Involved in a book intit Monumenta Westmon â—r an historical account of the original increase and present State of S. Peter's or the Abby Ch. of Westminster c. Lond. 1682. in oct Published by Hen. Keep of the Inner Temple Gent. sometimes a Gent. Com. of New Inn in Oxon. Remains concerning Britain their Languages Names Surnames Allusions c. Lond. 1604. 14. c. qu. Published at first under the two letters of M. N. which are the two last letters of the authors name To this book were several additions made by Jo. Philipot Herald of Arms under the title of Somerset Lond. 1637. c. qu. afterwards in oct with Camden's picture before all the editions Rerum 〈…〉 regnante Eli 〈◊〉 in 4 parts The first half with an Apparatus beâ—ore it reaching from the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. to the end of the year 1588. was printed at Lond. in fol. 1615. having had several things therein before that time expunged especially such that related to the story of Mary Q. of Scots The other half reaching from the beginning of 1589. to the death of Q. Elizab. and an Appendix were printed at the same place in fol. 1627. Both printed in two tomes at Leyden in oct and in a thick oct at Amsterdam 1639. and all translated into English by B. N. Gent. and several times printed in fol. The last half was translated into English by Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. afterwards Canon of Windsore and by him intit Tomus alter idem or The History c. Lond. 1629. in qu. His opinion concerning the High Court of Parliament Lond. 1658. oct Printed with the opinions on the same subject of Joh. Doderidge Arth. Agard and Franc. Tate I have seen also a discourse of his concerning the High Stewardship of England but 't is not as I conceive printed Epistolae variae ad viros doctos Written mostly in Latin Annales Regis Jacobi These reach from the death of Q. Elizab. 24. of March 1602-03 to the 18. of Aug. 1623. and no farther because the author being then very ill in body remaining in that condition till his death he could not well continue them any farther So that there wants memories more than for a year to the end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. These Annals are written with the authors own hand in fol. being only a Skeleton of a History or bare touches to put the author in mind of greater matters that he had in his head had he lived to have digested them in a full History as that of Q. Elizabeth The original came after his death into the hands of Mr. Joh. Hacket afterwards D. D. and at length Bishop of Lichfield who as I have been divers times informed did privately convey it out of the Library of the author Hacket being then a Master of Arts of some years standing This original being communicated by the said Dr. Hacket while he was living at Lichfield to Mr. afterwards Sir Will. Dugdale then Norroy King of Arms he contrary to the Doctors knowledge took a copy of it which I have seen and perused at Sir Williams house called Blith hall in Warwickshire but therein I found many mistakes as it afterwards more evidently appeared to me when that Transcript was put into the Ashmolean Musaeum Another copy I have seen in the hands of Sir Hen. St. George Clarenceaux King of Arms which having been transcribed by one that understood not Latin are innumerable faults therein and therefore not at all to be relyed upon After Dr. Hacket's death the original was put into the Library of Trin. coll in Cambridge where it now remains Our author Camden did also put into Latin Actio in Henricum Garnet Societatis Jesu in Anglia Superiorem c. adjectum est supplicium de Hen. Garnet Londini sumptum c. Lond. 1607. qu. And also viewed corrected and published certain old writers to whom he gave this title Anglica Normanica Hibernica Cambrica per varios authores c. Francof 1603. 04. fol. The first of which writers is Asser Menevensis his book De vita rebus gestis Regis Aelfredi At length our author Camden paying his last debt to nature in his house at Chiseihurst in Kent on Sunday the ninth of Nov. about 4 or 5 of the clock in the morn in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 his body afterwards was conveyed to Westminster to the house there where he used to dwell where laying in State for some time 't was on the 19. day of the same month carried to St. Peters commonly called the Abby-Church within that City accompanied by several of the Heralds in their formalities many of the Nobility Clergy Gentry and others All which being placed Dr. Christop Sutton a Prebendary of that Church stept up into the Pulpit and made a true grave and modest commemoration of his life Adding that as he was not sactious in Religion so neither was he wavering or inconstant of which he gave good testimonies at his end prosessing in the Exordium of his last Will that he died as had lived in the Faith Communion and Fellowship of the Church of England Sermon being ended the body was carried into the S. Cross Isle where it was buried in the west side or part of it As soon as the news of his death was certified to the Sages or Governours of the University they in gratitude of so worthy a Benefactor as he had been caused his memory to be celebrated in an Oration publickly delivered by the mouth of 〈…〉 M. of A. and Student of Ch. Ch. who was then the Deputy Oâ—â—tor To which Speech many of the Academians adding verses on the Benefactors death they were with the Speech printed under the title of Camdeni Insignia Oxon. 1624. qu. After these things were done was a Monument erected on the west Wall of the said S. cross isle with the bust of the Defunct resting his hand on a book with Britannia insculp'd on the Leaves thereof This Monument which was composed of black and white Marble was somewhat defaced in 1646. when the Hearse and Effâ—gies of Robert Earl of Essex the Parliamentarian General were cut in pieces and defaced The Inscription however being left intire I caused it to be printed elsewhere In the last Will and Testam of this great Scholar which I have more than once perused I find besides his publick benefactions his Legacies of 16 l. 10 l. and 5 l. to all his learned acquaintance then in being as to Ja. Gruter Library Keeper to the Prince Pal. Elector of Heidelberg 5 l. To Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. hall in Oxon. 16 l. To Jo. 〈◊〉 of the Inner Temple 5 l. c. besides a piece of plate to Sir 〈◊〉 Grevill Lord Brook Chancellour of the Exchequer who preferr'd him gratis to his Office and another of 16 l. price to the Company of Painter-Stainers of London and this to be engraven thereon Gul. Camden Clarenceaux
treatise of predestination Lond. 1581. oct De Christo gratis justificante contra Jesuitus Lond. 1583. oct Disputatio contra Jesuitas eorum argumenta quibus inhaerenâ—â—n justitiam ex Aristotile confirmant Rupell 1585. oct Eicasmi seu meditationâ—s in Apocal. S. Johannis Apostoli Evangelistae Lond. 1587. fol. Genev. 1596. oct Papa consutatus vel sacra Apostolica Ecclesia papam confutans Translated into English by James Bell a great admirer of Joh. Fox pr. at Lond. in qu. Brief exhortation fruitful and meet to be read in the time of Gods visitation where Ministers do lack or otherwise cannot be present to comfort them Lond. in oct He translated also from English into Latin Concio funebris in obitum Augustae memoriae Ferdinandi Caesaris recens defuncti in Eccles Cath. S. Pauli habitae 3. Oct. 1564. Also from Latin into English 1 A Sermon of Joh. Oecolampadius to young Men and Maidens Lond. in tw 2 An instruction of Christian Faith how to lay hold upon the promise of God and not to doubt of our salvation Or otherwise thus Necessary instructions of faith and hope for Christians to hold fast and not to doubt c. Lond. 1579. sec edit in oct Written by Urbanus Regius He finished also and compleated An answer Apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective Lond. 1577 and 1581. qu. began in Latin by Walt. Haddon LL D. and published The four Evangelists in the old Saxon tongue with the English thereunto adjoyned Lond. 1571. qu. What else he wrot and translated you may see in Baleus but the reader is to understand that several of those books that he mentions were never printed At length after our Author had spent 70 years or more in this vain and transitory world he yielded to nature on the 18. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate before-mention'd year 1587 Over his grave is set up an inscription to his memory on the South wall a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq Univ. Oxon. lib. 2 p. 195. but not one word of him which is a wonder to me is mention'd in the Annalls of Q. Elizab. written by Will. Camden or by any Epigrammatist of his time only Joh. Parkhurst who was his acquaintance in this University He left behind him a Son named Samuel born in the City of Norwych made Demie of Magd. Coll. 1576. aged 15 afterwards Fellow of that House and Master of Arts who about 1610 wrot The life of his Father Joh. Fox which is set in Latin and English before the second Volume of Acts and Monuments printed at Lond. 1641. I find one Joh. Fox to be Author of Time and the end of time in 2 discourses printed at Lond. in 12 o but that Joh. Fox was later in time than the former While Joh. Fox the Martyriologist was Prebendary of Sarum he settled the Corps belonging thereunto which is the impropriation of Shipton Underwood near Burford in Oxfordshire on his Son whose Grand-daughter named Anne Heir to her Father Tho. Fox was married to Sir Ric. Willis of Ditton in Essex Knight and Baronet sometimes Colonel-general of the Counties of Linc. Nott. and Rutland and Governour of the Town and Castle of Newark who or at least his Son Tho. Fox Willis enjoyeth it to this day an 1690. JOHN FIELD was a noted Scholar of his time in this University but in what house he studied I cannot yet tell One of both his names was admitted Fellow of Lincoln Coll. in the Year 1555 but took no Degree if the register saith right Another took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1564 and that of Master three years after And a third Jo. Field took the Degree of Bach. of Arts only in 1570. Which of these three was afterwards John Field the famous Preacher and Minister of St. Giles Cripplegate in London who saith in one of his books which I shall anon mention that he was educated in Oxon I cannot justly say unless it be he that was Mast of Arts. The works of that Joh. Field who saith that he was of the Univ. of Oxon are these Prayers and meditations for the use of private families and sundry other Persons according to their divers states and occasions Lond. 1581. 85. 1601. c. in tw Caveat for Persons Howlet and the rest of the dark brood Lond. 1581. oct Exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct Godly Exhortation by occasion of a late judgment of God shewed at Paris garden 13. Januar. 1583. upon divers Persons whereof some were killed and many hurt at a Beare-baiting c. Lond. 1583. oct Printed there again 1588 with this title A declaration of the Judgment of God shewed at Paris garden c. The said Jo. Field also hath translated into English 1 A treatise of Christian righteousness Lond. 1577. oct Written in French by Mr. J. de L'espine 2 Notable treatise of the Church in which are handled all the principal questions that have been moved in our time concerning that matter Lond. 1579. oct Written in French by Phil. de Mornay 3 Sermons on Jacob and Esau on Gen. 25. ver 12. to the 38. verse of 27. of Gen. Lond. 1579. qu. Written by Joh. Calvin 4 Four Sermons entreating of matters very profitable for our time the first of which is on Psal 16. 3. With a brief exposition of the 87 Psalm Lond. 1579. qu. Written in French by John Calvin 5 Second part of questions which is concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1580. Written by Theod. Beza 6 Com. on the Creed Lond. 1582. oct Written by Gasp Olevian 7 Prayers used at the end of the readings upon the Prophet Hosea Lond 1583. in 16. Which prayers were made and written by J. Calvin 8 Christian Meditations on the 6. 25 and 32 Psalmes Lond. in 16o. written by P. Pilesson c. besides other things which I have not yet seen At length our Author Field dying about his middle age in the latter end of the year after the 16. year 1586 Febr. Fifteen hundred eighty and seven was buried in the Church of St. Giles before mention'd leaving behind him several Children of which the eldest was named Theophilus Field educated in Cambridge afterwards Chaplain to King James the first Bishop of Landaff and at length of Hereford as I shall more at large tell you elsewhere WILLIAM HARRISON was a Londoner born educated in Grammar learning at Westminster under Mr. Alex. Nowell in the latter end of King Hen. 8. or beginning of King Edw. 6. sent to Oxon to obtain Academical learning but to what house therein unless Ch. Ch. I cannot justly tell From Oxon he went to Cambridge and making some stay there became at length domestick Chaplain to Sir Will. Brook Knight Lord Warden of the Cinque ports and Baron of Cobham in Kent who if I mistake not preferr'd him to a benefice He hath written
reading in ancient authors of the Church and indeed beyond his age What became of him when he left Greenwich I know not for he died not there as I have been informed by an ingenious person who lives in those parts THOMAS KINGSMILL born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Sidmanton in Hampshire became a Student in this University in 1555. or thereabouts and Fellow of Magd. coll in 1560. being then Bachelaur of Arts. In 1565. he was elected Publick Orator and in 69. he was made Hebrew Professor of the University In 1572. he was a candidate for the degree of Bachelaur of Div. but whether he was really admitted I find not Soon after being distempered in brain by too much lucubration the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker of C. C. coll supplied his place of Professor in 1579. and for some years following What became of him afterwards I know not nor any thing else of him only that he recovering his Senses wrote and published A complaint against Security Lond. 1602. oct Classicum Paenitentiale Ox. 1605. qu. Tractatus de Scandalo Printed with the Classicum There was another Tho. Kingsmill who was M. of A. Preacher of God's Word at Hyth one of the Cinque Ports in Kent an 1631. and the publisher of a Sermon called The Drunkard's Cup on Prov. 23. 21. Lond. 1631. oct but whether he hath published any thing else or was of this University I cannot justly say it THOMAS CAREW descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living in Devonshire and Cornwall was educated for a time either in Broadgates hall or Exeter coll but took no degree here Afterwards taking upon him the Sacred Function became a Minister of God's Word a frequent Preacher and a publisher of Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Psal 90. 12. 2 Serm. on S. Jo. 3. 3. called Necessity of Mans renovation 3 Serm. on 1 Tim. 3. 16. 4 On 1 Pet. 3. 3. 4 5 On Jam. 5. from ver 1. to 5. Which five Sermons were published in oct an 1603. Four godly Sermons viz. 1 Against Popery or false Religion on Matth. 16. 18. 19. 2 Against Atheism the Enemy to Religion on Psal 53. 1. 3 Against Hypocrisie the counterfeit of Religion on Matth. 7. 5. 4 Against Apostasie the falling from Religion on Matth. 12. 31. 32. Which four Sermons were published at Lond. in oct an 1605. and dedicated by the author to Sir George Carew Baron of Clopton Lord President of Mounster Vice-Chamberlain and Receiver-general to the Queen's Majesty and Lievtenant of the Ordinance FRANCIS TRIGGE a noted and godly Preacher did first begin to be conversant among the Oxonian Muses in Vniversity coll an 1564. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and at length became Rector of Wellbourne near to Beckyngham in Lincolnshire in which County if I mistake not he was born His Works are An Apology shewing that the days wherein we live are more good and blessed than those of our Forefathers Lond. 1589. qu. Analysis capitis 24 Evangelii secundum Matthaeum c. Oxon. 1591. Comment in cap. 12. ad Rom. Ox. 1590. Comemnt in Rev. S. Joh. Printed 1590. Serm. Preached at Grantham an 1592. on Isay 24. 1. 2. 3. Ox. 1594. oct Touchstone of Cath. Faith Printed 1599. qu. The true Catholick formed according to the truth of the Scriptures Lond. 1602. qu. At length paying his last debt to Nature at Welbourne before-mentioned was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the 12. of May in sixteen hundred and six year 1606 He was the first Founder of the Library at Grantham in Lincolnshire on the wall of which are these Verses written which you shall have instead of his Epitaph Optima Franciscus donavit Biblia Triggus Welbourniae quondam concionator amans Plurima permultis largitus munera Sanctis The saurum nobis condidit usque Sacrum Sic pie talis opus voluit sic pignus amoris Sic Christum coluit sic docet esse pium Beside the said Benefaction he and his Wive's Mother named Elizab. Hussey of Hunnington gave to the poor of Grantham 3. lib. 6 sol 8. den per an and for so doing they are entred among the Benefactors There goes about those parts a memorable story concerning the prediction of the death of this our author a very strict Puritan in his time but whether any credence may be given to it forasmuch as 't is propagated by dissenting Brethren I doubt it and therefore I shall now pass it by JOHN ARGALL third Son of Thom. Argall by Margaret his Wife Daughter of John Talkarne of the County of Cornwal was born in London entred a Student in Ch. Ch. in the latter end of Q. Mary took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1565. and was Senior of the Act celebrated the 18. of Feb. the same year Afterwards he studied the Supream Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and at length became Parson of a Market Town in Suffolk called Halesworth He was always esteemed a noted Disputant during his stay in the University was a great Actor in Plays at Ch. Ch. particularly when the Queen was entertained there 1566. and when at ripe years a tolerable Theologist and Preacher But so much was he devoted to his studies that being withal unmindful of the things of his World he lived and died like a Philosopher He hath written and published De vera paenitentia Lond. 1604 oct Introductio ad artem Dialecticam Lond. 1605. oct In which book ver facete and pleasant the author saith of himself in the Postpredicaments under Simul tempore that whereas the great God had raised many of his Cronies and Contemporaries to high dignities in the Church as Dr. Tho. Bilson to the See of Winton Mart. Heton to Ely Hen. Robinson to Carlile Tob. Mathews to Durham c. yet he an unworthy and poor old Man was still detained in the chains of poverty for his great and innumerable sins that he might repent with the Prodigal Son and at length by God's favour obtain Salvation What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was reputed by the neighbouring Ministers of Halesworth a great Scholar and that being at a Feast at Cheston a mile distant from that Town he died suddenly at the Table Afterwards his body being carried to Halesworth it was buried in the Church there 8. year 1606 Octob. in sixteen hundred and six Now I am got into the name of Argall I must let the Reader know that in my searches I find one Rich. Argall to be noted in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for an excellent divine Poet having been much encouraged in his studies by Dr. Jo. King Bishop of London but in what house educated in Oxon where he spent some time in study I cannot now tell you He wrote and published
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâ—ctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâ—s delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
Hen. 8. for which he incur'd that Kings displeasure He paid his last debt to nature on the sixth day of Apr. 1533. Whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Elye in the middle of a Chappel by him a little before erected on the south side of the same Church Soon after was a large marble laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Of your charytye pray for the Sowle of Nicholas West sometymes Bishop of this See and for all Christian Sowles For the whych prayer he hath graunted to every person so doying fortye days of pardon for every tyme that they shall so pray c. In the said See of Elye succeeded Thom. Goodrick D. of Div. Son of Edward Goodrick of Kirbye in Lincolnshire Son of John Goodricke of Bullingbrook in the said County which Thomas was educated in Kings colledge in the University of Cambridge JOHN THORNDEN sometimes written Thornton was Doctor of Div. and several times Commissary or Vicechancellour of this University while Dr. warham Archb. of Canterbury was Chancellour viz. between the years 1506 and 1514. in which time he is often stiled Episcopus Syrynensis and Syrymensis perhaps the same with Sirmium in Hungary as being a Suffragan to the same Archbishop which is all I know of him MENELAUS Mac-CARMACAN sometimes written among our imperfect Records Carmgan Hibernicus spent some time among his Countrymen in this University but whether he took a degree we have no Register to shew it Afterwards retiring to his Country he became Dean of Raphoe and at length Bishop of that place in 1484. He died in the habit of a Grâ—y-Frier on the seventh of the Ides of May in fifteen hundred and fifteen year 1515 and was buried in the Monastery of the Franciscans commonly called the Grey-Friers at Dunagall Whereupon one Cornelius O-Cahan succeeded him in his Bishoprick RICHARD MAYHEW or Mayo received his first breath in Berkshire in a Market Town if I mistake not called Hungerford was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1459. and on the 28. March 1467. took holy Orders from the hands of George Archb. of York Soon after he was elected one of the Proctors of this University and in 1480. was made President of Magd. coll by the Founder thereof W. Waynfleet and about that time D. of Div. In the beginning of May 1501 he was made Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire in the place of Joh. Hole Bach. of Decrees deceased who on the first of May 1497. was from being Archdeacon of Clievland admitted to that Dignity on the resignation of Cornbull and being installed Archdeacon of Oxon on the 10. of the same month and in the same year was sent into Spain to conduct the Infanta Katherine to England to be wedded to Prince Arthur In 1503. he was elected Chancellour of this University and in the year after he being one of the Kings Council his Almoner and elected to the See of Hereford had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the first of Nov. 1504. He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. of Apr. in fifteen hundred and sixteen year 1516 and was buried on the south side of the high Altar within his own Cathedral near to the foot of the Image of the Glorious King and Martyr Ethelbert By his Will he gave to 50 Priests studying in the University of Oxon six shillings and eight pence a-peice to pray for him as also several books to New coll Library One Rich. Mayow Doctor of Decrees of this University and Canon resid of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter died in the year 1500. whose Executor then was Thom Harrys Archdeacon of Cornwall but what relation there was between this Rich. Mayow who was a Westâ—rn man and the Bishop before-mentioned I know not In the said See of Hereford succeeded Charels Bothe LL. D. of Cambridge who after election received the temporalities thereof 9. Feb. 1516. By his last Will and Testam proved 8. May 1535. he desired to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of Hereford juxta hostium ex parte boreali Ecclesiae ubi construxi as he saith sepulchrum meum After him succeeded in the said See Edw. Fox another Cantabrigian who had the temporalities thereof restored to him 4. Oct. 1535. This person who was an eminent Scholar of his time was born at Duresley in Gloucestershire educated in Eaton School near Windsore admitted Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 27. March 1512. became Provost of it 27. Decemb. 1528. and afterwards the Kings Almoner one of his Privy Council and a great promoter of the Kings divorce from Q. Katharine particularly in the University of Cambridge where he and Dr. Steph. Gardiner procured with much difficulty and earnest engaging of themselves the testimony of the Members of the said University for the Kings divorce before-mentioned an 1530. In Sept. 1531. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester upon the resignation of Dr. Steph. Gardiner and in Nov. 1533. he was made Archdeacon of Dorset on the death of Will. Bennet About which time or rather before he had been Embassador divers times into France and Germany and afterwards was secretly a favourer of the reformed religion insomuch that Martin Bucer dedicated his Cemmentary on the Evangelists to him He the said Fox wrote a book De vera differentia regiae potestatis Ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque Lond. 1534-38 for which and other learned labours as his Annotations on Mantuan he is celebrated and numbred among the learned men by Joh. Leland There is also extant a short oration of his in the story of the Lord Thomas Cromwell which you may see in the Acts and Mon of of the Church and other matters elsewhere By his last Will and Test made the 8. May 1538. and proved 20. March following it appears that he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Church of S. Mary Hault in London now called S. Mary Mounthaw de monte alto the Patronage of which belongs to the Bishop of Hereford After him succeeded John Skâ—ppe D. D. sometimes of Gonvill coll in Cambridge who after his election to the See of Hereford had the Kings consent to it 7. Nov. 1539. He died in his house at Mount-hault in London in the latter end of the year after or on the 18. March 1551. Whereupon his body was buried near to that of his Predecessor Edward Fox before-mentioned JOHN HATTON a Yorkshire man born as it seems and among the Oxonians for a time educated became well beneficed in that County and at length Suffiragan Bishop to the Archbishop of York under the title of Nigrepont which is as I suppose near to the Archipelago In the year 1503. he was made Prebendary of Gevendale in the Church of York and in the year following Preb. of Vlleskelf in the same Church
decease of the said W. Worslley who had held with it other dignities among which was the Archdeaconry of Nottingham in which he was succeeded by Thom. Crosley in Aug. 1499. In 1505. he the said Rob. Sherebourne being elected Bishop of S. Davids under the title of Consiliarius regius had restitution of the temporalities of that See made to him on the 12. of Apr. the same year done in requiral of the many services and embassies which he had performed for his Master K. Hen. 7. In 1508. he was translated to the See of Chichester and had the temporalities belonging thereunto delivered to him on the 13. Dec. that year He was a person much given to hospitality was very charitable to the poor munificent to the coll that had given him Acad. education as may elsewhere be seen and bestowed much mony in beautifying and adorning his Cath. Ch. at Chichester At length after he had resigned his Bishoprick he gave way to fate on the 21. Aug. in fifteen hundred thirty and six aged 86 years or thereabouts and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. in a poor remembrance that he had made there on the south side of the same Church A certain note which Sir Will. Dugdale Garter K. of Arms collected by himself and afterwards communicated to me informs that the said R. Sherebourne founded a Free School in the time of Hen. 8. at Rowlston in Staffordshire at which place he was born of mean parentage But this note which he could not then tell whence he had I reject because the register of New coll tells us that he was born in Hampshire where is a Town called Sherbourne in which he or at least his Father or Grandfather was as 't is probable born After he had resigned his Bishoprick Mr. Rich. Sampson Dean of the Kings Chappel being elected thereunto had the temporalities thereof given to him 4. July 28. Hen. 8. Dom. 1536. JOHN KYTE was born as 't is said within the City of London and for a time educated in this University but in what house or what degrees he took it appears not Afterwards he had several dignities confer'd upon him was made Subdean of the King's Chappel and by K. Hen. 7. was sent Embassador into Spain In the latter end of 1513. he was made Archb. of Armagh by provision from P. Leo 10. the temporalities of which were given to him on the 20. May in the year following But he resigning the said Archbishoprick on the third of Aug. 1521. being newly made Bishop of Carlile in England on the death of Joh. Penny was made Archbishop of Thebes in Greece All these things were done by the endeavours made to the Pope by Card. Wolsey whose creature Kyte was And because the Bulls of translation and of Carlile with the retention of his other benefices should be expedited and done to the desire of Wolsey and Kyte the fees came to 1790. duckets but whether all was paid I think not because it partly appears by the letters of Joh. Clerk the Kings Orator at Rome afterwards B. of B. of Wells that for the sake of the said Card. 275 duckets were released to Kyte tho the World was then very hard at Rome He the said Kyte took his last farewell of this World after he had bestowed much money on Rose-castle the Seat of the Bishop of Carlile on the nineteenth day of June in fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 and was buried as 't is said in the middle almost of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Stepney near London Over his grave is a marble-stone yet remaining with an English Epitaph thereon contained in barbarous verses shewing that he was a person of great hospitality The five first run thus Under this ston closyde and marmorate Lyeth John Kitte Londoner natyff Encreasyng in vertues rose to high estate In the fourth Edwards chappel by his yong lyffe Sith whych the sevinth Henryes servyce primatyff Proceeding still c. How it came to pass that he was buried at Stepney I cannot tell Sure I am that by his Will and Test made the 18. June 29. Hen. 8 dom 1537. and proved 21. of the same month wherein he writes himself John Kyte Archb. of Thebes and Commendatory perpetual of Carlile he bequeaths his body to be buried by the body of his Father in St. Margarets Church in Westminster JOHN HILSEY a Dominican or Black Frier was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 1535. and died in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1538 Under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Nich Heath whom I shall mention at large in his proper place JOHN STOKESLIE was educated in S. Mary Magd. coll of which he was Fellow and much noted for his excellent faculty in disputing whether in Philosophy or Divinity In 1502. he being then M. of A. of some years standing was admitted Principal of S. Mary Magd. hall and in the year following was elected the northern Procter of the University because he had been born in the north parts of England Afterwards he became Vicar of Willoughby in Warwickshire for a time and Rector of Slimbridge in Gloucestershire both by the gift of the said college Prebendary of the Kings Chappel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Rich. Paice Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Rich. Fox B. of Winchester who gave him as I think the Archdeaconry of Surrey At length upon the translation of Tonstall to Durham he was made Bishop of London in 1530. In which See being installed 19. Jul. in the same year and about that time made the Kings Almoner fate there to the time of his death which hapning on the eighth of Sept. year 1539 in fifteen hundred thirty and nine was buried on the 14. of the said month in the Chappel of S. George within the Precinct of S. Pauls Cathedral Soon after was a memorial put over his grave running thus Hujus in obscuri tumuli c. Which in English is this as P. F. tells me Th'obscure recesses of this key-cold Tomb Do Stokeslies ashes and remains inhume Whose general name good life dexterity Of Pen Tongue Brain were known both far and nigh Who studied still to serve God and the King And benefit the publick in each thing What good he did in Forreign parts retrieve He brought it home like honey to his hive He knew the intreagues of Italy and Spain And of the Grecian Wyles did make much gain To many Kingdoms of the World being known And honour'd more returning to his own Who on our Blessed Ladies day being born Did on the self same day to dust return In 1529. he was sent to the Emperiour and Pope and to several Universities concerning the marriage of King Hen. 8. with his brother's Wife c. and was with Tho. Cranmer at
coll to which he was partly in his life time but more at his death a special benefactor Afterwards he became Chancellor of the diocess of Worcester in the place of Dr. Thomâ— Hanybal an 1518. and about that time Archdeacon of Glocester and Warden of the collegiate Church of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire At length his abilities being made known to K. Hen. 8. he was by him employed beyond the Seas concerning state affairs was made Doctor of the Laws there one of the Kings Counsellors at his return a chief agitator for the King in defence of his divorce from his first Wife Qu. Catherine especially in the University of Oxon by endeavouring to gain the opinion of the members thereof concerning that matter as I have told you elsewhere and in 1531. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty as he had stood beyond the Seas In 1539. he was elected Bishop of Worcester the temporalities of which being restored to him on the fourth of Aug. the same year he was soon after consecrated In 1543. he abdicated or rather resigned his See but for what cause is yet uncertain Whereupon retiring to Clerkenwell near London lived there for some years year 1556 and dying on the eleventh day of August in fifteen hundred fifty and six was buried on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Islyngton near London By his last will k and test dated 10. of Aug. 1556. he bequeathed very liberally to the poor people of Stratford upon Avon before-mention'd to the poor of Bromesgrave in Worcestershire Tadcaster Wymbersley c. at which places 't is probable he had been beneficed He also gave 100 marks to certain poor Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge in which last University he seems to have received a part of his education One Joh. Bell D. D. was Dean of Ely and dying 31. of Octob. 1591. was buried in the Cath. Ch. there but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell HENRY MAN was bred a Carthusian Monk and of the Carthusians at Shene in Surrey became Prior which Monastery he with his brethren surrendring into the Kings hands at the dissolution of Religious houses had a Pension allowed to him for some years In 1539. he took the degrees in Divinity in this University of Oxon and in the latter end of Hen. 8. was made the second Dean of Chester in the place of one Tho. Clerk and about that time tho the year when appear not was promoted to the Episcopal See of the Isle of Man He departed this mortal life at London on the 19. of Oct. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 and was buried in the chancel of the Church of S. Andrew Vndershaft within that City In his Deanery succeeded VVill. Clyve or Clyffe LL. D. who had been Chantor and afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at York but the year when I cannot justly say or whether the said Dr. Man kept the said Deanery in commendam with his Bishoprick and in the See of Man succeeded Thom. Stanley as I shall hereafter tell you JOHN BYRDE was made Bishop of Bangor in 1539. and translated thence to Chester in 1541. but deprived of that See by Qu. Mary for being married in the year 1553. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded George Cootes of whom I have made mention before but died about an year before Byrde JOHN CHAMBERS a Benedictine Monk was partly educated in Oxon but more in Cambridge in which University he was as it seems admitted to the reading of the sentences In 1528. he was made Abbat of Peterborough in which Town he was born upon the decease of one Rob. Kirton and living to see his Monastery dissolved was by the favour of K. Hen. 8. nominated the first Bishop of that place when the said King by his charter dated 4. Sept. 1541 erected an Episcopal See there On the said day the temporalities of it were delivered to him and on the 23. of Oct. following was consecrated thereunto which is all I know of him only that he was a worldly man and that dying in the winter time before the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Peterborough The reader is now to know that Dr. Fr. Godwin doth in his Commentary of English Bishops tells us that the said Joh. Chambers was Doctor of Physick bred up in Merton college and afterwards Dean of S. Stephens cell in Westminster but very much mistaken for that John Chambers Bach. of Div. and Bishop died in 1556. as 't is before told you and the other who was Dr. of Physick and Dean died 1549. Pray be pleased to see more in the Fasti under the year 1531. among the incorporations ROBERT KYNGE was descended from the ancient Kings of Devonshire as the posterity of his brother Thomas say but where he was born unless in Oxfordshire I cannot justly tell While he was young being much addicted to religion and learning was made a Cistercian Monk and among those of that order did he for some years live in Rewley Abby in the West suburb of Oxon and partly as I conceive for the sake of learning among the Bernardins in their coll in the North suburb of the said City In 1506. he as a Cistercian Monk was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in 1510. 13. and 15. he supplicated to be licensed to proceed in Divinity by the title of a Monk of the order of S. Benedict in the last of which years he occurs Abbat of Bruerne near to Burford in Oxfordshire anciently founded for Monks of Cisteaux which is a branch of the Benedictine order as the Bernardins are In 1518. he proceeded in Divinity in an Act celebrated on the last of Febr. and afterwards was made Abbat of Thame in Oxfordshire the Monks of which were also Cistercians About the time that the Abbey of Osney near Oxon was to be dissolved he was made Abbat commendatary thereof being then a Suffragan or titular Bishop under the title of Roven Rovenesis in the province of Athens by which name or title I find him to occur in 1539. In 1542. when Oxford was made an Episcopal See by K. Hen. 8. and the Abbey of Osney appointed to be the place of habitation of the Dean and Canons of the Cathedral to be there he the said Rob. Kynge was made and constituted the first Bishop in the beginning of Sept. the same year at which time Glocester coll was appointed his Palace or place of residence the Abbats lodgings at Osney for the Dean and the other lodgings in that Abbey for the Canons and Officers belonging to the Cathedral In 1546. when the said Cath. Ch. at Osney was translated to Cardinal coll alias Kings coll or the coll of K. Hen. 8. in
of D. 1518. Mar. Richard Ferys a Carme See among the D. of D. 1513. Besides these three were seven more admitted of whom John Combe a Cistercian was one Doctors of the Civil Law June 28. Brian Hygden LL. Baâ—â— of Broadgates Hall now Pembroke Coll. was then admitted Doctor On the 26 May 1515 he was admitted Archdeacon of York or of the West Riding in Yorkshire on the Resignation of John Carver LL. D. On the 20. of June 1516 he was admitted Prehendary of Vlleskelf in the Church of Yorkâ— and on the 27 of the same Month Dean thereof in the place of John Young LL. D. Master of the Roâ—ls deceased He paid his last debt to Nature 5 June 1539 having before been a Benefactor to Learning as I have elsewhere told you and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of York In his Deanery succeeded Rich. Layton or Leighton LL. D. on the 26 of July the same year who on the 31 of June going before was admitted to the said Prebendship of Vlleskelf purposely to capacitate him for the Deanery This Dr. Layton was Chaplain and Counsellor to K. Hen. 8. and did act much to please the unlimited desire of that King In Oct. 1541 he under pretence of his Majesty's Pleasure converted the Silver Capsula gilt in which were then the bones of the head of S. William Archbishop of York reposed with the Jewels and Ornaments of it to the public use and benefit of the Church of York In 1544. Dec. 24. Nich. Wotton LL. D was installed by proxy Dean of York in Dr. Layton's place and in Wotton's Dr. Matthew Hutcon 8 Apr. 1567. Feb. 29. Rob. Froost was then admitted Dr. of the Civil Law but never stood in the Act to compleat that degree This year March 29. John Ashdowne mentioned before did supplicate just after he had been admitted Bac. of the Canon Law to be licensed to proceed in that Faculty but was not granted Robert Coke also LL. B. and Principal of Henxsey Hall in S. Aldates Parish did supplicate to be licensed to proceed in the Civil Law but was then denied Doct. of Div. May 12. John Heskins a Preaching or Black Fryer June 26. Edward Powell of Oriel Coll. stiled in his Admission perdoctus vir Oct. 24. Rob. Holyngbourne a Benedictine Monk and Warden or Guardian of Canterbury Coll. now part of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Dec. 13. Will. Gylbert a Canon regular and Prior of the Monastery at Brewton in Somersetshire Dec. 13. Tho. Mychell of Exeter Coll. Canon of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and of Wells Will. Fauntleroy of New Coll. was admitted the same day His Sister Elizabeth was Abbess of Amesbury Jan. 22. John Smyth a Minorite or Franciscan These also supplicated this year for the said degree viz. 1. Will. Gydyng M. of A. and Bac. of Div. 2. Sim. Pykeryng a Carme 3. John Wetwang B. D. a Cistercian c. Incorporations June 28. Will. Smyth Commissary to the Bishop of Lincoln and Doctor of Decrees in another University was then incorporated He was Nephew or near of kin to Dr. Will. Smyth Bishop of Lincoln was Archdeacon of Lincoln and dying in 1528 was succeeded in that Dignity by Rich. Pate M A. of Oxon as I have told you elsewhere among the Bishops An. Dom. 1507. An. 22 23 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Will. Warham before mentioned Commiss Will. Fauntleroy again John Thornden again John Avery D. D. of Linc. Coll. John Kynton again Proct. John Lane of New Coll. as it seems Austr Will. Thomson of Vniv. Coll. Bor. Apr. 15. But the junior Proctor dying in the Long Vacation Mr. Hugh Pole or Pool of All 's Coll. about this time Principal of Biham Hall supplied his place as senior Regent in the University till the fourth day of Nov. following and then Mr. Thom. Bentley of New Coll. being elected Proctor served out the remaining part of the year Bach. of Arts. June 19. John Blysse He hath this Character added to his Name in the Cat. of Fellows of Mert. Coll. he being of that Society Medicus Astronomus quam doctus Feb. 27. Rog Egworth or Edgworth of Oriel Coll. whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1560. Besides these two were at least 55 Bachelaurs admitted this year and 23 that supplicated for that degree that were not this year admitted Bach. of Law Four in the Civil and eight in the Canon Law were admitted Nine in the Civil and five in the Canon Law supplicated for that degree One was admitted Bach. of both the Laws and one to the Volumes One Hen. Rawlyns occurs Bach. of the Civil Law this year but his Admission is omitted and therefore all that I can say of him is that he became Archdeacon of Salisbury 10 Apr. 1524 upon the death of James Bromwich who had that dignity confer'd upon him 2 March 1523 after the decease of George Sydenham This H. Rawlyns who was Prebendary of Faringdon and had been thrice Preb. of Combe and Harnham in the said Church within the space of four years was made at the same time 10 Apr. 1524. Preb. of Husborne and Burbach in the said Church of Sarum He was also dignified in the Church of Wells Mast of Arts. Oct. 13. Hugh Aston Ashtyn or Ashton so many ways I find him written He became Archdeacon of York that is of the Westriding of Yorkshire upon the resignation of Brian Hygden in Sept. 1516 and dying in Decemb. 1522 was succeeded in that dignity by Tho. Winter in the year following as I shall tell you under the year 1525. I have made mention of one Hugh Aston a Musitian in Will. Forest among the Writers under the year 1558. Mar. 8. Thom. Makerel of Vniv. Coll. One Dr. Makerel Prior of Berlings in Lincolnshire headed the Commons of that County under the Name of Capt. Cobler when they rose against the King in 1536 upon the beginning of the desolution of Religious Houses or as some say because they would not pay a certain Tax Whether this Tho. Makerel be the same I cannot tell till I know the Christian Name of the Doctor John Stow saith that Dr. Makerel an Abbat and a Suffragan Bishop was drawn and hang'd at Tybourne about 29 March 1537 for denying the Kings Supremacy which I suppose is the same with him who was Prior of Berlings and the same perhaps who was incorporated Doctor of Cambridge 1516. Besides these two were eleven more that were admitted and four that supplicated that were not admitted this year Opponents in Div. May 10. Peter de Campo a Portuguese Dec. 10. Walt. Goodfield a Minorite See under the year 1510. Feb. 4. Edm. Vessy or Veysey a Benedictine Besides seven that supplicated who were all except one Benedictineâ— and Black Fryers Bach. of Div. Jun. 22. John Claymond the most deserving President of Magd. Coll. stiled in his Admission Vir discretus gravis multa doctrina percelebris Feb. 6. Gerardus Smyth a Minorite and others of no great account
shew the Author to be eminent in his faculty in the time he lived Among the said compositions which were written in a large book were mixed with them the compositions of William Newarke Richard Davyes Edmund Turges Sir Thomas Phelippis William Cornish jun. and of one Sheryngham Hampshire Browne c. All which lived in or near the time of the said Dr. Fairfax who was of the same family with those of York-shire Jan. 24. John Hampton Abbat of the Monastery of St. Austin at Canterbury D. of D. beyond the Seas An. Dom. 1512. An. 4. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Edmund Wylsford William Fauntlery John Kynton D. D. Proctors Thomas Pulton of New Coll. Austr elected 21. Richard Symons of Mert. Coll. Bor. elected 23. Apr. Rhetoricians Or such who were admitted to inform and instruct in the art of Rhetorick Jan. ult Richard Smyth a secular Chaplain who in the art of Rhetorick had spent 16 years of which 10 were spent in the informing and instructing youths in Grammar Bach. of Musick Apr. … John Dygon a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict was then admitted Bach. of Arts. Apr. ult Malachias Arthur Afterwards a learned Physician See in the year 1515. Jan. ult William Bennet One of both his names became Archdeacon of Dorset upon the consecration of John Stokesley Bishop of London 20. of Dec. 1530 and afterwards was the Kings Orator at Rome Whether the same with the former I cannot tell See among the Bach. of the Civil Law an 1527. About 51. Bachelers of Arts were admitted this year and 15 at least that supplicated for that Degree Bach. of Civil Law Jul. … Hugh ap Rice He was afterwards Founder of Jesus Coll. Jul. … John London of New Coll. See in the year 1518. Besides these two were but five more admitted and two supplicated This year 7 were admitted in the Canon Law and two only or thereabouts supplicated Mast of Arts. Twenty or more were admitted of whom John Moreman of Exeter College was one and 5 only supplicated Bach. of Div. Nov. 4. William Wall a Canon regular and Prior of the Monastery at Kenilworth in Warwickshire See another William Wall in 1518. among the D. of D. Feb. 4. Fr. Nich. Peter or Peter Nicholas a Carme or White Fryer Prior of the College of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon. Besides these two were six more admitted and about eleven that supplicated that were not as I can yet find admitted this year Among those that supplicated were first William How M. A. and the Kings Chaplain See among the Doctors of Divinity 1526. 2 John Lleson Abbat of the Monastery of St. Mary of Neath of the Cistercian order in Glamorganshire now studying in St. Bernards Coll. In a certain writing dated some years after the dissolution of religious houses I find mention of one Thomas Leyson late Abbat of Neath which I presume is the same and his Christian name mistaken See in the year 1510. 3 Thomas Knolles M. A. and Subdean of York whom I shall mention elsewhere Doct. of Civil Law Not one admitted only four supplicated viz. 1 Richard Benger LL. Bach. 2 Maurice Glynn Bach. of the Civil Law who was afterwards Doct. of that fac and died in July 1525. 3 John Incent or Innocent of All 's Coll. 4 Thomas Myllyng LL. Bach. and Chaplain to Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury He was afterwards a Benefactor to New Coll. as I have elsewhere told you Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Hugh Myllyng of Exeter Coll. Dec. 6. Thomas Coke Four also supplicated this year who were all afterwards admitted Doctors of Div. except Thomas Hamden a Minorite or Grey Fryer Incorporations May 3. John Stokys or Stokes D. of D. of Cambr. and Provincial of the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit May … Simon Pickeryng a Carme Bach. of Div. of this Univ. and D. of D. of Cambr. was incorp D. D. Dec. … William Sparke M. A. of Cambridge Jan. 28. William Heryson M. A. of the Univ. of Paris Jan. … William Bark M. and an Archdeacon Jan. 29. Edward Burrell M. A. of Paris Besides several Bach. of Arts of Cambridge An. Dom. 1513. An. 5. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss William Fauntleroy John Kynton John Thornden D. D. Proctors Thomas Mede of Ex. c. Austr Thomas Hobson of Vniv. c. Bor. Bach. of Musick Oct… Christopher Wodde did supplicate for that Degree but whether he was admitted it appears not Bach. of Arts. Jul. 4. Robert Whityndon or Whittington was then admitted Bach. of A. and in the same Congregation Doctor of Grammar and Rhet. Thomas Abell was admitted the same day See among the Writers under the year 1540. Oct. 29. John Rogers Quaere Feb. 9. Edward Wotton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician Besides these were about 57 admitted and about 24 that supplicated for that Degree that were not this year admitted Doct. of Grammar and Rhetorick July 4. Robert Whityndon the most famous Grammarian of his time had his head crown'd or his temples adorned with Laurel At which time and the time also when that Degree was compleated it was allowed to him by the venerable Regents that he might wear a hood lined with silk but not to be used for the future by any body else See more among the Writers under the year 1529. Bach. of Law Nineteen were admitted in the Canon and about 18 in the Civil Law Eight also supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Canon and about 12 for the Degree of Bach. of Civil Law Master of Arts. About 20 were admitted this year and about eleven that supplicated for the same Degree among whom was John Ramsey a Canon regular Nov. 18. He was afterwards Prior of St. Maries Coll. in Oxon. the great of which is almost opposite to the common gate of New Inn. This College was a nursery to train up young Canon regulars in Academical learning Bach. of Physick Apr… Peter Coloniensis Bach. of Arts of the University of Colen and a Student in Physick was then admitted The same year he supplicated to be Doctor of that faculty under the name of Petrus Coloniensis de Nonovigio and Novonigio Others supplicated for the said Degree of Bach. and one to practise Physick Bach. of Div. June 16. Edward Bockyng a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict and now Warden or Gardian of Canterbury College in Oxon. He was afterwards much concern'd in promoting the matter of Elizabeth Barton the holy maid of Kent as the Chronicles will tell you at large See more in 1518. June 20. Edward Hynmersh of the same Order He was afterwards Warden or Gardian of Durham College in Oxon. Besides these were 7 more admitted who had all before opposed in Divinity and eight that supplicated all of religious Orders who were not admitted this year Doct. of Civil Law Not one admitted this year only five supplicated among whom was John Incent or Innocent of All 's College who supplicated in
Alex. Nâ—well Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in his Canonry Feb. 13. John Man of New Coll. was then admitted Master being the same whom I have mention'd under the year 1533. In all 39 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Dec. 3. Fath. Feb. 8. Fa. John Warham Rob. Nettleham Will. Lyncolne Benedictines 15. Will. Haynes of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards Provost of that College Fellow of Eaton the third Canon of Osney and the first of the first Canonry or Prebendship of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Some report that he was also Dean of Exeter but false for 't was Simon Heynes that enjoyed that Dignity Four more were admitted and about 7 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom John Crayford a Minoritâ— was one who had spent several years in study both here and at Cambridge Rob. Wellys M. A. and Fellow of Eaton Coll. another and Thom. Massie a Canon regular a third which last was Prior of St. Maries Coll. in Oxon and was about this time adm Bach. of Divinity but neglected to be registred by the publick scribe Doct. of Civ Law Jan. 18. Richard Lyell of All 's Coll. Rowl Merick about this time of New Inn was adm the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor For the same Degree supplicated one Rich. Arche LL. B. but was not admitted In 1526 I find him to be Principal of Broadgates hall by the name of Rich. Archer and now 1538 to be the Kings Chaplain and Canon of Windsore On the 28. Dec. 1551. he was made Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Matthew Wotton who had succeeded in that Dignity one Tho. Stevens Doct. of Div. Apr. 13. Father William Todde a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict of Durham Coll. as it seems and a Monk of Durham was then adm Doct. of Div. Not one besides was admitted nor one supplicated for that deg Incorporations May… Christop Massyngberd LL. Bach. of Cambridge and Chanc. of the Church of Linc. Afterwards he supplicated to the licensed to proceed in the Laws but whether he was so it appears not In 1543 he succeeded Dr. Anth. Draycot in the Archdeaconry of Stow and dying 8. March 1553 was buried in the middle of the Isle on the South side of the Choire belonging to the Church of Lincolne Whereupon John Aylmer or Elmer succeeded in that Dignity but before he had enjoyed it an year was deprived of it being then the first year of Qu. Mary and one John Harrison was put into his place 1554. This year on the 19. July the rev Father Anthony Brocke or Brockbey sometimes written Brorbe a Franciscan or Grey Fryer well read in Divinity and learned in the Greek and Heb. tongues sometimes a Student in St. Mar. Magd. Coll. Oxon suffer'd death by hanging for speaking against the Kings proceedings in extirpating the Popes power and demolishing of religious houses I put this observation under the year of his death because that he being reported by one to be a Licentiat in Divinity and by another a Professor of Divinity of this University I cannot find any such thing in our publick registers which are imperfect in several years before this time especially in the year 1517. An. Dom. 1538. An. 30. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss the same Proct. Rich. Arderne of Magd. Coll. Thomas Roberts of Oriel Coll. May 8 Which Proctors were elected then as 't is said by the publick Suffrages of those whom it concerned to give as if an equal power of suffraging in such elections did not now pertain to all Masters Bach. of Arts. May 17. John Fox of Brasenose Coll. He was afterwards of that of St. Mary Magdalen and the noted Martyriologist Feb. 15. George Etheridge John Morwen of C. C. C. In all about 41 besides 14 or thereabouts that were candidates for the said Degree but not admitted this year ☞ Only two this year were admitted Bach. of the Civ Law and but 4 in the next Mast of Arts. Mar. 12. Rich. Caldwell of Brasenose Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician 20 Seth Holland of All 's Coll. In 1555 or thereabouts he became the third Prebendary of the second stall in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester in the place of John Compton alias Teale Bach. of Div. and sometimes Chaplain to K. H. 8. and in the same year he was elected Warden of All 's Coll. In 1557 about Michaelmas he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Philip Haford or Hawford alias Ballard who had been the last Abbat of Evesham in Worcestershire and about the same time became Rector of Bishops Cleeve in Glocestershire upon his resignation of the Rectory of Fladbury In Oct. or Nov. 1559 he was deprived of his Deanery whereupon John Pedder Bach. of Div. one of the Frankfort exiles in the time of Qu. Mary was installed in his place 27. Dec. the same year Holland was afterwards committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where he died in the second year of Qu. Elizab. Mar. 18. James Curthopp of C. C. Coll. In 1546 he became the first Canon of the sixth stall in Ch. Ch. Cathedral Oxon and about the beginning of Qu. Mary he succeeded Gerard Carleton D. D. in the Deanery of Peterborough who in 1543 had succeeded in that Dignity Franc. Abre B. D. the same Abre I mean who from being the last Prior of Northampton was made the first Dean of Peterborough an 1541. James Curthopp died 19. July 1557 and was buried in the Isle next adjoyning on the North side to the choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. He was one of the examiners of John Philpot the Martyr in certain matters of Religion before the time of his suffering Besides these three were but eight Masters admitted if the register saith right and in but one Act celebrated this year on 29. July were only four Doctors of Divinity and one in the Laws that proceeded the Masters being reserved till the Act following which was on the last of March 1539. Bach. of Div. Apr. 8. Frat. John Byllynge a Minorite May 9. Fath. Rob. Dalton John Tewtie Nich. Marley Benedictines May 31. Fat Philip Action Rog. Whalley Rich. Hayles Cistercians alias Bernardines The first of which last three was about this time Provisor of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon. Jul. 13. John Donne of C. C. C. I have made some mention of him under the year 1528. 14. Fa. Hugh Glasier a Minorite Jul. 23. Fath. Tho. Bede Will. Ambrose Benedictines Two more were also admitted and but two there were that supplicated for that Degree among whom Hen. Stretsham a Minorite who had spent several years here and at Cambridge in Logicals Philosophicals and Theologicals was one After the Abbeys were dissolved in 1535. 36. c. I find very many Monks and other religious Persons who had pensions allowed them out of the Exchecquer to retire to the University and to such places therein that were nurseries for them as Canterbury Coll.
