in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
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-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-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
Benedicti inhumatur monumento laqueis plintheis carchesiis scamno Hypocratis glossocomtis aliis chirurgicis ex Bribasio Galeno machinamentis exornato The Coll. of Physicians was then in Knight-riders-street in London not far from the Church of St. Benedict near Pauls Wharf EDWARD RISHTON of a right ancient Family in Lancashire became a Student in the University about 1568 particularly as it seems in Brasenose College where after he had spent some years in Philosophy and Mathematicks supplicated the Ven. congr of Regents in Apr. 1572 for the Degree of Bach. of Arts having performed all excercise requisite thereunto but whether he was admitted it appears not in the University registers Afterwards he left his native Country and Friends and went to Doway where studying for some time in the English Coll. was made M. of A. Thence he went to Rome in 1577 and after he had consummated certain studies in Divinity was made a Priest in 1580 or thereabouts Soon after he was sent into the Mission of England but before he was quite settled he was taken and kept close Prisoner in the Tower of London and elsewhere 3 or 4 years At length being released his life spared and he condemned to banishment with Jam. Bosgrace a Jesuit John Hart and others he went into France and settled for a time in the University of Pont-à -musson in Loraine to the end that he might proceed in the study of Divinity and take a Degree or Degrees therein but the plague being then there and he careless to avoid it in time was infected therewith and soon after died This is that Edw. Rishton qui impie ingratus as one saith in Principem cui vitam debuit publicatis scriptis malitiae virus illico evomuit The titles of the said writings are these Synopsis rerum ecclesiastiearum ad an chr 1577. Whether in Engl. or Lat. I know not for I have not yet seen it Profession of his faith made manifest and confirmed by 24 reasons or motives It must be now known that Nich. Saunders left behind him at his death two imperfect books De schismate Anglicano with the beginning of the third commencing with the Reign of Q. Elizabeth which coming into the hands of our Author Rishton after he had suffered imprisonment for some time in England he supplied what was defective in them corrected and caused them to be published at Colen 1585. to which he added of his own composition besides the third book which was in a manner all his Rerum pro religione catholica ac inturri Londinensi gestarum ab an 1580. ad an usque 1585 indiculus seu diarium with a preface to it Religiosorum sacerdotum nomina qui pro defensione primatus Rom. Ecclesiae per Martyrium consummati sunt sub Henrico 8. Angliae rege c. Mostly taken out of Saunders his book De visibili Monarchia Ecclesiae c. These additions with the book De Schismate having undergone several impressions as I have told you elsewhere have been since added to them 1 An appendix which makes a fourth book exerpted from certain of the works of Peter Ribadeneira a Jesuit 2 Summarium rationum quibus Cancellarius Angliae Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethae Angliae Reginae persuaserunt occidendum esse Mariam Stuartum Scotiae Reginam c. Which being published in English were translated into Latine and had added thereunto Supplicium mors Reginae Scotiae c. by the labour of Romoald Scot 3 Epistola Doctoris Johannis Pistorii Nidani ad D. Jacobum Grynaeum Ministri verbi Ecclesiae Basiliensis 4 Mariae Stuartae Reg. Scotiae innocens à cade Darleanâ— c. written by Obertus Barnestapolius Which four things being added to Rishtons additions to Saunders book De Schismate were all printed together at Colen 1628 in a thick oct What other things our Author Rishton hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying near to St. Manhou after year 1585 or about Fifteen hundred eighty and five in his flight from Pont-à -mosson to avoid the pest was buried there by the care of Joh. Barnes an English exile the same I suppose with John Barnes the Benedictine Monk whom I shall mention elsewhere I find one Edw. Risden a Secular Priest of the English Coll. at Doway in this Mans time who was afterwards of the Order of Carthusians but he being descended from the Risdens or Risdons of Devonshire must not be taken to be the same as some are apt to do with Edw. Rishton before-mention'd I find also one Edw. Risden