find another Tho. Talbot to have been born in the said County of Lancaster and entred into the Society of Jesus an 1598. aged 26. who after he had wrot several Books died in 1652 but this Person was not as I can yet learn originally bred among us HENRY Lord STAFFORD the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks attained and executed for treason in 1521. was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time and tho not the inheritor of his Fathers honours yet he was a Man of great virtue learning and piety In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge to which his Father had been a benefactor where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue and in that language he wrot several things as 't is said as well in verse as prose but such I have not yet seen He translated into English a Book intit De vera differentia regiae potestatis ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque c. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford This translation was printed in oct but when it appears not in the Book He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans c. Lond. 1553. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This noble Lord gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell nor in what County born unless in Staffordshire wherein he was possessor of many Lands ROBERT BROKE or Brook Son of Thom. Broke of Claverley in Shropshire year 5121 by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Hugh Grosvenor of Farmot in the said County was born as I conceive at Claverley laid a foundation of Literature at Oxon which was a great advantage to him when he studied the municipal Laws in the Middle Temple where he became the compleatest Lawyer of his time In 1542 he was elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that House and in the latter end of the Year in Lent 1550 he was elected Double-Reader In 1552 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1553 being the first Year of Qu. Mary he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas and not of the Common-bench as some say and about that time received the honor of Knighthood from that Queen In whose Reign and after he was held in high value for his profound knowledge in the Law and for his just and upright dealing in all matters relating to the profession thereof He hath written An abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Bookes till the time of Qu. Marie Lond. 1573. fol. 76 86 c. qu. Certain cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marie from 6. Hen. 8. to the 4. of Qu. Marie Lond. 1578. 1604. 25. c. in oct The original title of this Book is in French Ascuns novel cases c. Reading on the Statute of limitations 32. H. 8. c. 2. Lond. 1647. oct Printed I think before that time This Sir Rob. Broke who was a zealous Cathol died as it seems in Aug. or Sept. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell In his Will proved 12. Oct. the same Year he several times remembers the Church and Poor of Putney near London I find another of both his names who is written Esquire Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London under whose name was published Reading upon the statute of Magna Charta chap. 16. Lond. 1641. qu. before which time the Author was dead Whether the same with Rob. Brook of Brasenose who was admitted Master of Arts 1584. I think not As for Sir Rob. Broke the Judge he obtained a fair estate by his endeavours which he left to his posterity remaining at Madeley in Shropshire and at one or two places in Suffolk PAUL BUSH was born of honest and sufficient Parents became a Student in this University about the Year 1513 and five years after took the Degree of Bach. of Arts being then numbred among the celebrated Poets of the University Afterwards he applied his mind to the supreme faculty entred into the Order of the Bonhom's studied among the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin now Wadham Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and at length became Provincial of his Order that is of Bonhoms This Person being noted in his time for his great learning in Divinity and Physicks was by K. Hen. 8. made the first Bishop of Bristow after he had placed an Episcopal See there an 1542 and by the name and title of Paulus Bush capellanâ—s Regis S. Theologiae Bacalaureus had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging to that See 16. June in the same Year But he taking to him a Wife whom one calls a Concubine in the days of K. Ed. 6. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary an 1553 whereupon he spent the remaining part of his days at Bristow He hath written several things in Divinity and Medicine as well in verse as prose of which number these are some An exhortation to Margaret Burges Wife to Jo. Burges Clothier of Kingswood in the County of Wilts Lond. temp Ed. 6. in oct Notes on the Psalm beginning with Miserere mei Deus c. Treatise in praise of the Cross Dialogues between Christ and the Virgin Mary Treatise of salves and curing remedies besides Poems of divers kinds which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this World on the eleventh of Octob. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 68 years was buried on the North side of the choire near to the entrance leading into the North Isle of the Cath. Church at Bristow Over his grave was soon after erected a low altar tomb and on it was fastned his statue in his Episcopal Robes lying on his back On the 4 corners of the Tomb were erected four small Pillars bearing a Canopy about which is this written Hic jacet D. Paulus Bush primus hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus qui obut undec die Octob. an Dom. 1558. aetatisque suae 68 cujus animae propitietur Christus About the tomb beneath the statue are certain verses engraven on three sides thereof the fourth joyning to the Wall some of which follow Agnus qui primam nostrum sua tempora miram Indueret jacet hic Bristoliense decus A patre Bush dictus Paulum baptisma vocavit Virtus implevit nomen uterque Pari. Paulus c. Ille animos verbis impensos pavit egenos Hinc fructum arbusto portulit ille suo Ut madidos arbusta tegunt sic foedere rupto Inter discordes pacificator erat This Monument was erected near to the stone under which his sometimes Wife called Edyth Ashley was buried who died 8. Oct. 1553. ROBERT WARDE a native of the Dioc. of Durham was elected
in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the common-Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns for they were all Scholars that acted among whom were Miles Windsore and Thom. Twyne of C. C. C. before the Queen came to Oxon was by them so well liked that they said it far surpassed Damâ—n and Pythias than which they thought nothing could be better Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death he would run mad But this it seems was the last for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him He also wrot Several Poems in Engl. and Latine Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit The paradise of dainty devises Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer with other Mens Poems mix'd among them Among which are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford the best for Comedy in his time who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet who hath about nine Copies in the said collection Jasp Heywood Nich. Lord Vaux Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein R. Hall R. Hill T. Marshall Tho Churchyard a Salopian Lodowyke Lloyd one Yâ—oop and several others At length this noted Poet and Comedian R. Edwards made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six or thereabouts When he was in the extremity of his sickness he composed a noted Poem called Edwards Soulknil or the Soules knell which was commended for a good piece One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs Epigrams Songs Sonnets c. which I shall hereafter mention printed at Lond. the second time 1570 hath an Epitaph on his death made by Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. and another by himself ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderliâ— in Glocestershire where his Family was gentile gave breath and Wykehams School near to Winehester education was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd upon him in 1560 but went away before he compleated it by standing in the Comitia Afterwards leaving his Relations Country and all future expectation for Religion sake settled at Lovaine in Brabant as it seems became a Student in Divinity and published Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers which lived far within six hundred years Lov. 1566. oct Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing Printed with the former book Miracles performed by the Eucharist This last with other things that he hath written as 't is said I have not yet seen An 100 years after this R. Pointz lived another of both his names and of the same Family a writer also and a Knight of the Bath whom I shall remember hereafter ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh Esq Son of Rob. Browne by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire by Joane Kirkham his second Wife Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country was born in Essex and being made soon ripe for the University was sent thereunto but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple of which after he had been some years an Inner Barrester he was elected summer-Reader 1 o Mariae but did not read till the Lent following In the 2 Year of the said Queens Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law and was the antientest of the call and soon after was made Serjeant to the King and Queen In oct 1558. 5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the common-Common-pleas but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after and Elizabeth succeeding she remov'd him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time as it seems a Justice of the common-Common-pleas and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench in which dignity he dyed having but an year before his death received the honor of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeths time and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen had not too much modesty laid in the way What he did as to that was concealed and partly published under another name as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown conceiv'd by Sir Anth. Browne Justice Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England was by him answered and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned Our Author Sir Anthony wrot a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester as one reports but what the contents of it are he mentions not At length having always lived a R. Catholick he gave way to fate at his house in the Parish of South-weld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven year 1567 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the tenth of June following What Epitaph was put over his Grave I know not Sure it is that these verses were made on him several years after his death which may serve for one Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum Gentis Anglorum regia sceptra tenet Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit On the 9. Nov. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died Joan his Widow Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire and formerly the Widow of Charles Bothe Esq died and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony before-mentioned who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple made Serjeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died being about 33 Years after he was made a Serjeant WILLIAM SALESBURY a most exact Critick in British antiquities was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire spent several year in
and quartered at Tyburn 1. year 1581 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one At the same time suffered Edm. Campian before-mentioned who was much pittied by all learned Men especially by his contemporaries in Oxon as Sherwyn was who had been very often a companion with Campian in his travels Alex. Briant also whom I am now about to mention did suffer at the same time and tho not so much commiserated by Scholars yet by many others because he was as the character went on both sides juvenis pulcherrimus vultu innocens prope angelico c. Contemporary with Ralph Sherwyn was one Martin Ayray who after he had left this University was one of the first that was brought up in the English Coll. at Rome and was companion there with the said Sherwyn Afterwards he became a good workman in England and of great edification for divers years as those of his opinion say both before he was taken and afterwards in Prison He was living in 1602 which was the last year of Qu. Elizab. at which time he was Provost of the English Church and residence of St. George in St. Lucar of Spain ALEXANDER BRIANT received his first breath in Somersetshire was admitted a Student of Hart hall about Lent-term in 1573-74 aged 17 or more where being trained up under a tutor sufficiently addicted to Popery left the University and went to Rheimes and afterwards to Doway At the last of which places taking the Priesthood on him he returned into his own Country an 1579. and settling for a time in Somersetshire converted the Father of Rob. Persons the Jusuit to the R. Cath. Religion On the 28. Apr. 1581 he was taken in the night time in his Lodging by one Norton who took away 3 l. in money from him besides cloathes and conducting him to a Magistrate was after examination committed close Prisoner to the Compter in London where enduring great misery till the morrow after the Ascension was removed to the Tower of London and there as 't is reported he was tormented with needles thrust under his nayles racked also otherwise in cruel sort and specially punished by two whole days and nights with famine which they did attribute to obstinacy but indeed sustained in Christs quarrel it was most honorable constancy While he was in Prison he wrot Literae ad reverendos patres societatis Jesu in Anglia degentes The beginning of which is Quoties mecum cogito reverendi patres c. They were written purposely that they would be pleased to receive him into the Order of Jesus before he died which accordingly they did to his great comfort Several Letters to his friends and afflicted Catholicks Whether extant I know not At length being found guilty of high treason at a Sessions in London he was hang'd drawn and quartered at Tyburn on the first day of Dec. year 1581 in Fifteen hundred eighty and one whereupon his quarters were hanged up for a time in publick places He had for his Tutor in Hart hall after he had continued there for some time one Rich. Holtbie born at Fraiton in Yorkshire educated for a time in Cambridge and afterwards going to Oxon settled in the said hall an 1574 aged 21. and more but departing without any Degree in this University he went beyond the Seas to Doway then to Rheimes and other places became a noted Jesuit and spun out his time to a fair age The reader is now to know that during the principality of Philip Rondell of Hart hall who had weathered out several changes of Religion tho in his heart he was a Papist but durst not shew it many Persons who were afterwards noted in the Rom. Church were educated under him but they having not exercised their pens upon any subject that I can yet find I can claim no pretence to set them down among such writers that that ancient house of learning hath sent into the learned world JAMES DYER second Son of Rich. Dyer of Wymaulton in Somersetshire Esq by his Wife the Dau. of one Waiton of the said County was born as I conceive at Wymaulton but in what house he was educated in Oxon for he was a Commoner for some time there it appears not notwithstanding tradition tells us in Broadgates hall From thence without the honor of a Degree he went to the Middle Temple where making great proficiency in the municipal Laws was after he had continued for some time in the Degree of Barrester elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that house 6. Ed. 6. and about the same time was by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law In the Reign of Qu. Marie he was made a Justice of the Common pleas being about that time a Knight and Recorder of Cambridge and in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth Lord Chief Justice of that Court in the place of Sir Anth Browne and not Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings-bench as one doth falsly report As for his writings which shew him a great and eminent Sage of the Law and a Person of great abilities are these Reports or a collection of Cases with divers resolutions and judgments given upon solemne arguments c. and the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments in the Reigns of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Phil. and Mary and Qu. Eliz. Lond. 1601. 1621. c. fol. Abridged by Sir Tho. Ireland of Greys-Inn the same Person who abridged the Eleven Books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke and by another with a table made to them printed by Rich. Tothill Learned reading upon the useful statute of 32. Hen. 8. chap. 1. of Wills and of 34 and 35. Hen. 8. chap. 5. for the explanation of that statute Lond. 1648. qu. At length this great Lawyer having arrived to a good old age paid his last debt to nature at Stowton in Hunting donshire where he had purchased an estate on the 24. March in Fifteen hundred eighty and one whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Much Stowton in the said County near to that of his Wife on the 9 day of Apr. 1582. His said Wife was named Margaret Dau. of Sir Maurice Abarrow of Hampshire Knight Widow of Sir Tho. Eliot of Carleton in Cambridgeshire by whom she had 3 Sons but all died without issue which Margaret died 25. Aug. 1569 but having had no Children by Sir James went after his death to Richard Son of his Brother Laurence Dyer whose posterity are at this time Baronets in Somersetshire RICHARD BRISTOW another most zealous Person for the R. Cath. cause was born of honest Parents within the City of Worcester educated in Grammar learning under one Rog. Golbourne M. A. the same I think who was a Reader in St. Bernards Coll. in the Year 1540 saluted the Oxonian Muses in 1555 but whether he was then entred into Exeter Coll. I know not One Bristow I find to be Chaplain of Ch. Ch. in 1549. 50. and 51. but him