and at the same time 't was ordered that an yearly pension should be by him Williams paid to the famous Pet. du Moulin a French Protestant who a little before had fled into England upon account of Religion About that time he by the favour of George Duke of Buckingham was made a privy Counsellor to his Majesty and upon the promotion of Doct. Rob. Tounson to the See of Salisbury had the Deanery of Westminster confer'd upon him in which he was install'd 10 July 1620 Afterwards the Deanery of Salisbury was confer'd upon Dr. Joh. Bowles of Cambridge as I shall elsewhere tell you In the month of July 1621 he was nominated Bishop of Lincoln on the Translation of Dr. George Mountaigne to the See of London and about the same time was made L. Keeper of the great Seal by Buckingham's Endeavours On the 9 Oct. following he proceeded to Westminster Hall as L. Keeper but without pomp and on the 11 of Nov. was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in the collegiate Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Bishops of London Worcester Ely Oxford and Landaff and about that time his Majesty gave him leave to keep Westminster in commendam It was then observed by many that as Sir Nich. Bacon had before received the Great Seal from a Clergyman Nich. Heath Archb. of York so a Bishop again received them from his Son Sir Francis at which the Lawyers did fret to have such a Flower pull'd out of their garden But as for the further addition to the story that Williams was brought in by Buckingham to serve such turns as none of the Laity could be found bad enough to undertake as a libellous Author reports we must leave it to knowing men to be Judges of it After K. Ch. 1. came to the Crown he was continued a privy Counsellour for a time but Buckingham being then in great favour with that Prince caused the Seal to be taken from him in Oct. 1625 as having neglected and been very ungrateful to him and in the beginning of Feb. following when that King was crown'd he was set aside from administring Service at that Ceremony as Dean of Westminster and Dr. Laud Bishop of S. Davids and Preb. of Westm who before had received several schoolings and affronts from Williams while L. Keeper officiated in his place Further also lest he should seek revenge against Buckingham for what he had done unto him he with the Earls of Someâ—set Middlesex and Bristow all of an inclination tho not all of a plume were interdicted the Parliament House Hereupon Williams grew highly discontented sided with the Puritan and finding the King to decline in the affection of his People he fomented popular discourses tending to his Majesties dishonour so long until at length the incontinence of his Tongue betrayed him into Speeches which trespass'd upon Loyalty for which words they having taken vent he was question'd by a Bill in the Star-Chamber 4 Car. 1. dom 1628. But the information being somewhat lame and taken up with second-hand Reports the Accusation lay dormant till about 1632 when it was revived again And the purgation of B. Williams depending principally upon the testimony of one John Pregian Registrary of Lincoln it hapned that the Febr. after one Elizab. Hodson was delivered of a base Child and laid it to this Pregian The Bishop finding his great Witness charged with such Infamy conceived it would invalidate all his Testimony and that once rendred invalid the Bishop could easily prognosticate his own ruin Therefore he bestirs himself amain and tho by order of the Justices at the publick Session at Lincoln Pregian was charged as the reputed Father the Bishop by his Agents Pawel and Owen procured that Order suppressed and by subornation and menacing of and tampering with Witnesses did at length in May 10 Car. 1. procure the Child to be fathered upon one Bohun and Pregian to be acquitted After this he being accriminated in the Star-Chamber for corrupting of Witnesses and being convicted by full proof on the 11 of July 1637 he received this censure that he was to pay ten thousand pounds fine to the King to be imprison'd in the Tower of London during his Majesties pleasure and to be suspended ab officiis beneficiis In 1640 Nov. 16. he was released from the Tower and became the Idol for a time of both Houses having since his fall closed with the Puritan and who then should be in daily conference with him but Edward Bagshaw a Parliament man for Southwark and afterwards Will. Prynne two zealous and bigotted Puritans whose Counsels were chiefly to pull down Laud Archbishop of Canterbury Wentworth Earl of Strafford Heylyn of Westminster and other Royalists On the 12 Jan. following he preached before the King and pleased the Puritan very much as being zealous for the Sabbath and against the Book for Sports yet towards the conclusion said that the discipline of Geneva and Cornaries Diet were fit for none but Beggars and Tradesmen Afterwards it was observed by many that he declined dayly in the peoples favour who took him then not to be the same man as they did before In 1641 he was by his Maj. favour purposely to please the Puritan then dominant translated from Lincoln to York and soon after was in the head of the Bishops when they made their Protestation against the House of Lords in behalf of themselves for which being imprison'd in the Tower again continued there eighteen weeks At length being with much ado released he retired to the King at Oxon where he provided himself with a Commission and Instructions what to do when he went farther Afterwards he went into his own Country repaired his Castle at Aberconway fortified it and spared not any cost or labour to make it teneable for his Majesties Service But then his Majesty and privy Council suspecting that he would not be faithful to him they put a Commander therein and in a manner thrust the Archb. out Whereupon taking these matters in high disdain he retired to his house at Pentryn or Penryn not far from Aberconway which he fortified and having gained the favour of the Parliament put a Garrison therein and declared for them Afterwards obtaining some Forces from one Mitton a Parliamentarian Colonel in those Parts went forthwith and set upon Aberconway Castle took it and kept it to his dying day in his own possession This was in the latter end of 1645 at which time the Kings Cause did daily decline as the Archbishop did in the minds of the Royalists who for these his Actions spared not to stile him a perfidious Prelate the shame of the Clergy and the Apostate Archbishop of York whereas while he was in his greatness he was characterized to be a person of a generous mind a lover and encourager of learning and learned men he himself being very learned hospitable and a great Benefactor to the publick yet always high and proud and sometimes insolent and
may see afterwards he became Chaplain to Alice Countess Dowager of Derby Wife of Tho. Lord Ellesmere and the publisher of Loves peereless paragon or the attributes and progress of the Church Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon and at Harfield in Middlesex on Cant. 2. 10. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps of other things Nov. 9. Will. Sparke of Magd. 17. Will. Jewell of Exet. Coll. The last of these two did translate from French into English The golden Cabinet of true Treasure containing the summ of moral Philosophy Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him beside only that he was a Gentleman's Son of Devonshire and that he became a Sojournour of Exet. Coll. an 1603. aged 17. Adm. 97. Bach. of Div. Dec. 14. Rob. Bolton of Brasn Feb. 22. Tho. Thompson of Qu. Coll. Will. Loe of S. Alb. Hall did supplicate for the same degree but whether he was admitted it appears not Adm. 11. Doct. of Law June 28. Alexander Sheppard of Jesus Coll. He was a learned Civilian but what he hath published I know not Doct. of Physick Jun. 26. Thom. Johnson of Oriel Coll. He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 16 Nov. 1621 but whether he was Author of a Book which goes under the name of Dr. Johnson entit Practica medicinae de aegritudinibus capitis Lond. 1602. qu. I cannot justly say See another Thom. Johnson M. D. in these Fasti in the 2 Vol. an 1643. Doct. of Div. June… Rich. Mocket of All 's Coll. July… Walt. Bennet of New Coll. In Sept. 1608 he became Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch and on the 7 of March 1609 Archdeacon of Wilts on the death of Dr. Edm. Lilly In his Chauntorship succeeded Hen. Cotton as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1610 and in his Archdeaconry one Tho. Leach 15 Nov. 1614. 19. Rob. Clay of Mert. Coll. He afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Favour in the Vicaridge of Halyfax and dying in 1628 left by will to the said Coll. 100 l. for two Sermons yearly to be preached to the University as Dr. Bickley had formerly given to them to be preached by a Yorkshire Man if any such be Fellow or Chaplain of that College who in his Prayer is to mention Dr. Clay sometimes Vicar of Halifax as the founder of those Sermons Jan. 24. John Bancroft of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was soon after Master of Vniversity Coll. Incorporations Apr. 29. Thom. Wharton eldest Son of Philip Lord Wharton was incorporated M. of Arts. as he had stood at Cambridge He was Father to Philip Lord Wharton who openly appeared in armes against K. Ch. 1. an 1642. And many years after he was made one of the Privy Council to K. Will. 3. May 4. Josias Bird Bach. of Arts of Cambridge He was now of All 's Coll. under the inspection of his kinsman or uncle Dr. Will. Bird. Jun. 12. Hipocrates D'othon or Othen Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Montpellier He died 13. Nov. 1611 and was buried in the Church of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr within the liberty of Westm Jul. 11. Will. Gonge M. A. of Cambridge He was a Native of Stratford bow in Middlesex was educated in Kings Coll. of which he was Fellow afterwards he was Doct. of Div. and the pious and learned Preacher of the Church in the Blackfriers in London where in his time he was accounted the Father of the London Ministers that is of such who were put in by the Authority of the rebellious Parliament in 1641 42. c. He was one of the Assembly of Divines was a good Text-man as his Whole armour of God Exposition of the Hebrews Exposition of the Lords Prayer and other learned works the titles of some of which you may see in Oxf. Cat. shew He is often honorably mention'd by Voetius Streso and other outlandish Divines and was always accounted by the Puritan eminent for his humility patience and faith He died 12. of Dec. 1653 and was buried in the said Church of the Black-fryers on the 16 of the said month aged 79 or thereabouts John Richardson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day One Joh. Richardson was educated in Eman Coll. was afterwards D. D. Master first of Peter house then of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and Vicechancellour of that University This Person who had a hand in the translation of the Bible appointed by King Jam. 1. died about the beginning of 1625 and was buried in Trin. Coll. Chappel Another John Richardson who was D. D. succeeded Dr. Walt. Balcanquall in the Deanery of Rochester and died in Apr. 1636 and a third John Richardson I find who from being D. of D. of Dublin was made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland Which Bishoprick he being forced to leave upon the rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom an 1641 retired to London where he died in 1654. Whether any of these three were the same with John Richardson the incorporated Master of Arts I cannot now justly tell Jul. 11. Abrah Dickonson D. D. of Cambr. was also then incorporated in that faculty An. Dom. 1610. An. 8. Jac. 1. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterburry but he dying 2. Nov. Thom. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere Lord Chancellour of England and one of the Kings Privy Council was chosen into his place the next day and on the tenth was installed in the Bishop of Durhams house at London Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. King again Jul. 14. at which time the Chancellours letters being read for his election 't was order'd that the Heads of Colleges and Halls should at all times be ready and diligent to assist the Vicechanc. in his government of the University especially in matters of Religion for the suppressing of Popery and Faction c. The said Dr. King was soon after Bishop of London Proct. Râ—b Pink of New Coll. Sam. Radcliffe of Bras Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Musick July 11. Thomas Bartlet of Magd. Coll. He hath several compositions in Musick in MS. but whether extant I cannot tell On the 26. of Apr. Richard Deering did as a member of Christ Church supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick and had his desire as it seems granted tho not registred because in matters of his composition which were soon after by him made extant he entitles himself Bach. of Musick This Person who was born of and descended from a right antient Family of his name living in Kent was bred up in Italy where he obtained the name of a most admirable Musician After his return he practised his faculty for some time in England where his name being highly cried up became after many intreaties Organist to the English Nuns living in the Monastery of the blessed Virgin Mary at Bruxells At length after the Marriage of K. Ch. 1. he was made Organist to his Royal Comfort Henrietta Maria with
Athenae Oxonienses An Exact HISTORY OF ALL THE Writers and Bishops Who have had their EDUCATION in The most ancient and famous University OF OXFORD FROM The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh Dom. 1500 to the End of the Year 1690. REPRESENTING The Birth Fortune Preferment and Death of all those AUTHORS and PRELATES the great Accidents of their LIVES and the Fate and Character of their WRITINGS To which are added The FASTI or Annals of the said University For the same time The First VOLUME Extending to the 16 th Year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640. Antiquam exquirite Matrem Virgil. LONDON Printed for THO. BENNET at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard MDCXCI TO THE Most High Mighty and Illustrious PRINCE JAMES Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Brecknock and Ossory c. Gentleman of the Bedchamber to His Majesty Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and Chancellour of the Famous University of OXFORD TO THE Right Worshipful JONATHAN EDWARDS Doctor of Divinity and Principal of Jesus College his Worthy Vice-chancellour AND To the Worshipful The Doctors the Proctors and Masters Members of the venerable Convocation of the said University The Author doth humbly dedicate these his ATHENAE and FASTI OXONIENSES The PREFACE IT is well known that the Author of this Work hath through the whole course of his life declin'd the pursuit of any private interest or advantage and hath only according to his abilities endeavour'd to promote the honour and glory of that Nation where he had been born and more especially of that Vniversity wherein he was educated His early application or as some call it his natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities made him more fit to serve his Country in that than in any other Stâ—â—y and that part of Antiquity which was most useful in its self and which yet lay most neglected became the immediate object of his care as that which not only deserv'd but requir'd and wanted the greatest industry The Vniversity of Oxford had now flourish'd for many Centuries its Members had been great and famous their works wanted neither value nor number and therefore nothing seem'd more necessary for the increase of its glory and for the true knowledge of its strength than a Register of its Heroes and an exact survey of its powers It was requisite then not only that the Writers of this Vniversity and the Characters of their works shou'd be perpetuated to posterity but that a History of all Cardinals Archbishops and Bishops as well in this Nation as beyond the Seas all of them formerly Members of this Vniversity should at the same time and by the same hand be attempted and carried on and that lastly the account of any remarkable Persons that would not fall under those heads might be reserv'd to and digested under the Fasti or Annals of the Vniversity So that upon the whole not only the lives of the Authors and the fate of their Writings but the succession of all eminent Men in Oxford the decay and growth the rise and progress of learning might at one view in due order of time distinctly appear It is a wonder indeed that among all the members of that Body who have signaliz'd their learning and industry in all professions and almost upon all subjects the intire glory of this Work should be left to this Author and that no part of literature should be left wholly uncultivated in that famous Society but the Memoires of the Vniversity it self and the History of Learning therein Somewhat indeed in defence of the antiquity of the place had before by Mr. Twyne and others been successfully undertaken and performed but it was a far more easie and less useful enquiry to look into the Original of this Society than to record the Acts of its Members to discover the head of this Fountain than to trace all its Channels Since therefore this Work seem'd for the most part new and as yet untouch'd it was once the Authors design to Commence with the time of K. Alfred and from thence to have brought down the concurrent History of the Vniversity and Learning together But afterwards when he had consider'd not only that the famous Antiquary Jo. Leland and his followers Bale Pits and Dr. Fran. Godwin had in a great measure anticipated the former part of his design but that the Records and Registers themselves upon which his Relations are chiefly founded were in those times either wholly lost or at least dark and imperfect He thought fit to begin with the 15th Century and to ascend no higher than his Records would lead him However since a great and noble part of the History of Learning would upon so late a date of this Work be wholly omitted it was esteemed requisite that a short and full relation of all Authors and Works which before that time had been publish'd in this Island should supply that loss and render the work it self more perfect and entire This Introduction the Reader may expect before the 2d Vol. At present nothing more remains for the subject of this Preface than to give a short account of the design of this work of the management and language of it and to add somewhat concerning the Author As to the design it must be own'd that since an intire Collection of all passages relating to eminent Authors was intended some circumstances have a place here which at first view may seem trivial and immaterial It ought therefore to be consider'd that those little accidents however mean in themselves yet in respect of the Persons and of the works which they attend oftentimes become considerable In a common repertâ—ry any redundance or superfluity of matter however too severely blamâ—d by nice palats is such a fault as is not far remov'd from an excellence The work is fitted for all Men in all faculties and therefore those of one profession should not be displeased if somewhat be inserted which however useless to them may be chosen and admir'd by others In all Commentaries and Journals which afford Materials for History there ought not only to be somewhat rude and naked which may afterwards be polish'd somewhat rough and plain that may be beautify'd and improv'd but somewhat at least little and seemingly immaterial than may upon occasion judiciously be chosen or sometimes perhaps with no less prudence rejected Such general collections are read by most Men with different designs and therefore however easie it may be for any Man to discover an omission it is very hard for any one Reader to pronounce one single passage in them wholly superfluous 'T is true indeed that Men who after a great search and enquiry into Records have found but somewhat that might as well have been spared naturally choose rather to trespass on the Reader than to pass sentence on their own discâ—veries and this if any blemish is so common to this Author with all other famous Antiquaries from Plutarch and Athenaeus
kept in the School-Tower among the Books and Records of the said University The second Vol. which is written on Paper begins about the latter end of the 24. Hen. 7. Dom. 1508 and is continued to 1597 and hath added to it certain Epistles of a later date This Book endorsed with the Letters F F was borrowed from the School-Tower by Dr. Tho. James the first Keeper of the Bodleian Library who afterwards putting it into the Archives thereof did enter it as a Manuscript belonging thereunto into the Bodleian Catalogue of Books Printed in 4to An. 1620. The continuation of the University Epistles mostly Penn'd by the publick Orator are remitted into the Books of Acts of Convocation that follow F F. To pass by the Sentence or Opinion of the University of Oxon. concerning the divorce between King Henry 8. and Queen Catherine dated 8. Apr. 1530 and their Sentence in order to the expelling or ejecting the Popes Authority from England dat 24. July 1534. both which contain but little more matter than two Programma's I shall set down other things going under her name of a laterdate as An answer to the humble Petition of the Ministers of England desiring Reformation of certain Ceremonies and abuses in the Church Oxon. 1603. and 1604. in four or five Sheets in Quarto Decretum â—amnans propositiones Neotericorum sive Jesuitarum sive Puritanorum aliorum cujuscunque generis Scriptorum dat 6. Jun. 1622. Oxon. 1622. in one Sheet in 4to see the full Citation of the said Decree and Propositions in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 327. Epistola ad reverendiss in Christo patrem D. Gul. Archipras Cantuar. dat 10. Nov. 1640. It was Printed at the end of the said Archb. Letter which he sent with divers MSS. to the University of Oxon. Humble Petition to the Parliament in behalf of Episcopacy and Cathedrals dat 24. Apr. 1641. Oxon. 1641. Printed in one Sheet in 4to as also on a broad side of a Sheet It was answer'd by a certain Anonymus but very sillily Epistola ad ampliss reverendiss D. Gul. Archipraes Cant. dat 6. Jul. 1641. It was Printed at the end of the said Archbishop's Letter by which he resign'd his Office of Chancellor of the University of Oxon. This Epistle was published by command of the Chief Members of the said University upon occasion of a base Libel and Forgery that was Printed by Anon. under the said title Oxon. 1641. in one Sheet and half Reasons of their present judgment concerning 1 The Solemn League and Covenant 2 The Negative Oath and 3 The Ordinances concerning Discipline and Worship approved by general consent in a full Convocation on the first of June 1647. Oxon. 1647. in five Sheets and half in 4to These Reasons which were for the most part drawn up by the Profound and Learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Coll. were afterwards translated into several Languages and published Answer to the Petition Articles of grievance and Reasons of the City of Oxon presented to the Committee for regulating the University of Oxford 24. July 1649. Oxon. 1649. and 1678. 4to This Answer was drawn up by Dr. Gerard Langbaine of Queens Coll. but published in the Name of the University of Oxon. The said Petition of the City of Oxon the general part of which were then Presbyterians or at least very Factious was for the diminishing and taking away several of the Liberties and Privileges of the University Judgment and Decree past in the Convocation 21. July 1683. against certain pernicious Books and damnable Doctrins destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes their State and Government and of all Humane Society Printed at the Theatre in Oxon. in Latin and English in three Sheets in Folio 1683. Humble Address and Recognition Presented to His Sacred Majesty James 2. King of England c. according to an Act of Convocation bearing date 21. Feb. 1684 'T is Printed in Latin and English and was set before the Verses made by several Members of the University on the said Kings coming to the Crown of Great Britain Fol. The Case of shewing that the City of Oxford is not concern'd to oppose the Confirmation of their Charters by Parliament presented to the Honourable House of Commons 24 Jan. 1689. Oxon. 1690. in 2 Sheets in Fol. and in two and an half in 4 to drawn up by Ja. Harrington M. A. of Christ Church Judicium decretum latum in Convocatione habita Aug. 19. an 1690. contra propositiones quasdam impias haereticas exscriptas citatas ex libello quodam infami haud ita pridem intra dictam Academiam perfidè typis mandato ac divulgato eui tit est The naked Gospel Quae praecipua fidei nostrae mysteria in Ecclesia Catholica ac speciatim Anglicana semper retenta conservata impugnant ac labefactant Oxon. 1690. in two Sheets in Fol. This Book called The Naked Gospel was written by Arth. Bury D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll. and by him was first made publick in the beginning in Apr. of the same Year And tho it is said in the Title Page to be Printed at London yet it was really Printed at Oxon by virtue of his Authority as being then Pro-Vice-Chancellor But before Twenty Copies of it had been dispersed the Author by the persuasion of some of his Friends made certain alterations for the best as he thought in one or more Sheets in the middle of the said Book and thereupon several Copies so altered were exposed to sale yet in the Month of May following the remaining Copies of the Impression not alter'd were dispersed abroad The said Book was publickly Burnt in the School-quadrangle just after the said Decree had passed Whereupon about three dayes after the Author of it dispersed in Manuscript his Apology for writing the said Book called The Naked Gospel the beginning of which is this The design of the Book and the occasion of it were as followeth when the King had called a Convocation to reconcile as it was hoped to the Church of England the several Sects c. In which Apology the Author saith that certain Persons to him unknown got a Copy of the said Book unaltered and Printed it at London As for the several Books of Verses which were published on various occasions under the Name of the University of Oxon are not to be remembred here because the Names of all or at least most of the Persons that had composed Copies of Verses have their Names set at the end of them WILLIAM BEETH a Person Famous for his great knowledge in the Theological faculty was Educated from his Youth among the Dominicans commonly called Black-friers then noted in England and elsewhere for their Religion and Learning and in the prime of his Years obtained much of his Learning in the College or Convent belonging to that Order in the South Suburb of Oxon. In his middle Age he being then accounted by those of his Society a Person of
what reason it appears not he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree which was accordingly done to his desire and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign he obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex He hath written a Book Entit Arbor Reipublicae c. It is penned in a Juridic Stile and is now or at least lately was reserved as a choice Monument in the Cottonian Library Whether ever Printed I cannot tell At length after King Henry 7. who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill being dead his Successor King Henry 8. did for the Peoples satisfaction issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley then a Prisoner in the Tower of London Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons the eldest of which was John afterwards Duke of Northumberland Father to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester JOHN HOLTE called by some Holtigena was born in the County of Sussex and from being Usher of the School joyning to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College and Bachelaur of Arts was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University that were afterwards eminent in the Nation Since which time and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning by producing a right Grammar-Institution For tho before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure and less care of good Arts yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton Bishon of Ely and the times thereupon became more peaceable our Author Holte made a Grammar Entit Lac Puerorum c. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton then Archbishop of Canterbury Which Grammar Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge being the first of note or most fit for use that was ever Printed in England was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars Afterwards the said Stanbridge and his Scholar Robert Whittington with others did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar but more especially Dr. John Colet the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral who compiled the Eight parts of Speech and William Lilye the first Master of S. Paul's School an English Syntax whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School The learned Erasmus also intreated by Dr. Colet to revise Lilyes Syntax made a new Latin Syntax in 1513. upon which Henry Pryme a School-Master in a certain Monastery and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented the former in 1539. and the other in 1540. But these things being spoken by the by I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar which perhaps are now quite lost and past recovery as the time of his death and place of burial is One Holte who was Master to Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant Which Holte is in the Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John NICHOLAS MAGWIRE was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland Educated among the Oxonians and took one or more Degrees Afterwards returning to his Country he was made Prebendary of Hillard in the Diocess of Laighlin being then and after accounted famous among his Country-men for his great Learning and constant Preaching among them In 1490. he was by provision from the Pope promoted to the Bishoprick of Laighlin aged about thirty one years Where being settled he began to write several Books but being untimely snatch'd away by death finished only these following Chronicon Hiberniae of which Thaddeus Dowling made use when he Composed his Annales Hiberniae and Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc quondan Laighliensis This our Author Magwire year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve 4. Hen. 8. and was buried as it seems in his own Church of Laighlin In his Bishoprick succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws whom I shall remember in his proper place among the Bishops that have received their Education in Oxon. MAURITIUS de PORTU otherwise called O-Fihely who in his time was for his great Learning and Virtue called and written by many The Flower of the World was born in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universiâ—â— and not unlikely in other Learning after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World John Duns Scotus had spent some years in Religion and Learning and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved From Oxon he Travelled into Italy and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua then flourishing in Learning made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks School-Divinity and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns whom he had in so great veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren he became known to and much respected by Pope Julius 2. who for a reward of his Learning and Vertues conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran and in the year following minding to return to his Native Country he obtained a Faculty from the Pope of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there but at his arrival at Galloway being overtaken with a deadly Disease died before he could Celebrate it His Works which have been much admired and
written in Parchment as Comments of Paul's Epistles and Abbreviations with many such other I Will shall be disposed at the disposition of my Executors c. His body which was closed up in a leaden Coffin of six feet and two Inches long and of three feet and two inches broad was laid up and inclosed in the Wall near to the place where his Monument was afterwards put In 1680. or thereabouts when the Wall was taken down the said Coffin was discovered for it laid in the said Wall about two feet and an half above the surface of the floor whereon was a plate of Lead fastned with an Inscription ingraven thereon shewing the name of the person thee deposited his Fathers name his Dignity Obit benefaction c. Some of the Royal Society who out of curiosity went to see it did thrust a probe or little stick into a chink of the Cossin which bringing out some moisture with it found it of an ironish tast and fancied that the body felt soft and pappy like Brawn JOHN CONSTABLE Son of Roger Constable by Isabel his Wife was born in London Educated in Grammaticals under William Lilye in Academicals in an antient Hostle sometimes called Byham afterwards corruptly Bohem Hall opposite to Merton Coll. Church under the tuition as I conceive of Mr. John Plaisted the chief Moderator thereof About the time that he had taken the Degree of Master of Arts which was in 1515. 7. Hen. 8 he left the University being then accounted an excellent Poet and Rhetorician and had some preferment conferred upon him but what I know not He hath written and published Querela Veritatis The beginning of which is Destinavimus tibi hunc nostrum c. Joh. Bradford the Protestant Martyr wrote a Book Entit The complaint of Verity c. Lond. 1559. in oct Whether in imitation of the former I know not Epigrammata Lond. 1520. qu. which Book of Epigrams I have seen in the Bodleian Library given thereunto by that curious collector of Books Democritus Junior Other things as I conceive he hath written but of what Subject I cannot yet tell nor can I say any more of John Constable only this that one of both his Names who was Doctor of Decrees fourth Son of Sir◠Rob. Constable of Flamburgh in Yorkshire Knight and Residentiary of the Church of Lincoln became Dean of the said Church in the Year 1514. who dying 15. Jul. 1528. recommended his Body to be buried in the Cathedral Church of our Lady of Lincoln near to the Corps of George Fitz-Hugh sometimes Dean thereof who was buried in the Body of the said Church What relation our Author Jo. Constable the Poet who was in great renown among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and twenty had to John Constable the Dean I cannot yet find In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth lived one Henry Constable a noted English Poet not unfitly ranked with Sir Edw. Dyer Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter a poetical Writer and of good esteem in the said Queens time as living in the 39 Year of her Reign The said Henry Constable who had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses was a great Master of the English Tongue and there was no Gentleman of our Nation had a more pure quick and higher delivery of conceit than he witness among all others that Sonnet of his before the poetical Translation called The Furies made by King James the First of England while he was King of the Scots He hath also several Sonnets extant written to Sir Phil. Sidney some of which are set before the Apology for Poetry written by the said Knight THOMAS BRYNKNELL a Person of great Literature and a most skilful interpreter of the sacred Writ had most of his Education in Lincoln Coll. whence being taken to govern the Free-School joyning to that of S. Mary Magd. did exercise such an admirable way of teaching there that many were by him fitted for the University In 1507. he proceeded in Divinity and being afterwards a commoner for some time of University Coll. became so much known to and respected by Cardinal Wolsey who if I mistake not conferr'd some dignity on him that he was represented to the King as one of those most fit Persons in the University to encounter Mart. Luther Whereupon in the Year 1521. he being then Reader of the Cardinals Divinity Lecture which was by him founded in the University 3 or 4 Years before he wrot a Learned piece entit Tractatus contra doctrinam Martini Lutheri Whether Printed I know not sure I am that 't is commended for a good Book in one of our publick Registers What other Books he wrot I cannot tell nor when he died or where buried WILLIAM GROCYN a most singular light of learning in his time received his first breath in the City of Bristol in Somersetshire was educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual fellow of New Coll. after he had served two Years of probation in 1467 and in 1479 being then M. of A. he was presented by the Warden and Society of that House to the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks But his Residence being mostly in Oxon. the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Divinity Reade◠about the beginning of the Reign of King Rich. 3. which King coming soon after to Oxon and taking up his lodging in that College he was pleased to hear our Author Grocyn and some others of that House dispute And being much delighted with their disputations especially with those of Grocyn which were in Divinity he did most graciously reward them But Grocyn leaving his Readers place in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1488 being then accounted excellent in the Latin and Greek Tongues according to the then knowledge of them he did for the farther accomplishment of himself in those critical studies take a Journey into Italy where by the helps of Demetrius Calchondile and Politian he obtained his design So that returning into his own Country and at length to Oxon he became a Sojournor in Exeter Coll. in the Year 1491. or thereabouts took a Degree in Divinity at it seems taught and read the Greek Tongue to the Oxonians after that way which had not before I suppose been taught in their University became a familiar Friend of or rather Tutor to Erasmus and a Person in eminent renown for his learning Recens tunc ex Italiâ venerat Grocinus saith Stapleton qui primus eâ aetate Graecas literas in Angliam invexerat Oxoniique publicè professus fuerat à cujus sodali Thoma Lynacro Morus Graecas literas Oxonii didicit In 1504 or thereabouts he resign'd his rectory of Newton Longvill being about that time made Master of the College of Allhallowes at Maidston in Kent yet continued mostly in Oxon for several Years after He hath written Tract contra hostiolum Jo. Wyclevi Epistolae ad
c. These two bound together are in Bodlies Library Vulgaria de institutione Grammaticulorum opusculum libello suo de concinnitate Grammatices accommodatum in quatuor partes digestum Printed at Lond. by Wynand de Worde 1524 in Lat. and Engl. having been printed several times before 'T is the same if I mistake not with his Grammar printed at Lond. 1500. qu. Secunda pars Grammatices de syllaba ejus quantitate Lond. 1516 qu. With which is bound up this following Whittintoni editio cum interpretamento Francisci Nigri Diomedes de accentu in pedestri oratione potius quam soluta observando Printed there the same Year De nominum appellativorum Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroinarum locorumque synonimis Lond. 1514 qu. De Epithetis Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroin clar virorum Animalium De variandi formulis tam pedestri quam soluto sermone Experientiae de virtutis immortalitate De veterum Romanorum Magistratibus These four last were printed with his De nominum appellativorum c. De octo partibus orationis Lond. 1513. 23. c. qu. De nominum generibus Lond. 1521. 24 c. qu. De preteritis supinis Lond. 1524. qu. De nominum declinatione Lond. 1522. qu. De Heteroclitis Lond. 1524. qu. Syntaxis Lond. 1524. qu. Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum Lond. 1521. qu. Responsiva contra Gul. Hormanni invectivas literas Lond. 1521. qu. in long and short verses with other things which may be seen in Baleus who tells us that he was in great renown for his learning in Fifteen hundred and thirty 22. Hen. 8. but when he died or where he was buried I cannot yet find See more of him in W. Lilye and Will. Horman ROBERT SHIRWODE received his first breath in the City of Coventry whence being translated to the University of Oxon made a considerable progress in Logicals but more by far in the Hebrew and Greek Languages Thence in his mature Years he went to Lovaine in Brabant where about the Year 1519. he succeeded Rob. Wakfeld an English Man in the reading the Hebrew Lecture to the Academians of that place But he reading there only for a Month went to other Universities and had a Book of his composition published bearing this title Liber Hebraeorum Concionatoris seu Ecclesiasticen nuper ad veritatem Hebraicam recognitus cum nonnullis annotationibus Chaldaicis quorundam Rabbinorum sententiis textus obscuros aliquos litteraliter explanantibus Antw. 1523. qu. Dedicated to one Joh. Webe whom he calls Monachorum decus Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictins at Coventry In the title of which Booke he is not stiled Doctor and therefore I presume he had that degree conferr'd on him after that time but in what University I cannot yet tell Job Baleus and his follower Pitseus do stile him Doctor Oxoniensis but the truth is in all my researches I cannot find that he took that degree there unless under another name He the said Dr. Shirewood hath also various Sermons extant as those Authors report who also tell us that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and thirty but when he died or where he was buried I am altogether as yet ignorant JOHN SKUISH a Cornish Man born was conversant for a time among the Oxonian Muses either in Exeter Coll. or in Hart Hall but whether he took a degree it appears not However by the help of an happy Genie accompanied with industry prudence and dexterity he obtained a Name among Men and was held in great esteem by several of the Nobility for his proficiency in various sorts of Learning At length being received into the Family of the great Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was by him entrusted with many matters of consequence All which he performing with singular fidelity was made one of his Cabinet Council and by him promoted to places of trust At leisure times he improved his natural Genie by the reading of Histories as well Ancient as Modern which at length being made easie to him by the help of a good memory composed several little Books as Chronicorum Epitome in one Book De bello Trojano lib. 1. and as 't is probable other things in the time of Hen. 8 and before and after the said Cardinal's fall The time when he surrendred up his last breath is yet unknown as also the place of his Sepulâ—ure SIMON FISH a zealous Man for the Reformation of abuses in the Church was born in Kent and after he had been instructed in Academical Learning he retired to Greys Inn in Holbourn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law About which time one Mr. Roo or Roe having composed a Play wherein one part deeply reflected on Cardinal Wolsey he undertook when divers refused to act it For which being soon after forced to leave the Nation he found out Will. Tyndale in Germany with whom for a time he sorted himself In 1527 or thereabouts he made a little Book entit The supplication of Beggars The beginning of which is Most lamentably complaineth their woful misery c. It containeth a great deal of bitter stuff against Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Fryers c. and indeed against the generality of the Clergy In 1528 a Copy of it was sent to the Lady Anne Bulleyne which after perusal she gave it to the King who did not dislike it and soon after were divers Copies scattered in London streets which was complained of by the Cardinal to the said King Afterwards the Cardinal being out of favor the Author Fish was sent for home and graciously countenanced by the King for what he had done About which time he translated from Dutch into English The summ of the Scriptures which was also published and well approved At length being overtaken by the Pest year 1531 died of it in Fifteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Church of St. Dunstan in the West Afterwards James Baynham Son of Sir Alex. Baynham of Glocestershire Knight Married his Widow which James being a zealous Protestant suffer'd death soon after in the Flames as you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Church written by Jo. Fox JOHN BATMANSON a Person most noted while living for his great Piety and Learning did after he had been instructed in Sophistry enter into the most holy Order of the Carthusians abiding in the House commonly called the Charter-house near to London In his elder Years he became the Head or Prior of that House and about that time or rather before was conversant in the Theological faculty with us but whether he took a degree therein tho supplicate he did to oppose in Divinity it appears not This Person being intimate with Dr. Edw. Lee afterwards Archbish of York did at his intreaty write Animadversiones in annotat Erasmi in Nov. Testam Which animadversions he retracted in another piece Tract contra a Doctrinam M. Lutheri This also he retracted in
Musick easily his Genie therefore was born to greater Studies In short time after he sent him to Padöua in Italy which was then most flourishing in literature to obtain or rather advance himself in good letters and allowed him an yearly Pension to defray his Charges While he was conversant with the Muses there he was much instructed in his Studies by Cuthb Tonstall and Will. Latymer whom he calls his Praeceptores and whether he took a Degree there I find not After his return into England he retired to Oxon where as I conceive he had studied for some time before he travelled and settled for a time as 't is supposed in Queens Coll. of which his Patron T. Langton had been Provost and soon after was received into the service of Dr. afterward Cardinal Christopher Bambridge who succeeded his said Patron in that Provostship as I have elsewhere told you From the service of the said Cardinal he was received into the Royal Court where his parts being soon discovered and his accomplishments made known to the King was by him made Secretary of State and employed in matters of high concern In the beginning of 1514 he was admitted Prebendary of Bugthorpe in the Church of York in the place of Thom. Wolsey consecrated Bishop of Linc. and on the 20. of May the same Year he was made Archdeacon of Dorset upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll. in this University Afterwards he was sent in one or more Embassies by the King which he performed with very great honor to himself and the English Nation In 1519 he became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London on the Death of Dr. Joh. Colet and about that time Dean of Exeter but whether he was ever Dean of Salisbury it appeareth not 'T is true that Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury doth say in the Life and Reign of King Hen. 8. under the Year 1536. that Pet. Vannes then Archdeacon of Worcester was not long before that time made co-adjutor to Rich. Pace Dean of Salisbury being then thought commonly distracted and out of his Wits But how that can be I cannot find for 1 it doth evidently appear from the Registers of that Church that one Raymund Pade had that Deanery conferr'd upon him 19. Jan. 1522. 2 That in the said Registers no mention at all is made of R. Pace as Dean and thirdly that Pet. Vannes beforementioned became Dean of the said Church by virtue of the King's Letters on 3. Feb. 1539. in the place as 't is supposed of the said Pade at which time R. Pace had been dead 7 Years In 1521 he being made Prebendary of Combe and Harnham in the said Church of Sarum he shewed himself serviceable to the University of Oxon the Members of which would then have had him to adorn their Lycaeum with a degree if certain customs belonging thereunto did not hinder him Afterwards our Author Paice who was then esteemed by all ripe in wit learning and eloquence and very expert in Foreign Languages was sent in the Kings Affairs Ambassador to Venice which function there he so discharged that it is hard to say whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians both for dexterity of his wit and especially for the singular promptness in the Italian tongue wherein he seemed nothing inferior neither to Pet. Vannes here in England the Kings Secretary for the Italian tongue nor yet to any other which were the best for that tongue in all Venice For opinion and fame of learning he was so generally accepted not only here in England with Lynacre Grocin Sir Tho. More and others but also known and reported abroad in such manner that in the great Volume of Erasmus his Epistles he wrot almost to none so many as he wrot to this our Author Paice It must be now noted that while he continued at Venice he grew much out of favour with Cardinal Wolsey first for shewing his readiness to assist Charles Duke of Burbon with Money while the said Cardinal who had little or no affection for that Duke did under hand keep back a vast summ of Money which K. Hen. 8. had sent to the said Duke to carry on his War near Pavia against Francis 1. K. of France and secondly for his negligence in advancing the said Cardinals designs to succeed in the Papacy P. Adrian the 6. who died 1523. I say for these two reasons especially he was so much inflamed against Paice that he forthwith took such causes that for the space almost of two Years he had neither writing from the King or Council how he should proceed in his Affairs at Venice nor any allowance for his diet notwithstanding he had sent Letters for the same to England very often Upon this and especially upon some private intimation from his Friends at home he took such an inward thought and conceit that his wits began to fail him It is reported that the Venetian Ambassador residing in London repaired to the Cardinal and desired to know of him whether he would command any thing to the English Ambassador at Venice Whereupon he made answer Paceus decepit Regem Which words coming to Paice's knowledge so deeply pierc'd his stomach that he in a manner fell quite besides himself Soon after his frensie and the reason thereof being made known to the King he was forthwith sent for home and by the Kings command he was so carefully attended by his Physicians that in short time he came to his wits again and began to study the Hebrew Language with Rob. Wakfeld About that time the Cardinal being absent Paice's Friends found such means that he was brought to the King then residing at Richmond where they had private discourse for two hours or more not without great rejoycing to His Majesty to see him so well amended in his senses Afterwards the Cardinal hearing what had passed and suspecting that he had disclosed somewhat to the King which he would not have known as also doubting the King would take Paice into favour again began in short time after to quarrel and to pick up matters to lay to Paice's charge whereas he should have rather cleared himself of those things which Paice laid unto him before the King and then to have proceeded accordingly But so it was that when the King had willed the Cardinal to purge himself of those things which Paice had rightly charged him withal he sitting in judgment with the Duke of Norfolk and other States of the Realm not as a Defendant but as a Judge in his own cause did so bear out himself and weighed down Paice that he was forthwith commanded to the Tower of London as Prisoner where he continuing for the space of two Years or thereabouts was at length by the Kings command discharged While he was in his disconsolate condition he was so deeply sensible of his case that he was more distracted in his wits than
continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
Author saith who adds that he died at London in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 which was the eight and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. FRANCIS BYGOD a Yorkshire Man born spent some time among the Oxonian Muses but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King and wrot A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices The Epistle before which dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed or reprinted at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman's Larger work of Tithes by the care of Jerem. Stephens an 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope his Marriage with Anna Bolein and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth as 't is conjectured by circumstances The Author's purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession as it had been complained of long before his time especially be Dr. Tho. Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English which I have not yet seen At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage an 1536 at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull was thereupon apprehended imprison'd and at length executed at Tyburn near to London with other Knights and Esquires in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. ROBERT WAKFELD a Northern Man born and the greatest Linguist of his time was as he saith ex fidelibus natus fidelis ex Christianis Christianus and afterwards being fitted for the University he was sent to Cambridge where he took one or more degrees in Arts. But his desire being solely bent to improve his natural Genie in the Tongues he went to travel and in short time attained to a very considerable knowledge in the Greek Hebrew Chaldaic and Syriac Tongues About that time he read and taught the said Tongues at Tubing in Germany at Paris and in 1519 I find him to be Hebr. Professor at Lovaine in Brabant in the place of one Matthew Adrian But continuing there only 4 Months he returned into England where being made known to the King by his great friend and admirer Rich. Paice Dean of St. Pauls he was made one of his Chaplams took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity was beloved of many and patroniz'd in his studies by Thom. Bulleyn Earl of Wilts When the unlawfulness of Matrimony between the King and Catherine of Spayne Widow of his Brother Prince Arthur was called into question he began to defend the Queens cause and therefore gained the love of many bâ—t being afterwards courted by fair promises to change his mind and the rather because of his great skill in the Tongues and Divinity and therefore able to say more than another Man he came over to the Kings Party whereby he gained the hatred of many I have seen a Letter written by him to the King dated from Sion in Middlesex 1527. wherein he tells him that he will defend his cause or question in all the Universities in Christendome c. and afterwards tells him that if the People should know that he who began to defend the Queens cause not knowing that she was carnally know of Pr. Arthur his Brother should now write against it surely he should be stoned of them to death or else have such a slander and obloquy raised upon him that he would rather dye a thousand times than suffer it c. Afterwards upon the intreaty of the University of Oxon made to the King Wakfeld was sent thither about 1530. and at his first coming he made a publick Speech in the Hall of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. since called Ch. Church before the University and afterwards read publickly the Hebrew Lecture there as his Brother Tho. Wakfeld did at Cambridge by the Kings Authority beginning to read there in 1540. In 1532 he was made by the King the twelfth or junior Canon of his College at Oxon founded on the site of that of the Cardinal and in the same Year he was incorporated B. of Divinity So that continuing there some Years after and-instructing many in the Tongues I have therefore put him among the Oxford Writers In 1536 when he saw the King make havock of Religious Houses he carefully preserved divers Books of Greek and Hebrew especially those in the Library of Ramsey abbey which were partly composed by Laur. Holbeach a Monk of that place in the Reign of Hen. 4. among which was his Hebrew Dictionary As for the works of Wakfeld they are mostly these that follow Oratio de laudibus utilitate trium Linguarum Arabicae Chaldaicae Hebraicae atque idiomatibus hebraicis quae in utroque testamento inveniuntur Printed by Winand Worde in qu. Paraphrasis in librum Koheleth quem vulgo Ecclesiasten vocant succincta clara atque fidelis Printed in a black char in qu. Kotser codicis quo praeter ecclesiae sacrosanctae decretum probatur conjugium cum fratria carnaliter cognita illicitum omnino inhibitum interdictumque esse tum naturae jure tum jure divino legeque evangelica atque consuetudine catholica ecclesiae orthodoxae Printed at Lond. 1528 in qu. This is the same with his Book entit by Bale and Pits De non ducenda Fratria Syntagma de hebraeorum codicum incorruptione Printed in qu. In which Book are several things against Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester concerning Matrimony and the unlawfulness of the Kings Marrying with his Brothers Wife Oratio Oxonii habita in Coll. Regio Printed with the former in qu. De Laudibus Agriculturae Epistolae ad D. Th. Bulleyn comitem Wilts Joh. Fisherum Ep. Roff. Rich. Paceum c. Besides other things mentioned elsewhere which I have not yet seen He died at London on the eighth day of Octob. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven leaving Thomas his Brother his Heir but where he was buried I cannot yet tell Jo. Leland in one of his Books gives him the name of Polypus noting thereby he way of contumely that he was a crafty man for craftily conveying away the Hebrew Dictionary before-mention'd Rich. Paice Dean of Pauls in a Letter to K. H. 8. dat at Sion 1527. saith that Rob. Wakfeld is a Person of excellent learning as well in Divinity as in wonderful knowledge of many and divers Languages The University of Oxon in an Epistle to the said King doth also say that besides his various accomplishments he gives place to none for his admirable knowledge in the Hebrew Syriac and Arabick Tongues JOHN CLAYMOND who used to write himself Eucharistiae servus because he frequently received the blessed Sacrament and in the latter part of his life took it every day was the Son of Joh. Claymond and Alice his Wife sufficient Inhabitants of
homine Written and finished at Lovaine 1518. Pompeius fugiens Liber in Pseudo-Dialectios Veritas sucata seu in triumphum prae lectio Written at Lovaine 1519. Praelectio in somnium Scipionis apud Ciceronem Written at Lovaine 1520. Declamationes septem Finished at Bruges In Suetonium quaedam Finished at Lovaine 1521. De consultatione Fin. at Oxon. 1523. De institutione feminae Christianae lib. 3. Written to Catherine Qu. of England from Bruges 1523. De ratione studii puerilis Dedicated by his Epist dat at Oxon. non Oct. an 1523 to Catherine Qu. of England his only Patroness Introductio ad sapientiam Written at Bruges 1524. Satellitium animi vel symbola Ded. to Princess Mary Dau. of K. Hen. 8. from Bruges 1524. Epist ad Hen. 8. dat Ox. 12. Mar. 1525. De concordia discordia lib. 4 De subventione pauperum Written at Bruges 1526. De passione Christi meditatio De sudore Jesu Christi sacrum diurnum At Bruges 1529. De corruptis artibus Tom. 3. De disputatione lib. 1. At Burges 1531. De ratione dicendi lib. 3. At Brug 1532. De communione rerum ad Germanos inferiores At Bruges 1535. Exercitationes animi in Deum At Antw. Aug. 1535. Preces meditationes diurnae At Bruges 1535. Exercitatio linguae latinae Written at Breda 1538. De anima vita lib. 3. At Bruges 1538. With many other things which for brevity sake I shall now omit He also translated into Latin Isocrates his Nicocles dedicated to Card. Wolsey by his Epist dat at Oxon 15. Dec. 1523. with other translations which I also shall omit As to the time of this worthy Authors death many Writers differ and the just day or year is yet uncertain Anton. Postevin saith he died at Bruges in Flanders 1536. or therebouts having left off writing in 1535. Ludovic Guicciard in his description of Bruges reports it an 1540. Thuanus who saith he was a Professor at Lovaine tells us that he died there 1541 and Job Whyte in his Diacosio-Martyrion printed 1553 would have it at Bruxels 1545. Which last Author being before all the former in time and perhaps may know or remmeber Vives ought therefore to be believed before the rest But these matters notwithstanding being uncertain I shall venture to put his death under Fifteen hundred forty and four year 1544 which being at Bruges was buried in the Church of St. Donantius there See more of him in a Book intit Bibliotheca Hispanica Printed at Rome in two Tomes in fol. 1672. Tom. 1. p. 552 553 c. Both which Tomes were written by Nicholaus Antonius Hispalensis J. C. Kt. of the Order of St. James ROBERT SHYNGLETON descended from a good Family of his name living in Lancashire was always esteemed an ingenious Man while he resided in the University but whether he was honored with a Degree it appears not Afterwards being a Priest and a Requent Preacher he took occasion to reflect on the times and certain Persons in his Sermons For which being called to an account and committed was forced with two other Persons to make his Palinodie before a Convention of certain Bishops at London an 1543. 35. H. 8. His works are these Treatise Of the seven Churches Of the Holy Ghost Comment on or explanation of certain Prophecies The two first were formerly perhaps still in the King's Library at Westminster The last giving high offence as containing many treasonable matters and most severe reflections the Author was hanged for it at London in Fifteen hundred forty and four year 1544 Anton. Possevinus stiles him a Martyr for the Rom. Cath. Cause and John Pitseus omits him as being an Heretick or at least for the honorable mention made of him by Jo. Bale WILLIAM LATYMER became Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1489 whence after he had spent some Years in Logicals and Philosophicals he travelled into Italy and settling at Padöua for a time did much advance his learning especially in the Greek tongue After his return he was incorporated M. of A. as it seems became most eminent and was worthily numbered among the lights of learning in his time by Jo. Leland as I have elsewhere told you About the beginning of Hen. 8. he was Master or Tutor to Reynold Pole afterwards Cardinal and Archb. of Canterbury by whose endeavours he had some preferment in the Church confer'd upon him He was learned in all sacred and profane Letters and as Erasmus saith was verè Thologus integritate vitae conspicuus 'T is said also that he hath written several things but what they are except Epistolae ad Erasmum I know not However he with Lynacre and Grocin did undertake the translation of all Aristotles works into Latin but the latter being taken away by death before they were half finished Latymer desisted and would not go any farther as being perhaps terrified with the immense labour to be taken therein He died very aged at his Rectory of Seyntbury near to Camden in Glocestershire which he kept with that of Wotton under Edge and a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury about the Month of Sept. year 1545 in Fifteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there dedicated to St. Nicholas Over his Grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with a large Inscription on a brass plate fastned thereunto which hath been long since taken away and defaced I have seen a Copy of his Will whereby he gave with certain conditions all his Greek and Lat. Books to Allsouls and Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. yet whether they received them it appears not I find one Will. Latymer D. D. to have been Dean of Peterborough in the place of Job Boxhall ejected an 1560 and Archdeacon of Westminster who dying in the Summer time after 29. July 1583 was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough beneath the Pulpit but of what kin he was to the former I know not He was succeeded in the said Deanery by Rich. Fletcher D. D. of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge afterwards B. of London THOMAS SOLME called by some Sulmo Sowlman and Solimont was born in the Isle of Gernsey educated for a time in this University and was afterwards Secretary of the French tongue to King Hen. 8. This Person who was much conversant in English History wrot The acts and ghests of St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury Select antiquities relating to Britain And dying in fifteen hundred forty and five year 1545 was buried in the Monastery of the Carmes or Carmelites at London leaving behind him the Character of a learned Man I find one Tho. Solme to be Author of a Treatise entit The Lords Flaile being an exposition on the commandments Printed at Basil in oct but when unless in the time of Qu. Mary the beginning or end of the Book shews not One Tho. Somus a Preacher in the time of Ed. 6. hath English Verses at the end of Will.
Academical learning either in St. Albans or Broadgates hall or both Thence he went to an Inn of Chancery in Holbourne near London called Thavies Inn where he studied and made sufficient progress in the common Law and thence as 't is probable to Lincolns Inn. Afterwards he applied his muse to the searching of Histories especially those belonging to his own Country wherein he became so curious and critical that he wrot and published A Dictionary in English and Welsh much necessary to all such Welshmen as will speedily learn the English tongue thought by the Kings Majesty very meet to be set forth to the use of his gracious Subjects in Wales Lond. 1547. qu. whereunto is prefixed A little treatise of the English pronunciation of the Letters From the said Dictionary and treatise Dr. Joh. Davies obtained many materials when he was making his Dictionarium Britannico-latinum A playne and familiar introduction teaching how to pronounce the Letters in the Brytish tongue now commonly called Welsh whereby an English Man shall not only with ease read the said tongue rightly but c. Lond. 1550. qu. Afterwards perused and augmented by the Author Lond. 1567. in 7. sh in qu. Battery of the Popes bottereulx commonly called the High Aultar Lond. 1550. in oct He also published The Laws of Howell Da and other things relating to his own Country which I have not yet seen He was living in the house of Humph. Toy a Bookseller in St. Pauls Ch. yard in London in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven which was part of the ninth and tenth years of Qu. Elizabeth being then esteemed a Person to be much meriting of the Church and British tongue but when he died I find not ARMIGELL WADE or Waad a Yorkshire Man born spent some years in Logick and Philosophie in St. Mary Magd. Coll. as it seems took a Degree in Arts 1531 went afterwards to one of the Inns of Court travelled into various Countries and after his return became Clerk of the counsel to K. Hen. 8. and afterwards to K. Ed. 6. He is charactariz'd thus Qui in maximarum artium disciplinis prudentiaque civili instructissimus plurimarum linguarum callentissimus legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus inter Britunnos Indiarum Americâ—rum explorator primus He made many observations in his travels especially in America being the first English Man that discovered it which are remitted into the Volums of voyages collected and published by another hand This Person who was a Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex died at Belsie or Belsise in the Parish of Hampsted in the said County 20. June in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Hampsted Soon after was a fair Monument of Alabaster erected over his grave by Sir Will. Waad his eldest Son Clerk of the Counsel to Qu. Elizabeth WILLIAM TURNER a noted and forward Theologist and Physician of his time was born at Morpeth in Northumberland educated in Cambridge in Trivials and afterwards for a time in the study of Medicine This Person who was very conceited of his own worth hot headed a busie body and much addicted to the opinions of Luther would needs in the height of his study of Physick turn Theologist but always refused the usual ceremonies to be observed in order to his being made Priest And whether he had orders confer'd upon him according to the R. Cath. manner appears not Sure it is that while he was a young Man he went unsent for through many parts of the Nation and Preached the Word of God not only in Towns and Villages but also in Cities In his rambles he settled for a time in Oxon among several of his Countrymen that he found there purposely for the conversation of Men and Books which is one reason I put him here the other I shall tell you anon But whether he took a Degree in Arts or Medicine I cannot yet find At the same time and after following his old trade of preaching without a call he was imprison'd and kept in close durance for a considerable time At length being let loose and banished he travelled into Italy and at Ferrara he was made a Doctor of Physick and as much there in esteem for his faculty as after his return into England he was among the reformed party In the latter end of K. Hen. 8. he lived at Colen and other places in Germany where he published one or more Books and returning to his native Country when K. Ed. 6. reigned had not only the Prebendship of Botevant in the Church of York bestowed on him by the Archb. of that place but a Canonry of Windsore and the Deanery of Wells by the King About which time tho the day or month or scarce the Year appears he was incorporated Doctor of Physick with us which is another reason I put him here for if I could have found the certain time which appears not because the Register of that Kings Reign is imperfect I would have remitted him into the Fasti About that time he procured a licence to read and to preach as many Lay-men did that were Scholars practised his faculty among the Nobility and Gentry and became Physician to Edward Duke of Somerset L Protector of England After Q. Mary came to the Crown he left the Nation once more went into Germany with several English Theologists thence to Rome and afterwards for a time settled in Basil But when Qu. Eliz. succeeded he return'd and was restored to his Deanery and had other spiritualities I presume confer'd upon him being then a Person had in much esteem for his two faculties and for the great benefit he did by them especially in his writings to the Church and common-wealth The titles of those Books published under his name are these The hunting of the Romish Fox which more than 7 years hath been hid among the Bishops of England after that the Kings highness had commanded him Turner to be driven out of his Realm Basil 1543. oct Published under the name of Will Wraughton Avium praecipuarum quarum apud Plinium Aristotelem mentio est brevis succincta historia Colon. 1544. in tw Rescuing of the Romish Fox otherwise called the Examination of the hunter devised by Steph. Gardiner Doctor and defender of the Popes Canon Law and his ungodly Ceremonies Printed 1545. in oct published also under the name of W. Wraughton The hunting of the Romish Wolfe Printed beyond the Sea in oct Dialogue wherein is contained the examination of the Masse and of that kind of Priesthood which is ordained to say Mass and to offer up for the remission of sinne the body and blood of Christ againe Lond. in oct New Herball wherein are contained the names of herbs in Greek Lat. Engl. Dutch French and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries with the properties degrees and natural places of the same Lond. 1551. and 68. fol. It must be now noted that after this
While he continued at Madrid in Spain in the quality of an Ambassador he was accused to have spoken somewhat unreverently of the Pope Whereupon he was excluded from the Court and afterwards thrust out of Madrid into a Country Village his Servants compelled to be present at Mass and the exercise of his own Religion forbidden and this whether in more hatred to the Queen of England or to Religion I cannot say whereas she in the mean time had shewed all kindness to Goseman the Spanish Ambassador allowing him his own Religion This Man-goose hath as I have been informed written and translated several things but none have I yet seen only his translation from Latin into English of Common places of Christian Religion gathered by Wolfg. Musculus c. Lond. 1563. fol. and 1573. in a thick qu. He paid his last debt to nature at London 18. March in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight and received sepulture in the Chancel of St. Anns Church near Aldersgate in the same City leaving issue by his Wife Frances Dau. of Edm. Herenden of London Mercer several Children some of whose posterity do now or at least did lately live at Hatfield-Braddock in Essex In his Deanery of Glocester succeeded Dr. Tho. Cooper afterwards B. of Winchester and in the Wardenship of Merton Coll. Dr. Tho. Bickley afterwards B. of Chichester Besides this Jo. Man I find another of both his names of New Coll. born at Writtle in Essex who being LL. B. was presented by the Warden and Fellows of the said Coll. to the rectory of Great-Horwood in Bucks an 1551 where he died 1565. EDMUND BONNER a Person much esteemed by those of his profession for the zeal he bore to the R. Catholick cause was the natural Son of George Savage Priest Parson of Davenham in Cheshire natural Son of Sir Job Savage of Clifton in the said County Knight of the Garter and one of the counsel to K. Hen. 7. Which Geo. Savage Priest had seven natural Children by three sundry Women viz. 1 George Savage Chancellour of Chester 2 Joh. Wymesley Parson of Torperley in Cheshire who was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Ed. Bonner 3 Randal Savage of Lodge in the said County 4 Edm. Bonner of whom we are to make further mention begotten on the body of Elizab. Frodsham who was the Wife after Bonner had been begotten of Edm. Bonner a Sawyer living with a Gentleman called Armingham of Potters Hanley in Worcestershire besides three Daughters named Margaret Ellen and Elizabeth Our Author who was called by his supposed Fathers name Edm. Bonner was born either at Elmeley or at Potters-Hanley in Worcestershire and in 1512 or thereabouts became a Student of Broadgates hall now Pembroke Coll. being then a noted nursery for Civilians and Canonists Soon after having made a sufficient progress in Philosophy and the Laws he was on the 12. June admitted Bach. of the Canon and on the 13. of July following an 1519. Bach. of the Civil Law About that time he entred into Holy Orders and performed many matters relating to his faculty in the Dioc. of Worcester by the appointment of the then Bishop In 1525 he was licensed to proceed in the Civil Law and about that time obtained the rectories of Ripple Bledon Dereham Cheswick and Cherriburton in Yorks Afterwards he was one of the Kings Chaplains a favourer of the Lutherans of the divorce between the K. and Catherine of Spain a favourer of the Kings proceedings in expelling the Popes authority from the Kingdom of England and Master of the Faculties under Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury In 1535 he became Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Edw. Fox promoted to the See of Hereford which Fox had been installed in that Archdeaconry upon the resignation of Steph. Gardener LL. D. 27. Sept. 1531. and by the endeavours of Thom. Cromwell Secretary of State he was employed Ambassador to the Kings of Denmark and France to the Pope and to the Emperour of Germany and made Bishop of Hereford 1538 the temporalities of which See were restored to him by the K. 4. March the same Year But before he was consecrated thereunto he was elected Bishop of London 1. Oct. 1539 being then in an Embassie had restitution made of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 18 Nov. following and was consecrated 3. Apr. 1540. After the death of K. Hen. 8. and Religion being about to be reformed by K. Ed. 6. Bonner seemed at first to be forward for it but recanting what he had done he was enjoyn'd to preach a Sermon at Pauls cross to make farther trial perhaps of his humour wherein leaving out the article of the Kings authority was upon the complaints of Joh. Hooper and Will some call him Hugh Latymer Bach. of Div. and Parson of St. Laurence Pountney who prosecuted him very zealously for it and his slowness in forwarding reformation in his Diocess first committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea 20. Sept. and in the beginning of Oct. following an 1549. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick Soon after which time his Mother Elizab. Frodsham died and was buried at Fulham at whose Funeral Bonner tho a Prisoner gave to several Persons mourning coats In the beginning of Aug. 1553. he was released out of the Marshalsea and restored to his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary in whose Reign he shew'd himself severe being put upon it by publick authority against the Protestants as may be fully seen in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church As for the writings of the said Bonner they are many but all that I have yet seen are only these viz. Preface to the oration of Stephen Bish of Winchester concerning true obedience Printed at London in Lat. 1534. 35 and at Hamburgh 1536. oct Translated and imprinted by a most zealous enemy to the Papists called Mich. Wood who wrot a bitter and libellous Epistle before and a conclusion after it to the Reader Print at Roan 1553. oct I have seen another translation of it perhaps by the same hand without the said lib. Epist printed in oct an 1536. In the said Pref. written by Bonner are several matters against the Popes power in England and in defence of the Kings divorce from Qu. Catherine Several Letters to the Lord Tho. Cromwell an 1538. A declaration to the Lord Th. Crom. describing to him the evil behaviour of Steph Bish of Winchester an 1538 These two last are mention'd in the Acts and Mon. of the Church under that year Responsum exhortatio Lond. 1553. in oct Which answer and exhortation to the Clergy in praise of Priesthood beginning Dum tacitus apud me considero c. were utter'd by our Author after Joh. Harpesfield had finished his Sermon to the Clergy in St. Pauls Cath. in Lond. 16. Oct. 1553 and the orations ended of John Wymesley Archdeacon of London before-mention'd and of Hugh Weston Dean of Westminster All which were printed and bound together in one volume Articles
as it seems at Digges Court educated for a time in this University but in what house unless in Univ. Coll. I know not where laying a foundation of greater learning departed without a Degree and afterwards became a most excellent Mathematician a skilful Architect and a most expert surveyour of Land At length lest it should be thought that he studied only for himself and not for the benefit of others he published a book entit Tectonicon Briefly shewing the exact measuring and speedy reckoning of all manner of lands squares timber stones steeples c. Lond. 1556. qu. Augmented and published again by his Son Tho. Digges Lond. 1592. qu. Printed there again 1647 qu. Our Author Leon. Digges wrot also A Geometrical practical treatise named Pantometria in 3. bookes Which being attempted in his younger years his said Son Thomas supplied such parts of it after his death as were left obscure and imperfect adjoyning thereunto A discourse Geometrical of the five regular and Platonical bodies containing sundry Theorical and Practical propositions arising by mutual conference of these solides Inscription Circumscription and Transformation Lond. 1591. fol. Prognostication everlasting of right good effect or choice rules to judge the weather by the Sun Moon Stars c. Lond. 1555 56. and 64 qu. corrected and augmented by his said Son Thomas with divers general tables and many compendious rules Lond. 1592. qu. what else he wrot I find not nor certainly when he died unless about the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and four or whether his death was at Eltham in Kent or at another place There is some memory of him and his Family in whose veines hereditary learning doth seem to run on a Monument in Chilham Church in Kent not to shew that he was buried there but to shew the genealogie of his Family set up by his Grandson Dudley Digges of whom I shall make mention in 1638 which being too long for this place I shall pass it by at present for brevity sake RICHARD WILLS who in his books writes himself Willeius which is the reason why some call him Willey was a Western Man born educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and in Academical for a time in his Coll. at Oxon but before he took a Degree or was made Fellow he left the University and travelled into France Germany and Italy where spending some years in several Universities return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman And being noted for his admirable dexterity and honorable advance in the Latine Empire as Joh. Brownswerd was at the same time wrot and published Lond. 1573. oct Poematum liber ad Gul. Baronem Burghleium De re poetica disputatio In suorum poemat Librum Scholia With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen In the Year 1574 Apr. 24. he by the name and title of Rich. Wills Master of Arts of the University of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated the ven congregation of Regents that he might be incorporated into the same Degree in this University but the said Regents suspecting his opinions did grant his desire conditionally 1 That he produce a testimony of his creation under the seal of the University of Mentz 2 That he render a testimony of his faith before the Vicechanc. and Proctors and 3 That he acknowledge the Queen to be his legitimate Governess or Monarch of all England c. whether he performed these conditions or was really incorporated appears not in any of the registers RICHARD TAVERNER Son of Joh. Taverner of Brisley in Norfolke was born at Brisley or else in that County in the Year 1505 descended from an ancient Family of his name living sometimes at North Elmham near to Brisley before-mentioned educated for a time in Logick in Bennet Coll. in Cambridge but before he had consummated an year and an half there did with others of that University go to Oxon for preferment about the same time that Card. Wolsey did begin his Coll. there At length being admitted one of the Junior Canons of that Coll. he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the Year 1529 and about that time obtaining a competent knowledge in Philosophy the Greek tongue and Divinity left Oxon some time before the said Coll. came into the Kings hands by Wolseys fall and forthwith went to an Inn of Chancery near London call'd Staire Inn otherwise Strond Inn pulled down when Edw. D. of Somerset built Somerset house in the Strond or Strand and thence to the Inner Temple for before his time and some years after students were not admitted into the Inns of Court before they had read the ground of Law in one of the Inns of Chancery where his humour was to quote the Law in Greek when he read any thing thereof In 1534 he went to the Court and was there taken into the attendance of Tho. Cromwell then Principal Secretary to K. Hen. 8. by whose commendation he was afterwards made by the said King one of the Clerks of the Signet in ordinary an 1537. Which place he kept till the first of Q. Mary having been in good repute not only with K. Hen. 8. but also with K. Edw. 6. and most of all with Edw. Duke of Somerset Lord Protector In 1552 he tho a mere Lay-man obtained by the name of Rich. Taverner Master of Arts being Master of Arts of both the Universities a special licence subscribed by K. Ed. 6. to Preach in any place of his dominions and the more for this reason because the scarcity and slackness of Preachers was so great that some of the Kings Chaplains were appointed to ride circuit about the Kingdom to preach to the People especially against Popery I have been informed by some notes of him written by his Grandson that he preached before the King at Court and in some publick places in the Kingdom wearing a velvet bonnet or round cap a damask gown and a chain of gold about his neck in which habit he was seen and heard preaching several times in St. Maries Church in Oxon. in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. In like manner other Lay-Gentlemen such that had been educated in the Universities did either preach or else write books concerning controversies in Religion or else make translations from Divinity books Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. Esq whom I have mention'd in Joh. Jewell sometimes of Univ. Coll. was often seen in the same habit in Pulpits in London and in his own Country and would often give the printed Catechismes in the book of Common-Prayer to Children as he walked in London streets to learn without book and would after call out those children and examine them and for encouragement would give especially to the poorer sort of them money silk points ribbands c. Sir Tho. More also after he was called to the bar in Lincolns Inn did for a considerable time read a publick Lecture out of St. Austin De civitate Dei in the Church of St.