or Risdon a Devonian to have been Fellow of Exeter Coll. and Master of Arts 1566 which probably may be the same with the Carthusians sed Qu. HENRY SIDNEY who was learned in many languages and a great lover of learning was born of and descended from a noble Family of his name living at Cranleigh in Surrey became a Student in New Coll. as it seems in 1543 or thereabouts but making no long stay there he went to the Court where he became a coâ—panion to Prince Edward afterwards King Ed. 6. and by him much esteemed In the third year of that Kings Reign he received the honour of Knighthood and was forthwith being then about 22 years of age sent Embassadour into France where he behaved himself far beyond his years In the 2 and 3 of Phil. and Mary he was made general Governour of all the Kings and Queens revenues within the Realm of Ireland and about two years after Lord Justice thereof In the 2 of Qu. Elizab. he was appointed Lord President of the Marches of Wales and 4 years after was made Knight of the honorable order of the Garter having before been employed in one or more Embassies In 1568 in the month of Apr. he was constituted Deputy of Ireland and in Aug. the same year being then at Oxon. he was actually created Master of Arts. Afterwards he was Lord Justice again and twice Deputy of the said Kingdom c. This Person hath written many things which chiefly continue at this time in MS. All that I have seen are A godly letter to his Son Philip. Lond. 1592. oct Since which time have been other letters of his to the said Person made extant two of which I have seen without date as that which begins thus Son Philip I have received two letters from you And the other My Son the virtuous inclination of thy matchless mother c. He hath also written Miscellanies of Irish affairs MS. and caused also the Statutes of Ireland to be first published in print He paid his last debt to nature in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester in his return from Ludlow on the fourth day of May in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 and was buried 21. of June following in the Church at Penshurst in Kent he having some years before obtained the mannour thereof to him and his posterity for ever The
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
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-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
the year 1594. Treatise wherein is manifestly proved that Reformation and those that sincerely favour the same are unjustly charged to be Enemies unto her Majesty and the State Printed 1590. in qu. This was answered in a Book intit Pasquils Apology the first part wherein he renders a reason of his long silence and gallops the Field with the Treatise of Reformation Printed where I was and where I shall be ready by the help of God and my Muse to send you a may-game of Martinism An. 1590. qu. Hay ' any work for a Cooper c. This was written against Dr. Tho. Coper before-mentioned and said to be printed in Europe not far from some of the bouncing Priests An. 1590. qu. Epitomy of the first Book of Dr. John Bridges against the Puritans Printed in qu. Oh! read over Dr. Joh. Bridges for it is a worthy Work This was written against Dr. Bridges Bishop of Oxon and said to be printed over Sea in Europe within two furlongs of a bouncing Priest at the cost and charges of Mart. Marprelate Gent. in qu. Epistles to the terrible Priests in the Convocation House in qu. The State of the Church of England in oct Petition for Peace in oct His Apology This I have not yet seen Of Prelatick Ministry Printed 1609. in qu. History of Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16. Ch. Applied to the Prelacy Ministry and Church Assemblies of England Printed 16. 9. qu. This Book being left imperfect by the Author when he was seized and imprisoned was published by one of his 〈◊〉 who saith in the Title that it was written by Joh. 