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
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
Physick of Leyden in Holland was then incorporated In the year following he was admitted candidate of the College of Physicians at London afterwards Fellow Censor Anatomy Reader Elector Register and Consiliarius but never President of the said College He hath certain Theses of the Quinsie in print and is stiled by those of his faculty Musarum Apollonis deliciae This Person who was Son of Baldwin Hamey alias de Hame Doctor of Phys of Bruges in Flanders by Sarah his Wife Dau and Heir of Pet. Oeyles of Antwerp Merchant died on the 14. May 1676 aged 76. years and was buried in the middle Isle or Nave of the Church of Chelsey St. Luke near London Feb. 27. Griffin Higgs made D. of D. of the University of Leyden in Holland about three weeks before this time was also then incorporated He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield This year but the day or month appears not was incorporated Doctor of Div. one Hen. Wickham of Kings College in Cambridge He was Son of Will. Wickham Bishop of Winchester was now Archdeacon of York or of the West-riding of Yorkâ—hire which Dignity he had obtained in the latter end of 1623 on the resignation of Dr. H. Hook and Residentiary of the Church there besides Prebendary of Southwell Chaplain in Ord. to K. Char. 1. and Rector of two Churches in Yorkshire In his Archdeaconty succeeded Dr. Rich. Marsh who was afterwards Dean of York Creations Oct. 10. Edm. Manwaring Bach. of Law and a Civilian belonging to the Kings Council in the North parts of England was actually created Doctor of the said faculty He was originally of Allsouls Coll. and as a member thereof took the Degree of Bach. of that fac 1605. Afterwards he was Chancellour of Chester and Father to Sir William Manwaring Serjeant Major to Col. Francis Gamuls Regiment in 1643 against the Forces raised by the Parliament against K. Ch. 1. Nov. 12. Thom. Dacres an Esquires Son of Exeter Coll. was actually created M. of Arts being then about to go with his Majesties Embassador into Foreign parts March 6. Raphael Throckmorton of Ch. Ch. was created M. of A. See among the created Doctors of Div. in 1660. An. Dom. 1630. An. 6. Car. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke who dying 10. Apr. as Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. Hall had several years before predicted Will. Laud D. of D. sometiâ—â—â— President of St. Johns Coll. now Bishop of London was elected into his place the 12. and confirmed the 28. day of the same month Vicechanc. William Smith D. of D. Warden of Wadham Coll. July 17. Proct. Ralph Austen of Magd. Coll. Hen. Stringer of New Coll. Presented Apr. 7. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 10. Edw. Fisher of Brasn June 3. Joh. Eedes of Oriel George Kendall of Ex. Coll. June 3. Hen. Jeanes Will. Durham of New Inn. 14. Hen. Hunt of Pembr Coll. 30. Lorenzo Cary of Ex. Coll. Son of Hen. Viscount Falkland and younger Brother to Lucius July 8. Oliver St. John of Trin. Coll. This Person who was Son of Sir Joh. St. John of Lydâ—ard Tregose in Wilts I set down here not that he was a Person afterwards eminent but only to distinguish him from Oliver St. John Son of Oliv. St. John of Caishoe in Bedfordshire Esq descended from the Family of the Earl of Bullingbrook educated in Catherine Hall in Cambridge afterwards in Lincolns Inn where he was a Counsellour of note especially after he had shewn his parts in arguing the case of Ship-money in behalf of Joh. Hamden Esq who refused the payment of it an 1637. In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totnes in Devâ—nshire to serve in the two Parliaments that began that year wherein shewing his activeness and readiness in speaking against several abuses he was first made Sollicitor and afterwards Attorney General purposely to mollifie his humour and to make him have a good opinion of the Kings cause But all God wot operated little or nothing in him as having been posses'd to the contrary by O. Cromwell whose kinswoman Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir of… Cromwell of Vpwood in Huntingdonshire he had before taken to his second Wife So that proceeding very zealously against the Prerogative and all that looked that way was made Lord Chief Justice of the common-Common-pleas was sent Embassador into the Netherlands an 1652 he being then commonly called Cromwells Dark-lanthorn Chancellour of the University of Cambr. c. and signally antimonarchical till the usurpation of Oliver Cromwell yet notwithstanding was one of the Lords of the other house After his Majesties restauration he being excepted to certain forfeitures which the Parliament then declared he retired to an estate at Long Thorp in Northamptonshire which he before had purchased and resided mostly there till the time of his death which hapned on the last of Dec. 1673 aged 75 years or thereabouts He hath Several speeches Arguments of Law and other things extant July 24. Thomas Barlow Gerard Langbaine of Qu. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Oct. 26. Joh Hulett of New Inn. Dec. 16. Thom. Granthan of Hart Hall Quaere Edward Gee of Brasn Jan. 19. Will. Stampe 27. John Toy of Pemb. Coll. Feb. 1. Lisâ—ibon Long of Magd. Hall This Person who was the eldest Son of Will. Long of Stratton in Somersetshire Esq went afterwards to one of the Temples become a Barrister sided with the rout in the time of the rebellion made Master of the Requests and Recorder of the City of London in the Reign of Oliver from whom he received the honour of Knighthood 15. Dec. 1656. He afterwards supplied the place of Speaker in the absence and indisposition of Chaloner Chute Esq in the months of Febr. and March an 1658 but Long being taken with a sudden disease in the last of those two months died on the sixteenth day thereof and Chute died not till the 14. Apr. 1659. As for Long he was esteemed by the Men of those times a Person of great integrity in the profession of the Law and for his particular affection to the service of Oliver Protector and to the Common-wealth Feb. 11. Tho. Widdowes of Magd. Tim. Taylor of Qu. Coll. 17. Rich. Kentish of Hart Hall I take him to be the same Rich Kentish who published a Sermon on Ephes 5. 2. Printed 1649. qu. 19. Thomas Greaves of C. Christi Mar. 3. Nich. Monke of Wadh. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Hereford All these Bachelaurs some few excepted will be largely mention'd in another volume Adm. 212. or thereabouts Bach. of Law July 1. Will. Sandbrook of Gloc. Hall Nov. 15. Rich. Napier of Alisouls Coll. 16. Will. Burton of Gloc. Hall lately of Qu. College Admitted 19. Mast of Arts. Apr. 15. John Barret of St. Edm. Hall This Person I here set down not that he was a writer but only to distinguish him from another of both his names and time who was educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards
qu. Which being the first book of that nature that was ever printed in the English tongue was a pattern or platform to those that came after viz. to Will. Wyrley in his True use of Armory Printed 1592. qu. to Joh. Boswell when he wrot his Works of Armory in 3 books Lond. 1597. qu. and to others In the beginning of Apr. 1577. there was some dispute made among the relations of the said Ger. Legh who should administer his goods debts chattels c. So that I presume he died in Fifteen hundred seventy and six year 1576 18. Elizab. which is all that I yet know of him or his works WILLIAM BLANDIE was born at Newbury in Berkshire educated in Wykâ—hams School near to Winchester elected Probatione-Fellow of New Coll. in 1563 took one Degree in Arts three years after and the same year was removed thence by the Bishop of Winton in his visitation of that Coll. but for what reason unless for Popery I cannot tell About the same time he went to London became Fellow of the Middle Temple and afterwards translated from Lat. into English The five Books of Hicronimus Osâ—rius containing a discourse of Civil and Christian Nobility Lond. 1576. qu. What other things he hath translated or whether he hath written of any Subject I cannot tell ANTHONY RUSSHE a florid and frequent Preacher of his time was born in the Diocess of Norwych admitted Probationer-Fellow of Magd. Coll. in July 1554 did compleat the Degree of Master of Arts 1558 and soon after quitting his Fellowship became Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Dean of Chichester in the place perhaps of Barth Traheron Doctor of Divinity and in the Year 1567 Canon of Windsore He hath written A President for a Prince wherein is to be seen by the testimonie of antient writers the duty of Kings Princes and Governours Lond. 1566. in qu. and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature on the first day of April year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 or more and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Over his grave is an Epitaph containing a great Elogie of him which for brevity sake I shall now omit and in the mean time proceed to the next writer in order to be mentioned RALPH GUALTER Son of the famous Ralph Gualter was born at Zurich in Helvetia spent several years in this University mostly in Merton Coll. took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1573 and then returning to Zurich became Minister of St. Peters Church there where he was held in great admiration for his quick and forward parts He hath written Elegia de militia Christianorum in his terris adversus satanem carnem mundum militantium Epitaphium in Hen. Bullengeri obitum written in Greek Epicedium in obitum Joh. Parkhursti Episcopi Nordovicensis Tigur 1576. qu. Argos Helvetia Sive carmen de Tigurinorum navigatione Tiguro Argentoratum usque uno die confecta Carmina in imagines Doctorum nostri seculi virorum Varia Epigrammata Epitaphia At length having spent his short life in learning and virtuous industry surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 25 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried as 't is said in St. Peters Church before-mention'd at which time the chief Scholars there did much bewail his loss by their Poetry A certain Author tells us that this Ralph Gualter the Son hath written Homilies on the lesser Prophets but such I have not yet seen The Father hath and therefore I suppose there is a mistake in the matter MORGAN PHILIPPS or Philip Morgan a Monmouthshire Man born in the Dioc. of Landaff became a student in the University in 1533 or thereabouts made so great a progress in Logick and Philosophy and became so quick and undermining a Disputant that when he was Bach. of Arts he was commonly called Morgan the Sophister In the Year 1538 he was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. being then an year standing in the Degree of Bachelaur and taking that of Master of Arts he entred into the sacred function In 1546 he was made Principal of St. Maries Hall and three years after was one of the Triumviri that undertook a publick disputation in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr In 1550 he resign'd his Principality being then Bach. of Div. and in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign he became Chauntor of St. Davids Cathedral Whereupon and because of his absence from Oriel Coll. for more time than was allowed he was denounced non socitis in 1554. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he left his preferment friends and country for Religion sake spent most of his time at Lovaine and Doway and wrot several books as 't is said but I have seen only these following which go under his name viz. Defence of the honour of Mary Queen of Scotland with a declaration of her right title and interest to the Crowne of England Leig 1571. in 2 books in oct A treatise shewing that the regiment of Women is conformable to the Law of God and nature in one book Ib. 1571. oct These two treatises containing three books were published under his name but written as a noted Author tells us by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse in Scotland upon occasion of sundry Pamphlets that came out against the marriage of Mary Qu. of Scots to be had with the Duke of Norfolk and the right by which she claimed to become heir unto England Which Bishop as 't is farther added did afterwards ingeniously acknowledge in his Commentaries that he had his arguments for her right of succession secretly from Sir Anth. Browne Chief Justice of the common-Common-pleas and from Serjeant Joh. Carryll an excellent common Lawyer of the Inner Temple So that if Morg. Philipps was not the Author of the said treatises I cannot justly say that he wrot any thing else only his Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Univ. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem 31. Maii an 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. c. See more in Pet. Martyr an 1562. and in Will. Tresham 1569 c. But let our Author Camden and his follower here quoted say what of Leslie's being the Author of those books and other judge of the matter as he and they please while I tell you that a writer before Camden in time and equal with him in learning as to the studies he professed reports that the said Morgan Philipps a Man of good account for learning among those that knew him was thought to have written the said treatises divided into three books by the advice and assistance of Sir Anth. Browne which thing is made the more credible by the many authorities of our common Law which there are alledged The first book doth endeavour to clear Mary Q. of Scots for the murther of the Lord Darley her Husband which by many was laid
chief Master of the School at Manchester in Lancashire where also he practiced his Faculty with good success He hath written The Haven of Health made for the comfort of Students and consequently for all those that have a care of their health c. Lond. 1586. qu. there again 1605. and 1612. qu. A preservative from the pestilence with a short censure of the late Sickness at Oxford Printed with the former The said Sickness hapned in 1575. Epistolarum familiarium Ciceroâ—is Epitome secundâ—m tria genera libro secundo Epist 3. proposita Cantab. 1602. oct Epistolae item aliae familiares Ciceroâ—is 〈…〉 genera demonstrativum deliberativum 〈◊〉 redactâ—â— Orationes aliquot faciliores Ciceroâ—is in 〈◊〉 tria genera Rhetoribus usitata depositae What other things he wrote I know not nor any thing else of him only that he deceased at Manchester in sixteen hundred and seven and was buried in the Church there 10. June leaving behind him the character of an able Physician and Latinist a good Neighbour and an honest Man JOHN POPHAM second Son of Edw. Popham Esque of the ancient and gentile Family of his Name living at Huntwâ—rthy in Somersetshire spent some time in â—ludy among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in 〈◊〉 coll being then observed to be given at leisure hours to manly Sports and Encounters Afterwards he retired to the Middle-Temple lived a loose life for a time but taking up soon after his juvenile humour was reduced to gravity So that making great proficiency in his studies became a Barrester Summer or Autumn-reader of the said Inn an 1568. Serjeant at Law soon after Solicitor General in 1579. Attorney General two years after and Treasurer of the Middle-Temple In 1592. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench as Camden tells us tho' others say of the Common Pleas in the place of Sir Christop Wray deceased and the same year hereceived the honour of Knighthood from her Majesty While he held that honourable office of L. Ch. Justice he administred it towards Malefacters with such wholsome and available severity that England was beholding unto him a long time for a part of her private Peace and home Security For the truth is the Land in his days did swarm with Theeves and Robbers whose ways and courses he well understood when he was a young Man some of whom being condemned by him to die did gain their Pardons not from Qu. Elizabeth but from K. James which being soon discovered to be prejudicial to Justice and the Ministers thereof this our worthy Judge complained to the King of it Whereupon granting of Pardons were not so often afterwards issued out His works that are extant are these Reports and Cases adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1656. fol. To which are added Remarkable Cases and Reports of other learned Pens since his death These Reports were afterwards printed again Resolutions and Judgments upon Cases and Matters agitated in all Courts at Westminster in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth Lond. in qu. collected by Joh. Goldeshurg Esque one of the Protonotaries of the Common Pleas. At length our author Popham dying on the 10. of June in sixteen hundred and seven year 1607 aged 76 years was buried in the South Isle of the Church at Wellington in Somersetshire Which Town he had for several years before graced by his habitation By his last Will and Test dated 21. Sept. 1604. and proved 17. June 1608. wherein he stiles himself Chief Justice of the Pleas he makes provision for an Hospital to be at Wellington for 6 Men and 6 Women and for other works of Charity Afterwards was a noble Monument erected over his grave with a short inscription thereon wherein he is said to have been Privy Councellor to Queen Elizabeth and King James HENRY LYTE Esq Son of John Son of Tho. Lyte was born of and descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Lytes-Carey in Somersetshire became a Student of this University in the latter end of Hen. 8. about the year 1546. but in what coll or hall I know not as yet or whether he took a degree the Registers of that time and in Ed. 6. being very imperfect After he had spent some years in Logick and Philosophy and in other good learning he travelled into Foreign Countries and at length retired to his Patrimony where by the advantage of a good foundation of literature made in the University and abroad he became a most excellent Scholar in several sorts of learning as by these books following it appears most of which I have seen and perused Records of the true original of the noble Britains that sprang of the remains of the Trojans taken out of Oblivions treasure MS. The beginning of which is Isis the principal river of Britaine c. The copy of this that I saw was written with the authors own hand very neatly an 1592 the character small lines close some words in red Ink and others only scored with it The mystical Oxon. of Oxonford alias a true and most antient record of the original of Oxford and all Britaine Or rather thus Certain brief conjectural notes touching the original of the University of Oxon and also of all Britaine called Albania and Calydonia Sylva MS. The beginning of which is The antient City and famous Vniversity of Oxford in Britayne c. The copy also of this that I saw was written with the authors own hand in 1592. like the former The said two books being written in a small character and very close are contain'd but in a little quantity of Paper In the last of which are many pretty fancies which may be of some use as occasion shall serve by way of reply for Oxon against the far fetch'd antiquities of Cambridge They were both sometimes in the library of Miles Windsore formerly fellow of C. C. coll after whose death they came into the hands of Br. Twyne and after his to the University of Oxon. The light of Britaine being a short summ of the old English History Dedicated to Qu. Elizabeth He also translated from French into English The History of Plants wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbs and Plants c. Lond. 1578. fol. written by Rembert Dodonaeus It was then printed with Sculptures from woodden cuts and without Sculptures by Ninion Newton Lond. 1589. qu. printed the third time in fol. at Lond. 1619. This book which hath been taken into the hands of curious Physicians had an Epigram made on its first edition by that noted Poet Tho. Newton friend to the Translator What else our author Hen. Lyte hath written and translated I know not nor any thing of him besides only that paying his last debt to nature in sixteen hundred and seven aged 78. was buried in the north Isle of the Church of Charlton-Makerel in Somerset-shire which Isle belongs to the Lytes of Lytes
will tell you He dyed in that parish in 1649. as I think but was not of the University of Oxon. PETER ALLIBOND an ingenious man in the opinion of all that knew him was born at Wardenton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where his name and family had for some generations lived became a Student of Magd. hall in the beginning of 1578. aged 18. years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts travelled for some time beyond the Seas and at his return became Rector of Cheyneys in Bucks Where continuing many years did much improve the ignorant with his found doctrine What he hath written I know not nor translations which he hath made only these two from French into English viz. 1 Comfort for an afflicted conscience wherein is contained both consolation and instruction for the sick c. Lond. 1591. oct written by John de L'espine 2 Confutation of the popish transubstantiation together with a narration how that the Mass was at sundry times patched and pieced by sundry Popes c. Lond. 1592. oct And a translation from Lat. into English entit The golden chain of Salvation Lond. 1604. qu. written by Harman Renecher This Pet. Allibond died on the sixth day of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Cheyneys before mention'd leaving then behind him three Sons one of which was called John a witty man of Magd. coll whom I shall mention elsewhere another named Peter of Linc. coll Proctor of this University in 1640. and a third Job who changing his Religion to which he had been carefully brought up for that of Rome which was the reason I presume why his name was omitted in his Fathers Will did at length get a place in the Post Office which kept him and his in a comfortable condition This Job was Father of Rich. Allibond a Barrester of Grays Inn who being also a Roman Catholick was not only Knighted by K. James 2. but also made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench to which Office he was sworn by the name of Rich. Allebone 28. Apr 1687. He dyed at his house near to the back part of Grays Inn 22. of Aug. 1688. aged 47 years of thereabouts and was buried on the fourth of Sept. following at Dagenham in Essex near to the grave of his Mother JAMES LEY a younger Son of Henry Ley of Teffont-Evias in Wilts Son of Henry Ley of Ley in the parish of Bere-Ferres in Devonsh Esq was born at Teffonts-Evias became a Commoner of Brasenose coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 17. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and on the first of May 1577. he was admitted a Student of Lincolns Inn where making great proficiency in the Municipal Law which was much advanced by his Academical learning he became a Councellour of great repute was call'd to the Bench. 22. Eliz. and in the 44. of that Qu. was Lent reader of that Inn. After which his profound learning and other great abilities deservedly rais'd him to sundry degrees of honour and eminent employment For in the 1. of Jac. 1. he was called to the state and degree of Serjeant at Law and in the year following he was constituted Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in Ireland in which place he continued till Mich. term 6. Jac. 1. and then being a Knight he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries in England Shortly after he obtained a Privy Seal from the Kings Maj. dat 15. May 7. Jac. 1. to take place in the said Court of the Kings Attorney General which till then was never used but since hath constantly been observed By virtue of that Seal and by appointment of Rob. Earl of Salisbury then Master of the said Court he took the place the same day of Sir Hen. Hobart Knight then Attorney General to his Majesty During his continuance in that place he was made a Baronet and in the 18. Jac. he was removed from that Court having been Attorney 12 years and upwards and was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in England In 22. Jac. he was made Lord High Treasurer of Engl. and a Counsellour of State and on the last day of the same month he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron by the title of Lord Ley of Ley before mentioned In the 1. of Car. 1. he was created Earl of Marlborough in wilts and in the fourth of that King he resign'd his place of Treasurer and was made Lord President of the Council He was a person of great gravity ability and integrity and of the same mind in all conditions He hath written Treatise concerning Wards and Liveries Lond. 1642. oct composed by the author while he was Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Reports of divers resolutions in Law arising upon cases in the Court of Wards and other Courts at Westminster in the Reigns of King James and King Charles Lond. 1659. fol. He also collected with intentions to publish some of the historical writers of Ireland for which end he caused to be transcribed and made fit for the Press the Annals of John Clynne a Friâ—r Minor of Kilkenny who lived in the time of K. Ed. 3. the Annals of the Priory of St. John the Evangelist of Kilkenny and the Annals of Multifernan Resse and Clonmell c. But his weighty occasions did afterwards divert his purpose After his death the copies came into the hands of Henry Earl of Bathe who also did intend to make them publick but what diverted him I cannot tell Our author Sir Jam. Ley E. of Marlborough ended his days in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 14. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church of Westbury in Wilts in which Parish he had purchased an Estate Over his grave was soon after a stately monument erected by Hen. Ley his Son who succeeded him in his honour begotten on the body of his Father's first Wife named Mary Daughter of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach and Tetsworth in Com. Oxon Esq THOMAS VICARS who writes himself Vicarsus and de Vicariis was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland made his first entry into Queens coll in the beginning of 1607. aged 16. where after he had been a poor serving Child Tabarder and Chaplain he was elected Fellow 1616. being then M. of A. Six years after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he being esteemed an able Theologist Preacher and well qualified with other learning was taken into the Family of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester and by him preferr'd after he had married his Daughter Anne to the Vicarage of Cockfield near Horsham in Sussex and as it seems to a Dignity in the Church of Chichester His works are Manuductio ad artem Rhetoricam ante paucos annos iâ— privatum quorundum Scholarium usum concinnata c. Lond. 1621. oct there again 1628.
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
of Magd. coll in 1566. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1571 holy Orders and about that time a Wife by whom afterwards he had nineteen children In 1586. he being then Prebendary of Winchester and well beneficed supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not On the 12. of Nov. 1598. he was consecrated B. of Salisbury and in the year following was actually created Doct. of div by certain Doctors deputed for that purpose who went to him then I think at Salisbury He was Godson to Q. Eliz. while she was Lady Eliz. who as 't is reported usually said that she had blest many of her Godsons but now this Godson should bless her He gave way to fate on the seventh day of May in sixteen hundred and fifteen year 1625 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury near to the body of his sometimes Wife In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd before among the writers under the year 1617. THOMAS BILSON sometimes fellow of New coll was consecrated B. of Worcester in 1596. translated thence to Winchester in the year following and concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and sixteen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Worcester succeeded Gervase Babington of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in Will. Bradbridge among these Bishops an 1578. and in Winchester succeeded Dr. James Mountague sixth Son of Sir Edw. Mountague of Boughton in Northamptonshire Kt. who was translated thereunto from Bathe and Wells 4. Octob. 1616. This worthy person died on the twentieth day of July 1618. aged 50. and was buried 20. Aug. following on the north side of the body of the Church dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul within the City of Bathe Over his grave was soon after a high Altar-monument erected between two Pillars of the said Church with the proportion of the defunct painted to the life lying thereon by his brethren Sir Edw. Mountague of Boughton Sir Hen. Mountague Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir Charles Mountague his Executor and Sir Sidney Mountague Master of the Requests Kts. All which were lineally descended from the Earls of Salisbury The said Dr. Jam. Mountague was educated in the University of Cambridge was Master of Sydney coll and there noted for his piety vertue and learning Afterwards he was made Dean of the Royal Chappel then B. of Rathe afterwards of Winchester as t is before told you and for his faithfulness dexterity and prudence in weighty affairs the King chose him to be one of his Privy Council By his last Will and Testament he made choice of the said antient Church for the place of his Sepulture which among many other monuments of piety he repaired to his great charge When K. James came first to the Crown he was made Dean of his Chappel as before 't is told you which place he held not only when he was B. of Bathe and Wells but of Winchester also And being a great stickler in the quarrels at Cambridge and a great Master in the Art of insinuation had cunningly as one observes fashioned K. James unto certain Calvinian opinions to which the Kings education in the Kirk of Scotland had before inclined him So that it was no very hard matter for him having an Archb. also of his own perswasion to make use of the Kings authority for recommending the nine Articles to the Church of Ireland which he found would not be admitted in the Church of England HENRY ROWLANDS was born in the Parish of Mellteyrn in LLyn in Caernarvanshire educated in the School at Penllech was admitted a Student in the University about 1569. took the degrees in Arts as a member of New coll that of Master being compleated in 1577. and soon after became Rector of Laâ—â—ton near Bister alias Burchester in Oxfordshire In 1598. Nov. 12. he was consecrated B. of Bangor being then Bach. of div and in 1605. he was actually created Doct. of that faculty He bestowed on his Cath. Ch. four bells instead of those that were fold away by Arthur Bulkley his predecessor and in 1609. he gave lands to Jesus coll for the maintenance of two scholars or fellows there At length after he had bestowed much money on pious uses had spent all his time in celebacy and had govern'd his church and diocess with great commendations year 1616 surrendred up his pious soul to God 30. June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor among the sepulchres of the Bishops By his last Will and Test he bequeathed moneys for the erection of a School at Mellteyrn or Bottunog where he was born and christned In the See of Bangor succeeded Lewes Bayly whom I have mention'd at large among the writers under the year 1632. HENRY ROBINSON was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland became a poor serving child of Queens coll about the year 1568. afterwards Tabarder and at length Fellow being then esteemed an excellent Disputant and Preacher In 1581. he was unanimously elected Provost of his college which office he enjoying about 18. years restored it in that time and made it flourish after it had continued many years but in a mean condition occasion'd by the negligence of former Governours In 1590. he proceeded in div and in 98. being nominated and elected to the See of Carlile was consecrated thereunto by John B. of Lond. Joh. B. of Roch. and Anthony B. of Chich. on the 23. of July in the same year He was a person of great gravity and temperance and very mild in his speech yet as one observeth not of so strong a constitution of body as his countenance did promise He paid his last debt to nature on the 13. of the Cal. of July in sixteen hundred year 1616 and sixteen aged 63. years or more and was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. of Carlile Soon after was a brassplate set up on the wall over his grave by the care and charge of Bernard Robinson his brother and heir with an inscription and verses thereon running almost word for word or at least in sense with that inscription on a brass plate also fastned to the south wall near to the Altar in Qu. coll chappel in Oxon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 124. a. b. In which book p. 116. b. you may also see something of his benefaction to the said coll In the See of Carlile succeeded one Dr. Rob. Snoden or Snowden of Cambridge Prebendary of Southwell third Son of Ralph Snoden of Mansfeild Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire the temporalities of which See were given to him 20. Dec. 1616. He died at London while the Parliament was sitting in the latter end of