Clemency could not be drawn into a Persuasion that in case of Religion Men should be burnt hang'd or quartered And therefore it was that one reporteth that he always was in animo Catholicus and another that he was of such credit and favour in Rome as if he was the greatest Papist in England He wrote as it is said several things pertaining to the Law but none of them are extant only this if I may say it is his and not his Name set to it for sale sake A Treatise concerning Statutes or Acts of Parliament and the Exposition thereof Lond. 1677. oct Whether ever before printed I know not Speeches spoken during the time of his Chancelorship MS. This great and worthy Person dyed on the 20th of November in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 51. and was buried in the upper part of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on the 16th of December following Soon after came out a little Book of Verses made on his Death by several Hands intit Musarum plangores Christopher Lord Hatton Son of John Hatton the nearest Knsman of the Male Line to the aforesaid Sir Christopher was not of St. Mary's Hall but of Jesus College in Cambridge and afterwards a Doctor of the Civil Law of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you He published the Psalms of David with Titles and Collects according to the matter of each Psalm Printed at Oxon 1644. in oct and afterwards enlarged and published several times These Collects or Prayers at the end of every Psalm were compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor and so were the Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian People which are at the end of every impression of the aforesaid Book yet notwithstanding they go all under the Name of the aforesaid Christop L. Hatton having his Arms in the Title of them who dying 4 July 1670. being then or lately a Member of the Privy Council to his Majesty was buried in a private Chappel of the Collegiate Church at Westminster dedicated to St. Peter opposite to the Capella Regum on the North side See more in Jer. Taylor under the year 1667. BARTHELMEW CHAMBERLAINE was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family in Oxfordshire admitted Scholar of Trinity Col. 7. June 1563. aged 17 years Probationer in 67 and Fellow the year after About that time entring into Holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts took both the Degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated 579. before which time he was beneficed and dignified in the Church but where I cannot justly say He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Passion of Christ and benefits thereby on Heb. 9. 28. Lond. 1581. and 1613. oct 2 Concio ad Academicos Oxomienses in Comitiis An. 1576. Lond. 1584. qu. 3 Sermon at Pauls on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1589. oct 4 Sermon at Farington in Berks on Lond. 1571. oct with others which I have not yet seen Between the time of the first coming of the said Barth Chamberlain to Trinity College to the year 1578. I find seven of his Sirname to be Students in the said College and some after but cannot in all my searches find out George Chamberlaine who was afterwards Bishop of Ypre and whether he ever abode in this University in the condition of a Student I cannot justly say it The said George Chamberlaine was the eldest Son of George Chamberlaine Esque by his Wife the Daughter of Moses Pring of Gaunt in Flanders and he the second Son of Sir Leonard Chamberlaine of Oxfordshire Knight Governor of the Isle of Guernsey who dyed there 2. Eliz. From which Sir Leonard are the Chamberlains of Sherburn in the said County desended the Heiress general of which Family named Elizabeth was married to John Nevile Baron of Abergavenny The said George Chamberlatine who was Bishop of Ypre was born at Gaunt before-mentioned An. 1576. and being bred up ro Learning and Religion became successively Canon Archdeacon and Dean of St. Bavon in Gaunt and at length in 1626. was made Bishop of Ypre within the Province of Machlin in Brabant on the Death of Antonius de Hennin where being settled he became much admired as he was partly before for his great Piety for his voluble Preaching in five Languages at least and beloved of Kings and Princes c. Had I time and room allowed I would give you a Copy of an Epitaph made on by one that knew and much admired him wherein no doubt but that high character of his Piety Learning and Worth is justly said but I must hasten and tell you that he dying to the reluctancy of all that knew him on the 19. Dec. according to the account followed at Ypre in 1634. aged 58 years one month and 19 days was buried in his own Cathedral Some years before his Death he came into England purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn before-mentioned and elsewhere which belonged to the noble Family of the Chamberlains sometimes Barons of Tanquervil in Normandy he being the first and true Heir And this he did for Religion sake and purposely to avoid the incumbrances of earthly things See more of him in Athenae Belgicae c. written by Franc. Sweertius printed at Antwerp 1628. where you will find several things that he had written and published ROBERT GWINN a Welsh Man born took one degree in Arts 1568. and in 1571. leaving the University went with Thom. Crowther another Batchelaur to Doway where being admitted into the English College made very great progress in Divinity Afterwards Gwinn returning into England and settling in Wales in the condition of a Secular Priest did write several Pious Works in the Welsh Tongue as Anton. Possivinus tells us but the Titles of them he omits and also translated from the English into the Welsh Language A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding Men to Eternal Salvation commonly called the Resolution Written by Rob. Persons the Jesuit which Translation was much used and valued and so consequently did a great deal of good among the Welsh People See more in Jo. Davies under the year 1634. WALTER BALEY or Bailey Son of Henry Baley of Warnwell in Dorsetshire was born at Portsham in that County educated in Wykchams School 〈◊〉 Win chester admitted perpetual fellow of New Colledge after he had served two years of probation an 1550 tok the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line was admitied to practice that faculty while he was Proctor of the University in the year 1558 and about that time was made Prebendary of Dultingcote alias Dulcot c. in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in 1579. In 1561 he was made the Queens Professor of Physick in this University proceeded in that faculty two years after and at length became Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much resorted to for his practice He hath written A discourse of three kinds of Pepper in
in his Church of St. Laurence but when it appears not leaving then behind him a Son of both his Names Scholar of St. Johns coll an 1600. which he left after he was M. of A. to prevent expulsion I find another John Smith who hath published 1 The bright Morning Star or the resolution and exposition of the 22 Psalm Cambr. 1603. in tw 2 A pattern of true Prayer being an exposition or commentary on the Lords Prayer c. Lond. 1605. and 1624. oct besides other things But in his Epistle Dedicatory before the said Exposition it appears that he was then 1605 and before a Lecture in the City of Lincoln and that he had received part of his education in Cambridge I shall make mention of another Joh. Smith of St. Johns coll under the year 1616. PETER BALES Balesius a most dextrous Person in his profession to the great wonder of Scholars and others spent several years in Sciences among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in Gloucester hall But that study which he used for a diversion only proved at length an employment of ptofit His Works are these The art of Brachygraphy that is to write as fast as a man speaketh treatably Lond. 1597. in tw 2 edit The order of Orthography The Key of Calygraphy that is of fair Writing Printed with the former Before these Treatises are 18 copies of Verses made in praise of them four whereof or more were made by the Students of Glouc. hall among whom Edw. Mychilbourne a most noted Poet of his time hath two and three or more by the Students of St. Johns Col. who are proprietaries of that hall What afterwards became of the said Balesius who was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons An. 1600. I cannot tell nor whether he published any other matters I find one of both his Names a Divine who published 1. The Lords prayer pleading for better entertainment Lond. 1643. qu. 'T is a Sermon as it seems on Luke 11. 2. 2. Infirmities inducing to Conformity on Jam. 3. 2. Printed 1650. qu. and other things Whether this Peter Bales was Son or kinsman to the former I cannot tell FRANCIS CLERKE or Clarke was originally of Oxon but making little stay there he retired to Doctors Commons in London and for about 40 years practiced the Civil Law in the most famous Courts in England as in the Court of Arches Admiralty Audience Prerogative and Consistoral of the Bishop of London besides his employment divers times in the Ecclesiastical Causes of the delegated Power of the King and chief Commissioners In 1594. he having then practiced his Faculty 35 years at 〈◊〉 had the degree of Bach. of Civil Law conferred upon him by the venerable Convocation of Doctors and Masters not by way of creation but as the Register saith by admission to the reading of the imperial institutions tho no exercise he did for it in this University The reason for this their Civility was that he had performed the part of chief Proctor for the said University by vertue of Letters and their common Seal in all their concerns in the aforesaid Courts He hath written Praxis tam jus dicentibus quam aliis omnibus qui in foro Ecclesiastico versantur apprime utilis This book was finished by the Author and made ready for the press in April 1596. but what diverted him from the publication thereof unless death I know not Afterwards several imperfect Copies of it flying abroad one supposed to be true came into the hands of Tho. Bladen D. D. Dean of Ardfort in Ireland and Chaplain to the Duke of Ormond who caused it to be printed at Dublin in 1666. qu. Praxis curiae Admiralitatis Angliae Dubl 1666. qu. published by the said Doctor But the Copy from whence that Edition was published being as 't was pretended false in many matters a better Copy was published at London 1667. in 8vo by E. S. One Sir Franc. Clerke of Bedfordshire Knight was a benifactor to Sydney Col. in Cambridge tho not educated there whom I take to be the same with Sir Francis Clerk of Merton Priory or Abby in Surrey Son of Barthol Clerk mentioned in the Fasti under the year 1574. quite different from the Writer JOHN MARTIALL a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was born at Dalysford in Worcestershire near Chippingnorton in the County of Oxon educated in Grammatical learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of probation an 1551. took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law five years after about which time he was made Usher or second Master of the aforesaid School under Tho. Hide whom I shall anon mention In the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left his Employment Fellowship and at length the Kingdom and going beyond the Seas to Lovaine he made proficiency there in the studies of Divinity and at length by the procurement of Lewis Owen Archdeacon of Cambray afterwards Bishop of Cassano he was made Canon of St. Peters Church at L'isle in Flanders Which place he keeping eight years resigned it being then D. of D. to the end that he might give himself solely upto his devotions and prepare himself for another World He hath written A Treatise of the Cross gathered out of the Scriptures Councils and ancient Fathers of the primitive Church Antw. 1564. in oct Whereupon Jam. Calfhill of Ch. Ch. making an answer to it our Author came out with a reply intit A reply to Mr. Calfhills blasphemous answer against the Treatise of the Cross Lov. 1566. qu. Afterwards he wrote Treatise of the tonsure of the Clerks Left imperfect and therefore never printed He departed this mortal Life at L'isle beforementioned to the great grief of the R. Catholicks in the Arms or Embraces of Will Gifford Dean of that Church year 1597 on the 3. of Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter before-mentioned At his death he bequeathed a rich ring with a stone in it to adorn a piece of our Saviour's Cross in the Cathedral there Whose Will being performed by the said Gifford that bequest was esteemed as a Trophy of Victory over Calfhill and is at this day as I have been informed preserved as a choice relick there THOMAS HIDE a noted Rom. Priest of his time was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks. Descended from the ancient and gentile Family of his Name in that County educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual fellow of New Col. 1543 took the degrees in Arts that of master being compleated 1549. In the year after he leâ—t his Fellowship was made Prebendary of Winchester and in 1552. succeeded Will. Everard in the chief mastership of the said School where continuing till Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he left all he had and all he pretended to for Conscience sake and going beyond the Seas spent the remainder of his
was admitted it appears not in any of the registers of that time In 1601. he being then fam'd for his learning he was made canon of Windsore in the place of Rog. Browne B. D. sometimes of Kings coll in Cambridge deceased which with Eaton he held to his dying day He hath written Scholia ad Barlaami Monachi Logisticam Astronomiam Par. 1600. qu. Which book he also translated from Greek into Latin Treatise against Judicial Astrology Lond. 1601. qu. In which book having done no less than a christian learned man ought to have done he had reason to look for another reward of his labours than he found For instead of thanks and commendation for his labours so well placed he was roughly entertain'd by Sir Christop Heyden Knight sometimes of Cambridge University afterwards High-Steward of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych in his Defence of judicial Astrology Cambr. 1603. qu. a work full of no common reading and carried on with no mean arguments But our author not living to see his reply published he was some years after defended by his friend George Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1628. As for Sir Cristop Heyden who was a man of parts and had been Knighted at the sacking of Cadiz by Rob. Earl of Essex in 1596. was of Baconsthorp in Norfolk and died in the winter time as it seems in 1623. The reply which our author wrote but could not live to put it in the press hath this title A confutation of Astrological Daemonology or the Devils School in defence of a treatise intit Against judiciary Astrology and oppugned in the name of Sir Ch. Heyden Knight This is a MS. very fairly written in fol. richly bound and gilt dedicated by the author to K. James with an Epistle dated from Windsor Chappel 2. Feb. 1603. The beginning of which is In the midst of all my pains and labours most puissant and renowned Prince c. and the beginning of the work it self is In the setting down and delivery of Arts Galen in his book intit Ars Medicinalis c. 'T was the very same book as it seems that was given to the King which coming into the hands of Sir Hen. Savile he gave it to his Mathematical Library in Oxon. Astronomiae encomium ante annos 27. peroratum quo tempore Prolomei Almagestum in Vniversitate Oxon enarravit Lond. 1601. in Lat. and Engl. These I think are all the things that our author Jo. Chamber hath either written or published and therefore I have nothing more to say only that he yielding up his last breath at Windsore on the first of August in sixteen hundred and four year 1604 was buried on the north side of the entrance into the Choire of S. Georges Chappel there Over his grave was soon after a plain marble laid whereon is insculp'd the figure of a man in a mantle bearing an Escutcheon of S. Georges arms with this inscription under him Johanni Chamber Socio primum collegii Mertonensis an 1569. dein Etonensis an 1582. postremum canonico hujus Ecclesia an 1601. Theologo Medico Mathematico insigni Henricus Nevill Henricus Savile Milites posuere Natus apud Swillington in Com. Ebor. an 1546. Mense Maio obiit Etonae an 1604. ineunte Augusto corpus hoc marmore humatum jacit Praeter alia Legavit moriens collegio Mertonensi Mille Libras The said thousand pounds were by him given to Merton coll to purchase Lands in Yorkshire on this condition that two Scholarships of the said college should be supplied out of Eaton School by the nomination and election of the provost of Kings coll in Cambridge and the provost of Eaton This gift was soon after settled and the two Scholars were successively added to the number of the 12 Postmasters of the said house of Merton MEREDITH HANMER Son of Tho. Hanmer commonly called Ginta Hanmer of Porkington in Shropshire was born in that county but descended from the Hanmers of Hanmer in Flintshire became chaplain of C. C. coll in Apr. 1567. took the degrees in Arts and after some yeas spent in that house was made Vicar of S. Leonards Shoreditch in London Among the inhabitants of which place he left an ill name for that he converted the brass of several ancient monuments there into coine for his own use as an observing author tells us In 1581. and 82. he took the degrees of Divinity about which time he went into Ireland and at length became Treasurer of the Church of the Holy Trinity now called Ch. Church in Dublin which he kept to his dying day He was esteemed an exact Disputant a good Preacher Grecian and excellent for Ecclesiastical and Civil Histories He hath written Confutation and answer of the great braggs and challenge of Mr. Campion the Jesuit containing 9 articles by him directed to the Lords of the Privy Council Lond. 1581. oct The Jesuits banner displaying their original and success their vow and other their hypocrisie and superstition their doctrine and positions Lond. 1581. qu. A confutation of a brief censure upon two books written in answer to Mr. Campions offer of disputation-Printed with The Jesuits banner c. soon after came out A defence of the Censure c. See more in Rob. Persons under the year 1610. The Chronicle of Ireland in two parts The second of which was printed at Dublin in 1633. fol. Sermon at the baptizing of a Turk on Math. 5. 15. Lond. 1586. oct An Ephemeris of the Saints of Ireland A Chronography with a supputation of the years from the beginning of the World unto the birth of Christ and continued from the birth of Christ where Eusebius chiefly Socrates Evagrius and Dorotheus after him do write unto the twelfth year of the reign of Mauritius the Emperour being the full time of 600 years wanting five after Christ All chiefly collected out of Eusebius Socrates and Evangrius Lond. 1585. c. fol. Besides these he hath translated from Greek into English 1 The ancient Ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred years after Christ originally written by Eusebius Socrates and Evagrius Lond. 1577. 85. c. fol. 2 The lives ends and Martyrdoms of the Prophets Apostles and 70 disciples of Christ originally written by Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus Printed with the former translation This Dr. Hanmer as it appears had translated all the Church Historians except Eusebius his four books concerning the life of Emperour Constantine and the two orations subjoined thereunto which were afterwards done by Wye Saltonstal and printed in a fifth edition of Hanmers translation London 1650. fol. At length Dr. Hanmer being suddenly berest of his life by the plague raging in Dublin before he attained to the sixtieth year of his age year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four was as I presume buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity there Joh. Weevon whom I have here quoted tells us that he ended his days in Ireland ignominiously but what his meaning is to
of Broughton in Lincolnshire as being a younger Son of Thomas Anderson descended from the Addersons of Scotland who lived first in Northumberland and afterwards at Broughton before-mentioned did spend some time in Oxon in Linc. coll as it seems from whence being sent to the Inner Temple did by his indefatigable study obtain great knowledge in the Municipal Laws In the 9. of Q Eliz. he was either Lent or Summer Reader of that House in the 16. Double Reader and in the 19. of the said Queen's Reign Serjeant at Law In 1582. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas in the place of Sir Jam. Dyer deceased and in the year following he was made a Knight being then esteemed a zealous promoter of the established discipline of the Church of England as afterwards a severe prosecuter in his Circuits of the Brownists In 1586. he sate in judgment on Mary Q. of Scots at which time he was Chief Justicer of the Bench as a certain author stiles him being then a learned Man of the Law He wrote much but nothing is printed under his name only Reports of many principle Cases argued and adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth in the Common Bench. Lond. 1664. fol. Resolutions and judgments on the cases and matters agitated in all the Courts at Westminster in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Collected by Joh. Goldesburg Esque and by him published at Lond. in qu. This Sir Edm. Anderson died at London on the first of August in sixteen hundred and five year 1605 and on the 5. of Sept. following his Funerals were solemnized at Eyworth or Eworth in Bedfordshire where he had an Estate leaving issue several Sons whose Posterity remaineth there and elsewhere to this day In the place of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas suceeded Sir Francis Gaudy of the Inner Temple RALPH WARCUPP Son and Heir of Cuthb Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esq descended from those of Warcupp in Yorkshire became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1561. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts went to travel and became in time the most accomplished Gentleman of the age he lived in and Master of several Languages Afterwards setling in his Native Country he became Justice of Peace and Parliamentarian Knight for Oxfordshire in that Convention met at Westminster 43. Eliz. In the beginning of K. James's Reign he was by him designed Embassador either to France or Spain and had gone but was prevented by death He hath written and translated several things as 't is said but I have only seen his translation of Prayers on the Psalms Lond. 1571. in sixteens written originally by August Marlorat He died much lamented in the sixtieth year of his age on the Ides of Aug. in sixteen hundred and five and was buried in the Chancel year 1605 of Nuffield near to English before-mentioned Soon after came out a little book of verses on his death made by sixteen of the Members of New coll of which Will. Kingsmill his Kinsman was one and the chief from whence may be collected that the said R. Warcupp was the most compleat Esquire of his time FRANCIS TRESHAM Esq Son of Sir Tho. Tresham Knight who died 11. Sept. 1605. and he the Son of Sir John Tresham of Rushton in Northamptonshire was born in that County where his Family was ancient gentile and knightly educated either in St. Johns coll or Gloc. hall or both in which he laid the foundation of some learning that he afterwards improved by experience He hath written as 't is supposed A Treatise agaist Lying and fraudulent Equivocation MS. among those given by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to Bodlies Library See more in George Blackwell under the year 1612. After the Gunpowder Treason was discovered the said book was found by Sir Edw. Coke in a Chamber in the Inner Temple where Sir John Tresham used to lie 5. Dec. 1605. The said Fr. Tresham wrote De Officio Principis Christiani In which he maintains the lawfulness of deposing Kings an obstinate Heretick having no right to Dominion At length this person who was a strict R. Catholick being deeply ingaged in the Gunpowder-Treason as he had before been in that of Robert Earl of Essex in 1600. was taken and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died of the Stranguary say some others that he murthered himself yet a venerable author tells us that he being sick in the Tower and Dr. Will. Butler the great Physician of Cambridge coming to visit him as his fashion was gave him a piece of very pure Gold to put in his mouth and upon taking out of that Gold Butler said he was poysoned He died on the 20. of Nov. year 1605 in sixteen hundred and five aged 38. or thereabouts Whereupon his head being cut off and set with the rest of the heads of the Conspirators on London Bridge his body I suppose was buried within the Precincts of the Chappel of St. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London Quere This Francis Tresham was the person who wrote the Letter to the Lord Mount-Eagle who lived then at Bednall green near Algate who communicating it to the Secretary of State and he to the King the Plot for blowing up the Parliament House was thereupon discovered See in Tho. Habington under the year 1647. CHARLES TURNHULL a Lincolnshire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 24. Dec. 1573. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1581. about which time he was made Fellow of the said coll and became Famous for his admirable knowledge in the Mathematick Science He hath written A perfect and easie Treatise of the use of the Celestial Globe written as well for an introduction to the unskilful in Astronomy as for the use of such as be exercised in the art of Navigation Lond. 1597. oct Which I think was the second Edition He also built and made those several sorts of Dialls that stand upon a Pillar in the middle of C. C. coll Quadrangle an 1605. What other things he wrote or when he died I cannot yet find See more in Rob. Hegge an 1629. AEGEON ASKEW a person as well read in the Fathers Commentators and Schoolmen as any man of his age in the University was born in Lancashire became a Student in the University in 1593. aged 17. or thereabouts Chaplain of Queens coll in 98. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a noted Preacher and a great admirer of Dr. Jo. Raynolds and Ric. Crakenthorpe In the beginning of the Reign of K. James he lest the college and retiring to Greenwich in Kent became Minister I think of that place His works are Of brotherly reconcilement in several Sermons Preached in Oxon. Lond. 1605. qu. The author then lived at Greenwich An Apology of the use of the Fathers and secular learning in Sermons In which two books is shewed much
1 The Song of Songs which was Solomons metaphrased in English heroicks by way af dialogue Lond. 1621. qu. dedic to Hen. King Archd. of Colchester Son to the Bishop of Lond. 2 The Brides ornament Poetical Essayes upon a Divine Subject In two books Lond. 1621. qu. The first dedic to Jo. Argall Esq the other to Philip Brother to Henry King 3 Funeral Elegy consecrated to the memory of his ever honoured Lord John King late B. of London c. 1621. He also wrote a Book of Meditations of Knowlege Zeal Temperance Bounty and Joy And another containing Meditations of Prudence Obedience Meekness God's Word and Prayer Which two books of Meditations were intended by the author for the Press at the same time with the former Poetry But the ever lamented loss of his most honoured Lord which did change all his Joys into Sorrows and Songs to Lamentation did defert their publication and whether they were afterwards published I know not HENRY BILLINGSLEY Son of Roger Billingsley of the City of Canterbury did spend some time among the Muses in this University as others did who were afterwards Traders in London particularly Benedict Burnham of St. Albans hall afterwards a rich Citizen Sheriff and Alderman of London But before our author Billingsley had continued there three years in which time as 't is probable he became known to an eminent Mathematician called Whytehead then or lately a Fryer of the Order of St. Augustine in Oxon he was taken thence and bound an Apprentice to an Haberdasher as it seems in London Afterwards setting up for himself he became so rich that he was made successively Sheriff Alderman one of the Queen's Customers in the Port of London and at length 1596. Lord Mayor thereof and a Knight But the chief matter which I am to let the Reader know concerning him is that when the said Whytehead was put to his shifts after the demolition of his house in the latter end of Hen. 8. he was received by Billingsley into his Family and by him maintained in his old age in his house in London In which time he learned Mathematicks of him and became so excellent in them that he went beyond many of his time whether Lay-men or profess'd Scholars When Whytchead died he gave his Scholar all his Mathematical observations that he had made and collected together with his notes on Euclids Elements which he had with great pains drawn up and digested Afterwards our author Billingstey translated the said Elements into English and added thereunto plain Declarations and Examples manifold additions Scholias annotations and inventions from the best Mathematicians both in time past and in the age he lived in Which being done he published them under this title The Elements of Geometry of the mos ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara faithfully translated into the English tongue Whereunto are added certain Scholias annotations c. Lond. 1570. fol. To which book Dr. Joh. Dce did put a large Mathematical Preface containing a great deal of Learning pertaining to that Science As for Billingsley he departed this mortal life in a good old age 22. year 1606 Nov. in sixteen hundred and six and some weeks after his body was buried in a little Vault under his Pew in the Church of S. Catherine Colman in London What or where was the end of Whytehead I cannot tell yet thus much I know that what I have said relating to him and Billingsley concerning Mathematicks I had from the Mathematical observations of our Antiquary Brian Twyne and he from the information of that noted Mathematician Mr. Th. Allen of Glouc. hall and he from an eminent Physician called Reb. Barnes M. D. who was elected Fellow of Merton coll 29. Hen. 8. dom 1537. and remembred and had some acquaintance with Whytehead and Billingsley I find also one Rob. Billingsley who was not long since a teacher of Arithmetick and Mathematicks and author of a little book of Arith. and Algebra called An Idea of Arithmetick c. Whether he was descended from or related to Sir Henry I know not JOHN SAVILE elder Brother to Sir Henry Son of Henry Savile of Over-Bradley in Staneland near to Eland not far from Halifax in Yorkshire Esq was born in that County particularly as it seems at Over-Bradley became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1561. or thereabouts where laying a considerable foundation of Acad. learning was taken thence before he could attain to a degree in the University and sent to the Middle-Temple where making great proficiencie in the Municipal Laws was called to the Bar fell into considerable Practice became Autumn-reader of that house 28 Elizab. dom 1586. Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield in his own Country called to the degree and honour of the Coif in 1594 made one of the Barons of the Exchequer 98. and about that time one of the Justices of Assize When K. James came to the Crown he not only continued him in his Barons place 4. Apr. but also conferred on him just before his Coronation the honour of Knighthood 23. July following an 1603. being then one of the Judges that was to attend that Solemnity He left behind him at his death certain things fit for the Press of which only this following is as yet made publick Reports of divers special Cases as well in the Court of Common Pâ—eas as of the Exchequer in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1675. in a thin fol. Printed in old French in a black character and published by John Richardson of the Inner-Temple Sir Jo. Savile paid his last debt to nature at London on the 2. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and six aged 61. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet London and his heart carried to Medley in Yorkshire where it was buried in an Isle joyning on the South side of the Church belonging to that place Soon after was a very fair Monument erected over it with the Effigics thereon of the Defunct in his Judges Robes cut out from stone laying thereon The Reader is to know that there was one John Savile a great pretender to Poetry in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. patronized in his studies by his kinsman a young Spark called George Savile Son of Sir George Savile Knight which John wrote among several things K. James his entertainment at Theobalds with his welcome to London and a salutory Poem Lond. 1603. qu. This I thought fit to let the Reader know lest Posterity may take him to be the same with Sir Jo. Savile before-mentioned The Name and Family of the Saviles are numerous in Yorkshire and pretend to be descended from the Savelli in Italy a Family accounted by some to be the ancientest in the World having been in Italy about 3000 years some of which have been Consuls before and after the time of our Saviour But how any of our Saviles in England can make it out that
and speak a Speech in praise of Sir Tho. Bodley every year on the 8. of Nov. on which day the Visitation of his Library is commonly made to be nominated by the Dean of Ch. Ch. and confirmed by the Vicechancellour for the time being But the said gift was not to take place till the death of his Widdow At length upon her decease which was at Great Wolford in Warwickshire 11. Nov. 1681. she being then the Wife of Tho. Keyt of that place Gent. the said annuity fell to the University Whereupon the year following Dr. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. nominating one of his own house Tho. Sparke M. A. there was a solemn Speech made by him in the Schola Linguarum on the 8. Nov. 1682. Which Speech is yet continued by Ch. Ch. men without any regard had to those of Allsouls coll wherein Dr. Morris had much of his education and had been Chaplain thereof or to any Master of another coll or hall The said Sir Thom. Bodley had a younger Brother named Josias Bodley who having received part of his education in Merton coll became afterwards a Soldier of note in Ireland a Knight and Overseer of the Trenches when the English laid Siege to Kingsale Baltamore Berehaven and Castlehaven in Ireland holden against them by the Irish assisted by the Spaniard an 1601. at which time Bodley behaved himself bravely both in their Works and Battle He left behind him to posterity 1 Observations concerning the Fortresses of Ireland and the British Colonies of Vlster MS. fol. sometimes in the Library of Sir Jam Ware now perhaps in that of Henry E. of Clarendon 2 A jocular description of a journey by him taken to Lecale in Vlster an 1602. MS. Sometimes in the same Library WILLIAM WARMINGTON a Dorsetshire Man born was as a Member of Hart hall then presided by one who was always in animo Catholicus matriculated 20. Dec. 1577. aged 21. or more having been there a Student for some time before Shortly after he left the Nation and his Religion and spending some yeâ—s in a Seminary in Philosophical and Theological studies was made a Priest and sent into the Mission of England but being soon after taken he was with others conveyed on Shipboard in the Month of Feb. 1584. and sent beyond the Seas with great menaces of utter ruine if they return again Afterwards being noted in Foreign Countries by those of his own Nation for his learning and piety he was made Chaplain to Cardinal W. Alan with whom continuing till about the time of his death did return again into England being then as he stiles himself An Oblate of the holy Congregation of S. Ambrose and did execute his Function very zealously among the Brethren At length being apprehended by two Pursevants 24. Mar. 1607. and committed Prisoner to the Clinke in Southwark the next day according to the English accompt by the Bishop of Londons order he entred somewhat more deeply into consideration of the controversie about the Oath of Allegiance than he had done before while at liberty So that in the end making sufficient proof of his Loyalty towards his Majesty by accepting of the Oath when it was required of him he did thereupon premeditate and provide reasons for so doing and at length reducing into method for the help of his memory certain notes in scattered papers that he had collected concerning that matter did frame thence a compleat discourse At length after it had laid by him for some time did publish it under this title tho he knew 't would displease his Holiness who in his breves had either admonished or prohibited all Rom. Catholicks to take the Oath of Allegiance or to teach the lawfulness of it A moderate defence of the Oath of Allegiance Wherein the author proveth the said Oath to be most lawful notwithstanding the Pope's Breves c. Printed by permission of the Superiours in 1612. qu. Whereunto is added The Oration of P. Sixtus 5. in the Consistory of Rome upon the Murther of K. Hen. 3. the French King by a Fryer Strange Reports or News from Rome Printed with the former book Upon the publishing of these things the Friends of the author Warmington and his kindred of the Rom. Perswasion became his Enemies and withdrew from him all the benevolence they used to allow him Warmington therefore being put to his shifts for maintenance for this his Loyalty and Obediencce petitioned the King for some allowance His petition thereupon was received and he commended by his Majesty to Dr. Bilson Bishop of Winchester with order to take him to himself to his own house there to provide for him The Bishop obeyed Warmington lived with him wanted nothing had his liberty as he pleased and freedom of his Religion ROBERT WOLCOMBE or Wollocombe born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Wollocombes of Wollocombe in Devonshire was educated for a time in Exeter coll left the University without a degree and became beneficed in his own Country where he was much resorted to especially by the precise Party for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching His works are Sinners Salve which applied and practiced as well of impenitent may be moved to conversion as the penitent armed against disputation Lond. 1595. in tw Armour for the Soul against the assaults of Death Printed with Sinners Salve c. A glass for the Godly containing many comfortable Treatises to perswade man from the love of this World to the love of the world to come c. Lond. 1612. oct in two Parts The first dedicated to Sir Edw. Seymour of Bury-pomery in Devon containeth 7 Treatises which are no other than the effect of Sermons The first is entit The seeking of Heaven on Mat. 6. 33. The second part dedicated to Sir Edw. Giles Kt. containeth likewise 7 Treatises the first of which is entit Spiritual balm for the afflicted on Joh. 16. 20. A Letter to a pensive friend Printed and bound with the former parts He also translated from Lat. into English The restitution of a Sinner entit The restoring again of him that was fallen Lond. 1581. oct Written by St. John Chrisostome What other things he hath written and translated I cannot tell nor when he died I find one of both his names a Ministers Son of Devonshire to have been matriculated as a member of Exeter coll an 1584. aged 16. which I take to be Son to the Writer THOMAS TWYNE Son of Joh. Twyne mention'd under the year 1581. was born in the City of Canterbury admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 6. Jul. 1560. and Probationer 9. Nov. 1564. being then Bac. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he applyed his Muse to the study of Medicine retired to Cambridge where he continued for a time and then setling at Lewes in Sussex where his Patron Tho. Lord Buckhurst lived practiced his faculty and became successful therein In 1593. he was admitted Bach. of Physick
a great influence upon the doctrine of Obedience Qu. Elizabeth therefore conceiving it convenient for her worldly designs to take on her the protection of the Low-Countries against the King of Spain did employ our author Bilson to write the said book of Christian subjection c. In which to justifie the revolt of Holland he gave strange liberty in many cases especially concerning religion for Subjects to cast off their obedience But this book which served her designs for the present did contribute much to the ruine of her Successor K. Ch. 1. which one calls a just judgment of God For there is not any book that the Presbyterians have made more dangerous use of against their Prince Ch. 1. than that which his predecessor commanded to be written to justifie her against the King of Spain However our authors Bilson Successor in Winchester I mean Dr. Morley saith that tho Bishop Bilson was in an errour yet he was not so much for the resisting of Kings as Mr. Rich. Baxter is Of the perpetual government of Christ his Church wherein are handled the fatherly superiority which God first established in the Patriarks and after continued in the tribe of Levi c. Also the points in question at this day touching the Jewish Synedrion c. Lond. 1593. qu. c. Printed in Lat. at Lond. 1610. The effect of certain Sermons touching the full redempton of mankind by the death and blood of Ch. Jesus wherein besides the merit of Christs sufferings the manner of his offering the power of his death the comfort of his Cross the glory of his Resurrection are handled c. Lond. 1599. qu. The clearing of certain objections made against the aforesaid doctrine The said Sermons being preached at Pauls Cross made great alarums among the puritanical brethren Whereupon they mustering their forces and comparing their notes sent them to Hen. Jacob an old Dessenter to have them published with his collections under his own name But the matter of the controversie coming to the Queens knowledge she being at Farnham castle belonging to the B. of Winchester she signified her pleasure to Bilson that he should neither desert the doctrine nor suffer the Function which he had exercised in the Church of England to be trodden and trampled under foot by unquiet men who both abhorred the truth and dispised authority Upon which command the Bishop did set himself upon the writing of that learned Treatise chiefly also delivered by him in Sermons entituled A survey of Christs sufferings and descent into Hell Lond. 1604. fol. See more in Hen. Jacob. He also published Sermon at Westm before K. and Qu. at their Coronation S. James day 28. Jul. 1603. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1603 oct and wrote MS. in my Libr. Orationes Carmina varia Vulgaria c. He also with Dr. Miles Smith added the last hand in the translation of the Bible commanded by K. James 1. At length after he had gone through many employments and had lived in continual drudgery as 't were for the publick good surrendred up his pious soul to God on the 18. year 1616 of June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried saith one on the south side of Westminster Abbey Church near to the Monument of K. Rich. 2. or as the Register hath it near to the entrance into S. Edmunds Chappel One John Dunbar a Scot who writes himself Megalo-Britannus hath a learned Epigram on him which may serve for his Epitaph JOHN PITS or Pitsous as he writes himself a grand zealot for the Ro. Cath. cause Son of Hen. Pits by Elizabeth his Wife sister to Dr. Nich. Saunders was bron at a market Town called Aulton in Hampshire educated in juvenile learning in Wykeham's School near to Winton admitted Probationer-fellow of New coll in 1578. being then about 18. years of age but leaving that house before he was admitted perpetual Fellow which was to be in 1580. he went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile and going to Doway was kindly received there by the learned Tho. Stapleton who then gave him advice what course to take relating to his studies Thence he went to Rheimes and after one year spent in the English college he was sent to Rome and continued in the English coll there also in the zealous prosecution of the studies of Philosopy and Divinity for seven years and was made a Priest Thence he returned to Rheimes where he taught Rhetorick and Greek for two years But troubles arising in France he withdrew himself into Loraine and took the degree of Master of Arts which before he had neglected at Pont-a-musson and was soon after made Bach. of Divinity Thence taking a journy into High Germany he continued at Trier an year and an half where after he had performed certain exercise he was made a Licentiat of Divinity Thence after he had seen several of the best Cities in Germany he removed to Ingolstadt in Bavaria where remaining 3 years did in that time after he had performed solemn disputations take the degree of Doctor of his faculty So that by that time having viewed several parts of Italy and Germany and had learned their Languages he returned to Loraine where by Charles Cardinal of Loraine he was made Canon of Verdun After two years spent there he was called thence by the illustrious Princess Antonia Daughter to the Duke of Loraine and Wife to the D. of Cleve and was by her made her Confessor And that he might be the better serviceable to her he learned the French Tongue most accurately so that it was usual with him afterwards to preach in that Language In her service continuing about 12 years he had leisure to turn over the Histories of England whether Ecclesiastick or Republick Whence making several collections and observations he wrote and digested four great Volumes One was of the Kings another of the Bishops a third of Apostolical and a fourth of illustrious and learned men of this Nation At 12 years end the said Dutchess dying he went a third time into Loraine where by the favour of John Bishop of Toul sometimes his Scholar he was promoted to the Deanery of Liverdune of considerable value which with a Canonry and an Officialship of the said Church he kept to his dying day He hath written De legibus Tract Thâ—ologicus Trev. 1592. De beatitudine Tr. Th. Ingols 1595. De Peregrinatiene lib. 7. Dusseld 1604. in tw dedicated to Antonia Dutchess of Cleve Relationem Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis tom 1. quatuor partes complectens c. Par. 1619. in a thick qu. published by Dr. Will. Bishop of whom I shall speak elsewhere This book is the same with that De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus commonly called Pitseus de Scriptoribus And hath in the beginning of it certain prolegomina containing 1 De laudibus Historiae 2 De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britanniae 3 De Academiis tam antiquis Britonam quam recentioribus Anglorum
Practice touching the received and present Ecclesiastical Government and the authorized Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England Lond. 1607. qu. Answered by Anon. in a book intituled The second part of the defence of the Ministers Reasons for refusal of Subscription and Conformity to the Book of Common Prayer c. Printed 1608. qu. And by another Anon. in a book intit A dispute upon the question of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacramental Bread and Wine c. Pr. 1608. qu. Our author also I mean Sparke had in Q. Elizabeth's time wrote a book of Succession For which being brought into trouble King James who before had received intimation of the matter sent for him the next day after the Conference at Hampton-Court and talking with him about it the King at length was so well satisfied with what he had done that he then gave him his most gracious countenance He died at Bletchley before-mentioned year 1616 in the Winter time in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church there leaving then behind him three learned Sons which then or soon after had been trained up in the Schools of the Prophets viz. Thomas Fellow of New coll in Oxon Andrew of Peter house in Cambridge and Will. Sparke of Magd. coll whom I shall mention hereafter ROBERT TINLEY a Kentish Man born became a Commoner of Magd. hall in the latter end of 1578. aged 17. or thereabouts was translated soon after to Magd. coll of which he became Demy and at length Fellow In 1595. he was elected one of the Proctors of the University being then esteemed a Man of parts and an eloquent Preacher Afterwards being made Vicar of Wytham or Wictham in Essex as also if I mistake not Minister of Glemsford in Suffolk and at length Archdeacon of Ely took the degrees in Divinity and had then the general character of a person well read in the Fathers but withal a most bitter Enemy to Papists He hath written and published Of the mischievious subtility and barbarous cruelty of the Romish Synagogue on Psal. 124. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Lond. 1609. qu. Of the false Doctrines and refined Heresies of the Rom. Synagogue on Matth. 7. 15 16. Printed there the same year In the first are examined divers passages of that English Libel written by a certain Fugitive against the Apology of the Oath of Allegiance In the other are answered many of the arguments published by Rob. Chambers Priest concerning Popish Miracles He hath written other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of him only that he concluding his last day in sixteen hundred and sixteen was buried as I presume at Wytham before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named Martin Tinley afterwards a Member of Ch. Ch. in this University HENRY PARRY Son of Hen. Parry Son of Will. Parry of Wormebridge in Herefordshire Gent. was born in Wilts 20. Dec. or thereabouts an 1561. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 13. Nov. 1576. and Probationer 23. Apr. 86. being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he was Greek Reader in that coll Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth Doctor of Divinity 95. Dean of Chester in 1605. in the place of Dr. Will. Barlow promoted to the See of Rochester and at length through Gloucester was made Bishop of Worcester an 1610. He was reputed by all of his time an able Divine well read in the Fathers a thro-pac'd Disputant and so eloquent a Preacher that K. James 1. always professed he seldom heard a better The King of Denmark also who was sometimes present at our Kings Court gave him a very rich ring for a Sermon that he Preached before him and K. James at Rochester an 1606. He hath published Concio de regno dei in Matth. 6. 33. Lond. 1606. qu. Concio de victoriâ Christianâ in Apoc. 3. 21. Oxon. 1593. 94. Lond. 1606. He also translated from Engâ—ish into Latin The summ of a Conference between Joh. Rainolds and Joh. Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church Oxon. 1619. fol. Also from Lat. into English A Catechism wherein are deâ—ated and resolved the questions of whatsoever moment which have been or are controverted in Divinity Oxon. 1591. oct Which Catechism was originally written by Zach. Vrsinus This worthy Bishop died of a Palsey at Worcester year 1616 12. Dec. in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in a little Chappel joyning to the north side of the Door of the Cathedral Church at Worcester In his Epitaph over his Grave a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniver Oxon. lib. 2. p. 238. he is characterized to be trium linguarum cognitione assidua verbi divini praedicatione provida Ecclesiae gubernatione mentis pietate morumque integritate spectatissimus c. EDWARD HOBY a person much noted in his time to all learned Men for his eminent endowments of mind and body was the eldest Son of Sir Tho. Hoby Knight mention'd under the year 1566. by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Sir A. Coke Kt. was born in Berks particularly us I conceive at Bysham near to Maydenhead became a Gentleman-Commoner of Trinity coll in the beginning of 1574. aged 14. years where after he had spent 8 Terms in the study of Logick under a noted tutor he became so great a proficient that he was admitted in the latter end of the year 1575. Bach. of Arts of the University The next year he proceeded in that faculty and was the Senior Master in the Comitia whom we usually call The Senior of the Act celebrated the same year Afterwards spending some time in France and in other Countries as I suppose was some time after his return honoured with the degree of Knighthood an 1582. made Constable of the Castle at Queenburg in the Isle of Shepy was an Officer at the taking of Cadiz a Parliament man several times in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth and upon K. James his coming to the Crown if not happily before was made one of the Gent. of the Privy-Chamber He was a person of great reading and judgment especially in the controversies between Protestants and Papists a singular lover of Arts substantial Learning Antiquities and the Professors thereof particularly the Learned Camden who had sufficiently received of his bounty as he himself acknowledgeth having dedicated his Hibernia to him and publickly told the world that he had polished his excellent wit with learned Studies He hath written A letter to Mr. Theoph. Hyggons late Minister now a Fugitive in answer to his First motive Lond. 1609. qu. A counter-snarl for Ishmael Rabshacheh a Cecropedian Lycaonite being an answer to a R. Catholick who writes himself J. R. Lond. 1613. qu. In which book or in another which I have not seen our author treating of Purgatory was answered by Joh. Floyd commonly called Father Fludd a Jesuit in a book which he published under the name of Daniel
our author Bunney who had a bulkey body and a broad face did several times come to Oxon accompanied with two men in black Liveries with horses and did preach or catechize in some Churches there and near to it where was none to do that office particularly in Allsaints Church to whom many resorted and took Notes Also that whatsoever he had given to him by way of gratuity he would bestow on his men and farther added that by his seeing holiness of life and soundness of doctrine many Scholars particularly himself were induced afterwards to take holy Orders He would travel over most parts of England like a new Apostle and would endeavour to act as the Apostles did So that being blamed for it by many as if there were none to be found to do that office but he and looked upon by others as a forward busie and conceited man he therefore wrote his Defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry and dispersed several copies of it abroad among his friends and acquaintance The truth is he was the most fluid Preacher in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth for he seldom or never studied for what he was to deliver but would preach and pray extempere as our beloved Saints did in the time of the rebellion under K. Ch. 1. and after insomuch that many were pleased to say he was troubled with the Divinity squirt I have heard some of our Ancients who remember him report that he was a severe Calvinist and that by the liberty he took did a great deal of harm by his Preaching in Corporation-Towns as many then did and some Gentlemen also with Licenses obtained from the Queen under pretence of a scarcity of Divines He hath written The summ of Christian Religion in two parts The first intreateth of the Trinity and the second of the Commandments Lond. 1576. oct Abridgment of Jo. Calvin's Institutions Lond. 1580. oct Translated into Engl. by Edw. May. Scepter of Judah or what manner of Government it was that unto the Commonwealth or Church of Israel was by the Law of God appointed Lond. 1584. oct Of the Coronation of K. David wherein out of that part of the History of David that sheweth how he came to the Kingdom we have set out what is like to be the end of these troubles that daily arise for the Gospels sake Lond. 1588. qu. Necessary admonition out of the Prophet Joel concerning that hand of God that of late was upon us and is not clean taken off as yet c. Lond. 1588. oct The Reader is to understand that Rob. Persons a Jesuit did put out a book intit Christian Exercise appertaining to Resolution c. in two parts The first of which coming forth before the other our author Bunney did correct alter and made it fit for the use of Protestants adding thereunto of his own composition A Treatise of Purification Lond. 1584. or thereabouts in oct But the Jesuit in the next edit of the said Resolution did much complain of our author for assuming to himself the labours of another person and of spoiling his work and the impression thereof Whereupon our author put out another book intit A brief answer unto those idle and frivolous quarrels of R. P. against the late edition of the Resolution Lond. 1589. oct He hath also written Of Divorce for Adultery and Marrying again that there is no sufficient Warrant so to do Oxon. 1610. qu. At the end of which is a note to shew that Rob. Persons was many years since answered The corner Stone Or a form of teaching Jesus Christ out of the Scriptures Lond. 1611. fol. A defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry MS. written 20. Jan. 1602. He also translated as some say into the English tongue or as others perverted it that excellent book of Joh. Gerson or rather of Tho. de Kempis intit Of the imitation of Christ but whether true I know not for I have not yet seen such a thing He ended his days at Cawood in Yorkshire 26. Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the choire of York Cathedral Over his grave is a fair Monument in the wall with his Effigies carved from stone and this inscription by it Edmundus Bunnaeus ex nobili Bunnaeorum familia oriundus S. Th. Bac. coll Mertonensis in Oxâ—n olim Socius Parochiae de Bolton-Percy Pastor Ecclesiarum B. Pauli London B. Petri Eborum B. Mariae Carleol Praebendarius dignissimus concionator frequentiss vicatim oppidatim praedicando multos annos consum siâ— cum ob amorem christi haereditatem paternam fratri Riâ—â—â—â—â—â—uniori relinquisset Obiit die mensis Febr. 26. an 1617. Haec senis Edmundi Bunney est quem cernis imago A quo Bunnaei villula nomen habet Clarus â—rat tanti tumuit neque sanguinis aestu Haeres patris crat profuit esse nihil Denotat aetatem gravitas resolutio mentem Zelum Scripta aciem Pulpita facta fidem Vasa sacro librosque dedit post funera templo Et bona pauperibus caetera seque deo ROBERT ABBOT the eldest Son of Maurice Abbot Sherman who died 25. Sept. 1606. by Alice March his Wife was born at Guildford in Surry in an house now an Ale-house bearing the sign of the Three Marriners by the Rivers side near to the Bridge on the North side of the Street in St. Nicholas Parish educated in the Free School there founded by K. Ed. 6. 1551. under Mr. Franc. Tayler Schoolmaster thereof became a Student in Balliol coll 1575. aged 15 years elected Socius Sacerdotalis of that house 16. Jan. 1581. took the degree of M. A. in the year following became a noted Preacher in the University and a constant Lecturer at St. Martins Church in the Quadrivium and sometimes at Abendon in Berks. Afterwards being made Lecturer in the City of Worcester and Rector of Allsaints Church there he resigned his Fellowship 8. March 1588. and not long after became Rector of Bingham in Northamptonshire by the favour of Joh. Stanhope Esquire and afterwards took the degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated in 1597. In the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to him in the year 1609. he was unanimously elected Master of Balliol coll and in the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was made Prebendary of Normanton in the Church of Southwell In 1612. he was appointed Doctor of the Theological Chair usually called the Kings Professor of Divinity by his Majesty and in 1615. he was nominated by him to be Bishop of Salisbury meerly as 't is said for his incomparable Lectures read in the Divinity School concerning the Kings Supream Power against Bellarmino and Suarez and for his Antilogia which he a little before had published So that being consecrated thereunto on the third of Dec. the same year sate there till the time of his death which was soon after He was a
not a little pleasing and delightful But that which I must farther note of him is that being always troubled with the disease that attends Poets indigence he was received into the patronage of his countryman and Kinsman Dr. Jo. Williams B. of Lincoln and L. Keeper of the great Seal who for several years exhibited to his wants He hath written Epigrammatum lib. 3. ad Mariam Nevill comitis Dorcestriae filiam dicati Lond. 1606. oct printed twice that year Epigrammatum lib. singularis ad doctiss Heroinam D. Arbellam Stewart Epigram lib. 3. ad Hen. Principem Cambriae duae ad Carolum Ebor. unus Epigram ad tres Maecenates libri tres Ad Car. Noel Eq. Baronettum unus Ad Gul. Sedley Eq. Bar. alter Ad Rog Owen Eq. aur tertius Monostica quaedam Ethica Politica veterum sapientum All which coming out as successive additions to the several editions of the three first books of Epigrams were at length published all in one vol. in oct and twelves not only in England but beyond the Seas In the year 1619. Joh. Vicars Usher of Ch. Church hospital in London and a puritanical Poet having selected many of them from several of the books that were then extant did tanslate them into Engl. verse and were that year printed at London in oct Thomas Pecke also of the Inner Temple Gent. did translate 600. of the said Epigrams in Eng. verse which were printed with Martial de spectaculis or of the rarities to be seen in Rome and with the most select Epigr. of Sir To. More To which is annexed a Century of Heroick Epigrams c. All published under the general title of Parnassi puerperium at Lond 1659. in oct And lastly Tho. Harvey hath Englished most or all of them but these I have not yet seen The first Latin impressions of the author Owen being greedily bought and taken into the hands of all ingenious Scholars and forthwith conveyed beyond the Seas they came at length into the hands of the Romish Inquisitors after Heretical matters in printed books who finding dangerous things in them especially these two verses following the book was put into the the Index expurgatorius An 〈…〉 Romae sub judice lis est 〈…〉 Romae nemo suisse negat For which verses and others of the like nature Owen's Uncle who was a Papist or at least Popishly affected from whom he expected Legacies dashed his name out from his last Will and Testament which was the chief reason that he ever after lived in a poor condition He died in sixteen hundred twenty and two year 1622 and two and was buried in St. Pauls Cathedra within the City of London at the charge of the before-mentioned Dr. Williams who also soon after caused a monument to be erected to his memory on a pipâ—â—â— next to the Consistory stairs with his Effigies a shoulder-piece in brass crown'd with Laurel and six verses to be engraven under it The two first of which runs thus Parva tibi status â—st quiae parva statura supellex Parva volat 〈◊〉 magna per ora liber The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 144. a where the Reader is to note that by the errour of the Printer 't is said that Joh. Owen died 1623. and not in 1622. as before 't is told you As for the generosity of Dr. Williams done to the memory of this little Poet Richard â—rach hath an Epigram in his Epigrammatum Hâ—catontades duâ— Lond. 1627. oct num 3. But that which I must note of him farther is that whereas he had made many Epigrams on several People so but few were made on or written to him Among which few one was written by Joh. Stradling and another by Joh. Dunbar a Scot. CLEMENT EDMONDS Son of Sir Tho. Edmonds Comptroller of the Kings houshold was born in Shropshire at Shrawardine as 't is said became either Clerk or Chorister of Allsouls coll in 1585. aged 19. took one degree in Arts and then was chosen Fellow of that house 1590. Four years after he proceeded in that Faculty and then leaving the coll was mostly by his Fathers endeavours made successively Secretary as 't is said for the French tongue to Q. Elizab. about 1601. Remembrancer of the City of London Master of the Requests Muster-Master at Brill in Zeland one of the Clerks of the Council and in 1617. a Knight He was a learned person was generally skill'd in all Arts and Sciences and famous as well for military as for politick affairs and therefore esteemed by all an ornament to his degree and profession He hath written and published Observations upon the five first books of Caesars commentaries c. Lond. 1600. fol. Observat on the sixth and seventh book of Caesars com Lond. 1600. fol. Observat on Caesars com of the Civil Wars in 3 books Lond. 1609. fol. On which or the former observat Ben. Johnson hath two Epigrams All or most of these observations are reprinted with an addition of an eighth commentary on the Wars of Gallia written by A. Hirâ—â—us Paâ—sa beginning where Caesar left and deducing the History to the time of the Civil Wars with our authors short the observâ—◠〈◊〉 upon them Printed at the 〈◊〉 in the Strand 〈◊〉 London 1677. fol. Before which edition is the life of 〈◊〉 with an account of his Medals 〈◊〉 conected and enlarged In 1565. Arthur Golding of 〈…〉 published 〈◊〉 English translation of Caesars commentaries but whether he made any observations or notes on them 〈…〉 Our learned author Sir Clem. 〈◊〉 died within the Perish of Sr. Martin in the Fields near to London on the twelfth day of Odoâ— in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the little Chappel belongâ—â—â— to his Mâ—nnour of Preston near to the ancient Bâ—rough of 〈◊〉 Over his grave is a comely mon. erected having an English and a Lat. epitaph inscribed thereon The last of which being already printed you shall therefore have the other as most proper for this place Here lyeth Sir Clement Edmonds Knight one of the Clarks of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council His dextrous Pen made him worthily esteemed excellent in his own vocation and in the art Military ly Caesars confession an understanding Souldier He lived faithfully industrious in his place and died religiously constant in the belief of the resurrection c. One Sir Tho. Edmonds Knight a Member of the Privy Council died in Nov. 1639. and left behind him a Daughter named Muriel the Wife of Rob. Mildmay Esq Which Sir Thomas I take to be the same with Tho. Edmonds Brother to Sir Clem. who being made Treasurer of the Kings houshold 19. of Jan. 1617. was about that time sent by his Majesty Embassadour to Bruxells and elsewhere NICHOLAS BYFIELD Son of Rich. Byfield who became Minister of Stratford upon Avâ—n in Jan. 1596. was born in Warwickshire became a Batler 〈◊〉 a Servitour of
who was well known to John Sâ—â—w was living in Northampton in sixteen hundred twenty and three 21. J. c. 1. In his time was one Samuel Wastell a Master of Arts of New Inn 1628. but him I find not to be a writer or publisher of books WILLIAM BISHOP Son of John 〈◊〉 who died 1601. aged 92. was born of a gentile family at Brayles in Warwickshire sent to this University in the 17 year of his age in 157â— or thereabouts particularly as I conceive to Gloucester hall at which time it was presided by one who was a R. Catholick or at least suficieâ—tly addicted to the R. perswasion and that therein did then and especially after study 〈…〉 or else in 〈…〉 who was in anino Catholicus After he had continued in Oxon. about 3 or 4 years he left it his paternal estate which was considerable and all his friends and his native Country which was more So that setling himself in the English coll at Rheimes he applyed himself partly to the study of Divinity Soon after he was sent to Rome where making a fruitful progress in Philosophy and Divinity he was made Priest and sent into England to convert Souls but being taken in the haven was kept prisoner several years as one of his perswasion reports Afterwards being set at liberty an 1584. he went to Paris where he was honorably received and worthily numbred among the Sorbon Doctors At length he took another journey into England and laboured 9 years in the R. C. harvest Upon the expiration of which he was sent for to Rome about certain matters depending between the Jesuits and Secular Priests of which business a certain author hath a large story all which being determined he return'd the third time into England and after 8 years labouring therein to advance his religion was taken and committed prisoner to the Gate-house in Westminster where he was remaining in 1612. Afterwards being released and sent back beyond the Seas again lived at Paris in the Arras or Atrebatian coll newly rebuilt for Benedictin Monks by Philip Caverell Head or Prefect of the Monastery of S. Vedastus at Arras About the year 1622. our author being made Bishop of Chalcedon by the Pope he was sent into England to execute the office of a Bishop among the Catholicks and was by them received with great honour and respect He hath written Reformation of a Catholick deformed by Will Perkins Print 1604. in qu. Part 1. The second part of the reform of the Cath. c. Printed 1607. qu. An answer to Mr. Perkins's advertisement Pr. with the former A reproof of Dr. Rob. Abbots Defence of the Cath. deformed by W. Perkins Pr. 1608. in 2. parts in qu. Disproof of Dr. R. Abbots counter-proof against Dr. Bishops reproof of the defence of Mr. Perkins reform Cath. Par. 1614. in oct part 1. Defence of the Kings honour and of his title to the Kingdom of England He also published and added several things besides a Preface to Joh. Pits his book De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus and was one of the principal authors of the Libels written against the Archpriestship in England mentioned in George Blackwell an 1612. I find a book written by the Bp. of Chalcedon entit A treatise of the best kind of Confessors pr. in oct but whether written by this Bishop or Dr. Ric. Smith who was his Successor in that titular See I know not At length after this learned person who was in his latter time of the order of S. Benedict had lived 71. years he paid his last debt to nature near to London on the thirteenth day of April in sixteen hundred twenty and four year 1624 but where buried unless in S. Pancras Church near to the said City I know not One that remembers the man hath told my friend that he died at Bishops Court in London but where that place is unless in the Parish of S. Sepulchre I am yet to seek A Latine Manuscript containing the obits and characters of many eminent Benedictines since the reformation hath this character of Dr. Will. Bishop that he was carceribus exilio Apostolicis sudoribus inclitus qui a Sancta sede in patriam ad solamen Catholicorum missus clericis Religularibus ac ipsis laicis ob innatum unionis ac pacis affectum juxta charus extitit c. This obitat book which I have in my little Library was written by a Benedictin Monk of Doway named Tho. White alias Woodhop who having spent several years in the Sheldonian family at Beoly in Worcestershire in which County he was born retired at length in the time of the civil War to Doway was chosen Prior of the coll of English Benedictines and died there of the Plaâ—ue in 1654. From the said book wherein 't is said that Dr. Bishop died near to London was another composed in English with additions and therein is this said of that Doctor he was sent into England by the holy See for the comfort of Catholicks where he so modestly behaved himself that he was by all both Clergy and Seculars dearly beloved and honoured And after imprisonments and all sorts of afflictions patiently endured for the true religion died in peace near London c. This English obital was pen'd by another Benedictine named Tho. Vincent alias Vincent Sadler author of The Childes Catechisme c. pr. at Paris alias London 1678. in oct who died as I remember much about the time that K. Jam. 2. came to the crown He was nephew or near of kin to Fath. Vincent Sadler of the same order who died at Lond. 11. June 1621. after he had been Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury for some years MILES WINDSORE Son of Thomas Son of Andrew Lord Windsore was born in Hampshire at Stanwell I think elected from Balliol coll Scholar of that of Corp. Ch. in Jan. 1556. aged 15 or thereabouts made Probationer-Fellow 16 Feb. 1560 took the degrees in Arts left the coll soon after because popishly affected and spent the remaining part of his time within the City of Oxon. in a most retired condition He was a tolerable Latine Poet but a better Orator as was sufficiently witnessed by his speech intended to have been spoken in C. C. C. when Qu. Elizab. was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses 1566. and more especially by that which he most admirably well delivered before her at the Lord Windsores house at Bradenham a little after she left Oxon. Which giving the Queen great content she in an high manner did commend it before Dedicus Gosemannus de Sylva the Spanish Embassador then present and looking wistly on Windsore who then had a beard according to the fashion said to Goseman is not this a pretty young man At riper years he applyed himself to the study of Histories and Antiquities and had a hand as 't was frequently reported in the Apologia of B. Tuyne who stiles our author Windsore Antiquae Historiae artifex
had in favour by all such that were lovers of Arts and Sciences At length obtaining an honourable Office under the Queen he became one of her favourites which he held for no short term but had the longest lease of any and the smoothest time without rub In the beginning of 1588. he among other persons of honour and quality was actually created Master of Arts which I think was the highest degree that was conferred upon him in this University In 1603. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. and soon after obtained the grant of the ruinous Castle of Wâ—rwick In the 12. year of the said Kings reign he being constituted under Treasurer and Chancellour of the Exchequer he was made choice of for one of Kings Privy Council And meriting much for his faithful services in those employments was by Letters Patents bearing date 9. Jan. 18. Jac. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Brook of Beauchamps court In Sept. 1621. he was made one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Bedchamber whereupon giving up his Chancellourship of the Exchequer Rich. Weston afterwards Earl of Portland succeeded him He was always esteemed a brave Gentleman and honourably descended as being sprung from the family of Willoughby Lord Brook was favoured by Qu. Elizabeth and such that knew he had interest in the Muses His life was always single and tho he lived and died a constant Courtier of the Ladies yet he prosecuted his studies in History and Poetry In which consider him as a Gentleman of noble birth and great Estate he was most excellent in his time as these things following shew composed in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Ph. Sidney Poems A Treatise of humane learning Inquisition upon fame and honour Treatise of Wars Tragedy of Alaham. Trag. of Mustapha Caelica containing 109 Sonnets Letter to an honourable Lady Letter of Travels Written to his Cousin GrevilVerney residing in France c. Some of the said things having been singly published were all remitted into a little thin Folio printed at Lond. 1633. and had this general title put to them Certain learned and elegant works of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke c. The first five years of King James or the condition of the State of England and the relation it had to other Provinces Lond. 1643. qu. The life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all foreign Princes c. Lond. 1652. oct Published by P. B. Short account of the Maxims and Policies used by Qu. Elizab. in her Government Printed with the former book Remains containing Poems of Monarchy and Religion Lond. 1670. oct never before printed with other things among which is his Trag. of Marc. Tull. Cicero which I have not yet seen At length our author who was Counsellour of State to Ch. 1. neglecting to reward one Haywood who had spent the greatest and chiefest part of his time in his personal service for which he expostulated the matter with his Master but was sharply rebuked for it the said Haywood thereupon gave him a mortal stab on his Back they two being then only together in his Bed-chamber in Brook house in Holbourne near London of which wound he died 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight aged 74. year 1628 Which being done the Assassianate discerning his own condition desperate went into another room and there having lock'd the dore murdered himself with his own Sword On the 27 of Oct. following he the said Lord Brook was buried in a Vault situate on the north side of the collegiat Church at Warwick which formerly had been a chapter house belonging thereunto wherein he had in his life time erected a fair Tomb with this Epitaph thereon Fulke Grevil Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellour to King James and friend to Sir Philip Sidney In his honour and dignity succeeded his kinsman Robert Grevil being then 1628. one and twenty years of age educated in Academical learning not in this but in the other University of Cambridge as I have been informed where being well tutor'd became learned considering his quality But being afterwards unhappily attainted with fanatick and antimonarchical principles by the influence of one of his near relations and some Schismatical preachers tho in his own nature a very civil and well humour'd person was without much difficulty drawn in by those fiery spirits of the Long Parliament which began 1640. By whom being back'd on he became an active man in the House against the Prerogative Bishops and the establish'd discipline of the Church insomuch that no less than the abolishing of all decent order in the service of God would satisfie him So that the members of the said Parliament looking upon him as a faithful person for the cause that they then drove on appointed him a Commander in their Army as I shall anon tell you As for the things which he wrote and published are 1 The nature of truth c. Lond. 1643. oct Animadverted upon by John Wallis a Minister in London afterward Geom. Professor of Oxon Printed at Lond. 1643. 2 A discourse opening the nature of Episcopacy which is exercised in England Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Assisted therein by some puritanical Minister and printed when the Press was open to receive all books against the Prerogative and Bishops 3 Two speeches spoken in the Guild-hall in London concerning his Majesties resusal of a Treaty of peace Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Answer to the speech of Philip Earl of Pembroke concerning accommodation Which answer was spoken in the House of Lords 19 Dec. 1642. Pr. in one sh in qu. by order of the House 5 Speech at the election of his Captains and Commanders at Warwick Castle Lond. 1643. qu. In the beginning of the Civil War an 1642. he became Commander in chief of those Forces which were sent to assault the Church-Close at Lichfield then defended by a small Garrison placed there by his Majesty out of a pious intent for the preservation of the stately Cathedral which the Lord Brooke intended presently to destroy when taken by his Forces But so it fell out that he having planted his great Guns against the South-east gate of the Close he was tho harnessed with plate-armour cap-a-pe shot from the Church in the Eye by one Diot a Clergy-mans Son who could neither hear or speak as he stood in a dore whether he came to see the occasion of a sudden shout made by the Soldiers of which he instantly died This memorable accident hapned on the second day of March an 1642. which is the festival of that sometimes famous Bishop S. Cedd or Chad to whose memory Offa King of the Mercians did erect the said Cathedral and devoutly dedicate it Archbishop Laud being then a prisoner in the Tower of London did make this memoire of it in his Diary under the year 1642.