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 of Jesus Christ and in the Epistle to the Reader 〈…〉 was a godly Man learned zealous and of a 〈…〉 carriage and courage That with all 〈…〉 he endeavoured to have the Gospel preached 〈◊〉 among his poor Country Men whose Case he 〈…〉 passion of in that they wanted the 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 After all this God using him as a 〈…〉 more clear manifestation of 〈…〉 imprisioned condemned and excuted and so 〈…〉 dom for the Name of Christ c. These 〈…〉 Titles I have here set down are all 〈…〉 knowledge if not too many 〈…〉 Author of which did in most of them 〈…〉 of England and its Members that 〈…〉 Roman 〈…〉 of them in their Books and Marprelate for a grave Author and Witness c. But this the Reader is to understand that the learned and sober Men did answer most or all of the said Books which were printed by stealth partly in that nest of rigid Puritans and Schismaticks at Fawsly in Northamptonshire and partly at Coventry and elsewhere because they knew Penry to have more than ordinary Learning in him yet they did not so much work on the Author and his Disciples make them ridiculous and put him and them to silence more than those Answers which were written in a buffooning stile as 1 that written by Tom Nash intit Pappe with an hatchet alias A Fig for my God-Son Or Crack me this Nut Or A Country Cuff that is A sound Box of the Ear for the Ideot Martin to hold his Peace Written by one that dares call a Dog a Dog Imprinted by John Ancke c. And are to be sold at the Sign of the Crab-tree Cudgel in Thwack-coat-Lane 2 That entit Martin's months mind c. pr. 1589. in qu. 3 That called The return of the renowned Cavaliero Pasquill of England from the other side of the Seas and his meeting with Marforius at London upon the Royal Exchange c. Lond. 1589. qu. against Martin and Martinism 4 Another entit A countercuff given to Martin Junior c. by the Pasquill of Engl. Cavaliero c. Lond. 1589. qu. 5 That entit The first part of Pasquill's Apology which I have before mention'd 6 A certain Oxford Scholar under the Name of Cuthbert Curry-Knave who in his Book called An Almond for a Parrot or an Alms for Mart. Marprelate c. Printed in qu. doth most egregiously run Martin down I say that these Buffoonries and Pasquils did more non-plus Penry and his Disciples and so consequently made their Doctrine more ridiculous among the common sort than any grave or learned Answer could do as in some part did A. L. who entitles himself Anti-Martinus in his Monitio ad adolescentes utriusque Academia Lond. 1589. qu. At length our Author Penry being apprehended at Stepney near to London after his return from beyond the Sea for his writing and publishing infamous Books and Libels and the Religion then established was after condemnation rto die for the same hang'd at St. Thomas à Waterings on the 29. year 1593 May in fifteen hundred ninety and three He was adjudged at the King's Bench by Sir Jo. Popham Knight L. Ch. Justice of that Court and the rest of the Judges there assembled on the 25. of the said Month of May but was not executed on the next day after judgment as it was expected nor the second nor the third day after But when Men looked least for the same as one saith then was he brought forth being at dinner as I have heard by a Warrant under the Hands of John Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Sir John Popham aforesaid and the matter being carried after a close manner he was suddenly conveyed to the place of Execution where he was as hastily bereaved of his Life and not suffered though he desired it to make declaration of his Faith towards God or of his Allegiance to her Majesty c. Thus by the Death of this forward and zealous Person with the condemnation of John Vdal and Henry Barrow before that time the neck of the Plots of the fiery Non-conformists were broken and their brags turned into Preaching of Preces and Lachrymae as the only means for Christian Subjects WILLIAM FLEETWOOD was born of being a natural Son and descended from the Fleet woods of Penwortham and they from those of Heskyn in Lancashire educated for a time in this University either in Brasnose Coll. or Broadgates Hall left it without a degree and retired to the Middle Temple where by continual industry advanced by good natural parts he attained to the name of an eminent Lawyer In 5 of Eliz. he was elected Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house and in the year following Autumn-Reader again but he omitting one of those times to read he was in the 11th year of the said Queen elected Double Reader thereof in Lent About that time being made Recorder of London he was afterwards by Writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law An. 1580. and in 1592. he was made the Queen's Serjeant He was a learned Man and a good Antiquary but a marvelous merry and pleasant conceit And as touching his Learning Justice and Elocution I cannot better describe them than a Poet of those days hath done in certain Verses beginning thus Ipse forem brevibus gyaris
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
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.
