England His supplication which was granted simpliciter and his incorporation are set down in the said register under this year 1524 yet perusing Cambridge tables containing the names of such who were admitted Doctors of that University he is put down there under the year 1527 as being then admitted D. of D. In the said Generalship or Provincialship he succeeded Dr. Henry Standish whom I have mention'd among the Writers and was succeeded by Steph. Baron a Cambridge Man Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and an eminent Preacher of his time This year but the day or month appears not was a Supplicate made for one Rowland Lee Doctor of the Canon Law of Cambridge to be incorporated into that degree but whether he really was so I cannot justly tell his Incorporation having perhaps been neglected to be registred This Rowl Lee was the Son of Will. Lee of Morpeth in Northumberland Treasurer of Barwick by Isabel his Wife Daughter and Heir of Andr. Trollop Kt. who after he had been educated in Academical Learning in S. Nicholas Hostle in Cambridge became first Chancellour to Dr. Jeffr. Blythe Bishop of Lichfield and afterwards Prebendary of Corburgh in that Church At length for the several Services which he had done to please the unsatiable desire of K. Hen. 8. one of which was the marrying him to the Lady Anna Bulleyne was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Lichfield to which being elected by the Name and Title of Rowl Lee Decretorum Doctor Canonicus Prebendarius Eccles Cath. Lichf was consecrated thereunto 19 Apr. 1534 and on the 8 of May following received the Temporalities belonging thereunto In the year following he was made President of the Marches of Wales and dying at Shrewsbury 24 Jan. 1543 was buried there He had a Brother named George Dean of S. Chadds in Shrewsbury who dying without issue as his Brother the Bishop did the Sister of them named Isabel Wife of Rog. Fowler of Staffordshire became Heir to them both An. Dom. 1525. An. 17 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Musgrave Proct. Anthony Sutton of Magd. Coll. John Tooker lately of Exeter now of Cardinal Coll. Bach. of Arts. July 17. Robert Talbot of New Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Antiquary Besides him were about 68 that were admitted and about 10 that supplicated several of whom were afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Bach. of Civ Law Octob. ult Robert Dobell See more among the Bachelaurs of Can Law following Bach. of Can. Law July 11. Arth. Bokeley or Bulkley of New Inn as it seems He was admitted Doctor the next day as I shall anon tell you and was afterwards Bishops of Bangor Oct. ult Robert Dobell He is sometimes written Dovell and Davel and therefore I take him to be the same with Robert Dovell or Davell who
Alex. Nâ—well Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in his Canonry Feb. 13. John Man of New Coll. was then admitted Master being the same whom I have mention'd under the year 1533. In all 39 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Dec. 3. Fath. Feb. 8. Fa. John Warham Rob. Nettleham Will. Lyncolne Benedictines 15. Will. Haynes of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards Provost of that College Fellow of Eaton the third Canon of Osney and the first of the first Canonry or Prebendship of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Some report that he was also Dean of Exeter but false for 't was Simon Heynes that enjoyed that Dignity Four more were admitted and about 7 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom John Crayford a Minoritâ— was one who had spent several years in study both here and at Cambridge Rob. Wellys M. A. and Fellow of Eaton Coll. another and Thom. Massie a Canon regular a third which last was Prior of St. Maries Coll. in Oxon and was about this time adm Bach. of Divinity but neglected to be registred by the publick scribe Doct. of Civ Law Jan. 18. Richard Lyell of All 's Coll. Rowl Merick about this time of New Inn was adm the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor For the same Degree supplicated one Rich. Arche LL. B. but was not admitted In 1526 I find him to be Principal of Broadgates hall by the name of Rich. Archer and now 1538 to be the Kings Chaplain and Canon of Windsore On the 28. Dec. 1551. he was made Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Matthew Wotton who had succeeded in that Dignity one Tho. Stevens Doct. of Div. Apr. 13. Father William Todde a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict of Durham Coll. as it seems and a Monk of Durham was then adm Doct. of Div. Not one besides was admitted nor one supplicated for that deg Incorporations May… Christop Massyngberd LL. Bach. of Cambridge and Chanc. of the Church of Linc. Afterwards he supplicated to the licensed to proceed in the Laws but whether he was so it appears not In 1543 he succeeded Dr. Anth. Draycot in the Archdeaconry of Stow and dying 8. March 1553 was buried in the middle of the Isle on the South side of the Choire belonging to the Church of Lincolne Whereupon John Aylmer or Elmer succeeded in that Dignity but before he had enjoyed it an year was deprived of it being then the first year of Qu. Mary and one John Harrison was put into his place 1554. This year on the 19. July the rev Father Anthony Brocke or Brockbey sometimes written Brorbe a Franciscan or Grey Fryer well read in Divinity and learned in the Greek and Heb. tongues sometimes a Student in St. Mar. Magd. Coll. Oxon suffer'd death by hanging for speaking against the Kings proceedings in extirpating the Popes power and demolishing of religious houses I put this observation under the year of his death because that he being reported by one to be a Licentiat in Divinity and by another a Professor of Divinity of this University I cannot find any such thing in our publick registers which are imperfect in several years before this time especially in the year 1517. An. Dom. 1538. An. 30. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss the same Proct. Rich. Arderne of Magd. Coll. Thomas Roberts of Oriel Coll. May 8 Which Proctors were elected then as 't is said by the publick Suffrages of those whom it concerned to give as if an equal power of suffraging in such elections did not now pertain to all Masters Bach. of Arts. May 17. John Fox of Brasenose Coll. He was afterwards of that of St. Mary Magdalen and the noted Martyriologist Feb. 15. George Etheridge John Morwen of C. C. C. In all about 41 besides 14 or thereabouts that were candidates for the said Degree but not admitted this year ☞ Only two this year were admitted Bach. of the Civ Law and but 4 in the next Mast of Arts. Mar. 12. Rich. Caldwell of Brasenose Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician 20 Seth Holland of All 's Coll. In 1555 or thereabouts he became the third Prebendary of the second stall in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester in the place of John Compton alias Teale Bach. of Div. and sometimes Chaplain to K. H. 8. and in the same year he was elected Warden of All 's Coll. In 1557 about Michaelmas he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Philip Haford or Hawford alias Ballard who had been the last Abbat of Evesham in Worcestershire and about the same time became Rector of Bishops Cleeve in Glocestershire upon his resignation of the Rectory of Fladbury In Oct. or Nov. 1559 he was deprived of his Deanery whereupon John Pedder Bach. of Div. one of the Frankfort exiles in the time of Qu. Mary was installed in his place 27. Dec. the same year Holland was afterwards committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where he died in the second year of Qu. Elizab. Mar. 18. James Curthopp of C. C. Coll. In 1546 he became the first Canon of the sixth stall in Ch. Ch. Cathedral Oxon and about the beginning of Qu. Mary he succeeded Gerard Carleton D. D. in the Deanery of Peterborough who in 1543 had succeeded in that Dignity Franc. Abre B. D. the same Abre I mean who from being the last Prior of Northampton was made the first Dean of Peterborough an 1541. James Curthopp died 19. July 1557 and was buried in the Isle next adjoyning on the North side to the choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. He was one of the examiners of John Philpot the Martyr in certain matters of Religion before the time of his suffering Besides these three were but eight Masters admitted if the register saith right and in but one Act celebrated this year on 29. July were only four Doctors of Divinity and one in the Laws that proceeded the Masters being reserved till the Act following which was on the last of March 1539. Bach. of Div. Apr. 8. Frat. John Byllynge a Minorite May 9. Fath. Rob. Dalton John Tewtie Nich. Marley Benedictines May 31. Fat Philip Action Rog. Whalley Rich. Hayles Cistercians alias Bernardines The first of which last three was about this time Provisor of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon. Jul. 13. John Donne of C. C. C. I have made some mention of him under the year 1528. 14. Fa. Hugh Glasier a Minorite Jul. 23. Fath. Tho. Bede Will. Ambrose Benedictines Two more were also admitted and but two there were that supplicated for that Degree among whom Hen. Stretsham a Minorite who had spent several years here and at Cambridge in Logicals Philosophicals and Theologicals was one After the Abbeys were dissolved in 1535. 36. c. I find very many Monks and other religious Persons who had pensions allowed them out of the Exchecquer to retire to the University and to such places therein that were nurseries for them as Canterbury Coll.