trial of a Christian's sincere love to Christ in four Sermons ca 1 Cor. 16. 22. on Ephes 6. ver ult c. Oxon. 1630. c. in tw He died much lamented in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 30. year 1629 or thereabouts and was buried in Magd. coll leaving then beâ—â—â—â— him other things fit to be printed as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man HENRY YELVERTON Son â—f Sir Christop 〈◊〉 of Eston-Manâ—uit in Northamptonshire one of the Justices of the Kings 〈◊〉 and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at 〈◊〉 in Norfolk was born on S. Peters day in 1566. educated for a time 〈◊〉 the Oxonians and afterwards among the Students 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Inn near London where after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrâ—ster he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religiâ—us Gentleman and a person well read in the Municipal 〈◊〉 In 1613. he was made Solicitor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the endeavours of Carr Earl of 〈◊〉 March 1616. he was constituted Attorney 〈◊〉 that time committed Prisoner to the Tower for denying to appear and plead publickly against his Patron Carr in the matter of Sir Thomas Overbury's death In 1621. May 5. he was discharged of his office of Attorney fined and committed Prisoner to the Tower again upon a late sentence in the Star-Chamber for passing some clauses in the City-Charter of London when he was Attorney Gen. not agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant These things being mostly done by the power and aggravation of the D. of Bucks who hated him because he had been a friend to Somerset Yelverton continued where he was without any hopes of release or future advance At length upon some things utter'd in Buckingham's care when he came incognito to speak with and examine him concerning certain matters in the Tower he was afterwards released taken into favour and in 1625. was made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and afterwards of the Common Pleas which last he enjoyed to the time of his death and had not the Duke been untimely cut off he would in all probability been made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Under his name goes Several Speeches spoken in Parliament One of which was in answer to matters charged against him by the Commons before the H. of Lords in 1621. Soon after the Lords declared that for sundry things uttered in the said Speech which touched the Kings honour he should be fined to the K. ten thousand marks be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure and make a submission to his Majesty And for the scandal committed in some words against Buckingham he should pay him five thousand marks and make his submission to him Several years after his death was published under his name this book following Reports of divers special cases in the Court of Kings Bench as well in the latter part of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth as in the first ten years of K. James Lond. 1661. and 74. fol. It was printed by the original in French written with the authors own hand remaining with Sir Tho. Twisden Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and published by Sir Will. Wild Knight and Baronet then 1661. Serjeant at Law the Kings Serjeant and Recorder of the City of London and since one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench He died near Westminster 23. Nov. or thereabouts 1679. Rights of the People of England concerning impositions Lond. 1679. oct He also gathered and published 32 Sermons of Edw. Philips a zealous and Puritannical Preacher as I have told you under the year 1603. and other things as 't is probable of the like nature but such I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 in winter time before February and was buried I suppose where his chief Seat was viz. at Eston-Manduit or Maudet in Northamptonshire leaving then behind him a Son named Robert and a Brother called Sir Christopher who was about that time one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. From this Sir Hen. Yolverton was descended Charles Yelverton who was called up to the House of Lords by the name of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen as being the Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Yelverton Baronet by Susan his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen JOHN ELYOTT or Elliot â— Cornish man born and an Esquires Son became a Gent. Com. of Exeter Coll. in Mich. Term an 1607. aged 15 years left the University without a degree after he had continued there about 3 years went to one of the Inns of Court as it seems and was made a Barrester In 1618. May 10. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj at Whitehall and ever after to the time of his death was either elected a Knight of his County or a Burgess for some Borough therein to serve in all Parliaments But so it was that he shewing himself in them an active man for the publick a generous assertor as he pretended of the ancient liberty of the Subject and an enemy to the incroachments made by rising Favourites was several times committed to custody He hath going under his name Several Speeches spoken in Parliament as 1 Speech against George Duke of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 grievances 2 Sp. by way of Epilogue concerning the Duke of Bucks impeachment These two were spoken in 1626. and soon after he with Sir Dud. Digges who spoke the Prologue to the said impeachment were committed both prisoners to the Tower but soon after were released whereupon Elyott spoke 3 A Sp. to clear himself as to the particulars charged against him In the same year he was imprison'd in the Gatehouse at Westm for refusing to part with money on the Loan and thereupon in a Petition to the King he set forth the illegality of the said Loan or of any Tax without a Parliament Which way he took when his Council would not assist him otherwise alledging farther that his conscience could not submit to it and prayed for his liberty but could not obtain it 4 Speech upon the Kings giving notice to both Houses that he did intend shortly to end the Session of Parliament an 1628. 5 Sp. against the D. of Bucks interrupted in it by the Speaker 6 Sp. concerning Religion an 1628. This was printed in 1641. in one sh in qu. 7 Sp. against particular persons spoken in 1628. and therefore a little before the dissolution of the Parl. he with other Members were committed to the Tower All which Speeches with Certaine Debates of the said Sir Joh. Elyott you may see in the first vol. of Historical Collections made by John Rushworth What more to be added is that about the same time 1628. was an information exhibited against Sir John in the Court of the Kings Bench for a sower of discord for his murmurings seditions c. against the King Nobles Prelates
several propositions made to the states MS. Particular observations of the military affaires in the Palatinate and the Low Countries an 1621. and 1622. MS. Letters relating to State affairs written to the King and Viscount Rochester from Venice an 1613 MS. He paid his last debt to nature in his house situated within the City of Westminster on the 15 day of Febr. between 10. and 11. of the clock at night in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Chappel of S. Paul on the north side of the Abbey Church dedicated to S. Peter within the said City Over his grave was soon after erected against the east Wall a well composed plain Monument of black and white Marble with a half canopy supported by dorick Pillars with the image of a man in his robes of estate and Viscounts Coronet leaning on a Pedestall all formed of the like black and white marble He left behind him a Nephew of both his names who was admitted Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 1614. and had the degree of Master of Arts of that University confer'd upon him during his absence in the Low Countries being then Secretary to his Uncle while he was Embassador there In 1629. March 1. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at New-Market and in 1637. he was made one of the Clerks of the Councel NICHOLAS VIGNIER received his first being in this World at Bloys in France educated mostly in the University of Saumour retired to Oxon to improve his studies by the hearing and doctrine of Dr. John Prideaux an 1623. was incorporated master of Arts in Octob. the same year as he had stood at Saumour being about that time entred a Sojournour of Exeter coll of which house Prideaux was then Rector and numbred among the Academians Soon after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences as a member of the said college being at that time reputed to be a person of great erudition singular piety and of a most polite ingenie After he had tarried there for some few years he returned to the place of his nativity where he became a zealous Minister of and preacher to the Protestant Church Before he came to Oxon he published Theses Theologicae de satisfactione dei domini nostri Jes Ch. c. Lugd. Bat. 1622. qu. Highly commended by And. Rivet and by him annexed to his own disputations After he had left Oxon. he published several Sermons in the French tongue as 1 L'Art de bien mourir on Luke 2. 25. c. Rochel 1625. oct 2 La mere Ecclesiastique on Gal. 4. 19. 3 De la priere pou les Rois Magistrats on 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. 4 Le Trisagion on Esay 6. 1 2 3. 5 De la chente des Auges c. on the 6. ver of S. Jude 6 Two Sermons at Bloys on Rev. 2. 12. 7 Serm. of the call confirmation and authority of the Ministers of the Gospel on Joh. 20. ver 21. 22. 8 Panegyrique de la paix on Psal. 122. All which were printed at Rochel 1625. in oct 9 Practique de repentance twenty Sermons on Psal. 51. Bloys 1631. oct Besides several others which I have not yet seen This Nich. Vignier who was Minister of the Protestant Church at Bloys before mentioned was Son of Nich. Vignier of Bar on the river Sene a learned Frenchman Physitian and Historiographer to the K. of France while our Qu. Elizab. reigned and after several of whose works are in our publick Library at Oxon. Among which are 1 Theatre de l' Antichrist c. printed 1610. fol. 2 Dissertatio de Venetorum excommunicatione contra Caes Baronium Franc. ad m. 1607. qu. Which two books are said by a certain author but false to have been written by N. Vignier the Son GEORGE CALVERT Son of Leonard Calvert by Alice his Wife Daug. of John Crossland of Crossland was born at Kypling in the Chappelrie of Bolton in Yorks at which place he bestowed much mony in building in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. became a Commoner of Trinity coll in Lent Term 1593 and in the year of his age 15. took one degree in Arts and then leaving the college travelled beyond the Seas for a time At his return he was made Secretary to Sir Rob. Cecill while he was one of the prime Secretaries of State being then esteemed a forward and knowing person in matters relating to the State All which time and after for several years when Sir Robert was advanced to higher offices he retained him and made use of his prudence and faithfulness in many weighty matters In 1605. he was actually created Master of Arts when K. Jam. 1. was entertained by the University Afterwards by the endeavours of the said Sir Robert Cecill he was made one of the Clerks of the Council and in 1617. Sept. 29. he with Cl. Edmonds sometimes of All 's coll Albert Morton whom I shall anon mention both Clerks of the Council also received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Hampton Court On the 15. February 1618. he was made Secretary of State to his Majesty who as before he had used his help in many matters of moment so he did oftner afterwards to his great benefit and advantage At the same time also his Majesty judged it very convenient that he should assist and help Sir Robert Nauton the other Secretary who had not then that faculty of managing and expediting matters of State as Calvert had On the 2 May 1620. the King gave him an yearly pension of a thousand pounds to be received from the Customs and on the 16 Feb. 1624. he being then a Parliamentary Burgess for this University was by the name of Sir George Calvert of Danbywiske in Yorkshire Knight c. created Baron of Baltimore in the County of Longford in Ireland being then a Roman Catholick or at least very much addicted to their Religion As for his adventures into America where he was absolute Lord and Proprietary of Avalon in the New-found-land and of his first venturing and taking possession of a Peninsula lying in the parts of America between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesopeake on the West and divided from the other part thereof by a right line drawn from the Promontory or Cape of Land called Watkyns point situate in the aforesaid Bay near to the River Wighco on the West unto the main Ocean afterwards called and named by him Mary-Land let the Histories and relations of Travellers tell you while I acquaint you of his works which are Carmen funebre in D. Hen. Vntonum ad Gallos bis Legatum ibique nuper fato functum Printed 1596. qu. Parliamentary Speeches Various Letters of State The answer of Tom Tell-Troth The practice of Princes and the Lamentation of the Kirk Lond. 1642. qu. He hath also written something concerning Mary-Land but whether printed I cannot tell He ended his days on
the 15. Ap. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet near London As for Albert Morton before mention'd who was Nephew to Sir Henry Wotton was elected Scholar of Kings coll 1602. went with his Uncle in the quality of Secretary when he went on his Embassie to the States of Venice Afterwards he was thrice Agent in Savoy Secretary to the Lady Elizabeth in Heidleburg and there imployed as Agent for the King with the Princes of the Union Afterwards he became one the Clerks of the Council and a Knight as I have before told you and at length one of the Secretaries of State He ended his days in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in the winter time in Nov. as it seems an 1625. having a little before been elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Univ. of Cambridge He then left behind him a Widdow named Elizabeth by whom he had if I mistake not a Son of both his names who was elected Scholar of Kings coll in the said University 1638. but left that house soon after and became a Leiuetenant Colonel in the Wars in Ireland NATHANIEL TORPORLEY a Shropshire man born applied his Muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church an 1579. aged 16. about which time he became one of the Students of that house Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University and whether he then travelled beyond the Sea I cannot tell For that he was in France for two or more years and was Amanuensis to the celebrated Mathematician Fran. Vieta of Fontenay in the Province of Poictau is notoriously known but the time when whether before or after he was M. of A. we cannot tell Sure it is that his Genie being mostly enclined to the Mathematicks and Astronomy in which faculties he had obtained in his absence a sufficicient knowledge he returned to the University and entring himself into Brasnose coll did as a member thereof take the degree of Master of Arts an 1591 being then eight years standing in that of Bachelaur Afterwards he retired to the great City and became so famous for his singular knowledge that being made known to the great Earl of Northumberland named Henry Piercy the generous favourer of all good learning was received into his Patronage and had a pension paid yearly unto him for several years from his Purse About the same time he was made Rector of Salwarp in his native Country in the place of Tho. Forest deceased 1608. where residing sometimes but mostly in Sion coll in London of which he was a Student and a most eminent member continued in the last till the time of his death He hath transmitted to posterity Diclides Caelometricae seu Valvae Astronomicae universales omnia artis totius munera Psephophoretica in sat modicis finibus duarum tabularum methodo nova generali facilimâ continentes Lib. 2. Lond. 1602. qu. Tabula praemissâ—is ad declinationes caeli mediationes Printed with the former book in five parts Directionis accuratae consummata doctrina Astrologis hac tenus plurimum desiderata Written by way of Preface to the two former books He hath also printed something against Fr. Vieta under the name of Poulterey which is Torpurley's name transpos'd but that book I have not yet seen and hath also written MSS. in Bib. coll Sion Congestor Opus Mathematicum Imperfect Pholosophia Atomorum atopia demonstrata Imperfect Corrector Analyticus artis posthumae Imperfect He took his last farewel of this world in Sion coll before mention'd and was buried in the Church of St. Alphage near to that college on the seventeenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 By his nuncupatory Will which he spake on the 14. day of the same month he gave to the use of those that study in the Library of the said coll all his mathematical books and others all his Astronomical instruments notes mapps and his brass clock Among the said books were some few MSS. of which one contained Certain definitions of the Planisphere made by Walter Warner a most noted Mathematician of his time LEWES BAYLY was born in the antient Borough of Caermerthen in Wales but in what house educated unless in Exeter coll or what degrees he took in Arts I find not only that as a member of the said coll he was admitted to the reading of sentences an 1611. being about that time Minister of Evesham in Worcestershire Chaplain to Prince Henry and Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London and that he proceeded in Divinity two years after Much about the same time he being fam'd for his eminence in preaching was made one of the Chaplains to King James 1. who nominating him Bishop of Bangor in the place of Dr. H. Rowlands was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth with Dr. Lake to the See of B. and Wells on the 8. of Dec. an 1616. On the 15. July 1621. I find this passage of him Episcopus Bangoriensis examinatur in Le Fleet datur sed paulo post liberatur What his crime was my author tells me not nor do I lift further to inquire unless it concern'd the Princes match with the Infarta of Spain He hath published The practice of Piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God Printed about 40 times in oct and tw the eleventh edition of which was printed at Lond. 1619. It was also printed once or more in the Welsh tongue and once or more in the French an 1633. c. And in France having been much cried up did therefore cause John Despagne a French writer and a Preacher in Somerset-house Chappel an 1656. to make some complaint of not for any ill thing in it because the generality of the Plebeians do look upon the authority of it equal with that of the Scripture It is said by an author who takes all advantages to speak against the Bishops and Church of England that this book called The practice of Piety was written by a Puritan Minister and that a Bishop not altogether of a Chast life did after the Authors death bargain with his Widdow for the Copy which he received but never paid her the money Afterwards he interlopating it in some places did publish it as his own c. But let this report which hath been common with some as also that which saith it was written by one Price Archdeacon of Bangor remain with their authors while I tell you that Dr. Bayly dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two was buried in his Church of Bangor year 1632 He left behind him four Sons Nicholas John Theodore and Thomas John was Fellow of Exeter coll and a publisher of certain Sermons as I have already told you Thomas Bayly the youngest Son was not educated in
the late Soveraign K. James Lond. 1625. a Poem and other things which I have not yet seen but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops as one or more think He died within the City of Westminster having always been in animo Catholicus in sixteen hundred thirty and three whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter there near to the door entring into the Monuments or the door thro which people enter to see the Monuments on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator musarum amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus c. and another made by a second person which for brevity sake I now pass by In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington afterwards a Jesuit in Mich. Term an 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll an 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house but whether any of them were authors I cannot yet tell or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu. GEORGE ABBOT younger brother to Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was bred also in the same School under Mr. Franc. Taylor entred a student in Ball. coll 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow thereof 29. Nov. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into holy Orders and became a celebrated preacher in the University In 1597. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in the same year being elected Master of Vniversity coll gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship In the latter end of 1599. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Glocester On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 29. of the same month In Febr. following he was translated to London and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury had the Kings consent to it 29. March 1610. On the 9. of Apr. 1611. he was translated to the said See of Canterbury and on the 4. of May following had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto On the 23. of June ensuing he was sworn a member of his Majesties Privy Council and accordingly took his place So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of Gods word was the cause as some think why he was harsh to them and why he shew'd more respect to a Cloak than a Cassock He was a person pious and grave and exemplary in his life and conversation He was also a learned man and had his erudition all of the old stamp He was stiffly principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine which they who understand it not call Calvinism and therefore disrelish'd by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets Those that well remember him have said that tho he was a plausible preacher yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar and tho an able Statesman yet Robert was a deeper Divine The things that he hath written are these which shew him to be a man of parts learning vigilancy and unwearied study tho overwhelm'd with business Questiones sex totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae pro formâ habitis discussae disceptatae an 1597 in quibus è sacra scriptura Patribus quid statuendum sit definitur Oxon 1598. qu. Francof 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah Scultetus Exposition on the Prophet Jonah contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613. The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry unmasked and shewed to be very weak c. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion with as many brief answers of refusal Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome He was also answer'd by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Div. of Cambridge in a book intit A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered and proved a quartron of follies Cambridge 1603. qu. Preface to the examination of George Sprot London 1608. qu. Sermon at Westminster 26 May 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu. Brief description of the whole world Lond. 1617. qu the 9th edition Other editions in oct followed and the book is commonly called Abbots Geography Treatise of perpetual visibility and succession of the true Church in all ages Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it and 't is generally reputed to be his and none but his History of the Massacre in the Valtoline At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox hs book of Acts and Mon. of the Church Lond. 1631. 41. c. His Judgment of bowing at the name of Jesus Ham. 1632. oct Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere At length he being found guilty of casual homicide the particulars of which are mention'd by Historians he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey the place of his nativity where he had erected an Hospital for men and women Afterwards removing to Croyden he gave way to fate in his Pallace there on the fourth day of August year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three aged 71. Whereupon according to his desire his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady within Trinity Church in Guildford Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar or Table-monument with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon supported by six pillars of the Dorick order of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books with a large inscription thereon beginning thus Sacrum memoriae honoratiss Archipraesulis c. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript which begins also thus Aeternae memoriae Sacrum Magni hic Hospes Hospitis monumenta vides c. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury I find another of both his names to have been a writer also but later in time and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased c. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to
Preacher and therefore much followed by ingenious men At length being made one of the Chaplains to his Maj. K. Jam. 1. who highly valued him for his fine fancy and preaching he was by his favour promoted to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon an 1620. being then D. of D. Senior Student of that house Vicar of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire and Prebendary of Beminster Secunda in the Church of Sarum At length upon the translation of Dr. Howson to the See of Durham he by vertue of the Kings Letters was elected Bishop of Oxon 30. July 1629. and afterwards consecrated at Lambeth 19. Octob. and installed in his Chair 3. Nov. following Upon the translation of Dr. White to Ely he was elected Bishop of Norwich 7. Apr. 1632. and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 12. of May the same year His writings that are published are only Poetica Stromata or a collection of sundry pieces of Poetry Lond. 1647. 48. c. oct made in his younger years and never intended to be published by their author He was buried at the upper end of the Choire belonging to the Cath. year 1635 Church of Norwich in sixteen hundred thirty and five and soon after was a large Free stone of a sandy colour laid over his body with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Richardus Corbet Theologiae Doctor Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi Oxoniensis primum Alumnus inde Decanus exinde Episcopus illinc huâ— translatus hinc in Coelum Julii 28. an 1635. On the said stone are the ancient Arms of the Corbets of Shropshire viz. Or a Raven passant sab This person was hospitably disposed and ever ready to express himself generous towards publick designs Upon the repair of S. Paul's Cathedral an 1634. he used his utmost endeavour both by his excellent speech and exemplary gifts to advance that pious work not only contributing largely himself but also giving monies to some Ministers that had not to give to incourage others to contribute that might better give JOHN COLLETON or Collington Son of Edmund Colleton of Milverton in Somersetshire Gent. was born there and at 17 years of age an 1565. was sent to the University of Oxon particularly as 't is thought to Lincoln coll but leaving the place without a degree and his Country he crossed the Seas and went to Doway where applying himself to the study of Divinity in the English coll was made a Priest and returned into England with Father Campian an 1580. But being taken and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London was afterwards upon his trial for conspiring the death of the Queen at Rome or Rheimes set at liberty and charged to depart the Land within few days after In obedience therefore to that command he with others of his profession went or rather were sent accordingly in 1584. but tarrying there not long returned and spent many years in administring to the Brethren and gaining Proselytes In which time as Father Persons reports he was a principal author of the Libels against the Archpriestship See more in Christop Bagshaw under the year 1625. In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he was made Archdeacon of London only titular Vicar General of the East parts of England and at length Dean of Chalcedon but when age grew upon him Greg. Fisher alias Musket Archdeacon of Surrey and Middlesex was added as a Coadjutor in the Office of Vicar-General 10. Feb. 1626. to assist in the East parts of England namely in Essex Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgshire Isle of Ely Bedfordshire Bucks Middlesex and Hertford He hath written and published A just defence of the slandred Priests wherein are contained reasons against their receiving Mr. George Blackwel to be their Superior c. Printed 1602. qu. concerning which book and Father Persons his character therein you may see in The Anatomy of Popish Tyranny c. written by Tho. Bell lib. 4. cap. 5. sect 4. Supplication to the King of Great Britain for a toleration of the Cath. Religion Epistle to P. Paul 5. with other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days in the house of a Rom. Catholick at Eltham in Kent on the fourteenth of the Calends of Novemb. year 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five aged 87. and was buried in the Church there dedicated to S. John Bapt. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with an inscription round the verge a copy of which was sent to me by his Sisters Son named Joh. Kynn O. S. B. living at Beoly in Worcestershire Much about the time that this Joh. Colleton studied according to report in Linc. college one Joh. Filby an Oxfordshire man born studied there also who leaving that coll before he was Bac. of Arts went to Rheimes where he studied Divinity in the English coll and was made a Priest Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England he was taken imprisoned and at length being condemned to die was executed at Tyburn 30. May 1582. ALEXANDER GILL born in Lincolnshire on the 27. Feb. 1564. was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in Sept. 1583. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1590. left the coll and became an instructer of Youth but where unless in the City of Norwich where he lived 1597. and then wrote his treatise of the Trinity I know not Sure I am that in 1608. he became the chief Master of S. Pauls School within the City of London in the place of Rich. Mulcaster was esteemed by most persons to be a learned man a noted Latinist Critick and Divine and also to have such an excellent way of training up youth that none in his time went beyond him Whence 't was that many noted persons in Church and State did esteem it the greatest of their happiness that they had been educated under him His works are Treatise concerning the Trinity in unity of the Deity Lond. 1601. oct written to Tho. Manering an Anabaptist who denied that Jesus is very God of very God Logonomia Anglica Qua gentis sermo facilius addiscitur Lond. 1621. qu. Sacred Philosophy of holy Scripture Or a Commentary on the Creed Lond. 1635. fol. At the end of which is printed also his Treatise of the Trinity before mention'd He died in his house in St. Pauls Ch. Yard on the 17. year 1635 Novemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and five and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in Mercers Chappel in London in a vault near to the Monument of Mr. Brown and Mr. Fishbourne He left behind him a Son of both his names whom I shall hereafter mention EDMUND DEANE Brother to Richard Deane Bishop of Ossory and both the Sons of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire was born there or in that County entred a Student in Merton coll in Lent-Term 1591. aged 19. took one degree in Arts and then retired to St. Albans hall where prosecuting his Genie
Arts and all that he knew he own'd to him Thence his silly Mother who had married to her second Husband a Bricklayer took him home and made him as 't is said work at her Husbands trade At length being pitied by some generous Gentlemen Camden got him a better imployment which was to attend or accompany a Son of Sir Walt. Raliegh in his adventures whereby gaining experience made his company acceptable among many After their return they parted I think not in cold blood and thereupon Ben went to Cambridge and was as 't is said statutably elected into St. Johns coll but what continuance he made there I find not Sure 't is that his Genie being mostly Poetical he did afterwards receed to a Nursery or obscure Play-house called The Green Curtain about Shoreditch or Clerkenwell but his first action and writing there were both ill At length improving his fancy much by keeping Scholastical company he betook himself again to write plays which he did so admirably well that he was esteemed paramount in the dramatick part of Poetry and to teach the stage an exact conformity to the Laws of Comedians Whereupon Sir Jo. Suckling bringing him into the Session of Poets Ben broke silence spoke to the Poets and Bid them remember how he had purg'd the Stage Of Errours that had lasted many an age His own proper industry and addition to books especially to ancient Poets and Classical authors made him a person of curious learning and judgment and of singular excellence in the art of Poetry Which with his accurate judgment and performance known only to those few who are truly able to judge of his works have gain'd from the most eminent Scholars of his time particularly from the learned Selden an increasing admiration Dr. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and other Poets of this University did in reverence to his parts invite him to Oxon where continuing for some time in Ch. Ch. in writing and composing Plays he was as a Member thereof actually created M. of A. in 1619. and therefore upon that account I put him among the Oxford writers for at Cambridge his stay was but short and whether he took a degree in that University I cannot yet learn of any His works are these Every Man in his humour a Comedy Acted 1598. Every Man out of his humour Com. Act. 1599. Cynthia's Revels Com. Act. 1600. Poetaster or his arraignment Com. 1601. Sejanus his Fall a Tragedy Act. 1602. Volpone or the Fox Com. 1609. Alchemist Com. 1610. Cataline his Conspiracy Trag. 1611. Epigrams in number 134. Epigrams called the Forrest in number 15. Part of the Kings entertainment in passing to his Coronation in prose and verse A panegyre on the happy entrance of K. James to his first high Session of Parliament 19. March 1603. A Poem A particular entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Apethorp at the house of the Lord Spencer 25. June 1603. A Poem Private entertainment of the K. and Q. on May day in the morn at Sir Will. Cornwallis his house at Highgate 1604 In verse and prose Entertainment of the two Kings of Great Britain and Denmark at Theobalds 24. Jul. 1606. In Lat. and Engl. verse Entertainment of K. James and Q. Anne at Theobalds when the house was delivered up with the possession to the Queen by the Earl of Salisbury 22. May 1607. Written in verse Twelve Masks at Court Barthelmew-Fair Com. Acted 1614. Devil is an Asse Com. 1616. Staple of News Com. 1625. Magnetick Lady or humours reconciled Com. Tale of a Tub Com. Sad Shepherd or a tale of Robin Hood Trag. Masks Underwoods Consisting of divers Poems entertainments and of some Odes of Horace translated Mortimer his fall Trag. imperfect Horace his Art of Poetry made English This last was afterwards printed by it self Lond. 1640. oct and with it 1 Execration against Vulcan 2 Masque of the Gypsies 3 Epigrams to several noble personages about 23. in number All composed by B. Johnson English Grammar for the benefit of all strangers Discoveries made upon men and matter All which are contained in two vol. in fol. printed 1616. and 1640. Tragedy of Thierry K. of France and his Brother Theodored The New-Inn or the light heart Com. Lond. 1631. octav His Motives Printed 1622. oct He also had a hand in a Com. called The Widdow Lond. 1652. qu. Jo. Fletcher and Th. Middleton were his Assistants Also in Eastward hoe Com. assisted by Geo. Chapman c. and did with Dr. Hacket afterwards B. of Lichfield translate into Latin the Lord Bacons Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral At length B. Johnson after he had arrived to the sixty third year of his age marched off from the stage of this vain World on the 16. year 1637 of August in sixteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried three days after in S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster commonly called the Abbey Church not among the Poets but at the west end near to the belfry under the Escoheon of Rob. de Ros or Roos with this engraven on a common pavement stone laying over his grave at eighteen pence charge given by Jack Young of Great Milton in Oxfordshire afterwards a Knight by the favour of K. Ch. 2. O rare Ben Johnson There was a considerable sum of money gathered from among the Wits and Vertuosi of his time for the erection of a monument and a Statua for him but before they could be done the Rebellion broke forth and hindred the design whereupon the money was refunded I have been informed by a worthy Prelate several years since deceased that this Poet Ben had a pension of an 100. l. per an from the King a pension also from the City of London and the like from several of the Nobility and from some of the Gentry particularly from Sutton Founder of the Hospital that now bears his name which were commonly well paid either out of pure love to him or out of fear of his railing in verse or prose or both When he was in his last sickness the said Prelate who was then M. of A. did among other of his acquaintance often visit him and as often heard him repent of his prophaning the Scripture in his Plays and that with horrour c. Many years after his death did appear to the World another Poet of both his names who writes himself in his Poems published 1672. Ben. Johnson Junior but what relation there was between him and the former I know not ROBERT FLUDD or de Fluctibus second afterwards eldest Son of Sir Tho. Fludd Knight sometimes Treasurer of War to Q. Elizabeth in France and the Low Countries Grandson of Dav. Fludd of Shropshire was born at Milgate in the Parish of Bearsted in Kent became Convictor of S. Johns coll in 1591. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts studied Physick travelled into France Spain Italy and Germany for almost six years In most of which Countries he became acquainted with several of
an years time he was got into his Greek Grammar for he was one of a prodigious memory and of wonderful strength of body After he had spent one year at Westminster School he was sped a Child in Wykehams coll near Winchester where making very great proficiency in the School there he was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll an 1584. and two years after was admitted Verus Socius In Feb. 1591. he had the degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him and being Terrae filius in the Act following he was so bitterly satyrical that he was not only denied the completion of that degree by being admitted ad regendum but was expel'd the University Afterwards being put to his shifts he went into Somersetshire where he taught a School for about an year or more at Ilchester and compiled a Greek Lexicon as far as the Letter M. About that time having married a rich Fortune in those parts named Benedicta the Widdow of one Bourne but Daughter of Rob. Moyle of Buckwell in Kent he entred himself a Student in the Middle Temple where after he had spent some years and performed certain exercise he was called to the Bar. In 1614. he sate as a Burgess in Parliament then in being wherein in speaking his mind he made a desperate allusion to the Scicilian Vesper for which being committed Prisoner to the Tower of London 7. June was examined whether he well understood the consequence of that Vesper to which he alluded Whereupon making answer that he had a hint thereof and afterwards a general information from Dr. Lionel Sharp of Cambridge that Doctor therefore with Sir Charles Cornwallis Son of Sir Tho. Cornwallis of Brome in Suffolk were imprison'd in the Tower on the 13. of the same month At the same time that our author Hoskyns was committed to custody were others also imprison'd with him for behaving themselves turbulent in the H. of Commons as Walt. Chute a Kentish man who had lately been put out of his place of Carver to the King one Wentworth Tho. Wentworth mentioned under the year 1627. esteemed by some then living a silly and simple creature and a third named Christopher Nevil second Son to the Lord Abergavenny who was newly come from School and made the House sport with his boyish speeches wherein were these words reiterated O tempora O mores After our author Hoskyns had continued a Prisoner for a full year he with Sharp and Cornwallis were released and ever after were held in great value by the Commons In the 17. of Jac. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader of the Middle-Temple and in the 21. of the said King made a Serjeant at Law and soon after a Judge or Justice itinerant for Wales and one of the Council of the Marches thereof He was the most ingenious and admired Poet of his time and therefore much courted by the ingenious men then living There were few or none that published books of Poetry but did celebrate his memory in them especially his contemporary in New coll named Joh. Owen the Epigrammatist and fewer but did lay them at his feet for approbation before they went to the Press 'T was he that polish'd Ben. Johnson the Poet and made him speak clean whereupon he ever after called our author Father Hoskyns and 't was he that view'd and review'd the History of the World written by Sir W. Raleigh before it went to the Press with which person he had several years before especially during their time of imprisonment in the Tower been intimate He was also much respected and beloved by Camden Selden Sam. Daniel Dr. Joh. Donne Dean of Pauls Rich. Martin Recorder of London Sir H. Wotton and Sir Benj. Rudyerd with the last of whom it was once his fortune upon a quarrel that fell out to fight a duel and to hurt him in the knee but were afterwards soon reconcil'd He was a person always pleasant and facete in company which made him much desired by ingenious men He was an excellent Master of the Latin and Greek tongue well read in Divinity but in the Common Law which was his profession not so well He hath written Lexicon Graecum MS. imperfect Epigrams in Engl. and Lat. Some of which are printed in several books and among them I suppose are his verses on a F t let in the Parliament house which are printed in some of the books of Drollery He had a book of Poems neatly written bigger than those of Dr. Donne which were lent by his Son Benedict to a certain person in 1653. but could never retrieve it Epitaphs in Lat. and English The Art of Memory He was so excellent in it whether artificial or natural that no man ever went beyond him in his time When he was a School-boy at Winchester and had an exercise of verses to make he neglected through idleness the making of them So that fearing a whipping he read the exercise of one of his School-fellows over his shoulder just as he had finish'd it Whereupon the Master entring and the exercise called upon him first he drew up to and told him he had lost it yet nevertheless he would repeat it without book if that would serve his turn so that the Master being contented he repeated 16 or 20 verses that he had before read of the other boys making and so was excused At length the other boy being called and he shewing the verses that Hoskyns had repeated he was esteemed the thief that had stole them away from Hoskyns and thereupon was sorely whip'd for so doing Method of the Law reduced under the heads of Rights Wrongs Remedies All which books with others of various subjects are in MS. and for the most part kept in the hands of his Grandson Sir Joh. Hoskyns Knight and Baronet He departed this life in his house at Morehampton in Herefordshire 27. Aug. in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1638 aged 72. and was buried on the south side of the Choire of Dowr Abbey in the said County Over his grave was erected soon after an Altar-monument with 24 verses ingraven thereon made by Thomas Bonham of Essex Esq The four first run thus Hoc tegitur tumulo totus quem non tegit orbis Hoskinus humani prodigium ingenii Vsque adeo excoluit duo pugnacissima rerum Et qua non subeant nomina pectus idem Pieridumque legumque potens c. RICHARD JAMES was born at Newport in the Isle of Wight admitted Scholar of C. C. coll from that of Exeter 23. Sept. 1608. aged 16. or thereabouts and on the 30. of Sept. 1615. Probationer-Fellow About that time he being involved in the studies of Theology he entred into Orders preached often and at length was Bac. of that Faculty This person tho humorous was of a far better judgment than his Uncle Thom. James mentioned under the year 1629. and had he lived to his age would have surpassed him in published books He was a great traveller also was
admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1589 took the degrees in Arts and at length was numbred among the best of Preachers in that house In 1597 he left the coll being then beneficed at Westmean in his own Country was afterwards made Prebendary of Winchester and in the year 1614. took the degrees in Divinity His younger years were adorned with variety of learning and his elder with solid and substantial Divinity which last made him as much respected in his native country towards his latter end as he was before in the University for this book following of his writing and publication when he was a young man Diarium Historico-poeticum In quo praeter constellationum utriusque Hemisphaerii Zodaici ortus occasus numerum Stellarum causarumque ad Poesin Spectantium varietatem declaratur cujusque mensis dies fere singuli Regum Imperatorum Principum Pontificum virorumque doctorum natalibus nuptiis inaugurationibus morte denique aut ralia quacunque insigniores celebriores sic ut nihil c. Lib. 12. Oxon. 1595. qu. What other things he hath published I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he died on the 20. of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine having had for some years before divers contests with Neile his Diocesan for his introducing certain ceremonies into the Cath. at Winchester and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Westmean before mention'd Over his grave was soon after a Monument put with six verses thereon the two first of which run thus Ortus stirpe bonâ titulo Doctoris adauctus Oxonii conjux bis deciesque pater PHILIPP MASSINGER Son of Phil. Massinger a servant belonging to the Pembrochian family made his first entry on the stage of this vain world within the City of Salisbury was entred a Commoner in St. Albans hall in the seventeenth year of his age 1601. where tho incouraged in his studies by the Earl of Pembroke yet he applied his mind more to Poetry and Romances for about four years or more than to Logick and Philosophy which he ought to have done and for that end was patronized Afterwards leaving the University without the honour of a degree he retired to the great City to improve his fancy and studies by conversation At length being sufficiently fam'd for several specimens of wit wrote divers Comedies and Tragedies for the English Stage besides other things much applauded and cryed up in their time when acted and published Their names are these The Duke of Millaine a Tragedy Lond. 1623. qu. Powerfull Favourite or the life of Sejanus a Hist Printed 1628. qu. Roman Actor Tr. Lond. 1629. qu. Renegado Picture Tr. co Lond. 1630. qu. Virgin Martyr Tr. Lond. 1631. 1661. qu. In this Trag. he was assisted by Tho. Dekker a high flier of wit even against Ben Johnson himself in his Com. called The untrussing of The humerous Poet. Emperour of the East Maid of Honour Tr. co Lond. 1632. qu. Fatal Dowry Tr. Lond. 1632. qu. assisted therein by Nathan Field New way to pay old debts Co. Lond. 1633. qu. Great Duke of Florence A comical Hist London 1636. qu. The Bond-man An antient story Lond. 1638. qu. Tr. Lond. 1639. qu. Unnatural Brother Unnatural Combate Lond. 1655. oct with the authors picture before them Bashful Lover Tr. Co. The Guardian Co. Hist Very Woman or the Prince of Tarent Tr. Co. City Madam Com. Lond. 1659. qu. published by one who calls himself Andr. Penniewicke He was also one of the three Thom. Middleton and Will. Rowley being the other two who had a hand in The old Law Com. Lond. 1656. qu. and was sole author if a cat of Plays at the end of The old Law may be believed of Virtuous Octavia Trag. and of Rom Alley Com. As to this last there is without doubt a mistake for all readers of Plays cannot but know that Ram Alley or merry Tricks was pen'd by the Lord Barry an Irish man and that it was acted by the Children of the Kings revels before 1611. As for our author Ph. Massenger he made his last exit very suddenly in his house on the Bank-side in Southwerk near to then Play-house for he went to bed well and was dead before morning Whereupon his body being accompanied by Comedians was buried about the middle of that Ch. yard belonging to S. Saviours Church there commonly called the Bull-head Church yard that is in that which joyns to the Bull-head Tavern for there are in all four yards belonging to that Church on the 18. day of March in sixteen hundred thirty and nine Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Lond. 1658. oct hath in pag. 186. an Epitaph on Mr. Joh. Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church alias S. Saviours in Southwerk See more in Sir John Beaumont under the year 1628. where you 'll find more of those two persons One Walt. Messenger or Massenger was a student in S. Alb. hall in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths raign whom I take to be either Father or Uncle to Philip the Poet. JOHN VICCARS was originally of the University of Cambridge where taking one degree in Arts retired to Oxon setled in Lincolne coll in the condition of a Commoner an 1624 and the next year proceeded in Arts as a member of that house Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas visited divers Academies and Recesses of learning and gained from them and their respective Libraries great experience and knowledge He hath written Decapla in psalmos Sive commentarius ex decem Linguis antiquis paetribus Rab. Historicis Poetis c. Lond. 1639. fol. which book doth plainly demonstrate that he was a most admirable Linguist and the best for the Oriental tongues in his time I shall make large mention of John Vicars the Poet among the writers under the year 1652. JOHN SPEED Son of Jo. Sp. the Chronologer was born in London elected Scholar of S. John's coll from Merchant Taylors School in 1612. aged 17. Afterwards he was made Fellow thereof M. of A. Bach. and Doctor of Physick of this Univ. In which last faculty he became eminent especially for the practick part among the Academians and had if death had not snatched him too soon away published several matter of it He hath written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 utriusque sexus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 MS. written in Latine dedicated to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cantab. and reserved in S. John's coll Library as a rarity The said MS. points at and hath relation to the two Skeletons one of a man another of a woman standing at the north end of the Mathematick Library of the said college which Skeletons were made and given to the said Library by our author Dr. Speed who hath also written Stonehenge a pastoral Acted before Dr. Rich. Baylie the President and Fellows of the said coll in their common
refectory at what time the said Doctor was returned from Salisbury after he had been installed Dean thereof an 1635. The said Pastoral is not printed but goes about in MS. from hand to hand Dr. Speed who was by all persons that knew him accounted an ingenious man year 1640 died in the month of May in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in the Chappel of S. John's coll leaving then behind him a Son named Samuel who was aftera Student of Ch. Ch. and M. of A. installed Canon of the said Church on the death of Dr. Seb. Smith on the sixth day of May 1674. and another named John afterwards Fellow of St. John's coll and Doctor of Physick living now at Southampton THOMAS FITZHERBERT Son of Will. Fitzherbert by Isabell his Wife Daughter and one of the heirs of Humph. Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Staffordshire fourth Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the famous Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire was born in the said County of Stafford an 1552. in which County being initiated in Grammer learning was sent either to Exeter or Lincoln coll in 1568 But having been mostly before trained up in the Cath. Religion the college seemed uneasie to him for tho he would now and then hear a Sermon which he was permitted to do by an old Roman Priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon for to him he often retired to receive instructions as to matters of Religion yet he would seldom or never go to prayers for which he was often admonished by the Sub-Rector of his house At length he seeming to be wearied with the heresie as he stil'd it of those times he receeded without a degree to his Patrimony where also refusing to go to his parish Church was imprison'd about 1572. But being soon after set at liberty he became more zealous in his Religion defended it against the Protestant Ministers and not only confirm'd and strengthned many wavering Catholicks therein but wrote also several valid reasons for the not going of Catholicks to Protestant Churches for which being like to suffer he withdrew and lived abscondedly In 1580. when Campian and Persons the Jesuits came into the mission of England he retired to London found them out shew'd himself exceeding civil and exhibited to them liberally Whereupon bringing himself into a promunire and foreseeing great danger to come on him and all Catholicks he went as a voluntary exile into France an 1582. where he continued a zealous sollicitor in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots with the K. of France and Duke of Guise for her relief tho in vain After her decollation and all hopes of the Catholicks frustrated for the present he left that Country and the rather because that he about that time had buried his Wife and forthwith went into Spain For some years there he became a zealous agitator in the Royal Court for the relief of Catholicks and their Religion in England but his actions and the labours of many more of that nature being frustrated by the Spaniards repulse in 1588. he under pretence of being weary with the troubles and toyles of this life receeded to Millaine with the Duke of Feria Whence after some continuance there he went to Rome where he was initiated in sacred Orders took a lodging near to the English college and observed all hours and times of Religion as they in the college did by the sound of their bell and there composed certain books of which that against Machiavel was one A certain author of little or no note named James Wadsworth tells us that the said Tho. Fitzherbert had been before a Pensioner and Spye to the King of Spain in France and his service being past and his pension failing him out of pure necessity he and his man were constrained to turn Jesuits or else starve And he being a worthy Scholar and a great Politician was very welcome to that Order But let this report remain with the author who is characteriz'd by a Protestant writer to be a Renegado proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade now living 1655. a common hackney to the basest Catch-pole Bayliffs c. while I proceed In 1613-4 he took upon him the habit of the Society of Jesus on the feast of the Purification initiated therein on the vigil of the Annuntiation following and on the next day he sung his first Mass Afterwards he presided the mission at Bruxells for two years and at length much against his will he was made Rector of the English coll or seminary at Rome which he governed with great praise about 22. years He was a person of excellent parts had a great command of his tongue and pen was a noted Politician a singular lover of his Country men especially those who were Catholicks and of so graceful behaviour and generous spirit that great endeavours were used to have him created a Cardinal some years after Allens death and it might have been easily effected had he not stood in his own way He hath written A defence of the Catholick cause containing a Treatise in confutation of sundry untruths and slanders published by the Hereticks c. S. Omers 1602. Apology or defence of his innocence in a fained conspiracy against her Majesties person for the which one Edw. Squire was wrongfully condemned and executed in Nov. 1598. Printed with the Defence before mention'd This is the book which the learned Camden tells us was written by Walpole a Jesuit or one under his name Treatise concerning policy and religion Doway 1606. qu. Wherein are confuted several principles of Machiavel The second part of the said Treatise was printed also at Doway 1610. and both together in 1615. qu. A third part was printed at Lond. 1652. qu. being then cried up for a good book as the other parts had been An sit utilitas in scelere vel de infelicitate Principis Machiavellani Rome 1610. oct Suppliment to the discussion of Mr. Dr. Burlows answer to the judgment of a Cath. Engl. Man c. interrupted by the death of the author F. Rob. Persons Jesuit S. Omer 1613. qu. published under the two letters of F. T. Censure of Dr. Joh. Donnes book intit Pseudo-Martyr Additions to the Suppliment These two last are printed at the end of the Suppliment to the discussion c. against Dr. Will. Barlow B. of Line before-mentioned Confutation of certain absurdities in Lancelot Andrews's answer to Bellarm. Printed 1603. qu. and published under the two letters of F. T. instead of T. F. This was written in vindication of Card. Bellarmine's Apology for his answer made to K. James's book De jure fidel Whereupon came out a book intit Epphata to F. T. or a defence of the Bishop of Ely Lanc. Andrews concerning his answer to Card. Bellarmine's Apology against the calumnies of a scandalous Pamphlet Cambr. 1617. qu. written by Sam. Collins D. D. a Buckinghamsh man born Provost of Kings coll in Cambridge elected the Kings
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
near Winchester became Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation in 1456 was afterwards Doctor of Decrees and Commissary the same now with Vicechancellour of the University an 1468. About that time he was made Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London Archdeacon of Essex Canon of Windsore 1497 Dean of the Kings Chappel and at length upon the refusal of Christoph Vrswyke Dean of Windsore he became Bishop of Norwich in the room of James Goldwell deceased The temporalities of which See after his election thereunto were restored to him 21. Jul. 14. Hen. 7. dom 1499. where sitting little more than an year he concluded his last day in the month of Aug. or thereabouts in the year fiveteen hundred By his Will dated 20. Jul. the same year he bequeathed his body to be buried in his own Cathedral Church if it should happen that he dye in Norwich or within 16 miles of that place He had before his death been a benefactor to New coll as I have told you elsewhere and as it should seem to the building of S. Maries Church in this Univ. of Oxon if his answer was equivalent to an Epistle written in its name to desire his benefaction thereunto In the time of this worthy Bishop Tho. Jane or rather before studied in this University Tho. Scot alias Rotheram Son of Sir Tho. Rotheram Knight by Alice his Wife but going soon after to Cambridge we can hardly lay claim to him In an old book of Epistles written by the University of Ox. to great personages is an Epistle written to the Bishop of Lincoln and he that then sat there must according to time be the said Rotheram In which Epistle are certain circumstances that shew that he had sometimes studied in the said University and besides the members thereof did seldom â—or never write Epistles to any except such who had originally been Students among them He died Archb. of York in 1500 and was succeeded in that See by Tho. Savage See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 243. a. b. JOHN MORETON Son of Rich. Moreton of S. Andrews Milbourn in Dorsetshire Son of Will. Moreton of the said place and he the second Son of Charles Moreton the first being Rob. Moreton of Moreton in Nottinghamsh from whence sprang the Moretons of Bautrey in Yorkshire was born saith Camden at St. Andr. Milb before mention'd others particularly one of Camdens contemporaries at a little Market Town call'd Bere in the said County of Dorset which seems to be most true by those things that I shall anon mention from his last Will and Testament When he was a boy he was educated among the Religious in Cerne Abbey and at ripe years was sent to Balliol coll where making great progress in Academical learning he took the degrees in the Laws without any regard had to those in Arts. In 1446. he being then in his Regency he became one of the Commissaries of the University about which time one Will. Moreton of the same coll was the northern Proctor but whether related to him I cannot tell Afterwards Jo. Moreton was Principal or moderator of the Civil Law School situated in the Great Jewry in Oxon and about 1453. became Principal of Peckwaters Inn at which time he being also an Advocate in the Court of Arches his parts and great learning were so remarkable that Tho. Bouchier Archb. of Canterbury taking cognisance of him sought means to prefer him In 1458. Nov. 8. he became Prebendary of Fordinton and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury void by the death of one Will. Walesby being also about that time Rector of S. Dunstans Church in the West in the Suburbs of London Afterwards having other spiritualities conferr'd upon him he was for his great wisdom and prudence made Master of the Rolls an 1473 and in the year following Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was then void by the death of one Vinc. Clement sometimes a Doctor of Oxon In Feb. 1475 he being then Preb. of Dynre in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in that month and was succeeded therein by Mr. Will. Dudley he was collated to the Prebendship of S. Ducuman in the said Church on the death of one Joh. Pope which Dignity he keeping till Jan. 1478. he then gave it up and Tho. Langton Doctor of Decrees succeeded him as I shall anon tell you In 1476. Nov. 6. he was made Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of John Russell Doctor of the Canon Law not of Div. as one saith who was afterwards Bishop of Lincoln In 1478. Aug. 9. he was elected Bishop of Ely on the death of Will. Grey and about that time was made Privy Councellour to the King In 1484. 2. Rich. 3. he was committed prisoner to the Tower of London for some jealousies that that King had of him as being totally inclined to the Lancastrian family and 't is probable that there he would have continued during all that Kings raign but the reverence of the man or undeservedness of his wrongs moved so the affection of the members of this University that they directed to the King who professed much seeming love to the University as 't is elsewhere told you a petitionary Epistle in Latine no less eloquent and pithy than circumspect and wary wherein they much pleaded for his liberty Whereupon the K. being well pleased with it was content to release him from the Tower and commit him to the custody of Henry Duke of Buckingham to his Castle at Brecknock in Wales Thence after he had spent some time he found liberty to steal to the Isle of Ely and for a round sum of money found a safe passage into France purposely to joyn with the Earl of Richmond to pluck down the said Rich. 3. Soon after the said Earl obtaining the Crown by the name of Hen. 7. called unto his Privy Council the said Moreton Bishop of Ely with Rich. Fox about that time B. of Exeter both vigilant men and discreet and such as kept watch with the King almost upon all men else They were both vers'd in his affairs before he came to the Crown and were partakers of his adverse fortune and therefore the King was resolved to promote them in the Church as high as he could In the beginning of the year 1486. Archbishop Bouchier before mentioned died whereupon the K. making means that the Monks of Canterbury should elect Dr. Moreton for his Successor the Pope did forthwith confirm it So that being translated to the said See he had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the sixth of Decemb. the same year In 1487. he was made Lord Chancellor of England in which high office he acted very beneficial for the King and in 1493. he was declared a Cardinal by Pope Alexand. 6. under the title of S. Anastasius The year after he was elected Chanc. of
the Univ. of Oxon and became a considerable benefactor thereunto particularly to the reparation of Canon Law School in S. Edwards parish to the finishing of the re-edification of S. Maries Church and of the edification of the Divinity School In all which places were his Arms set up in colours in the Windows or else engraven in Stone But such is the vicissitude of time that nothing of Arms or any thing like them doth at this time remain Those that belonged to him were Quarterly gules and ermine a Goats head erased in the first and fourth quarter argent given or else taken in allusion to the Arms of the Corporation of Shomakers of which Corporation the Father of this Archb. was as 't is said a member They were curiously engraven on Stone at the bottom of the Stone-pulpit in St. Maries Church as also the rebus of his name an M. upon a Tun. Which Pulpit was pulled down when the inside of that Church was alter'd while Dr. Ralph Bathurst was Vicechancellor an 1676. They were also engraven on the Respondents Pew or Seat of Stone in the Divinity School which also were taken away when the inside of that School was altered an 1669. to what it now is But tho these monuments are decayed yet the memory of the person is fresh among some men who have said that he was a wife and eloquent man but in his nature harsh and haughty that he was much accepted by the King but envied by the Nobility and hated by the people He won the Kings mind with secrecy and diligence chiefly because he was his old servant in his less fortunes and for that also he was in his affections not without an inveterate malice against the House of York under which he had been in trouble Whatsoever else was in the man he deserveth a most happy memory in that he was the principal means of joyning the two Roses At length dying of great years about 90. but of strong health and powers about the latter end of Septemb. in fiveteen hundred year 1500 was buried in the Cath. Church of Canterbury before the image of the Virgin Mary commonly called Our Lady of Vndercroft Over his Stone-coffin or Sepulcher which was but just deposited in the ground was a marble-stone laid even with the surface of the pavement which stone being afterwards crack'd and broken several parts of his body wrap'd up in divers Cear-cloathes were taken away by certain rude and barbarous people At length the head being only in a manner remaining in the said Stone-coffin 't was beg'd out of a pious mind purposely to save it of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury in 1670. by that truly noble and generous Rophe Shedon of Beoley in Worcestershire Esquire who esteeming it as a choice relique provided a leaden box to preserve it with its Cear-cloathes about it and with great devotion kept it to his dying day an 1684. Afterwards that choice relique with very many rarities which he in his life time had gathered together came by vertue of his last Will into the hands of his Uncles Daughter named Frances Sheldon sometimes one of the maids of honour to Catherine the Royal Consort of King Charles 2. The said Cardinal Moreton did by his last Will and Testament leave maintenance for a Priest to celebrate Mass for 20. years space in the Church of Bere in Dorsetshire for the Soul of him the said Archbishop and for the Souls of his relations and parents buried there He also left maintenance during that time for 20 poor Scholars in Oxon and ten in Cambridge I find one John Moreton to be made Prebend of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells on the resignation of Robert Stillington afterwards B. of Bath and Wells in July 1447. and Minister of Axbridge and Charlton Mesgrose in the Dioc. of B. and Wells but this John Moreton who died about the month of Dec. 1463. is in the registers belonging to the Bish of B. and Wells written Sacrae Theologiae Professor I find also another Joh. Moreton who translated into English Speculum Vitae Christi written by S. Bonaventure Which John was living in 1438 in which year he with his Wife Juliana were admitted among the Suffrages and Prayers of the Dominicans or Black Fryers at York THOMAS LANGTON was born in a Market Town called Appleby in Westmorland where being educated in Religion and Grammar learning among the Carmes or White Friers was at ripe years sent to Oxon particularly as it seems to Queens coll but a pest breaking out in the University soon after he went to Cambridge and became a member of Clare hall one saith of Pembroke hall took the degrees in the Canon Law in which afterwards he was incorporated at Oxon and had considerable Dignities in the Church bestowed him among which was the Prebendship of S. Ducaman in the Church of Wells an 1478. In 1483 he being about that time Provost of Qu. coll in Oxon and Master of S. Julians Hospital in Southampton was consecrated Bishop of S. Davids whence being translated to the See of Salisbury on the death of Leonel Woodvill had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto 4. May 1 Rich. 3. dom 1484. In a certain writing in Queens coll treasury dat 19. Aug. 4. Hen. 7. dom 1489. he occurs by the titles of Doctor of the Laws Bishop of Salisbury and Provost of Qu. coll Whence we may conclude that he kept the said Provostship in Commendam with Salisbury as probably he had done with S. Davids In 1493. he was translated to the See of Winchester and had restitution made to him of the temporalities thereof 27. June the same year Where being setled he put in practice his good deeds which he had done at Sarum viz. by shewing himself a Mecaenas of learning for which I find he had so great respect that he took care to have youths trained up at his own charge in Grammar and Musick the last of which he was infinitely delighted in in a School which he set apart within the precincts of his house It was usual with him and he took a great pleasure in it to make his scholars or exhibitioners repeat at night before him such dictates that they in the day time had learned from their Master and such that could give a laudable account he either encouraged with good words or small rewards saying to those about him that the way to increase vertue was to praise it c. In his episcopal office he behaved himself so well that he was in great authority with three Kings especially for his learning religion and experience in civil affairs annd had not death snatch'd him untimely away would have succeeded Moreton in the See of Canterbury He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred and one and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester near to the tomb and shrine of S. Swithune By his last will and test which I
have seen he gave to the priests of Clare hall in Cambridge considerable summs of money and forty pounds to the chest of that house To every fellow of Qu. coll in Oxon six shillings and eight pence and forty marks to the elemosinary chest thereof besides a sute of vestments for a Priest Deacon and Subdeacon and four copes He gave maintenance also to a Chaplain that should celebrate service for him his Parents and all faithful deceased for the space of an hundred years in the Church of Applebie before-mentioned Which Chaplain was to receive for his labour eight marks yearly To the Friers the Carmes in Applebie 20 marks to pray for him besides several sums to the Friers of Oxon and Cambridge and to Rowland Machel and Elizabeth his wife sister to the said Bishop he gave several lands in Westmorland besides 200 marks He built also the little room which is now a large Bay-window to the Provosts dining-room in Qu. coll with curious vaulting under it Which vault is now no other than a portico to the coll chappel Over the said Bay-window is carv'd in stone a musical note called a Long on a Tun which is the rebus for his firname and out of the Bung-hole of the Tun springs a Vine tree which without doubt was put for Vinton or Vinchestre he being then Bishop of that place He left behind him a Nephew named Rob. Langton born also in Applebie and educated in Queens coll of which he was LL. D. He died at London in the month of June 1524. and was buried before the image of S. Michael in the body of the Church belonging to the Charter-house now Suttons hospital near London By his last Will and Test he bequeathed to Qu. coll before mention'd two hundred pounds to purchase Lands and make a School-house in Appleby and what his benefaction was besides as also of that of Bishop Langton you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 123. 124 125. WILLIAM SHJOY commonly called Joy partly educated here but more in the Univ. of Paris was by provision from the Pope made Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland 16. Cal. of June 1485 where sitting about 16 years gave way at length to fate 28. Dec. in fifteen hundred and one and was as I suppose buried in his Cathedral Church In his Archbishoprick succeeded Philip Pinson a Minerite as I shall anon tell you RICHARD who writes himself Episcopus Oleven being Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester as it seems was a Dominican or Black Frier in Warwick to whose fraternity there he gave 6l at the time of his death and educated among the Black Friers in Oxon to whom also he gave 6l to pray for him He yielded up his last breath in Sept. in fifteen hundred and two year 1502 and was I suppose according to his last Will which I have seen buried in the choire of the Church belonging to the Black Friers in the City of Worcester on the south side of the Tomb of John Lichfield and opposite to that of Rich. Wolsey who as he saith in the said Will was nuper Conoren Duneren Episcopus HENRY DEANE was educated in this University where he took the degrees in Arts and Divinity but in what coll or Hall it appears not However some are pleased to say that he was educated in New coll yet whether he was perpetual Fellow thereof the registers of that house tells us not After he had left the University he was made Prior of Lanthony near to Gloucester in the neighbourhood of which place I presume he was born and on the 13 of Sept. or 20. Nov. 11. Hen. 7. he was by Letters Pat. constituted Chancellour of Ireland to execute that office by himself or a Deputy On the first of Janu. following he was constituted Deputy and Justice of the said Realm where being setled he performed good service against that grand impostor Perkin Warbeck and being elected Bishop of Bangor after the death of Richard lately Bishop of that place had restitution of the temporalities belonging thereunto made by the King 6. Octob. 12. Hen. 7. Dom. 1496. In 1500. he was translated to Salisbury on the death of John Blyth lately Bishop thereof Son of Will. Blyth of Norton in Yorkshire Son of another William of Leedes in the said County and had restitution of the temporalities thereof made to him as the manner is on the 12. March the same year About which time he was made Chanc. of the Order of the Garter In 1501. he was elected Archb. of Canterbury upon the death of Cardinal Moreton whereupon being translated thither had restitution made of his temporalities on the second of Aug. the same year About that time the members of the University of Oxon received an Epistle of favour from him wherein among other things he stiles the said University his benignissima mater He died at Lambeth on the 15. of Febr. saith a certain author tho a register of that time tells us 't was on the 16. of that month in fifteen hundred and two Whereupon his body was carried to Canterbury and buried in the middle of the Martyrdom within the precincts of the Cathedral there leaving then behind him the character of a person altogether fit for those places that he successively enjoyed DAVID CREAGH was born in the County of Limerick in Ireland studied several years among his Country men the Civil and Canon Law of which faculâ—ies he became at length Bachelaur Afterwards retiring to his native Country became thro several preferments Archb. of Cashills an 1483 where sitting about 20. years died 5. Sept. in fifteen hundred and three Of the great injuries done to him by Gerald Fits Gerald Earl of Kildare L. Deputy of Ireland of which Creagh complained to K. Hen. 7. by the advice of Sir Jam. de Ormond Knight the Histories of that Country will tell you PHILIP PINSON an English man studied among the Minorites or Grey Friers for a time in their house in Oxon. of which order he was a learned brother but whether he took the Degree of D. D. in this University we have no register that shews it Afterwards he became Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Hereford and afterwards of B. and Wells by whose endeavours but chiefly of those of K. Hen. 7. he was advanced at Rome to the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland on the 2. of Decemb. in fifteen hundred and three year 1503 and three days after died of the Plague Afterwards that See laid void two years and then 't was confer'd on Maurice O Fihely whom I have before among the writers mentioned JOHN ARUNDELL Son of Rainford or Rainford Arundell Knight by Jane his Wife Sister and heir of Joh. Coleshull third Son of Sir John Arundell of Talvern in Cornwall who died 13. Hen. 6. was born in that County received his Academical education in Exeter college became
either in Oriel or Lincoln college or successively in both In the former I have reason to suppose so because several of his name and kindred were members thereof soon after if not in his own time and in the other because in the Bursars accompts thereof I find one Mr. Will. Smyth to have been a Commoner of that house before and in the year 1478. being the same without all doubt with this person of whom we now speak Howsoever it is tho I am not ignorant that he was a benefactor to both the said colleges especially the last and that in an Epistle to him concerning his election to the Chancellourship of the Univ. of Oxon the Members thereof do say that he was sometimes Alumnus Academiae Oxon sure I am that he as others being fearful of divers pests hapning in Oxon in their time did receed to Cambridge where this Will. Smyth became Fellow and afterwards Master of Pembroke hall About that time he was made Archdeacon of Surrey D. D. of Cambridge in which degree he was incorporated at Oxon and afterward Clerk of the Hamper if I mistake not for we have an Epistle written to one Mr. Will. Smyth Cler. Hamperii for the expedition of the consummation of the privileges of the University and at length being elected Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry had restitution made of the temporalities of that See 29. Jan. 8. H. 7. dom 1492. After he had sate there about three years he was elected Bishop of Lincoln so that having restitution made of the temporalities thereof on the 6. Feb. 1495. sate there till the time of his death became a great man in the Kings favour Councellour to Prince Arthur President of Wales being the first of all that bore that office Chancellour of the University of Oxford and the prime founder of Brasnose coll there He gave way to fate on the second day of January in fifteen hundred and thirteen year 1513 and was buried in the great middle Isle near to the Sepulchre of Will. Alnwyke sometimes B. of Linc. towards the west end of the Cath. Church at Lincoln Over his grave was a very large marble Tomb-stone soon after laid even with the pavement having thereon engraven on a large brass plate the portraicture of a Bishop mitred and vested for the Altar with a Crosier in his left hand and on the verge of the said stone was this inscription engraven on several narrow plates of brass Sub marmore isto tenet hic tumulus ossa venerabilis in Christo Patris ac Domini Domini Willielmi Smyth quondam Conventriensis Lychfeldensis ac deinde Lincolniensis Presulis qui obiit secundo die mensis Januarii anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo tertio decimo cujus anime propitietur deus qui pius misericors in die tribulationis misericors peccata remittit Ecclesiastiio At the foot of the portraicture are these verses following engraven on a brass plate fastned to the said stone Cestrensis Presul post Lyncolniensis Amator Cleri nam multos cis mare transque aluit Quique utriusque fuit Prefectus Principis aule Fundavitque duas perpetuando Scholas Aulaque sumptu hujus renovatus est Enea Criste Hic situs est anime parte benigne sue You may see more of this worthy Bishop in Hist Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 104. b. 161. b. 212. 415. b. He the said Dr. Smyth gave three hundred pounds to John the Prior and Convent of Laund in Leycestershire to have the Parsonage and Parish Church of Roysthorne in Cheshire bought and appropriated to their house Which accordingly being done the said Prior and Convent did in consideration thereof give and confirm under their Common Seal to the Mayor and Citizens of Chester an annuity of ten pounds to be paid from the Monastery of S. Werburgh within the said City to the end that they pay that annuity to a Master or Bachelaur of Arts or at least to a Master of Grammar that should teach Grammar freely at Farnworth in Lancashire This was done 22. Hen. 7. and soon after was a School settled there He also gave many ornaments and other stuff to Brasnose coll to be used in their Chappel and elsewhere CHRISIOPHER BAINBRIDGE Bambridg or Baynbrigg was born at Hilton near Appleby in Westmoreland educated in Queens coll of which he became Provost before the year 1495. being about that time LL. D. and afterwards a liberal benefactor thereunto In Feb. 1485. he being then Prebendary of South-Grantham in the Cath. Church of Salisbury which he resigned became Prebendary of Chardstock in the said Church and in Apr. 1486. was made Preb. of Horton in that Church on the resignation of R. Morton In 1503. Sept. 28. he was admitted Preb. of Strenshall in the Cath. Ch. of York then void by the consecration of Jeffr. Blyth to the See of Lich. and Coventry and on the 21. Dec. following he was installed Dean of the said Church of York in the place of the said Jeffr. Blyth who had been installed in that Dignity in the place of Dr. Will. Sheffield deceased 24. Mar. 1496. In 1505. he was not only made Dean of Windsore but Master of the Rolls and one of the Kings Councellours in which year he resigned his Rectory of the Ch. of Aller in the Dioc. of B. and Wells In 1507. he being elected Bishop of Durham had restitution made to him of the temporalities of that See 17. Nov. the same year and in the next being elected Archbishop of York on the death of Thom. Savage had the temporalities also of that See restored to him 12. Dec. 24. Hen. 7. In March 1511. he was made Cardinal of S. Praxedis for the service he did in perswading K. Hen. 8. to take part with the Pope in the Wars between him and Lewis 12. King of France and in 1514. being then in Rome was poisoned by one Rinaldo de Modena an Italian Priest who was his Steward upon malice and displeasure conceived for a blow his Master gave him as the said Rinaldo when he was executed for it confessed at his death He ended his days on the 14. July in fifteen hundred and fourteen and was as certain authors say buried in the English hospital now called the English college in Rome year 1514 The author of Cardinal Wolseys life saith that the said Cardinal Bainbridge died at Rohan in France being then and there the Kings Embassador Onuph Panvinius and Joh. Baleus with his authors tells us that Christopher Vrswyke who was Predecessor to the said Cardinal Bainbridge in the Deanry of Windsore was made Cardinal of S. Praxedis but false for it must be understood of Bainbridge As for Christoph Vrswyke he had been Recorder of London in part of the Reign of Edw. 4. in the time of Ric. 3. and in part of Hen. 7. To which last King being Chaplain and afterwards Almoner was by him imployed in several Embassies especially to
Halyfax in his own Country In 1507. he was by the favour of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop of Meath in Ireland and the same year one of the Kings Privy Council there In the latter end of 1511. he was translated by the authority of the same Pope to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin and in 1515. was made Chancellour of Ireland by K. Hen. 8. in which great office as 't is supposed he continued to the time of his death He yielded to the stroke of death 29. Nov. in fifteen hundred twenty and one year 1521 and was buried as a certain author saith in the Church of S. Patrick near Dublin In his Will dated 22. Nov. and proved 4. February an 1521. wherein he stiles himself Archb. of Dublin and perpetual Vicar of Halifax I find these things following Item I will that after my death my body be embowelled and my bowels and heart to be buried in the Church of Halifax within the Quire and my body to be buried in the new Chappel at Sandall and thereon a Tomb of stone to be made and about the same to be written Ego Willielmus Dublin Archiepiscopus quondam Rector istius Ecclsie credo quod redemptor meus vivit qui obiit cujus anime proptietur deus amen Item I will that a Chappel be made in all convenient haste at Halifax on the south side of the Church after the direction of mine Executors and Church-Masters and there a Tomb to be made with my Image and thereupon written Hic jacet-Willlelmi Rokeby nuper Dublin Archiepiscopi Vicarii perpetui â—stius Ecclesie qui credo c. Item where I did obtain a Pardon for the Parish of Halifax and the Parishings thereunto adjoyning pro lacticiniis in quadragessima edendis I will that mine Executors at their discretion obtain sub plumbo the said license to be renewed and the profit thereof to be imployed for a Priest to sing at Halifax in my said new Chappel as long as may be by the advice and discretion of my Executors and the Church-Wardens Item I will that a Doctor of Div. have 10 l. to be occupied in Preaching c. Thus far part of his Will according to the tenour of which his heart was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Halifax and thereon was laid a stone with the figure only of an heart engraven thereon On the north side of the said Church was also founded a Chappel wherein was a monument built for him with an inscription put thereon Which being since partly defaced you shall have that part which lately remained thereon Orate pro anima Willielmi Rokeby jur Can. profess ac etiam Episcopi Medensis denide Archiepisc Dublin capelle fundatoris istius Qui obiit… Novembris an Dom. mcccccxxi What was performed at Sandall for the accomplishment of the other part of his Will I know not One Will. Rokeby LL. Bac. who was well beneficed in Yorkshire succeeded Joh. Dakyn LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of the East-riding of the said County in Dec. 1558. who dying in 1568. Martin Parkinson B. D. had that Dignity confer'd upon him in Dec. the same year but before he had kept it an year he gave way to fate Whereupon the said Dignity was confer'd on John Mey D. D. who was setled therein in the beginning of Aug. 1569. and soon after became Bishop of Carlile I find also one John Rokeby LL. D. to be Chanter Canon resid and Preb. of Duffeild of and in the Church of York who died in the latter end of 1574. Which John with William before-mentioned were of the same Family with Will Archb. of Dublin RICHARD FITZ-JAMES son of John Fitzjames by Alice his Wife daugh of Joh. Newbourgh son of James Fitz-james by Eleanor his Wife daugh and heir of Sim. Draycot was born in Somersetshire became a Student in the University of Oxon about 1459. elected probatoner-Fellow of Merton coll in 1465. took holy orders when he was Master and in 1473 was elected one of the Proctors of the University In the beginning of March 1474 he became Preb. of Taunton in the church of Wells upon the resignation of John Wansford and afterwards being constituted chaplain to K. Edw. 4. he proceeded in Divinity On the 12 of March 1482 he was elected Warden of Merton coll upon the resignation of John Gygur being then and after esteemed a frequent Preacher Which place he keeping about 25 years he shewed himself most worthy of it by his admirable way of government which he exercised by his continual benefaction thereunto and by his endeavours when in power to promote his Fellows In March 1484-85 he was made Vicar of Mynhead and about that time Rector of Aller in Somersetshire in which last he was succeeded by Mr. Christopher Baynbrigg in the latter end of May 1497. On the 2. of June 1495. he was admitted Almoner to K. Hen. 7. and on the 2. of January 1496. being then elected by the Monks of Rochester to be Bishop of that See was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 21. May following by Cardinal Moreton Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants Landâ—ff and Bangor In January 1503. he was translated to the See of Chichester in the place of Dr. Edw. Story a Cantabrigian who dying in the latter end of the year 1502. was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester under a fair Tomb which he a little before had built for himself and on the 14. March 1505. he was nominated by the King to succeed Dr. Barons in the See of London On the 1. Aug. 1506. the temporalities of that See were restored to him So that soon after being setled there he resigned his Wardenship of Merton coll which he had kept in Commendam with Rochester and Chichester and all that time had administred the Government thereof with great commendation But this the Reader is to note that tho he was a Bishop several years while Warden yet did he according to statute and custom submit himself yearly in the month of January to the scrutiny of the Fellows of the said coll in the Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell near to Oxon de mora muribus Custodis Which statute continuing in use till the time of Hen. 8. was then disused by Dr. Joh. Chamber Warden thereof under pretence of absence in serving his Majesty as Physician He the said Dr. 〈…〉 bestowed much money in adorning the Cathedral of S. Paul as he had done before the collegiate Parish Church belonging to Merton coll in which house he built I cannot say all at his own charge the hall with a fair dining-room over it and a lodging room with a large vault under it both joyning on the west side to the said hall and dining-room for the use of him while Warden and his Successor in that office for ever Which hall dining-room and lodging Chamber were made as additions to the old lodgings belonging to the Wardens of the
resigning his Archdeaconry of the East-riaing of Yorksh Will. Poteman sometimes Warden of All 's coll as I guess was installed on the 16. of the same month in the same year who dying 25. March 1493. Hen. Cornbull succeeded him Afterwards Edm. Audley was translated to the See of Hereford upon the death of Thom. Myllyng sometimes a Student among the Benedictines of Gloucester coll in the Suburbs of Oxon the temporalities of which were given to him 26. Dec. 1492. and from thence to Salisbury the temporalities of which See also were put into his hands on the 2. of April 1502. and about that time was made Chancellour of the most Noble Order of of the Garter In 1518. he gave 400 l. to Linc. coll to purchase lands for the use thereof and about that time bestowed upon the said house the Patronage of a Chauntry which he had lately founded in a Chappel built by him in the north part of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury He also was a Benefactor to the reparation of the Congregation-house sometimes a Library on the north side of S. Maries Chancel in Oxford to the erection of that curious piece of workmanship the stone Pulpit in the said Ch. finished 1508. at the bottom of which were his Arms a Fret impaled by the See of Sarum and gave 200 marks for the supply of Chichleys chest belonging to the University which had before been robb'd of its treasure But whether he built the choire or chancel of S. Maries church or gave the old Organs as a certain author is pleased to tell us I find it no where to appear At length departing this mortal life in a good old age at Ramsbury in Wilts year 1524 on the 23 of Aug. in fiveteen hundred twenty and four was buried in the chappel before-mention'd built by him in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary within the cath ch of Sarum to the reparation of which cathedral he bequeathed threescore pounds After his death Laur. Campegius Cardinal of S. Anastasius was made Bishop of Salisbury but whither he being almost continually absent or any of his Successors till the time of Dr. Seth Ward an 1671. were ever chancellours of the order of the Garter in doth not appear THEODORICK O-BRIEN sometimes written Terence and Terlach O-brien was descended from an ancient and noble family of his name in Ireland and after he had spent some time in good letters here in Oxon became Bishop of Killaloe in the said Country and a person of great name there for his liberality and hospitality yet addicted to warfare more than became his coat He paid his last debt to nature in fiveteen hundred twenty and five Several years before his time was another of both his names Bishop of that place and another after him whereupon by writers this Bishop was commonly written and called Terence O-Brien the second JOHN YOUNG received his first breath in this world at Newton-Longvill in Bucks was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1482. and left it in 1502. being then or about that time Doct. of Div. and Rector of S. Martins Church in Oxon. Afterwards he became well known to Cardinal Tho. VVolsey by whose endeavours he was made Dean of Chichester Bishop titular of Callipolis or Galipoli a City in Thrace about 1517. Judge as 't is said of the Prerogative of Canterbury and Warden of New coll in 1521. He died 28. year 1526 March in fifteen hundred twenty and six and was buried as I suppose in the Chappel of the said College under a Marble-stone that he had lain there some time before his death with an inscription thereon and a blank for the time of his death to be filled up by his Executor or Overseer of his last Will and Testament but was never performed The reader is to know that there was another John Young who from being Prebendary of Apesthorpe in the cath ch of York was admitted Dean of that Church by the name and title of Jo. Younge LL. D. on the 17. of May 1514. being at that time Master of the Rolls But he dying 25. Apr. 1516. and buried in the chappel of the Rolls in chancery-lave near London must not be taken to be the same with the former Besides the said two I find others of both their Names as 1 John Young a Monk of Ramsey who being well skill'd in the Hebrew tongue saved many books of that Language that were in the Library of that Monastery when 't was dissolved in 1535. or thereabouts 2 Joh. Young Giovanus a native of Yorkshire educated in Trin. coll in Cambridge afterwards Master of Pemb. hall and Vice-chancellor of that University of whom and his writings Baleus and Pitseus will inform you 3 Jo. Young one of the Bonhoms or Good men of the Monastery of Ashrugg in Bucks Who being turn'd out thence at the dissolution by K. Hen. 8. entred himself a Sojourner in Exeter coll about 1539. He was of kin to Jo. Young B. of Galipoli but what name or eminence there was in him I find not 4 Jo. Young born at Newton Longvill before mention'd Fellow of New coll 1512. Rector of his native place in 1525. and died therein 1545. which Jo. was nearly related to the Bishop WILLIAM HOW a Buckinghamshire man born as it seems or at least descended from those of his name living at or near the Wycombs was educated in all kind of Learning in this University and by the title of Master of Arts thereof and the Kings chaplain did supplicate the Ven. congregation of Regents in 1512. that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards he travelled was admitted Doct. of Div. in an University beyond the Seas and at his return retir'd to the University in the beginning of the year 1526. where by the name of Will. How Episcopus Aurensis supplicated the said congregation that whereas he had been created Doct. of Divinity beyond the Seas and had been a student in this University many years he might be incorporated in the same faculty which being granted simpliciter he was forthwith incorporated This Bishoprick in the same I presume with Auriensis or Orensis commonly called Orense under the Archbishoprick of Compostella in Spain to which courtry as 't is probable this W. How was sent about business by Catherine of Spain Queen of England the Royal consort to K. Hen. 8. I find one Will. How M. of A. presented by the King to the Church of Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Reynold West in the beginning of Aug. 1516. and about that time became Rector of Alre or Aller in the same county but this Will. How dying in 1521. or 22. must not be understood to be the same with the former To this last was Joh. How prior of Plympton in Devonshire related who living to see