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
an years time he was got into his Greek Grammar for he was one of a prodigious memory and of wonderful strength of body After he had spent one year at Westminster School he was sped a Child in Wykehams coll near Winchester where making very great proficiency in the School there he was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll an 1584. and two years after was admitted Verus Socius In Feb. 1591. he had the degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him and being Terrae filius in the Act following he was so bitterly satyrical that he was not only denied the completion of that degree by being admitted ad regendum but was expel'd the University Afterwards being put to his shifts he went into Somersetshire where he taught a School for about an year or more at Ilchester and compiled a Greek Lexicon as far as the Letter M. About that time having married a rich Fortune in those parts named Benedicta the Widdow of one Bourne but Daughter of Rob. Moyle of Buckwell in Kent he entred himself a Student in the Middle Temple where after he had spent some years and performed certain exercise he was called to the Bar. In 1614. he sate as a Burgess in Parliament then in being wherein in speaking his mind he made a desperate allusion to the Scicilian Vesper for which being committed Prisoner to the Tower of London 7. June was examined whether he well understood the consequence of that Vesper to which he alluded Whereupon making answer that he had a hint thereof and afterwards a general information from Dr. Lionel Sharp of Cambridge that Doctor therefore with Sir Charles Cornwallis Son of Sir Tho. Cornwallis of Brome in Suffolk were imprison'd in the Tower on the 13. of the same month At the same time that our author Hoskyns was committed to custody were others also imprison'd with him for behaving themselves turbulent in the H. of Commons as Walt. Chute a Kentish man who had lately been put out of his place of Carver to the King one Wentworth Tho. Wentworth mentioned under the year 1627. esteemed by some then living a silly and simple creature and a third named Christopher Nevil second Son to the Lord Abergavenny who was newly come from School and made the House sport with his boyish speeches wherein were these words reiterated O tempora O mores After our author Hoskyns had continued a Prisoner for a full year he with Sharp and Cornwallis were released and ever after were held in great value by the Commons In the 17. of Jac. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader of the Middle-Temple and in the 21. of the said King made a Serjeant at Law and soon after a Judge or Justice itinerant for Wales and one of the Council of the Marches thereof He was the most ingenious and admired Poet of his time and therefore much courted by the ingenious men then living There were few or none that published books of Poetry but did celebrate his memory in them especially his contemporary in New coll named Joh. Owen the Epigrammatist and fewer but did lay them at his feet for approbation before they went to the Press 'T was he that polish'd Ben. Johnson the Poet and made him speak clean whereupon he ever after called our author Father Hoskyns and 't was he that view'd and review'd the History of the World written by Sir W. Raleigh before it went to the Press with which person he had several years before especially during their time of imprisonment in the Tower been intimate He was also much respected and beloved by Camden Selden Sam. Daniel Dr. Joh. Donne Dean of Pauls Rich. Martin Recorder of London Sir H. Wotton and Sir Benj. Rudyerd with the last of whom it was once his fortune upon a quarrel that fell out to fight a duel and to hurt him in the knee but were afterwards soon reconcil'd He was a person always pleasant and facete in company which made him much desired by ingenious men He was an excellent Master of the Latin and Greek tongue well read in Divinity but in the Common Law which was his profession not so well He hath written Lexicon Graecum MS. imperfect Epigrams in Engl. and Lat. Some of which are printed in several books and among them I suppose are his verses on a F t let in the Parliament house which are printed in some of the books of Drollery He had a book of Poems neatly written bigger than those of Dr. Donne which were lent by his Son Benedict to a certain person in 1653. but could never retrieve it Epitaphs in Lat. and English The Art of Memory He was so excellent in it whether artificial or natural that no man ever went beyond him in his time When he was a School-boy at Winchester and had an exercise of verses to make he neglected through idleness the making of them So that fearing a whipping he read the exercise of one of his School-fellows over his shoulder just as he had finish'd it Whereupon the Master entring and the exercise called upon him first he drew up to and told him he had lost it yet nevertheless he would repeat it without book if that would serve his turn so that the Master being contented he repeated 16 or 20 