John Mason Knight sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. lately Ambassadour for K. H. 8. into several Foreign Countries and now Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester Vicechanc. or Prochanc James Brokes D. D. of C. C. Coll. for the first part of the year and Rich. Martiall D. D. of Ch. Ch. for the other part being elected in Convocation Prochanc 3. oct In his absence Dr. Tresham officiated and is sometimes stiled Procancellarius Proct. The Spencer of Ch. Ch. Maur. Bullock of New Coll. Both elected on the day before the Cal. of Octob. Bach. of Arts. Jun… John Rastell Oct. 4. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. Both afterwards writers and the last an eminent Physician About 26 were admitted this year one half of which are omitted in the Register Bach. of LL. Ellis Heywood of All 's Coll. He was afterwards a Jesuit and a writer Griffyth Willyams of New Coll. In 1554 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Rob. Johnson resigning and whether he be the same Williams who was Chancellour to the Bishop of Glocester about the same time remembred by Joh. Fox for his strange fearful and sudden death which befel him in 1558 after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and therefore esteemed as a judgment on him for condemning a blind boy to be burnt in 1556 I cannot justly tell you In 1557. Will. Turnball LL. Bac. succeeded Griffyth Willyams in the Chancellourship of Worcester In the publick register which is very imperfect in the beginning of this year it partly appears that one John Bodye supplicated to be admitted Bach. of LL. See in the year 1554. Mast of Arts. Alan Cope Lawr. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. Hieron Philippides Joh. Abulines or ab Vlmis of Ch. Ch. Whether either of these two last was a writer I cannot yet tell Qu. Will. Good of C. C. Coll. Jam. Calfill John Bavant of Ch. Ch. The last of the said Masters was afterwards one of the first Fellows of St. Johns Coll. and the first Greek reader there He was Tutor in the said house to Edm. Campian and Greg. Martin but upon the alteration of Religion leaving the Coll and his Country was made a Ro. Cath. Priest and afterwards was one of those that endured a tedious imprisonment in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire upon account of Religion Twenty Masters stood in the Act celebrated 18. July this year but how many were admitted it appears not in the register Bach. of Div Thom. Hardyng of New Coll. Thom. Bickley Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. The two last were afterwards Bishops Gilbert Burnford In 1554 he had the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells granted to him under the Seal of the Bishop and Chapter thereof But when he craved admission thereunto in 1560 he was denied because he refused the oath of Supremacy For the same reason he was deprived of the Prebendary of Hasilbere in that Church and of a rectory in the Dioc. of Wells Note that whereas always before this time when any Bach. of Div. was admitted he was registred as admitted ad lecturam libri sententiarum so now during the Reign of K Ed. 6. they are registred as admitted ad lectionem Paulinarum Epistolarum And this year those that were admitted are registred as admitted ad enaâ—rationem Epistolarum Apostolicarum in ipsis comitiis hoc anno viz. 18. Julii Doct. of Civ Law Hen. Jones of All 's Coll. This Person was one of the learned Doctors of the Civ Law whom Qu. Elizabeth consulted concerning the matter of Lesley Bishop of Ross who while he was Embassador from Mary Qu. of Scots to Qu. Elizabeth consulted and promoted a Rebellion against her See in Camdens Annalls of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1571. This Dr. Jones died in or near Doctors Commons about the beginning of Feb. in 1591 and was buried as it seems in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Rich. Martiall of Ch. Ch. Soon after he was made Prebendary of Winchester and Dean of his Coll. by the intercession of the Lord Arundell to whom he was Chaplain made to the Queen In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he seem'd to be a great Reformer and retracted what he zealously had held in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. After the death of K. Ed. 6. he returned to his former opinions and was more zealous for the Cath. cause than before But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he absconded for a time and went from place to place At length being taken and conveyed to London retracted again in hopes of being setled in his Deanery of Ch. Ch. which might have been had he behaved himself moderately in the Reign of Qu. Mary Afterwards as 't is said he went into Yorkshire where he died obscurely In his Deanery succeeded G. Carew as I have told you before under the year 1522. Hen. Pendleton of Brasn Coll. was also admitted this year and stood with Martiall in the Act that followed Henr. Syddall LL. B. and Canon of Ch. Ch. who had studied sacred letters for 18 years did this year supplicate that he might put on or be honour'd with the cap of Doct. of Divinity This desire of his was granted conditionally that he be inaugurated and dispute in Divinity in the next Act that should follow But whether he was so or did dispute it appears not in the publick register or in the Catalogues of Inceptors Incorporations Nov. 12. Brian Baynes Bach. of Arts of Cambridge The next year he proceeded in the said faculty being then a member of Ch. Ch. which is all I know of him Nov …Valentine Dale of All 's Coll. Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas at Oreleans I think seems to be incorporated in that month because he had supplicated more than once for that Degree He was afterwards Master of the Requests Dean of Wells 1574 and about that time Embassadour to the French King upon the calling home of Sir Franc. Walsingham to be Secretary of State c. He died in his house near St. Pauls Cathedral 17. Nov. 1589. and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Gregory near to the said Cathedral leaving behind him a Daughter named Dorothy who being coheir to her Father was married to Sir John North Son and Heir to Roger Lord North. Dec. 2. Walter Haddon President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. and Doctor of the Civil Law at Cambridge This Person who was a Buckinghamshire Man born and educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School was chose Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1533 where arriving to great eminence in the Civil Law was made the Kings Professor of that faculty in the said University and much esteemed for his eloquence and learning especially by Leland who calls him Heveddunus Afterwards being a Man much addicted to reformation he was by virtue of several letters written by the King in his behalf elected tho contrary to statute
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
Wife of Dr. John Thornborough Bishop of Worcester succeeded being admitted to it 3. Aug. 1629. Rob. Newman of New Coll. was admitted D. D. the same day Jun. 14 Jul. 8. Charles Langford Giles Tomson of All 's Coll. The first of these two was now Dean of Hereford in which Dignity he did succeed if I mistake not John Watkins who died about the middle of May 1594 and was succeeded by Dr. Rich. Mountague as I have before told you among the Doctors of Law this year The other Doctor Giles Tomson was installed Dean of Windsore on the 2. of March this year and afterwards was made Bishop of Glocester as before among the Bishops I have told you Jul. 8. Giles Thorne of New Coll. John Williams of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last was now Dean of Chichester and the other dignified in the Church One of both his names I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1613. and another I shall mention in these Fasti an 1608. sub tit Incorporations Incorporations Apr. 30. Will. Turner M. A. of Cambridge See among the Doct. of Physick 1608. Jun. 23. Humph. Leech M. A. of the same University He was originally of Brasn Coll. and was about this time Chaplain of Ch. Ch. July 3. Ralph Hulton Doct. of Phys of Cambr. 15. Will. Wheatly Bach. of Arts of Christs Coll. in the said University He was now a member of St. Edm. hall in this of Oxon. Jul. 15. Martin Day Phineas Hodson Dan. Dyke Jacob. Godscaleus M. of A. of Cambr. The first of these last four Mart. Day was afterwards Doct. of Div. Chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty Rector of St. Faiths Church in London and Rector of Stoke near Launceston in Cornwall In his life time he published Monument of Mortality c. containing four treatises printed in oct and after his death which hapned 1628 were published several Sermons of his under these titles 1 Doomesday or a treatise of the resurrection of the body delivered in 22 Sermons on 1. Cor. 15. Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Corinths collection or the Saints of Jerusalem in seven Sermons on the 1. Cor. 16. the first nine verses printed with the former and all dedicated to Dr. Josoph Hall sometimes an intimate friend of the Author The second Phineas Hodson was afterwards D. of D. and in 1611. Sept. 26. was collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York upon the resignation of Dr. Will. Goodwin mention'd before among the Doctors of Divinity He died at or near York about the latter end of 1646. whereupon his Chancellourship lying void till the restoration of K. Ch. 2. Christopher Stone M. A. succeeded being installed therein 24. Oct. 1660. This Dr. Hodson hath published The Kings request or Davids desire c. Serm. on Psal 27. 4. Lond. 1628. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere The third Dan. Dyke was as 't is said born in Hertfordshire in a town called Hemstede of which his Father was Minister was an eminent Preacher wrot several things as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you among which is his book Of the deceitfulness of mans heart published after his death by his Brother Jerem. Dyke of Sydney Coll. an 1614. The fourth and last Jac. Godscaleus I take to be the same with James Godskal Author of The Kings Medicine against the plague for the year 1604. Printed 1604. in oct which is all I know of him as yet Jul. 15. Andr. Bing Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was Fellow of Peter House or St. Peters Coll. in the same University afterwards D. of D. and Hebrew Professor thereof See more in the Incorporations 1612. Oct. 25. Tho. Lodge Doct. of Phys of the University of Avenion About 27 Cambridge Men were incorporated this year in several faculties An. Dom. 1603. An. 1. Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again Jul. 23. Proct. Christop Dale of Mert. Coll. William Laud of St. Joh. Coll. May 4. Bach. of Musick Jul. 16. Thom. Boys of All 's Coll. He hath composed â—â—rtain Church services which is all I know of him Bach. of Arts. May 12. Hannibal Gamon of Broadgates hall July 1. Rob. Gentilis of Jes Coll. Son of Alberic Gent. 5. Rich. Tillesley of St. Johns Coll. 9. John Hales of C. C. Coll. afterwards of Morton and at length of Eaton Coll. Dec. 12. Edm. Gunter of Ch. Ch. 13. Will. Heale of Exeter Coll. Jan. 19. John Ball of Brasn Coll. See another of both his names among the Bach. of Arts an 1608. Feb. 15. Edw. Evans of Ch. Ch. As for Gamon Gentilis and Hales they will be mention'd in the next vol. Adm. 126. Bach. of Law Mar. 29. John Basire a French Man who had studied the Civ Law 12 terms in this University and 7 years in France and Germany was then admitted Jul. 5. Will. Juxon of St. Johns Coll. In his last days he became Archbishop of Canterbury 8. Eizo Tiards of Jesus Coll. He accumulated as I shall tell you anon Adm. 6. Mast of Arts. May 11. Henry Mason of C. C. Joh. Prideaux of Exet. Coll. Jun. 30. George Warburton of Brasn Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. 1636. July 7. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. Tob. Venner of St. Alb. hall John Eaton of Trin. Coll. Tancred Leill or Lelius of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was a learned Dane which is all I know of him 9. Thom. Jackson Brian Twyne of C. C. Barthel Parsons of Oriel Coll. Adm. 46. Bach. of Div. July 7. Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham Mar. 12. Sam. Page of C. C. Coll. Admitted 14. Doct. of Law July 8. Eizo Tiarda of Jesus Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law He was born of and descended from a gentile Family living in Groeningen in Germany ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 2. John Childerley of St. Johns Coll. While he was a junior Fellow of that house he became Preacher to the English Merchants trading at Stode and after his return became successively Chaplain to Richard Archb. of Canterbury and afterwards to George his successour Rector of St. Mary de Wolnoth in London of S. Dunstans in the East and of Sheinfield or Shemfield in Essex He was in his time a very eminent and frequent Preacher and learned Divine but blind by age and continual labour several years before his death Notwithstanding which he suffered much in the time of the rebellion and was outed of St. Dunstans by the restless Presbyterian and whether he kept Sheinfield to his last I cannot tell He died very aged in 1645 being then 66 years since his first coming to St. Johns Coll. and was buried either in the Chancel of St. Dunstan or in that of Sheinfield beforemention'd July 7. Nich. Higgs of Ball. Coll. He was about this time Rector of Higham in Somersetshire where or near it he dyed 1631. Incorporations May 23. Laurence Whittaker M. A. of Cambridge This Person who was a Somersetshire
and at the same time 't was ordered that an yearly pension should be by him Williams paid to the famous Pet. du Moulin a French Protestant who a little before had fled into England upon account of Religion About that time he by the favour of George Duke of Buckingham was made a privy Counsellor to his Majesty and upon the promotion of Doct. Rob. Tounson to the See of Salisbury had the Deanery of Westminster confer'd upon him in which he was install'd 10 July 1620 Afterwards the Deanery of Salisbury was confer'd upon Dr. Joh. Bowles of Cambridge as I shall elsewhere tell you In the month of July 1621 he was nominated Bishop of Lincoln on the Translation of Dr. George Mountaigne to the See of London and about the same time was made L. Keeper of the great Seal by Buckingham's Endeavours On the 9 Oct. following he proceeded to Westminster Hall as L. Keeper but without pomp and on the 11 of Nov. was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in the collegiate Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Bishops of London Worcester Ely Oxford and Landaff and about that time his Majesty gave him leave to keep Westminster in commendam It was then observed by many that as Sir Nich. Bacon had before received the Great Seal from a Clergyman Nich. Heath Archb. of York so a Bishop again received them from his Son Sir Francis at which the Lawyers did fret to have such a Flower pull'd out of their garden But as for the further addition to the story that Williams was brought in by Buckingham to serve such turns as none of the Laity could be found bad enough to undertake as a libellous Author reports we must leave it to knowing men to be Judges of it After K. Ch. 1. came to the Crown he was continued a privy Counsellour for a time but Buckingham being then in great favour with that Prince caused the Seal to be taken from him in Oct. 1625 as having neglected and been very ungrateful to him and in the beginning of Feb. following when that King was crown'd he was set aside from administring Service at that Ceremony as Dean of Westminster and Dr. Laud Bishop of S. Davids and Preb. of Westm who before had received several schoolings and affronts from Williams while L. Keeper officiated in his place Further also lest he should seek revenge against Buckingham for what he had done unto him he with the Earls of Someâ—set Middlesex and Bristow all of an inclination tho not all of a plume were interdicted the Parliament House Hereupon Williams grew highly discontented sided with the Puritan and finding the King to decline in the affection of his People he fomented popular discourses tending to his Majesties dishonour so long until at length the incontinence of his Tongue betrayed him into Speeches which trespass'd upon Loyalty for which words they having taken vent he was question'd by a Bill in the Star-Chamber 4 Car. 1. dom 1628. But the information being somewhat lame and taken up with second-hand Reports the Accusation lay dormant till about 1632 when it was revived again And the purgation of B. Williams depending principally upon the testimony of one John Pregian Registrary of Lincoln it hapned that the Febr. after one Elizab. Hodson was delivered of a base Child and laid it to this Pregian The Bishop finding his great Witness charged with such Infamy conceived it would invalidate all his Testimony and that once rendred invalid the Bishop could easily prognosticate his own ruin Therefore he bestirs himself amain and tho by order of the Justices at the publick Session at Lincoln Pregian was charged as the reputed Father the Bishop by his Agents Pawel and Owen procured that Order suppressed and by subornation and menacing of and tampering with Witnesses did at length in May 10 Car. 1. procure the Child to be fathered upon one Bohun and Pregian to be acquitted After this he being accriminated in the Star-Chamber for corrupting of Witnesses and being convicted by full proof on the 11 of July 1637 he received this censure that he was to pay ten thousand pounds fine to the King to be imprison'd in the Tower of London during his Majesties pleasure and to be suspended ab officiis beneficiis In 1640 Nov. 16. he was released from the Tower and became the Idol for a time of both Houses having since his fall closed with the Puritan and who then should be in daily conference with him but Edward Bagshaw a Parliament man for Southwark and afterwards Will. Prynne two zealous and bigotted Puritans whose Counsels were chiefly to pull down Laud Archbishop of Canterbury Wentworth Earl of Strafford Heylyn of Westminster and other Royalists On the 12 Jan. following he preached before the King and pleased the Puritan very much as being zealous for the Sabbath and against the Book for Sports yet towards the conclusion said that the discipline of Geneva and Cornaries Diet were fit for none but Beggars and Tradesmen Afterwards it was observed by many that he declined dayly in the peoples favour who took him then not to be the same man as they did before In 1641 he was by his Maj. favour purposely to please the Puritan then dominant translated from Lincoln to York and soon after was in the head of the Bishops when they made their Protestation against the House of Lords in behalf of themselves for which being imprison'd in the Tower again continued there eighteen weeks At length being with much ado released he retired to the King at Oxon where he provided himself with a Commission and Instructions what to do when he went farther Afterwards he went into his own Country repaired his Castle at Aberconway fortified it and spared not any cost or labour to make it teneable for his Majesties Service But then his Majesty and privy Council suspecting that he would not be faithful to him they put a Commander therein and in a manner thrust the Archb. out Whereupon taking these matters in high disdain he retired to his house at Pentryn or Penryn not far from Aberconway which he fortified and having gained the favour of the Parliament put a Garrison therein and declared for them Afterwards obtaining some Forces from one Mitton a Parliamentarian Colonel in those Parts went forthwith and set upon Aberconway Castle took it and kept it to his dying day in his own possession This was in the latter end of 1645 at which time the Kings Cause did daily decline as the Archbishop did in the minds of the Royalists who for these his Actions spared not to stile him a perfidious Prelate the shame of the Clergy and the Apostate Archbishop of York whereas while he was in his greatness he was characterized to be a person of a generous mind a lover and encourager of learning and learned men he himself being very learned hospitable and a great Benefactor to the publick yet always high and proud and sometimes insolent and