Watkin and Jeffry published in octavo perhaps written also by a canting and severe Lutheran who writes himself N. O. But so it was that he the said T. Wolsey being very apt to learn when he was a Child his Parents and other good Friends made shift to maintain him in Oxon particularly in Magd. coll where making a most wonderful progress in Logick and Philosophy be became Bach. of Arts at 15. years of age an 1485. Soon after he was elected fellow and when he had taken the degree of M. of A. was made Master of the Grammar School joining to the said College In the 14. Hen. 7. Dom. 1498. he was Bursar of that House in which year the stately Tower was finisht In the beginning of Oct. 1500. he became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire on the death of Joh. Borde by the presentation thereunto of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset which Rectory he conferr'd upon him for the great care he had of his Sons under his Tuition in the Grammar School before-mention'd But that great man dying in Sept. 1501. and his hopes of being introduced into the court frustrated he struck into acquaintance with one Sir Joh. Naphant Treasurer of Calais a Gent. of the said county who forthwith made him his chaplain And finding him to be a man of parts committed his employment to him he himself being grown old and consequently unfit for business At length he being mindful of his chaplains good service he never left him until he had found means to make him the Kings chaplain Which matter being according to his mind effected he became known to one of the Kings grave Counsellors and Favourites named Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester who finding VVolsey to be not only an active but a witty man did with one Sir Tho. Lovel another grave Counsellor commend him to the service of the King who also upon discourse with him finding him to be a man of Eloquence and to understand State affairs sent him in the quality of an Embassador to Maximilian the Emperour then abiding in Flanders not far from Calais Which Embassage he performed with so great dexterity and quickness that the K. taking especial notice of it did soon after confer upon him the Deanery of Lincoln void by the death of Jeffrey Simeon sometimes Fellow of New college Proctor of this University of Oxon and Dean of the chappel Royal to K. Hen. 7. which Jeffrey died 20. Aug. 1508. Of which Church I say being made Dean 2. Feb. 1508. was installed by proxy 25. March 1509. and in person 21. of Aug. 1511. After the death of K. Hen. 7. he quickly got into the favour so much of his successor Hen. 8. that he was by him presented to the Rectory of Turrington in the dioc of Exeter 28. Nov. 1510. being then Bach. of Div. and on the 17. Feb. following was made Canon of the collegiate church of VVindsore and about that time Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1512. Jan. 31. he by the name of the Kings Almoner was made Prebendary of Bagthorp in the church of York by the favour of Cardinal Bainbridge Archb. thereof in the place of James Harryngton Dean of that church who died in Dec. 1512. and on the 21. Febr. following he was admitted Dean in the said Harryngtons place who had been installed in that dignity in the room of the said Bainbridge 31. Januar. 1507. In 1513. he being then with the King at the taking of Tournay in France his Majesty not only gave him the revenues of the Bishoprick of that City but also made him actual Bishop thereof as some are pleased to say In 1514. March 26. he was consecrated B. of Linc. in the place of Will. Smyth deceased and in Nov. the same year he was made Archb. of York In 1515. Sept. 7. he was created cardinal of S. Cecilia and in the year following Dec. 7. he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and about the same time Legate a latere for the Kingdom of England In 1518. Aug. 28. he had the temporalities of the See of Bathe and VVells conferr'd upon him with liberty of holding the same See being perpetual Commendatarie thereof with the Abbatship of S. Albans and other Ecclesiastical Livings in commendum with York About the same time he laid in by his Factors at Rome for the Papacy especially upon the death of Leo 10. and Adrian 6. but the reasons why he was not elected were 1 That he would never to go to Rome in Person 2 That he was nimis potens 3 That he was not old enough as by the Letters of Dr. Tho. Hannyball and Jo. Clerk the Kings Orators and the Card. Agents at Rome appears In 1523. he had the Bishoprick of Durham given to him and thereupon resign'd B. and Wells and soon after began the Foundations of his two most noble and splendid colleges at Oxon and Ipswych as I have largely elsewhere told you In 1529. he had the See of Winchester conferr'd upon him whereupon renouncing Durham the profits and revenues of the said See were given to the Lady Anna Boleyne for the space of one year But before he was quite warm in Winchester he fell into the Kings displeasure and thereupon being soon after commanded to live in his dioc of York about the beginning of 1530. retired to the Archbishops Palace at Cawood where spending the Summer following in great Hospitality was about the latter end of Octob. ensuing arrested for High Treason Whereupon being to be conveyed to London to answer for it he died at Leycester in the way thither year 1530 on the 29. Nov. following and was buried in S. Maries Chappel within the precincts of the Abbey-church there Of all the Clergy-men of his time and before and after him Wolsey was indisputably the greatest He managed a most inflexible King with so great dexterity that of one who always threw his Riders none held the reins either so long or so succesfully He had a vast mind and a great sense of regulation and glory which by some is construed Pride He lived always with great splendour and yet left the most lasting and most noble monuments of his bounty No Prelate indeed especially in this Nation had ever so many and large but withal none ever imployed them more generously so that his vast revenues were hardly proportionable to his great and extraordinary designs His parts were prodigious and it must be owned that he wanted not a sense of his own sufficiency and therefore his demeanor and management of himself was such as was more fitted with the greatness of his mind and his fortune than to the meanness of his birth Many Historians of that time whether out of envy of his order or contempt of his birth or hatred of his Religion have not been very favourable to his fame and the traditionary reporters since who have pretended to an exact account of his actions have upon too slight enquiries and
year 1534 of the same month in fifteen hundred thirty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers His death which was no more than a down-right murder is attibuted by some precise writers as a judgment on him for his unworthy and base dealing in the dissolution of Daventry Priory in Northamptonshire being one of those many which were dissolved for the erection of the Cardinals coll in Oxon. On the 25. of July early in the morning Tho. Fitz-Gerald eldest Son of the Earl of Kildare caused him the said rev Prelate to be brought before him at Tartaine being then feeble by a late sickness who kneeling at his feet in his shirt and mantle bequeathing his Soul to God and his body to the Traytors mercy the wretched young man Tho. Fitz-Gerald before-mentioned commanded him there to be brain'd like an Ox. The place where this fact was done was afterwards hedged in overgrown and unfrequented in detestation of the fact The people have observed that all the accessaries thereof being after pardon'd for Rebellion ended their lives miserably HENRY STANDISH Doctor of Div. an eminent and learned man and a Grey Frier of the Order of S. Francis was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in July 1519. You may see more of him among the writers under the year fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 in which year he died In the said See succeeded William Barlow in the latter end of the year 1535. who a little before in the same year was sent into Scotland with one Holcroft about points of Religion against the Pope at which time he the said Barlow was stiled Prior of Bisham He was also sent soon after with William Lord Howard into the same Country at which time he went by the title of the Bishop of St. Asaph Their business then was about the interview with the Scotch King induced thereunto by his Council especially those of the Clergy See G. Buchanan in Rerum Scotic hist RICHARD RAWLINS was admitted Fellow of Merton coll in the year 1480. and afterwards proceeding in Arts he entred into the sacred Function On the 19. Feb. 1491. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences left the coll soon after being then beneficed and in 1495. proceeded in Divinity In 1504. Oct. 1. he was admitted Subdean of York on the death of Edw. Cressacre in which Dignity he was succeeded by Dr. James Harryngton in Jul. 1507. and in 1505. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Rob. Sherebourne promoted to the See of S. David In 1506. he was made Canon of Windsore and in the middle of June 1507. he was admitted Archdeacon of Clievland on the death of Joh. Raynolds LL. B. who died on the vigil of the Nativity going before In Dec. 1508. he was admitted Warden of Mert. coll being then also Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral and in great repute for his learning In 1512. he went with the King into France and was present at the Siege of Turwin and Tournay and in 1514. he was made Almoner to the said King in the place of Tho. Wolsey and Archd. of Huntingdon In 1521. he was deprived of his Wardenship of Mert. coll by the Archb. of Canterbury for many unworthy misdemeaners the particulars of which are too large to be here set down and soon after because he should not be a looser had the Bishoprick of S. David confer'd upon him about the beginning of the year 1523. To which See being consecrated on the 26. Apr. the same year sate there to the time of his death which hapned about the beginning of fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 His immediate Predecessor in the said See was Edw. Vaughan of the University of Cambridge who dying in Nov. or Dec. in 1522. was buried in the Chappel of the holy Trinity within the Cath. Ch. of S. David Which Chappel he a little before his death had built at his own charge RICHARD NIKKE or Nix a Somersetshire man born as it seems but in what house in Oxon where he had spent some years in study he was educated it appears not In the beginning of the year 1473. he by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk was collated to the Church of Ashbury in the Dioc. of Sarum and in Sept. 1489. he by the title of Doctor of the Laws became Rector of Chedsey in Somesetshire being then Preb. of Yotton in the Church of Wells In 1492. he was constituted Vicar General to Rich. Fox Bishop of B. and Wells and in Jul. 1494. he was made Archdeacon of Wells with the Prebend of Huish annexed on the resignation of Will. Nikke LL. D. In 1496. he was made Canon of Winasore and about the same time Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards he had one or more benefices confer'd on him in the Diocess of Wells and in that of Durham besides the Archdeaconry of Exeter and at length on the death of Dr. Tho. Jane being elected to the Episcopal See of Norwich had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk Dean of the Kings Chappel on the 24. of Apr. 1501. where sitting about 35 years died blind in fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 He was buried between two pillars on the south side of the body of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych next to those two pillars between which Miles Spencer Dr. of Law and Chanc. of Norwych was buried Over the said Nikkes grave was a low Tomb erected whereon were the Arms of the See of Norwych impaling a Chevron between 3 Leopards heads being the same that are on the roof of the north cross Isle Which roof is supposed to have been either repaired or built by him as also part of if not all the said Isle In the See of Norwych succeeded one Will. Rugg alias Repps a Doctor of Div. of Cambridge and Abbat of the Monastery of S. Benedict in Hulmo Son of Will. Rugg of North-Repps in Nofolk who resigning the said Bishoprick in January 1549. died 21. of Sept. 1550. and was buried in the middle of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych As for Will. Nikke before-mentioned he was as I conceive brother to the Bishop aed being Preb. of Ilton in the Church of Wells became Archd. of Wells on the resignation of Tho. Bridlington in the month of Apr. 1473. ROBERT SHEREBOURNE a Hampshire man born was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester became true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1474. afterwards M. of A. and in Orders Canon of Lincoln Preb. of Whitechurch and Beneger in the Church of Wells which he resigned in Octob. 1493. Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Milverton annex'd upon the resignation of Will. Worsley LL. D. in the month of Dec. 1496. Archdeacon of Huntingdon about the same time and in 1499. Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London on the
from Rome was made Archdeacon of Richmond on the resignation of Tho. Winter In 1531. he was incorporated Doctor of the Laws as he had stood in an University beyond the Seas and was afterwards made Archdeacon of Chester In 1541. May 29. he was consecrated Bishop of Bathe and Wells and had restitution of the temporalities of that See made to him the day following year 1547 He gave way to fate on the 29. Sept. in fifteen hundred forty and seven and was buried in the nave of the Cath. Ch. at Wells By his last Will and Test dated 12. Aug. and proved on the eleventh of November an 1547. he bequeathed an hundred pounds for the conveying his body from London to Wells for the interring it in the Cath. Ch. there and for a Tomb to be laid or set over it To New coll he gave 40. l. and to Wykehams coll near Winchester 20 l. The next person immediately going before who was B. of B. and Wells was one Joh. Clerk of the Univ. of Cambridge Chapl. to Card. Wolsey Doctor of the Laws of Bononia afterwards Master of the Rolls and Dean of Windsore who after he had undergone several Messages and Embassies for and from Card. Wolsey and the King was at length sent Embassador to the Duke of Cleve to give a reason why K. Hen. 8. did divorce from him his Sister Anne Which being done he fell extremely sick at Dunkirk in Flanders in his return thence in the month of Sept. 1540. occasioned as some say by poyson given to him Whereupon making his last Will at that place on the 23. of the same month and in the same year within few days after which he died he bequeathed his body to be buried in the principal or chief Church of the Town of Calais and withal that there be a stone laid over his grave with this inscription to be put thereon Hic jacet Johannes Episcopus Bathonienfis Wellens Anglus qui cum obiisset plures insignes legationes tandem obiit diem suum in legatione Clevensi anno doon Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo Which Will was proved 17. January the same year So that how it comes to pass that there should be almost the same inscription on a grave-stone sometimes in S. Botolphs Church near Algate London wherein most authors hitherto have reported that he was buried I know not In the Pallace-Treasury at Westminster I have seen a bundle of books written as is supposed by Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury and this Dr. Clerk B. of Bathe and Wells Which books contain a defence of the Kings title of Supreme Head and of the divorce from his first Wife Queen Katherine and several matters against Cardinal Pole He the said Clerk is numbred by Leland among the learned and famous men of his time having written and published several things among which is his Oratio pro Henr. 8. Angliae Reg. Defens apud Leonem x. in Exhibitione operis regii 'T is against Luther but where or when printed it appears not only that it was published in qu. I have seen many of his letters which he wrote while he continued in Rome 1524. c. to Card. Wolsey giving him an account of the affairs of that place he being then one of that Cardinals Agents to obtain the Papacy for him WILLIAM MIAGH or Meagh Upon the death of Walt. Wellesley before-mentioned one Donald O-Beachan a Minorite was by the Popes provision declared Bishop of Kildare in July 1540. but within few days after he died In Nov. following one Thaddeus Reynold LL. D. was elected upon the like provision but the election being rejected by the King Will. Miagh before-mentioned an Irish-man born as I conceive who had spent some time among the Civilians in Oxon was promoted to the said See of Kildare and afterwards became one of the Privy Council to K. H. 8. in Ireland He yielded up his last breath on the 15. Decemb. in fifteen hundred forty and eight and was succeeded after the See had laid void one year and seven months by Thomas Lancaster who about that time obtained liberty of keeping the Deanry of Kilkenny in Commendam with it ROBERT WAKEMAN a Worcestershire man born and a Benedictine Monk was educated for a time among those of his Order in Gloucester coll and afterwards became the last Abbat of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire and the Kings Chaplain In the year 1541. Sept. 20. he being then as 't is said Bach. of Div. was consecrated the first Bishop of Gloucester where sitting about 8 years gave way to fate about the beginning of Decemb. in fifteen hundred forty and nine In his life-time he erected a Tomb for the place of his burial in the Abbey Church of Tewkesbury in the north side of a little chappel there but buried at Worthington saith a certain author meaning as I suppose Wormington in Glocestershire yet I am more apt to believe at Forthampton in the said county where he had a house and private chappel there Qu. MILES BARON alias Fitz-Gerald an Irish man-born or at least of Irish extract was bred a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin and among those of his order in Oxon where they had three Monasteries was for a time educated in Theological learning Afterwards returning into Ireland became Prior of Inistiock in the county of Kilkenny and in 1527. was consectated Bishop of Ossory with liberty then given to him to keep his Priorship in commendam Before his consecration he built a new Campanile in his Monastery as also a cloyster adjoyning and after his consecration he repaired the house at Kilkenny belonging to his See and was a benefactor to his Church He died in a good old age in fifteen hundred and fifty year 1550 or as others say in fifty one and was buried in the Monastery of Inistiock before-mentioned among his predecessors EDMUND BUTLER an Irish man born natural Son of Peter Earl of Ormond was bred a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin and for some time studied as is supposed among those of his Order in Oxon but what degree he took in divinity in this University it doth not appear Afterwards he became Prior of the Canon regulars of S. Edmund of Athassell in the county of Tipperary and at length Archbishop of Cashills to which See being consecrated in 1527. became one of the privy council to K. Hen. 8. in the Kingdom of Ireland and had then liberty allowed him to keep his Priorship in Commendum He died on the 5. of March in fifteen hundred and fifty and was buried in his Cath. Church at Cashills near the Archbishops Throne See more of him in Sir Jam. Wares book entit Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae p. 172. In the said See succeeded one Rowland Baron alias Fitz-Gerald descended from the antient Family of his name living in Ireland ROBERT SYLVEstER was a northern man born but whether
he was called before the Bishop of Winchester and other commissioners for Ecclesiastical affairs and after he had been divers times examined by them he was condemned for certain propositions which he maintained viz. 1 That any Priest or Religious man after his vow may lawfully marry 2 That in the blessed Sacrament there remaineth the substance of bread and wine together with the body and blood of Christ 3 That it is no sacrifice propitiatory 4 That only faith justifyeth c. Afterwards he was silenced and degraded sent into Wales and being committed to the secular power was burn'd on the S. side of the Market-cross in the Town of Caermerthen 30. March in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 The whole story of him you may read in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under the year 1555. where you 'll find his answer tho insufficient to the said 56 articles his articles also against a furnished information exhibited by Thomas Lee to the K. and Privy Council with many of his Letters written during his imprisonment From all which and the story of him in the said Acts and Monuments a man may easily perceive as the Rom. Catholicks say that the having a Woman to his Wife was the chief motive that drew him to those opinions which he held JOHN HARMAN commonly called Voysey and Veysey because he was educated in his infancy as 't is said by one of that name Son of Will. Harman by Joan his Wife daughter of Henr. Squyre of Handsworth in Staffordshire was born at Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire became a student in this University in 1482. Probationer-fellow of Madg. coll 28. July 86. and the year following true and perpetual Fellow by the name of Joh. Harman only In few years after he proceeded Doctor of the civil Law and became Vicar of S. Michaels Church in Coventry being then noted more for his faculty than divinity In the beginning of June 1505. he was made Prebendary of North-Aulton in the Church of Salisbury by the ceasing of one James Straytbarret and was admitted thereunto by the name of Joh. Veyse which Preb. he afterwards resigning was succeeded by Dr. John Longland of Magd. coll in the beginning of Decemb. 1514. But Longland being promoted in few days after to the Deanery of Sarum Joh. Veyse was admitted to it again in the same month and kept it till after he was Bishop This person being esteemed well qualified and of great abilities was employed on sundry Embassies was made Tutor to the Lady Mary then the Kings only daughter and President of Wales In 1515. he was made Dean of Windsore being about that time Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter Archdeacon of Chester and Dean of the Kings domestick chappel and soon after became Dean of the Free chappel of S. Peter and S. Paul at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire In 1519. he was elected Bishop of Exeter being then Dean of the Church there had the temporalities of the said See restored to him 4 Nov. and was consecrated thereunto on the 6. Dec. the same year Of all the Bishops in England he was accounted the best Courtier having been well bred from his youth and altho he had a good report for his learning yet he was better esteemed by some for his Court-like behaviour which in the end turned not so much to his credit as to the utter ruin and spoil of his Church For of 22 Mannors and Lordships which his predecessors had left unto him of a goodly yearly revenue he left but seven or eight and them also leased out And where he found fourteen houses well furnished he left only one house bare and without furniture and yet charged with sundry fees and annuities By which means the said Bishoprick of Exeter which was accounted one of the best is now become in temporal Lands one of the meanest Now if any person is desirous to understand what became of all the money which he got by the alienation of the said Mannors and Lordships let him know that it was most expended fearing perhaps that the said Lands might be taken away in the mutable times he lived in on his native place of Sutton-Colfield by making it a corporation and procuring a Market there building most of the Town and endeavouring to set up the making there of Kersies as in Devon and Cornwall which in the end as 't is said proved to little purpose Also by building and endowing a Free-school there building two bridges of stone erecting a Mannour-house called More-place near to Sutton before-mentioned besides other housing near it Parks Ponds and I know not what as you may see elsewhere In the reign of K. Ed. 6. when religion was alter'd he the said Dr. Harman resign'd his Bishoprick and on the 14. of Aug. 5. Ed. 6. Dom. 1551. Miles Coverdale D. of D. of Cambridge was Propter ejus singularem sacrarum literarum doctrinam moresque probatissimos made Bishop in his place In 1553. when Qu. Mary came to the Crown Dr. Coverdale was put out and the said Harman who was forced as 't is said to give up his Bishoprick pro corporis metu on the 14. of Aug. 5. Ed. 6. was restored thereunto 28. Sept. in the year before-mentioned So that living there for a time till he saw the R. Cath. Religion settled retired to his native place again where dying full of years aged at least an hundred in the summer time in fifteen hundred fifty and five was buried on the north side of the chancel belonging to the Church at Sutton-Colfield before-mention'd where is at this day a fair Monument remaining over his Grave with his statua from head to foot cut out from stone adorn'd with the Pontificalia belonging to a Bishop NICHOLAS RYDLEY sometimes fellow of Vniversity coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester 5. Sept. 1547. translated to London on the deprivation of Bonner in 1549. and died in the flames at Oxon in fifteen hundred fifty and five under which year you may see more among the writers year 1555 GEORGE COOTES Cotes or Cotys so many ways I find him written whom some call John but false was elected Probationer Fellow of Balliol coll in 1522. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he was made Fellow of Magd. coll but when it appears not because the register of that time belonging to the said house noted with the letter B. hath been time out of mind lost In 1526. he proceeded in Arts was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University Doctor of Divinity and in 1539. was elected Master of Balliol coll In the beginning of 1554. being then elected to the Episcopal See of Chester of which Church he had been several years Prebendary by the name of Mr. George Cotes S. Th. Prof. had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto by Qu. Mary on the 18. of Apr. in the same year he keeping then with that See the
Oxon which was formerly the Priory of S. Frideswyde but then called Christ-church he the said Kynge notwithstanding continued in his office of Bishop and his chair was thence translated also but not his Palace Yet when K. Ed. 6. came soon after to the Crown and made a recital of his fathers erection of the aforesaid Episcopal See he left out Gloc. coll with intentions that it should remain with the Crown for another use in future time So that what house or lodgings the said Bishop Kynge had for his use during the remaining part of his life in truth I cannot tell All that I know more of him is that he being an aged man in Qu. Maries reign being then by Joh. Fox called the Bishop of Thame he did not care to have any thing to do with such that were then called Herâ—icks and therefore he is commended by Posterity for his mildness Also that he paying his last debt to nature on the fourth day of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven was buried on the North side of the East end of the Choire of Ch. Church year 1557 Over his grave was a Tomb of course Marble almost breast-high erected with a Canopy over it supported by Pillars of the same but no Arms put on it as never having any or any at least that he knew of But the said Tomb being afterwards looked upon as cumbersome to the place when the Choire was to be new wainscoted and paved with black and white marble Dr. Duppa being then Dean of Ch. Church it was taken away by Henry and John King Canons of the said Church Sons of Dr. Joh. King sometimes Bishop of London great Nephew to Dr. Rob. Kynge before-mentioned and by them it was placed under the lower South Window of the Isle joyning on the South side of the said Choire In which Window they caused to be painted soon after the Picture of the said Rob. Kynge in his Episcopal Robes with his Miter on his head and Crosier in his hand and the ruins of Osney Abbey behind him as also the Arms which the said Hen and John then pretended to The said window was pulled down when the Presbyterians and Independents governed an 1651. by one of the Family of the Kings then living who preserving it safe till the Restauration an 1660. was soon after set up again where it yet continues A certain author named VVill. Harrison tells us that in the time of Q. Mary who died 1558. one Goldwell was Bishop of Oxford who was a Jesuit dwelling in Rome and more conversant as the constant fame went in the Black Art than skilful in the Scriptures and yet he was of great countenance among the Roman Monarchs It is said also that observing the Canons of his Order he regarded not the temporality of that See But it seems since that he wist well enough what became of those commodities for by one mean or another he found the sweetness of 354. l. 16s 06d yearly growing to him c. Thus the said author Harrison By which Goldwell he means I suppose Thow Goldwell Bishop of S. Asaph as if he had been translated thence to Oxon on the death of Rob. Kynge before-mentioned for what Goldwell it should be else unless another Thomas whom I shall mention in the Fasti I know not forasmuch as the generality of authors say that the said Tho. Goldwell left the Bishoprick of S. Asaph when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and that thereupon he went to Rome where he lived in great repute for many years See more among these Bishops under the year 1580. RICHARD THORNDEN sometimes written Thornton a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict of Ch. Church in Canterbury received his Academical education in Canterbury coll in this University of which he became Warden or Guardian about 1528. Afterwards he proceeded in divinity run with the unsatiable humour of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. was a great Gospeller and seemed to all to be an hearty Protestant But when Q. Mary came to the Crown he wheeled about was made Suffragan Bishop of Dover under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury for the County of Kent where he shew'd himself an eager disputant against the poor Protestants as you may see by his arguings and reasonings with several of them about matters of religion in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church written by John Fox who adds of him farther that for his persecuting of Gods Saints he was suddenly taken with a Palsey on a Sunday at Bourn Bishops Bourn in Kent having the day before return'd from the Chapter house at Canterbury Whereupon being conducted to his bed he died soon after viz. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven year 1557 After him succeeded another Bishop of Dover appointed by Card. Pole who shewing himself also vexatious to the Protestants broke his neck suddenly as the said author reports In the year 1569. one Rich. Rogers bach afterwards Doctor of Divinity was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Dover by Matthew Archb. of Canterbury and in 1584. he became Dean of Canterb. upon the promotion of Dr. Th. Godwin to the See of B. and Wells He was Father to Franc. Rogers D. D. and Justice of the Peace in Kent who dying 23. of Jul. 1638. was buried in the Church of S. Margaret in the City of Canterbury After Bishop Rogers decease succeeded in the Deanery of Canterbury one Tho. Nevill D. D. who dying in the beginning of the year 1615. was buried within that Chappel joyning to the body of the Cathedral Ch. at Canterbury which was before repaired by him and wherein he had erected a monument for himself and his brother Alexander Nevill some years before that deceased WILLIAM FINCHE occurs Suffragan Bishop of Taunton under the Bishop of B. and Wells from the year 1539. to 1557. in which last year he was admitted Prebendary of Whitlakynton in the Church of Wells but whether he took a degree in this University tho study he did for a time it appears not In his time lived in the diocess of Exeter one William who writes himself Episcopus Hipponensis having been Suffragan to the Bishop of Exeter which is all I know of him only that he died in 1559. PETER PETO whom some call Will. Peto was born of and descended from the antient Family of the Peto's living at Chesterton in Warwickshire educated for a time for the sake of learning among the Grey Friers of Oxon of which Order he was a zealous brother but whether he took a degree among us it doth not appear unless he did it under another name as some have done Afterwards he became Chaplain if I mistake not to Q. Katherine in whose defence he shewed himself a stout Champion when K. Hen. 8. was about to divorce her as also against the Kings marriage with Anna Bulleyne In 1557. Jun. 13. he was made tho known to be unfit a Cardinal by P. Paul 3. and
The life of the author Matthew Parker containing 29 pages 2 A catalogue of such books which he gave to the common Library at Cambridge containing 4 pages 3 A cat of Chancellours Vicechancellours Proctors of and Doctors of all Faculties that took their degrees in Cambridge from the year 1500. to 1571. containing 6 pages Before which catalogue are the Arms of every college and hall there with the area or platform of the common Schools the Arms and Seal of the University and Seal of the Chancellour thereof 4 A cat from 1500 to 1571. of all the Bishops that have been educated in Cambridge among which have been divers that have been bred in Oxon who have only taken one degree and perhaps that neither there 5 The titles of such Charters that have been granted to that University by divers Kings and Queens from Hen. 3. to the 13. or 14. of Q. Elizab. 6 An account of the particulars that are successively delivered to the Magistrates and Servants of the said University when they enter into their respective places 7 The foundation of each coll and hall in Cambridge with the building of the publick Schools and an enumeration of the old hostles All which contained under this seventh head were involved in the first book of the History of the Vniversity of Cambridge written by Dr. Jo. Cay printed at Lond. 1574. in qu. As for the life of the said Matthew Parker mentioned under the first head it was as soon as it peeped into the World translated into English under this title The life of the 70 tie Archbishop of Canterbury presently sitting Englished c. This number of seventy is so compleat a number as it is great pitty there should be one more c. Printed in Holland in a Dutch character 1574. in oct It was translated by a thro-paced Separatist with very vile notes added in the margin endeavouring thereby to bring an odium on the Archbishop and make him ridiculous for erecting his monument while he lived At length paying his last debt to nature on the 17. of May 1575. was buried in the chappel where he was consecrated situate and being within his Pallace at Lambeth in Surrey It must be now known that in the times of usurpation when the Bishops were put down and their lands sold the said Pallace was inhabited by several Lay-persons of whom Tho. Scot one of the Regicides and one Hardyng were two Which last having the chappel allotted to him as part of his share he divided it into two rooms making the upper part towards the east a dining-room on the bottom of which he laid joysts and on them a floor of boards At length he hearing that the corps of Archb. Parker had been there interr'd he took up the floor and pavement under it and having so done dug up the corps which was put into cerecloth of many doubles in a coffin of lead The coffin he sold to a Plummer and after he had caused the cerecloth to be cut open to the flesh which he found fresh as if newly dead he conveyed the corps into an out-house where he kept Poultrey and there privately tumbled it into an hole About the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. that base fellow the Brute that removed it was forced to discover where he had laid it whereupon it was brought into the chappel and buried just above the Litany-desk near the steps ascending to the Altar JOHN HOPTON was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive at Myrfield where his Grandfather and Father were buried became when a young man a Black Frier of the Order of St. Dominick had his Academical education among those of his Order in Oxon but what degrees he took there it scarcely appears only that in his travels to Rome taking the degree of Doct. of div at Ronmia he was incorporated here after his return in 1529. and soon after was made Prior of the Convent belonging to the Black Friers in Oxon. In 1532. he was licensed to proceed in divinity so saith the same Register which told us that he was incorporated Doctor in that faculty and in the Act celebrated the 8. of July the same year he did compleat that degree by standing therein Afterward he was chaplain to the Lady Mary who when Queen of England nominating him by the name of her chaplain to the See of Norwyck upon the translation of Dr. Thirlby one of her Counsellours to Ely he was thereupon elected and having the temporalities of that See restored to him 4. of Oct. 1554 safe there till the time of his death which hapning about the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was buried in his own Cath. Church By his Will dated 24 of Aug. 1558. and proved 2. of Dec. 1559. he gave part of his study of books to the Black Friers of Norwych if they should be restored to their Convent again and another part to Norwyeh Church for a Library there He also gave 5 l. to buy ornaments for the Church of Myrfield before-mentioned several things also to the Church of Leedes in Yorkshire and a Legacy to Christop Hopton of that place Esque without naming him his Kinsman I find one John Hopton to be made Prior of Bridlyngton in Yorkshire an 1510. upon the death of one John Ynglish but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I know not This Prior died in 1521. and was succeeded by one Will. Brounflete About the 22. of June 1559. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych elected Dr. Rich. Cox to succeed Dr. Hopton in the Chair there as it appears in a certain Reg. or Ledger book of that Church but the Queens mind being alter'd she nominated him soon after Bishop of Ely CUTHBERT TONStALL sometimes of Ball. coll afterwards of Cambridge was consecrated Bishop of London 19. of Octob. 1522. translated to Durham 25. of Mar. 1530. year 1559 and died in Nov. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then behind him the character of a person of great reputation and of very quiet behaviour See more of him among the writers under that year In the See of Durham succeeded James Pilhyngton Bach. of div born of a Knightly family at Rivyngton in the Parish of Bolton in Lancashire Son of Rich. Pilkyngton of Rivyngton Esq was educated in S. Johns coll in Cambridge where he made proficiency in all kind of learning was much addicted to reformation and therefore in the Reign of Q. Mary became an Exile in Foreign parts but upon his return thence being elected to the See of Durham was consecrated thereunto 2. of March 1560 and thirteen days after had the temporalities thereof delivered to him In the eighth year of Eliz. he being then D. of D. he erected a Free School at Rivyngton sub nomine auspiciis R. Elizabethae and endowed it with lands and tenements to the yearly value of seven and twenty pounds fourteen shillings and ten pence This worthy
three year 1563 and was buried in the Parish Church of Matherne where the Bishop of Landaff hath a Palace in Monmouthshire after he had gone through several changes of times and had taken the Oath of Q. Elizabeths Supremacy over the Church of England which no Popish Bishop in the beginning of her reign did besides this man ROWLAND MERRICK was born in the Isle of Anglesey mostly educated in Academical learning in S. Edwards hall a noted place for Civilians sometimes situated near S. Edwards Church became Principal while he was Bachelaur of the Civil Law of New Inn afterwards Doctor of his faculty Chancellour of the Church of S. David Canon residentiary thereof in the time of K. Ed. 6. being then one of the persons that drew up Articles against Rob. Ferrar Bishop of that place and at length Bishop of Bangor to which See being elected and consecrated an 1559. aged 54 years received the temporalities belonging thereunto 21. of March the same year He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred sixty and six year 1566 and was buried in the Chancel of the Cath. Church of Bangor under that place where the Table stood in the time of Communion Over his grave was an inscription afterwards put the contents of which I know not as yet He left behind him a Son named Gelly Merick of Hascard in Pembrokshire afterwards a Knight and a great Favourite of that most popular and generous Count Robert Earl of Essex in whose treasons having been deeply engaged suffered death at Tybourne in the beginning of the year 1601. In the See of Bangor succeeded Dr. Merick one Nich. Robinson a Welsh man and D. D. of Cambridge who after he had suffered calamities for the Protestant cause in the reign of Q. Mary became after her death domestick Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury and dignified Vir fuit prudens as 't is said of him illis humanioribus literis atque Theologia non minus excultus quam latina patriaque lingua facundus c. He died in the summer time an 1584. leaving then behind him a Widdow named Jane Robinson alias Brereton and several Sons After him followed Dr. Hugh Bellot of Cambridge who was consecrated Bishop of Bangor 25. Jan. 1584. THOMAS YONG a learned Civilian Son of John Yong of Pembrokshire by Elianor his Wife was born in that County became a Student in the Univ. of Oxon in Broadgates hall as it seems about the year 1528. where applying his muse to the study of the Civil Law took a degree in that faculty nine years after being then in sacred Orders In 1542. he was made principal of the said hall and soonafter Chantor and Canon of S. Davids where being much scandalized at the unworthy actions of Rob. Ferrar Bishop of that place did with others draw up articles against him which being proved before the Kings Commissioners the said Bishop was imprison'd in the time of K. Ed. 6. In the reign of Q. Mary Th. Yong fled from the nation for religion sake and remained in Germany in an obscure condition during her time But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and H. Morgan another accuser of Rob. Ferrar had been depriv'd of his Bishoprick of S. Davids the said Yong was design'd to succeed him Whereupon being consecrated thereunto 21. January 1559. aged 52 years or thereabouts the temporalities of the said See were delivered to him on the 23. of March following Where sitting till Feb. 1560. was then translated to York and about the same time was made President of the Queens Council in the north parts of England In Feb. 1564. he was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law and dying on the 26. June in fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1562 was buried at the east end of the Choire of his Cath. Ch. at York Over his grave was soon after laid a marble stone with this Epitaph on it Thomas Yongus nuper Eboracensis Archiepiscopus Civilis juris Doctor peritissimus quem propter gravitatem summum ingenium eximiam prudentiam excellentemque rerum politicarum scientiam illustrissima Regina septentionalibus hujus regni partibus Praesidem constituit quo magistratu quinque annos perfunctus est Sedit Archiepiscopus annos septem sex menses Obiit Vicessimo sexto die mensis Junii an 1568. He had taken to Wife in his elderly years one Jane daughter of Thom. Kynaston of Estwick in Shropshire by whom he had issue George Yong afterwards a Knight living in York 1612. for whose sake the father being covetous of wealth pulled down a goodly hall belonging to him as Archbishop for the greediness of the lead as 't is said that covered it Concerning which matter there is a large story extant related by an author who was no friend to married Bishops DAVID POLE or Poole of noble race as it seems became fellow of Allsouls coll in 1520. took the degrees of Civ and Can. Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1527. at which time being Archdeacon of Salop he was much in esteem for his great sufficiencies in those Laws Afterwards he was made Dean of the Arches Archdeacon of Derby and Chancellour of the diocess of Lichf and Coventry At length upon the death of Joh. Chambers being nominated to the See of Peterborough was consecrated thereunto on the 15. Aug. 1557. and on the 28. of January following had the temporalities thereof delivered to him In 1559. about the time of Midsummer he was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Queens supremacy being then esteemed a grave person and a very quiet subject Whereupon being committed to custody for a time was soon after set at liberty Principis beneficio as one tells us in agro suo matura aetate decessit He gave way to fate in the latter end of May or beginning of June year 1568 in fifteen hundred sixty and eight but where unless near to S. Pauls Cathedral in London or where buried I cannot tell All his books of Law and Divinity which were then at London and Peterborough he gave to the Library of Allsoules coll In the said See of Peterborough succeeded Edm. Scambler Bach. afterwards Doct. of div a native of Gressingham in Lancashire and Chaplain to Mathew Archb. of Canterbury to which being consecrated 16. Jan. 1560. held in commendam with it the Prebendship of Wistow in the Church of York and the first Canonry in the sixth stall in the Church of Westminster for the space of two or more years He was a learned man a zealous enemy against the Papists yet an impairer of the honour privileges and revenues of the Bishoprick of Peterborough After his translation to Norwych succeeded in Peterborough Dr. Rich. Howland Master of S. Johns coll in Cambridge who dying in 1600. was succeeded in the said See by Tho. Dove D. D. and Dean of Norwych sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge and one of the first Scholars of Jesus
and dying on the day before the nones of January in fifteen hundred seventy and six was buried in the Church there belonging to the Cistercians In Meath succeeded one Hugh Brady to which being consecrated in 1563. sate there 20 years WILLIAM DOWNHAM received his first breath in the County of Norfolk was elected Probationer of Magdalen coll in July 1543. and in the year following he was made true and perpetual Fellow of the said house being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth who when Queen did not only make him the first Canon of the tenth stall in the collegiate Ch. of S. Peter in the City of Westminster an 1560. but in the year after Bishop of Chester to which See being consecrated on the 4. of May 1561. had the temporalities thereof given to him on the 9. of the same month In 1566. he was actually created Doct. of div and dying in Nov. in fifteen hundred seventy and seven was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Chester leaving then behind him two Sons viz. George Downham afterwards Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland and John Downham Bach. of div both learned and painful writers In the See of Chester succeeded Will. Chaderton D. D. Master of Queens coll in Cambridge sometimes Margaret afterwards the Kings Professor of div in that University and Prebendary or Canon of the fourth stall in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster This learned Doctor was born at Nuthurst near Manchester in Lancashire being the Son of Edm. Chaderton by Margery his Wife dauof one Cliffe of Cheshire and he the Son of Jeffr. Chaderton both of Nuthurst He died Bishop of Lincoln leaving behind him one only daughter named Joane begotten on the body of his Wife named Katharine dau of Joh. Revell of London PATRICK WALSH was born as it seems in or near Waterford in Ireland and after he had been partly educated in Grammaticals in that country was sent to Oxon but to what coll or hall therein unless to that of Brasnose I know not In the latter end of the year 1534. he proceeded Master of Arts and about that time applying his mind to the Theological faculty supplicated at length the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1545. but whether he was admitted it appears not in the publick Register which was much neglected by the then Scribe About that time he was Dean of Waterford and in so great repute for his learning and religion that he was made Bishop of that place and of Lismore To which being consecrated in August 1551. had liberty then allowed him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for a time He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred seventy and eight and was year 1578 as I suppose buried in his Church at Waterford He had a Son named Nich. Walsh who was then Bishop of Ossory and about that time had a hand in translating the New Testament into the Irish tongue This Nich. Walsh seems to have been educated in the University of Cambridge WILLIAM BRADBRIDGE or Brodebridge was a Londoner born but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire was admitted Fellow of Magdalen coll in 1529. and afterwards proceeding in Arts was at length admitted to the reading of the Sentences an 1539. being then arrived to some eminence in the Theological Faculty About the middle of March 1 and 2 of Phil. and Mary dom 1554. he was made Prebendary of Lime and Halstock in the Church of Saliâ—bury vacant by the death of one Rob. Bone and in the beginning of Q. Elizab. shewing himself conformable to the discipline then established was made Dean of the said Church in June 1563. void by the death of Pet. Vannes an Italian In 1565. he supplicated the ven Congreg of Regents that he might be admitted Doctor of divinity but whether he was really so or diplomated it appears not in the pubick Register and on the 18. of March 1570. he was consecrated at Lambeth Bishop of Exeter which See he laudably governed for about 8 years He ended his days suddenly at Newton-Ferrers in Devonshire on the 27. June saith one and another the 29. July in fifteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the north side of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter To him succeeded in the said See Joh. Woolton whom I have mentioned among the writers under the year 1593. and him Gervase Babington D. D. descended from the antient Family of the Babingtons in Nottinghamsh who while he was Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke assisted his Noble Countess Mary Sidney in her translation of the Psalms For it was more than a Womans skill to express the sense so right as she hath done in her verse and more than the English or Latin translation could give her THOMAS BENTHAM a learned and pious man of his time was born at Shirebourne a Market Town I think in Yorkshire admitted perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll 16. Nov. 1546. proceeded in Arts the year after and about that time did solely addict his mind to the study of Theology and to the learning of the Hebrew tongue in which last he was most excellent as in those of Greek and Latin which he had obtained before he was M. of A. After Q. Mary came to the Crown he was turn'd out of his Fellowship for his forward and malepert zeal against the Cath. Religion in the time of Edw. 6. by the Visitors appointed by her to regulate the University Whereupon retiring first to Zurich and afterwards to Basil in Germany became Preacher to the English Exiles there and expounded to them the intire book of the Acts of the Apostles Afterwards being recalled by some of the Brethren was made Superintendent of them at London and continued among them in a timorous condition for some time At length when Q. Elizab. succeeded he was nominated Bishop of Lichf and Coventry upon the deprivation of Dr. Ralph Bayne To which See being elected had the temporalities thereof restored to him 20 Feb. 1559. being then about 46 years of age On the 24. of March following he was consecrated and about six years following he was actually created Doct. of divinity being then in great repute for his learning He died on the 21. of Feb. in fifteen hundred seventy and eight leaving then behind him a Widdow named Matilda He was succeeded in Lichf and Cov. by Dr. Will. Overton of whom I have made mention among the writers under the year 1609. NICHOLAS HEATH or Heth a most wise and learned man of great policy and of as great integrity was descended from the Heaths of Aspley in the Parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire but whether born there where his brother had certain lands I cannot tell was educated for a time in C. C. coll in this University but before he took a degree there
and Test dat 23. Oct. 25. Eliz. and proved 22. Jul. 1584. he gave 40 l. to All 's college 20 l. to the University of Oxon 100 marks to certain poor Scholars studying there to five poor Students of Oxon studying there also 4 l. a-piece for five years after his decease and to the poor of Evesham before-mentioned he was a liberal benefactor for whose sake also he gave a stock of 40 l. to set them on work THOMAS CHESTER a Londoner born was a Student in this University in the time of K. Hen. 8. but in what house I cannot yet find took one degree in Arts and was afterwards beneficed and dignified In 1580. he was made Bishop of Elphine in Ireland where sitting about 4 years gave way to fate at Killiathan in that County in the month of June in fifteen hundred eighty year 1584 and four In the said See succeeded one John Linch whom I shall mention at large among these Bishops under the year 1611. RICHARD BARNES Son of Joh. Barnes by Fridesmonda his Wife daughter of Ralph Gifford of Cleydon in Buckinghamshire was born at Bould near to Waryngton in Lancashire admitted Fellow of Brasnose coll by the authority of the Kings Council 6. Edw. 6. Dom. 1552. where making a quick progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degree of Master of Arts 1557. About that time he took holy Orders and was made Minister of Staingrave in Yorkshire In 1561 Jul. 12. he was admitted Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. of York in the place of Jeffry Downes D. of D. who had succeeded in that dignity one Dr. Hen. Trafford in Aug. 1537. and about the same time was made Canon residentiary and Preb. of Laughton in the said Church as also a publick Reader of divinity therein About 1567. he was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Nottyngham in the Church of S. Peter at York and in 1570. June 25. being elected to the See of Carlile in the place of Jo. Best deceased was confirm'd therein on the 7. Aug. following In 1557. Apr. 5. he was elected to the See of Durham was confirmed the 9. of May following and was ever after a favourer of Puritanism In Feb. 1579. he was actually created Doctor of divinity at Oxon having taken the degree of Bachelaur in that Faculty at Cambridge year 1587 and dying in fifteen hundred eighty and seven was buried in the Choire sometimes called the Presbyterie of the Cath. Ch. of Durham Over his grave was a monument soon after put with this inscription thereon Reverendo in Christo Patri ac Domino Dom. Richardo Barnes Dunelmensis Episcopo Praesuli pio docto liberali munifico P. S. precariss P. P. P. P. Obiit xxiv Aug. an dom 1587. aetatis suae 55. Astra tenent animam corpus hoc marmore clausum Fama polos penetrant nomen nati atque nepotes Conservant vivis semper post funera virtus WILLIAM BLEYTHYN a Welsh man born was educated in New Inn or Broadgates hall or in both where applying his studies to the Civil Law took one degree in that Faculty in 1562. and afterwards became Archdeacon of Brecknock and Prebendary of Osbaldswyke in the Church of York In 1575. Apr. 17. he was consecrated Bishop of Landaff year 1590 and dying in Octob. in fifteen hundred and ninety was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Matherne in Monmouthshire where the B. of Landaff hath a Seat near to the body of Hugh Jones his Predecessor At which time he left behind him three Sons William Timothy and Philemon THOMAS GODWIN was born at a Market Town in Berkshire called Okingham and bred in Grammar learning in the School there where being fitted for a gown was sent to the University of Oxon about the year 1538. was elected Probationer of Magd. coll in 1544. and the year after true and perpetual Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1547. he proceeded in that Faculty and two years after did upon pretence of being disturb'd by certain Papists in that house he himself being heretically inclin'd as they said leave his Fellowship and accepted from the said college the Rectory of their School at Brackley in Northamptonshire Afterwards he took to him a Wife and what time he had to spare he bestowed on the study of Theology But so it was that when Queen Mary came to the Crown he was silenced and in a manner put to his shifts whereupon applying his study to Physick to maintain him and his he was admitted to the reading of any the books of Hypocrates or of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates that is to the degree of Bachelaur of Physick an 1555. When Queen Elizabeth succeeded and Religion thereupon was altered he took holy Orders from Dr. Bullyngham B. of Lincoln who made him his Chaplain and being a chief instrument of his Preaching several times before the Queen she approved of him and his person so well that she thereupon made him Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon in June 1565. So that taking the degrees in divinity the same year and being esteemed much by all for his learning and piety he was made Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Nich. Wotton deceased an 1566. In 1584. he was nominated Bishop of Bathe and Wells after that See had laid void three years whereupon being consecrated thereunto on the 17. of Sept. his Son Fr. Godwin saith the 13. the same year sate there to the time of his death without any removal He came to the place as well qualified as one saith for a Bishop as might be unreprovable without Simony given to good hospitality quiet kind affable a Widdower and in the Queens good opinion If he had held on as cleer as he had entred he would have been extoll'd by all But see his misfortune that first lost him in the Queens favour and after forced him to another mischief For so it was that he being aged diseased and lame of the Gout he married as some thought for opinion of wealth a Widdow of London which was his second Wife at least A chief favourite of that time Sir Walt. Raliegh had laboured to get the Mannor of Banwell from his Bishoprick and disdaining the repulse did upon hearing of this intempestive marriage take advantage thereof and caused it to be told to the Queen knowing how much she disliked such matches and instantly persued the Bishop with letters and mandats for the Mannor of Banwell for an 100 years The good Bishop not expecting such a sudden tempest was greatly perplexed yet a while he held out and endured many sharp messages from the Queen of which Sir Joh. Harrington of Kelston near to Bathe carried one being delivered to him by Robert Earl of Leycester who seemed to favour the Bishop and mislike Sir Walter for molesting him but they were soon agreed like Pilate and Herod to condemn Christ Never was harmless man so traduced to his Soveraign that he had married a Girl of 20 years old with a
listen what would come after such strange words as if they had taken it for some conjuration then he shewed their folly that when he spake English whereby they might be instructed and edified they neglected and hearkned not to it and now to read Hebrew which they understood no word of they seem'd careful and attentive When there was talk of dangers rumours of wars and invasions then he was commonly chosen to Preach in the Court and he would do it in so cheerful a fashion as not only shewed he had courage but would put courage into others Here is much talk saith he of Malum ab aquilone and our Cole-prophets have prophesied that in exaltatione lunae leo jungetur leaenae and the Astronomer tells us of a watry Trigon But as long as Virgo is in that ascendent with us we need not fear of any thing Deus nobiscum quis contra nos and for this the Queen would much commend him yet she would not remove him In the See of London succeeded Dr. Rich. Fletcher sometimes of C. C. coll in Cambridge and him Rich. Bancroft an 1597. who being remov'd to Canterbury 10. Decemb. 1604. Rich. Vaughan Bish of Chester was translated to London 24. of the same month JOHN PIERS was born of plebeian and sufficient Parents at South Henxsey near to Abendon in Berks and within a short mile of Oxon was educated in Grammar learning in the free-school joyning to Magd. college in Academicals in the said coll of which he was admitted perpetual fellow 25. July 1546. being then Bach. of Arts. Soon after upon an invitation he was elected into the number of the senior Students of Ch. Church which place he being unwilling to take had liberty granted to him that if he did dislike it at the years end he might leave it Whereupon being weary of it at the term of that year he was elected Probationer of Magd. coll before-mention'd 26. Jul. 1548. and the next year proceeded in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and being soon after made divinity reader of that house obtained also the rectory of Quainton in Bucks both which places he kept together for some time But so it was that he being a man of good parts and accounted by his contemporaries an excellent disputant yet by keeping rustical company at Quainton or at some small cure that he had near to his native place before he had obtained Quainton where 't was usual with him to sit tipling in a blind Ale-house with some of his neighbours was in great hazard to have lost all those excellent gifts that came after to be so well esteemed and rewarded in him In 1558. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences being about that time Prebendary of Chester of which Church being soon after made Dean in the place of Rog. Walker M. A. he proceeded in divinity In the beginning of 1570. he was elected Master of Balliol coll but before he was setled therein he was made Dean of Ch. C. in Oxon. So that resigning his Mastership in May 1571. was on the 15. of March following made Dean of Salisbury upon the resignation of Dr. Edm. Freke made Bishop of Rochester Which Deanery he kept with that of Ch. Ch. till he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester 15. Apr. 1576. About which time being made the Queens Almoner she gave him leave notwithstanding to keep a commendatary title to Salisbury till 1577. and then in the beginning of that year she made him Bishop of that place on the death of Dr. Edm. Gheast who died in Feb. 1576. In the said See he sate several years with great honour and repute and was beloved of all At length upon the death of Dr. Edwin Sandys being made Archb. of York was translated to that place on the 19. of Feb. in 1588. He died at Bishops-Thorp in Yorkshire 28. Sept. in fifteen hundred ninety and four aged 71. year 1594 years leaving then behind him the character of a great and modest Theologist whereupon his body was buried in the third Chappel at the east-end of the Cath. Ch. of York Over his grave was soon after erected a fair monument on the east Wall the inscription on which wherin his character is contained at large you may see in Historia Antiquitates Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 225. a. b. He left his estate to Joh. Piers Registrary to the Archb. of York Son of Thomas Piers of S. Henxsey before-mention'd the Archb. brother who married Elizabeth daughter of Rich. Bennet and Sister of Sir John Bennet Kt. Judge of the Prerogative Court of Cant. WILLIAM ALLYN Allen or Alan sometimes fellow of Oriel coll was created Cardinal under the title of S. Martin in Montibus an 1587. and in 1589. he was made Archbishop of Mechlin the Metropolis of Brabant He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred ninety year 1594 and four as I have told you elsewhere See more among the writers under that year In the See of Mechlin succeeded Levinus Torrentius a native of Gaunt and Bishop of Antwerp founder of the coll of Jesuits at Lovaine who dying 6. of the Cal. of May 1595. aged 70. and more was buried in his Cath. Church LEWES OWEN or Owen Lewes by both which names he is written was born in the village of Maltrayth in Bodean in the Isle of Anglesie was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester made perpetual and true fellow of New coll in 1533. took the degree of Bach. of the civil law in Feb. 1558. and made a farther progress in that faculty with intentions to proceed therein But his opinion as to religion not suffering him so to do left the University about 1561. tho his fellowship was not pronounced void till 1563. and went to Doway where he was for his great merits made the Regius Professor of his faculty At length being nominated Bishop of Cassano in the Kingdom of Naples by Philip 2. King of Spain and elected by P. Sixtus 5. whose Referendary he was of each signature was consecrated thereunto at Rome on the third of Febr. 1588. according to the accompt there followed In which See sitting about seven years died full of commendations and praise on the fourteenth of Octob. according to the same accompt year 1594 in fifteen hundred ninety and four Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the college of the English Students at Rome dedicated to S. Thomas Archb. of Canterbury Soon after was a marble stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon which gives a farther account of the man D. O. M. Audoeno Ludovico Cambro-Britanno I. V. D. at Professori Oxonii in Anglia ac Regio Duaci in Flandria Archidiacono Hannoviae Canonico in Metropolitana Cameracensi atque Officiali Generali Vtriusque signaturae Referendario Caroli Cardinalis Borromaei Archiepiscopi Mediolanensis Vicario generali Gregorii xiii et Sexto v. in congregatione de consultationibus
diocess of which place being then pretty well stock'd with such people that could scant brook the name of a Bishop yet by his Episcopal way of living among them he obtained their love and were content to give him a good report In 1607. June 2. he was translated to London where sitting but for a short time paid his last debt to nature to the great reluctancy of all good men especially such who knew the piety of the Bishop and how he had for many years with much vigilancy served his Church King and Country on the fourteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 Whereupon his body was buried in the upper end of the north Isle joyning to S. Pauls Cath. Ch. and soon after had put over it a monument with an inscription thereon a copy of which being already printed at least twice I shall now omit it and pass to the next In his Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Hugh Goodman M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. installed therein 10. May 1607. in his Deanery Dr. Joh. King and in his Bishoprick Dr. Geo. Abbot JOHN LINCH Son of James Linch was born at Galloway in Ireland and educated in New Inn as it seems with Will. Laly his Countryman afterwards Archb. of Tuam took the degree of Bach. of Decrees in Apr. 1555. and soon after going into his own Country had several beneces bestowed on him At length by the favour of Q. Eliz. he was promoted to the Bishoprick of Elphine an 1584 which place he keeping about 27. years resigned it 19. Aug. 1611. and dying soon after was buried in the Ch. of S. Nicholas in Galloway In the said See succeeded one Edw. King a Huntingdonshire man born Doct. of div of the University of Dublin who was consecrated thereunto in Dec. 1611. See another Joh. Linch in the Fasti 1618. among the Incorporations GILES TOMSON a Londoner born was entred an Exhibitioner of Vniversity coll in 1571. took the degrees in Arts and in 1580. was elected fellow of Allsouls coll In 1586. he was one of the Proctors of the University and about that time Divinity reader of Magd. coll When he was a Junior he gave a great hope and good presage of his future excellency having a rare gift ex tempore in all his School Exercises and such a happy wit to make use of all occurrences to his purpose as if he had not taken the occasions as they fell out by accident but rather bespoken such pretty accidents to fall out to give him the occasions Afterwards he was chaplain to the Qu. Residentiary of Hereford Rector of Pembridge in Herefordshire was installed Dean of Windsore 2. March 1602. being then Doct. of div Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter and a most eminent Preacher At length being nominated and elected B. of Glocester had restitution of the temporalities belonging to it made to him on 27. June 1611. and was in the next month consecrated thereunto with liberty then allowed to him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for one year and no longer He departed this mortal life to the great grief of all that knew the piety and learning of the man after he had taken a great deal of pains at the command of K. Jam. 1. in translating the four Gospels Acts of the Apostles and Apocalyps on the 14. June in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 Whereupon his body was buried in Brays chappel on the south side of that of S. George at Windsore and had soon after a monument put over him with his Bust to the middle and this inscription under it Individua Trinitati per omnia saecula sit gloria per quam sui sum ero Hic situs est Aegidius Tomson hujus Capcllae quondam Decanus cujus mens sincera lingua docta manus munda fuit Londini natus educatus Oxoniae in collegio Omnium Animarum Bonorum Indigentium Eruditorum amantissimus semper vixit cujus corpus quamvis mortalitas terrae subjecit illius tamen animam pietas caelis inseruit Hunc virum moribus gravem prudentia insignem pietate summum haec Regia Capella per annos decem Decanum habuit Inde a serenissimo Rege Jacobo in Episcopatum Glouc. Commendatum mors intempestiva anno decurso praesulem rapuit Obiit 14. Junii An. Dom. 1612. aetat 59. RICHARD DEANE Son of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire by Elizabeth his Wife daughter of Edm. Jennings of Syelsden in Craven was born at Saltonstall and after he had been educated in Grammaticals in his own Country became a Student in Merton coll 1587. aged 17. years where continuing about 5. years in the quality as it seems of a Portionist retired to S. Albans hall and as a member of that house took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Octob. 1592. and that of Master three years after which was the highest degree he took in this University Afterwards he taught school at Caermerthen in Wales as a note that came thence which I have seen reports tho I hardly believe it was made Dean of Kilkenny in Ireland and at length Bishop of Ossory there about the latter end of the year 1609. He yielded up his last breath on the 20. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried near to the Bishops chair in the Church at Kilkenny year 1612 In the said See of Ossory succeeded Jonas Wheeler another Oxford Student whom I shall at large mention among these Bishops under the year 1640. HENRY USHER a Dublin man born was educated in the University of Cambridge till he was Bach of Arts and some time after In the beginning of the year 1572. he went to Oxon setled in Vniversity coll was incorporated in the same degree in the beginning of July the same year and in few days after was licensed to proceed in Arts. Which degree being compleated by standing in the Act he made some continuance here studied the Theological faculty and laid a sure foundation therein by the helps of divers noted men then in the University among whom Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Holland were two Afterwards he retired to his native Country became Archdeacon of Dublin and at length Archb. of Armagh and so consequently Primate of all Ireland To which See being consecrated in Aug. 1595. sate there till the time of his death in great honour and repute among all Protestants in that country He died at Termon-Fechan on the second day of April in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 and was buried in S. Peters Church at Drogheda commonly called Tredagh In the See of Armagh succeeded Dr. Christopher Hampton and him Dr. James Vsher nephew to Henry before mention'd whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1626. HENRY COTTON a younger Son of Sir Ric. Cotton Kt. one of the Privy Council to K. Ed. 6. was born in Hampshire educated in the Free school at Guildford became a commoner
May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal daugh of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire After him followed in the said See of Carlile Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire but born in London his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester and from thence was sent to Qu. coll in Camb. where he continued several years Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. Davids cath ch and Dean of Rochester as I shall elsewhere tell you At length he being made B. of S. David was after he had sate there about 6. years translated to Carlile where he continued till 1624. In which year dying he left monies as 't is said for the endowing of a School and monies for the building of an Hospital He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands preached while he was Minister of Sevenoke at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct To him succeeded in the said See of Carlile Rich. Senhouse Dean of Glocester who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. Johns of which he was made Fellow and continuing there many years took the degree of D. of div as a Member thereof about 1622. He was first chaplain as 't is said in the Earl of Bedfords family afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlile for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms which are not as I conceive made yet publick HENRY PARRY or ap Harry sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll was consecrated B. of Gloucester 12. Jul. 1607. translated thence to Worcester in the latter end of Sept. 1610. the temporalities of which See were restored to him 23. Oct. the same year He yielded to nature in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 under which year you may see more of him among the writers He was succeeded in Gloucester by Dr. Giles Tomson and in Worcester by Dr. Joh. Thornborough Of the first I have made mention already among the Bishops and of the other I shall speak in the second volume of this work under the year 1641. WILLIAM JAMES sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. became Bishop of Durham in 1606. and died in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death Rich. Neile Bishop of Lincoln was translated to Durham and thence to Winchester as I shall elsewhere tell you WILLIAM LYON a Cheshire man born was partly educated in this University but whether in Oriel or S. Johns coll where several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell Afterwards he went into Ireland became Vicar of Naas and Chaplain to Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton L. Lievtenant of that Country who promoting him to the Episcopal See of Ross was consecrated thereunto in the year 1582. and the year following was constituted commendatory of Cork and Cloyne by the favour of Qu. Eliz. He bestowed a thousand pound in building the Bishops house at Cork and other monies in repairing the Bishops house at Ross which three years after was burnt by the Rebel O-Donow This W. Lyon died in a good old age on the 4. Oct. year 1617 in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Cork leaving then behind him a Son of both his names who in the 17 year of his age 1610. became a Com. or else Gent. Com. of S. Johns coll in this Univ. In the said Sees of Ross Cork and Cloyne succeeded Dr. Joh. Boyle whom I shall anon mention ROBERT ABBOT Master of Balliol college was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherby Son of Maurice Fotherby of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge was after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendred up his last breath on the eleventh day of March an 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave with a large inscription thereon but destroyed by the great Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons besides his Atheomastix which being put into the press before his death was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson or Tonson Dean of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Queens coll in Cambridge who was consecrated thereunto on the 9. July 1620. See more in the Fasti among the incorporations under the year 1599. JOHN BOYLE a Kentish man born and brother to Rich. Boyle the first Earl of Cork in Ireland received some education with us but whether D. of div of this Univ. as one reports it appears not in the publick Registers He was consecrated B. of Cork before-mentioned in 1618. at which time liberty was allowed him to keep the See of Ross in Commendam He died in sixteen hundred and twenty year 1620 and was buried at Youghall of which place his brother before-mentioned was Baron In the said See of Cork and Ross succeeded Rich. Boyle Dean of Waterford and Archd. of Limerick brother to Michael Boyle B. of Waterford and Lismore which Richard kept the See also of Cloyne in Commendam with the two former JOHN KING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Dean of that house was consecrated Bishop of London in 1611. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers To him succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne Bishop Almoner sometimes Dean of Westminster who was translated from Loncoln to London 20. July 1621. ROWLAND SEARCHFIELD a Londoner born was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School admitted Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1582. aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house Proctor of the University Doct. of div and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire Vicar of Cherlbury in and Justice of
Pentrerpant or Pentrepant near to Oswestrey in Shropshire 23. July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried the next day in the Church at Sillatin or Selattyn To the poor of which place as also of Oswestrey and S. Asaph he gave to each five pounds In his Prebendship succeeded Giles Thornborough M. of A. afterwards D. D. Nephew to Dr. John Thorborough B. of Worcester who kept it to the time of his death 1663 and in the See of S. Asaph succeeded Joh Owen D. D. of Cambridge and Archdeacon of S. Asaph who was consecrated thereunto 20. of Sept. 1629. He died at Perthkinsey 15. Oct. 1651. and was buried on the 21. of the said month in the Cath. Church of S. Asaph under the Bishops Throne This Dr. Owen who was the Ministers Son of Burton-Latimers in Northamptonshire and born there as also bred Fellow in Jesus coll in Cambridge hath written Herod and Pilate reconciled Or the concord of Papists Anabaptists and Sectaries against Scripture Fathers Councils and other Orthodox Writers for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings Published 1663. and by the author dedicated to the Loyal Subjects of Great Britain What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he was a great Loyalist a true Son of the Church of England and had been much respected by Laud Arch. of Canterbury who obtained for him from his most gracious King the said Bishoprick of S. Asaph which lying void after his death till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Dr. George Griffith was consecrated thereunto JOHN BUCKRIDGE sometimes Fellow afterwards President of S. Johns college became B. of Rochester in 1611. and from thence was translated to Ely in 1627. He was conducted to the habitation prepared for old age in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt Curle and in Ely Dr. Francis White both Cambridge men by education JOHN HOWSON sometimes Student and Canon of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Oxford in the month of May 1618. was translated thence to Durham in 1628. and departed this moral life towards the latter end of sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631-2 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Durham succeeded Dr. Thom. Morton B. of Lichfield and Coventry the temporalities of which he received from the King 12. Jul. 1632. and dying in the house of Sir Hen. Yelverton of Easton-Manduit in Northamptonshire on the morrow after S. Matthews day in 1659. aged 95 years was succeeded in the year following by Dr. Joh. 〈◊〉 of Cambridge LEWES BAYLY sometimes a Member of Exeter coll was consecrated Bishop of Baâ—ger in 1616. and departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of 〈◊〉 succeeded a Native of Segroet near Denbigh a certain learned Doctor of div named David Dâ—lben of S. Johnâ— coll in Cambridge a younger Son of Robert 〈◊〉 Dâ—lben of 〈◊〉 before-mentioned in Denbighshire who dying in Bangor-house situated in Shoe-lane near S. Andrews Church in 〈◊〉 in the Suburb of London on the 27. of Nov. 1633. was buried in the Church at 〈◊〉 which he kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick He was succeeded in the See of Bangor by Edm. Griffith of whom I shall speak by and by JOHN RIDER sometimes a Student in Jesus coll was consecrated Bishop of 〈◊〉 in Ireland on the 12. of Jan. 1612. and concluded his last in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and two 〈◊〉 which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said Bishoprick succeeded one Lewes Jones a Welshman sometimes a Student in this University whom I shall mention at large among the Bishops in the second vol. of this work FRANCIS GODWIN sometimes a Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Landaff in 1601 thence translated to Hereford in 1617 and died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among ther writers To the said See after Goodman of Glocester had endeavoured to obtain was elected Dr. Will. Juxon of Oxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London whereupon Dr. Augustin Lindsell Bishop of Peterborough was translated thereunto in Dec. 1633. After him followed Mathew Wren D. of D. of Cambridge the temporalities of which See Hereford were given to him 24 March 10. Car. 1. Dom. 1634-35 But he being soon after translated to Norwych Theophilus Field of Pembroke hall in Cambridge born in the parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond. succeeded The temporalities also of which were restored to him 23. Janu. 1635. This Dr. Field dying soon after George Cook sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge brother to Sir Joh. Cook Secretary of State succeeded and had the temporalities thereof given to him 7. July 1636. He was the Son of Rich. Cook of Trusley in Derbyshire by Mary his wife daughter and heir of Tho. Sacheverell of Kirby in Nottinghamshire and he the Son of Will. Cook of the same place by his wife the daughter of Ralph Fitzherbert of Tyssyngton in the said county of Derby Which George Cook dying in 1646. 22. Car. 1. the see of Hereford laid void till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and then 't was supplied by Dr. Nich. Monk of Oxon of whom I shall make large mention in his proper place GEORGE ABBOT sometimes of Balliol college afterwards Chaplain to Thomas Lord Buckhurst and then to the Earl of Dunbar with whom he was solemnly sent into Scotland for an effecting of an Union in the Hierarchie was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 3 Dec. 1609 translated to London about the latter end of January following and in 1610 he was translated to Canterbury on the death of Dr. Richard Bancroft He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Canterbury succeeded Dr. William Laud as I shall tell you at large when I come to the next Vol. of this work JOHN PHILIPPS was a Welsh-man born as it seems and having received his Academical education in Oxon became afterwards Parson of Thorp Basset and Slingesby in Yorkshire which last he obtained in the latter end of March 1591. About that time he being Chaplain to Henry Earl of Derby became Archdeacon of Clievland on the resignation of Rich. Bird Bach. of div in Apr. 1601 also Archdeacon of the Isle of Man and at length about 1614. Bishop of that place but in whose room I cannot tell for between the translation thence of Dr. George Lloyd to Chester 1604. some person yet unknown to me did succeed
In the Rectory of Slingesby succeeded Sam. Philipps M. A. in Jan. 1618. and in Clievland Henry Thurcross M. A. an 1619. as I shall tell you in the Fasti an 1610. So that I presume those two places were kept in Commendam with the Bishoprick by the said John Philipps whom I take to be the same with Joh. Philipps who took the degree of M. of Arts as a Member of S. Maries hall in the month of May 1584. Which degree he compleated as a Member of Broadgates in an Act celebrated 10. of July the same year The said Joh. Philipps Bishop of Man translated the Bible into the Manks language that is the language commonly spoken in the Isle of Man assisted in the said work by Sir Hugh Cannal Minister of Kirk St. Michael in the said Isle He concluded his last day about the year sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 and was succeeded in the said See of Man by William Forster a Divine of some note in his time but whether he was ever of Brasnose coll as some think he was wherein several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell One Will. Forster a Warwickshire man born was entred a Student in S. Johns coll 1601. and another of that house was a writer as I have before told you among the writers under the year 1633. One Joh. Philipps wrote A summon to repentence Lond. 1584. oct but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former and another Joh. Philipps wrote The way to Heaven on Acts 2. 47. Printed in qu. 1625. Which book I having not yet seen I cannot say to the contrary but that it may be published by Joh. Philipps the Bishop Qu. FRANCIS GOUGH commonly called Goffe the fifth Son of Hugh Gough Rector of Allcannyngs in Wilts by Jane his Wife Daughter of one Clifford of Clifford-hall in Devonsh was born in Wiltshire entred a Batler in S. Edmunds hall in the latter end of 1611. aged 17 years and afterwards was made one of the Clerks of New college where continuing some years returned to the said hall and as a Member thereof took the degree of M. of Arts in 1618. Soon after he having a just opportunity of going into Ireland became first Chancellour then Bishop of Limerick to which See being consecrated at Cashills 17. Sept. 1626. sate there till the time of his death which hapning on the 29. of August in sixteen hundred thirty and four was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Limerick leaving then year 1636 behind him his eldest brother named Hugh who was Chanter of Limerick and Justice of Peace In the See of Limerick succeeded George Web whom I shall mention in the next volume under the year 1641. WILLIAM PILSWORTH was born in Fleetstreet in the west suburb of London elected and admitted Demie of Magd. coll 29. Sept. 1578. aged 18 years on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour following took one degree in Arts as a member of Magd. hall in Dec. 1581 left the University without any other degree went into Ireland became Prebendary of Monabannoc and at length Bishop of Kildare To which see being consecrated at Balsoon in the county of Meath 11. Sept. 1604 sate there without any removal to the time of his death which hapning at Naas on the 9. of May in sixteen hundred thirty and five year 1635 was buried at Dunfert in the country of Kildare In the said See succeeded Robert Vsher D. D. Son of Hen. Vsher sometimes Archbishop of Armagh who lived upon it till the Rebellion broke out in Ireland an 1641 and then retired into England for protection RICHARD CORBET sometimes Student afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Oxford in 1629. tho in some respects unworthy of such an office and translated thence to Norwych in the beginning of 1632. He died in the latter end of July in sixteen year 1635 hundred thirty and five under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death a Native of the Parish of S. Peters Cheap in London named Dr. Math. Wren B. of Hereford was translated to Norwych the temporalities of which See were restored to him 24. of Nov. 1635. being elected thereunto on the tenth day of the same month Afterwards upon the death of Dr. Franc. White Bishop-Almoner he was translated to Ely the temporalities of which were restored to him on the 5. of May 1638. where he sate to the time of his death He by the way I must tell you was the Son of Franc. Wren Citizen of London a branch of the Wrens of Binchester in the Bishoprick of Durham and being an eminent Scholar in his youth became first a Student in Pembroke hall in Cambridge then Greek Scholar and Fellow of that house and soon after Chaplain to Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Winchester Afterwards he was made Master of Peter house Vicechancellour of the said University Chaplain to K. Charles 1. when he was Prince whom he attended after he had taken his journey to Spain as also when he was King Prebendary of Winchester Dean of Windsor in which honourable Dignity he was installed 24. Jul. 1628. sworn Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter 23. of Sept. following and in 1633 became Clerk of the Closet in the place of Dr. Will. Juxon In 1634 he became Prebend of Westm in the room of Dr. John Wilson and near upon that time Bishop of Hereford But continuing there not long he was translated to Norwych as I have before told you And being made Dean of the Chappel Royal upon Juxons advance to the Treasurers staff an 1636 he was translated to Ely in the beginning of 1638 as 't is already said In all which offices his deportment was with such gravity exemplary piety and Government with no less prudence that upon the beginning of the unparallel'd rebellion raised by the Presbyterians commonly then called Puritans who had an implacable hatred for him for his pride insolence and high hand used towards them as they frequently reported he was by them miserably persecuted and grievously oppressed by plunder of his goods seizure of his estate and by a strait and tedious imprisonment in the Tower of London which he endured with great patience and magnanimity near 18 years After his Majesties return he was set at liberty was restored to his Bishoprick of Ely and notwithstanding his former losses performed several acts of Piety Among which was his building a new Chappel in Pembroke hall before mentioned which being beautified with splendid and decorous Furniture and amply endowed with an annual revenue was upon the Feast of S. Mathew 21. Sept. in 1665. solemnly consecrated and dedicated by himself in person and by his Episcopal authority to the honour of Almighty God A noble and lasting Monument of the rare piety and munificence of that great and wise Prelate and in every point accorded to his character which was then so well
which being very worthy of perusal I refer the Reader for his farther satisfaction In Waterford and Lismore succeeded Dr. Archibald Adair a Seer and him Dr. George Baker who died in Octeb or thereabouts an 1668. JOHN BANCROFT Son of Christ 〈…〉 by Andrey Andrews his Wife eldest Son of 〈…〉 of Farnworth in Lancashire by Mary his Wife daughter of John Curwyn brother to Hugh Curcoyn sometimes Bishop of Oxford was born in little Village called Astell or Eâ—well lying between 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 was admitted a Student of 〈…〉 more took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a Preacher for some years in 〈…〉 being newly admitted to proceed in Divinity was by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. a younger Son of John Bancroft before-mentioned elected Master of Vniversity college where he continued above 20 years In which time he was at great pains and expence to recover and settle the antient Lands belonging to that foundation In 1632. he was upon the translation of Dr. Corbet to Norwych nominated Bishop of Oxford whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter in April the same year had the temporalities of that See given to him on the 6. of June following being about that time consecrated In 1640. when the Long Parliament began and proceeded with great vigour against the Bishops he was possessed so much with fear having always been an Enemy to the Puritan that without little or no sickness he surrendred up his last breath in his lodging at Westminster Afterwards his body was carried to Cudesden in the diocess of Oxon and was buried near to and under the south wall of the Chancel of the Church there on the twelfth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred and forty leaving then behind him the character among the Puritans or Presbyterians then dominant of a corrupt unpreaching Popish Prelate The Reader is now to know that before this Mans time the Bishops of Oxford had no house left belonging to their Episcopal See either in City or Country but dwelt at their Parsonage-houses which they held in Commendam tho Dr. Jo. Bridges who had no Commendam in his diocess lived for the most part in hired houses in the City For as I have before told you in Dr. Rob. Kynge tho at the foundation of the Bishoprick of Oxford in the Abbey of Osney the King appointed Gloucester coll for the Bishops Pallace yet when that foundation was inspected into by K. Edw. 6. and a recital thereupon made of the foundation thereof done by his Father that place was left out of the Charter as being designed then for another use So that from that time till this Man Dr. Bancroft came to be Bishop there being no settled House or Pallace for him or his Successors he did resolve by the perswasions of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. to build one Wherefore in the first place the impropriate Parsonage of Cudesden before-mentioned five miles distant from Oxon which belonged to the Bishop in right of his See he let the lease thereof run out without any more renewing that in the end it might be made an improvement to the slender Bishoprick The Vicaridge also of his own donation falling void in the mean time he procured himself to be legally instituted and inducted thereunto All which being done he thro the power and favour of Dr. Laud before-mentioned obtained an annexation of it to the See Episcopal the design of bringing in the impropriation going forward still and soon after began with the help of a great deal of timber from the Forest of Shotover given to him by his Majesty to build a fair Pallace which with a Chappel in it being compleatly finished an 1635. was then out of curiosity visited by the said Dr. Laud which he remits into his diary thus Sept. 2. an 1635. I was in attendance with the King at Woodstock and went thence to Cudsden to see the house which Dr. Jo. Bancroft then Lord Bishop of Oxford had there built to be a house for the Bishops of that See for ever he having built that house at my perswasion But this house or Pallace which cost three thousand and five hundrend pounds proved almost as short liv'd as the Founder being burn'd down by Col. Will. Legg during the short time that he was Governour of the Garrison of Oxford in the latter end of 1644. for fear it might be made a Garrison by the Parliament Forces tho with as much reason and more piety as one observes he might have garrison'd it for the King and preserved the house Being thus ruined it laid so till Dr. Joh. Fell became Bishop of Oxon and then with monies out of his own purse and the help of timber which one of his Predecessors named Dr. Will. Paul had laid in in his life-time for that purpose did rebuild it upon the old foundation with a Chappel in it as before The outside of which being finished in 1679. the inside followed soon after METROPHANES CRITOPYLUS a Greecian born came into England to be instructed in the doctrine and discipline of the Church and in order thereunto to learn the Latin and the English tongues To these ends he addressed himself to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent him forthwith to Baliol college where he had for his interpreter the noted Grecian Mr. Edw. Sylvester and continued there till the time of his departure from England which was about 1622. at which time he was Chancellour to the Patriarch of Constantinople After his return to his own Country he became Patriarch of Alexandria in the place of Cyrill Lucaris translated to Constantinople and wrote as some suppose The Confession of Faith which went under the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople published in the Greek tongue 1629. Which Confession was with a censure upon it printed at Rome 1632. the title of which rendred into English is this The condemnation of the confession of the Calvinists as it was set forth in the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople With this condemnation and confession is printed an answer to the Anathematisms of Cyrill Patriarch of Alexandria Predecessor to Critopylus wherein the said Anathematisms are acknowledged to be genuine tho they decry the said Confession as spurious This Critopylus was in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred and forty but when he died I cannot yet find FASTI OXONIENSES THESE Oxonian Fasti or Academical Annals contain in exact Order Method and Time from the Year of our Lord 1500 to the end of 1640. 1. A Catalogue of the Chancellours Commissaries oâ— Vicechancellours and Proctors of the Univ. of Oxon 2. The Names and Characters of eminent Grammarians Rhetoricians and Musicians who have been admitted to One or two Academical Degree or Degrees with the Titles of such Books if any that they have written The Names of 3. Writers Archbishops and Bishops Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 4.