Grammarian He was afterwards Prebendary of Wells Jan. 28. Thomas Nightinghall Vir lepidus poeta as Baleus saith See among the Writers under the year 1524. Besides these two five were admitted and about 16 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Bach. of Can. Law Thirteen were admitted and eleven there were that supplicated who were not admitted this year Many of which were without doubt afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Mast of Arts. June…John Constable of Byham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. See among the Writers an 1520. March 5. John Clark of Magd. Coll. Quaere Besides these two were about 25 admitted and eleven or more that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. April 29. Thomas Knolles of Magd. Coll. In the year 1507 he became Subdean of York upon the promotion of Dr. James Harrington to the Deanery of that Church and resigning in 1529 being then Prebendary of Aplethorpe in the said Church Will. Clifton LL. D. succeeded See more among the D. of D. an 1518. May 9. John Essex a Benedictin He was afterwards Lord Abbat of S. Austins at Canterbury Nine besides were admitted among whom was Roger Stanford a Benedictin Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there and about eighteen that supplicated Doct. of Law Not one admitted either in the Canon or Civil Law and but three that supplicated viz. William Barow John Blount and William Middleton Doct. of Physick Not one admitted only Malachias Arthur sometimes a Graduat of Oxon. and afterwards Doctor of Physick of Bononia supplicated to be admitted to practise in the said Faculty Oct. 23. which was accordingly granted Doct. of Div. June 10. Nich. Myles or Mylys of Queens Coll. He was a Benefactor to Learning See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 115. b. Dec. 13. Fr. Will. Wetherall Prior of the College of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit in Oxon. In the year 1531 I find that he was Provincial of the Austin Fryers of England and whether he was the last that bore that Office I know not He is sometimes written but falsely Wodiall See among the Incorporations this year Jan… Edmund Smythesby a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin In another place in the Register he is said among the Bach. of Div. to be a Fryer of the Order of S. Austin Besides these who were admitted Doctors of Divinity supplicated for the said dagree about 20 among whom were 1 Will. Malvern Lord Abbat of S. Peters in Glocester as the publick Register stiles him whom I take to be the same that Jo. Leland calls Malvern alias Parker late Abbat of Glocester who made a Chappel joyning to the Church of Glocester to be buried in 2 Rob. Showldham or Shuldeâ—m mentioned under the year 1511. He was a Benedictin or Black Monk and now or soon after Lord Abbat of S. Saviour or S. Mary Overie in Southwark Also Tho. Marshall a Benedictin Will. Hoddeson a Dominican John a Pantry Bac. Div. and Provost of Queens Coll. John Holder and John Hoper Masters of Arts of Mert. Coll. Tho. Barton and Tho. Sellyng Bachelaurs of Div. and Benedictines c. did supplicate Incorporations Apr… Tho. Martyr M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge Oct. 26. Fr. Will. Wetheral Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He soon after was admitted Doctor of that Faculty in this University as 't is before told you Mar… Will. Clerke M. A. of Cambridge c. An. Dom. 1516. An. 8 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Laurence Stubbes D. D. and others Proct. Richard Walker of Merton Coll. Edmund Grey of New Coll. April 2. Bach. of Musick Not one appears admitted by the negligence of the Scribe On the 13 of Apr. Hen. Peter or Petre a secular Chaplain who had spent 30 years in Practical and Theoretical Musick supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Musick which being granted he was without doubt admitted One John Draper also a Student in the said Faculty supplicated also which was granted with one or more conditions Bach. of Arts. June 17. James Timbervyle of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter December 16. Thomas Wylson See in 1546 and 53. Besides these were about 38 admitted and about 21 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Law Six in the Canon and nine in the Civil Law were admitted Thirteen in the Canon Law supplicated who were mostly secular Chaplains among whom was Richard Newman a Canon regular of the Order of Premonstratenses as the public Regist saith and about twelve in the Civil Mast of Arts. June 27. Thomas Abell or Able See among the Writers an 1540. John Clerk of Magd. Coll. Besides these were about 34 admitted and about 9 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. May 5. James Fitzjames of S. Albans Hall This person who was Son of John Fitzjames Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England was now Chancellor of the Church of Wells and had several Benefices in that Diocess whereof the Rectorship of the Collegiate Church of North-Cadbury was one In 1534 he was made Prebendary of Warmystre in the Church of Wells and in the same year by the death of Thomas Lovell Decr. Dr. he was made Subdean of Wells and Vicar General to the Bishop thereof He had other Preferments in the Cath. Church of S. Paul in London given to him by his Uncle Dr. Richard Fitzjames Bishop thereof was soon after a Doct. of Div. but whether of this University it appears not and died in the beginning of the year 1541. Besides him were about four admitted and about fifteen that supplicated who were not admitted among whom William York a Canon and Bac. of Arts was one Doct. of Can. Law June 21. William Burghyll a secular Chaplain John Morrice or Morres Peter Lygham or Lyngham February 7. William Clyfton In 1522 he became Succentor of the Church of York on the death of William Cooke and in May 1529 he was made Subdean of the said Church on the Resignation of Dr. Thomas Knolles In the former Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Nooke 1529 in which year Clyfton resigned and in the other by Rob. Babthorp D. D. in September 1548 in which year Clifton died Bapthorp dying in 1570 Edmund Buney succeeded him whom I have elsewhere mention'd Doct. of Div. Not one admitted only three or more supplicated viz. William Wall and William Germyn Minorites and Richard Doke all Bach. of Divinity whom I shall anon mention An. Dom. 1517. An. 9 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Mr. Rich. Doke or Duck of Exeter College now Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey Proct. Thomas Irish of Exon Thomas Musgrave of Mert. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Thomas Garret was this year admitted but the Month or Day when appears not because the Register is imperfect however in the year following he occurs by the Title of Bach. of Arts. He
with the Delegates of Denmark concerning matters of traffick c. and Perkins performed his part well as to that matter Soon after by the said Bishops endeavours he became substitute to Sir Dan. Donne Master of the Requests who by reason of his age could not well attend that place and when he died he became Master in his own right and a Knight About that time George Duke of Buckingham who was in great favour with K. Jam. 1. Sir Christopher thought that his only way to rise higher was to be married to one of his Relations Whereupon tho he had vowed Virginity he took to Wife his Mothers Sister yet with this condition that she should not expect that he should pay old debts to which she made answer that she would expect none Afterwards Buckingham hearing of the said vow detested him and made a resolution that he should rise no higher Afterwards out of a revenge Sir Christopher made his estate over to a Servant of his that was childless and in a deep consumption and he dying within a few months after Sir Christopher who departed this mortal life in the month of Aug. 1622. the said Servant left most of the estate to the Lady I have been credibly informed by a good Author that the said Sir Christopher had a hand in contriving and drawing up the Oath of Allegiance while he was intimate with Dr. Bancroft In the Deanery of Carlile succeeded the said Sir Christopher Dr. Franc. White afterwards Bishop of that place Apr. 14. Will. Burton of New Coll. June 2. Tho. Coventry Fellow of Ball. Coll. The last of the said two was afterwards Fellow of the Inner Temple Serjeant at Law a Knight and one of the Justices of the Court of common-Common-pleas and a Judge in the time of Jam. 1. He was Father to Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Jan. 14. Henr. Savile of Mert. Coll. 23. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Admitted 45. Bach. of Law Five were admitted and four supplicated but not one of them appears yet to me to have been either a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Feb. 13. John Argall Will. James of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Durham John Bereblock of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll. and most admirably well skill'd in the art of Delineation and drawing the description of places some of which are extant particularly that of the City of Rochester at which place or near it he was born Admitted 14. Bach. of Div. Oct. 29. Edw. Cradock of Ch. Ch. now Margaret Professor A certain Author tells us that he was a learned Man and a Writer yet in all my searches I could never see any of his books Dec. 17. Thom. Godwyn Dean of Ch. Ch. lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards of Broadgates hall the seventh Vicar of Mayhenet in Cornwall and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop Adrian Hawthorne of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day being then Principal of Magd. hall On 25. Nov. 1568 he was admitted to the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells having about that time one or more benefices in that Diocess and dying in the latter end of 1576 in Feb. as it seems Rog. Goad D. D. and Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was admitted into his place of Chancellour on the 7. March in the same year Edw. Andleser was adm this year but of him I know nothing ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. Tho Godwyn Dean James Calfill Harb Westphalyng Canons of Ch. Ch. Edward Cradock mention'd before among the Bachelaurs of Divinity was admitted the same day Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne beforemention'd who accumulated John Piers of Magd. Coll. Dean of Chester Arthur Yeldard President of Trin. Coll. 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry On the 26. Mar. Will. Bradbridge Dean of Salisbury supplicated for the said Degree but was not admitted He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter Also John Molens Archdeacon of London Jan. 23 but him neither can I find admitted Incorporations May… Rich. Cheyney Bach. of Div. of Pembr Hall in Cambridge and Bishop of Gloucester See more among the Creations Feb. 21. Gregory Garth Bac. of Div. of Cambridge George Wyther M. of A. of 4 years standing in the said University was incorporated on the same day In 1570 he became Archdeacon of Colchester on the death of James Calfill had other spiritualities and wrot and published 1 Laymans Letters delivering unto them such Letters as the Holy Ghost teacheth them in the word by things sensible Lond. 1585. 2 View of the marginal notes of the Popish Testament translated into English by the English Fugities Papists resiant at Rheimes in France Lond. 1588. qu. with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen Another of both his names lived an 100 years after and was a Poet whom I shall hereafter in his proper place remember Will. Fulke M. A. of three years standing in the said Univ. of Cambridge was also then Feb. 21. incorporated This learned Man who was born in the City of London bred Fellow of St. Johns Coll. and at length became Master of Pemb. Hall in the said University was when young a good Philosopher and when elder in years a pious and solid Divine as his works shew the titles of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue He died Margaret Professor of Cambridge 28. Aug. 1589. Cyprean de Valera M. of A. of three years standing in the said University was also then incorporated He was a Spaniard born left his Country for Religion sake spent all or most of his time in England and wrot in Spanish 1 Institution of Christian Religion or the interpretation of Calvins institutions 2 The reformed Catholick 3 Of the lives of the Popes and their doctrine 4 Of the Mass 5 A swarm of false miracles wherewith Mary de la Visitation Prioress of the Annuntiada of Lisbon deceived very many c. The three last were written in Spanish about 1588. and the second edition of them came out with amendments and additions by the Author an 1599. oct Translated into English by John Golburne a Prisoner in the Fleet Lond. 1600. qu. He also published the Bible in Spanish printed the second time at Amsterdam 1602. fol. Owen Owen M. A. of two years standing in the said University was then also Feb. 21. incorporated All these except the first were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act had been concluded Creations Mar. 26. It was granted by the venerable Congregation that John Jewell Bishop of Salisbury should tho absent be actually created Doct. of Div. by a certain Graduate to be assign'd by the Commissary This was accordingly done at
very next day after his Kinsman Sir Tho. Bodley was buried I shall make large mention of this Hakewell in the second Vol. of this Work or elsewhere It was then granted by the ven Convocation that Will. Camden Clarenceaux King of Arms who had served as an Herald at the burial of the said Sir Tho. Bodley might be created M. of A. but for what reason he was not unless his refusal as I have elsewhere told you I cannot tell Laurence Bodley M. of A. Canon residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and chief Mourner at his Brothers Sir Tho. Bodley Funeral was actually created D. of D. the same day as a member of Ch. Church July 1. John Walter sometimes of Brasn Coll. now of the Inner Temple and Counsellour for the University of Oxon was created M. of A. He was afterwards Attorney to Prince Charles Serjeant at Law a Knight and chief Baron of the Exchequer He died 18 Nov. 1630 aged 67 and was buried in a little Vault under a north Isle which he before had built joyning to the Church of Wolvercote near Oxon where at this day is a splendid monument over his grave for him and his two Wives David Walter Esq one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2. and Lientenant General of the Ordinance was his second Son who dying at London 22 Apr. 1679 was buried in the same Vault with his Father on the 30 of the same month Aug. 7. It was then granted by the ven Convocation that Sir Tho. Flemmyng Lord Chief Justice of England might be created M. of A. but whether it was effected it appears not Feb. 21. Sir Joh. Doderidge Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was created M. of A. in Serjeants Inn in London A young man named Jacob Aretius who stiles himself Germano-Britannus studied now in Oxon and published 1 Primula veris seu Panegerica ad excellentiss Principem Palatinum This he calls Eidyllium 2 In augustiss gloriosiss Regis Jacobi inaugurationem carmen seculare c. written in Greek Lat. Dutch Ital. and Engl. 3 In nuptias illustriss principis Frederici Elizabethae Maletemata Which three things were printed at Lond. 1613. qu. He hath also Lat. Verses extant on the death of Prince Henry and perhaps other things This year also studied in the University Rob. Spotswood and Rob. Murrey Scots Of the first I shall speak at large elsewhere as also of the other if he be the same with Sir Rob. Murrey who was afterwards President of the Royal Society The most learned also Isaac Casaubon was entred a Student in Bodlies Library as a Member of Ch. Ch. in the month of May this year but died soon after to the great loss of learning He was a great Linguist a singular Grecian and an exact Philologer An. Dom. 1614. An. 12 Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicech William Goodwin D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15. Proct. Jenkin Vaughan of All 's Coll. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Bach. of Arts. May 23. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Coll. 28. Christoph Davenport of Magd. hall who for one year and three months had studied in Trin. Coll. near Dublin This Person who was no Writer as I can yet learn yet I set him down lest posterity take him to be Christoph Davenport who was now 1614 a Student in Merton Coll. I mean the same Davenport afterwards known by the name of Franc. Ã Sancta Clara and celebrated among Men of his perswasion and by many Protestants too for his elaborate books that are extant as you shall further see in the next vol. of this work June 16. Tho. Turner of St. Johns Coll. See among the Creations in 1633. 28. John Flavell of Wadh. 30. Edm. Wingate of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. Will Stafford of Ch. Ch. See in the year 1617 under the title of Creations 7. Richard Thornton of Linc. Oct. 29. Christop Tesdale of New Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Masters 1617. and of the other in 1618. Nov. 4. Tim. Woodroffe of Ball. Dec. 15. John Harmar of Magd. Coll. 17. Hen. Ramsden of Magd. hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. Feb. 1. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll. Five of these Bachelaurs namely Jemmat Wingate Woodroffe Harmar and Toogood will be remembred at large in the next Volume or elsewhere Admitted 187. Bach. of Law June 30. Richard Zouche of New Coll. He was afterwards the great Ornament of the University for his singular knowledge in the Civil and Canon Law as you shall fully understand in the 2. vol. of this work Besides him were but four more admitted this year Mast of Arts. May 5. Richard Spencer of C. C. Coll. Son of Robert Lord Spencer 28. Brian Duppa of All 's Jun. 25. Rob. Skinner of Trin. 30. Hugh Lloyd of Oriel Jul. 2. Will. Page of Ball. afterwards of All 's Coll. 5. Michael Oldsworth of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards elected a Burgess to serve in several Parliaments for Sarum and old Sarum and tho in the grand rebellion he was no Colonel yet he was Governour of Old Pembroke and Mountgomery led him by the nose as he pleased to serve both their turns He had a share with his Lordship out of the office from which Sir Henry Compton was ejected in the time of the said Rebellion worth 3000 l. per an was keeper of Windsore Park one of the two Masters of the Prerogative Office and made the Bayliff of Westminster give him 50 l. per an to continue him there Jul. 5. Franc. White of Magd. Coll. He afterwards published Londons Warning by Jerusalem Serm. at Pauls Cross on Midlent Sunday 1618 on Micah 6. 9. Lond. 1619. qu. What other things he hath made publick I find not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Gentleman's Son of London I find another Franc. White who was D. D. of Cambridge afterwards Chaplain in ordinary to K. James 1. Dean of Carlile and at length Bishop of Ely the Titles of whose Works you may see in the Oxford Catalogue and among them the Sermon before mention'd as if it had been his Also a third Franc. White a Lawyer as it seems who became well read in the antient Histories and Laws of our Nation Author of a book entit For the sacred law of the land Lond. 1652. oct But whether he was of this University I cannot yet tell July 6. Edw. Terry of Ch. Ch. July 7. Gilb. Wats of Linc. Coll. Hen. King Joh. King Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. Jan. 24. Rich Steuart of All 's Mich. Jermin Rich. James of Corp. Ch. Coll. Adm. 108. Bach. of Phys July 12. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. Not one admitted besides him and but one that supplicated for the said degree viz. Rich. Berry of Linc. Coll. but whether admitted this or in any year following I know not He died in June 1651 and was buried by the name of Dr. Rich. Berry Bach. of Div. May 5. Rob. Harris