may see afterwards he became Chaplain to Alice Countess Dowager of Derby Wife of Tho. Lord Ellesmere and the publisher of Loves peereless paragon or the attributes and progress of the Church Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon and at Harfield in Middlesex on Cant. 2. 10. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps of other things Nov. 9. Will. Sparke of Magd. 17. Will. Jewell of Exet. Coll. The last of these two did translate from French into English The golden Cabinet of true Treasure containing the summ of moral Philosophy Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him beside only that he was a Gentleman's Son of Devonshire and that he became a Sojournour of Exet. Coll. an 1603. aged 17. Adm. 97. Bach. of Div. Dec. 14. Rob. Bolton of Brasn Feb. 22. Tho. Thompson of Qu. Coll. Will. Loe of S. Alb. Hall did supplicate for the same degree but whether he was admitted it appears not Adm. 11. Doct. of Law June 28. Alexander Sheppard of Jesus Coll. He was a learned Civilian but what he hath published I know not Doct. of Physick Jun. 26. Thom. Johnson of Oriel Coll. He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 16 Nov. 1621 but whether he was Author of a Book which goes under the name of Dr. Johnson entit Practica medicinae de aegritudinibus capitis Lond. 1602. qu. I cannot justly say See another Thom. Johnson M. D. in these Fasti in the 2 Vol. an 1643. Doct. of Div. June… Rich. Mocket of All 's Coll. July… Walt. Bennet of New Coll. In Sept. 1608 he became Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch and on the 7 of March 1609 Archdeacon of Wilts on the death of Dr. Edm. Lilly In his Chauntorship succeeded Hen. Cotton as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1610 and in his Archdeaconry one Tho. Leach 15 Nov. 1614. 19. Rob. Clay of Mert. Coll. He afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Favour in the Vicaridge of Halyfax and dying in 1628 left by will to the said Coll. 100 l. for two Sermons yearly to be preached to the University as Dr. Bickley had formerly given to them to be preached by a Yorkshire Man if any such be Fellow or Chaplain of that College who in his Prayer is to mention Dr. Clay sometimes Vicar of Halifax as the founder of those Sermons Jan. 24. John Bancroft of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was soon after Master of Vniversity Coll. Incorporations Apr. 29. Thom. Wharton eldest Son of Philip Lord Wharton was incorporated M. of Arts. as he had stood at Cambridge He was Father to Philip Lord Wharton who openly appeared in armes against K. Ch. 1. an 1642. And many years after he was made one of the Privy Council to K. Will. 3. May 4. Josias Bird Bach. of Arts of Cambridge He was now of All 's Coll. under the inspection of his kinsman or uncle Dr. Will. Bird. Jun. 12. Hipocrates D'othon or Othen Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Montpellier He died 13. Nov. 1611 and was buried in the Church of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr within the liberty of Westm Jul. 11. Will. Gonge M. A. of Cambridge He was a Native of Stratford bow in Middlesex was educated in Kings Coll. of which he was Fellow afterwards he was Doct. of Div. and the pious and learned Preacher of the Church in the Blackfriers in London where in his time he was accounted the Father of the London Ministers that is of such who were put in by the Authority of the rebellious Parliament in 1641 42. c. He was one of the Assembly of Divines was a good Text-man as his Whole armour of God Exposition of the Hebrews Exposition of the Lords Prayer and other learned works the titles of some of which you may see in Oxf. Cat. shew He is often honorably mention'd by Voetius Streso and other outlandish Divines and was always accounted by the Puritan eminent for his humility patience and faith He died 12. of Dec. 1653 and was buried in the said Church of the Black-fryers on the 16 of the said month aged 79 or thereabouts John Richardson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day One Joh. Richardson was educated in Eman Coll. was afterwards D. D. Master first of Peter house then of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and Vicechancellour of that University This Person who had a hand in the translation of the Bible appointed by King Jam. 1. died about the beginning of 1625 and was buried in Trin. Coll. Chappel Another John Richardson who was D. D. succeeded Dr. Walt. Balcanquall in the Deanery of Rochester and died in Apr. 1636 and a third John Richardson I find who from being D. of D. of Dublin was made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland Which Bishoprick he being forced to leave upon the rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom an 1641 retired to London where he died in 1654. Whether any of these three were the same with John Richardson the incorporated Master of Arts I cannot now justly tell Jul. 11. Abrah Dickonson D. D. of Cambr. was also then incorporated in that faculty An. Dom. 1610. An. 8. Jac. 1. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterburry but he dying 2. Nov. Thom. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere Lord Chancellour of England and one of the Kings Privy Council was chosen into his place the next day and on the tenth was installed in the Bishop of Durhams house at London Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. King again Jul. 14. at which time the Chancellours letters being read for his election 't was order'd that the Heads of Colleges and Halls should at all times be ready and diligent to assist the Vicechanc. in his government of the University especially in matters of Religion for the suppressing of Popery and Faction c. The said Dr. King was soon after Bishop of London Proct. Râ—b Pink of New Coll. Sam. Radcliffe of Bras Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Musick July 11. Thomas Bartlet of Magd. Coll. He hath several compositions in Musick in MS. but whether extant I cannot tell On the 26. of Apr. Richard Deering did as a member of Christ Church supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick and had his desire as it seems granted tho not registred because in matters of his composition which were soon after by him made extant he entitles himself Bach. of Musick This Person who was born of and descended from a right antient Family of his name living in Kent was bred up in Italy where he obtained the name of a most admirable Musician After his return he practised his faculty for some time in England where his name being highly cried up became after many intreaties Organist to the English Nuns living in the Monastery of the blessed Virgin Mary at Bruxells At length after the Marriage of K. Ch. 1. he was made Organist to his Royal Comfort Henrietta Maria with
whom he continued till she was forced to leave England by the Presbyterian outrages in the time of the grand rebellion He hath written 1 Cantica sacra ad melodiam Madrigalium elaborata senis vocibus Antwerp 1618. qu. divided in six volumes according to the voices In the title of this book he write himself Richards Deringus Bac. Mus 2 Cantica sacra ad duas tres voces composita cum Basso continuo ad Organum Lond. 1662. c. published by John Playford and by him dedicated to Hen. Maria the Queen Dowager the Author who was always a Rom. Catholick having been dead about 4 or 5 years before A second set was published in the year 1674 entit Basso contiruo cantica sacra containing Hymes and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Lat. and English composed by Rich. Deering Christopher Gibbons Ben. Rogers Matthew Lock and others Printed in fol. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 26. Will. Page of Balliol afterwards of Allsouls Coll. 27. Hen. Welstede of Broadgates hall See among the Masters an 1612. 