Kirkby Mast of Arts of this Univ. and Bach. of Divin of the Univ. of Paris was incorporated Bach. of Div. of this University Which being done he supplicated the same day to be admitted or licensed to proceed in Divinity but whether granted it appears not … James Denton Doctor of the Laws sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge did this year supplicate to be incorporated but whether he was really so it appears not He was Chancellour to the Lady Mary Queen Dowager of France who was afterwards married to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and so I presume he took that Degree beyond the Seas About this time he being one of the King's Counsellors and much in savour was made Prebendary of York Lincoln Salisbury and in 1510 Canon of Windsor In 1521 or thereabouts he succeeded Dr. Ralph Collingwood in the Deanery of Lichfieâ—d having been installed Prebendary of that Church by his Proctor Dr. Rich. Salter of Oxon. an 1509 and in 1523 he became Archdeacon of Clievland in the Church of York upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Rawlyns of Mert. Coll. to the See of S. David This Dr. Denton was also Lord President of Wales and dying at Ludlow in Shropshire in 1532 was there buried In his Deanery of Lichfield succeeded Dr. Rich. Sampson who holding it till 1536 at which time he was promoted to the See of Chichester Rich. Williams Chaplain to and beloved of K. Hen. 8. succeeded In his Archdeaconry of Clievland succeeded Tho. Bedell as I shall tell you under the year 1508 and in his Canonry of Windsore Dr. Rich. Wolman whom I shall mention elsewhere This Dr. Denton built the large Back-stairs at Windsore was an especial Benefactor to the Church there by founding Maintenance for the Singing-men and Choiristers and did with Dr. John Clerke Dean of Windsore receive by Indenture from the Lord Hastyngs the Sheets as a Relique wherein K. Hen. 6. Founder of Kings College in Cambridge lay when he was murdered in the Tower An. Dom. 1506. An. 21 22 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury elected 28 May upon the resignation then made of Dr. Mayhew Bish of Hereford Commiss John Thornden or Thornton Will. Fauntleroy of New Coll. who was admitted D. of D. this year Proct. Edw. Colyar of Vnivers Coll. Bor. elected 24 Apr. Rich. Stokes of Magd. Coll. Austr elected 28 of the same Month. Bach. of Musick None do occur in our Registers that were admitted only Richard Ede a Canon Regular and a Scholar in Musick did supplicate the ven Congregation to be admitted Bachelaur of that Faculty Feb. 10. but whether he was now or after really admitted it appears not Bach. of Arts. Dec. 17. Leonard Huchenson of Balliol afterwards Master of Vniversity Coll. Feb. 8. Rob. Morwent of Magdalen afterwards President of Corp. Christi Coll. Beside these two who were great Promoters and Encouragers of Learning were 32 more admitted Bach. of Arts this year Bach. of the Civ Law Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Institutions as I have before told ye Jan. 28. John Incent or Innocent of Allsoules Coll. Two days before he was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law as I shall anon tell you Besides him were admitted this year six more and eight at least that supplicated for the said Degree who were not this year admitted among whom Joh. Prynne was one Nov 24. This J. Prynne I take to be the same who was Prior of the Monastery at Timbridge in Kent an 1518. Bach. of the Can. Law Or such who were admitted to the extraordinary reading or reading extraordinary of any Book of the Decretals or Volumes as I have before told you Mar. 29. John Ashdowne a Monk of the Cluniac Order and Prior of the Monastery of Lewes in Sussex He had before spent seven years in studying the Canon Law in Cambridge Jan. 26. Joh. Incent or Innocent before mention'd who had formerly spent one year in the study of the Canon Law at Cambridge was then admitted Bach. of the Canon Law He was afterwards Doctor of his Faculty as I shall tell you hereafter and the worthy Dean of S Pauls Cath. Church in London Besides these two were eleven more admitted this year and about fifteen that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Thom. Egyston a Benedictine was one The rest were mostly secular Chaplains among whom Rich. Hyllâ— or Hylley was of the number but whether the same with one of both his names who succeeded in the Treasurership of the Church of Salisbury one Henry Sutton sometimes Fellow of Merton College in the Month of Aug. 1505 I know not The said Rich. Hylley who was Treasurer dying in Sept. or thereabouts in 1533 Nicholas Shaxton D. D. succeeded him in that Dignity in the beginning of Oct. the same year and him who was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury Rich. Sampson LL. D. as I shall tell you under the year 1521. Masters of Arts. Of 23 Masters of Arts who were admitted and stood in three several Acts solemnized in S. Maries Church this year whereof one was 3 July another 26 Jan. and the third on the 8 Feb. I cannot yet find any one of them that arrived to any Eminence only John Hewys of Merton Coll. who was Chaplain to Qu. Catherine and a rich Dignitary in the Church Opponents in Divinity Or such who opposed in Divinity disputations in the School belonging to that Faculty in order to their admission to the degree of Bach. of Div. May 13. Frater Dedicus Fernandus a Dominican or Black or Preaching Fryer June 28. Frat. Petrus Lusitanus a Minorite or Franciscan or Grey Fryer Neither of these two who were learned men appear in the public Register to be afterwards admitted Bach. of Divinity Besides them were six more admitted to oppose who were all religious or of religious Orders and eight that supplicated to oppose all except one of religious Orders also among whom Nich. Pepyr a Canon Regular was one Of him by the way I must let the Reader know that he was elected Prior of the House of Can. Regulars at Taunton in Somersetshire on the Resignation of John Prows 23 Feb. 1513 and dying there 26 Sept. 1523 one Will. York of the same Order was admitted Prior in his place In the year 1519 when the said York was admitted Bach. of Div. this Pepyr did then supplicate for that Degree Bach. of Div. Dec. 14. Thom. Goldwell of Canterbury Coll. who on the 19. of Oct. going before was admitted to oppose in Divinity was then admitted Bach. of Divinity He was a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict and in the year 1517 was chose the last Prior of the Church at Canterbury I have mention'd another Thom. Goldwell among the Bishops under the year 1580. Feb. ult Rob. Kynge a Monk of the Cistercian Order in the Abbey of Rewley in the West Suburb of Oxon. He was afterwards the first Bishop of Oxford See more among the D.
writers under the year 1537. Feb. 21. John Robyns John Mason of All 's Coll. Only twelve more were admitted and about four supplicated Bach. of Div. Four only were admitted to and eleven or more supplicated for that Degree whom I cannot find admitted this or some years after Among them were 1 William Sandwych a Benedictine Monk afterwards Warden of Canterbury College in Oxon. 2 Robert Carter of Magdalen College about this time Steward of the Houshold of Cardinal Wolsey and afterwards Canon of the College of King Hen. 8. in Oxon. 3 Oswald Benson Minister of the House of St. Robert near to Knaresborough of the Order of the Holy Trinity Doct. of Civ Law June ult Edwarde Carne or Kerne now or lately Principal of Greek hall in St. Edwards Parish He was the Son of Howell Carne of Cowbridge in Glamorganshire by his Wife Cicely Daugh. of William Kemys of Newport and lineally descended from Thomas Le Câ—rne second Son of Ithyn King of Gwent He was a wise Man learned in the Civil Law and afterwards Knighted by the Emperour Charles 5. In 1530 I find him the Kings Orator at Rome to remonstrate to his holiness that the King was not bound by the Law to make his appearance either by Person or by proxy in the Court of Rome according to a citation which was coming to him for his appearance in the matter of his divorce from Queen Catherine In the Reign of Queen Mary who valued him he was Ambassador there for her as also for Queen Elizabeth but when the Pope was stirred with anger upon the resolution of the last to expel his power from England he commanded Sir Edward Carne to lay down his Office of Ambassador and to take upon him the Government of the English Hospital at Rome Yet as 't is thought by some this crafty old Knight did voluntary chuse his banishment out of a burning zeal to the Roman Catholick Religion and eagerly desired to continue there though sent for to come home by the Queen rather than return to his Country which was then ready to be overspread with Heresie as he call'd it He died at Rome on the 14 of the Cal. of Febr. according to the accompt there followed in 1561 about which time the Abbat of Martinego the Popes Nuncio was denied entrance into England and was buried there in the Church belonging to the Monastery of St. Gregory in Coelo He was always accounted the last Ambassadour of the Kings of England to the Pope till Roger Earl of Castlemain was sent thither by King James 2. an 1687. Jim ult Richard Gwent of Allsouls College Principal or Chief Moderator of Canon Law School situated near St. Edwards Church He was about this time Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards of London in the place as it seems of one William Clyffe Dean of the Arches and at length in 1542 Archdeacon of Huntingdon upon the promotion of William Knyght to the See of Bath and Wells He gave way to sate in 1543 being then Archdeacon of two places at least London and Huntingdon and was buried in the middle of St. Pauls Cathedral in London This Person who was a Welsh Man born was well known to John Leland the Antiquary who in his Encomia illustrium eruditorum virorum in Anglia doth highly celebrate him by the name of Richard Ventanus Juridicus for his virtues and learning Feb. 13. Henry Morgan about this time Principal of St. Edwards hall situated in the Church-yard of St. Edward and near to Canon Law School He was afterwards Bishop of St. David Doct. of Can. Law Mar. 10. Richard Muge or Mugg of Allsouls College He was now beneficed and dignified in the Church and was accounted by all that knew him a learned Canonist Doct. of Div. Not one was admitted this year nor one supplicated for the said Degree only Richard Stubbs or Stubbys Master of Arts Bachelaur of Divinity and Master of Balliol College Incorporations May… William Middleton Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine June…Richard Brynckley a Minorite or Franciscan Fryer Dr. of Divinity of Cambridge and as our publick register saith General Minister of the Minorites throughout England His supplication which was granted simpliciter and his incorporation are set down in the said register under this year 1524 yet perusing Cambridge tables containing the names of such who were admitted Doctors of that University he is put down there under the year 1527 as being then admitted D. of D. In the said Generalship or Provincialship he succeeded Dr. Henry Standish whom I have mention'd among the Writers and was succeeded by Steph. Baron a Cambridge Man Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and an eminent Preacher of his time This year but the day or month appears not was a Supplicate made for one Rowland Lee Doctor of the Canon Law of Cambridge to be incorporated into that degree but whether he really was so I cannot justly tell his Incorporation having perhaps been neglected to be registred This Rowl Lee was the Son of Will. Lee of Morpeth in Northumberland Treasurer of Barwick by Isabel his Wife Daughter and Heir of Andr. Trollop Kt. who after he had been educated in Academical Learning in S. Nicholas Hostle in Cambridge became first Chancellour to Dr. Jeffr. Blythe Bishop of Lichfield and afterwards Prebendary of Corburgh in that Church At length for the several Services which he had done to please the unsatiable desire of K. Hen. 8. one of which was the marrying him to the Lady Anna Bulleyne was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Lichfield to which being elected by the Name and Title of Rowl Lee Decretorum Doctor Canonicus Prebendarius Eccles Cath. Lichf was consecrated thereunto 19 Apr. 1534 and on the 8 of May following received the Temporalities belonging thereunto In the year following he was made President of the Marches of Wales and dying at Shrewsbury 24 Jan. 1543 was buried there He had a Brother named George Dean of S. Chadds in Shrewsbury who dying without issue as his Brother the Bishop did the Sister of them named Isabel Wife of Rog. Fowler of Staffordshire became Heir to them both An. Dom. 1525. An. 17 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Musgrave Proct. Anthony Sutton of Magd. Coll. John Tooker lately of Exeter now of Cardinal Coll. Bach. of Arts. July 17. Robert Talbot of New Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Antiquary Besides him were about 68 that were admitted and about 10 that supplicated several of whom were afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Bach. of Civ Law Octob. ult Robert Dobell See more among the Bachelaurs of Can Law following Bach. of Can. Law July 11. Arth. Bokeley or Bulkley of New Inn as it seems He was admitted Doctor the next day as I shall anon tell you and was afterwards Bishops of Bangor Oct. ult Robert Dobell He is sometimes written Dovell and Davel and therefore I take him to be the same with Robert Dovell or Davell who
nativity and a Minorite by profession Jun. 4. Father Will. Sandwych a Benedictine He was afterwards Gardian or Warden of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon. 27. Fa. Tho. Levett a Benedictine Feb. 27. Fa. Rich. Gorton a Ben. and Bach. of Arts. Nine more were admitted and about 15 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom John Hylsey was one afterwards Bishop of Rochester Doct. of Civ Law Nov… David Pole or Poole of All 's Coll. Febr… John Payne Principal of New Inn and Moderator or Principal of Civil Law School in St. Edwards Parish Two also there were that supplicated for the said Degree viz. Hen. Russell Bach. of the Civil Law and Thom. Breewood or Brerewood Bac. of the said faculty of All 's College Which last was about this time Canon of Exeter afterwards about 1536 Archdeacon of Barnstaple and Chancellour to the Bishop of Exeter Doct. of Can. Law Nov… Dav. Pole or Poole beforementioned Jan… Hen. Whyte He was afterwards Principal or chief Moderator of Can. Law School and is sometimes written Praelector Cathedrae juris Canonici One Will. Cleyton Bachelaur of Decrees supplicated to be admitted Doctor of the Canon Law but he was not admitted this year Doct. of Physick Feb. 13. Thom. Gwynne of All 's Coll. George Owen of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day This Person was born in the Dioc. of Worcester was admitted Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1519 afterwards he was Physician to K. Hen. 8. Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London Physician to K. Edw. 6. and Qu. Mary and dying of a malignant and Epidemical Feaver 10. Oct. 1558 was buried in the Church of St. Stephen in Walbroke London His memory is celebrated among the learned Men of his time by John Leland the Antiquarian-poet and by John Parkhurst Bishop of Norwych his Fellow collegiat One of his descendants of Godstow near Oxon. whose Christian name I do not yet know was condemned to dye 17 May 1615 for stifly maintaining that a Prince may be removed out of the way by death or otherwise if lawfully excommunicated by the Pope Doct. of Div. Feb. 10. The ven Father John Newbolt a Benedictine Monk One Tho. Newbolt was Abbat of Evesham next before Clement Lychfield whom I have mention'd under the year 1501. Nine this year appears to have supplicated to be Doctors of Divinity among whom were Anth. Dunstan a Benedictine Monk of Westminster and Prior of Gloucest Coll. in the suburb of Oxon. See more in the year 1538. Rich. Thornden who was afterwards Suffragan Bishop of Dover Rog. Otteford Bac. of Div. and a Benedictine John Tybbys a Cistercian c. Incorporations Jul. 8. Will. Armsted M. of A. beyond the Seas Feb. 7. Jam. Blyth Bach. of Div. beyond the Seas sometimes of this University was then incorp Bac. of Div. See among the Doctors of Div. 1535. He was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Christoph Plummer deprived by attainder 25. of Aug. 1536 and had other Dignities and dying in 1546. he was buried in St. Georges Chap. at Windsore An. Dom. 1528. An. 20. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. John Cottysford Proct. John Belletory Chapl. of Mert. Coll. Walter Buckler Fell. of the said and Canon of Cardinal Coll. elected Apr. 22. Grammarians Nov. 5. Christoph Haldesworth a Secular Chaplain One Tho. Myttons an instructor of Youth at Banbury in Oxfordshire and John Parry a Secular Chapl. did supplicate to be admitted but whether they were so it appears not Bach. of Arts. May 16. John Standish of Brasen Coll. He was soon after of Corp. Christi Jul. 15. Gilb. Bourne He was afterwards of All 's Coll. Will. Bradbridge or Brodbridge of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 24. John Parkhurst Nov. 5. Rich. Moryson Jun. 24. Will. Pye of Oriel Coll. All which were afterwards either Writers or Bishops Besides them were about 50 admitted this year and about 20 that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Law Six were admitted in the Canon and eight in the Civil Law Nine or thereabouts supplicated to be graduated in the former and about 7 in the other but not one of them can I yet find was afterwards a Bishop Writer or a Dignitary Mast of Arts. Jul. 14. John Doone of C. C. C. He was a noted Grecian Greek reader of that house and afterwards Dean of the Kings Chappel and well dignified About thirty were admitted this year and about eleven that supplicated to be Masters but were not admitted Opponents in Div. Jun 18. Father Will. Beawdley Abbat of Flaxley of the Cistercian Order in Glocestershire Jul. 3. Fa. Will. Harford or Hartford of the Order of St. Benedict He was about this time an Abbat or a Prior. These two I cannot find to be admitted Bach. of Div. which usually follows opposition in that faculty and therefore I have put them here Bach. of Div. Jun. 26. Fa. John Byle or Byley or Beyley a Benedictine and about this time an Abbat Jul. 15. Tho. Canner now of Cardinal lately of Magd. Coll. In 1532 he was made the eighth Canon of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. founded on that of Card. Wolseys of which he had been made the first Canon by the Cardinal and in 1542 he was admitted Provost of the Free-Chappel of St. Nicholas under Hampden in the Dioc. of Wells and had other Dignities bestow'd on him Edw. Leyton or Leighton was admitted the same day This Person did about this time solely give himself up to please the unlimited humour of the King as another of his Sirname did about the same time See in the year 1506. 17. William Tiesham of Mert. Coll. Jul. 18. Fath. Thom. Essex Feb. 20. Fa. Humph. Webley March 11. Fa. Will. Bennet of the Order of St. Benedict Which three Fathers were now either Abbats or Priors March 11. Fa. Tho. Sparke a Benedictine Monk He was now or soon after Prior of a certain cell as it is mention'd in the publick register of this time wherein it is further added that in 1529 he was about to leave the University cum pannis suis to go to the Monastery at Durham Fa. John Else a Dominican was adm this year but the day or month appears not Besides these were four more admitted and eight at least that supplicated of whom John Bekinsau of New College was one Doct. of Civil Law Jun. 25. Thomas Baggard originally of New Inn afterwards one of the first Canons of Cardinal College In 1535 he became Chancellour of the Diocess of Worcester in the place of one Dr. Thomas Parker and in the 33 Hen. 8. Dom. 1541 he was named the very first Canon or Prebendary of the first stall in the Church of Worcester by the King when he changed the Prior and Monks of that place into a Dean and Canons He died in 1544 and was succeeded in his Chancellourship and Prebendship by Rob. Johnson LL. Bach. whom I shall mention elsewhere Jul. 13. Rob. Hunt a Secular Chaplain and
Principal or Supreme Moderator of Civ Law School in St. Edwards Parish Oxon. Feb. 26. Thom. Barret of New Inn He was soon after Principal of the said Inn and in 1540 became Canon of Kings Coll. or the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. on the site of that of Card. Wolsey One John Hewys LL. Bac. who had practised the said faculty in the Court of the Lord Cardinal Wolsey supplicated to be Doctor of the Civ Law but occurs not admitted I take this Person to be the same with Dr. Hewes who was a forward Man in examining Protestants that were to suffer upon account of Religion in Queen Maries Reign Doct. of Can. Law Feb. 17. John Southwode Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester and Canon residentiary of Wells He died and was buried at Wells 26. John Rede sometimes of New Coll. now Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. beforemention'd I have spoken of another John Rede in the year 1507. One Robert Woodward Warden of All 's Coll. occurs Doctor of Decrees this year but when he was admitted it appears not Will. Cleyton also mention'd in 1527 who had practised the Canon Law several years in the Court of the Lord Cardinal Wolsey supplicated to be admitted Doctor of that faculty but occurs not admitted Doct. of Div. Jun. 28. Fa. Reb Basyng a 〈…〉 He was about this time an Abbat or Prior There also supplicated for the said Degree Fa. William Thryske Abbat of Fountaines in Yorkshire Fa. Rich. Gloucester a Benedictine and as I think an Abbat Tho. Marshall c. ☞ Not one incorporation this year only that of Rich. Porte M. A. of Cambridge Apr. 2. which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1529. An. 21. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Cottysford Proct. John Warner of All 's Coll. Tho. Duke of New Coll. Ap. 7. The Senior of which Proctors was after he had been 7 weeks in his office admitted to the reading of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Bach. of Arts. Dec. 3. John Shepreve or Shepry of C. C. Coll. now in great esteem for his sufficiencies in the Greek and Hebrew tongues 13. John Whyte of New Coll. He was afterwards successively B. of Linc. and Winchester Forty eight more or thereabout were admitted and but six that supplicated for the said Degree who were not this year admitted Bach. of Civil Law March 3. Henry Cole of New Coll. I have spoken largely of him among the Writers Besides him were but ten Bachelers of the Civil Law admitted and but one that supplicated for that Degree Bach. of Can. Law Apr. 2. John Salysbury I take him to be the same who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Qu. Dec. 2. Will. Thomas See among the Writers under the year 1554. Fifteen in all were admitted this year and about nine there were that supplicated who were not admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 13. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Carlile Jun. 21. John Akers a Can. of Card. Coll. He was somtimes of the University of Cambridge where he was esteemed a learned Man c. Besides these two were about 25 admitted and but six that supplicated for the said Degree among whom were Robert Talbot of New Coll. afterwards a learned and judicious Antiquary Thom. Goldwell afterwards B. of St. Asaph and Leonard Cox the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks. Bach. of Physick Jun. ult John Warner M. A. Fellow of All 's Coll. and one of the Proctors of the University was admitted Bach. of Physick and at the same time was licensed to practise the same faculty He was a learned Man of his time but hath published nothing and a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Benefices and Dignities as I shall tell you elsewhere Opponents in Div. May 7. Father John ap Rice a Cistercian and Abbat of Stratmarkell in the Dioc. of St. Asaph He was now resident in St. Bernards Coll. where he obtained his knowledge in Divinity but whether he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences which usually follows opposition in Divinity it appears not The other two Fathers that opposed with him were admitted as I am now about to tell you Bach. of Div. Jun. 28. Fath. Rich. Horte or Hart Dec. 17. Fat Thom. Bylond Can. Regulars Both which were about this time either Abbats or Priors For the said Degree to which but 4 in all were admitted supplicated at least nine among whom were Fath. John Hayward a Can. regular the same if I mistake not that fitted for the University Father Rob. Persons the Jesuit as I have before told you Fath. Thomas Richmond a Cistercian Monk Fa. Jo. Wygge an Austin Fryer c. Doct. of Law Not one in the Canon or Civ Law was admitted or did proceed this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 16. John Moreman of Exeter Coll. This Person who was very learned in his time and hath as 't is thought written several matters of his faculty but lost was born at Southole in Devon and after he had left his Coll. became Vicar of Mayhanet in Cornwall where with much labour he taught the Parishioners to say the Lords Prayer Belief and 10 Commandments in the English tongue about the latter end of the Reign of K. Hen. 8. being the first of all that did so in that Country He was afterwards as 't is said Dean of Exeter and being 〈◊〉 to the B. thereof was as John Fox saith made Bishop of that place after his decease This Coadjutorship was in Oct. 1554 as he saith but how he could succeed the then Bishop who was Dr. Voysey I cannot yet perceive Voysey died in 1555 and Dr. Moreman died at Mayhanet before Oct. 1554. Feb. 1. Fath. Edm. Brycot a Minorite or Franciscan One Brycot was a famous Philosopher of Oxon as his Books shew but his Christian name I think was Thomas This Brycot was the same if I mistake not with Dr. Biycot Parson of Hadham in Hertfordshire in the Reign of Qu. Mary 17. Fr. Tho. Charnocke a Dominican or Black Fryer 24. Rich. Mawdley or Mawdlen Archdeacon of Leicester This person who was a zealous and frequent Preacher against the Lutherans died in 1530 whereupon Steph. Gardiner Dr. of the Civ Law of Cambridge succeeded him in that Archdeaconry in the latter end of March 1531 but he keeping it but till Sept. following was then succeeded in that Dignity by Edw. Fox who was afterwards Bishop of Hereford 24. Will. Mortymer He was soon after Margaret Professor of this University Mar. 15 Rob. Cooke He with Mortymer Moreman and Mawdlen before mention'd were zealous Enemies against the Kings Divorce from Qu. Catherine this year Incorporations Nov. 17. John Hopton a Dominican or Black Fryer D. of D. of the University of Bononia was incorporated by these words spoken by the Commissary from the Chancellour's Chair Pater Johan nos admittimus te incorporamus ad standum in eodem gradu statu quo stetisti Bononiae ac concedimus facultatem legendi disputandi
admitted and but three that supplicated for that Degree Bach. of Phys Feb… David Tolley M. of A. of S. Maries Hall This learned Physitian supplicated for the Degree of Doctor of his Faculty in 1533 but was not as I can yet find admitted or licensed to proceed Bach. of Div. July 13. Hen. Williams of C. C. Coll On the 28 Sept. 1535 he was admitted Prebendary of Osbaldwick in the Church of York and on the 20 Sept. 1537 Canon of VVindsore in the place of Rob. Aldridge promoted to the See of Carlile being about that time also Canon of the Collegiat Church at Southwell in Nottinghamshire Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon and Rector of VVest Ildesley in Berks. His Canonry of the said Coll. at Oxon he lost when K. Hen. 8. was about to convert it into a Cathedral an 1545. in consideration of which he had given to him an yearly Pension of 20 l. per an during his life As for Windsore York and Southwell as also the Prebendary of Bedmynstre and Radeclyve in the Church of Sarum to which he was collated in Jan. 1534 in the place of Edw. Powell D. D. he was deprived of them in the time of Q. Mary an 1554 either for being married or that he was a zealous Protestant or both Jul. 17. Fath. John Tyndall a Carme or White Fryer Oct. 2. Fath. Tho. Kampswell or Kamyswell a Benedictin Monk He was the last Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictines at Coventry Nov. 29. Fath. Tho. Adreston or Aderston Jan. 20. Fath. Donat Machive Austin Fryers 22. The venerable Tho. Marshal a Compounder In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of Nich. Budlyngham in which Dignity he was succeeded by John Aylmer of Elmer M. A. an 1562. One Tho. Marshall supplicated in 1528 to be Doct. of Div. but him I take to be a Dominican Feb. 1. Fath. Laurence Seymore Subprior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon. Mar. 16. John Robyns M. A. of All 's Coll. Besides these were ten more admitted among whom Fa. Matthew Devins a Cistercian of S. Bernard's Coll. was one and about nineteen that supplicated for the said Degree of which number Fa. Rich. Bruerne a Benedictin was one and John Gibbys a Carme another One Fath. John Savage an Austin Fryer was admitted this year to oppose in Div. but whether admitted Bach. of that Faculty it appears not Doct. of Law Not one either in the Canon or Civil Law was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Oct. 10. Fath. Rich. Thornden sometimes written Thornton a Benedictin Gardian Warden of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon. He was afterwards Bishop of Dover Jan. 17. Rich. Coren or Corwyn Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon and of the Kings Chappel of S. Stephen at Westminister He was made Archdeacon of Oxford in the place of Dr. Nic. Wilson 1534 and died about the latter end of 1542. 23. Anthony Molineaux of Magd. Coll. Mar. 12. Fa. Edw. Baskervyle He was about this time Gardian of the Franciscans Coll. in the Suburb of Oxon. Besides these who were licensed to proceed did supplicate for the said Degree Tho. Byrton B. D. lately a Canon of Card. Coll. and Rich. Criyspyne M. A. of Oriel Coll. Incorporations Oct… Stephen Gardiner Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambridge He was now Bishop elect of Winchester and had lately returned from his Embassy to Rome to expedite the King's Divorce from Qu. Catherine being then Secretary to the King and commonly called by the name of Dr. Stephens He was a learned man and of excellent parts a great Statist and a Writer of many Books which are printed I have seen one or more Letters written to him while he was at Rome by Card. Wolsey who stiling him by the name of Mr. Stevens desires him and his Colleagues to spare no labour and cost to obtain for him the Papacy for the settlement of the state wherein the Church and all Christendom doth at present stand as also the state of this Realm and of the Kings secret matter meaning the Divorce from Qu. Cath. which if it should be brought to pass by any other means than by the Authority of the Church I account this Prince and Realm utterly undone c. an 1529. Many of the Letters written by this Dr. Gardiner to the King Cardinal Wolsey and others are subscribed by the name of Stevens and Stephens Oct… John Bell Archdeacon of Glocester and Doct. of the Civil Law beyond the Seas He was afterwards Bishop of Worcester Oct… Rich. Wolman Dean of Wells Doct. of Decrees as the public Register under the year 1523 tells us and Dr. of the Civil Law of an University beyond the Seas as the said Reg. under this year saith was incorporated Doct. of the Civ Law In 1532 he was made Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. James Denton mention'd under the year 1505 being then stiled Consiliarius regius and dying in the Summer time 1537 at which time he left several Legacies to the Church of Wells and to Clavering in Essex was buried in the Cloyster belonging to the Coll. of S. Stephen within the Palace of Westminster In his Deanery succeeded Tho. Cromwel Secretary to K. Hen. 8. and in his Canonry one Rich. Arche of whom will be mention made under the year 1537. William Knight Archdeacon of Richmond and Doctor of Law beyond the Seas He was afterwards Bishop of Bathe and Wells Oct… Ed. Lee D. of D. beyond the Sea and Archbishop elect of York These five persons who were incorporated were not then present in the University but were deplomated or had sent to each of them a Writing under the University Seal to attest that they had the consent of the Commissary and Regents that they were embodied or incorporated Oct. 29. John Chamber Doctor of Physick beyond the Seas was then incorporated A Certificate of it was sealed with the University Seal 16 Nov. following and forthwith sent to him This person who had been Fellow of Mert. Coll. did after he had taken the Degree of M. of A. travel into Italy 1502 studied Physick at Padua and there took the Degree of Doctor in that Faculty After his Return he became the Kings Physitian and with Lynacre and Victoria Founder of the Coll. of Physitians at London In 1510 he became Canon of Windsore and in 1524 he was made Archdeacon of Bedford being then Preb. of Combe and Harnham in the Church of Sarum In 1526 he was elected Warden of Mert. Coll. and about the same time was made Dean of the Kings Chappel dedicated to the blessed Vergin Mary and S. Stephen within the Palace of VVestminster the Cloyster of curious Workmanship adjoyning to which he did not only build but did give to it the said Chappel and the Canons belonging thereunto for ever certain Lands which he afterwards upon the dissolution saw taken into the Kings hands Afterwards he was made Treasurer of VVells was double beneficed in Somersetshire and
Yorkshire and without doubt had other Dignities He died in 1549 whereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Otwel Holinshead and his Archdeaconry on Gilb. Bourne who was afterwards Bishop of Bathe and VVells As for his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. he resigned in 1545 and his Treasurership of VVells in May 1543 in which last succeeded John Marler sometimes Prior or Master of the House or Hospital of S. John Bapt. in VVells There was another John Camber equal in time almost with the former who was Bishop of Peterborough and died in 1556 as I have among the Bishops told you An. Dom. 1532. An. 24 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. VVill. VVarham Archb. of Canterbury but he dying in the month of August Dr. John Cottysford his Commissary resigned his Office with the badges thereof into the hands of the Proctors 26 of the said month and they likewise into the hands of the senior Theologist Dr. Rich. Thornden of Canterbury College who according to the manner was to be Cancellarius natus At length K. Hen. 8. granting to the University power to elect a Chancellor their Liberties and Privileges being now in his hands the Members thereof chose Dr. John Longland Bishop of Lincoln on the first day of the Term following according to the King's desire Commiss John Cottysford D. D. for the former part of the year under Archb. VVarham VVill. Tresham D. D. lately of Merton now Canon of the Kings Coll. was Commissary for the other part of the year Tresham was designed by the new Chanc. Dr. Longland and entred on his Commissaryship on the 15 of Oct. On which day he had the badges of his Office beforemention'd delivered into his hands Proct. VVilliam Selwood of New Coll. VVilliam Pedyll of Mert. Coll. April 9. Gram. Oct. 18. Christoph Wynnington For to inform also supplicated Patr. Growte Humph. Victor and John Dowbyn but they occur not admitted Bach. of Arts. Feb. 17. Rob. VVarde of Merton Coll. a noted Philosopher Besides him were admitted 55 and about 15 there were that supplicated among whom VVill. Baldewyn was one mention'd among the Writers under the year 1564. Bach. of Civ Law Ninteen at least were admitted among whom were 1 John Câ—ttrel whom I shall mention among the Doctors in 1542. 2 Tho. Young not the same who was afterwards Archb. of York but another See among the Bach. of Civ Law 1537. 3 Rich. Wylson 4 Roger Willyams of which two I know nothing and 5 Will Jeffrey of whom I shall make large mention among the Doctors of LL. 1540. Five also there were that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Can. Law June 19. John Lylford a Benedictin Monk July 8. John ap Rice or Price a sec Chapl. Feb. 15. Maurice Gryffyth I take him to be the same mentioned among the Bach. of Div. this year Besides these were about 24 admitted and about 21 that supplicated among whom Will. Luson Bach. of the Civ Law beyond the Seas was one the same Will. Luson perhaps who occurs Archdeacon of Caermerthen in the Diocess of S. David 1571. Mast of Arts. June 6. Will. Bradbridge or Brodbridge of Magd. Coll. Jan. 14. Hugh Weston of Linc. 29. Gilb. Bourne of All 's Feb. 19. John Parkhurst of Merton Coll. Three of which were afterwards Bishops and two were Writers Besides them were about 40 that were admitted and but four that supplicated for the said degree that were not adm Opponents in Divinity May 13. Thomas Macy or Massie a Can. regular and now Prior of the Coll. of Canon regulars called S. Maries Coll. in Oxon. He was afterwards Bach. of Div. but omitted in the Register Eight besides him were admitted to oppose among whom were John Nottyngham a Minorite and Walt. Bower a Benedictin but were not now or after admitted Bach. of Div. Bach. of Div. June 27. John Palsgrave See afterwards in the Incorporations Jul. 5. Maurice Gryffyth or Griffyn a Dominican He was afterwards Bishop of Rochester Dec. 7. Fa. John Tybbys a Benedictin Nine besides were admitted of which number were John Doove or Dove and John Gibbys Carmes Rich. Knyght a Dominican Walt. Sutton and John Kingston Benedictines and Rob. Roberdsoryge a Bernardine and about 29 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom were 1 John Helyar of C. C. Coll. 2 George Browne an Austin Fryer afterwards Archb. of Dublin 3 Fath. Simon Clerkson a Carme 4 Fath. John Cardmaker a Minorite who had spent 16 years here and at Cambridge in Logic Philosophy and Divinity but whether admitted it appears not This Cardmaker did about the time of the dissolution of Abbeys 1535 preach very freely against the Power of the Pope and afterwards was made Prebendary of Wells In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he took to him a Wife and had by her a Female Child and became a Reader in Pauls where his Lectures were so much offensive to the Rom. Cath. Party that they abused him to his face and with their knives would cut and haggle his Gown About that time he was made Chancellor of the Church of Wells by the name of John Tayler alias Cardmaker and was looked upon there and at London as the most zealous Minister to carry on the work of Reformation At length when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was deprived of his Spiritualities and imprisoned in the Fleet was had before the Bishop of London and the Spiritual Power to know whether he would recant his Heresie as they called it but he stifly denying it and therefore condemned to dye he was burnt in Smithfield 30 May 1555 as John Fox in his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church will tell you Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 5. Hugh Coren or Curwyn He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin and Bishop of Oxon. Jan 24. John Barber of All 's Coll. He was an Advocate in the Court of Arches and died at Wrotham in Kent about the beginning of the year 1549. Will. Petre of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day This worthy Person was Son of John Petre a rich Tanner of Torbryan in Devenshire and was originally of Exeter Coll. Thence he was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1523 and afterwards became successively Principal of Peckwater's Inn one of the Visitors of Religious Houses when they were about to be dissolv'd Master of the Requests and a Knight Secretary and one of the Privy Council to K. Hen. 8 and Ed. 6. Sub-Treasurer afterwards Treasurer to K. Ed. 6. of the first Fruits and Tenths Secretary of the Privy Council to Q. Mary in whose time he was Chancellor of the Order of the Garter and at length of the Privy Council to Q. Elizabeth He died 13 Jan. 1571 and was buried in the Church of Ingerston in Essex on 11 Feb. following The learned Cambden saith that he was a man of approved Wisdom and exquisite Learning and not so much memorable for those honorable Places and Offices of State which he bare and for his
oftentimes being sent in Embassage to foreign Princes as for that being bred and brought up in good Learning he well 〈◊〉 of Learning in the Vniversity of Oxford and was both pitiful and bountèous to his poor Neighbours about him and of Ingerston where he lies buried Jan. 24. Griffyn Leyson Principal of S. Edwunds Hall near S. Edw. Church He with John Oliver Dr. of the Civ Law were employed in the matter of depriving Steph. Gardiner of his Bishoprick of Winchester and in the time of Qu. Mary wheeling about he became a Justice of Peace and High Sheriff of Caermerthenshire when Rob. â—errar Bishop of S. Davids was burnt an 1555 at which time suffering not the said Bishop to speak his mind when he was at the Stake as John Fox tells us died about half an year after when he would have spoke himself but could not One George Throgmorton LL. B. did supplicate to be admitted to the said degree but was not Doct. of Div. Jul. 5. Rich. Langrigg or Langrish He was originally of Mert. Coll. and from being Fellow ehere he became one of the Canons of Cardinal Coll. Chaplain to Wolsey Archb. of York and afterwards to Dr. Lee his Successor in that See In 1534 he became Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. Will. Clyffe promoted to the Chantorship of York and dying in 1547 he was succeeded in the said Archdeaconry by Dr. Jo. Warner Joh. Hopton a Dominican was admitted the same day This person tho incorporated D. of D. in 1529 yet he was now licensed to proceed and accordingly stood in the Act celebrated three dayes after his Admission See more among the Bishops under the year 1558. July 28. Will. Tresham lately of Merton now Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon. John Travyshe M. of A. and B. D. was adm Doct. the same day This year also Fa. Rich. Hylsey a Dominican and Simon Atkyns M. A. and B. of D. supplicated to be Doctors of the said Faculty The former was afterwards admitted but neglected to be put in the Register the other was not Incorporations June 1. Jam. Turbervyle of New Coll. D. of D. of another University He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter June 19. Joh. Palsgrave Feb… Will. Leighton M. A. of Cambr. July…Rob Wakefeld B. of D. of Cambridge now Canon of the Kings Coll. at Oxon. Nov… Fa. John Hurleston or Huddleston a Carme Bach of Div. of the University of Colen In the month of June this year supplicated Rich. Croke D. of D. of Cambridge and about this time Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon to be incorporated in that degree which Supplication tho not at that time granted yet afterwards he was incorporated An. Dom. 1533. An. 25 Hen. 8. Chanc. John Longland D. D. and Bishop of Lincoln sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll. Commiss in chief was Will. Treshan D. D. Proct. John Pekyns of Exeter Coll. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. Apr. 3. Grammarians June…Gilb Saywell Jan… Jehn Best Schol. of Gram. These two were admitted to inform in Grammar Qu. Whether Jo. Best was not the same person who in 1560 was made Bish of Carlile for in these days and after several of the Bishops were originally Pedagogues Bach. of Arts. July 20. John Man of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of Mert. Coll. and Dean of Glocester as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1568. July 20. Thomas Talbot Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall of Brasnose Coll. Feb. 15. John Clerke Quaere Sixty two in all were admitted this year and but six that suppl Bach. of Civ Law July 13. Joh. Wymesley or Wymsley of Broadgates Hall He was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Dr. Bonner Bishop of that City in the place of Dr. Rich. Gwent deceased an 1543 and was present in the Convocation of the Clergy 1 Mari. c Dom. 1553 in which Convocation he did speak an Oration that was soon after made publick About nine besides him were admitted and but three there were that supplicated for the said degree Bach. of Can. Law Nov. 27. Donatus Riane a public Reader of the Canon Law in New Inn. A learned Irish Author in his enumcration or Writers and learned men of Ireland tells us there were two Brethren of Oxford whose Sirnames were Riane and that one of them was a good Civilian and the other a Mathematician but mentions nothing of their Writings This Donatus therefore I take to be the Civilian and Daniel mention'd under the year 1556 to be the Mathematician See in the year 1514. Besides him were six admitted and eight at least that supplicated for the said degree Mast of Arts. Mar… John Shepreve or Shepery of C. C. Coll. Apr… Will. Pye of Oriel He was afterwards Dean of Chichester Jan. 30. Joh. Whyte of New Coll. He was afterwards B. of Wint. Mar. 19. Thomas Young Perhaps the same who took a degree in the Civ Law 1537 as I shall tell you in that year Besides these were but fourteen admitted and about eight that supplicated for the said degree that were not this year admitted Opponents in Divinity Mar. 31. Fath. Rob. Kynner alias Bate a Monk of the Order of S. Bernard now of S. Bernards Coll. He was the last Abbat of Smite in Warwickshire of the Cistercian Order In the year before he supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. tho he had not opposed and whether he was admitted this or in any other year following it appears not in the Reg. Mar. 31. Fath. May. 29. Fath. Tho. Kyngeswood Rich. Greene Ralph Wobourne of S. Bernards Coll. These three Fathers who were Monks of the Order of S. Bern. were not adm Bach. of Div. which is the reason I put them here Nov. 29. Fr. John Wyllyams a Minorite Bach. of Div. May 29. Fa. Rob. Combe a Bernardine or Cistercian Monk now Provisor of S. Bernards Coll. in Oxon. Oct. 14. Rob. Ferrar a Can. reg of S. Maries Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. David Mar. 7. Fa. Tho. sometimes written Will. Todde a Bened. Monk 11. Fa. Andr. Alton of the same Order and about this time Prior of the Monks living in Glocester Coll. in the Suburb of Oxon. 20. Thomas Goldwell M. A. He was afterwards B. of S. Asaph Besides these were six more admitted and about 16 that supplicated among whom were Fr. John Arthure and Fr. Edw Reyley Minorites Fath. Tho. Wethamsted and Fa. John Langport Benedictines Fr. Joh. Joseph and Fr. Joh. Bacheler Minorites the last of which was Subgardian of the Franciscan Coll. in Oxon. ☞ Not one Doct. of Can. or Civ Law nor one Doct. of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Neither in Divinity only John Bellytory M. A. of Mert. Coll. and John Wylson Bach. of Div. supplicated for that degree One Rich Borde also M. of A. of this University and Doct. of Div. of Paris did supplicate to be absent from Exequies Masses Processions c. An. Dom. 1534. An. 26 Hen. 8.