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ— 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâ—th right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
in the Parish of S. Giles in the fields near London in the house of one Mr. Cothorne a Reader in the Church there on Saturday 12 Dec 1685 and was buried by the charity of Dr. Rich. Busby Schoolmaster of the Coll. School at Westm and Dr. Joh. Sharp Minister of the said Church of S. Giles in the Vault under part of the said Church commonly called the Vicars or Rectors Vault His Books and Papers came after his death into the hands of the said Busby among which is the last thing that he wrot The Tables which are according to his promise in the last line of his printed Tables of squares drawn up and finished and which Sir Cyrill Wych when President of the Royal Society did license for the Press There only wants a leaf or two for the explanation of the use of them which his death hath prevented See more in Tho Branker among the Writers in the second Vol. an 1676. Creations Dec. 17. Edmund Wright of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the house of Congregation which is all I know of him Georg. Alberti of Wad Coll. was created Mast of Arts the same day which is all I know of him also only that he had been lately a Student in the University of Heidelberg in Germany and that he was forced to leave that place because of the Wars in that Country An. Dom. 1632. An. 8 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud. Bishop of London Vicechanc. Brian Duppa D. D. and Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 19. Proct. Rich. Chaworth of Ch. Ch. Joh. Meredith of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. April 26. John Warner Rich. Hayter Joh. Charlton of Magd. Hall The last of these three who was Son of Rob. Charlton Esq was born in London and much about the time that he took the degree of B. of A. was entred a Student of Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister and a Counsellor of some note After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660 he was created Sergeant at Law and in the year following being elected a Burgess for Ludlow in Shropshire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 8 of May was made Deputy for Sir Geffry Palmer Chief Justice of Chester by the name of Job Charlton of Ludford in Herefordshire Esque and in Octob. the same year 1661 was made the first Judge of the Council of Wales and Marches of the same In 1662 he being then a Knight was made Chief Justice of Chester and on the 5 February 1672 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in the place of Sir Edw. Turner Knight At which time he spake two Speeches to his Majesty and Parliament upon his admission to that Office which were soon after printed in folio papers On the 15 of the said month he gave up the said honorable office under pretence of indisposition of body yet a certain Writer tells us that he whom he calls a dull welsh Judge had 500 l. per an for giving it up at which time succeeded Edw. Seymour Esq In the latter end of April 1680 he was constituted one of the Justices of the Common Pleas whereupon his Chief Justiceship of Chester was confer'd upon Sir George Jeffries Recorder of London Afterwards he was made Chief Justice of Chester again and was living in 1688 and perhaps may be still being a great friend to the Ch. of England May 12. Will Thomas of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards B. of Worcester June 7. John Bishop of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters an 1635. 11. Joh. Owen of Qu. 21. Charles Hoole of Linc. Tho. More of Mert. Coll. July 5. Henry Killigrew of Ch. Ch. Franc. Goldsmith of S. Joh. Coll. Oct. 20. Hen. Bignell of S. Maries Hall Hen. Bridgman of Oriel Coll. The first of these two was originally of Brasn Coll. the other was afterwards of the same Coll. 25. Will. Eyre of Magd. Hall Dec. 4. George Ashwell of Wadh. Randal Sanderson of Qu. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters in 1636. Feb. 27. Franc. Woodcock of Brasn Coll. All which except Jâ—b Chaâ—lton I. Bishop and R. Sanderson will be mention'd at large elsewhere Adm. 198. Bach. of Law Nov. 9. Rob. Price of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of Fernes and Leighlin in Ireland 27. Will. Fuller of St. Edm. Hall He was also afterwards a Bishop in Ireland and at length Bishop of Lincoln Besides these two were admitted nine more among whom were Giles Sweit of St. Maries Hall Justinian Lewin of Pemb. Coll. and John March of St. Edmunds Hall which last I take to be the same Joh. March who afterwards published several things of the common Law Qu. Mast of Arts. May 8. Constantine Jessop of Jesus Coll. June 5. Clem. Barksdale of Glouc. Hall Thom. Powell of Jes Coll. 26. Franc. Roberts of Trin. July 5. Obadiah Grew of Ball. Coll. Admitted 152. Bach. of Phys But two were this year admitted of whom Thomas Simpson of Ch. Ch. was one and one admitted to practice in the same faculty Bach. of Div. May 2. Joh. Gumbleden of Ch. Ch. 9. Thom. Wetherell Joh. Strickland Joh. Ellis of Jes Coll. of Qu. Coll. The first of these three Th. Wetherell who was a Cumberland Man born and eminent for his knowledge in the Greek tongue wrot Radices Linguae Graecae which are put at the end of one of the editions of Jo. Riders Dictionary One Tho. Wetherell Bac. of Div. published five Sermons in 1635. But he is not the same with the former as the Seniors of Queens Coll. tell me June 30. Bruno Ryves of Magd. July 6. Joh. Lewgar of Trin. Coll. Oct. 23. George Griffith of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Alex. Grosse of Exet. Coll. Besides these were nineteen more admitted of whom Thom. Cook of Brasn Coll. was one being then accounted a most learned Divine He was after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire and Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in the Diocess of Hereford in the place as it seems of Dr. Morgan Godwin You are now to understand that one Tho. Cook Bach. of Div. wrot a book entit Episcopacy asserted as it now stands established in our Church and Commonwealth c. Lond. 1641. qu. Which Th. Cook having been bred as I conceive in Cambridge and afterwards beneficed in the East parts of England he is not to be taken to be the same with the former of Brasnose who afterwards was a Covenanteer and never lived in those parts or tho very able published any thing He died 6. Apr. 1669. aged 73 and was buried in the Church at Bampton whereupon his Vicaridge and Archdeaconry were confer'd on Steph. Philipps M. of A. of Brasnose who married his only Daughter and Heir Doct. of Law June 30. Giles Sweit of St. Maries Hall lately of Oriel College accumulated the Degrees in the Civil Law He was afterwards Principal of St.
was to be divorced from the said King this our Author Forest shew'd himself a zealous Enemy against it and in few Years after when the King was intent to eject the Pope and his power from England he out of a passionate zeal which he had for the Catholick Religion did in secret confession declare to many of the King's Subjects that the King was not Supreme Head of the Church whereas before he had been sworn to the said Supremacy These matters coming to the knowledg of the King's Council he was examined by certain Persons appointed by them to whom he made answer that he took the Oath with his outward man but his inward man never consented thereunto Afterwards being further accused of divers heretical Opinions as they were then called he submitted himself to the punishment of the Church So that his abjuration being sent to him to be read he utterly refused it Whereupon his confinement in the Prison called Newgate being made more close these Verses were wrot on him by a Protestant Forest the Fryer that obstinate Lyer That willfully will be dead Incontinently the Gospel doth denye The King to be Supreme Heade About the same time he took a great deal of pains in writing a Book whether in English or Latin I know not entit by Latin Writers De autoritate Ecclesiae Pontificis Maximi The beginning of which is this Nemo sibi sumat honorem nisi fuerit vocatus à Deo tanquam Aaron c. In which Book he inveighed much against the pride and impiety of the King because that without any call he did not scruple to intitle himself The Head of the Church of England and to take upon him that which he was not capable of whereas if he had thought himself a true Member of the Cath. Church he should have given God thanks that he was so and to have rested therein without endeavouring to tear it to pieces c. The contents of this Book which was ready for the Press but whether ever printed in England I cannot tell coming to the knowledge of certain inquisitors and at length to the Kings ear he was forthwith condemned to dye and having some days allowed him to make his peace with God and all Men he wrot Several Letters Some of which I have seen printed in Latin as first His Answer to the Letter which Qu. Catherine sent to him 2 An answer to the Letter written to him by Elizab. Hammon Maid of honour to the said Queen 3 Answer to the Letter of Tho. Abell who was executed two Years after for denying the King's Supremacy with several others which he wrot to comfort the afflicted Catholicks At length being drawn upon a Sledge from his Prison to Smithfield where a pair of Gallows was set up to receive him he was hanged thereon by the middle and arm-pits quick and under the Gallows a Fire being made he was burnt and utterly consum'd to ashes year 1538 May in Fifteen hundred thirty and eight aged 60 and in the 43 Year of his professed and religious estate At the time he was to suffer and before he went up the Ladder Hugh Latymer B. of Worcester did from a Pulpit set up there near to the Gallows Preach a Sermon purposely to move him to repentance but all availed nothing He had then several discourses with that Bishop which were verbatim taken by some of the Brethren of his order In conclusion Latymer asked him what state he would die in Whereupon Forest with a loud voice answered if an Angel should come down from heaven to teach him any other Doctrine than he had received and believed from his Youth be would not now believe him and that if his body should be cut joint after joint or member after member burnt hanged or what pain soever might be done to his body he would never turn from his old profession c. and added that seven years past he Latymer durst not have made such a Sermon for his life This being said he was conducted from the place where he stood which was erected above the People to the Gallows and there suffered ANTHONY FITZHERBERT whose great Learning in the Wisdom of the Law both the judicial Court of Pleas wherein he sate Justice a long time and also those exact Books of our Common Law by him exquisitely penn'd and publish'd do sufficiently Witness was born of being the Son of Ralph Fitzherbert Esq and descended from a right Ancient Family living at Norbury in Derbyshire laid a Foundation of Learning in this University on which he built a firm structure in after times but in what House here or in what Inn of Court afterwards it appears not Sure it is that having made a most fruitful progress in his Studies he was constituted Serjeant at Law 18. Nov. 2. Hen. 8. Dom. 1510 one of the Kings Serjeants six Years after being about that time made a Knight and in 1522. one of the Justices of the common-Common-pleas and not of the Kings-bench as one doth falsely report In which place carrying himself with great prudence justice and knowledge became at length the Oracle of the Law and was admired by all for his profundity in it His works are Grand abridgment of the common Law contained in the Year Books and other Books of Law Readings and Records Lond. 1516. 1565. fol. afterwards in qu. divided into several parts or vol. From which abridgment and others Rich Bellew of Lincolns Inn did collect cases adjudged in the time of K. Rich. 2. A Calender or Index See in Will. Rast all Magna charta cum diversis aliis statut is Lond. 1519. in 12. Office and authority of Justices of Peace Lond. 1547. and 63. qu. enlarged by Rich. Crompton Esq Lond. 1583. qu. c. Office of Sheriffs Bayliffs Escheators Constables Coroners c. Printed several times with the former Of the diversity of courts Compiled 21. H. 8. So Sir Edw. Coke in his Reports Vol. 10. in the Proem Natura Brevium Novel Printed at Lond. 26. Hen. 8. and afterwards several times in oct and qu. corrected and revised with a Table added by Will. Rastall Printed also several times in French in oct c. The same is also translated into English and hath added thereunto the authorities in Law and some other Cases and Notes c. See more in Will. Rastall under the Year 1565. This Natura Brevium is esteemed an exact work excellently well penn'd and hath been much admired by the noted Men in the common Law Of the surveving of Lands Lond. 1567. The Book of Husbandry very profitable and necessary for all Persons Printed in the Reign of Queen Mary and in the beginning of Queen Eliz. This Book I have seen more than once under Anth. Fitzherberts name yet there are not wanting some who say 't was penn'd by his Brother Job Fitzherbert This famous Lawyer Ant. Fitzherbert who had been an enemy to Card. Wolsey paid his last debt to nature in
his diligent teaching and instructing the knowledge of the Greek tongue or the true and genuine Greek was there with much ado planted In 1524 he commenced D. of D. at Cambridge being then or about that time Tutor to the Duke of Richmond and beneficed if not dignified in the Church Afterwards he was employed by the King to go to several places in Italy especially to the University of Padôua to agitate about the matter of the unlawfulness of the Kings Marriage with his Brothers Widow After his return the University of Oxford as a certain Writer tells you by great means and favourable friends and fair promises of large allowance invited him thither to be their Reader The time when he came to Oxon was in the beginning of 1532 in which Year K. Hen. 8. by his Charter dated 18. Jul. did convert Cardinal Wolsey's College into that of King's Coll. or that founded by King Hen. 8. In which Year he was not only incorporated D. of D. as he had stood at Cambridge but was made the third Canon of the twelve of the said foundation but whether he was a Reader I cannot in all my searches find In the latter end of the same Year the new Dean Dr. Jo. Hygden died and thereupon the Canons wrot to Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State that he would interceed with the King that Dr. Croke might succeed him but for what reason it was that he was put aside I cannot justly say Sure I am that Dr. Croke continued Canon of the said College till it was about to be converted into a Cathedral an 1545 and then having an yearly pension of six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence allowed to him in recompence of his Canonry he retired to Exeter Coll. where he lived in the condition of a Sojournour many years and was not at all made a Canon of the Cathedral founded by K. H. 8. He hath written Oratio de Graecarum disciplinarum laudibus Dedicated to Nicholas Bishop of Ely by an Epist before it dated cal Jul. 1519. 'T is Printed in qu. but where or when I cannot tell Oratio qua Cantabrigienses est hortatus ne Graecarum literarum desertores essent Printed with the former oration Before and at the end of the said two Orations Gilb. Ducher hath an Epistle in praise of Croke and his learning Introductiones ad linguam Graecam Elementa Gram. Graecae De verborum câ—â—structione besides translations made from Greek into Latin from Theod. Gaza and Elysius Calentinus As for those things he wrot against Leland while he continued in Oxon as a certain Author tells us are no more as I suppose than scoffs in Verse or repartees made on him for changing his Religion and thereupon dyed distracted whereas Dr. Croke made no change as 't is said but dyed in that Faith which he in the beginning had received year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight A Copy of his last Will and Testament which I have seen dated 21 Aug. and proved 29. of the same Month an 1558. I find that he was Parson of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire but cannot find the Church or Yard wherein he would have his body to be buried only that he died in London leaving behind him a Brother named Rob. Croke of Water-Horton in Warwickshire JOHN ROBYNS a Staffordshire Man born became a Student in this University an 1516 or thereabouts was elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. 1520. and afterwards took the Degrees in Arts and holy Orders But such was his vigorous genie that by the force thereof being conducted to the pleasant studies of Mathematicks and Astrology he made so great a progress in them that he became the ablest Person in his time for those studies not excepted his friend Record whose learning was more general At length taking the Degree of Bach. of Divinity in 1531 he was the Year following made by K. Hen. 8. to whom he was Chaplain one of the Canons of his College in Oxon and in Decemb. 1543 Canon of Windsore upon the death of Dr. Rich. Rawson who was also Archdeacon of Essex and in fine Chaplain to Qu. Mary who had him in great veneration for his learning Among several things that he hath written relating to Astrology I find these following De culminatione fixarum stellarum c. De ortu occasu stellarum fixarum c. Annotationes Astrologicae c. lib. 3. Annotationes de Edwardo VI. Tractatus de prognosticatione per Ecclipsin All which Books that are in MS. were sometimes in the choice Library of Mr. Tho. Allen of Glocester Hall After his death they coming into the hands of Sir Ken. Digby were by him given to the Bodleian Library where they yet remain 'T is said also that he the said Robyns hath written a Book intit De portentosis cometis but such a thing I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that paying his last debt to nature 25. Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Over his Grave was soon after a Marble-stone laid with a large inscription thereon part of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 178. b. WILLIAM STAUNFORD Son of Will. Staunford of London Mercer by Margaret his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Gedney of London Son of Rob. Staunford of Rowley in Staffordshire was born in the County of Middlesex 22. Aug. 1509. 1. Hen. 8. received so much literature among the Oxonians that enabled him sooner than another Person to conquer the rudiments of the municipal Law in Greys-Inn near London In the 36. of Hen. 8. he was elected Autumn Reader of that House but did not read because of the pestilence then in those parts yet in the Lent following he did perform that office with great credit and honor In the 5. Ed. 6. he was Double-Reader of that Inn in the time of Lent and the next Year was called by writ to be Serjeant at Law In 1553 1 o Mariae he was made the Queens Serjeant and the next Year was not only constituted one of the Justices of the common-Common-pleas some say of the Common-bench but also dubb'd a Knight being then in high esteem for his great abilities in his profession especially for the Books that he about that time composed taken then especially in after Ages into the hands of the most learned in the Law which have ever since made him famous among them and others The titles are Pleas of the Crown divided into several titles and common places Lond. 1557. qu. c. In some impressions they are divided into two Volumes Exposition of the King's Prerogative collected out of the abridgment of Anth. Fitzherbert and other old Writers of the Laws of England Lond. 1567. 68. c. qu. Besides other Books which have not been yet Printed This noted Lawyer who was a zealous R. Cath. departed this mortal