3â— Christoph Potter of Queens June 14. Rob. Skinner of Trin. Coll. 21. Nich. Grey of Ch. Ch. 28. Griffin Higgs of St. Johns Jul. 5. Nath. Carpenter of Exet. Coll. Nov. 6. Will. Strode of Broadgates hall Quare Dec. 13. Tho. Nevill of Trin. Coll. He was the eldest Son of Sir Hen. Nevill Knight 〈…〉 of Abergavenny 17. Christoph White of Ch. Ch. Jan. 24. Humph. Sidetham of Exeter afterwards of Wadham Coll. 28. Gilbert Wats of Linc. Coll. Jasp Fisher of Magd. hall afterwards of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Of all these Bachelaurs only Nath. Carpenter Christoph White and Jasp Fisher have been largely mention'd in this vol. among the Writers As for the others that are Writers they are to be mention'd in the next vol. Admitted 183. Mast of Arts. May 15. Edward Chaloner of Magd. Coll. afterwards of All 's June 22. John Reading of Magd. hall 26. Hen. Cotton of Brasn Coll. a Compounder This Person who was the Son of Dr. Hen. Cotton B. of Salisbury became Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the said Church on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch 29. Sept. 1608 Preb. of Bytton on the death of Meredith Morgan 4. Dec. 1612 Chauntor thereof by the death of Dr. Walt. Bennet 30. July 1614 and at length Prebendary of Highworth in the said Church of Sarum by the death of Dr. Pet. Lilye on the eleventh day of March following He died in 1622 and was succeeded in the Chauntorship by Dr. Humph. Henchman afterwards B. of Saâ—um Jul. 4. Joh. Wylde of Ball. Coll. This Person who was the eldest Son of Serj. Geo Wylde of Droitwich in Worcestershire was about this time a Student in the Inner Temple of which he became Lent reader 6. Car. 1. afterwards Serjeant at Law and Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer in the time of the rebellion This was the Person who drew up the Impeachment against the Bishops and by him sent to the H. of Lords an 1641. being the prime manager in that affair and what he wrot as to that matter was afterwards printed He was the same also who upon the command or rather desire of the great Men sitting at Westminister did condemn to death at Winchester one Capt. Jâ—hn Burley for causing a drum to be beat up for God and K. Ch. at Newport in the Isle of Wight in order to rescue his captiv'd King an 1647. For which act after Burley had been executed at Winton on the 10. Feb. the same year he received 1000 l. out of the privy purse of derby-Derby-house About the same time also he received another 1000 l. as 't was then confidently affirmed for the acquittance of Major Rolph who had a design to murder or poyson the said King so 't was all one to him whether he hung or hung not so he got the beloved pelf After Oliver came to the Protectorship he retired and acted not but when the Rump Parliament was restored after Richards deprivation then was he restored to the Exchecquer and after K. Charles 2. returned lived about 9 years in a retired condition At length giving way to fate at Hamstede near London his body was buried at Wherwell in Hampshire which is a Lordship belonging to Charles Lord de la Warr who married Anne Dau. and Heir of the said John Wylde Jul. 5. Joh. Seller or Sellar of Oriel Coll. One of both his names hath published Five Sermons Lond. 1636. oct and other things Whether the same with him of Oriel who was a Ministers Son of Glocestershire I cannot tell unless I could see the said Sermons Nor do I know anything to the contrary but that he may be the same with John Seller of C. C. Coll. a Ministers Son of Kent who was admitted Bach. of Arts 18. Feb. 1611. and Master 2. Jul. 1614. This last John Seller being a learned Man Mr. Rich. James whom I have mentioned among the Writers 1638. numbred him among his learned acquaintance and therefore wrot divers Epistles to him Jan. 23. Hugh Robinson of New Coll. Bach. of Physick Apr. 30. Theodore Goulson M. of A. of Merton Coll. He was the only Bach. of Phys that was admitted this year See among the Doct. following Bach. of Div. Mar 27. Tho. Winniffe Geor. Hakewill of Ex. June 21. Josias White of New 25. Brian Twyne Thom. Jackson Henry Masen of Corp. Ch. Coll. July 5. Barnab Potter of Qu. Coll. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. Which two last were afterwards Bishops 6. Rob. Barnes of Magd. Coll. This Person who was Son of Joseph Barnes Printer to the University of Oxon and Fellow of the said Coll. of St. Mary Magd. became afterwards Minister of Greys in Oxfordshire by the favour of William Viscount Wallingford and published A Sermon preached at Henly at the visitation 27. Apr. 1626 on Psal 9. 16. Oxon 1626. qu. besides a collection of Verses made on the death of Will Son of Arth. L. Grey of Wilton Admitted 26. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Francis Alexander of New College Prebendary of Winchester June 21. Tho. Ryves of the same Coll. He is to be remembred among the Writers in the 2. vol. Doct. of Phys Apr. 30. Theodore Goulsâ—n of Merton Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick being now much in esteem for his knowledge therein Doct. of Div. June 11. Ralph Barlow of C. C. C. originally of Oriel and afterwards of New Coll. was then admitted D. of D. in the quality of a Compounder In Sept. an 1621. he succeeded Rich. Meredith in the Deanery of Wells and dying there was buried in the Cathedral 27. July 1631. Whereupon Dr. George Warburton Dean of Glocester succeeded him in that Dignity 13. Francis Kerrie of Ball. Coll. a Compounder He was now Canon residentiary of Hereford June 13. Job Best July 5. Silvan Griffith of Ch. Ch. Which two were Compounders the last being Archdeacon of Hereford 6. John Parkhurst Will. Langton of Magd. Coll. The first of
in 4. volumes or parts each volume containing 5 books Lond. 1625. fol. 3 Purchas his Pilgrim Microcosmus or the history of Man c. Lond. 1619. oct 4 The Kings tower and triumphant arch of London pr. 1623. oct By the publishing of which books he brought himself into debt but died not in prison as some have said but in his own house a little while after the King had promised him a Deanery about 1628. aged 51. What other things he hath published besides a Funeral Sermon on Psal 39. 5. printed 1619 in oct I know not and therefore be pleased to take this character given of him by a learned Person which may serve instead of an Epitaph Samuel Purchas Anglus linguarum artium divinarum atque humanarum egregie peritus Philosophus Historicus Theologus maximus patriae ecclesiae antistes fidelis multis egregiis scriptis in primis orientalis occident alisque Indiae vastis voluminibus patria lingua conscripta celeberrimus One Samuel Purchas A. M. hath published A theatre of political flying Insects c. Lond. 1657. qu. July 11. John Wood Rob. King John Bowles D. D. Cant. The first of these three died in the Parish of St. Dionise Backchurch in London being Minister as it seems of that place an 1624. and the last who was a Native of Lancashire and Fellow of Trinity Coll. in the said University became Dean of Salisbury in the latter end of July an 1620 upon Dr. John Williams his being made Dean of Westminster At length upon Dr. Walt. Curle's translation to the See of D. and Wells he became Bishop of Rochester in 1630 and dying in an house situated on the Bank side in Westminster 9. Octob. 1637 was buried in St. Pauls Cathedral He hath extant Concio ad clerum in Act. cap. 15. 4. printed 1631. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 2. Eleazer Hodson Doct. of Phys of Padua He was afterwards eminent for his practice in the City of London where he died in the Parish of St. Stephen in Colemanstreet about the latter end of 1638. His Brother Phineas Hodson I have mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1602 Joh. Radolphus Stuckius and Jo. Waserus both of Zurich were this year Students in the University Afterwards they became learned Men and Writers as I shall tell you in the second Vol. in my discourse of Dr. John Prideaux An. Dom. 1616. An. 14. Jac. 1. Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton created this year Viscount Brackley but he voluntary resigning his office of Chancellour of this University on the 24. Jan. William Earl of Pembroke Knight of the Garter Chamberlaine of the Kings Houshold c. was unanimously elected into his place 29 of the same month Vicechanc. Arth. Lake D. D. Warden of New Coll. July 17. Proct. Robert Sanderson of Linc. Coll. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. Apr. 10. Bach. of Musick July 4. John Vauter of Linc. Coll. John Lake of New Coll. had his grace granted for the Degree of Bach. of Mus but whether he was admitted it appears not Or that he or Vauter have made any publick compostions in their faculty Bach. of Arts. Apr. 19. Nich. Hunt of Exet. June 19. John Speed of St. Joh. Coll. One Nich. Hunt hath several things extant who being I presume the same with the former is hereafter to be mention'd at large 26. Anth. Faringdon of Trin. Jul. 3. Jo. Allibond of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the created Doctors of Div. an 1643. 5. John Langley of Magd. hall Oct. 24. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1629. 26. Bruno Ryves of New afterwards of Magd. Coll. Will. Price of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1619. Nov. 4. John Doughtie Dec. 14. Rob. Grebby of New Coll. See more among the Masters of Art 1619. Jan. 29. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1627. Feb. 28. John Gee of Exet. John Thorie of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Incorporations an 1627. As for Faringdon Langley Ryves and Doughtie you are to expect large mention of them hereafter Admitted 223. Mast of Arts. April 19. Rich. Parre of Brasn Coll. June 4. Morgan Owen of Hart Hall 12. Immanuel Bourne of Ch. Ch. George Singe of Ball. Coll. 20. Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch. 21. John Scull of Lincoln lately of Mert. Coll. He hath published Two Sermons on Math. 10. 16. printed 1624. qu. being the same person as it seems who was afterwards Rector of Shinfold in Sussex where he died in 1641. 26. Franc. Potter of Trin. Coll. July 5. John Angell of Magd. Hall Deâ— 17. Alex. Huish of Wadham Coll. Feb. 25. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Hall lately of Magd. Coll. Adm. 117. Bach. of Phys … Francis Anthony Olevian of Glocester Hall was admitted but the day or month when appears not He was a German of the Palatine of the Rhine and had studied ten years in the faculty of Physick in the Universities of Heidelberg Mountpelier Paris and Oxon. He afterwards practised his Faculty being licensed by the University at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire where he died in 1642 but whether he hath written or published any thing let the Physitians seek Bach. of Div. May 15. Sim. Birckbek Thom. Sutton of Qu. Coll. June 4. Tho. Godwin of Magd. July 10. George Wall of Brasn Coll. The last was about this time beneficed in his native Country of Worcestershire and afterwards published A sermon at the Archbishop of Canterbury his Visitation metropolitical held at Allsaints in Worcester by Dr. Bâ—ent his Grace's Vicar General 3 June 1635. on 2 Cor. 5. 20. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things Quâ—ere Dec. 13. Henr. Rogers of Jes. Coll. Besides these were 13 more admitted of whom Joh Flavel of Broadgates Hall was one and Evan Morgan of Linc. Coll. another both Compounders ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 18. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. May 11. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. 15. Tho. Holloway of Ball. Coll. June 13. Sam. Clark of Magd. Hall a Compounder He had a son of both his names of Vniversity Coll. an 1635 but neither of them as I can yet find were Writers which I thought fit to let the Reader know because there have been several Samuel Clarks that have been Authors as 1 Sam. Clark of Merton Coll. whom I shall mention in the second Volume of this Work 2 Sam. Clark sometimes Minister of S. Bennet-Fink in London born at Wolstan in Warwickshire 10 Oct. 1599 being of the same Family with those of Willoughby in that County as Sam. Clark the Compounder before mention'd was afterwards a severe Calvinist and a scribling Plagiary as his Works mostly the lives of Presbyterian Divines shew a Catalogue of which you may see in one of his books entit The lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age In
tw published by S. Hartlib 9 Supplement to the reform School Lond. 1651. in tw published by the said Hartlib 10 The reform Library keeper Lond. 1650. in tw To which is added Bibliotheca Augusta sereniss Princ. D. Augusti Ducis Brunovicensis Luneb quae est Wolferbyti 11. Earnest plea for Gospel-Communion Lond. 1654. qu. 12 Summary platform of Divinity pr. 1654. c. An. Dom. 1625. An. 1 Car. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Prideaux again Jul. 19. Proct. Nich. Brookes of Oriel Coll. Sam. Marsh of Trin. Coll. Apr. 27. Bach. of Arts. May 5. Gervase Warmstrey Jun. 22. Hen. Elsynge Will. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. Jul. 6. Gasper Hicks of Trin. Rob. Cross of Linc. Nov. 22. Thom. Masters of New 24. Henry Savage of Ball. Dec. 16. Christopher Airay of Qu. Coll. Feb. 6. Nich. Gibbon 9. Hen. Parker of S. Edm. Hall Rich. Jones of Jesus 13. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. 14. Nath. Stephens Edw. Hyde John Lisle of Madg. Hall 15. Mich. Hudson Guy Carlton of Qu. Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Chichester All which will be mention'd at large elsewhere Adm. 256. Bach. of Law Only six this year were admitted the senior of whom was Rich. Basset of Lincoln Coll. a Compounder Mast of Arts. March 28. Joh. Viccars of Linc. Coll. Apr. 29. Joh. Ellis of Hart Hall May 21. Will. Claybroke of Ball. Coll. This person who was the second Son of an Esq left Oxon soon after changed his Religion went beyond the Seas and became Canon of some of the hither parts of France of Flanders as I have been informed June 23. George Hughes of Pembr lately of C. C. 25. Joh. Strickland of Qu. 30. Henry Hammond of Magd. July 5. John Marsham of St. Joh. Coll. July 2. Joh. Lee of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards one of the first Scholars of Pembroke Coll. at its first foundation where as at Balliol he was an indefatigable Student and of proficiency answerable He wrote an enterlude but never acted or published and hath a Lat. Speech in print which is all I know of him only that he was Son of Joh. Lee of Abendon in Berks. and educated in the Free-school there July 7. Joh. Sedgwick Joh. Angell of Magd. Hall James Eglesfield of Qu. Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterward Vicar of Chewton in his native Country of Somersetshire and Author of A heavenly hymne to the King of Heaven Sermon on Mark 7. 37. Lond. 1640. oct the Author being then dead What else was published under his name I know not nor any thing else him only that he was a Ministers Son and a learned Man Admitted 156. Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Griffin Higgs of Mert. Elizeus Burges of St. Joh. Coll. The last was now Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of Rich. Tillesley deceased May 19. Hen. King Joh. King of Ch. Ch. June 28. John Davenport of Magd. hall July 1. Brian Duppa 2. Rog. Manwaring of All 's 8. Francis Potter of Trinity Coll. Admitted 19. Doct. of Law Mar. 31. William Skinner of All 's Coll. Chancellour of the Dioc. of Hereford ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 19. Hen. King Joh. King Canons of Ch. Ch. Both the Sons of Dr. King sometimes B. of London and Accumulators and Compounders 26. Edw. à Meetkirke of Ch. Ch. Hebrew Professor of the University and about this time Prebendary of Winchester June 20. Charles Croke of the same house an Accumulator and Compounder He was at this time Rector of Amersham alias Agmundesham in Bucks and Fellow of Eaton Coll. and afterwards the writer and publisher of A sad memorial of Hen. Curwen Esq only Child of Sir Patr. Curwen of Warkington in Cumberland Baronet who died 21. Aug. 1638. aged 14 and was buried in the Church of Amersham in Bucks Serm. on Job 14. 2. Oxon. 1638. qu. at which time the Author was Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. What other writings he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was born in Oxfordshire and that he was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Croke of Chilton in Bucks one of the Justices of the Kings-bench July 1. Brian Duppa 2. Roger Manwaring of All 's Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Divinity 8. Thomas Horne of Mert. Nath. Giles of Magd. Coll. Compounders The first became Canon of Windsore in Oct. 1616. in the place of Dr. Edm. Nuttal sometimes Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge deceased and dying on the seventh of the Ides of Nov. 1636. aged 60 was buried in St. Georges Chap. at Windsore The other Dr. Giles became also Canon of the said Chappel in the latter end of 1623 and in the latter end of 1626 Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Hen. Bright deceased He died in the time of the grand rebellion Incorporations The plague raging this year in London and therefore the Act put off few incorporations occur However those that are take as they follow July…Tho Browne Bach. of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Quaere 6. Edm. Prideaux M. A. of the same University This Person if I am not mistaken was the same who in the times of Usurpation was Commissioner of the great Seal and by ordinance did practice within the Bar as one of the Kings Council and after that was made Attorney General and Post-master for all the Inland-letters From which employments gaining a vast estate left at the time of his death 19. Aug. 1659 an incredible mass of gold as the credible report then went besides Lands of very great demesness July 12. Lodovic Rouseus Doctor of Phys of the University of Leyden in Holland Dec. 13. John Verneuil M. of A. of the Univ. of Mountalbon in France now or lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 11. Thom. Levet of York Diocess a Licentiat of the Civil Law in the Univers of Orleance was incorporated Bach. of the same fac March 24. Edward Hayward M. of A. of Cambridge Quaere Creations Jan. 26. John Hassall or Halsall a Student in Divinity sometimes Bach. of Law and Fellow of New Coll. had then leave given to him by the venerable Convocation that he might be actually created Doctor of the said faculty when he pleased to accept of that Degree but the day when he was created appears not In the letters commendatory of the Chancellour of this Univ. Will. Earl of Pembroke written to the members thereof are these matters mention'd of the said Hassall He hath been a diligent and faithful preacher of the word of God in the Low-countries and hath gotten a singular good reputation with the English in those parts having been particularly favoured and cherished by the Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth his most Royal spouse He was when my self was a Student in the University a hopeful Scholar and of special note in the same house with me c. The Letters also of Sir Horatio Vere written in his behalf