studied now in St. Bernards Coll. in Oxon was then admitted He was afterwards made Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon where abiding till 1545 at which time the said Coll. was to be converted into a Cathedral he had in recompense for it 20 l. per an paid unto him out of the Exchequer Afterwards being made Prebendary of Salisbury was at length about the year 1579 nominated by Qu. Elizab. to succeed John Devereux in the See of Fernes in Ireland but he dying before his consecration thereunto Hugh Allen B. of Downe and Coâ—nor was translated to that See Fa. Anth. Clerke a Monk of the said Order and of St. Bernards Coll. was admitted the same day Fa. Edward Manchester another Monk of the same Order and Coll. was then also admitted When his Monastery was dissolved he return'd to his old Sirname again which was Pedley and in 1538 I find him in a poor condition as the other Fathers of the same Order probably were Two more were admitted and six that supplicated for that Degree who were not admitted among whom were Fr. John Lyllyng a Minorite Doct. of Civil Law Octob. 11. Will. Coke or Cooke of All 's College now Rector or Warden of Elmeley in Kent In 1537 I find him by the name of Will. Coke LL. D. to be Principal or Chief Moderator of the Civ Law School in St. Edwards Parish and in 1548 Judge or General Commissary or custos of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury I take this Dr. Cook to be the same with him who was zealous in examining Protestants about matters of faith when they were brought before the Bishop of London as you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Church under the year 1558. and elsewhere Doct. of Div. Jul. 5. John Hastyngs sometimes of Vniversity now Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon. Thom. Raynolds of Merton sometimes one of the Canons of Cardinal Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Warden of Merton Coll. Residentiary of Exeter Dean of Bristow for a time an 1553 and Dean of Exeter in the year following on the death of Dr. John Moreman This Person being learned and Chaplain to Queen Mary she therefore nominated him to succeed Rob. Parfew alias Warton in the Episcopal See of Hereford but she dying before he received consecration thereunto was not only put aside by Queen Elizabeth but by her committed to custody in the Prison called the Marshalsea in Southwark where he died about 24. Nov. 1559. Jul. 5. Nich. Cartwryght M. of A. and Bach. of Div. In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he was a great admirer of Pet. Martyr and his Doctrine and about that time was made Master or Schoolmaster of the House or Hospital of St. John Baptist joyning to Banbury in Oxfordshire In the Reign of Qu. Mary he was commanded to dispute with Hugh Latymer in the Divinity School before he was to sacrifice his life in the flames an 1554 yet spoke as little as could be and two years after he was deprived of a benefice in the Dioc. of Lichf and Cov. He died and was buried at Banbury beforementioned about 1558. Jul. 5. John Huchenson Matthew Wyttalls Masters of Arts and Bach. of Div. George Cotes of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day Soon after he was Master of Balliol Coll. and at length Bishop of Chester Rich. Smyth of Mert. Coll. mention'd before among the Bach. of Div. was also admitted the same day Afterwards in the times of reformation he was esteemed the chief pillar of the R. Cath. cause At the same time one John Vyne M. A. and Bach. of Div. supplicated to be Doctor of that fac but was not admitted Incorporations Not one was really incorporated only several supplicated in Order to it as 1 Ralph Smale M. A. of an University beyond the Sea who also supplicated in the year following for incorporation 2 John Belfield B. A. of Cambridge who being 8 years standing in that University supplicated this year also to be M. of A. 3 Joh. Crayford D. D. of Cambridge See more in 1546. An. Dom. 1537. An. 29. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Tresham Proct. Hugh Weston of Linc. Coll. Tho. Knyght of Linc. Coll. Apr. 11. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Rich. Bertue or Bertie of C. C. Coll. He afterwards married with Catherine the sole Daughter and Heir of William Lord Willoughby of Eresby the Widow of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk became Possessor of the great estate belonging to that title and Father of Peregrine Lord Willoughby of Eresby ancestor to Bertie Earl of Lindsey and Bertie E. of Abendon Feb. 18. Morgan Philipps or Philip Morgan of Oriel Coll. commonly called Morgan the Sophister 23. Rob. Paulet One John Paulet sometimes of Oxon occurs Dean of the Island of Jernesey 28. Tho. Hardyng of New Coll. In all about six and thirty besides ten or more that supplicated for that Degree Bach. of Civ Law Jul. 2. John Coke a Secular Chaplain and a Student in the Cesarean Laws here and at Cambridge for three years or more This Person is not to be understood to be the same with John Coke or Cook who occurs a little before this time Abbat of Osney as some have taken him to be so which is the reason that I make now this note of him Feb. 17. Tho. Young a Sec. Chaplain now as it seems of Broadgates hall He was afterwards Archbishop of York Rob. Weston of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day See among the Doctors of the Civ Law in 1556. Will. Dalby of the said Coll. was also adm the same day He was afterwards Chancellour of the Diocess of Bristow whence he was ejected upon account of Religion in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth as Nic. Saunders tells us Feb. 17. Benedictus Guarsius sometimes written Ballasarus Gwarcius Quaere Besides these was only Arth. Pytts of Alis Coll. admitted and one Hugh Whytford who supplicated for the said Degree Not one was admitted in the Canon Law nor one supplicated for the reason I have before told you under the year 1537. Mast of Arts. May 11. John Powle or Bowle of All 's Coll. This Person who was Canon of Windsore in the time of Ed. 6. is reported by a certain writer to have been lately Prior of Merton in Surrey and that dying at Windsore 15 Aug. 1558 was buried there Rich. Reeve of All 's Coll. was adm the same day He was afterwards the first Prebendary of the ninth Prebendship of Westminster an 1560 Canon of Wandsore in 1561 and the Queens Chaplain This Person is remembred by John Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church to have been the noted Schoolmaster of Berchamstede in Hertfordshire and that for his zeal to protestancy he was brought into some kind of trouble in the Reign of Qu. Mary He died in 1594 leaving behind him the Character of a religious and learned Man whereupon Cuthbert Bellot M. A. succeeded him in his Prebendship and
Act celebrated in Sept. comes to 23. Bach. of Physick James Neyland of All 's Coll. Others were admitted but are not inserted in the register Bach. of Div. Jul… Bernard Gilpyn of Queens Coll. This Person who was born of an antient and gentile Family at Kentmeire in Westmorland became a poor serving child of the said Coll. in 1533. aged 17 or thereabouts and about the time that he proceeded M. of A. he was made Fellow thereof being then esteemed a good Disputant in Logick and Philosophy and well read in the Greek and Hebrew in which tongues he was instructed by his contemporary Thomas Neale of New Coll. who was afterwards Heb. Prof. of this University About that time his eminence in learning was such that he was made choice of to be one of the first Masters to supply Ch. Ch. when first founded for a Dean Canons and Students by K. Hen. 8. But continuing there not long was at length taken thence and by the care and charge of his Mothers Uncle Dr. Cuthb Tonstall Bishop of Durham he was sent to travel and while he continued in the University of Paris he did him some service in correcting and printing one of his books as I have elsewhere told you After his return he confer'd on him the rectory of Esington with the Archdeaconry of Durham annex'd about 1556 but in whose room or place I cannot tell unless in that of one Will. Franklin Bach. of Decrees and Chancellour of Durham who occurs Archdeacon of Durham 1531. After he was setled at Esington he preached much against the vices errors and corruptions of the times to the great displeasure of some of the neighbouring Ministers who were then R. Catholicks But his desire being to part with those troublesome places as too much for one Man to keep as he pretended he was presented to the rich rectory of Houghton in the Spring in the county pal of Durham where being setled his Preachings were so frequent and in other places as well remote as near thereunto that he was commonly called The Northern Apostle His almes were also so large frequent and constant that he was usually called The common father of the poor In his Archdeacony of Durham succeeded John Ebden Bach. of Div. sometimes Proctor of the University of Cambridge who had it given to him by Qu. Elizabeth while the See of Durham was void 22. May 1560 a little before which time Gilpyn had a congedeslier sent to him to be elected Bishop of Carlile on the death of Owen Oglethorp but refused it Soon after he erected a Grammar School at Houghton and bestowed 460 l. to buy Lands to endow it for a Master and Usher Which with other Moneys and Lands given for that purpose by Joh. Heath of Kepier Esq the School was setled in 1572 or thereabouts To conclude this worthy Person having his life written and published by one of his Scholars I shall now say no more of him only that he died on the 4. March 1583 aged 66 and was buried in the Church at Houghton and that by his will dated 17. Oct. 1582 he left half of his goods to the poor of that place and the other half in exhibitions upon Scholars and Students in Oxon viz. Mr. Rich. Wharton Mr. Steph. Copperthwaite George Carleton afterwards B. of Chich. Ralph Ironside born in Houghton before-mention'd Father to Gilbert Bishop of Bristow an 1660 Evan Airay Hen. Airay afterwards Provost of Qu. Coll. Will. Cayrus Franc. Risley Tho. Collinson c. He hath written several things but hath nothing extant only A Sermon before the King and Court at Greenwich on the first Sunday after Epiph. an 1552 on Luke 2. from verse 41. to 48. Lond. 1581. oct there again 1630. qu. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Phys or Divinity can I find to have been admitted this year for the reason before specified An. Dom. 1550. An. 4 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicech Dr. Walt. Wryght but he giving up his office according to the Edwardin statutes in the beginning of Michaelmas term Dr. Will. Tresham of Ch. Ch. who before had often been Commissary was elected according to a certain form into his place Proct. Rog. Elyott of All 's Tho. Frynde of New Coll. Bach. of Musick Tho the publick register of this time is very imperfect as having been neglected by one who was afterwards deservedly turn'd out of his place yet it appears therein tho very obscurely that one Joh. Merbeck or Marbeck Organist of St. Georges chap. at Windsore did supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick but whether he was admitted it appears not because the admissions in all faculties are for several years omitted All therefore that I can say of him is that he was an eminent Musician of his time as well for the Theory as practical part of Musick as may be seen in a book of his composition intit The book of Common-prayer noted Lond. 1550. qu. besides divers compositions that are not extant As for other books that he wrot and published relate to Divinity and matters against the Pope among which are 1 A concordance of the Bible c. Lond. 1550. fol. c. 2 The lives of holy Saints Prophets Patriarchs c. Lond in 4o. 3 The ripping up of the Popes fardel Ibid. 1581. oct 4 Book of notes and common places with their exposition c. Ibid. 1581. qu. 5 Examples drawn out of Holy Scripture with their application Also a brief conference between the Pope and his Secretary wherein is opened his great blasphemous pride Ib. 1582. oct 6 Dialogue between youth and old age wherein is declared the Persecution of Christs Religion since the fall of Adam hitherto Lond. 1584. oct John Fox in his book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. doth speak largely of this John Merbeck if not too much in the first edition thereof wherein he made him a Martyr while he was living which hath administred a great deal of sport among the R. Cath. writers as Alan Cope Rob. Persons c. Bach. of Arts. William Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards a Cardinal and an Archbishop Will. Overton John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Bishops in England Pet. Whyte of Oriel Pet. Morwyng of Magd. Coll. c. The admissions of Bachelaurs ad Lecturam and of those ad Determinandum being omitted by the publick Scribe this year the just number therefore is unknown Mast of Arts. The number of Masters that were admitted I cannot tell because record is defective However the number of those that stood in the Comitia held 8. Sept. is fifteen among whom are James Dugdale afterwards Master of Vniv. Coll. and Will. Norfolk of Oriel afterwards Princ. of St. Maries hall and one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester Bach. of Div. John Jewell of C. C. John Harley of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Bishops and the first a very learned Man Paul French of All 's Coll. In 1560 he became Canon
John Mason Knight sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. lately Ambassadour for K. H. 8. into several Foreign Countries and now Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester Vicechanc. or Prochanc James Brokes D. D. of C. C. Coll. for the first part of the year and Rich. Martiall D. D. of Ch. Ch. for the other part being elected in Convocation Prochanc 3. oct In his absence Dr. Tresham officiated and is sometimes stiled Procancellarius Proct. The Spencer of Ch. Ch. Maur. Bullock of New Coll. Both elected on the day before the Cal. of Octob. Bach. of Arts. Jun… John Rastell Oct. 4. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. Both afterwards writers and the last an eminent Physician About 26 were admitted this year one half of which are omitted in the Register Bach. of LL. Ellis Heywood of All 's Coll. He was afterwards a Jesuit and a writer Griffyth Willyams of New Coll. In 1554 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Rob. Johnson resigning and whether he be the same Williams who was Chancellour to the Bishop of Glocester about the same time remembred by Joh. Fox for his strange fearful and sudden death which befel him in 1558 after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and therefore esteemed as a judgment on him for condemning a blind boy to be burnt in 1556 I cannot justly tell you In 1557. Will. Turnball LL. Bac. succeeded Griffyth Willyams in the Chancellourship of Worcester In the publick register which is very imperfect in the beginning of this year it partly appears that one John Bodye supplicated to be admitted Bach. of LL. See in the year 1554. Mast of Arts. Alan Cope Lawr. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. Hieron Philippides Joh. Abulines or ab Vlmis of Ch. Ch. Whether either of these two last was a writer I cannot yet tell Qu. Will. Good of C. C. Coll. Jam. Calfill John Bavant of Ch. Ch. The last of the said Masters was afterwards one of the first Fellows of St. Johns Coll. and the first Greek reader there He was Tutor in the said house to Edm. Campian and Greg. Martin but upon the alteration of Religion leaving the Coll and his Country was made a Ro. Cath. Priest and afterwards was one of those that endured a tedious imprisonment in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire upon account of Religion Twenty Masters stood in the Act celebrated 18. July this year but how many were admitted it appears not in the register Bach. of Div Thom. Hardyng of New Coll. Thom. Bickley Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. The two last were afterwards Bishops Gilbert Burnford In 1554 he had the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells granted to him under the Seal of the Bishop and Chapter thereof But when he craved admission thereunto in 1560 he was denied because he refused the oath of Supremacy For the same reason he was deprived of the Prebendary of Hasilbere in that Church and of a rectory in the Dioc. of Wells Note that whereas always before this time when any Bach. of Div. was admitted he was registred as admitted ad lecturam libri sententiarum so now during the Reign of K Ed. 6. they are registred as admitted ad lectionem Paulinarum Epistolarum And this year those that were admitted are registred as admitted ad enaâ—rationem Epistolarum Apostolicarum in ipsis comitiis hoc anno viz. 18. Julii Doct. of Civ Law Hen. Jones of All 's Coll. This Person was one of the learned Doctors of the Civ Law whom Qu. Elizabeth consulted concerning the matter of Lesley Bishop of Ross who while he was Embassador from Mary Qu. of Scots to Qu. Elizabeth consulted and promoted a Rebellion against her See in Camdens Annalls of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1571. This Dr. Jones died in or near Doctors Commons about the beginning of Feb. in 1591 and was buried as it seems in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Rich. Martiall of Ch. Ch. Soon after he was made Prebendary of Winchester and Dean of his Coll. by the intercession of the Lord Arundell to whom he was Chaplain made to the Queen In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he seem'd to be a great Reformer and retracted what he zealously had held in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. After the death of K. Ed. 6. he returned to his former opinions and was more zealous for the Cath. cause than before But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he absconded for a time and went from place to place At length being taken and conveyed to London retracted again in hopes of being setled in his Deanery of Ch. Ch. which might have been had he behaved himself moderately in the Reign of Qu. Mary Afterwards as 't is said he went into Yorkshire where he died obscurely In his Deanery succeeded G. Carew as I have told you before under the year 1522. Hen. Pendleton of Brasn Coll. was also admitted this year and stood with Martiall in the Act that followed Henr. Syddall LL. B. and Canon of Ch. Ch. who had studied sacred letters for 18 years did this year supplicate that he might put on or be honour'd with the cap of Doct. of Divinity This desire of his was granted conditionally that he be inaugurated and dispute in Divinity in the next Act that should follow But whether he was so or did dispute it appears not in the publick register or in the Catalogues of Inceptors Incorporations Nov. 12. Brian Baynes Bach. of Arts of Cambridge The next year he proceeded in the said faculty being then a member of Ch. Ch. which is all I know of him Nov …Valentine Dale of All 's Coll. Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas at Oreleans I think seems to be incorporated in that month because he had supplicated more than once for that Degree He was afterwards Master of the Requests Dean of Wells 1574 and about that time Embassadour to the French King upon the calling home of Sir Franc. Walsingham to be Secretary of State c. He died in his house near St. Pauls Cathedral 17. Nov. 1589. and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Gregory near to the said Cathedral leaving behind him a Daughter named Dorothy who being coheir to her Father was married to Sir John North Son and Heir to Roger Lord North. Dec. 2. Walter Haddon President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. and Doctor of the Civil Law at Cambridge This Person who was a Buckinghamshire Man born and educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School was chose Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1533 where arriving to great eminence in the Civil Law was made the Kings Professor of that faculty in the said University and much esteemed for his eloquence and learning especially by Leland who calls him Heveddunus Afterwards being a Man much addicted to reformation he was by virtue of several letters written by the King in his behalf elected tho contrary to statute
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
Johnson one of their Society to take the degree of Bach. of Arts in the University with certain conditions to be by him performed but whether he took the said degree it appears not Afterwards he went to Doway and studied Philosophy and Divinity thence to Rheimes where he was made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England in Feb. 1579 changed his name to Lawrence Richardson because he was the Son of Rich. Johnson of Lancashire but being soon after taken and imprison'd was executed at Tybourne 30 May 1582. Adm. 84. Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. John Chardon of Ex. Coll. Edw. Graunt The last was the same who was adm Bach. of Arts 1571. 29. Mardochey Aldem of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards a Physitian as well as Divine became Canon of Windsore in 1607 in the place of Joh. King sometimes Fellow of Peter House in Cambridge and about that time Fellow of Eaton Coll. He died in 1615 and was succeeded in the said Canonry by Dr. John King of Merâ— Coll. Nephew to the former John May 12. Franc. Trigge of Vniv. 17. Jo. Rainolds of Corp. Ch. Coll. Jun… Meridith Hanmer of Corp. Ch. Adam Hyll of Balliol John Case of S. Johns Coll. Jul. 11. Hen. Vsher of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Armagh Dec. 2. Rob. Persons of Ball. Coll. Feb. 26. John Norden of Hart Hall Mar. 17. Joh. Lane of C. C. Coll. He soon after resigned his Fellowship of that House travelled with Fa. Persons the Jesuit entred into the Society of Jesus and died with great opinion of Holiness in the University of Complutum in Spain an 1578. Adm. 61. Bach. of Div. Four were admitted of whom Joh. Chandler Prebendary of Winchester was one Jan. 22. and nine supplicated for the said Degree among whom were 1 John Oxenbridge but whether the same with Dr. Oxenbridge who was committed to custody in Wisbich Castle with Dr. Tho. Watson Bishop of Linc. Dr. John Fekenham sometimes Abbat of Westminster Dr. Yong c. an 1580 I cannot tell 2 Thom. Kingesâ—ill of Magd. Coll. remembred before among the Writers and 3 Jeffry Downes M. A. of Cambridge not that Jeffr. Downes Tutor to John Bale who became Chancellour of the Church of York in Aug. 1537 in the place of Henry Trafford D. D. deceased but another of the same University who was a learned man ☞ Not one Doct. of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations March 28. James Wats M. A. of the University of Lovaine Jun… Petrus Pitheus a Licentiate in the Civil Law of the University of Bourges in France was incorporated Doctor of the same Faculty He was at this time a Sojournour in Oxford for the sake of Study and Converse and afterwards became famous for his exact knowledge in all Antiquity Ecclesiastical History Laws c. All the great men of his time did make honorable mention of him in their respective books and some did dedicate their Writings to him and his Brother Francis Pitheus as the Lights of France Thuanus doth very much commend and at length concludes thus of him that In the Civil Law of the Romans he came to that height that it might be justly said of him and his famous Master Cujacius hunc discipulo praeripuisse ne primus Jurisconsultus esset illum praeceptori ne solus c. Many of his works are mention'd in the Oxford Catalogue Jul. 1. Hen. Vsher Bach. of Arts of Cambridge He soon after took the degree of Master as I have told you before 14. Felix Lewys LL. Bach. of Doway 15. Rich. Fietcher four years standing in the degree of M. of A. at Cambridge He was a Kentish man born as 't is said bred in Bennet commonly called Corp. Christi Coll. in Cambridge became Dean of Peterborough in 1583 and was present with Mary Queen of Scots when she suffer'd death at Foderinghey in Northamptonshire in the month of Febr. 1586. At which time being the person appointed to pray with and for her did perswade her to renounce her Religion contrary to all Christianity and Humanity as it was by many then present so taken to her great disturbance In 1589 he was made Bish of Bristow there being then many leases to be past in that Bishoprick and about that time Bish Almoner Whereupon Thomas Nevill D. D. of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanery of Peterborough an 1590. From Bristow he was translated to Worcester and soon after to London At length he took to him a second Wife a very handsome Widow called the Lady Baker Sister as 't is said to George Gifford the Pensioner At which Marriage the Queen being much displeased as she was at the marriage of all the Clergy he died discontentedly by immoderate taking of Tobacco on the 15 of June 1596 and was buried before S. George's Chappel within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul He had a Brother named Giles Fletcher a Kentish man born also as 't is said bred in Eaton School elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1565 where he became a learned Man an excellent Poet and Doctor of the Laws Afterwards he was sent Commissioner into Scotland Germany and into the Low Countries Embassador to Russia was made Secretary to the City of London and Master of the Requests At length he wrot and published The History of Russia c. Or Of the Russian Commonwealth Lond. 1591. oct Which book was quickly suppressed lest it might give offence to a Prince in amity with England Afterwards it was reprinted in tw an 1643 c. This Dr. Gil. Fletcher died in the Parish of St. Catherine in Colemanstreet in London in the month of Feb. 1610 and was buried I presume in the Ch. of St. Cath. there leaving then behind him a Son of both his names Bach. of Div. of Trin. Coll. in Camb. equally beloved of the Muses and Graces who died at Alderton in Suffolk an 1623. He left also behind him another Son named Phinees Fletcher of Kings Coll. in the same University where he was accounted an excellent Poet. Afterwards he was beneficed at Hilgay in Norfolke and became Author of several books among which one is entit A Fathers testament written for the benefit of his particular Relations Lond. 1670. oct at which time the Author had been dead several years The titles of two other books written by him you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue Rob. Bennet of three years standing in the Degree of M. of A. of Camb. was also then July 15. incorporated This Person who was of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. was afterwards Chaplain to Will Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winchester was installed Dean of Windsore 24. March 1595 sworn Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter on the Feast of St. George 1596 and at length on the 20. of Feb. 1602. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford as I have told you before
taken and imprison'd was executed at Tyburn with John Mundin and others 12. Feb. 1582. Three more besides him were admitted and six there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom Rob. Garvey a learned Irish Man was one Mast of Arts. June 1. John Lilye of Magd. Rich. Meredyth of Jesus Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Leighlin in Ireland 3. John Hudson of Broadgates Hall He was afterwards Vicar of Patcham in Sussex and Author of A Sermon at Pauls Cross on Heb. 10. 19. Lond. 1584. oct and perhaps of other matters 20. Henry Robinson of Qu. Coll. 21. Christoph Bagshaw Tho. Holland Of Ball Coll. 27. John Thornborough of Magd. Coll. Nov. 25. Rich. Mâ—dox or Maddock of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and Author of A learned and godly Sermon to be read of all Men but especially for all Mariners Captains and Passengers which travel the Seas Preached at Waymouth and Melcomb Regis in the County of Dorset 3. Oct. 1581 on Matth. 8. 23. 24. 25. Printed in oct at London but when it appears not It was published after the Authors death by one Thom. Martin who being unacquainted with his Christian name sets him down in the title by the name of John Madox tho no such Person appears to have been ever Fellow of All 's Coll. In 1563 one Rich. Madox was admitted Bach. of Law and another in 1590 but they are both different and different from Rich. the Divine who was M. of A. Feb. 1. John Bodye of New Coll. The next year he was removed from his Fellowship for being a Papist whereupon going beyond the Seas he took upon him Priestly Orders and returning into England in the condition of a Seminary was taken and imprison'd and at length executed at Andever in Hampshire for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England an 1583. He was born in the City of Welâ—s was well vers'd in the Civil Law and esteemed by those of his opinion a learned Man See more of him in Card. Will. Alans book entit A sincere and modest defence c. or An answer to a Libell of English justice c. p. 5. and in Concertatio Ecclesiae Cath. in Anglia c. printed 1594. p. 293. c. I find another John Bodye who in 1552 supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Civ Law and another who was admitted Bac. of Arts 1554. and a third to that of Master an 1562. Whether they were one and the same Person I cannot tell or whether several Tho. Leyson of New Coll. was admitted the same day Feb. 1. Admitted 75. Bach. of Phys Thom. Williams of Mert. Coll. was admitted this year but the day or month when appears not He is stiled in the records of that Coll. vir in arte medica multum diuque versatus and doctus peritus medicus Bach. of Div. Jun. 13. John Nutter Whether he was the same John Nutter who suffer'd death at Tyburne 12. Feb. 1582 for being a R. Cath. Priest and denying the Queens Supremacy I know not Quaere Jul. 8. Thom. Sparke of Magd. Coll. He was now Chaplain to Thomas Bishop of Lincolne and a famous Preacher as the publick register saith Feb. 14. Thom. Summaster of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Cornwall John Leach of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day being about this time Canon of Exeter and of some other Church One John Leech published a Sermon entit The trayne Soldier preached before the Society of the Captains and Gentlemen that exercise Arms in the Artillery Garden 20. Apr. 1619 on Heb. 12. 4. Lond. 1619. oct but this John Leech must not be understood to be the same with the former Ten in all were admitted this year besides 7 that supplicated for the same Degree Doct. of Civ Law Dec. 5. Rob. Whitmore Thom. Randolph mention'd among the creations under the year 1566 did supplicate for the Degree of Doct. of the Civ Law in June yet he appears not admitted He was afterwards made Doct. of that faculty in another Country when he performed one of his Embassies as it seems Quaere Doct. of Phys Jul… John Watson of All 's Coll. who had studied Physick for 20 years was admitted Doctor of that faculty He was afterwards Bishop of Winchester ☞ Not one Doctor of Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations A supplicate was made for one Hugh Blythe Bach. of Div. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge to be incorporated but whether it was granted it appears not In 1572 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of George Carew made Dean of that Chappel he being about that time Schoolmaster of Eaton and in 1589 he succeeded Dr. Rich. Barber in the Archdeaconry of Leycester In this last dignity he was succeeded by Rob. Johnson a great benefactor to learning an 1591 and dying in 1610 he being then Doct. of Div. was succeeded in Windsore by Thom. Frith of All 's Coll. in Oxâ—n An. Dom. 1576. An. 18 Eliz. An. 19 Eliz. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Lawr. Humphrey but he resigning the Chancellour by his letters designed for his Successor Dr. Harbert Westphalyng Canon of Chr. Ch. who accordingly was admitted 23. June Proct. John Vnderhill Henry Savile again Which Proctors were continued in their Offices at the special request of the Chancellour May 12. without any election by suffrages in a scrutiny in convocation Bach. of Arts. Dec. 17. Steph. Gosson of C. C. Jan. 21. John Harmar of New Feb. 16. John Doderidge of Exeter Coll. The last was afterwards a famous common Lawyer Admitted 122. Bach. of Law Three were this year admitted but not one of them do I find to have been a Bishop Writer or Dignitary Mast of Arts. Jun. 23. Sim. Wisdome of Gloucester Hall 26. Miles Smith of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop Thom. Lister was admitted the same day One of both his names was a Jesuit and wrot a book to prove that the Secular Priests in custody at Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire were schilmaticks about 1595 having been incited to it by several abuses received from them in their libels Jul. 3. John Rogers of Mert. Edw. Hobie of Trin Coll. 6. Tho. Rogers of Ch. Ch. Dav. Powell of Jes Coll. Oct. 29. John Prime of New Jan. 21. Rob. Coke of Brasn Coll. Admitted 55. Bach. of Div. Apr. 10. John Read of St. Johns Coll. He died in Apr. 1587. being then Prebendary of Westminster which he obtained on the deprivation of Dr. John Hardyman an 1567. by the endeavours of Sit Will. Cecill who was afterwards L. Burleigh and was buried in St. Johns Coll. Chappel Jul. 3. Barthelmâ—w Chamberlaine of Trin. Coll. Besides which two were 7 admitted On the 4. July Petrus Regius a French Man M. of A. of 12 years standing in the University of Paris now an Exile for his Religion and a Catechistical Lecturer in this University supplicated that he might be admitted Bach. of Div. and
which he wrot that are not yet extant among which are A probe Theological or the first part of the Christian Pastors proof of his learned Parishioners faith Lond 1612. qu. He died in 1621 leaving then behind him the character of a learned Man As for the other works of Pet. Baro they are these 5 De praestantia dignitate divinae Legis lib. 2. printed 1586. oct 6 Tractatus in quo docet expetitionem oblati à mente boni fiduciam ad fidei justificantis naturam pertinere 7 Summa trium sententiarum de praedestinatione c. Hardrov 1613. oct printed with the Notes of Joh. Piscator Disquisition of Franc. Junius and Prelection of Will. Whittaker 8 Special treatise of Gods providence and of comforts against all kind of crosses and calamities to be fetched from the same with an Exposition on Psal 107. 8 Four Sermons The first on Psal 133. 1. 2. 3. The sec on Psal 15. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. c. After this Author Peter Baro had been removed from Cambridge he went to London lived and died in Crouched Friers and was buried in the Church of St. Olaves in Hartstreet At whose inteâ—ment the Bishop of London ordered the most eminent Divines and Ministers in that City to be present The Baro's or Barons as they are by some called who do now or did lately live at Boston in Lincolnshire and at Kings Lynn in Norfolk are descended from him Jul. 11. Walt. Travers M. of A. of Cambridge was then incorporated in the same Degree This Person had received his Academical education in Trin Coll. in the said University and afterwards travelled to Geneva where he became acquainted with Beza and at his return took the Degree of Bach. of Div. Soon after he went to Antwerp where he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way and returning again into England he became Lecturer in the Temple while Mr. Rich. Hooker was Master between whom certain differences in Religion hapning Travers was discharged of his place by the Archbishop Whereupon by the endeavours of Dr. Adam Loftus Archb. of Dublin he was made Provost of Trin. Coll. there an 1594. But he keeping that place not long he returned into England and lived divers years as 't is said very obscurely but where I cannot tell Sure I am that one Walt. Travers succeeded Joh. Salkeld in the Vicaridge of Wellington in Somersetshire an 1635 but whether the same 't is doubtful Among several things that this W. Travers hath published is Declaration of ecclesiastical discipline out of the word of God and of the declining of the Church of England from the same Genev. 1580. oct It is also extant in latine but that I have not yet seen The other things that he hath written you may mostly if not all see in the Oxford or Bodleian Catalogue On the 4. of July was a supplicate made that Tho. Norton M. of A. of Cambridge might be incorporated but whether he was it appears not Had this supplication been made in 1560 I should have taken him to be the same Tho. Norton a famous Poet of his time whom I have mention'd among these Writers in Tho. Sternhold an 1549 and in Tho. Sackvile an 1608. An. Dom. 1577. An. 19 Elizab. An. 20 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. Cole D. D. President of C. C. Coll. was admitted to his office 13. July Proct. John Glover of St. Joh. Coll. Tho. Dochen of Magd. Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Erasmus Dreyden The first of his Sirname that setled in Northamptonshire descended from the Dreydens of Staffhill or Staffle in Cumberland was by profession a Schoolmaster and being learned and well acquainted with Erasmus of Roterdam that Person was Godfather to one of his Sons which is the reason that that Christian name descends among the family of the Dreydens in that County some of whom have gloried in it in my hearing June 12. George Peele of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards an eminent Poet. 25. Tertullian Pine of St. Johns Coll. Whether he took a higher Degree in this University it appears not for travelling beyond the Seas he was made Doctor of the Laws in the University of Basil whence returning he was installed Archdeacon of Sudbury in the Dioc. of Norwych 20. July 1591 in the place of Dr. Jo. Still of Cambridge After Pine Cuthb Norrys D. D. was installed 6. Oct. 1599 and after his death Theophilus Kent 31. Dec. 1621. Some years after Kents death Anth. Sparrow D. D. of Camb. was install'd 7. Aug. 1660 who being promoted to the see of Exter Dr. John Spencer of the said Univ. succeeded an 1667. Jul. 1. John Davies of Gloc. Hall Afterwards an eminent Mathematician 8. Tho. Lodge of Trin. Coll. Oct. 29. Charles Turnbull John Spenser of Corp. C. C. Dec. 4. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. Feb. 6. Edw. Hutchins of Brasn Mar. 22. Will. Warford of Trin. Coll. Anth. Shirley of the same Coll. of the Holy Trin. was then also admitted See another Anth. Shirley among the Bach. of Arts an 1581. who was a Sussex Man born but this of Trin. Coll. was a native of Oxfordshire Admitted 124. Mast of Arts. Mar. 29. John Williams of All 's Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. May 17. Will. Greenwich of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Salop and died an aged Man in Apr. 1631. Jun. 25. Will. Wilkes of Mert. Jam. Bisse of Magd Will. Massie of Brasn Coll. 27. Rich. Hackluyt of Ch. Ch. Hen. Rowlands of New Coll. Jul. 3. Tho. Lovell Whether he be the same Tho. Lovell who wrote A Dialogue between custâ—m and verity concerning the use and abuse of dancing and minstrelsie Lond. in oct about 1589. I know not Feb. 18. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall See among the Doctors of Civ Law 1583. Admitted 116. Doct. of Law Nov. 23. Tho. Glasier of Ch. Ch. In 1578 he was elected Rector of Exeter Coll. and dying 9. Mar. 1591. was succeeded in that Rectory by Dr. Thom. Holland ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Divinity was admitted not any to the reading of the sentences but one Incorporations May. 23. Tho. Bowsfield Bac. of Arts of Pembr Hall in Cambridge In the Act following he proceeded Master of his faculty in this University became Principal of St. Edmunds Hall in 1581 and the year after Prebendary of Grimston and Yatmister in the Church of Sarum Jul. 9. Sim. Harward Bach. of Arts of another University Rich. Remyngton M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day In 1582. Inn. 8. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Clievland upon the death of Ralph Coulton Bac. of Div. which hapned 8. May going before aged 55 and some years after about 1598 he became Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire in the place of Tho. Cole whom I have mention'd before under the year 1567. In Clievland succeeded upon his resignation one Rich. Bird collated thereunto 21. of March 1588. and in the East-riding Marmaduke Blaxton as I
London and a publisher of certain Sermons between the year 1610 and 1625 must not be taken to be the same with Tho. Muriel Mar. 22. Fines Moryson M. A. of Cambr. He was a Lincolnshire man born was Fellow of Peter House in that University and Brother to Sir Richard Moryson Vicepresident of Mounster After he had taken his Masters degree he studied the Civil Law and in 1589 being then 23 years of Age he obtained license of the Master and Fellows of his House to travel Presently after leaving the University he went to London to follow such Studies that were fit to enable him in his course of Travels and afterwards going to Oxon was incorporated M. of A. as I have told you before On the 1 May 1591 he took ship at Liegh distant from London 28 miles by land and 36 by water and after he had rambled about many parts of the World for 8 years returned and went into Ireland 1598. and became Secretary to Sir Charles Blount Lord Lieutenant of that Realm After his death which hapned about 1614 were published his Travels entit An Itinerary containing his ten years Travels through the twelve Dominions of Germany Bohmerland Sweitzerland Netherland Denmark Poland England Scotland and Ireland Divided in three parts Lond. 1617 in a thick fol. It was first written in Latin and afterwards translated by him into English There were also four more Cantabrigians incorporated among whom Robertus Hemmingius M. A. was one Feb. 23. Creations July 14. Sir Will. Hatton Sir Hen. Vnton Joh. Fitzjames Esquire Knights The first was Son to the Sister of Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England and being Heir to the said Sir Christophes did change his name from Newport to Hatton The second who had been of Oriel Coll. I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1595. The third who was of the antient Family of the Fitzjames of Somersetshire was originally also of this University which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1591. An. 33 Elizab. An. 34 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton who dying 20 of Nov. this year certain Members of the University especially those of the Puritanical Party were for Robert Earl of Essex before mention'd now in great favour with the Queen and others for Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst At length upon the receipt of Letters from the Queen in favour of Buckhurst the Academians elected him 17 Dec. following See more in the Incorporations this year Vicechanc. Dr. James again designed by Chancellour Hatton 16 July Proct. Rich. Braunche of Ch. Ch. Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. Apr. 16. Which Proctors with several Doctors and others went to London to admit the Chancellour to his Office being the first Admission out or without the limits of the University that I have yet met with Bach. of Arts. Mar. 27. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. now in much esteem for his Poetry Apr. 16. Rob. Moor June 4. Arth. Lake of New Coll. The former was adorn'd with variety of Learning the other was afterwards a Bishop Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Queens Coll. Afterwards a learned Nonconformist 9. Walter Wylshman of Exeter Coll. afterwards of Broadgates Hall Jan. 16. Rich. Haydock of New Feb. 7. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity an 1608. Adm. 116. Mast of Arts. May 20. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. lately of Gloc. Hall June 15. Samuel Burton of Ch. Ch. He became Rector of Dry Marston in Glocestershire seven years after this time afterwards Archdeacon of Glocester and at length Justice of the Peace for that County He hath published A Sermon preached at the general Assizes in Warwick 3 March being the first Friday in Lent 1619 on Rom. 1. 4. Lond. 1620. qu. and perhaps other things He died 14 June 1634 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Dry Marston before mention'd Jun. 21. Tho. Hutton Henr. Price of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Nathan Torporley of Brasn Nov. 30. Joh. Day of Oriel Feb. 26. Joh. Hoskyns sen of New Coll. Adm. 56. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Henr. Rowlands of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor Apr. 27. Leonard Hutten Jul. 2. Joh. King of Ch. Ch. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day Nov. 15. Soh Smith of S. Joh. Coll. Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Tho. Hyde of Ball. Coll. On the fourteenth of June 1588 he became Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte having before been Prebendary of Ilfracomb in the said Church and dying in Nov. 1618 was succeeded in his Chancellourship by Dr. Franc. d ee who was afterwards B. of Peterborough Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day On the 5. of July 1576 he was installed Archd. of Rochester in the place of Joh. Calverley deceased and in 1580 he succeeded Dr. Rob. Dorset in a Canonry of Ch. Ch. In an 1582 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury but whether he was Dean of that Church as I have told you in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 259. b. upon false information it appears not In his Archdeaconry of Rochester which he resigned was installed Th. Staller D. D. 5 Jul. 1593 and to his Archdeaconry of Sarum which he kept to the day of his death was collated Will. Barlow on the 12 of March being four days after the death of Pickover an 1614. This person Pickover is commended for a learned man for a good Greecian Hebritian and a frequent Preacher See in the said Hist Antiq. lib. 2. p. 260. a. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was adm the same day July 2. He accumulated as Pickover did Incorporations Jul. 13. George Downham M. A. of Cambridge He was Son of Will. Downham Bishop of Chester was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge of which he became Fellow about 1585 afterwards a great Aristotelian a follower of Ramus and at length Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where dying in 1634 Apr. 17. was buried in the Cath. Church there The Catalogue of all or most of his works you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue Besides him were 15 Cantabrigians incorporated Masters of Arts on the same day being the next after the Act had been concluded but not one of them can I yet find who was afterwards a Writer Bishop c. On the same day also Will. Halke an English Man of the same University who had had the Degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him in the University of St. Andrew in Scotland an 1590 Andr. Melvin being then Rector was also incorporated in this University Oct. 22. Will. Paddie of St. Johns Coll. in this University lately made Doct. of Phys in the University of Leyden was incorporated in the same Degree He was afterwards Physician to K. Jam. 1. a Knight eminent for his practice in that faculty and President if I mistake not of the Coll.
and Widow of this Dr. Peter Turner I know not Oct. 30. Rich. Pilkington M. of A. of Cambridge Creations June…Hen Cotton Bishop of Salisbury sometimes Master of Arts of Magd. Coll. was actually created Doctor of Divinity at Salisbury by Dr. Edm. Lillye Vicechancellour Dr. Tho. Holland the Kings Professor of Divinity and both the Proctors with the Superior Beadle of Divinity attending them by virtue of a Commission from the Vicechancellour dated 2 of June 1599. An. Dom. 1600. An. 42 Elizab. An. 43 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Tho. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. George Abbot D. D. Master of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 15. Proct. Nich. Langford of Ch. Ch. Laur. Humphrey Son of Laur. of Magd. Coll. Apr. 2. Bach. of Musick Jul… Henry Porter of Ch. Ch. Some of his compositions I have seen but none of them I think are extant He was Father to Walt. Porter sometimes Gentleman of the royal Chappel of King Ch. 1. and Master of the Choristers at Westminster author of Mottets of two voyces for Treble or Tenor and Bass c. to be performed to an Organ Harpsycon Lute or Bass-viol Lond. 1657. fol. The words of some of the Mottets are taken out of the learned Poet George Sandys his Paraphrase on the Psalmes of David This Person who had been patroniz'd in his endeavours by Sir Edw. Spencer was after his ejectment from his office in the beginning of the grand rebellion exhibited to in his old age by Edw. Laurence Esq Bach. of Arts. Jun. 5. Rob. Harris of Magd. hall 17. Rob. Mandevill of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. David Jenkins of St. Edm. hall Afterwards the famous Welsh Judge 7 Humph. Lynd Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bish of B. and Wells 10. Joh. Dunster of Magd. Oct. 14. Will. Twysse of New Dec. 4. Isaac Singleton of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1604. Dec. 11. George Browne of St. Joh. Coll. He soon after changed his Religion went beyond the Seas and I think was made a R. Cath. Priest Feb. 8. Dabridgcourt Belchier of Ch. Ch. This Person who was the eldest Son of Will. Belcher of Gillesborough in Northamptonshire Esque translated into English Hans Beer-pot his visible Comedy of see me and see me not Acted in the Low-countries by an honest company of Health-drinkers Lond. 1618. qu. Which translation was made at Vtrecht in 1617 about which time he wrot several Poems and made other translations but whether publish'd I cannot tell He died in the Low-countries in 1621. As for Rob. Harris D. Jenkins Will. Piers and Will. Twysse will be large mention made in the second vol. of Writers and Bishops Adm. 115. Mast of Arts. Apr. 5. Joh. Hanmer Rich. Moket of All 's Coll. Jun. 4. Theoph. Higgons of Ch. Ch. 14. Will. Loe of St. Alb. 10. Degorie Wheare of Broadg. hall 17. Aegeon Askew Rog. Mathew of Qu. Coll. The last of which who was a Warwickshire Man born hath published The flight of time on Job 9. 25. printed 1634. qu. and perhaps other things July 4. Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll. Charles Fitz-Geffry of Broadgates hall 8. Theodore Goulson of Mert. 11. Rob. Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. 12. Dudley Carleton of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16. Joh. White of New Coll. Adm. 89. Bach. of Div. Apr. 14. Edw. Gee of Brasn Coll. Thom. Cooper of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was a Londoner born became Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1586 was about this time beneficed at or near Oundle in Northamptonshire and was Author of The Worldlings adventure c. in two Sermons at the visitation of the Free Grammar School at Oundle in Northamptonshire on Matth. 16. 26. Lond. 1619. qu. One of both his names and an Oxford Man was Author of Nonae Novembris aeternitati consecratae c. Oxon 1607. qu. written in verse and prose but whether by the former Tho. Cooper I cannot justly say because he doth not write himself in the title Bach. of Div. as in the former book Besides these two Tho. Coopers were two more of the same time also and Writers besides Tho. Cooper B. of Winchester but whether both of them were of Oxon I cannot tell June 27. Rich. Pilkington of Qu. Jul. 16. Will. Thorne of New Dec. 14. Sebastian Benefield of C. C. Coll. Admitted 44. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Jam. Hussee of New Coll. He was afterwards Principal of Magd. hall Chancellour to the B. of Salisbury a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. and dying at Oxford of the plague on the eleventh of July 1625 was buried late at night without any solemnity or company only by two that carried his Corps in the Chancel of St. Maries Church in Oxon. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 14. Leonard Hutten of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Hen. Airay John Aglionby of Qu. Coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Brooke Nathan Dod compounders of Ch. Ch. 10. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. Incorporations Jul. 4. John Bridgman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards D. of D. Master of Magd. Coll. in that University Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. by whose favour he became Rector of the rich Church of Wigan in Lancashire in January 1615 Bishop of Chester in 1618. and in June 1621 Rector of Bangor which he held in Commend with his Bishoprick He was Father to Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Bt. sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and a sufferer in some measure for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. He died in Teddington or Tuddington in Middlesex in in Summer time 1674. 9. Gedeon da Man or Montmartin Son of a Noble Man and Master of Arts of Cambridge Wolfgangus Mayer M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day He was Grandson by the Mothers side to Martin Bucer 10. Jerem. Ratcliffe D. D. of Cambridge John Downe Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day He was educated in Emanuel College the members of which presented him to the Vicaridge of Winsford in Somersetshire where he continued for a while Afterwards he became Rector of Instow in Devonshire where he died and was buried about 1631. Ten of his Treatises the first of which is A Treatise concerning the force and efficacy of reading were published after his death by Dr. George Hakewill his neighbour Oxon. 1633. qu. with a funeral Sermon before them preached by the said Doctor containing many things in behalf of the Author and the said Treatises as also an Epiâ—â—le by Dr. Hall Bishop of Exon wherein are several Encomiums of the Author 11. Will. Paddie Doct. of Phys of Leyden He stands in the publick register as twice incorporated see in the year 1591. He was esteem'd one of the prime Physicians of his time and was highly valued by the chief Men of his faculty especially by Sir Theodore de Mayerne He gave way to fate in Decemb. 1634. and was buried in St. Johns Coll.
Sir Tho. Windebank of Haines hill in the Parish of Hurst in Berks. Knight sometimes one of the Clerks of the Signet and became intimately acquainted with Dr. Will. Laud while he studied in the said Coll. of St. John by whose endeavours when Bish of London he obtained for him of his gracious Master K. Ch. 1. the secretaryship of State in the place of Sir Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester deceased to which office he was sworn 15. June 1632 and about that time received the honour of Knighthood Afterwards he became ungrateful to his promoter and much hated by the Puritan for his high acting in his office Which being by that Party made notorious several articles were drawn up against him and presented to that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. Whereupon flying beyond the Seas wrot a Letter to the Lord Chamberlain in his own defence dat at Calais XI Jan. 1640 which was soon after printed When K. Ch. 1. retired to Oxon after Edghill battel Sir Francis returned înto England went to and endeavoured to speak with his Majesty but his Maj refusing to have any communication with him he went beyond the Seas again and died at Paris 1 11 Sept. 1646. Among the Sons he had Sir Thomas Windebank the eldest was one who was of the Privy Chamber to His Majesty and another called Colonel Franc. Windebanke Governor of Blechingdon house in Oxfordshire who for surrendring it to Col. Oliver Cromwell upon first summons about the 24. Apr. 1645 was shot to death in Broken hayes near Oxon whereupon his body was buried in one of the Chancels of the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of that City on the third of May following Feb. 11. Sam. Turner of St. Maries hall See among the Masters 1604. 13. Daniel Fairclough Joh. Bery or Bury George Webbe of C. C. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Canon Fairclough Bury and Webbe will be mention'd in the second vol. Admitted 177 Mast of Arts. May 17. Thom. Winniff of Exeter Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch. He published a Sermon entit A Summons to judgment on Job 31. 14. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps others which is all I know of him only that he was a Cheshire Man born and that in seeking after the Rectory of the Church of St. Sepulcher in London found a sepulcher therein being buried there on which his pleasant friend Tho. Freeman the Poet hath an ingenious Epigram 25. Mich. Boyle Joh. Sandsbury of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 1. Henry Tilson of Vniv. 10. Robert Johnson of Magd. Jan. 21. Robert Pink of New Coll. Adm. 86. Bach. of Physick Not one was admitted to the said Degree only some to practise Physick among whom were Nov. 28. Henr. Savile M. A. Edm. Deane B. A. Both originally of Merton Coll. now of St. Albans hall Bach. of Div. Dec. 17. Joh. Howson of Ch. Ch. Besides him were but 4 admitted among whom Ralph Ironside of Vniversity Coll. was one Father to Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow an 1660. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Sampson Hussee of New Coll. He was Brother to Jam. Hussee mention'd in the year before ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. John King John Howson of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated and both were afterwards Bishops Feb. 15. Charles Ryves of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 6. Rob. Dallyngton M. of A. of Cambridge He was born in Northamptonshire educated in Pembroke hall of which he was Greek-Scholar and after became a Schoolmaster in Norfolk where having gained some money he travelled all over France and Italy was exact in his observations and after his return became first Secretary to the Earl of Rutland then one of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles Master of the Charter-house into the School at which place he brought the custome of Chapter verses or versifying on passages of Holy Scripture and at length a Knight He hath written 1 A survey of the great Dukes state in Tuscany an 1596. Lond. 1605. qu. 2 A method for travel shewed by taking view of France as it stood in the year 1598. printed at Lond. in qu. 3 Aphorismes Civil and Military amplified with authorities and exemplified with history out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine Lond. 1615. fol. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died in the latter end of the year 1637 and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the Charter house By his will dated 25. Apr. 1636 and proved 1. March 1637 he gave to the poor People of Geddington in Northamptonshire the place of his nativity 300 l. for the buying of an annual pension of 15 l. per an for their relief At which place in his life time he built a Free-school and was a benefactor in other respects July 16. Walt. Curle M. of A. of Cambridge This Person who was born at Hatfield in Hertfordshire was now Fellow of Peter house in the said University was promoted first in the Church by the Cecillian Family afterwards he became Chaplain to His Majesty Doctor of Divinity Dean of Lichfield in June 1621 upon the death of Dr. Will. Tooker Bishop of Rochester in 1627. upon the translation of Buckridge to Ely translated thence to B. and Wells in 1629 upon the death of Dr. Maw and thence to Winchester upon the removal of his Patron Dr. Neile to York being about that time made Lord Almoner Afterwards he suffered much for the Kings and his own cause was among the Royalists when they were besieged in Winchester whence marching in safety after its surrender for the use of the Parliament lived retiredly at Subberton in Hampshire till the time of his death which hapned in the Spring or Summer time an 1647 leaving then behind him a Widow named Elizabeth and certain Children All that I have yet seen which goes under his name is A Sermon preached at Whitehall 28. Apr. 1622 on Heb. 12. 14. printed in qu. Rich. Boyle M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland Richard Parker another M. of A. of that University was also then incorporated Whether he be the same R. Parker who was bred in and became Fellow of Caius College and Author of Sceletos Cantabrigiensis MS. I cannot justly say or the same Richard Parker who was second Son of John Parker first Son of Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury which Richard was born at Cambridge 20. May 1577 I cannot also tell Quaere On the same day also were 13 more Masters of that University incorporated among whom Miles Spencer was one and Andrew Perne another the same I suppose who was Proctor of Cambridge 1616. See before in these Fasti an 1553. Aug. 7. Will. Barlow Doct. of Div. of the said University was also then incorporated in the
said Degree He was born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Barlows of Barlâ—w in Lancashire was about this time Fellow of Trinity hall in the said University became Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Edw. Grant deceased Dean of Chester in 1603 upon the death of Joh. Nuttall and in 1605 Bishop of Rochester from whence being translated to Lincolne sate there to the time of his death and kept his Prebendship in Commendam with it He hath written and published several things the Catalogue of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue By his will which I have seen proved 13. Oct. 1613 for in that year he died he desires to be buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincolne if he dye near it or in the collegiat Church at Westminster if he dye there and to have such a tomb over his grave that may resemble that which Dr. Good Goodman Dean thereof set up for himself in the Church of Westminster He was a considerable benefactor to St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge as it there appears being Founder of the London Fellows and Scholars of that house I have made mention of another Will. Barlow and his works among the Writers an 1568. and of a third an 1625. Casparus Thomannus one of the Pastors or Teachers of the School at Zurich of which City his Grandfather by the male line had born the office of Pretor having been recommended by the Professors Teachers and Ministers of the Church and School there to live among and receive an exhibition from the Oxonians an 1599 did spend several years there and occurrs one of the first Persons that was entred a Student in the publick Library when first opened for use He was a learned Man and read a Lecture in the University but his education having been mostly at Geneva did with other strangers of the like breeding so corrupt the Students with their calvinistical Doctrine that it was many years before it could be rooted out An. Dom. 1602. An. 44 Elizab. An. 45 Elizab. Chanc. Thomas Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. John Howson D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15. Proct. Daniel Pury of Magd. Coll. Walt. Bennet of New Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Musick Jul. 13. William Weelks of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of Musick What he hath composed or published I know not sure it is that Thom. Weelks who was at this time Organist of Wâ—kehams Coll. near to Winchester did publish 1 Madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voyces Lond. 1597. in a large qu. Which being the first fruits of his labours he dedicated them to his singular Patron George Philpot Esq 2 Ballatts and Madrigals to five voyces with one to 6. voyces Lond. 1598. qu. 3 Madrigals of six parts apt for the viols and voyces Lond. 1600. qu. besides compositions in The triumphs of Oriana printed 1601 Hymns and Anthems to be sung in Cathedrals and Collegiat Churches the words of which may be elsewhere seen and other compositions which are remitted among the books reposited in our pub Musick School at Oxon. Quaere whether the Scribe or Registrary of the University hath not set down William for Tho. Weelks Bach. of Arts. May 7. Tho. Anyan lately of Linc. Coll. â—ow of that of Corp. Christi See among the Doctors of Div. 1614. Jun. 8. Benjam Culme of St. Alb. hall See among the Masters an 1605. Jun. 25. Franc. James of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1612. 26. Rice or Rees Prichard of Jes Coll. 30. Jam. Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. Jâ—n 30. Tho. Aylesbury Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton alias Democritus junior Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last four you may see more among the Masters an 1605. Dec. 13. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards B. of Rochester Prichard Dawes Byham and Warner are to be mention'd in the other vol. of Writers and Bishops Admitted 156. Bach. of Law Jul. 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll. Besides him were only 3 admitted and one incorporated named Joh. Crook Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. George Hakewill of Exeter Coll. May 18. Arth. Duck of Hart hall Jun. 6. Norwich Spackman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Proctor of the University Chaplain to James Bishop of Bath and Wells and the publisher of A Sermon before the King at Whitehall on Matth. 9. 13. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps of other things which is all I know of him only that he was a Worcestershire Man born 30. Barnab Potter of Queens Jul… Rob. Bolton of Brasn 7. Tho. Broad of St. Alb. hall Coll. Feb. 22. Isaac Wake George Gerard of Mert. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Master of Suttons Hospital called commonly the Charter-house Admitted 71. Bach. of Phys June 14. Rich. Haydock of New Coll. Besides him was only one more admitted viz. Joh. Cheynell of C. C. Coll. and six admitted to practice Bach. of Div. Jun. 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. See among the Doctors of Divinity following Jul. 8. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. Adm. 14. Doct. of Law July 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll. He accumulated Oliver Lloyd of Allsouls Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Chancellour of Hereford and in 1615 became Canon of Windsore Which last dignity he changed for the Deanery of Hereford with Dr. Rich. Mountagâ—e of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1617. This Dr. Lloyd died in the City of Hereford in 1625. whereupon Dr. Dan. Price succeeded him in the said Deanery ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 20. Joh. Spenser of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards President of that house June 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. who accumulated In 1590 I find this Person to be Subalmoner to Qu. Elizabeth well beneficed in Yorkshire and Prebendary of York Also in 1605. Oct. 25. I find him collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York on the death of Mr. Will. Palmer as also to another Prebendship in that Church and a Rectory in the said Diocess In 1611 he became Dean of Christ Church and afterwards Archdeacon of Middlesex and dying on the eleventh of June 1620. aged 65 was buried in one of the North isles joyning to Ch. Ch. choire He hath published A Sermon before the King at Woodstock 28. Aug. 1614 on Jer. 1. 10. Oxon. 1614. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Roger Bradshaw of Jesus Coll. the Kings Chaplain was admitted the same day 14. Will. Swaddon of New Coll. On the 10. of Nov. 1610. he was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester on the resignation of John Johnson D. D. and dying 2. Aug. 1623 was buried as I suppose in that North isle of the Cathedral Church of Worcester which adjoyns to the Parlor of the Senior Prebend In his Archdeaconry succeeded Hugh Lloyd D. D. who was admitted thereunto 18. Aug. the same year and dying in 1629 Edward Thornborough M. A. second Son by the first
Wife of Dr. John Thornborough Bishop of Worcester succeeded being admitted to it 3. Aug. 1629. Rob. Newman of New Coll. was admitted D. D. the same day Jun. 14 Jul. 8. Charles Langford Giles Tomson of All 's Coll. The first of these two was now Dean of Hereford in which Dignity he did succeed if I mistake not John Watkins who died about the middle of May 1594 and was succeeded by Dr. Rich. Mountague as I have before told you among the Doctors of Law this year The other Doctor Giles Tomson was installed Dean of Windsore on the 2. of March this year and afterwards was made Bishop of Glocester as before among the Bishops I have told you Jul. 8. Giles Thorne of New Coll. John Williams of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last was now Dean of Chichester and the other dignified in the Church One of both his names I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1613. and another I shall mention in these Fasti an 1608. sub tit Incorporations Incorporations Apr. 30. Will. Turner M. A. of Cambridge See among the Doct. of Physick 1608. Jun. 23. Humph. Leech M. A. of the same University He was originally of Brasn Coll. and was about this time Chaplain of Ch. Ch. July 3. Ralph Hulton Doct. of Phys of Cambr. 15. Will. Wheatly Bach. of Arts of Christs Coll. in the said University He was now a member of St. Edm. hall in this of Oxon. Jul. 15. Martin Day Phineas Hodson Dan. Dyke Jacob. Godscaleus M. of A. of Cambr. The first of these last four Mart. Day was afterwards Doct. of Div. Chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty Rector of St. Faiths Church in London and Rector of Stoke near Launceston in Cornwall In his life time he published Monument of Mortality c. containing four treatises printed in oct and after his death which hapned 1628 were published several Sermons of his under these titles 1 Doomesday or a treatise of the resurrection of the body delivered in 22 Sermons on 1. Cor. 15. Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Corinths collection or the Saints of Jerusalem in seven Sermons on the 1. Cor. 16. the first nine verses printed with the former and all dedicated to Dr. Josoph Hall sometimes an intimate friend of the Author The second Phineas Hodson was afterwards D. of D. and in 1611. Sept. 26. was collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York upon the resignation of Dr. Will. Goodwin mention'd before among the Doctors of Divinity He died at or near York about the latter end of 1646. whereupon his Chancellourship lying void till the restoration of K. Ch. 2. Christopher Stone M. A. succeeded being installed therein 24. Oct. 1660. This Dr. Hodson hath published The Kings request or Davids desire c. Serm. on Psal 27. 4. Lond. 1628. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere The third Dan. Dyke was as 't is said born in Hertfordshire in a town called Hemstede of which his Father was Minister was an eminent Preacher wrot several things as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you among which is his book Of the deceitfulness of mans heart published after his death by his Brother Jerem. Dyke of Sydney Coll. an 1614. The fourth and last Jac. Godscaleus I take to be the same with James Godskal Author of The Kings Medicine against the plague for the year 1604. Printed 1604. in oct which is all I know of him as yet Jul. 15. Andr. Bing Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was Fellow of Peter House or St. Peters Coll. in the same University afterwards D. of D. and Hebrew Professor thereof See more in the Incorporations 1612. Oct. 25. Tho. Lodge Doct. of Phys of the University of Avenion About 27 Cambridge Men were incorporated this year in several faculties An. Dom. 1603. An. 1. Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again Jul. 23. Proct. Christop Dale of Mert. Coll. William Laud of St. Joh. Coll. May 4. Bach. of Musick Jul. 16. Thom. Boys of All 's Coll. He hath composed â—â—rtain Church services which is all I know of him Bach. of Arts. May 12. Hannibal Gamon of Broadgates hall July 1. Rob. Gentilis of Jes Coll. Son of Alberic Gent. 5. Rich. Tillesley of St. Johns Coll. 9. John Hales of C. C. Coll. afterwards of Morton and at length of Eaton Coll. Dec. 12. Edm. Gunter of Ch. Ch. 13. Will. Heale of Exeter Coll. Jan. 19. John Ball of Brasn Coll. See another of both his names among the Bach. of Arts an 1608. Feb. 15. Edw. Evans of Ch. Ch. As for Gamon Gentilis and Hales they will be mention'd in the next vol. Adm. 126. Bach. of Law Mar. 29. John Basire a French Man who had studied the Civ Law 12 terms in this University and 7 years in France and Germany was then admitted Jul. 5. Will. Juxon of St. Johns Coll. In his last days he became Archbishop of Canterbury 8. Eizo Tiards of Jesus Coll. He accumulated as I shall tell you anon Adm. 6. Mast of Arts. May 11. Henry Mason of C. C. Joh. Prideaux of Exet. Coll. Jun. 30. George Warburton of Brasn Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. 1636. July 7. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. Tob. Venner of St. Alb. hall John Eaton of Trin. Coll. Tancred Leill or Lelius of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was a learned Dane which is all I know of him 9. Thom. Jackson Brian Twyne of C. C. Barthel Parsons of Oriel Coll. Adm. 46. Bach. of Div. July 7. Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham Mar. 12. Sam. Page of C. C. Coll. Admitted 14. Doct. of Law July 8. Eizo Tiarda of Jesus Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law He was born of and descended from a gentile Family living in Groeningen in Germany ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 2. John Childerley of St. Johns Coll. While he was a junior Fellow of that house he became Preacher to the English Merchants trading at Stode and after his return became successively Chaplain to Richard Archb. of Canterbury and afterwards to George his successour Rector of St. Mary de Wolnoth in London of S. Dunstans in the East and of Sheinfield or Shemfield in Essex He was in his time a very eminent and frequent Preacher and learned Divine but blind by age and continual labour several years before his death Notwithstanding which he suffered much in the time of the rebellion and was outed of St. Dunstans by the restless Presbyterian and whether he kept Sheinfield to his last I cannot tell He died very aged in 1645 being then 66 years since his first coming to St. Johns Coll. and was buried either in the Chancel of St. Dunstan or in that of Sheinfield beforemention'd July 7. Nich. Higgs of Ball. Coll. He was about this time Rector of Higham in Somersetshire where or near it he dyed 1631. Incorporations May 23. Laurence Whittaker M. A. of Cambridge This Person who was a Somersetshire
antient copies particularly with a MS. in Vniversity Coll. Library entit Octoteuchus two Greek MSS. translated into Arabick in the Bodlcian Library and an antient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton but lost in the hands of a French Man to whom it was lent the said Pat. Young did promise to publish with notes added thereto and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers and no farther if Dr. Br. Walton saith right The effect of this undertaking being much expected and desired by learned Men especially beyond the Seas certain Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to have the business encouraged Whereupon in the latter end of the year 1645 they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it but what hindred them in going on with the work I find not In 1649 P. Young who had sided with the Presbyterians left his place of Library keeper to the King the books there being mostly embezell'd whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in Essex where I think he died an 1652 for in Sept. that year his next relation administer'd Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed Youngs notes and annotations with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from Youngs edition and Latine translation with some short running notes added thereunto Oxon. 1669. in tw In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum in qu. written by Gilb. Foâ—iot Bishop of London in the time of Hen. 2. and was one of the three Gottefridus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius being the other two who interpreted S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians Lond. 1687. oct After his death all or most of his Greek and Latine MSS. collected and written with his own hand came into the possession of Dr. John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Oct. 21. Daniel Calendar M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland These Persons following were incorporated while K. James 1. was entertain'd at Oxon. Aug. 30. Alexander Serle LL. Bach. of Cambridge To whose name is this added in the publick register ad causas negotia ecclesiastica civilia maritima forinseca Procurator regius generalis Thom. Howard Earl of Suffolk Rob. Cecill Earl of Salisbury M. A. of Cambr. The first of these two Counts was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Kings houshold L. Treasurer of England after Cecill Knight of the Garter and founder of the stately house called Aâ—dley Inne near to Walden in Suffolk He died in 1626 and was buried at Walden The other Ro. Cecill who was Son of Will Lord Burleigh was now Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge afterwards Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter He died in 1612 and was buried at Hatfield in Hertfordshire George Thomson M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland He was born in that City and afterwards became Pastor of the reformed Church at Chastegneraye in France He hath written several books among which are 1 De pompa in Jac. 1. introitâ— in Londinum Sylva Lond. 1604. oct 2 Vindex veritatis adversus Lipsium lib. 2. Lond. 1606. oct 3 Quatre harmonies sur la Revelation print 1607. oct 4 La Chasse de la Beste Romaine etc. Rochel 1611. oct c. Tho. Dempster in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam hath two George Thomsons that were Writers viz. George Thomson a Priest an 1595 and George Thomson a Heretick as he calls him an 1599 which last I presume is our Author who was incorporated at Oxon and the same whom Joh. Dunbar a Scot doth celebrate for his learning in his book of Epigrams George Ruggle M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge One Ruggle of the said hall was Author of that celebrated Comedy called Ignoramus acted before K. Jam. 1. at Camb. 8. Mar. 1614. Whether the same with George I cannot yet affirm … Craig a Scot Doctor of Phys of the University of Basil This is all that appears of him in the publick register So that whether he be the same with Dr… Craig the Kings Physician who died in Apr. 1620 I know not or whether he be Joh. Cragg Dr. of Phys Author of a MS. intit Capnuraniae seu Comet in 〈◊〉 subâ—mationis refutatio written in qu. to Tycho Brahe a Dane I am altogether ignorant One Dr. Joh. Cragg was buried in the Church of St. Martins in the Fields near London about 1653. Barnab Gouge Goch or Gooche Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr He was about this time Master of Magd. Coll. in that University afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Worcester and died at Exeter where he had an office or dignity in the latter end of 1625. One of both his names translated into English The pâ—pish Kingdom or Reign of Antichrist Lond. 1570. qu. written in Latine verse by Tho. Naogeorgius and Four books of husbandry Lond. 1586. qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius and something of Palengenius But this translator if I mistake not was Barnab Gooche of Albin 〈◊〉 or Alvingham in Lincolnshire Grandfather to Barnab Gooche living there in 1634 and after John Hammond Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was now Physician to Prince Henry and Father to Henr. Hammond afterwards the learned and celebrated Theologist Creations Jun. 28. Henry Rowlands Bach. of Div. and Bishop of Bangor was actually created Doctor of that faculty Aug. 13. Hen. Ashworth of Oriel John Cheynell of C. C. Coll. These two who were eminent and learned Physicians were then actually created Doctors of Physick because they were designed by the Delegates appointed by Convocation to be Opponents in the disputations to be had before the King at his entertainment by the Muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug. John Gourden Gordonius of Balliol Coll. was created D. of D. the same day Aug. 13. because he was to dispute before the King his kinsman After his disputation was ended he had his Degree compleated by the Kings Professor of Divinity purposely not that there was a necessity of it to shew unto His Majesty the form of that Ceremony This noble Person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley was instructed in his youth in the Schools and Colleges as well in Scotland as in France in liberal Arts and Sciences and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages and other Orientals Afterwards he was Gentleman of three Kings Chambers in France viz. Charles 9. Hen. 3. and 4 and while he was in the flower of his age he was there assailed with many corruptions as well spiritual
whom he continued till she was forced to leave England by the Presbyterian outrages in the time of the grand rebellion He hath written 1 Cantica sacra ad melodiam Madrigalium elaborata senis vocibus Antwerp 1618. qu. divided in six volumes according to the voices In the title of this book he write himself Richards Deringus Bac. Mus 2 Cantica sacra ad duas tres voces composita cum Basso continuo ad Organum Lond. 1662. c. published by John Playford and by him dedicated to Hen. Maria the Queen Dowager the Author who was always a Rom. Catholick having been dead about 4 or 5 years before A second set was published in the year 1674 entit Basso contiruo cantica sacra containing Hymes and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Lat. and English composed by Rich. Deering Christopher Gibbons Ben. Rogers Matthew Lock and others Printed in fol. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 26. Will. Page of Balliol afterwards of Allsouls Coll. 27. Hen. Welstede of Broadgates hall See among the Masters an 1612. 3â— Christoph Potter of Queens June 14. Rob. Skinner of Trin. Coll. 21. Nich. Grey of Ch. Ch. 28. Griffin Higgs of St. Johns Jul. 5. Nath. Carpenter of Exet. Coll. Nov. 6. Will. Strode of Broadgates hall Quare Dec. 13. Tho. Nevill of Trin. Coll. He was the eldest Son of Sir Hen. Nevill Knight 〈…〉 of Abergavenny 17. Christoph White of Ch. Ch. Jan. 24. Humph. Sidetham of Exeter afterwards of Wadham Coll. 28. Gilbert Wats of Linc. Coll. Jasp Fisher of Magd. hall afterwards of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Of all these Bachelaurs only Nath. Carpenter Christoph White and Jasp Fisher have been largely mention'd in this vol. among the Writers As for the others that are Writers they are to be mention'd in the next vol. Admitted 183. Mast of Arts. May 15. Edward Chaloner of Magd. Coll. afterwards of All 's June 22. John Reading of Magd. hall 26. Hen. Cotton of Brasn Coll. a Compounder This Person who was the Son of Dr. Hen. Cotton B. of Salisbury became Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the said Church on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch 29. Sept. 1608 Preb. of Bytton on the death of Meredith Morgan 4. Dec. 1612 Chauntor thereof by the death of Dr. Walt. Bennet 30. July 1614 and at length Prebendary of Highworth in the said Church of Sarum by the death of Dr. Pet. Lilye on the eleventh day of March following He died in 1622 and was succeeded in the Chauntorship by Dr. Humph. Henchman afterwards B. of Saâ—um Jul. 4. Joh. Wylde of Ball. Coll. This Person who was the eldest Son of Serj. Geo Wylde of Droitwich in Worcestershire was about this time a Student in the Inner Temple of which he became Lent reader 6. Car. 1. afterwards Serjeant at Law and Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer in the time of the rebellion This was the Person who drew up the Impeachment against the Bishops and by him sent to the H. of Lords an 1641. being the prime manager in that affair and what he wrot as to that matter was afterwards printed He was the same also who upon the command or rather desire of the great Men sitting at Westminister did condemn to death at Winchester one Capt. Jâ—hn Burley for causing a drum to be beat up for God and K. Ch. at Newport in the Isle of Wight in order to rescue his captiv'd King an 1647. For which act after Burley had been executed at Winton on the 10. Feb. the same year he received 1000 l. out of the privy purse of derby-Derby-house About the same time also he received another 1000 l. as 't was then confidently affirmed for the acquittance of Major Rolph who had a design to murder or poyson the said King so 't was all one to him whether he hung or hung not so he got the beloved pelf After Oliver came to the Protectorship he retired and acted not but when the Rump Parliament was restored after Richards deprivation then was he restored to the Exchecquer and after K. Charles 2. returned lived about 9 years in a retired condition At length giving way to fate at Hamstede near London his body was buried at Wherwell in Hampshire which is a Lordship belonging to Charles Lord de la Warr who married Anne Dau. and Heir of the said John Wylde Jul. 5. Joh. Seller or Sellar of Oriel Coll. One of both his names hath published Five Sermons Lond. 1636. oct and other things Whether the same with him of Oriel who was a Ministers Son of Glocestershire I cannot tell unless I could see the said Sermons Nor do I know anything to the contrary but that he may be the same with John Seller of C. C. Coll. a Ministers Son of Kent who was admitted Bach. of Arts 18. Feb. 1611. and Master 2. Jul. 1614. This last John Seller being a learned Man Mr. Rich. James whom I have mentioned among the Writers 1638. numbred him among his learned acquaintance and therefore wrot divers Epistles to him Jan. 23. Hugh Robinson of New Coll. Bach. of Physick Apr. 30. Theodore Goulson M. of A. of Merton Coll. He was the only Bach. of Phys that was admitted this year See among the Doct. following Bach. of Div. Mar 27. Tho. Winniffe Geor. Hakewill of Ex. June 21. Josias White of New 25. Brian Twyne Thom. Jackson Henry Masen of Corp. Ch. Coll. July 5. Barnab Potter of Qu. Coll. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. Which two last were afterwards Bishops 6. Rob. Barnes of Magd. Coll. This Person who was Son of Joseph Barnes Printer to the University of Oxon and Fellow of the said Coll. of St. Mary Magd. became afterwards Minister of Greys in Oxfordshire by the favour of William Viscount Wallingford and published A Sermon preached at Henly at the visitation 27. Apr. 1626 on Psal 9. 16. Oxon 1626. qu. besides a collection of Verses made on the death of Will Son of Arth. L. Grey of Wilton Admitted 26. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Francis Alexander of New College Prebendary of Winchester June 21. Tho. Ryves of the same Coll. He is to be remembred among the Writers in the 2. vol. Doct. of Phys Apr. 30. Theodore Goulsâ—n of Merton Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick being now much in esteem for his knowledge therein Doct. of Div. June 11. Ralph Barlow of C. C. C. originally of Oriel and afterwards of New Coll. was then admitted D. of D. in the quality of a Compounder In Sept. an 1621. he succeeded Rich. Meredith in the Deanery of Wells and dying there was buried in the Cathedral 27. July 1631. Whereupon Dr. George Warburton Dean of Glocester succeeded him in that Dignity 13. Francis Kerrie of Ball. Coll. a Compounder He was now Canon residentiary of Hereford June 13. Job Best July 5. Silvan Griffith of Ch. Ch. Which two were Compounders the last being Archdeacon of Hereford 6. John Parkhurst Will. Langton of Magd. Coll. The first of
two more admitted viz. Edward Lapworth of Magd. Coll. and Tho. Cloyton of Ball. C. Bach. of Div. May 6. John Prideaux Dan. Price of Ex. Coll. 28. Barthelm Parsons of Or. June 10. John Lee of All 's Coll. The last of which two became Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. White deceased 29. Apr. 1624 and dying there in 1634 was succeeded in that Dignity by Edward Davenant 19. Nov. the same year Jun. 25. Rich. Carpenter Lewes Bayly of Ex. C. 27. John Day of Oriel Nov. 14. John Gianvill of Ball. Coll. This last Person hath written Articuli Christiane fidei quam ecclesia profitetur Anglicana versu quoad ejus fieri potuit expressi facillimo Oxon. 1613. qu. in 6 Sh. What he hath written besides or whether he took any Degree in Arts in this University I know not He was living in 1614 in which year he gave several books to the Bodleian Library Admitted 24. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Jun â—0 Edw. Lapworth of Magd. Sim. Baskervile of Exet. Tho. Clayton of Balliol Rob Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. All which did accumulate the Degrees in Physick As for Lapworth he was afterwards the first Reader of the Lecture of Nat. Philosophy founded by Sir Will. Sedley and dying in the City of Bathe where he usually practised in the Summer time 23. May 1636 as I have somewhere before told you was buried in the great Church there dedicated to St. Pet. and St. Paul The second Sim. Baskervile was now in great esteem for his admirable knowledge in Medicine as before he had been for his humanity and philosophy was afterwards knighted by K. Ch. 1. and dying 5. July 1641 aged 68 years was buried in the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in the City of London The third T. Clayton was soon after the Kings Professor of Phys in this University and at length the last Principal of Broadgates hall and the first Master of Pembroke Coll. The last R. Vilvaine being afterwards a Writer I shall mention him at large in the 2. vol. Doct. of Div. Apr. 10. Tho. Ireland of Linc. Coll. This Person who was afterwards Prebendary of York and Southwell hath published one or more Sermons as 1 Serm. on Ecclesiastes 8. 2. Pr. 1610. qu. c. Another of both his names and time was a common Lawyer of Greys Inn and a Knight and the abridger in English of Sir Jam. Dyer's Reports pr. 1651. and of the Eleven books of Reports of Sir Edward Coke pr. 1656. But whether this last Tho. Ireland was originally of Oxon I cannot yet tell June 6. Samuel Page of C. C. 20. John Denison Rich. Kinge of Ball. Coll. July 2. Christoph Hooke of Magd. Mich. Boyle of St. Johns Geor. Hakewill of Ex. Coll. Incorporations July 5. Thom. Spackman Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He hath written and published A declaration of such grievous accidents that commonly follow the biting of mad dogs together with the cure thereof Lond. 1613. qu and perhaps other things Quâ—re 9. John â—â—wers M. of A. of Cambr. He was a Norfolk Man born was bred Fellow of Queens Coll. in the said University was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to William Earl of Northampton who confer'd upon him the benefice of Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Will. Piers promoted to the Episcopal See thereof an 1630 and on the 8. of Mar 1638 was installed Bishop of that place After the Long Parliament began he was one of the twelve Bishops who drew up a protestation against all such Laws Orders Votes Resolutions and Determinations which should be done in their absence from the 27. Dec. 1641 to be null and of no effect c. Whereupon he with the said Bishops were committed Prisoners to the Tower where they continued above four Months Afterwards being released Towers retired to the King at Oxon and continued there till the surrender of that garrison for the use of the Parliament and then most of the Royal Party being put to their shifts he went to Peterborough where dying in an obscure condition 10. Januar. 1648 was buried the day following in the Cath. Church of Peterborough In the year 1660 were four of his Sermons published in octavo one of which was preached at the baptism of James Earl of Northampton and another at the funeral of William Earl of that place July 9. Anth. Sleepe Master of Arts of the same University This Person who was a member of Trinity Coll. was so excellent an Orator that he gave K. Jam… occasion several times to say that Is Wake Orator of the Vnive sity of Oxon had a good Ciceronian stile but his utterance and matter was so grave 〈◊〉 when he spake before him he was apt to sleep but Sleep the Depâ—ty Orator of Cambr. was quite contraâ—y for he never spake but kept him awake and made him apt to laugh Isaac Bargrave M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day This learned Gentleman was the Son of Robert Bargrave of Bridge in Kent was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to Prince Charles Pastor of St. Margarets Church in Westminster afterwards Chaplain to that Prince when he became King and about 1625 was made Dean of Canteâ—bury in the place of Dr. Joh. Boys He hath published several Sermons the titles of three of which are in the Oxford Catalogue and dying in 1642 was succeeded by Dr. Geor. Eglionby July 9. Thom. Westfield Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was a Native of the Parish of St. Mary in the City of Ely was educated in Grammaticals there in Academicals in Jesus Coll. in the said University of which he was made successively Scholar and Fellow Afterwards he became Curat or Assistant to Dr. Nich. Felton while he was Minister of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside Rector of Hornsey near and of Great St. Bartholmew in London Archdeacon of St. Albans and at length in 1641 advanced to the See of Bristow where dying 25. June 1644. was buried in the Cathedral at the upper end of the isle joyning to the Choire on the North side After his death were published of his composition 1 Englands face in Israels glass eight Sermons on Psal 106. 19. 20. c. printed 1646. qu. They were published again afterwards with others added to them 2 White robe or surplice vindicated in several Sermons pr. 1660. 63. in oct c. John Pocklington Bach. of Div. of Pemb. hall in Cambr. was incorporated in that Degree the same day See more among the Incorporations an 1603. Thom. Bonham Doctor of Phys of the same University was incorporated the same day July 9. There is a book going under his name which is thus intituled The Chirurgeons Closet or an Antidotary Chirurgical fornished with variety and choice of Apophlegms balmes bathes c. Lond. 1630. qu. The greatest part whereof was scatter'dly set down in sundry books and papers of the said Dr.