verses that he had before read of the other boys making and so was excused At length the other boy being called and he shewing the verses that Hoskyns had repeated he was esteemed the thief that had stole them away from Hoskyns and thereupon was sorely whip'd for so doing Method of the Law reduced under the heads of Rights Wrongs Remedies All which books with others of various subjects are in MS. and for the most part kept in the hands of his Grandson Sir Joh. Hoskyns Knight and Baronet He departed this life in his house at Morehampton in Herefordshire 27. Aug. in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1638 aged 72. and was buried on the south side of the Choire of Dowr Abbey in the said County Over his grave was erected soon after an Altar-monument with 24 verses ingraven thereon made by Thomas Bonham of Essex Esq The four first run thus Hoc tegitur tumulo totus quem non tegit orbis Hoskinus humani prodigium ingenii Vsque adeo excoluit duo pugnacissima rerum Et qua non subeant nomina pectus idem Pieridumque legumque potens c. RICHARD JAMES was born at Newport in the Isle of Wight admitted Scholar of C. C. coll from that of Exeter 23. Sept. 1608. aged 16. or thereabouts and on the 30. of Sept. 1615. Probationer-Fellow About that time he being involved in the studies of Theology he entred into Orders preached often and at length was Bac. of that Faculty This person tho humorous was of a far better judgment than his Uncle Thom. James mentioned under the year 1629. and had he lived to his age would have surpassed him in published books He was a great traveller also was
of the Civil Law in the said University Thom. Beacon M. of A. and Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in the said Univ. He was afterwards Orator and Proctor thereof was made Prebendary of Norwych in Jan. 1574 and Chancellour thereof in the year following Ruben Sherwood M. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the said Univ. Schoolmaster of Eaton Doct. of Phys and a noted practitioner of that fac for several years in the City of Bathe where he died 1598 leaving behind him the character of a good Scholar and an eloquent Man Tho. Preston M. of A. and Fell. of Kings Coll. He acted so admirably well in the Tragedy of Dido before Qu. Elizabeth when she was entertained at Cambridge an 1564 and did so gentilely and gracefully dispute before her that she gave him 20 l. per an for so doing He was afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law and Master of Trin. Hall in that University Five more of the said University were then incorporated Masters of Arts also among whom Edw. Stanhop was one On the same day Sept. 6. were these Doctors following incorporated Thom. Wilson Doct. of the Laws beyond Sea incorporated at Cambridge was now incorporated also at Oxon. He was a Lincolnshire Man born elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in 1541 where he afterwards was Tutor and Servant to Henry and Charles Brandon Dukes of Suffolke Afterwards he was one of the ordinary Masters of the Requests Master of St. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London Embassador into the Low Countries in 1577 and in 1579. Feb. 5. had the Deanery of Durham confer'd upon him by the Queen void by the death of Will. Whittyngham he being then Secretary of State and Privy Counsellor to her While he enjoyed the Office of Secretary he became famous for three things 1 For quick dispatch and industry 2 For constant diligence and thirdly for a large and strong memory He hath written 1 Epistola de vita obitu duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandâ—n Lond. 1552. qu. 'T is set before a book of verses made on their deaths by several Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge All which he collecting together did publish them and by an Epistle of his composition dedicated them to Hen. Grey Duke of Suffolke 2. The Art of Rhetorick Printed 1553 60. 67. c. qu. 3 The rule of reason containing the art of Logick First printed in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. afterwards at Lond. 1567. qu. 4 Discourse upon usury Lond. 1572. qu. much commended by Dr. Laur. Humphrey the Queens publick pref of Div. in Oxon He also translated from Greek into English The three Orations of Demosthenes chief Orator among the Grecians in the Olynthians Lond 1570. with other things which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in 1581 whereupon his funeral was celebrated 17. June the same year in St. Catherines Church in East-Smithfield near to the Tower of London The Male issue which he left behind him begotten on the body of Anne Daugh. of Sir Will. Winter Knight setled at Sheepwash in Lincolnshire where the name did lately if not still remain Dr Tob. Mathew did not succeed him in the Deanery of Durham till August 1583. Rob. Furth or Ford LL. Doct. of the said Univ. of Cambridge Of whom I know no more Rob. Huick M. of A. of this University and sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll. afterwards Doctor of Phys of Cambridge and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London