Authors death June… Henry Glemham of Trin. Coll. Joh. Tombes of Magd. Hall Dec. 10. Will. Strode of Ch Ch. Admitted 27. Doct. of Law Francis Gerard John Gervais of All 's Coll. They were admitted in Hillary term but the day and month when are omitted Doct. of Phys July 21. William Ford of Pembr Coll. Doct. of Div. May 18. Tho. Mason Tho. Westley of Magd. Coll. The last of these was Rector of Chart in Kent and preacher at the Savoy in the Strand near London where dying in Apr. 1639 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there May 26. John Hodges of Lanâ— March 10. Will Paul of All 's Coll. Incorporations Jim 30. Constantine Jessop Bach. of Arts of Trinity Coll. near Dublin I shall make farther mention of him elsewhere July 7. Thom. Clavering M. of A. but of what University 't is not set down was then incorporated in the same degree 8. Rob. Sparke M. of A. of Aberdene Mar. 1. Joh. Ramsey M. of A. of S. Andrews in Scotland One Dr. Rob. Sparke and Joh. Ramsey were afterwards Publishers of several Sermons but whether the same with the two former I cannot tell This year Thom. Randolphe the most celebrated Poet of Cambr. was incorporated M. of A. but the day or month when appears not I have made mention of him at large among the Writers under the year 1590. Joh. Pell also a Graduat of the same University was incorporated but in what degree whether in that of Bachelaur or Master of Arts it appears not This person tho I have several times occasionally mention'd in this Work yet I shall take liberty to be more large upon him now He was the Son of Joh. Pell and he of another John descended from those of his name in Lincolnshire where they seem to be of antient extraction His first breath was drawn at Southwyâ—ke in Sussex of which place his Father was Minister on S. Davids day an 1610 and his Grammar learning received in the Free-school then newly founded at Stenning a Market Town in the said County At 13 years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge being then as good a Scholar as some Masters of Arts in that University and tho he understood Lat. Gr. and Hebr. well yet he never stood at an Election of Scholars and Fellows of that house He was of a strong and good habit of body and therefore using Recreations seldom or never he plied his studies while others play'd About two years after he had taken the magisterial degree he married and understood then besides the said three Tongues Arab. Ital. French Spanish High and Low Dutch In Dec. 1643 he took a Journey to Amsterdam and was there made Professor of the Mathematicks next after Mart. Hoâ—tensius where his learned Collegue Ger. Jo. Vossius as he testifies de scientiis Math. c. 10. heard him with admiration read his publick Lectures upon Diophantus by whom likewise he is stiled a person of various erudition and a most acute Mathematician And in 1646 the Prince of Orange called him to be publick Professor of Philosophy and Mathematicks in the Schola illustris at Breda founded that year by his Highness While he continued there William Lord Brereton was sent by his Grandfather George Earl of Norwych to be his Scholar and became a good proficient especially in Algabra to which his Genius most inclin'd him and carried it on to his dying day which hapning on the 17 of March 1679 he being then a chief Member of the Royal Society was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him the Character among the Vertuosi of a very good Algebrest and an excellent Musitian having composed several things of that faculty In 1652 J. Pell return'd into England and two years after Oliver Lord Protector sent him Envoy to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerlandt where he chiefly resided at Zurich He was sent with the Title of Ablegatus but afterwards he had order to continue there under the Title of Resident and by that Title he was known till hiâ— Return into England a little before Oliver's death an 1658 at which time it was vulgarly known among the Royalists that in the said Employment he had acted nothing to the injury of the Church of England After his Majesties Restauration he took holy Orders from Dr. Sanderson B. of Lincoln had procured for him by Dr. Sheldon B. of Land the Parsonage of Fobbing in Essex an 1661 and two years after the Parsonage of Lainden with the Chappel of Bartelsdon annexed in the same County After the said Bishop was translated to Canterbâ—â—y he became one of his Chaplains being then Doct. of Div. and expected soon after to be made a Dean but being not a person of activity as others who mind not learning are could never rise higher than a Rector The truth is he was a shiftless man as to worldly affairs and his Tenants and Relations dealt so unkindly with him that they cozen'd him of the profits of his Parsonages and kept him so indigent that he warned necessaries even Paper and Ink to his dying day This learned and curious person hath written 1 Controversia cum Christiano Longemontano de vera circuli mensura Amst 1647. qu. 2 An Idea of Mathematicks Lond. 1651. in tw written to Sam. Hartlib Esque and printed at the end of The reformed School written by Jo. Durâ—e It was before printed in Engl. and Lat. 3 A Table of ten thousand squaâ—e numbers namely of all the square numbers between O and an hundred millions and of their sides or roots which are all the whole numbers between O and ten thousand With an appendix concerning the endings or last figures of all square numbers Lond. 1672 fol. c. He hath also succinctly and clearly demonstrated the second and tenth book of Euclid which is in MS. in the 〈◊〉 of the Lord Brereton in Cheshire as also Archimedes his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the greatest part of Diophantus his six books of Arithmeâ—â—k Which last is done more and better than was before done by a certain French man Both which are in the aforesaid Library He also published a little Anonymous Exercitation concerning Easter and at the instance of Sir Charles Scarborough did demonstrate the proportion of the Diameter to the Circumference and shews the 〈◊〉 why 〈◊〉 did use those two numbers The 〈…〉 written in High Dutch by Rhonnius sometimes 〈…〉 is mostly also his Dr. Pell's His 〈…〉 is also extant and a Letter relating to the 〈…〉 Hamburgh by 〈…〉 He was the first Inventor of that excellent way or method of the marginal working in Algebra and was a great advancer of some things pertaining thereunto and the mathematical Faculty At length after he had spent his last days in great obscurity and had been once or twice cast into Prison for debt with shame be it spoken to the great Virtuosi of this age died in Dyet street
Iconoclastes in answer to a book entit Eikon Basilice the portrature of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings Lond. 1649 50. qu. ib. 1690 oct which being published to the horror of all sober men nay even to the Presbyterians themselves yet by the then dominant party it was esteemed an excellent piece and perform'd answerably to the expectation of his Wit and Pen. After the Return of King Charles 2. this book was called in by Proclamation dated 13 Aug. 1660 at which time the Author who a little before had left his house in Petty France which had a door going into S. James's Park absconded for fear of being brought to a legal Tryal and so consequently of receiving condign Punishment At the same time also was called in a book of John Goodwin then lately a Minister in Colemanstreet in Lond. entit The Obstructors of Justice written in defence of the Sentence against his Majesty Charles 1. At which time also the said Goodwin absconded to prevent Justice Soon after the publication of Iconoclastes Salmasius a Professor in Holland who had in a large Treatise not long before maintained as 't is said the parity of Church Governors against Episcopacy did publish Defensio rogia pro Carolo 1. Rege Angliae wherein he justified several matters as Milton conceived to the contradiction of his former book Whereupon he wrot and published 15 Pro populo Anglicano defensio contra Claudii Anonymi alias Salmasii defensionem regiam Lond. 1651. fol. said to be written in more correct Latin than that of Salmasius While Milton was writing the said book his sight began to fail him and before it was fully compleated one of his eyes did absolutely perish In the month of June the same year 1651 the said book was burnt at Tholouse by an arrest from the Parliament under the Government of the Duke of Orleans And in Sept. following it was the usual practice of Marchm Nedham a great crony of Milton to abuse Salmasius in his publick Mercury called Politicus as Milton had done before in his Defensio by saying among other things that Christina Qu. of Sweden had cashiered him her favour by understanding that he was a pernicious parasite and a promoter of Tyranny After his Majesties Restauration this book also was called in by the same Proclamation before mention'd But so it was that in 1652 a certain book entit Regii sanguinis clamor c. being published Salmasius was highly extol'd in it and Milton had his just Character given therein The nameless Author of which being for a considerable time sought out but in vain by Milton he at length learn'd by certain Ministers of State sent to the Republick of England who would sometimes visit him as a learned man that it was written by one Alex. More formerly a Professor and Minister at Geneva then living in Holland Whereupon he published 16 Pro populo Anglicano defensio secunda contra infamem libellum Anonymum cui titulus Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus patricidas Anglicanos Lond. 1654 and at Hag. Com. the same year in oct Upon the writing of this book the Author Milton lost the other eye and tho to his charge he used many means yet he could never recover either of his eyes This book entit Reg. sang clam c. tho written by Dr. Peter du Moulin Prebendary of Canterbury as it afterwards well appeared yet Milton upon the reports before mention'd could not be convinced to the contrary but that it was written by the said More and therefore not only abused him in his Answers but by his friend Nedham in his Politicus whereby the reputation of that learned person was severely touched 17 Pro se defensio contra Alex. Mornum Ecclesiaste libelli famosi cui tit Regii sanguinis clamor c. Lond. 1655 oct In this book he is exceeding bitter against Morus and pretends to give a true history of his notorious Impurities both at Geneva and Leyden and an account of his own particular life to vindicate himself from what as he thought was scurrilously said of him by Morus At the end of the said book the Author Milton added Ad Alex. Mori supplementum responsio About the time that he had finished these things he had more leisure and time at command and being dispenced with by having a substitute allowed him and sometimes Instructions sent home to him from attending his office of Secretary he began that laborious work of amassing out of all the classick Authors both in prose and verse a Latin Thesaurus to the emendation of that done by Stephanus also the composing of Paradise lost and of the framing a Body of Divinity out of the Bible All which notwithstanding the several troubles that befell him in his fortunes he finished after his Majesty's Restauration But to go on with the Cat. of his Books according to time take these as they follow 18 Treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes c. Lond. 1659. in tw 19 Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church Lond. 1659. in tw 20 Ready and easie way to establish a free Commonwealth and the excellencies thereof compared with c. Lond. 1659 in two sheets and an half in qu. This being published in Feb. the same year was answer'd by G. S. in his Dignity of Kingship 21 Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled The fear of God and the King c. Lond. 1660. qu. See more in Matthew Griffith among the Writers an 1665. 