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A71277 Athenæ Oxonienses. Vol. 2. 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 ... Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695. 1692 (1692) Wing W3383A; ESTC R200957 1,495,232 926

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it seems at Llanymodyfri in Caermarthenshire and being educated in those parts he was sent to Jesus Coll. in 1597 aged 18 years or thereabouts ordained Priest at Wittham or Wytham in Essex by John Suffragan Bishop of Colchester on Sunday 25. Apr. 1602 took the degree of Bach. of Arts in June following and on the sixth of Aug. the same year had the Vicaridge of Llanymodyfri before mentioned commonly called Landovery collated on him by Anthony Bishop of S. David On the 19. of Nov. 1613 he was instituted Rector of Llamedy in the dioc of S. David presented thereunto by the King which he held with the other Living by dispensation from the Archb. 28. Oct. 1613 confirmed by the great Seal on the 29 of the same month and qualified by being Chaplain to Robert Earl of Essex In 1614. May 17. he was made Prebendary of the Collegiat Church of Brecknock by the aforesaid Anthony Bishop of S. David and by the Title of Master of Arts which degree he was persuaded to take by Dr. Laud his diocesan he was made Chancellour of S. David to which the Prebend of Llowhadden is annex'd on the 14. of Sept. 1626 upon the resignation of Rich. Baylie Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. In Wales is a book of his composition that is common among the people there and bears this Title Gwaith Mr Rees Prichard Gynt Ficcer c. The works of Mr. Rees Prichard sometimes Vicar of Landovery in Caermarthenshire printed before in 3 Books but now printed together in one book c. with an addition in many things out of Mss not seen before by the publisher besides a fourth part now the first time imprinted Lond. 1672 in a thick 8● It contains four parts and the whole consist of several Poems and pious Carols in Welsh which some of the Authors Countrymen commit to memory and are wont to sing He also translated divers Books into Welsh and wrot somthing upon the 39 Artiticles which whether printed I know not some of it I have seen in Ms He dyed at Llanymodifri about the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was as I presume buried in the Church there In his life time he gave Lands worth 20 l. per ann for the setling a Free School at Llanymodifri together with an House to keep it in Afterwards the House was possessed by four School-Masters successively and the mony paid to them At length Tho. Manwaring Son of Roger sometimes Bishop of St. David who married Elizab. the only daugh of Samuel Son of the said Rees Prichard did retain as I have been informed by letters thence and seise upon the said Lands under pretence of paying the School-Master in mony which accordingly was done for an year or two But not long after as my informer tells me the River Towry breaking into the House carried it away and the Lands belonging thereunto are occupied at this time 1682 by Rog. Manwaring Son and Heir of Thomas before mentined so that the School is in a manner quite forgotten WILLIAM LAUD Son of Will. Laud by Lucia his Wife widdow of Joh. Robinson of Reading in Berks and daugh of Joh. Webbe of the same place was born in S. Laurence Parish in the said borough of Reading on the 7. of Octob. 1573 educated in the Free-School there elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1590 where going thro with great diligence the usual forms of Logic and Philosophy under the tuition of Dr. John Buckeridge was made Fellow in 1594 and four years after Mast of Arts at which time he was esteemed by all those that knew him a very forward and zealous person About that time entring into the Sacred Function he read the Divinity Lecture newly set up in the Coll and maintained by one Mrs. ... May. In 1●03 he was elected one of the Proctors of the University and became Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire which proved his happiness and gave him hopes of greater preferment In 1604 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1607 he became Vicar of Stanford in Northamptonshire In the year following he proceeded D. of Div. and was made Chaplain to Dr. Neile Bishop of Rochester In 1609 he became Rector of West-Tilbury in Essex for which he exchanged his Advowson of North-Kilworth in Leicestershire The next year his Patron the Bishop of Rochester gave him the Rectory of Kuckstone in Kent but that place proving unhealthful to him he left it and was inducted into Norton by proxy The same year viz. 1610 he resign'd his Fellowship and the year following he was elected President of his College In 1614 his Patron then Bishop of Lincoln gave him a Prebendship in that Church and after that the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon an 1615 on the death of Matthew Gifford Master of Arts. In the year 1616 the King gave him the Deanery of Glocester after the death of Dr. Rich. Field and in the year following he became Rector of Ibstock in Leicestershire In 1620 Jan. 22. he was installed Canon or Prebendary of the eighth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of Edw. Buckley D. D. who had succeeded Will. Latymer in that dignity 1582. and the next year after his Majesty who upon his own confession had given to him nothing but the Deanery of Glocester which he well knew was a shell without a kernel gave him the grant of the Bishoprick of S. David and withal leave to hold his Presidentship of S. Jo. Coll. in commendam with it as also the Rectory of Ibstock before mention●d and Creek in Northamptonshire In Sept. 1626 he was translated to B. and Wells and about that time made Dean of the Royal Chappel In 1627 Apr. 29. he was sworn privy Counsellor with Dr. Neile then B. of Durham and on the 15 of Jul. 1628 he was translated to London Much about which time his antient acquaintance Sir Jam. Whitlock a Judge used to say of our Author Dr. Laud that he was too full of fire though a just and a good man and that his want of experience in state matters and his too much zeal for the Church and heat if he proceeded in the way he was then in would set this Nation on fire In 1630 he was elected Chancellour of the Univ. of Oxon and in 1633 Sept. 19. he was translated to Canterbury which high preferment drew upon him such envy that by the puritan party he was afterwards in the beginning of the Long Parliament impeached of high Treason He was a person of an heroick spirit pious life and exemplary conversation He was an encourager of Learning a stiff maintainer of the rights of the Church and Clergy and one that lived to do honour to his Mother the University and his Country Such a liberal benefactor also he was towards the advancement of learning that he left himself little or nothing for his own use and by what his intentions were we may guess that if