and Physician to the Queen was then Sept. 6. incorporated Doct. of Phys in the house of Barthel Lant by the Commissary and two Proctors John Robinson Doct. of Div. of Cambridge sometimes a member of Pembroke Hall there now President of St. Johns Coll. in this University was also then incorporated In 1574 May 31. he was installed Archdeacon of Bedford in the place as it seems of Will. Rodde and about 1576 he succeeded John Aybner or Elmer in the Archdeaconry of Lincoln of which Church he was about that time made Chauntor Oct. 11. Nich. Bullyngham LL. D. of Cambridge and now Bishop of Lincoln was then incorp LL. D. 16. Edw. Eglionbie M. A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge He was now esteemed a good Grecian and Latin Poet was afterwards a Justice of Peace in Warwickshire and drawing the Pedegree of Qu. Elizabeth dedicated it to her for which she gave him 5 l. per an out of her lands for ever 26. John Porie Doct. of Div. and Master of Corp Ch. College in Cambridge One John Pory sometimes of Gonevill and Caius College in Cambridge did translate and collect A Geographical Historie of Africa written in Arabick and Italian by John Leo a More born in Granada and brought up in Barbary Lond. 1600. fol. What relation there was between this John Pory and the other who was Doct. of Div. I know not nor whether he be the same John Pory M. A. who was installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster on the resignation of John Hyll an 1568. Mar. 22. George Ackworth LL. D. and sometimes Orator of Cambridge was incorporated in that Degree He hath published 1 Oratio in restitutione Buceri Fagii Printed 1562. oct 2 Prolegoâ—â—nâ—n lib. 2. de visibili Monarchia contra Nich. Sanderi Monarchiam Lond. 1573. qu. Creations Aug. 27. Rich. Barber Bach. of the LL. and Warden of All 's Coll. was then actually created Doctor of the Laws in an upper Chamber belonging to him as Warden by Dr. Will. Awbrey and Dr. Rob. Longher by vertue of a Commission directed to them from the ven Convocation See more among the Bach. of Law an 1540. Edw. Atslow M. of A. and Fellow of New Coll. was actually created Doct. of Phys the same day in the house of Dr. Hen. Baylie situated in the Highstreet leading to the Quadrivium by Dr. Thom. Francis and him the said Dr. Baylie by vertue of a Commission c. Rob. Barnes Bach. of Phys sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. was also actually created Doctor of that Faculty in the same place and on the same day by vertue of a Commission c. Aug. 30. Roger Gifford Bach. of Physick sometimes Fellow of Merton College now or lately Fellow of that of Allsoules was actually created Doct. of that Fac. by Dr. Walter and Henry Baylie in the house of the said Henry by vertue of a Commission c. This Doctor Gifford was afterwards President of the Coll. of Physitians at London and Physitian to Qu. Elizabeth Note that the aforesaid four persons were created because they were appointed by the Convocation to dispute before Qu. Elizabeth when she was to be entertained by the Academians in the beginning of Sept. this year After she had been entertained these noble Persons following with others of quality were actually created Masters of Arts on the 6 day of the said month of Sept. viz. Edward Vere Earl of
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
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
of proceedings in matters of Justice he briefly repeated the heads of his charge to the Grand Jury in good and elegant Latin and thereby informed the Strangers and Scholars there present of the ability of the Judges and the course of proceeding in matter of Law and Justice He understood the Greek very well and the Hebrew was vers'd in the Jewish Histories and excellently knowing in the Histories of his own Country and in the Pedigrees of most persons of honour and quality in England and much conversant also in the study of Antiquity and Heraldry He was not by any exceeded in the knowledge of his own profession of the Common Law of England wherein his knowledge of the Civil Law was a help to him as his learned arguments both at the Bar and Bench have confirm'd it for a truth His works are these Reading in the Middle Temple hall In which was so much solid Law and excellent learning express'd that copies were desired and taken of it but whether printed I cannot tell Several Speeches in Parliament One of which is extant in a book intit The Soveraign's Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3. and 4. of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. Of the antiquity use and ceremony of lawful Combats in England MS. The beginning of which is Combats are distinguished to be lawful and unlawful c. This MS. which I saw and perused in the choice Library of MSS. of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq had the name of James Whitlock set and subscrib'd to it and so consequently I took him to be the author who dying on the 22. of June in sixteen hundred thirty and two the King did lose as good a Subject his Country as good a Patriot the People as just a Judge as ever lived c. as his Son Bulstrode Whitlock tells us His body was afterward buried at Falley or Fawley not far from Great Wycomb in Bucks over which his Son before-mentioned not only erected a stately monument but also a Chappel which serves for a burial place for those descended from him ISAAC WAKE Son of Arthur Wake Rector of Billyng in Northamptonshire Master of the Hospital of St. John in Northampton and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon third Son of John Wake Esq of the ancient and honourable Family of his name living at Sawcy Forest was born in the said County of Northampton at Billyng as it seems became a Member of this University in the beginning of the year 1593. aged 18. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll 1598. Orator of the University 1604. being then Regent ad placitum publickly known to the K. and Court at Oxon in the year following by his Orations of a Ciceronian stile delivered before them when entertained there travelled into France and Italy 1609. and after his return was entertained in the quality of a Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton one of the Secretaries of State and from his was advanced to the King 's service by being imployed Embassador to Venice Savoy and elsewhere The time when he went to Savoy was in the middle of Apr. 1619. being in few days before made a Knight whose Escocheon then or soon after which was hung up in all publick places where he came had this inscription written under it Sir Isaac Wake Knight Embassador Extraordinary in Savoy and Piemont Ordinary for Italy Helvetia and Rhetia select for France In 1623. he was elected Burgess by the Members of this University to serve in that Parliament which began the 19. Feb. the same year in which he was much admired for his excellent elocution I have been informed by some of the Ancients of Merton coll that this our author Wake had his Pen more at command in the Latin English and French tongue than any of his time in the University Also that his speaking was Majestick that he was better for Orations than disputing and that he employed his time more in reading political and civil matters than Philosophy or the great Faculties Further also that he was a gentile man in behaviour well spoken and therefore put upon Speeches at all Receptions and Funerals There is no doubt but that he was a man of exquisite learning strong parts of nature and of a most refined wit He hath written Rex Platonicus sive de potentiss Principis Jacobi Regis ad Academ Oxon. adventu an 1605. Oxon. 1607. qu. afterwards printed in oct Oratio funebris habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon quum maesti Oxinienses piis manibus Johannis Rainoldi parentarent Oxon. 1608. in tw c. Translated into English by Thom. Fuller in his Abel redivivus Lond. 1651. qu. Oratio funebris habita in Schola Theologica in obitum Clariss Equitis Tho. Bodley Oxon. 1613. qu. Wake 's name is not set to it only said in the title to be made by the publick Orator of the University which office Wake then injoyed 'T is reprinted in a book published by Will. Bates D. D. a Nonconformist-Minister intit Vitae selectiorum aliquot virorum qui doctrina dignitate aut pietate inclaruere Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Discourse of the 13 Cantons of the Helvetical League Lond. 1655. oct Discourse of the state of Italy as it stood about the year 1625. Printed with the former discourse Discourse upon the proceedings of the Kings of Sweden Printed also with the former These three last discourses were printed at Lond. in oct with this title put before them A threefold help to political observations I find another book going under his name that bears this title Disquisitions upon the Nativity of our Saviour Jesus Christ When printed I know not for I have not yet seen it And another called A relation of what hapned in the Dutchies of Mantoua and Montferrat from the beginning of the year 1628. unto the end of the year 1629. MS. among those given by the learned Selden's Executors to the publick Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of it is In the year of our Lord 1627. was closed with the death of Vincenzo Gonzaga c. He hath also Several Letters of State in the book called Cabala or Mysteries of State c. Lond. 1654. qu. and Several Letters in that intit Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. He took his last farewel of this World at Paris during his being there in the service of his Majesty Whereupon his body being embalmed was brought over into England and inter'd on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Chappel in Dover Castle in the month of July in sixteen hundred thirty and two At which time Mr. John Reading Minister of S. Maries Church in Dover preached his Funeral Sermon wherein he took occasion to speak very honourably of the person that laid dead before him whom he knew and well remembred in the University of Oxon. THOMAS ALLEN or Alleyn the Father of all learning and vertuous industry an unfeigned lover and furtherer of