22 Accedence commenced Grammar c. pr. 1661. in oct 23 Paradise lost a Poem in 10 books Lond. 1669. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts an 1688. 24 Paradise regain'd a Poem in four books Lond. 1670. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts an 1688. 25 History of Britany from the first traditional beginning continued to the Norman Conquest Lond. 1670 qu. This History when it first came abroad had only the reputation of the putting of our old Authors nearly together in a connex'd story not abstaining from some lashes at the ignorance or I know not what of those times 26 Artis logicae plenior institutio ad Petri Rami methodum concinnata Lond. 1672 in tw 27 Of true Religion Heresie Schism Toleration and what best means may be used against the growth and increase of Popery Lond. 1673. qu. 28 Poems c. on several occasions both English and Latin c. composed at several times Lond. 1673-4 oct Among these are mixed some of his Poems before mention'd made in his youthful years 29 Epistolarum familiarium lib. 1. Lond. 1674. oct 30 Prolusiones quaedam Oratoriae in Coll. Christi habitae printed with the familiar Epistles 31 Literae Pseudo senatus Anglicani Cromwellii reâ—iquorum perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptae printed in 1676 in tw 32 Character of the Long Parliament and of the Assembly of Divines Lond. 1681. in 2 sheets in qu. In which book is a notable account of their
and afterwards to K. Ch. 1. was installed Dean of Glocester after Dr. Tho. Winniff's removal to the Deanery of St. Pauls on the eleventh of June 1631 and on the 25. of Aug. or thereabouts following became Dean of Wells on the death of Ralph Barlow He hath published King Melchizedek Serm. at Court at East-hamstead 2. Sept. 1623. Lond. 1623. qu. and whether any thing else I cannot yet tell In 1640 he went to London to attend the Convocation of the Clergy that began with the Long Parliament and dying in Drury-lane in the month of Dec. or thereabouts an 1641 was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Walt. Rawleigh James Hena or Hannay a Scot. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. He was admitted to the Deanery of Wells 13. January 1641. Edw. Burby of Linc. Coll. He was now Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was before enjoyed by Ranulph Barlow D. D. of Cambridge George Gillingham of Pemb. Coll. He was at this time one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 2. Nov. 1639 was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Elly deceased He had other preferments and died 16. Dec. 1668 being then Rector of Chalton in Hampshire Daniel Escott Warden of Wadham Coll. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Morgan Owen of Jes Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne and the last Bishop of Landaff Samuel Marsh of Trin. Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University and at this time Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Sarum Steph. Goffe or Gough of St. Albans Hall lately of Mert. Coll. This Person who was Son of Steph. Goffe the puritanical Minister of Stanmer in Sussex travelled into the Low-countries after he had taken his Masters Degree and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Col. H. Vere whereby he gained good acquaintance and experience which wound him at his return so much into the favour of Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of St. Alban that he was made one of the Kings Chaplains by which title he was created Doctor of Divinity and afterwards employed in the quality of a minor Agent and Envoy into France then into Flanders Holland and other Countries c. In the time of the rebellion he also acted much for his Master in several Countries beyond the Seas and did him great Service but when he saw the English Church ruin'd and Monarchy declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and was thereupon taken into the society of the Oratorians at Paris an order very famous there tho but little known among us The brethren whereof having liberty to improve their particular estates for things are not common among them as with other orders he grew rich upon the stock which he had formerly gathered together by his endeavours whereby he was in capacity sometimes to do courtesies for his exil'd Countrymen Abrah Cowley the Prince of Poets was while at Paris preferr'd and plac'd by him tho the story is perverted in the Family of the said noble Henry then Lord Jermyn Through whose heroical bounty he was afterwards design'd to the Mastership of the Savoy but by certain enemies to the Muses was depriv'd of it Afterwards Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother to whom Goffe was Chaplain committed to the said Goffs care the tuition of the natural Son of K. Ch. 2. known then by the name of James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth with whom continuing till he was about nine years of age was taken from him and committed to the care of a Gentleman called Rose or Rosse who after his Majesties restauration went Secretary to Henry Coventry Esq in his Embassy into Sweeden This Doctor Goffe who was esteemed by some a learned Man and well read in the Fathers and therefore respected by Gerard Jo. Vossius and others died in the house of the Fathers or Brethren of the Oratory situated in the street called St. Howrè at Paris on Christmas day according to our account an 1681. aged 76 or thereabouts and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that house What writings of his are published besides Nine Latin Epistles to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius and his Negotiations taken by the Rebels at the battel at Sherburne in Yorkshire which with George Lord Digby's Cabinet and other things were published at Lond. in qu. 1646. I know not He had a younger Brother named John Goffe who was a true Son of the Church of England as I shall tell you among the Writers under the year 1661. and another called William originally a Salter or a Hatter as some day in London who closing with the Presbyterians in the time of the Rebellion became a Colonel great with Oliv. Cromwell one of the Judges of King Char. 1. and a member of the other house that is one of Olivers Lords See more in the Fasti an 1649. among the Creations Rich. Marsh of the University of Cambridge lately Chaplain to Archb. Laud afterwards to his Maj. Ch. 1. He was now Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York and soon after Vicar of Halyfax in the room of Hen. Ramsden deceased In Nov. 1644. he had the Deanery of York conferr'd upon him on the death of Dr. Job Scot who died in the Kings bench Prison in Southwark At which time his Majesty being at Oxon Dr. Pet. Heylyn endeavoured by his friends to obtain that Dignity but was put aside After his Majesties restauration he was elected 17. of Aug. and installed 20. of the same month an 1660. and dying 13. Oct. 1663. aged 78 was buried near to the grave of Matthew Hutton sometimes Archbishop of York in the South Isle joyning to the Cath. Church there In his Deanery succeeded Will. Sandcroft D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26. Feb. 1663 who being removed to the Deanery of St. Pauls Cathedral in London Dr. Rob. Hitch of the same University succeeded in Dec. 1664. Dr. Marsh hath one or more Sermons extant Edw. Morton lately M. of A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge now Rector of Sefton in Lancashire Chaplain to the Lord Keeper and Prebendary of Chester He was born of an antient Family at Morton in Cheshire and was Father to Dr. Will. Moreton Bishop of Kildare in Ireland Samps Johnson of Magd. Coll. Thomas Whittington Thomas Manwaring of Brasn Coll. Meric Casaubon Edw. Thornborough of Ch. Ch. The last of these two was Son of Dr. Jo. Thornborough Bishop of Worcester was now Archdeacon of Worcester who dying in 1645 Will. Hodges Bach. of Div. of Oxon was admitted in his place 30. of May the same year Mich. Reade of Linc. Will. Haywood of St. Jo. Coll. Laur. Pay of Ch. Ch. These were all the Doctors of Divinity that were then created Afterwards these noble Persons were created in Oct. following Oct. 14. The most illustrious and high born Prince Christianus Landtgrave of Hassia Count in Catzenellebogen Dieza Ziegenhain and Nidda was diplomated Master of Arts. The most illustrious and high born Prince