life on the 28. year 1558 Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Hadley in Middlesex I have seen a Copy of his Will wherein the stiles himself one of the Justices of the common-Common-pleas under the King and Queen and desires that his Body may be buried in the Parish Church of Islyngdon Hadley or Houndsworth His posterity remaineth in Staffordshire Warwickshire and elsewhere to this day ROBERT TALBOT was very much esteemed in his time and after for his singular knowledge in the antiquities of England and for his care in preserving and collecting antient Books and Monuments decayed by time His cronie John Leland is full of his praises and not a little are Joh. Baleus Joh. Cajus Abr. Ortelius Camden and others the last of which stiles him Vir antiquitatis bene peritus in hac Angliae parte meaning in the Iceni i. e. Norfolk Suffolk c. versatissimus He the said Talbot was born at Thorpe in Northamptonshire but whether at Thorpe Mandevil or Thorpe Longa. I know not and seems to be of the same Family with the Talbots of Grafton He was educated in Grammaticals in Wykeham's School near to Winchester in Logicals and Philosophicals in New Coll. of which he became Fellow after he had served two Years of probation an 1523. and left it 5 Years after being then only Bach. of Arts supplicated for the Degree of Master 1529 but not admitted as I can find in the Register of that time However that he was written Master and Doctor afterwards it doth manifestly appear in various writings so that I presume he took those Degrees elsewhere On the 23. Jun. 1541 he was admitted to a Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Wedmer secunda and on the 9. Apr. 1. Ed. 6. Dom. 1547. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych did by their Letters Pat. confer a Prebendship or office of Treasurer of their Church on him void by the death of one Will. Herydans On the 27. Aug. 5. and 6. of Phil. and Mary Dom. 1558. he gave to John Harpesfeild Dean and to the said Chapter of the Cath. of Norwych three Acres of Land in Lakenham and soon after died as I shall tell you afterwards But that which is chiefly to be noted is that during his abode at Norwych he wrot a Book thus intit Roberti Talboti Annotationes in eam partem Itinerarii Antonini quae ad Britanniam pertinent The beginning of which is Itinera hic sunt in Britanniâ numero xv c. It endeth at the word Luguvallo at the end of the fifth Itinerary and goeth no farther Which Book the learned Camden in his Britannia and Will. Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary and others did much use It is not Printed but remains in MS. in obscure places And for ought I know there are but three Copies of it in being viz. one in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge another in that of Sir Joh. Cotton at Westminster which if I mistake not did sometimes belong to Mr. Tho. Allen of Glouc. Hall got out of his hands by Rich. James of C. C. C. for the said Library and a third in Bodlyes Vatican Our Author Talbot hath also written a Book called Aurum ex stercore vel de Aenigmaticis propheticis MS collected from old Books of verses and rimes that have been long since lost The beginning of which is Certe non est rarum c. In this Book are verses called Magistrates every one of which was worth an ordinary Groat Mr. Allen before mention'd had a Copy of valued it much and would often repeat verses thence at times of refection but where that Copy is now I know not Sure I am that one written in qu. in the archives of C. C. C. bound with the observations from humanity Authors made by John Twyne was given thereunto by Brian his Grandson Our Author Talbot hath also made choice Collections De Chartis quibusdam Regum Britannorum MS. in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge What else he hath written I know not nor any thing more of him only that he took his last farewell of this World a little after the 27. year 1558 Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in the Cathedral Church there as I have been instructed from the researches of Mr. afterwards Dr. Hump. Prideaux Prebendary of that Church made from several Registers and Charters belonging thereunto By Rob. Talbot's Will dated 20. Aug. 1558 which is almost three Months before Qu. Mary died he left the best and rerest of his MSS. to New Coll. in Oxon. Which MSS. did then lye at Thorpe and Cranesley and maintenance also for an Anniversary to be kept at Thorpe for himself Father Mother his Brother John and for his Unkle Sir Rich. Whitryns Which Anniversary was to be performed for the present by Sir Christopher his Priest at Thorpe before-mention'd But this last I presume was never performed The Reader is to know now I am got into the name of Talbot that after Rob. Talbots time lived one Tho. Talbot commonly called Limping Talbot from a lameness in one of his legs Son of John Talbot of Salebury in Lancashire Esq who died 30. Aug. 1551. which Thomas heing promoted to the Clerkship of the Records in the Tower of London did at length by the help of a good memory become a most excellent Genealogist and a Man of singular skill in our antiquities Camden in his Britannia doth acknowledg his help in the succession of the Earls of each County since the Norman conquest and Tho. Abingdon the sometimes Antiquary of Worcestershire in his MS. History of the Bishops of Worcester saith thus of him But these first meaning the first Bishops of Worcester I had out of the Collections of an excellent Antiquary Mr. Thomas Talbot who gathered the same out of a Leiger of the Priory of Worcester which I think is now perished He left choice Collections behind him some of which coming into the hands of Sir Rob. Cotton he put them into his Library as choice Monuments and being bound in one Volume in fol are thus intit by a late hand Analecta quamplurima diversi generis viz. ex quibusdam chronicis cartis aliisque autenticis registris Epitaphia Gencalogiae alia ad rem historicam spectantia besides several Collections of Antiquities in Yorkshire I have seen also in the Sheldonian Library now reposed in the Heralds Office divers of his Collections viz. among them is a thin fol. intit Escaetorum inquisitiones de tempore Reg. Ed. 4. c. Now whether this Tho. Talbot who was living an 1580 and for ought that I know was living ten Years after was of kin to Robert before-mentioned I know not nor can I safely believe that he is the same Thomas Talbot who was admitted Bach. of Arts of Oxon. in July 1533. I
mention them in their respective places THOMAS PAYNELL or Paganell descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Lincolnshire was from his youth always exercised in virtue and good letters While he was in his juvenile years he was made a Canon Regular of Merton Priory in Surrey the Monasticks of which place having had interest in the College of St. Mary the Virgin situated in the Parish of St. Michael and St. Peter in the Baylie built purposely for the training up of young Can. Reg. in Philosophical or Theological learning or both he was sent thither where improving himself much in Divine learning returned to his Monastery and a little before the dissolution of that and others became Prior of a certain Monastery of Canon Regulars near to London as Baleus saith tho the name of the place he tells us not But being soon after ejected when his Monastery was to be imployed for a laical use had a pension allowed him during his life Whereupon retiring to London and sometimes to Oxon had the more leisure to write and translate Books the titles of which follow Pandicts of the Evangelical Law Lond. 1553. oct The pithy and most notable sayings of all the Scripture after the manner of common places c. newly augmented and corrected Lond. 1560. oct A Table of many matters contained in the english works of Sir Tho. More This is set before the said works that were published by Will. Rastell an 1557. A fruitful Book of the common places of all St. Pauls Epistles right necessary for all sorts of People c. Lond. 1562. oct Preface to the Book of measuring of Land as well of Woodland as Plowland Printed at Lond. in the time of Hen. 8. in oct The Book it self was written by Sir Rich. de Benese sometimes Canon of Merton Priory but corrected and made fit for the press by Paynell In the Year 1519. one Rich. de Benese a secular Chaplain supplicated the Ven. congregation for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether the same with the writer I cannot justly say because he is written secular Chaplain Neither can I say that Rich. Benese Clerk Parson of Long Ditton in Surrey in the time of H. 8. be the same also who in his last Will and Test dated 3. Nov. 1546. and proved 20. Oct. 1547. doth bequeath his body to be buried in the yard belonging to the Church there Our Author Thom. Paynell did also translate from Lat. into English 1 Of the contempt of the world Lond. 1533. oct written by Erasmus 2 Of the Medicine Guacum and of the French disease c. Lond. 1536. and 1539. oct written by Ulrich Hutten a Knight of Almaine It treateth of the wood called Guacum which healeth the French Pox the Gout Stone Palsey c. 3 Of the comparison of a Virgin and a Martyr Lond. 1537. oct written by Erasmus This translation is dedicated to John Ramsey Lord Prior of Merton 4 Sermon on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1539. oct written by St. Cyprian 5 A faithful and true story of the destruction of Troy Lond. 1553. oct written by Danus Phrigius 6 A devout prayer expedient for those that prepare themselves to say Mass c. Lond. 1555. oct written by St. Ambrose 7 Brief Chronycle of all the Earls of Holland Lond. 1557. oct written by Hadrianus Barlandus 8. Salerni sanit regim The Regiment of health teaching all People how to govern them in health Lond. 1558 oct 9 Of the examples of virtue and vice Lond. 1561. oct written by Nich. Hannape 10 Fruitful treatise of well living containing the whole summ and effect of all virtue Printed at Lond in oct written by St. Bernard 11 The Precepts teaching a Prince or a noble estate his duty print in oct written originally in Greek by Agapetus He also translated from French into English 1 The civility of Chidhood with the discipline and institution of Children Lond. 1560. oct 2 The assault of Heaven Lond. in qu. besides other translations which you may see elsewhere In my searches I once saw a Will without date made for Thom. Paynell Priest born at or near to Bothby-Paynell in Lincolnshire afterwards-Parson as it seems of Cotyngam lying between Hull and Beverley in Yorkshire to which place he was a Benefactor and left considerable Legacies to 20 poor Maidens born and dwelling there He gave to St. Johns Coll. in Oxon wherein as it seems he had studied in his elderly years in the latter end of H. 8. and in the time of Ed. 6. at which time it was called St. Bernards Coll. all his Books in his Chamber at London and desired that at his Funeral a Sermon be Preached by a Catholick Doctor or a Bach. of Divinity c. This will which seems to have been made at London was proved in the Praerogative Court of Conterbury on the 22 of March according to the English accompt in Fifteen hundred sixty and three year 1563 I do and always did take it to be made for Thom. Paynell the writer and conclude thence that he died in the Winter time 1563. but where buried I cannot tell EDWARD FERRERS a most ingenious Man of his time was of the same Family with those of Baldesley-Clenton in Warwickshire but the name of the particular place where he was born or the name of the House in Oxon wherein educated I cannot justly say Sure it is that he continued there several years being then in much esteem for his Poetry and about the time that he left the Univ. wrot Several Tragedies Com. or Interludes All which being written with much skill and magnificence in his meeter gave the King so much good recreation as the Author of the Art of English Poesie saith as he had thereby many good rewards and adds farther that for such things as he hath seen of his writing and of the writing of Tho. Sackvile they deserve the price c. Our Author Ferrers hath also written these two Poems following viz. The fall of Rob. Tresilian Cheif Justice of England and The unlawful murder of Tho. of Woodstok Duke of Glocester with several other things which I have not yet seen and was Author as one or more writers say of a Book intit A mirroure for Magistrates Lond. 1559 Published by Will. Baldwin whom I shall anon mention In which Mirrour are involved the two Poems before-mentioned and other things of the composition of the said E. Ferrers who was in great renown in Fifteen hundred sixty and four being if I mistake not the same Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley Clinton who died and was buried there in that year leaving behind him a Son named Henry whom I shall mention under the Year 1633. WILLIAM BALDEWYN who seems to have been a Western Man born spent several years in Logic and Philosophie in this University being the same Will. Baldwyn as 't is probable who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might take a Degree
troubles at Frankford in Germany printed 1575. in qu. p. 44. 45. c. 92. c. When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded he returned and the first thing that made him then to be noted was An Oration to Qu. Eliz. at her first entrance to her Reigne an 1558. It was not spoken but delivered in writing to her by a certain noble Man The beginning of it is Albeit there be innumerable gifts c. He also wrot a little book in favour of the house of Suffolk especially of the Children of Edw. Seymour Earl of Hertford eldest Son of Edward Duke of Somerset who was married to the Lady Cath. Grey Dau. of Hen. Duke of Suff. of near alliance in blood to the Queen in his house in Chanon row within the City of Westminster in Oct. 1560. The effect of which was to derive the title of the Crown of England in case Qu. Eliz. should die without issue to the house of Suffolk This Marriage notwithstanding the Archb. of Cant. did by his sentence pronounce unlawful yet our Author Hales who was esteemed a Man very opiniotive tho otherwise very learned did maintain in the said book that their sole consent did legitimate their conjunction Which pamphlet flying abroad came straight way to the Court Whereupon the Queen and the Nobles being highly offended the Author was quickly discovered and forthwith imprison'd in the Tower of London Soon after Sir Nich. Bacon then Lord Keeper was presumed to have had a finger in it for which he was like to have lost his office if Sir Ant. Browne who had been L. Ch. Justice of the common-Common-pleas in Qu. Maries time would have accepted of it which her Majesty offer'd to him and the Earl of Leycester earnestly exhorted him to take it but he refused it for that he was of a different Religion from the State and so Sir Nic. Bacon remained in his place at the great instance of Sir Will. Cecill afterwards L. Treasurer who tho he was to be privy to the said book yet was the matter so wisely laid upon Hales and Bacon that Sir Will. was kept free thereby to have the more authority and grace to procure the others pardon as he did Soon after Jo. Lesley Bishop of Ross a great creature of Mary Queen of Scots did answer that Book for which he got the good will of many tho of others not As for our Author Hales he gave way to fate on the fifth of the calends of January in Fifteen hundred seventy and two year 1571 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Peter's poor in London He died without issue so that his estate which chiefly laid in Warwickshire of which his principal house in Coventry call'd Hales place otherwise the White Fryers was part went to John Son of his Brother Christopher Hales sometimes also an Exile at Frankfort whose posterity doth remain there to this day ELIZE HEYWOOD sometimes written Ellis Heewood Son of Job Heywood the famous Epigrammatist was born in London and by the indulgence of his Father was carefully educated in juvenile learning in that City and in Academical in Oxon. In 1547 he was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals he applyed his genie to the study of the Laws in which faculty he took one degree an 1552 being the sixth year of K. Ed. 6. Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy continued for some time at Florence being patroniz'd by Card Pole and became such an exact Master of the Italian tongue that he wrot a book in that Language entituled Il Moro lib. 2. Fiorenz 1556 in octavo This book which is dedicated to the said Cardinal contains a discourse fancied to be in the house of Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England and in consolation with him Besides this book he wrot as 't is said other things in Italian or in Lat. or in his mother tongue which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom or never see them in these parts About that time our Author receiving instructions concerning matters of faith from an English Man called Hall he went into the Low Countries and at Antwerp performed the office of Preacher and Prefectship of the spirit Thence he went to Lovaine where he died in the twelfth year after his ingress into the society of Jesus year 1572 which was about Fifteen hundred seventy and two He had a younger brother named Jasper bred also in Oxford and leaving the Nation for Religion sake entred himself into the said Society as I shall tell you under the Year 1597. num 295. NICHOLAS GRIMALD or Grimoald received his first being in this world in Huntingdonshire and his first Academical education in Christs Coll. in Cambridge where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon and was incorporated there in the said Degree in Apr. 1542. In the next month he was chosen Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. he being then in the 23 year of his age In 1544 he proceeded in Arts and 1547 when the Coll. of King Hen. 8. was to be settled and replenished with Students he was put in there as a Senior or Theologist accounted then only honorary and the rather for this reason because he about that time did read a publick Lecture to the Academians in the large refectory of that place All that I have yet seen of his writings are these Archipropheta Tragedia jam recens in lucem edita Colon. 1548. in oct Oratio ad Pontifices Londini in aede Paulina an 1553. 17. Id. Apr. in Synodo publica Lond. 1583. oct In P. V. Maronis quatuor libros Georgicorum in oratione soluta paraphrasis elegantissima Oxonii in Aede Christi 2. Ed. 6. confecta Lond. 1591. oct Fama com Troilus Chauceri com with several such like things which you may see in Baleus who also tells us elsewhere that he wrot in English a Book intit Vox populi or The Peoples complaint c. which was against Rectors Vicars Archdeacons Deans c. for living remote from their Flocks and for not performing the duty belonging to their respective offices He hath also divers Lat. and English copies of verses occasionally printed before and in commendation of other Mens works and has also translated from Lat. into English Cicero's three books of duties to Marcus his Son Lond. 1558. oct with other things from Greek He was in great esteem among Men in the fifteenth year of Qu. Elizabeth LEWIS EVANS was a Monmouthshire Man born as it seems and mostly educated in Oxon Afterwards being a forward and zealous Man for the R. Cath. Religion at London where he had got some employment was brought into trouble by Dr. Grindal Bishop of that place So that being forced to fly he went beyond the Sea and settled for a time at Antwerp where to shew his zeal for the cause he translated a Book from Lat. into English entit Certaine tables set forth by
Writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law and about that time made the Queen's Serjeant and at length one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and not of the King's Bench as one falsly tells us which last place he executed for 5 years with great integrity equity and prudence He was a learned man and a great lover of learning and those that professed it but all the Writings which I have seen of his that are extant are only Reports in the Common Pleas wherein are many choice Cases most of them throughly argued by the learned Serjeants and after argued and resolved by the grave Judges of those times with many Cases wherein the differences in the Year-books are reconciled and explained Lond. 1656. fol. What else is published under his Name I know not nor any more of him only that he dying 21. Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 was buried on the S. side of the Choire of St. Peter's Church in Westminster Over his grave was soon after erected a noble monument of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold with his Image in scarlet robes lying thereon which remains to this day He left behind him a Son named named Roger who was a Knight and for his manifold learning a right Worthy Son of so Good a Father This Sir Roger who had been a Gent. Com. of Ch. Church and a great Friend to the Clergy by vindicating them when aspersed in open Parliament 11 Jac. 1. dyed in a distracted condition to their great reluctancy 29. May being Holy Thursday in 1617. MICHAEL MASCHIART a most excellent Latin Poet of his time was born in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City of Salisbury educated in Wykeham's School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1562. became Vicar of Writtle in Essex in 1572. being then Bach. of the Civil Law and two years after proceeded Doctor of that Faculty at which time he was not only esteemed an able Civilian but also excellent in all kind of Humane learning He hath written Poemata varia This book I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether that be the true title Nor indeed should I have known that he had written any thing had not the learned Camden told me so in his Britannia wherein are by him inserted several Verses taken from Maschiart to adorn his discourse of Clarindon Park in Wiltshire This learned Doctor dyed at Writtle before-mentioned in the latter end of the year about Christmas of fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed In that Vicarige succeeded a learned Doctor of Divinity named John Lloyd whom and his Works I shall mention among these Writers under the year 1603. STEPHEN GOSSON a Kentish man born was admitted Scholar of C. Ch. coll 4. Apr. 1572. aged 16. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts four years after left the University without compleating that degree by Determination and went to the great City where he was noted for his admirable penning of Pastorals being so excellent therein that he was ranked with Sir Ph. Sidney Tho. Chaloner Edm. Spencer Abrah Fraunce and Rich. Bernfield noted Poets of their time Thence as he saith he went to a worshipful Gentleman in the Country to teach his Sons where he continued till he shewed his great dislike of Plays having his mind then quite alienated from them So that the Gentleman being weary of his company Gosson left him took Orders and at length became Parson of Great Wigborow in Essex He hath written and published The School of abuse containing a pleasant invective against Poets Pipers Players Jesters and such like Caterpillers of the Common-wealth c. Lond. 1579. and 1585. in oct dedicated to Sir Ph. Sidney Plays confuted in five actions proving that they are not to be suffered in a Christian Common-wealth By the way both the cavils of Tho. Lodge and the Play of Plays written in their defence and other objections of Players Friends are truly set down and directly answered Dedicated to Sir Franc. Walsingham but when printed it appears not The Trumpet of War Serm. at Pauls Cross 7. May 1598. on 2 Chron. ch 20. ver 20. Lond. 1598. oct As for the Pastorals Comedies Tragedies or Poetry some of which he hath written I have not yet seen either printed or In Manuscript JOHN LYLIE or Lylly a Kentish man born became a Student in Magd. coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 16. or thereabouts and was afterwards as I conceive either one of the Demies or Clerks of that house but always averse to the crabbed studies of Logic and Philosophy For so it was that his genie being naturally bent to the pleasant paths of Poetry as if Apollo had given to him a wreath of his own Bays without snatching or strugling did in a manner neglect Accademical studies yet not so much but that he took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1575. At which time as he was esteemed in the University a noted Wit so afterwards was he in the Court of Q. Elizabeth where he was also reputed a rare Poet witty comical and facetious His Works are these Gallathea Love's Metamorphosis Midas Endimion or the man in the Moon Mother Bomby Maids Metamorphosis Sapho and Phao. Woman in the Moon Warning for fair Women Alexander and Campaspe All which are Comedies and most of them having been published in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth six were re-printed at London in oct an 1632. by the care of Hen. Blount Esq afterwards a Knight under the title of Court Comedies which before had crowned the author with applause and the Auditors of them with pleasure Euphues and his England containing his voyage and adventures mixed with sundry pretty discourses of honest love the description of the Country the Court and the manner of that Isle c. Lond. 1580. and 82. in two parts in a large oct The first part is dedicated to Edw. Vere E. of Oxon a noted Poet and encourager of learning in his time and the last to the University of Oxon. These two parts were published again with corrections and amendments at Lond. 1606. and 1636. qu. Euphues The Anatomy of Wit or the delights of Wit in Youth c. Lond. 1581. qu. corrected and amended Lond. 1606. 1623. and 30. qu. To these books of Euphues 't is said that our Nation is indebted for a new English in them which the Flower of the Youth thereof learned All the Ladies then were Scholars to them and their author and that Beauty in Court which could not parly Euphuism was as little regarded as those now there that cannot speak French What other Books Comedies or Trag. our author hath written I cannot find nor when he dyed or where buried only that he lived till towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth if not beyond for he was in being in 1597. when the
descended from the antient family of the Curwens of Wirkington in Cumberland was born in the Old Baily situated partly in the Parish of S. Sepulchre and partly in S. Martin near Ludgate in the said City on the second day of May 5. Edw. 6. Dom. 1551. When this most eminent person of whom I shall be more particular than of another author was a child he received the first knowledge of letters in Ch. Church hospital in London then newly founded for Blew-coated children where being fitted for Grammer learning he was sent to the Free-school founded by Dr. Colet near to S. Pauls Cathedral About which time 1563. he being infected with the Plague was sent to Islington where he remained for some time to the great loss of his learning In 1566. 8. Elizab. he was sent to Oxford and being placed in Madg. coll in the condition of a Chorister or Servitour did perfect himself in Grammer learning in the Free-School adjoyning then lately presided by D. Tho. Câ—â—per afterwards Bishop of Linc. But missing as 't is said a Demies place of that coll tho of great desert and partly grounded in Logick he was transplanted to an antient hostle called Broadgates now Pembr coll where he continued two years and an half under the tuition of a great encourager of learning called Dr. Tho. Thornton canon of Ch. Ch. who finding our author to be a young man of great vertue and in him tokens of future worth he took him to Ch. Ch. and gave him entertainment in his Lodgings so long as he continued in the University About that time he being a candidate for a Fellowship in All 's coll lost it for desending the religion then established as Dr. afterwards Sir Dan. Donn at that time Fellow did several times testifie and would often relate how our said author Camden was opposed by the Popish party of that house In the month of June 1570. he supplicated the ven Congregation of Regents that whereas he had spent four years in the study of Logick he might he admitted Bach. of Arts but what answer was made thereunto or whether he was then admitted it appears not In 1571. he relinquished his conversation with the Muses to the great reluctancy of those who were well acquainted with the pregnancy of his parts and whether he was afterwards favoured in his Scholastical endeavours by Dr. Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster whom he acknowledgeth to have been Patron of his studies I cannot positively affirm In 1573. he returned to Oxon for a time and supplicated again in the beginning of March for the said degree which though as it seems granted and so I presume took it yet he did not compleat it by Determination in Schoolstreet In 1575. he was made second Master of Westminster School upon the recommendations of Godfrey Nephew to Gabriel Goodman before-mentioned which Godfrey put him upon the study of Antiquities and bought and gave him books and in 1581. he contracted an entire friendship with Barnab 〈◊〉 the learned Chief Justice of France called by some 〈…〉 While he continued in teaching at Westm God so blessed his labours that Dr. King Bishop of London Noyle Archb. of York Parry Bishop of St. Asaph c. to say nothing of persons imployed in those times in eminent place abroad and many of special note at home of all degrees did acknowledge themselves to have been his Scholars Besides also as a testimony of his sincere love to the Church of England which some in his time did doubt he brought there to Church divers Gentlemen of Indeed as the Walshes Nugents O-Rayley Shee s the eldest Son of the Archb. of Casshills Pet. Lombard a Merchant's Son of Waterford a Youth of admirable docility the same who was afterwards titular Archb. of Armagh Priâ—ate of Ireland domestick Prelate and Assistant of his Holiness the Pope and author of a book intit De regno Hiberniae Sanctorum Insula commentarius Lov. 1632. qu. and others bred Pâ—pishly and so affected In 1582. he took a journey through Suffolk into Yorkshire and returned through Lancashire in the month of April in order to the compleating of his Britannia which he saith he published in the same year having with great industry at spare hours and on festival days composed it In 1588. Jun. 3. he by the name and tit of Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated the ven Convocation that whereas he had spent 16 years from the time he had taken the degree of Bachelaur in the study of Philosophy and other liberal Aâ—â— he might be dispensed with for the reading of three solemn Lectures and so be admitted to proceed in that 〈◊〉 Which supplication was granted conditionally that he stand in the Act following but whether he was admitted or stood it doth not appear in the Registers In the same month and year he took a journey Oxford being in his way to Ilfarcomb in Devonshire in order to obtain more knowledge in the Antiquities of that Country and elsewhere for the next edition of his 〈◊〉 and on the 6 Feb. following he was made Preb. 〈…〉 in the Ch. of Salisb in the place of one J. Hotman which Prebendship he kept to the time of his death and 〈…〉 succeeded him The said journey and 〈◊〉 that he took for that purpose the charges of them 〈◊〉 defrayed by the aforesaid Dr. Gab. Goodman In 〈◊〉 he journeyed into Wales in the company of Franc. 〈…〉 of Ch. Ch. afterwards author of the Commentary 〈…〉 Bishops and in 1592. Oct. 26. he was taken with a Qaâ—rtan Ague which made him often purge Blood In March 1592-3 he was made chief Master of Westminster School in the place of Dr. Ed. Grant and in 1594. in the month of June he was freed from his Ague In 1596. he travelled to Salisbury and Wells for the obtaining of more knowledge in Antiquities and returned through Oxon where he visited most if not all of the Churches and Chappels for the copying out of the several Monuments and Arms in them which were reduced by him into a book written with his own hand by me seen and perused In 97. he fell into a most dangerous sickness whereupon being taken into the house of one Cuthbert Line he was cured by the care of that persons Wife and in that year he published his Greek Grammar On the 22. of Oct. the same year he was for fashion sake after he had refused a Mastership of the Requests which was offered to him created Herald of Arms called Richmond because no person can be King before he is Herald and the next day he was created Clarenceaux King of Arms in the place of Rich. Lee Esq who died on the 23. of Sept. before-going This was done by the singular favour of Q. Elizabeth at the incessant supplication of his Patron Sir Foulk Grevill afterwards Lord Brook both of them having an especial respect for him and his great learning in English and other