of Magd. Hall 16. Tho. James of New Coll. Rob. Burton of Ch. Ch. June 8. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Coll. July 5. Rob. Moor of New Coll. a Compounder Adm. 19. Doct. of Law Oct. 13. John Hawley Principal of Glocester Hall formerly Fellow of S. Johns Coll. Mar. 23. Nich. Darrel of New Coll. He was about this time Prebendary of Winchester where dying in Oct. 1629 was buried in the Cath. Ch. there near to the body of his Wife Jane Doct. of Phys Jul. 12. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. May. 16. Edward James of Ch. Ch. Thom. James of New Coll. Brethren The last of which accumulated And to both I have seen several learned Epistles written by their Nephew Rich. James of C. C. C. who hath also written the Epitaph of the first who died some years before Thomas 30. John Simpson of C. C. C. He was about this time Prebendary of Canterbury See among the Doctors of Div. 1608. June 8. Will. Westerman of Oriel Adam Wilson of Qu. Coll. The last of which two died at Nutfield in Surrey of which place I think he was Rector in the beginning of 1634. 27. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. July 5. Nich. Love of New Coll. He was at this time Chaplain to his Majesty Warden of Wykehams Coll. near to and Prebendary of Winchester where dying about 1630 was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. Rob. Moor of New Coll. who accumulated was admitted the same day John Charlet of Oriel Coll. was also admitted the same day He was now Prebendary of Worcester and dying in 1640 Herb. Croft D. D. succeeded him in that Dignity Theodore Price was admitted as a member of New Coll. on the same day also He was originally Chorister of All 's Coll. afterwards Fellow of Jesus now Principal of Hart hall and about this time Subdean of Westminster Prebendary of Winchester and afterwards as 't is said by some Master of the Hospital of St. Cross He gave way to fate 15. Dec. 1631 and was buried at Westminster whereupon Dr. John Williams Dean of that place called together the Prebendaries of the Church and took great pains to make the World suspect that he died a Rom. Catholick only to raise a scandal on his enemy Bishop Laud who had commended him to the King for a Bishoprick in Wales A rigid and inveterate Presbyterian tells us that the said Dr. Land did endeavour to promote him to a Welsh Bishoprick but was opposed by Philip Earl of Pembroke so Dr. Morg. Owen was preferred in his stead This Price lived a professed unpreaching Epicure and Arminian and died a reconciled Papist to the Church of Rome having received extreme unction from a popish Priest c. Thus Prynne yet the Church Historian tells us that Dr. Williams beforemention'd did much endeavour to make him Archb. of Armagh but denied by the Duke of Bucks without any mention made of Dr. Laud his endeavours But so it was that Dr. Williams being a great favourer of the Puritan or Presbyterian Prynne therefore made no mention of him but laid all upon the score of Laud July 5. Robert Say Will. Twysse of New Thom. Wyatt of Oriel Coll. 6. Thom. Anyan President of C. C. Coll. who accumulated This Doctor who was born at Sandwych in Kent and had lately been Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper published 1 A Sermon preached at St. Maries Church in Oxon. 12. Jul. 1612 being the Act Sunday on Psal 1. 3. Lond. 1612. qu. 2 Sermon preached at St. Mary Spittle 10. Apr. 1615. on Acts 10. 34. 35. Oxon. 1615. qu. In the year 1619 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains he was made Prebendary of Glocester and afterwards being found unfit to govern a College because he was a fosterer of faction he resign'd his Presidentship and was made Prebendary of Canterbury where dying 1632 was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Francis James of Ch. Ch. stood in the Act this year to compleat his Doctorship in Divinity but when he was admitted it appears not in the publick register He was now in great esteem for several Specimens of Latin Poetry which he before had made especially for his Poem published in 1612 entit Threnodia Henricianarum Exequiarum Sive Panolethria Anglicana c. He was near of kin to Dr. Tho. James mention'd before and among the Writers under the year 1629 was about this time Preacher or Read at the Savoy in the Strand near London and as it seems a Preacher at St. Matthews in Friday Street At length departing this mortal life in 1621 was buried I think at Ewbuâ—st in Surrey Incorporations July 7. Franc. Barrough lately of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge now of St. Johns in Oxon was incorporated either Bach. or Master of Acts. 9. Augustin Lindsell M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge He was born at Bumsted in Essex was bred Scholar and Fellow in the said Hall where he became well studied in Greek Hebrew and all antiquity Afterwards he succeeded Dr. Walt. Curle in the Deanery of Lichfield 1628 Dr. Will. Piers in the Episcopal See of Peterborough to which he was elected 22. Dec. 1632 and being translated thence to Hereford in December 1633 upon the translation of Dr. Juxon to London died at his Palace in Hereford 6. Nov. 1634. whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church there He was a Man of very great learning of which he gave sufficient evidence to the Church by setting forth that excellent edition of Theophylact upon St. Pauls Epistles Thomas Goodwin M. A. of the said University was also then July 9. incorporated as it is said in the publick register but if he be the same Person whom I shall mention among the creations an 1653. I should rather think that he was incorporated Bach. of Arts. Sam. Buggs was incorporated M. of A. the same day See more of him among the Writers in John King an 1638. July 12. Edmund Wilson Doctor of Phys of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians in London On the 18. Dec. 1616. he was installed Canon of Windsore on the death of Dr. Rich Field but because he was not ordained Priest within a year following he was deprived of his Canonry and Dr. Godfrey Goodman succeeded being installed 20. Dec. 1617. This Dr. Wâ—â—son who was Son of Will. Wilson mention'd among the Doctors of Divinity under the year 1607 and had practised his faculty several years in Windsore died in the Parish of St. Mary le Bow in London about the beginning of Oct. 1633 at which time or before he gave many books to Lincoln Coll Library in Oxon. Thomas Horsmanden D. D. of the said University of Cambridge was incorporated the same day July 14. Lancelot Langhorne Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was now Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate London and had published Mary sitting at Christs feet Serm at the funeral
in 4. volumes or parts each volume containing 5 books Lond. 1625. fol. 3 Purchas his Pilgrim Microcosmus or the history of Man c. Lond. 1619. oct 4 The Kings tower and triumphant arch of London pr. 1623. oct By the publishing of which books he brought himself into debt but died not in prison as some have said but in his own house a little while after the King had promised him a Deanery about 1628. aged 51. What other things he hath published besides a Funeral Sermon on Psal 39. 5. printed 1619 in oct I know not and therefore be pleased to take this character given of him by a learned Person which may serve instead of an Epitaph Samuel Purchas Anglus linguarum artium divinarum atque humanarum egregie peritus Philosophus Historicus Theologus maximus patriae ecclesiae antistes fidelis multis egregiis scriptis in primis orientalis occident alisque Indiae vastis voluminibus patria lingua conscripta celeberrimus One Samuel Purchas A. M. hath published A theatre of political flying Insects c. Lond. 1657. qu. July 11. John Wood Rob. King John Bowles D. D. Cant. The first of these three died in the Parish of St. Dionise Backchurch in London being Minister as it seems of that place an 1624. and the last who was a Native of Lancashire and Fellow of Trinity Coll. in the said University became Dean of Salisbury in the latter end of July an 1620 upon Dr. John Williams his being made Dean of Westminster At length upon Dr. Walt. Curle's translation to the See of D. and Wells he became Bishop of Rochester in 1630 and dying in an house situated on the Bank side in Westminster 9. Octob. 1637 was buried in St. Pauls Cathedral He hath extant Concio ad clerum in Act. cap. 15. 4. printed 1631. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 2. Eleazer Hodson Doct. of Phys of Padua He was afterwards eminent for his practice in the City of London where he died in the Parish of St. Stephen in Colemanstreet about the latter end of 1638. His Brother Phineas Hodson I have mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1602 Joh. Radolphus Stuckius and Jo. Waserus both of Zurich were this year Students in the University Afterwards they became learned Men and Writers as I shall tell you in the second Vol. in my discourse of Dr. John Prideaux An. Dom. 1616. An. 14. Jac. 1. Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton created this year Viscount Brackley but he voluntary resigning his office of Chancellour of this University on the 24. Jan. William Earl of Pembroke Knight of the Garter Chamberlaine of the Kings Houshold c. was unanimously elected into his place 29 of the same month Vicechanc. Arth. Lake D. D. Warden of New Coll. July 17. Proct. Robert Sanderson of Linc. Coll. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. Apr. 10. Bach. of Musick July 4. John Vauter of Linc. Coll. John Lake of New Coll. had his grace granted for the Degree of Bach. of Mus but whether he was admitted it appears not Or that he or Vauter have made any publick compostions in their faculty Bach. of Arts. Apr. 19. Nich. Hunt of Exet. June 19. John Speed of St. Joh. Coll. One Nich. Hunt hath several things extant who being I presume the same with the former is hereafter to be mention'd at large 26. Anth. Faringdon of Trin. Jul. 3. Jo. Allibond of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the created Doctors of Div. an 1643. 5. John Langley of Magd. hall Oct. 24. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1629. 26. Bruno Ryves of New afterwards of Magd. Coll. Will. Price of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1619. Nov. 4. John Doughtie Dec. 14. Rob. Grebby of New Coll. See more among the Masters of Art 1619. Jan. 29. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1627. Feb. 28. John Gee of Exet. John Thorie of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Incorporations an 1627. As for Faringdon Langley Ryves and Doughtie you are to expect large mention of them hereafter Admitted 223. Mast of Arts. April 19. Rich. Parre of Brasn Coll. June 4. Morgan Owen of Hart Hall 12. Immanuel Bourne of Ch. Ch. George Singe of Ball. Coll. 20. Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch. 21. John Scull of Lincoln lately of Mert. Coll. He hath published Two Sermons on Math. 10. 16. printed 1624. qu. being the same person as it seems who was afterwards Rector of Shinfold in Sussex where he died in 1641. 26. Franc. Potter of Trin. Coll. July 5. John Angell of Magd. Hall Deâ— 17. Alex. Huish of Wadham Coll. Feb. 25. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Hall lately of Magd. Coll. Adm. 117. Bach. of Phys … Francis Anthony Olevian of Glocester Hall was admitted but the day or month when appears not He was a German of the Palatine of the Rhine and had studied ten years in the faculty of Physick in the Universities of Heidelberg Mountpelier Paris and Oxon. He afterwards practised his Faculty being licensed by the University at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire where he died in 1642 but whether he hath written or published any thing let the Physitians seek Bach. of Div. May 15. Sim. Birckbek Thom. Sutton of Qu. Coll. June 4. Tho. Godwin of Magd. July 10. George Wall of Brasn Coll. The last was about this time beneficed in his native Country of Worcestershire and afterwards published A sermon at the Archbishop of Canterbury his Visitation metropolitical held at Allsaints in Worcester by Dr. Bâ—ent his Grace's Vicar General 3 June 1635. on 2 Cor. 5. 20. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things Quâ—ere Dec. 13. Henr. Rogers of Jes. Coll. Besides these were 13 more admitted of whom Joh Flavel of Broadgates Hall was one and Evan Morgan of Linc. Coll. another both Compounders ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 18. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. May 11. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. 15. Tho. Holloway of Ball. Coll. June 13. Sam. Clark of Magd. Hall a Compounder He had a son of both his names of Vniversity Coll. an 1635 but neither of them as I can yet find were Writers which I thought fit to let the Reader know because there have been several Samuel Clarks that have been Authors as 1 Sam. Clark of Merton Coll. whom I shall mention in the second Volume of this Work 2 Sam. Clark sometimes Minister of S. Bennet-Fink in London born at Wolstan in Warwickshire 10 Oct. 1599 being of the same Family with those of Willoughby in that County as Sam. Clark the Compounder before mention'd was afterwards a severe Calvinist and a scribling Plagiary as his Works mostly the lives of Presbyterian Divines shew a Catalogue of which you may see in one of his books entit The lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age In
incorporated Masters again I have made mention among the Incorporations in an 1612 and 1615. Will. Isaacson M. A. He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of S. Andrews Church in the Wardrobe in London and of Wodford in Essex but whether he hath published any thing I know not He was younger Brother to Henry Isaacson the Chronologer sometimes Amanuensis to Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester Son of Rich. Isaacson Sheriff elect of London who died 19 Jan. 1620 and he the Son of Will. Isaacson of Sheffield in Yorkshire by Isabel his first Wife This Hen. Isaacson by the way I must let the Reader know was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Coleman in London in Sept. 1581 but what Academical Education he received I cannot yet tell Sure it is that he arrived to great knowledge in Chronology as his large book of that subject doth sufficiently attest and dying about the 7 of Decemb. 1654 was buried in the Church of S. Catherine Coleman before mention'd having before been a considerable benefactor to the poor of that Parish Will. Beale M. A. of Pemb. Hall See among the Incorporations an 1645. Dan. Horsmanden M. A. He was afterwards D. of D. and Rector of Vlcomb in Kent and accounted by his Contemporaries a learned man but he being a zealous person for the Church of England and a high Loyalist was thrown out of his Living by the Committee of Religion an 1643 as you may see in the Pamph. entit The first century of scandalous malignant priests c. p. 36 37 He lost other Spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause during the time of the Rebellion Humphrey Henchman M. A. This loyal and religious person who was Son of Tho. Henchman of London Skinner and he the Son of another Thomas of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire in which Country his name and family had for several generations before lived was afterwards D. of D. Chauntor of Salisbury on the death of Hen. Cotton in January 1622 and Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church an 1628. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Bishop of that place upon the translation of Dr. Duppa to Winchester Whereupon being consecrated in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. within the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster 28 Oct. 1660 sate there three years and then upon the translation of Dr. Sheldon to Canterbury he was translated to London in Sept. 1663. About that time he was made Bishop Almoner and died as it seems in the month of Octob. an 1675. He was for his wisdom and prudence much valued by K. Ch. 2. whose happy escape from the battel at Worcester this pious Prelate did admirably well manage especially when his Majesty came in a disguise near Salisbury He was born as I have been informed within the Parish of S. Giles Cripplâ—gate London and educated in Clare Hall in Cambridge of which he was Fellow Arthur Jackson M. A. Afterwards he was a frequent and puritanical Preacher and sided with the Presbyterians when the Rebellion began an 1642. About which time he was Minister of S. Michael Woodstreet in London where I find him in 1649. He hath written Expositions on various parts of the Scripture as 1 An help for understanding the holy Scriptures the first part being an exposition upon the five books of Moses viz. Gen. Levit. Numb Deut. c. Camb. 1643. qu. 2 Annotations on the remaining part of the Old Testament viz. Jâ—sh Judges Sam. Kings Chron. Ezra Nehem. Estheâ— the second part 3 Annotations on the five poetical looks of holy Scripture viz. Job Psalms Prov. Eccles and Cant. Lond. 1658. Besides several other things which for brevity sake I now omit See more of him in Ch. Love among the Writers an 1651. The said Masters of Arts viz. Th. Goad Ben. Laney R. Holdsworth Hen. Burton Ab. Gibson W. Isaason W. Beale Dan. Horsmanden H. Henâ—hman and A. Jackson were incorporated as I have before told you 15 July as they had stood before at Cambridge Besides them were about 27 more incorporated of whom Sam Carter was one but not one of them being then or after men of note as I can yet find are here omitted On the same day also one Rob. Newton M. A. of the Univ. of S. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated of whom I know no more Creations March 5. Will. Stafford a Student of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the Congregation house by vertue of a dispensation obtained in that of Convocation on the second day of the said month This person who was a Norfolk man born and nobly descended was a Member of the House of Commons for a time and wrot a little thing as I have been informed by those that knew him entit Reasons of the War c. which I suppose is the same with a Pamphlet entit An orderly and plain narration of the beginning and causes of this War with a conscientious resolution against the Parliament side printed 1644 in 3 sheets in qu. He died at Thornborough in Glocestershire where he had a plentiful Estate about the year 1683 and in the ninetieth year of his age leaving behind him a Son named John Father of Rich. Stafford lately Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall Author of Of happiness c. Lond. 1689. qu. An. Dom. 1618. An. 16 Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. the same again July 17. Proct. Daniel Ingoâ—l of Qu. Coll. â—ch Drope of Magd. Coll. Apr. 15. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. San. Hoard of S. Maries Hall May 8. Meric Casaubon Son of Isaac of Ch. Ch. June 9. Wiâ—l Paul Tho. Laurence of All 's Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 10. Thom. Coâ—man of Magd. 12. Alexand. Griffith of Haâ—t Hall The last did not take the Degree of M. of A. till 1631. 18. Hen. Blount of Trin. Coll. July 2. Joh. Pointer of Brasâ— Coll. He was matriculated and took the degree of Bach. of Arts as an Esquires Son Afterwards departing without any other degree became a puritanical Preacher and acquainted with Oliver Cromwel who when Protector gave him a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon as a reward for the pains he took in converting him to Godliness i.e. to canting Puritanisâ— and Saintism After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was ejected and living many years after in Oxon in a retired and studious condition died 2 Jan. 1683 aged 84 or thereabouts whereupon his body was buried at the lower end of the north 〈◊〉 joyning to the Church of S Peter in the Baylie Oxon. Oct. 15. Humph. Chambers of Vniv. Edw. Reynolds of Mert. Coll. The laâ—t was afterwards Bishop of Norwich Dec. 3. Phâ—â—ip King of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Dr. King B. of London See among the created Doctors of Div. 1645. 15. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. 17. Rob. Bedingfield 19 George Morley Rob. Gomersall Zouch Townley of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last four you may
Durham in the place of Sir Adam Newton Knight and Baronet 29. May 1620. Whether the same with him who was incorporated M. of A. is doubtful Gilb. Wâ—mberley M. A. I have made mention of him before Which seven Persons were I say incorporated 13. July Dec. 1. Patrick Saunders Doct. of Phys of the University of Franekâ—r in Westfriesen He afterwards practised his faculty in the Parish of Great St. Hellens in London where he died about 1637. A proposal was made much about the Act time for one Thomas Bateson Bach. of Musick to be incorporated but whether he was really so or no I cannot tell In the beginning of the Reign of K. Jaâ— 1. I find him Organist of the Cath. Church of Christ in the City of Chester and now 1619 Organist and Master of the Children of the Cathedral Church of the blessed Trinity called Christ Church in Dublin where as I suppose he took the Degree of Bach. of Musick He was a Person esteemed very eminent in his profession especially after he had published The first and second part of English Madrigales to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices The first part was printed at Lond. 1604 and the second there 1618 both in qu. One 〈◊〉 Jewit Bach. of Musick of Dublin who had been bred up under Orlando Gibbons did succeed him in the Organists place of Ch. Ch. who enjoying it but a little while Ben. Rogers of 〈◊〉 succeeded him 1639. Soon after the rebellion breaking out in Ireland Jewit went into England and was made Organist of Winchester where he lived in good esteem for his skill in his profession and soon after died Creations July 19. Benjamin Johnson the Father of the English Poets and Poetry and the most learned and judicious of the Comedians was then actually created Master of Arts in a full House of Convocation An. Dom. 1620. An. 18. Jac. 1. Chanc. the same viz. William Earl of Pembroke Vicech Dr. Prideaux again July 21. Proct. Matthew Osbourne of Wad C. Samuel Smith of Magd. C. Apr. 18. But the junior Proctor dying 17. June Tho. Fox of the said Coll. succeeded him on the 20. of the said month Bach. of Arts. May 5. Tho. Blake of Ch. Ch. Obad. Sedgwick of Magd. hall 11. Will. Haywood of St. Johns Thom. Hicks of Balliol Coll. June 15. Thom. Case of Ch. Ch. 21. Thom. Bradley of Exet. 28. Will. Chillingworth of Trin. Coll. Jul. 5. Will. Gilbert of Linc. Coll. afterwards of Gloc. hall See more among the Masters 1623. Oct. 17. Edward Leigh of Magd. Sam. Newman of St. Edm. Hall 19. Nathaniel Holmes lately of Magd. hall now of Exeter College afterwards of the said hall again a mutable Man and of divers Religions in the time of Rebellion was then admitted B. A. Nov. 9. Will. Crompton of Brasn 28. Anth. Fawkner of Wadh. Jan. 22. Will. Prynne of Oriel Will. Sherley of Ch. Church Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1631. Feb. 1. Eliot Farley of Ball. Coll. This Person who was a Worcestershire Man born and bred under Mr. Henry Bright in the Kings School at Worcester did leave Ball. Coll. before he was Master of Arts and crossing the Seas became a Priest in the Church of Rome and at present 1661 he is said to be the chief favourite of the Pope and in likelyhood to be the next Cardinal as a Writer of no great credit tells us who calls him Elias Farley All these except Hicks Gilbert Fawkner and Sherley will be mention'd in the second vol. or elsewhere Admitted 281. Mast of Arts. March 28. Anthony Faringdon of Trin. May 3. John Speed of St. Johns 10. Christopher Harvey of Brasn Coll. 28. Joh. Seager of St. Maries hall Gilb. Sheldon of Trin. Jul. 1. Pet. Heylyn of Magd. Coll. Jan… Sam. Hoard of St. Maries hall March 17. Rob. Hegge of C. C. Coll. Admitted 134. Bach. of Phys Apr. 17. Sam. Smith of Magd. Coll. In the latter end of the same month he was admitted the junior Proctor Besides him were two more admitted who will be mention'd among the Doctors this year two also admitted to practice Physick and two Chirurgery of whâ—m one was called Jacob Van Otten the same I suppose with Jac. Otten who was a Student in Physick in this University for the sake of the publick Library an 1604 and after Bach. of Div. May 11. Nathan Carpenter of Exet. June 2. Christop Wrenn of St. Johns Coll. This last Person who was younger Brother to Dr. Matthew Wrenn Bishop of Ely was afterwards made domestick Chaplain in the Kings Family Dean of Windsore in which Dignity he was installed 4. April 1635. and on the 22. of the said month he was constituted and sworn Scribe or Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter About that time he was made Dean of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire and in Novemb. 1638 he was presented to the rich Rectory of Haseley in Oxfordshire but whether he took the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in this University it appears not He died at Blechingdon in the said County in the house of Mr. William Holder Rector thereof who had married his Daughter 29. May 1658. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Dr. Edward Hyde of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanery of Windsore but died before His Majesties restauration as I have told you elsewhere June 28. John Conant lately Fellow of Exeter Coll. now Rector of Limington in Somersetshire He was afterwards one of the Assembly of Divines and the writer and publisher of The woe and weal of Gods People Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 26. Jul. 1643. on Jer. 30. 7. Lond. 1643. qu. and of another on Lament 3. 31. 32. printed the same year in qu. but this last I have not yet seen or any thing else of his extant July 18. Caesar Calendrinus of Exet. Coll. He was by birth a German by profession a puritanical Theologist and being a learned Man was beloved of the famous Dr. Vsher who took him with him into Ireland and there as 't is said prefer'd him In my searches I find one Caesar Calendrinus of the Parish of St. Peter Le poor in London who dying there in 1665 left behind him a Son named John But whether this Caes Cal. be the same with the former who was Bach. of Div. I cannot tell I find also one Caesar Caldâ—rinus to be Author of Dictionariolum sive Thesauri linguae latinae omnium à vocibus latinis incipientium Dictionariorum compendium c. Venet. 1649. oct but this Person must not be taken for the same with C. Calendrinus because their names differ and that the last was born in the territory of Verona 19. Christoph White of Ch. Ch. March 9. Christoph Potter of Qu. Coll. Admitted 20. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys May 23. Dan. Oxenbridge of Ch. Church Francis Banister of Trin. Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in their faculty
Compounder Jun. 26. Rich. Heyrick of S. Joh. Joh. Lewgar of Trin. Coll. Jul. 4. Geor. Stinton of Ball. Coll. He was the eldest Son of an Esq was born and educated in Grammar Learning in the City of Worcester and after he had taken the degree of M. A. he became Vicar of Claynes in the Bishop of Worcester's gift and Rector of Speechley both near to the said City He hath published A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Worcester in the time of the pestilence on 1 Kings 8. ver 37 38 39. Oxon 1637. oct and hath written others fit for the press which go from hand to hand to this day He died at Speechley about 1654 and was buried in the Church there Joh. Biddle of Ball. Coll. was adm on the said 4 of July but whether he ever took the degree of Bach. of Arts in this University it doth not appear in the publick Register I set this J. Biddle down here to distinguish him from another of both his names a grand Socinian and Arrian whom I shall at large mention in the second Vol. but whether he hath published any thing I cannot yet tell One John Beadle M. of A. Minister sometimes of Barnstone in Essex wrot The Journal or Diary of a thankful Christian presented in some Meditations upon Numb 33. v. 2. Lond. 1656 oct Which Author I presume was of Cambridge See more of him in an Epist to the Reader before the said Journal written by Joh. Fuller Minister of S. Martin Ironmonger lane wherein he speaks much of the said Author Oct. 29. Rich. Bâ—field of Qu. Coll. Dec. 11. Matthias Turner of Broadgates Hall lately of Balliol Coll. He was an excellent Philosopher had great skill in the Oriental Languages and wrot as he himself professed all his Sermons which he preached in Greek Jan. 23. Tho. Hieks of Ball. Coll. Obadiah Sedgwick of Magd. Hall Feb. 21. Tho. Blake of Ch. Ch. Adm. 141. Bach. of Div. May 10. Thomas Vicars of Queens Coll. Besides him were admitted 8 more but not one of them was a Writer or Bishop Doct. of Law Jul. 4. Will. Bird of All 's Coll. This learned Doctor who was Son of Thom. Bird of Littlebury in Essex Brother to Sir Will. Bird mention'd before under the year 1587. was afterwards Custos or Master of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and died in the latter end of 1644. One Will. Bird hath written The magazine of honour or a treatise of the several degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdom c. which was afterwards perused and enlarged by Sir John Doderidge as I have in him told you before among the Writers But what relation this Will. Bird had to the former I know not Doct. of Phys May 27. Rich. Spicer of Exet. Coll. who accumulated the degrees in Medicine He was afterwards an eminent Physitian in London where he died in the beginning of the year 1640. Doct. of Div. June 27. Tho. Jackson Christop Green of C. C. Coll. The first is largely mention'd elsewhere the other who was also a learned and godly man was now Prebendary of Bristow where dying 5 March 1658 aged 79 was buried in the Yard belonging to the Cath. Ch. there Jul. 1. Thom. Benson of Ch. Ch. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. Incorporations On the 9 of July being the day after the conclusion of the Act were these Cantabrigians following incorporated being part of the number of about 24 that were taken into the bosom of this University Charles Lord Stanhope of Harington M. of Arts. Timothy Thurscross M. A. Afterwards being Bach. of Div. he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Hen. Thurscross resigning 16. Nov. 1635. And afterwards resigning that dignity Joh. Neile Bach. of Div. was installed therein 27 Oct. 1638 I mean the same Neile who was made Dean of Rippon in the place of Dr. Joh. Wilkins promoted to the See of Chester One Tim. Thurscross D. D. died in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in Lond. in Novemb. or thereabouts 1671 which perhaps may be the same with the former Quaere Thom. Aylesbury M. of A. See among the Incorporations 1626. Will. Fenner M. A. of Pembroke Hall He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and exercised his Ministry for a time in Staffordshire At length upon the invitation of the Earl of Warwick he became Rector of Rochford in Essex where he was much admired and frequented by the puritannical party He gave way to fate in 1640 or thereabouts aged 40 and had several theological Tracts of his writing published after his death by Tho. Hill whom I shall anon mention the Titles of most of which you may see in Oxford Catalogue but more in that publised by Will. London a Bookseller an 1658. Thom. Hill M. A. of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Tychmersh in Northamptonshire one of the Assembly of Divines a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber ejected and Vicechancellour of the said University He hath published several Sermons as 1 The trade of truth advanced preached before the H. of Commons at a Fast 27 Jul. 1642 on Prov. 23. ver 23. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Militant Church triumphant over the Dragon and his Angels Serm. before both Houses 21 Jul. 1645 on Rev. 12. 11. Lond. 1643. qu. 3 The reason for Englands self-reflection an extraordinary Fast-sermon 13 Aug. 1644 before the two Houses on Haggai 1. 7 8. 4 The right separation encouraged Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 27 Nov. 1644 on 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. Besides others as also his Best and worst of Paul an Exercise in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. printed 1648 and his collecting into one quarto Vol. several of the theological Tracts of the aforesaid Will. Fenner printed at Lond. 1651. You may see more of him the said Th. Hill in Anth. Tuckney's Sermon at his Funeral with an account of his Life and Death printed in 1654 in oct Besides this Dr. Tho. Hill was another also who was Minister of Brodfield in Suffolk and died there in the Winter time 1638 but hath nothing extant as I can yet see and a third Dr. Tho. Hill you may see in my discourse of Dr. George Abbot among the Writers an 1633. num 612. Thom. Thorowgood M. A. He was afterwards Bach. of Div. Rector of Grymston in Norfolk and one of the Assembly of Divines Among several things that he hath published are 1 Jews in America or probabilities that Americans are of that race c. Lond. 1650. qu. 2 Moderation justified c. Fast-serm before the H. of Commons 26 Dec. 1644 on Phil. 4. 5. Lond. 1645. qu. c. All which Cantabrigians with many more besides 13 Bachelaurs of Arts were incorporated on the 9 Jul. before mention'd Feb. 28. Thom. Freaer or Fryer Doct. of Phys of the University of Padua He was at this time a practitioner in the City of London and dying in the beginning of 1623 about two months
tw published by S. Hartlib 9 Supplement to the reform School Lond. 1651. in tw published by the said Hartlib 10 The reform Library keeper Lond. 1650. in tw To which is added Bibliotheca Augusta sereniss Princ. D. Augusti Ducis Brunovicensis Luneb quae est Wolferbyti 11. Earnest plea for Gospel-Communion Lond. 1654. qu. 12 Summary platform of Divinity pr. 1654. c. An. Dom. 1625. An. 1 Car. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Prideaux again Jul. 19. Proct. Nich. Brookes of Oriel Coll. Sam. Marsh of Trin. Coll. Apr. 27. Bach. of Arts. May 5. Gervase Warmstrey Jun. 22. Hen. Elsynge Will. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. Jul. 6. Gasper Hicks of Trin. Rob. Cross of Linc. Nov. 22. Thom. Masters of New 24. Henry Savage of Ball. Dec. 16. Christopher Airay of Qu. Coll. Feb. 6. Nich. Gibbon 9. Hen. Parker of S. Edm. Hall Rich. Jones of Jesus 13. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. 14. Nath. Stephens Edw. Hyde John Lisle of Madg. Hall 15. Mich. Hudson Guy Carlton of Qu. Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Chichester All which will be mention'd at large elsewhere Adm. 256. Bach. of Law Only six this year were admitted the senior of whom was Rich. Basset of Lincoln Coll. a Compounder Mast of Arts. March 28. Joh. Viccars of Linc. Coll. Apr. 29. Joh. Ellis of Hart Hall May 21. Will. Claybroke of Ball. Coll. This person who was the second Son of an Esq left Oxon soon after changed his Religion went beyond the Seas and became Canon of some of the hither parts of France of Flanders as I have been informed June 23. George Hughes of Pembr lately of C. C. 25. Joh. Strickland of Qu. 30. Henry Hammond of Magd. July 5. John Marsham of St. Joh. Coll. July 2. Joh. Lee of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards one of the first Scholars of Pembroke Coll. at its first foundation where as at Balliol he was an indefatigable Student and of proficiency answerable He wrote an enterlude but never acted or published and hath a Lat. Speech in print which is all I know of him only that he was Son of Joh. Lee of Abendon in Berks. and educated in the Free-school there July 7. Joh. Sedgwick Joh. Angell of Magd. Hall James Eglesfield of Qu. Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterward Vicar of Chewton in his native Country of Somersetshire and Author of A heavenly hymne to the King of Heaven Sermon on Mark 7. 37. Lond. 1640. oct the Author being then dead What else was published under his name I know not nor any thing else him only that he was a Ministers Son and a learned Man Admitted 156. Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Griffin Higgs of Mert. Elizeus Burges of St. Joh. Coll. The last was now Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of Rich. Tillesley deceased May 19. Hen. King Joh. King of Ch. Ch. June 28. John Davenport of Magd. hall July 1. Brian Duppa 2. Rog. Manwaring of All 's 8. Francis Potter of Trinity Coll. Admitted 19. Doct. of Law Mar. 31. William Skinner of All 's Coll. Chancellour of the Dioc. of Hereford ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 19. Hen. King Joh. King Canons of Ch. Ch. Both the Sons of Dr. King sometimes B. of London and Accumulators and Compounders 26. Edw. à Meetkirke of Ch. Ch. Hebrew Professor of the University and about this time Prebendary of Winchester June 20. Charles Croke of the same house an Accumulator and Compounder He was at this time Rector of Amersham alias Agmundesham in Bucks and Fellow of Eaton Coll. and afterwards the writer and publisher of A sad memorial of Hen. Curwen Esq only Child of Sir Patr. Curwen of Warkington in Cumberland Baronet who died 21. Aug. 1638. aged 14 and was buried in the Church of Amersham in Bucks Serm. on Job 14. 2. Oxon. 1638. qu. at which time the Author was Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. What other writings he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was born in Oxfordshire and that he was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Croke of Chilton in Bucks one of the Justices of the Kings-bench July 1. Brian Duppa 2. Roger Manwaring of All 's Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Divinity 8. Thomas Horne of Mert. Nath. Giles of Magd. Coll. Compounders The first became Canon of Windsore in Oct. 1616. in the place of Dr. Edm. Nuttal sometimes Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge deceased and dying on the seventh of the Ides of Nov. 1636. aged 60 was buried in St. Georges Chap. at Windsore The other Dr. Giles became also Canon of the said Chappel in the latter end of 1623 and in the latter end of 1626 Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Hen. Bright deceased He died in the time of the grand rebellion Incorporations The plague raging this year in London and therefore the Act put off few incorporations occur However those that are take as they follow July…Tho Browne Bach. of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Quaere 6. Edm. Prideaux M. A. of the same University This Person if I am not mistaken was the same who in the times of Usurpation was Commissioner of the great Seal and by ordinance did practice within the Bar as one of the Kings Council and after that was made Attorney General and Post-master for all the Inland-letters From which employments gaining a vast estate left at the time of his death 19. Aug. 1659 an incredible mass of gold as the credible report then went besides Lands of very great demesness July 12. Lodovic Rouseus Doctor of Phys of the University of Leyden in Holland Dec. 13. John Verneuil M. of A. of the Univ. of Mountalbon in France now or lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 11. Thom. Levet of York Diocess a Licentiat of the Civil Law in the Univers of Orleance was incorporated Bach. of the same fac March 24. Edward Hayward M. of A. of Cambridge Quaere Creations Jan. 26. John Hassall or Halsall a Student in Divinity sometimes Bach. of Law and Fellow of New Coll. had then leave given to him by the venerable Convocation that he might be actually created Doctor of the said faculty when he pleased to accept of that Degree but the day when he was created appears not In the letters commendatory of the Chancellour of this Univ. Will. Earl of Pembroke written to the members thereof are these matters mention'd of the said Hassall He hath been a diligent and faithful preacher of the word of God in the Low-countries and hath gotten a singular good reputation with the English in those parts having been particularly favoured and cherished by the Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth his most Royal spouse He was when my self was a Student in the University a hopeful Scholar and of special note in the same house with me c. The Letters also of Sir Horatio Vere written in his behalf
degenerate into madness and frenzie and that the endeavours of others under the pretence of reformation was to bring in Anarchy and Sacrilege he published a learned Tract called by a certain Author notwithstanding P. Heylyn published a book with the same title A coal from the Altar And another learned book entit Noli me tangere Or a thing to be thought of printed 1641. qu. Against Anarchy he also declared himself for Episcopacy and the establish'd Liturgy and published another book entit Communion comeliness Wherein is discovered the conveniency of the Peoples drawing near to the table in the sight thereof when they receive the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book by many impregnable arguments he proves a high conveniency if not a necessity for that most laudable custome of having railes about the Lords Table So that this Person being discern'd by the faction to be a friend to the Protestant Religion established in the Church of England was look'd upon as their enemy and was by them branded with Popery or as popishly affected Yet his former reputation in the City bore him up against the obloquy of private discontent for a time At length when they came openly to defie their Sovereign the Lords anointed it was a fit time to silence and remove Mr. Vdall for neither Dr. Gouge his Church in the Black-friers or Mr. Jo. Goodwins in Colemanstreet were half so full before the Long Parliament began as Mr. Vdalls had been since First therefore they plunder his house take away his Library and Houshold stuff then remove him from the execution of his Ministry and sequester the profits thereof for a Levite of their own Afterwards they sought to commit him to Prison tho aged and very weak and infirm in body and at length carried his aged and decrepid Wife out of her doors by force and set her in the open street to shift for her self This most pious and meek Man who had been favoured in his Ministry by the Vincents of Stoke-Dawbernon in Surrey Baronets hath written other things among which is The good of peace Sermon on Psal 29. 11. Lond. 1642. qu. He surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to God about the latter end of May 1647 at which time he desired that his body might be buried in the Chancel of Allhallows in Honey-lane in Cheapside in Lond. unless the Parishioners of St. Austin desire to have the disposing of it In a most unworthy Pamphlet entit The first century of scandalous malignant Priests c. print 1643. I find these matters of Ephraim Vdall viz. that he hath affirmed that the great reformers of the Church now are Hypocrites and hath made framed and published a book intit Noli me tangere without license charging the Parliament with Sacrilege in endeavouring to abolish Episcopacy and to take away the Lands of Deans and Chapters to amend therewith the maintenance of preaching Ministers and that thereby they have brought a national sin on the Land as was formerly done by them in taking away Monasteries c. For which and other passages in the said book he was thrown out of his rectory by the blessed Parliament as it was then called An. Dom. 1631. An. 7. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Bishop of London Vicechanc. Dr. Smith of Wadh. Coll. again July 16. Proct. Atherton Bruch of Bras C. John Doughty of Mert. C. Apr. 20. Which Proctors being removed from their places by the Kings command in the month of August as I have told you at large elsewhere were elected for the remaining purt of the year Mr. Joh. Earle of Mert. Coll. Laur. Washington of Brasn Coll. Presented 26. Aug. Bach. of Musick Jul. 8. Will. Child of Ch. Ch. He was now one of the Organists of his Majesties Chappel at Windsore having before been one of the Gentlemen thereof I shall speak more largely of him in the year 1663. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 27. Thom. Wood Will. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 30. George 〈◊〉 of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester June 20. Rich. Allein of St. Alb. Oct. 20. Walt. Bushnell Joh. Wilkins Nich. Clagett of Mert. of Magd. Hall Dec. 10. Daniel Whitby of Brasn Jan. 17. Dudley Digges of Vniv. Feb. 9. Christop Fowler of Magd. Coll. The last of which was afterwards of St. Edm. Hall Mar. 22. Anth. Sadler of St. Edm. Hall 24. Joh. Shaw of Brasn Will. Rowland of Ex. Coll. All these will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 249. Bach. of Law Oct. 11. Tho. Reade of New Coll. See more of him among the Doctors of this faculty an 1638. Besides him were 18 admitted among whom Will. Dowdeswell of Pemb. Coll. was one often commended by Sir Tho. Bâ—owne the Physician for a learned Man and Franc. St Barbe of Ball. Coll. another Tho. Heath of All 's Coll. was also admitted the same year but whether he was afterwards Doctor of his faculty of this Univ. I cannot tell When Dr. Sheldon became Archbishop of Canterbury he was made if I mistake not Controller of his Family and a Knight but after the said Archb. death he retired to Stoke near Guilford in Surrey and died in the beginning of the year 1680. Mast of Arts. Apr. 30. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. May 4. Will. Sedgwick of Pemb. Coll. Jun. 18. Rich. Busby Jasp Mayne of Ch. Ch. Joh. Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall 22. Joh. Gregory of Ch. Ch. 25. Joh. Gough or Goffe of Magd. 30. Thom. Good of Ball. Coll. Oct. 17. Mirth Waferer of St. Albans Hall lately of Merton Coll. Nov. 10. Abraham Woodhead of Vniv. Dec. 10. Edm. Chilmead of Magd. Alex. Griffith of Hart Hall Coll. Jan. 24. Allan Blane Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll. 27. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. C. Admitted 128. Bach. of Phys Six Bachelaurs of Physick were admitted this year of which Nich. Lamie a French Man of Pemb. Coll. was the junior who before this time had spent 7 years in the studie of the said faculty in the University of Caen in Normandy There was also one admitted to practise Physick and another Chirurgery named Will. Manowrier a French Man who in the publick register is stiled Dominus de Pratis Bach. of Div. March 30. Nathan Simpson of Trin. Coll. Apr. 21. Christopher Newstead of St. Alb. Hall May 12. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. June… Will. Sherley of Ch. Ch. This learned Divine who was a Dorsetshire Man born became Rector of Huish Comb flower in the Dioc. of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Atherton to the See of Waterford in Ireland in Feb. 1636 and about the same time beneficed in his own Country He is Author of The excellency of the order of the Church of England under Episcopal Government set forth in a Sermon at the Visitation at Blandsord an 1640 on 1. Cor. 11. 34. Lond. 1662. qu. Published by Rich. Harris of the Inner Temple after the
the next month into Scotland This worthy Doctor who was Son of Thomas Turner of Heckfield in Hampshire Alderman and Mayor of Reading in Berkshire was born in the Parish of St. Giles within the said borough and admitted Scholar of St. Johns Coll. in 1610 being their put under the tuition of Mr. Will. Juxon who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury After he had entred into holy orders he became a practical useful Preacher which he kept up to the very last and was much resorted to by those whose principles were orthodox Afterwards he was made domestick Chaplain to Bishop Laud Chaplain in ordinary to King Char. 1. Canon residentiary of St. Paul and Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Hen. King promoted to the See of Chichester in which Dignity he was installed 26. Feb. 1641. Soon after he was sequestred from his Church of St. Olave in Southwark plundered carried thence Prisoner by a Party of Horse and at length forced to fly to save his life In 1643 he had the Deanery of Canterbury bestowed on him by his Majesty on the death of Dr. George Eglionby so that he constantly adhering to the cause of his Master in the worst of his calamities particularly at Hampton-court and afterwards in the Isle of Wight suffered afterwards great misery himself during the times of Usurpation which he bore with a good courage being then as always before esteemed a great exemplar of humility most Christian simplicity and of most fervent zeal to the Church After the restauration of King Charles 2. he contented himself only with those spiritualities which he before had lost for his loyalty and dying on the eighth day of Octob. 1672 aged 81 or thereabouts was buried on the 17 of the same month within the Cathedral Church of Canterbury At which time Dr. Peter du Moulin preaching a funeral Sermon did speak honorably of the Person that then laid dead before him to which Sermon being extant I refer the reader He the said Dr. Turner hath published A Sermon preached at Whitehall on Matth. 9. 13. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He left behind him several Sons which he had by his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Francis Windebanke Knight sometimes Secretary of State to King Charles 1. of whom Francis was one now Bishop of Ely Apr. 3. Rich. Doughtie Fellow of All 's Coll. was actually created M. of A. which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1634. An. 10. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Rob. Pinke D. of D. Warden of New Coll. July 26. Proct. Herbert Pelham of Magd. Coll. John Warren of Wadham Coll. Apr. 16. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. Thom. Gawen 24. George Kendall of New Coll. Inn. June 18. Josias How of Trin. Coll. See among the created Bachelaurs of Div. an 1646. 20. Rob. Waring 21. Hen. Gregory of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1637. July 8. John Maplet of Ch. Ch. July 9. Ralph Brideoake Nov. 11. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Chichester 20. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall Jan. 15. Hen. Janson of Ball. afterwards of Allsouls Coll. 24. Hen. Hall of Lincolne Christopher Merret of Oriel Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry in Ireland The other was afterwards of Glocester Hall and an eminent Physician Feb. 6. Nathan Heigmore of Trin. Job Fountaine of C. C. Coll. The last of these two was originally of Linc. Coll. See more among the Masters of Art in 1637. Feb… Will. Taylor of Magd. Hall All these Bachelaurs except Henry Gregory will be mention'd elsewhere Admitted 216. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Nineteen were admitted this year among whom George Wild of St. Johns Coll. was one Feb. 7. afterwards Bishop of Londonderry in Ireland as I shall tell you at large in the next Volume Mast of Arts. Apr. 24. Tho. Wood of Ch. Ch. 29. Rich. Allein of New Inn lately of St. Alb. Hall Jun. 11. John Wilkins Nich. Clagett Walt. Bushnell of Magd. Hall The first of these there was afterwards Bishop of Chester as I should have told you under the year 1631 and Clagett had before been of Mert. Coll. 14. Tim. Taylor late of Qu. Coll. now of St. Maries Hall June 28. Dan. Whitby of Brasn July 2. Joh. Toy of Pemb. Coll. Oct. 29. Christoph Fowler of St. Edm. Hall Dec. 5. Will. Rowland of Exet. Coll. Jan. 29. John Warner Rich. Hayter of Magd. Coll. Feb. 5. Will. Thomas of Jes Coll. Admitted 150. Bach. of Phys Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. Hall Besides him were five more admitted the first of whom was John Dixon of Gloc. hall and the last John Aubrey of Magd. Coll. but not one of them was afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. Mar. 26. John Hoffman of Exeter Coll. He was the Son of John Hoffman a Merchant of Elsentia in the Palatinat of Germany was about this time Rector of Wotton near to Wodstock in Oxfordshire which place he kept during the time of the rebellion being himself a Presbyterian and published The Principles of Christian Religion in 30 questions and answers Lond. 1674. oct and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He died soon after and was buried at Wotton beforemention'd June 26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. Coll. Admitted 12. Doct. of Law July 5. George Ryves of All 's 23. Tho. Heath of Merton Coll. The last of these two was about this time Chancellour of Peterborough where continuing till that office was annull'd and all matters relating to the Church tending to ruine he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion for that of Rome and lived ever after especially in his last days in so great poverty at Gant in Flanders that he was mostly sustained by the almes of the Monastery of English Nuns there and partly by the contribution of some charitable Persons in that town He died on the second day of Febr. 1680. according to the accompt there followed and was buried by the charity of others having nothing of his own in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas near to the said Monastery Doct. of Phys Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. hall He accumulated the Degrees in Physick and was the only proceeder in his faculty this year He is now living in Convent-garden near Lond. 1690. Doct. of Div. Mar. 26. Morgan Wynne of All 's Coll. In the beginning of Dec. 1629. he became Archdeacon of Lincolne but in whose room I cannot tell for between the death of Dr. John Hills which hapned in 1626 to Nov. 1629 that Dignity was enjoyed by one as yet unknown to me This Dr. Wynne who was Rector of Scotter in Lincolnshire died and was buried at Scotter as it seems an 1644. Whereupon Raphael Throckmorton succeeded him an 1645. May 10. John Morris Hebrew Professor of the University and Canon of Ch. Ch. sometimes
Iconoclastes in answer to a book entit Eikon Basilice the portrature of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings Lond. 1649 50. qu. ib. 1690 oct which being published to the horror of all sober men nay even to the Presbyterians themselves yet by the then dominant party it was esteemed an excellent piece and perform'd answerably to the expectation of his Wit and Pen. After the Return of King Charles 2. this book was called in by Proclamation dated 13 Aug. 1660 at which time the Author who a little before had left his house in Petty France which had a door going into S. James's Park absconded for fear of being brought to a legal Tryal and so consequently of receiving condign Punishment At the same time also was called in a book of John Goodwin then lately a Minister in Colemanstreet in Lond. entit The Obstructors of Justice written in defence of the Sentence against his Majesty Charles 1. At which time also the said Goodwin absconded to prevent Justice Soon after the publication of Iconoclastes Salmasius a Professor in Holland who had in a large Treatise not long before maintained as 't is said the parity of Church Governors against Episcopacy did publish Defensio rogia pro Carolo 1. Rege Angliae wherein he justified several matters as Milton conceived to the contradiction of his former book Whereupon he wrot and published 15 Pro populo Anglicano defensio contra Claudii Anonymi alias Salmasii defensionem regiam Lond. 1651. fol. said to be written in more correct Latin than that of Salmasius While Milton was writing the said book his sight began to fail him and before it was fully compleated one of his eyes did absolutely perish In the month of June the same year 1651 the said book was burnt at Tholouse by an arrest from the Parliament under the Government of the Duke of Orleans And in Sept. following it was the usual practice of Marchm Nedham a great crony of Milton to abuse Salmasius in his publick Mercury called Politicus as Milton had done before in his Defensio by saying among other things that Christina Qu. of Sweden had cashiered him her favour by understanding that he was a pernicious parasite and a promoter of Tyranny After his Majesties Restauration this book also was called in by the same Proclamation before mention'd But so it was that in 1652 a certain book entit Regii sanguinis clamor c. being published Salmasius was highly extol'd in it and Milton had his just Character given therein The nameless Author of which being for a considerable time sought out but in vain by Milton he at length learn'd by certain Ministers of State sent to the Republick of England who would sometimes visit him as a learned man that it was written by one Alex. More formerly a Professor and Minister at Geneva then living in Holland Whereupon he published 16 Pro populo Anglicano defensio secunda contra infamem libellum Anonymum cui titulus Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus patricidas Anglicanos Lond. 1654 and at Hag. Com. the same year in oct Upon the writing of this book the Author Milton lost the other eye and tho to his charge he used many means yet he could never recover either of his eyes This book entit Reg. sang clam c. tho written by Dr. Peter du Moulin Prebendary of Canterbury as it afterwards well appeared yet Milton upon the reports before mention'd could not be convinced to the contrary but that it was written by the said More and therefore not only abused him in his Answers but by his friend Nedham in his Politicus whereby the reputation of that learned person was severely touched 17 Pro se defensio contra Alex. Mornum Ecclesiaste libelli famosi cui tit Regii sanguinis clamor c. Lond. 1655 oct In this book he is exceeding bitter against Morus and pretends to give a true history of his notorious Impurities both at Geneva and Leyden and an account of his own particular life to vindicate himself from what as he thought was scurrilously said of him by Morus At the end of the said book the Author Milton added Ad Alex. Mori supplementum responsio About the time that he had finished these things he had more leisure and time at command and being dispenced with by having a substitute allowed him and sometimes Instructions sent home to him from attending his office of Secretary he began that laborious work of amassing out of all the classick Authors both in prose and verse a Latin Thesaurus to the emendation of that done by Stephanus also the composing of Paradise lost and of the framing a Body of Divinity out of the Bible All which notwithstanding the several troubles that befell him in his fortunes he finished after his Majesty's Restauration But to go on with the Cat. of his Books according to time take these as they follow 18 Treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes c. Lond. 1659. in tw 19 Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church Lond. 1659. in tw 20 Ready and easie way to establish a free Commonwealth and the excellencies thereof compared with c. Lond. 1659 in two sheets and an half in qu. This being published in Feb. the same year was answer'd by G. S. in his Dignity of Kingship 21 Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled The fear of God and the King c. Lond. 1660. qu. See more in Matthew Griffith among the Writers an 1665. 22 Accedence commenced Grammar c. pr. 1661. in oct 23 Paradise lost a Poem in 10 books Lond. 1669. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts an 1688. 24 Paradise regain'd a Poem in four books Lond. 1670. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts an 1688. 25 History of Britany from the first traditional beginning continued to the Norman Conquest Lond. 1670 qu. This History when it first came abroad had only the reputation of the putting of our old Authors nearly together in a connex'd story not abstaining from some lashes at the ignorance or I know not what of those times 26 Artis logicae plenior institutio ad Petri Rami methodum concinnata Lond. 1672 in tw 27 Of true Religion Heresie Schism Toleration and what best means may be used against the growth and increase of Popery Lond. 1673. qu. 28 Poems c. on several occasions both English and Latin c. composed at several times Lond. 1673-4 oct Among these are mixed some of his Poems before mention'd made in his youthful years 29 Epistolarum familiarium lib. 1. Lond. 1674. oct 30 Prolusiones quaedam Oratoriae in Coll. Christi habitae printed with the familiar Epistles 31 Literae Pseudo senatus Anglicani Cromwellii reâ—iquorum perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptae printed in 1676 in tw 32 Character of the Long Parliament and of the Assembly of Divines Lond. 1681. in 2 sheets in qu. In which book is a notable account of their
Bishop Mast of Arts. Jun. 25. Nathaniel Newbury of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Minister of Ludenham in Kent and published The Yeomans Prerogative Serm. on 2 Chron. chap. 26. ver 10. Lond. 1652. quarto 30. Charles Gataker or Gatacre of Pemb. Coll. lately of the University of Cambridge Jul. 5. Randall Sanderson of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Westmorland man born Fellow of the said Coll. and afterwards Rector of Weyhill in Hampshire and for many years Prebendary of Salisbury hath written and published An explication of the following direction for the reading of the Bible over in a year Also An explanation to the necessary use and practice thereof Both printed in one sheet of paper in qu. He died at Weyhill and was buried there about 1680. July 7. Charles Hoole of Linc. Thom. Hunt of Pembr Coll. 8. Edw. Gee of Brasn Jan. 24. Hen. Hall of Linc. Mar. 3. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. Adm. 136. Bach. of Phys Jun. 30. Christop Merret of Glouc. Hall Besides him were seven more admitted of whom Nath. Chamberlaine of Pembr Coll. was one which is all I know of him Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. Jun. 25. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards B. of Hereford and is this year 1690 living Jul. 8. Edw. Pocock of C. C. 23. Tim. Woodroff of Ball. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter Coll. Adm. 18. Doct. of Law May 31. Sam. Gardiner of New Coll. was admitted being then accounted a learned Civilian Doct. of Phys Jul. 7. Valentine Broadbent of Magd. Coll. 15. Sim. Owen of Hart Hall who accumulated the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. Nov. 18. Thom. Godwin of Magd. Mar. 9. Alexander Gill of Trin. Coll. Incorporations March 26. Assuerus Regimorterus Londino-Anglus Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland was incorporated Doctor of the same faculty This person who was educated in School learning under the famous Tho. Farnabie hath extant Disputatio publica de febribus intermittentibus Lugd. Bat. 1635. qu. had a hand in a treatise De Rachitide c. Lond. 1650. oct and hath written as I have been informed by one or more Doctors of his Faculty Principia medicinae He lived and practised in Limestreet in London during the Reign of Oliver One of both his names lived at Northâ—reake in Norfolk and died in 1671 who perhaps was Son of the said Dr. Regimorter Qu. Aug. 31. Walt. Curle Bish of Winchester Math. Wren Bish of Norwich D. D. of Cambr. Of these two I have made mention at large before CREATIONS Aug. 13. Robert Skinner Bishop elect of Bristow lately Fellow of Trin. Coll. and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Ch. 1. was diplomated or actually created D. of D. by a Diploma then dated under the Seal of the University The King Queen and their respective Courts having been entertained this year by the University on the 29 and 30 of August it was his Majesties pleasure upon his leaving the University which was the 31 of the same month that there should be a Creation in several faculties Whereupon the names of those that made sute to be actually created being given into the hands of the Chancellour by one of the Secretaries of State was a Convocation celebrated on the same day in the Afternoon wherein were actually created two Bachelaurs of Arts two Bach. of Law five and forty Masters of Arts ten Bachelaurs of Divinity three Doctors of the Civ Law three Doctors of Physick and one and twenty Doctors of Divinity The names of some who were so created are these Bach. of Arts. Frederick Sagittarie a German of Queens Coll. Son of Fred. Sag. of Heregord in the Palatinat He was afterwards a created Doct. of Phys of this University and practised his faculty in Dorsetshire John Kingsmyll of Trin. Coll. Son of Sir Hen. Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire Knight Mast of Arts. Prince Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Duke of Bavaria second Son of Frederick Prince Elector of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of James 1. King of England was the first person that was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards an heroick General under his Uncle K. Ch. 1. when the Civil Wars began in England an 1642 a Knight of the Garter Earl of Holderness and Duke of Cumberland He gave way to fate after he had performed great Exploits at Sea against the Dutch 29 Nov. 1682 aged 63 or thereabouts and was buried in a Vault on the south side of the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster leaving then behind him a natural Son usually called Dudley Rupert begotten on the body of one of the Daughters of Hen. Bard Vicount Bellomont which Dudley stiled in Prince Ruperts last Will and Test Dudley Bard was educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School being then a modest and meek-temper'd Youth as was by all there observed But he being not much made for Learning he was bred to Arms I think under Sir Jonas Moor at the Tower and after the Prince's death went into the Palatinate to look after a Legacy and a great House left him there and in Germany and was as 't is said kindly received by the Prince Palatine Soon after going to the Siege of Buda he was kill'd in a desperate Attempt made by some English Gentlemen there upon a breach made in the Walls or Fortifications of that City in July or Aug. 1686. At which time his signal Valour being expressed tho scarce twenty years of age his loss was much lamented Pr. Rupert had also a natural Daughter commonly called The Lady Ruperta begotten as I have been informed at the Office of Arms on the body of one Mrs. Margaret Hewes James Steuart Duke of Lenox in Scotland afterwards of Richmond in England sometimes a Student in Trin Coll. in Cambridge He was slain in the Battel at Keinton commonly called Edghill fight 23 Oct. 1642 and was buried at the upper end of Ch. Ch. Choire in Oxon. Will. Seymour Earl of Hertford He was afterwards Duke of Somerset See more among the Bachelaurs of Arts under the year 1607. Rob. D'evreux Earl of Essex who in the year 1605 had been created M. of A. was now actually created again He was afterwards made Lieutenant General of his Majesties Army when he went his Expedition against the Scots an 1639 Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold and soon after such was the mutability of the man Captain Ceneral of the Army raised by the Parliament against the King He hath Several letters extant written to the Speaker and Parliament during the time that he bore that Office He died 14 Sept. 1646 and was buried in S. Pauls Chappel northward of the Capella Regum in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Thomas Howard Earl of Berks. He afterwards suffer'd much for the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and dying 16 July 1669 was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westm Thom. Bruce Earl of Elgin in
and afterwards to K. Ch. 1. was installed Dean of Glocester after Dr. Tho. Winniff's removal to the Deanery of St. Pauls on the eleventh of June 1631 and on the 25. of Aug. or thereabouts following became Dean of Wells on the death of Ralph Barlow He hath published King Melchizedek Serm. at Court at East-hamstead 2. Sept. 1623. Lond. 1623. qu. and whether any thing else I cannot yet tell In 1640 he went to London to attend the Convocation of the Clergy that began with the Long Parliament and dying in Drury-lane in the month of Dec. or thereabouts an 1641 was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Walt. Rawleigh James Hena or Hannay a Scot. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. He was admitted to the Deanery of Wells 13. January 1641. Edw. Burby of Linc. Coll. He was now Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was before enjoyed by Ranulph Barlow D. D. of Cambridge George Gillingham of Pemb. Coll. He was at this time one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 2. Nov. 1639 was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Elly deceased He had other preferments and died 16. Dec. 1668 being then Rector of Chalton in Hampshire Daniel Escott Warden of Wadham Coll. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Morgan Owen of Jes Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne and the last Bishop of Landaff Samuel Marsh of Trin. Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University and at this time Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Sarum Steph. Goffe or Gough of St. Albans Hall lately of Mert. Coll. This Person who was Son of Steph. Goffe the puritanical Minister of Stanmer in Sussex travelled into the Low-countries after he had taken his Masters Degree and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Col. H. Vere whereby he gained good acquaintance and experience which wound him at his return so much into the favour of Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of St. Alban that he was made one of the Kings Chaplains by which title he was created Doctor of Divinity and afterwards employed in the quality of a minor Agent and Envoy into France then into Flanders Holland and other Countries c. In the time of the rebellion he also acted much for his Master in several Countries beyond the Seas and did him great Service but when he saw the English Church ruin'd and Monarchy declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and was thereupon taken into the society of the Oratorians at Paris an order very famous there tho but little known among us The brethren whereof having liberty to improve their particular estates for things are not common among them as with other orders he grew rich upon the stock which he had formerly gathered together by his endeavours whereby he was in capacity sometimes to do courtesies for his exil'd Countrymen Abrah Cowley the Prince of Poets was while at Paris preferr'd and plac'd by him tho the story is perverted in the Family of the said noble Henry then Lord Jermyn Through whose heroical bounty he was afterwards design'd to the Mastership of the Savoy but by certain enemies to the Muses was depriv'd of it Afterwards Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother to whom Goffe was Chaplain committed to the said Goffs care the tuition of the natural Son of K. Ch. 2. known then by the name of James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth with whom continuing till he was about nine years of age was taken from him and committed to the care of a Gentleman called Rose or Rosse who after his Majesties restauration went Secretary to Henry Coventry Esq in his Embassy into Sweeden This Doctor Goffe who was esteemed by some a learned Man and well read in the Fathers and therefore respected by Gerard Jo. Vossius and others died in the house of the Fathers or Brethren of the Oratory situated in the street called St. Howrè at Paris on Christmas day according to our account an 1681. aged 76 or thereabouts and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that house What writings of his are published besides Nine Latin Epistles to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius and his Negotiations taken by the Rebels at the battel at Sherburne in Yorkshire which with George Lord Digby's Cabinet and other things were published at Lond. in qu. 1646. I know not He had a younger Brother named John Goffe who was a true Son of the Church of England as I shall tell you among the Writers under the year 1661. and another called William originally a Salter or a Hatter as some day in London who closing with the Presbyterians in the time of the Rebellion became a Colonel great with Oliv. Cromwell one of the Judges of King Char. 1. and a member of the other house that is one of Olivers Lords See more in the Fasti an 1649. among the Creations Rich. Marsh of the University of Cambridge lately Chaplain to Archb. Laud afterwards to his Maj. Ch. 1. He was now Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York and soon after Vicar of Halyfax in the room of Hen. Ramsden deceased In Nov. 1644. he had the Deanery of York conferr'd upon him on the death of Dr. Job Scot who died in the Kings bench Prison in Southwark At which time his Majesty being at Oxon Dr. Pet. Heylyn endeavoured by his friends to obtain that Dignity but was put aside After his Majesties restauration he was elected 17. of Aug. and installed 20. of the same month an 1660. and dying 13. Oct. 1663. aged 78 was buried near to the grave of Matthew Hutton sometimes Archbishop of York in the South Isle joyning to the Cath. Church there In his Deanery succeeded Will. Sandcroft D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26. Feb. 1663 who being removed to the Deanery of St. Pauls Cathedral in London Dr. Rob. Hitch of the same University succeeded in Dec. 1664. Dr. Marsh hath one or more Sermons extant Edw. Morton lately M. of A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge now Rector of Sefton in Lancashire Chaplain to the Lord Keeper and Prebendary of Chester He was born of an antient Family at Morton in Cheshire and was Father to Dr. Will. Moreton Bishop of Kildare in Ireland Samps Johnson of Magd. Coll. Thomas Whittington Thomas Manwaring of Brasn Coll. Meric Casaubon Edw. Thornborough of Ch. Ch. The last of these two was Son of Dr. Jo. Thornborough Bishop of Worcester was now Archdeacon of Worcester who dying in 1645 Will. Hodges Bach. of Div. of Oxon was admitted in his place 30. of May the same year Mich. Reade of Linc. Will. Haywood of St. Jo. Coll. Laur. Pay of Ch. Ch. These were all the Doctors of Divinity that were then created Afterwards these noble Persons were created in Oct. following Oct. 14. The most illustrious and high born Prince Christianus Landtgrave of Hassia Count in Catzenellebogen Dieza Ziegenhain and Nidda was diplomated Master of Arts. The most illustrious and high born Prince
Charles 8. K. of France choosing him then the rather for that imployment because he was a Church-man as best sorting with an Embassie of pacification as that and others were to the said King In 1488. May 22. he being then LL. D. he was confirmed Dean of York by his Proctor in the place of Rob. Bothe who died 25. Jan. going before Which dignity Vrswyke resigning was succeeded therein by Will. Sheffield LL. D. in the month of June 1494. In 1490. he was made Canon of Windsore and about that time Archdeacon of Wilts in the place if I mistake not of one Hugh Pavy who had succeeded in that dignity Pet. Courtney upon his promotion to the See of Exeter in the beginning of Febr. 1478. and in 1493. Mar. 21. was not only only made Preb. of Botevaunt in the Church of York on the resignation of Edward Cheyney but also Archdeacon of Richmond on the promotion of John Blyth to the See of Sarum In 1495. Nov. 20. he was installed Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Jo. Morgan made Bishop of St. Davids and about the same time became Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards he was offered the Bishoprick of Norwich upon the death of James Goldwel but refused it and in the beginning of Febr. an 1504. became Archdeacon of Oxford on the promotion of Dr. Rich Mayhew to the See of Hereford At length after he in the chief part of his life-time had refused great honours and so consequently riches he retired to Hackney near London where in a contented condition he spent several years in a religious and close retirement even to his death which hapning in a good old age on the 24. Octob. in 1521. was buried on the north side of the Chancel of the Ch. there where was lately if not still a monument of white free-stone remaining over his grave JAMES STANLEY Son of Thomas Earl of Derby was born in Lancashire and educated in this University but in what house I cannot yet tell On the 3. March 1491. he became Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Cath. Church of Sarum and in the year following Preb. of Beminster prima in the said Church In 1500. Dec. 3. he became Archdeacon of Richmond on the resignation of Christop Vrswyke and in 1505. in Sept. Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Sarum being then Warden of the coll at Manchester in his own Country On the 18. June 1506. he by the name of Jacobus Stanley nuper hujus Vniversitatis Scholasticus did supplicate the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be licensed to proceed in the Civil Law which was granted with some conditions and being soon after elected Bishop of Ely after the death of Rich Reaman the temporalities thereof were restored to him 5. Nov. following On the 29. Jan. 1507. the said Regents with the Non-Regents did grant that he the said James Stanly Bishop of Ely might be created Doctor of decrees by a cap put on his head by Will Archb. of Canterbury and Richard B. of London Which grant being accordingly performed with solemnity a Letter of thanks was sent to the University for the honour they had done unto him He left behind him at his death a natural Son called John de Yarford a Knight whom probably he had begotten on a Concubine which as Dr. Fr. Godwin tells us he kept at Somersham in his Diocess In his last Will and Test dated 210. March 1514. and proved 23. May 1515. I find that it was his desire to be buried in a new Chappel to be made within the precincts of the Cath. Ch. of Ely or else in his new Chappel then in building at Manchester His will farther was That the Chappel to be made for him to be buried and rest his bones in should be made at the east end of the Cathedral Church of Ely for which be would that 100 marks be bestowed on a Tomb for him to be erected therein Also that another Chappel be built at Manchester on the north side of the Church between St. James Chappel and the east end of the Church wherein he would have a Tomb made for him On which Chappel and Tomb he would have an hundred pounds bestowed for the building of them c. In this last Chappel dedicated to S. Joh. Bapt. which joyns on the north side of the collegiate Church at Manchester wherein I presume he was buried because there is neither Tomb or inscription for him at Ely I find this inscription following Of your charytye pray for the Sowle of James Stanley sometymes Byshop of Elye and Wardeyn of Manchester who decessed thys transytory Wourld the xxii of March yn the yere of owre Lord God mdxv upon whose Sowle and all Christen Sowles Jesu have mercy c. Vive deo gratus toto mundo tumulatus Crimine mundatus semper transire paratus Filii hominum c. In a catalogue or rather history of the Wardens of Manchester coll which I have seen I find these matters of James Stanley At Manchester he built a most sumptuous Chappel on the north side of the Church being 28 yards long and 9 yards broad and a square Chappel on the north side of that again he built He built the south side of the wood-work in the Quire the seats for the Warden Fellows and Church-men being thirty seats on both sides and Mr. Rich. Bexwick that builded Jesus Chappel builded the other side He lyeth buried on the north side of this Chappel in a fair Tomb with his picture in brass in his pontificial robes and the Arms of Derbie and his Bishoprick impaled c. In the See of Ely succeed James Stanly one Nicholas West Doctor of both the Laws of Cambridge who had restitution made of the temporalities of that See 6. Sept. 7. Hen. 8. dom 1515. He was born at Putney in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near Windsore chose Scholar of Kings coll in 1477. Where proving a factious and turbulent person set the whole College together by the Ears about the Proctorship of the Vniversity And when he could not obtain his desires he set fire on the Provosts lodgings stole away silver spoons and ran away from the Colledge But within short space after he became a new Man repaired to the Vniversity and with general approbation for his excellent learning he was made Doctor of Divinity He was well experienced in the Civil and Canon Laws and had such an art and faculty in opening dark places and sentences of the Scripture that none of his time could exceed him c. In 1510. he became Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thom. Hobbes Warden of All 's coll deceased and Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards King Hen. 8. sent him often Embassador to Foreign Princes and Q. Katherine chose him and Bishop Fisher her Advocates in the cause of divorce from K.