1661 he was admitted Bach. of Div and four years after publishing observations on the Evangelists did thereby revive his memory so much in his Coll. that the Society chose him fellow thereof without his knowledge or seeking 17. Dec. 1668. In the year following he proceeded in his faculty was elected Rector of his Coll. an 1672 upon the promotion of Dr. Crew to the See of Oxon and afterwards was made Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty In the month of May an 1680 he became Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire and upon the promotion of Dr. Frampton to the See of Glocester he was nominated Dean of that Church in Jan. 1680 in which Deanery being installed on the 30. of Apr. 1681. he gave up Bladon in Feb. 1682. He was a person very well vers'd in books was a noted Critick especially in the Gothick and English Saxon tongues a painful preacher a good man and governour and one every way worthy of his station in the Church He hath written Observationes in Evangeliorum versiones perantiquas duas Gothica scil Anglo-saxonica c. Dordrecht 1665. in a thick large quarto The Catechisme set forth in the book of Common-prayer briefly explained by short notes grounded upon holy Scripture Oxon. 1679. oct and several times after The said short notes were drawn up and composed by our author upon the desire and motion of Dr. John Fell Bish of Oxon to be used by the Ministers of his Diocess in the catechising of the Children of their respective Parishes In other editions that followed soon after was added An Essay of questions and answers framed out of the same notes for the exercise of youth by the same hand which Catech. with notes and essay were translated into Welsh by John Williams a Cambridge Scholar Tutor to a certain person of quality in Jesus Coll. in this University Printed at Oxon. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Marshall did also take a great deal of pains in compleating the large English life of the aforesaid Dr. Usher published by Rich. Parr sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll. but died before it was published which hapning suddenly in his lodgings in Linc. Coll. early in the morning of the 19. of Apr. being then Easter Sunday in sixteen hundred eighty and five was buried in that Chancel commonly called the College Chancel of the Church of Allhallows alias Allsaints within the City of Oxon. By his last Will and Test he gave to the publick Library of the Univ. of Oxon all such of his books whether Manuscript or printed that were not then in the said Library except only such that were in his said will otherwise disposed And the remaining part to Linc. Coll. Library I mean such that were not there at that time already c. Also so much money which was raised from his estate that came to 600 l. and more he gave to the said College with which was purchased fourteen pounds per an a fee-farm rent issuing out of the mannour of Little Dean in Glocestershire and twelve pounds per an a rent-charge out of some Lands in Brill in Bucks Which benefaction three Scholars of Linc. Coll. do now successively enjoy In his Deanery succeeded Will. Jane D.D. Can. of Ch. Ch. and the Kings Professor of Div. in this Univ. of Oxon and in his Rectory of Linc. Coll. Fitzherbert Adams Bach. of Div. and Fellow of the said House who hath since been a considerable Benefactor thereunto and may in time be a greater Besides the said Tho. Marshall who was always taken to be an honest and conscientious Puritan was another of both his names author of The Kings censure upon Recusants that refuse the Sacrament of the Lords Supper delivered in three Serm. Lond. 1654. qu. and of other things JOHN MARSHAM second son of Tho. Marsham Citizen and Alderman of London descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in the Parish of S. Barthelmew in London 23. Aug. 1602 educated in the Coll. School at Westminster under Dr. John Wilson became a Communer of S. Johns Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Walker afterwards Master of Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1619 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1625 in which year he went into France and wintred at Paris In the two following years he visited most parts of that Nation and of Italy and some of Germany and then returned to London In 1629 he went through Holland and Gelderlandht to the siege of Boldoc or Balduck and thence by Flushing to Bologne and Paris to attend Sir Tho. Edmonds Embassador extraordinary to swear the peace at Fountaine Bleau During his abode in London he studied the Municipal Laws in the Middle Temple and in 1637 8 he was sworn one of the six Clerks in Chancery In the beginning of the Civil War he left London followed his Majesty and the Great Seal to Oxon and thereupon was sequestred of his said place by the members of Parl. sitting at Westm plundred and lost to an incredible value After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and the declining of the Kings cause he returned to London and compounded among several hundreds of Royallists for his real estate At which time he betook himself wholly to his studies and lived in a retired condition In the beginning of the year 1660 he served as a Burgess for the City of Rochester in that happy Parliament that recalled the King and took away the Court of Wards about which time being restored to his place in Chancery he had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him on the first of July 1660 being then of Whornplace in Kent and three years after was created a Baronet He was a person well accomplish'd exact in Histories whether civil or profane in Chronology and in the Tongues Pere Simon calls him in a preface to a work of his Le grand Marsham de Angleterr and Monsieur Corcaoy the K. of France his Libr. keeper and all the great and learned men of Europe his contemporaries acknowledg him to be one of the greatest Antiquaries and most accurate and learned Writer of his time as appears by their testimonies under their hands and seals in their letters to him which would make a vol. in fol. He hath written Diatriba Chronologica Lond. 1649. qu. Most of which was afterwards remitted into the book that follows Chronicus Canon Aegyptiacus Ebraicus Graecus disquisitiones Lond. 1672. fol. This was reprinted in Lower Germany in qu. with a new Index and Preface wherein are given to the author very great Encomiums by a Forreigner unknown to him There are many things worthy to be inserted thence which for brevity sake I shall now pass by He also wrot the Preface set before the first vol. of Monasticon Anglicanum Lond. 1655. which he entit ΠΡΟΠΥΛΑΙΟΝ Johannis Marshami Printed in 7 sheets and an half in fol. but much disliked and disrellish'd by the Rom. Cath.