am that after he had continued many years there and had taken the degrees in Divinity he was promoted to the See of Landaff upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort where he behaved himself so admirable well to the credit of our Nation as some Ch. Historians will tell you that after his return he was upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich elected to the See of Chichester confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgment and of various reading a bitter Enemy to the Papists and a severe Calvinist which may farther appear in some of these books following of his composition Heroici Characteres ad illustriss equitem Henricum Nevillum Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sydney in Bodleiomnema and in other books Tithes examined and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right Lond. 1606. 1611. qu. Jurisdiction Regal Episcopal Papal Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes and of the Church c. Lond. 1610. qu. Consensus Eccles Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scripturis Ecclesia fide gratia c. Lond. 1613. oct Dedicated to the Mertonians A thankful remembrance of Gods mercy in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts Short directions to know the true Church Lond. 1615. c. in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords the States General Lond. 1619. in one sh and an half in qu. The madness of Astrologers or an examination of Sir Christop Heydons book intit A defence of judiciary Astrology Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. who had married the authors Daughter It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651. Examination of those things wherein the author of the late Appeale holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians to be the doctrines of the Church of England Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination made to the Appeale of Rich. Mountague who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester came out six more viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter a second by Dr. Dan. Featly a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates hall in Oxon a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Div. sometimes of Eman. coll in Cambridge afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London A joynt attestation avowing that the discipline of th Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort Lond. 1626. qu. Vita Bernardi Gilpini vere sanctiss famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries and Episcopal government in England Printed several times in qu. and oct The edit in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet Latin Letter to the learned Camden containing some notes and observations on his Britannia MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper Mi Camdene Brittaniam tuam c. Several Sermons viz. one that is joyned to the English life of Bern. Gilpin Another on Luke 2. from ver 41. to 50. in tw A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct c. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations and in the New Translation of the Bible which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken yet were not compleated and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Choire near to the Altar of his Cath. Church at Chichester on the 27. of the same month By his first Wife named Anne Daughter of Sir Hen. Killegrew Knight and Widdow of Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere in Berks he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton living sometimes in the Parish of Furâ—e in Sussex elected Burgess for Arundel to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nov. following he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain in which office and command he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Bishops JOHN DODERIDGE or Doddridg was born at or near to Barnstaple in Devonshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1572. took one degree in Arts about 4 years after and compleated it by Determination About that time being entred into the Middle Temple he made great proficiency in the Common Law became a noted Counsellour and in 45. Eliz. Lent Reader of that Inn. In 1603. Jan. 20. he was made Serjeant at Law being about that time Prince Henry's Serjeant but in the year following he was discharged of his Serjeantship and became Solliciter Gen. to King James 1. In 1607. Jun. 25. he was constituted one of the Kings Serjeants and on the 5. July following he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. at Whitehal In 1612. Nov. 25. he was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas afterwards of the Kings Bench and in Feb. 1613. he was actually created Master of Arts in Serjeants Inn by the Vicechanc both the Proctors and five other Academians Which degree was conferred upon him in gratitude for his great service he had then lately done for the University in several Law suits depending between the said University and City of Oxon. While he continued in Exeter coll he was a severe Student and by the help of a good Tutor he became a noted Disputant So that by the foundation of learning which he had laid in that coll forwarded by good natural parts and continual industry he became not only eminent in his own profession but in the Arts Divinity and Civil Law insomuch that it was difficult with some to judge in which of all those Faculties he excelled But being mostly taken up with the Common Law he could not be at leisure to honour the World with his great knowledge only with these things following The Lawyers light or due direction for the study of the Law c. Lond. 1629. qu. A compleat Parson or a description of Advowsons and Church-livings c. Lond. 1630. qu. Delivered in several
Thursday March 2. S. Ceddes day the Lord Brook shot in the left Eye and killed in the place at Lichfield going to give onset upon the Close of the Church he ever having been fierce against Bishops and Cathedrals His bever up and armed to the knee so that a Musket at that distance could have done him but little harm Thus was his Eye put out who about two years since said he hoped to live to see at S. Pauls not one stone left upon another c. This Lord Brook who did often bragg that he should live to see the millinary fools paradice begin in his life time did give occasion by words that he uttered to certain observing persons to think that his death was near viz. that at his going out of Coventry when he went towards Lichfield he give order to his Chaplain that he should preach upon this Text If I perish I perish being the words of Ester in a different but a far better cause Est 4. 16. Also that in a prayer of above an hour long which he conceived before his setting on the Close he was heard to wish that if the cause he was in were not right and just he might be presently cut off using the like expressions to his Souldiers also JOHN BEAUMONT Son of Francis Beaumont one of the Justices of the common-Common-Pleas in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth was born of and descended from an ancient and noble family of his name living at Gracedieâ— in Leicestershire became a Gent. Com. with his Brethren Henry and Francis in Broadgates hall in the beginning of Lent-term an 1596. aged 14. Whence after he had spent about three years he retired to one of the Inus of Court and afterwards to his native Country where taking to Wife one of the family of Fortescue was at length in 1626. made a Baronet The former part of his life he successfully employed in Poetry and the latter he as happily bestowed on more serious and beneficial Studies And had not death untimely cut him off in his middle age he might have prov'd a Patriot being accounted at the time of his death a person of great knowledge gravity and worth He hath written Bosworth Field A Poem Lond. 1629. oct A taste of the variety of other Poems Printed with the former Poem He hath also made translations into English from Horace Virgil Lucan Persius Ausâ—nius Claudian c. All which were collected together after the authors death by his Son Sir Joh. Beaumont Bt. and were printed with the former Poems in 1629. being then usherd into the world by the commendation-Poems of Tho. Nevill Tho. Hawkyns Benj. Johnson Mich. Drayton Philip King Son of the B. of London c. This Sir John Beaumont the Poet departed this mortal life in the Winter time year 1628 in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Church at Gracedieu leaving behind him a Son named John beforemention'd who died without issue another called Francis afterwards a Jesuit and a third named Thomas who succeeded his brother in his estate and honour As for Francis Beaumont who with his elder brother Sir John came to Broadgates hall in 1596. as I have before told you he must not be understood to be the same with Francis Beaumont the eminent Poet and Comedian for tho he was of the same family and most of his name studied in Oxon yet he was educated in Cambridge and after he had made himself famous over all England for the 50. Comedies and Tragedies which he with Joh. Fletcher Gent. had composed made his last exit in the beginning of March and was buried on the ninth of the same month in 1615 at the entrance of St. Benedicts Chappel within the Abby Church of St. Peter within the City of Westminster As for John Fletcher Son of Rich Fletcher B. of London he was also a Cambridge man and dying of the Plague was buried in the Church or yard of S. Mary Overey in Southwark 29 Aug. 1625. aged 49. Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet hath in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Pr. 1658. in oct an Epitaph on Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church in Southwark yet the register of that Church saith that Massinger was buried in one of the four yards belonging to that Church as I shall tell you when I come to him under the year 1639. Later in time than Sir Jo. Beaumont hath appeared another of both his names who hath written and published Observations upon the Apology of Dr. Hen. More Cambr. 1685. qu. And is at present the Kings prof of Div. there JOHN DENISON who in his time was cried up for an eminent preacher became a Student in Balliol coll at the beginning of the year 1590. and when M. of A. entred into orders preached frequently in these parts was made Chaplain of K. James 1. chief moderator of the Free-School in Reading in Berks and at length Vicar of St. Maries Church there In which last he was succeeded by Tho. Bunbury of Ball. coll but thrust out thence by the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil Wars Denison was a learned man well read in Theological authors and wrote and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Christian Petitioner preached on Act Sunday 7 Jul. 1611. on Nehem. 13. 22. Lond. 1611. qu. 2 The sin against the Holy Ghost at Pauls Cross on Heb. 10. 26 27. Ib. 1611. qu. 3 Christians care for the Souls safety on Mark 8. 36. Lond. 1621. oct 4 Heavenly Banquet or the doctrine of the Lords Supper set forth in seven Sermons on 1 Cor. 11. from verse 23. to 29. Lond. 1619. oct 5 Blessedness of Peacemakers two Sermons on Matth. 5. 9. Lond. 1620. oct 6 The Sinners acquittance before the K. at Greenwich on Isa 53. 4. Lond. 1624. oct 7 Check to curiosity and The safest service two Serm. at Whitehall on Joh. 21. ver 22. Lond. 1624. oct 8 Heavens joy for a sinners repentance on Luke 15. 7. Ibid. 1623. oct c. A threesold resolution concerning earths vanity hells horror and heavens felicity Lond. 1616. oct 4th edit Justification of the gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1619 oct On the two Sacraments Baptism and the Lords Supper Lond. 1621. qu. De confessionis auricularis vanitate adversus Card. Bellarmini Sophismata Ox. 1621. qu. De sigilli confessionis impietate contra Scholasticorum Neotericorum quorundam dogmata disputatio Printed with the former He dyed in the latter end of January and was buried on the first of Feb. in the Church of St. Mary at Reading before mentiond in sixteen hundred twenty and eight He had a Brother or near Kinsman called Stephen Denison D. D. and many years Minister of St. Catherine Kree Church in London who hat published several things of Divinity as the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue
Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. By his Wife Anne Hamden he had a Daughter named Alice who was married to Dr. Rich. Corbet afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Norwich ROBERT HUES or Husius as he writes himself was born at Little Hereford commonly called Harford near to Leonminsher in Herefordshire who tho well grounded in Grammar learning and of good parts and therefore of desert yet at his first coming to the University he was only a poor Scholar or Servitour of Brasnose and among the pauperes Scholares is he numbred in the publick Matricula under Coll. Aenean about 1571. In that house he continued for some time a very sober and serious Student and was countenanced by one or more of the Seniors thereof but being sensible of the loss of time which he sustained there by constant attendance he translated himself to S. Maries hall and took the degree of Bac. of Arts at about 7 years standing being then noted for a good Grecian Which degree he compleating by Determination he afterwards travelled and in fine became well skill'd in Geography and Mathematicks The last of which being the faculty he excelled in made him respected by that generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland who allowed him an yearly Pension for the encouragement of his studies but whether he was ever Mathematick Professor of Gresham coll as a certain learned Gent. reports I cannot tell He hath written De Globis celest terrest Tract 2. Several times printed in Lat. and Engl. in oct The first edition of this book had this title Tractatus de Globis eorum usu accommodatus iis qui Londini editi sunt an 1593. sumptibus Gulielmi Sandersoni Civ Lond. Lond. 1593. oct It was afterwards illustrated with figures and annotations by Joh. Isaac Pontanus Professor of Philosophy at Harderwicke in Gelderlandt Amstel 1617. 1624. c. Oxon. 1663. in oct and twelv Breviarium totius Orbis Printed several times at Lond. in Lat. and Engl. in oct and tw This Mr. Hues died in the Stone-house then belonging to Joh. Smith M. of A. Son of Tho. Smith Cook of Ch. Ch. opposite almost to the Inn called the Blew-Boar in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon on the 24. year 1632 of May in sixteen hundred thirty and two aged 79 years and was buried near to the grave of Dr. Hutten within the limits of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. before-mentioned His Epitaph is printed in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. wherein you 'll find other matters relating to him which I have not here set down I find one Rob. Hughes who was an English Merchant in the Kingdom of India and City of Agemer author of a Dictionary containing the English and Persian Languages an 1616. MS. sometimes in the Lord Hattons Library now in that of Bodley but what relation there was between this and the former I know not I think none because their names differ The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that the said R. Hues the Mathematician having spent one year or two in the condition of a Tutor to Algernon Son of Hen. Earl of Northumberland in Ch. Ch. he was therefore thrust among the writers of that house against the consent of the author into Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. by the publisher thereof who endeavoured to disturb the course of that History to satisfie his partial ends He also thrust in of his own accord among the Bishops of the said House Joh. Piers Archb. of York and Miles Smith B. of Glouc. The former who had been Dean for a time had most of his education in Magd. coll and the other who had been Petty-Canon was chiefly educated in that of Brasnose ALEXANDER COOKE received his first breath in Yorkshire at or near to Beeston by Leeds and educated in Grammar learning in those parts In Michaelmas-Term an 1581. he was admitted a Member of Brasnose coll being then 17 years of age and after he had taken one degree in Arts he was chosen into a Percy-Fellowship of Vniversity coll in 1587. In the year following he took the degree of M. of A. and about that time holy Orders So that applying himself solely to the study of the sacred writ became a frequent and noted Preacher in these parts took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty in 1597. and had some little Cure bestowed upon him At length upon the decease of his Brother Robert whom I have mentioned under the year 1614. he became Vicar of Leeâ—s in his own Country He was a person most admirably well read in the controversies between the Protestants and the Papists vers'd in the Fathers and Schoolmen a great Calvinist yet witty and ingenious and a Satyrical Enemy in his writings against the Romanists as it evidently appears in these books following which have been much taken into the hands of ingenious men Pope Joan. A dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist manifestly proving that a Woman called Joan was Pope of Rome c. against Rob. Bellarmine Caes Baronius Flor. Raemundus c. impudently denying the same Lond. 1610. qu. Which book being in great request among Protestants beyond Sea was translated into French by J. de la Montagne Printed at Sedan 1633. in oct The abatement of Popish Brags pretending Scripture to be theirs Lond. 1625. qu. The Weather-cock of Rome's Religion with her several changes or the World turned topsie turvie by Papists Lond. 1625. qu. More work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1621. qu. Yet more work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1622. qu. Work more work and yet a little more work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1628. c. qu. 'T is the same with the two former immediately going before only some alterations in and several additions put to it especially in that edition which came out in 1630. What other things he published I know not nor anything else of him only that he was buried in Leeds Church near to the Body of his Brother Rob. Cooke 23. June in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and that he left behind him the character of A good and learned man a man abounding in charity and exemplary in his life and conversation yet hated by the R. Catholicks who lived near Leeds and in Yorkshire and indeed by all elsewhere who had read his works JAMES WHITLOCK was born in London 28. Nov. 1570. descended from those of his name living near to Olyngham in Berkshire educated in Merchant Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1588. took one degree in the Civil Law setled in the Middle Temple became summer Reader of that House 17 Jac. 1. a Knight chief Justice of Chester and at length one of the Justices of the Common Picas as in his Epitaph 't is said tho in his his last Will of the Kings Bench. He had the Latin tongue so perfect that sitting Judge of Assize at Oxon when some Foreigners persons of quality purposely came into the Court to see the manner