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
year 1533 July in Fifteen hundred thirty and three where he suffer'd Death by burning See more of him in Jo. Fox his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the Year 1533 and in Rob. Persons his animadversions on Fox's words concerning Fryth in The third part of a treatise entit Of three conversions of England Chapt. 11. p. 45. 46 c. as also in Joh. Gwynneth among these Writers under the Year 1557. JOHN ROPER born in Berks. in the Dioc. of Sarum was first a Semicommoner or Demy of Magd. Coll. and afterwards being M. of A. was admitted perpetual Fellow of that House in 1483. When he was some Years standing in that degree he was made Reader of Philosophy and when Bach. of Divinity Reader of the Sentences or Divinity in the said College In 1502 he was confirmed Margaret Professor by the Foundâess of that Lecture was afterwards Vicar of St. Maries Church in Oxon Principal of Salesurry and George Hall in that Parish Doctor of Divinity Canon of the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. now Ch. Ch. in Oxon to which he was admitted 1532 and Rector of Witney Church in Oxfordshire This Person who was esteemed one of the eminent Theologists of this University was appointed by the King in 1521. to write Tract contra Doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Which whether ever printed I know not He was a zealous Enemy against the Kings divorce from Queen Catherine in the Year 1530 but did not dare to write openly or publish any thing against it tho Preach he did This learned Person died in the Month of May year 1534 in Fifteen hundred thirty and four and was as I conceive buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel JOHN ALLEN had his first Academical Education in this University whence going to Cambridge was there made M. of Arts as 't is said tho I rather think Bach. of the Laws Afterwards he was sent to the Pope at Rome by Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury about certain matters relating to the Church where remaining about 9 Years was in that time created Doctor of the Laws either there or in an University in Italy After his return he became Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey who knew him as I conceive while he was in Oxon was Judge of his Court as he was Legat à latere but in that Office he was thought to be a perjur'd and wicked Person and assisted him in visiting first and afterwards in that great matter of dissolving 40 little Monasteries at least for the erection of his Coll at Oxon and that at Ipswych In the latter end of the Year 1525 he was incorporated LL. Dr. of this University on the 13. March 1528. he was consecrated Archb. of Dublin and about that time was made Chancellor of Ireland He hath Written Epistola de Pallii significatione activa passiva Penn'd by him when he received the Pall to be Archbishop De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tuitoriis causis observandis Besides other things concerning the Church At length being taken in a time of rebellion by Tho. Fitz-Gerard or Gerald eldest Son to the Earl of Kildare was by his command most cruelly murder'd by being brain'd like an Ox at Tartaine in Ireland 28. Jul. in Fifteen hundred thirty and four year 1534 aged 58. The whole story of which several of the Irish Chronicles will tell you See more among the Bishops under the Year 1534. WILLIAM HORMAN was born within the City of Salisbury educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1477. which place he resigning in 1485 being then M. of A. he became Schoolmaster and Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsor and at length Vice provost of the same College In which place spending many Years in pleasant retirement became one of the most general Scholars of his time as may appear by the diffusiveness of his Learning and Books written in all faculties All the Academical Education that he received was in the University of Oxon where he also took the Degrees in Divinity So that whereas Joh. Baleus and Jo. Pitseus say that he was of Kings Coll. in Cambridge is false being led I presume into that error from one Godfrey Harman a Cantabrigian who from being a Junior Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd where he died and was buried in 1533. As for our Author Will. Horman he hath written many things of which I can only give you an account of some as they follow Antibossicon ad Gul. Lilium Lond. 1521. qu. Apologeticon contra Rob. Whittintoni Protovatis Angliae incivilem indoctanque criminationem Lond. 1521. qu. part 2. Before the said Books is printed from a Wooden Cut the Picture of a Bear baited by six Dogs and at the end is some of Whittington's poety taken in pieces by Horman and by him severely answer'd Vulgaria puerorum c. They are elegant sentences written in English and Latin and dedicated to Will Atwater Bishop of Lincolne Compendium Hist Gul. Malmsburiensis Epitome Historiae Joh. Pici com Mirandulae Elegiae in mort Gul. Lilii Anatomia membrorum hominis In one Book Anatomia corporis humani In two Books The titles of the rest you may see in Jo. Baleus and therefore I can say no more of our Author Horman than this that he paid his last debt to nature on the 12. year 1535 Apr. in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was buried in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd Over his Grave are certain Verses engraven on a brass plate the two first of which run thus Hâc Hormannus humo requiescit amice viator Pene annos numerant lustra vicena suos The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 135. THOMAS MORE one of the greatest prodigies of Wit and Learning that this Nation ever before his time produced Son of Sir Joh. More Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was born in Milk-street within the City of London an 1480. trained up in Grammar learning in St. Anthonies School there and afterwards received into the Family of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Canterbury merely for the towardliness of his Person and the great hopes that the pregnancy of his parts then promised About the Year 1497. 't is said by some late Authors that that worthy Cardinal did send him to Canterbury College in Oxon to obtain Academical Learning but upon what grounds they report so it appears not Miles Windsore whom I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1624. who came to the University of Oxon in the time of Queen Mary doth tell us more than once that he had his Chamber and studied in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin and constant tradition doth say the like and 't was never reported to the contrary before those two Authors here cited Tho. More and J. H. published their respective Books What
doubtful yet there be not wanting some that say that tho he was a learned Man yet he was not a fit match for that polite Person Not long after the K. employed him in several Embassies particularly in that to the Emperor with Sir Franc. Pointz and in another with the Lord Morley and Sir Will. Hussey into Germany to Don Ferdinando Duke of Austria with the Order of the Garter an 1523 and a third with Stokesley B. of London and Thom. Earl of Wilts to the Pope at Bononie about the intricate matter of Marriage with Qu. Catherine an 1529. In which Year in the beginning of Febr. he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury by the resignation of Thom. Winter and was succeeded in that dignity by Edw. Farmer in Decemb. 1531. After his return from the last Embassie he was made Archbishop of York an 1531. was incorporated D. of D. of this University in the latter end of October which Degree he had received in a transmarine University while he was an Embassador by actual creation and on the 5. of Dec. following in the same Year he had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging to that See He was a great Divine and very well seen in all kind of Learning famous as well for his Wisdom as virtue and holiness of life a continual Preacher of the Gospel a Man very liberal to the poor and exceedingly beloved of all sorts of Men who greatly miss'd and bemoan'd the want of him when dead He hath written Comment in universum in Pentateuchum Mosys MS. See in Rog. Aschams Epistles lib. 2. in an Epist Cuidam amico Eborac Apologia contra quorundam columnias Lovan 1520. in quarto Index annotationum prioris libri Printed there the same Year Epistola nuncupatoria ad Desid Erasmum There the same Year Annotationum libri duo alter in annotationes prioris editionis Novi Testam D. Erasmi alter in annotat posterior is editionis ejusdem Pr. there the same Year Epistola Apologetica quâ respondet D. Erasmi Epistolas There the same Year In which Year also 1520. was published a Book in qu. at Basil entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum sit Edwardi Lei virulentia They were written to shew the great anger and spleen that the said Lee bore against Erasmus and some of his Writings mostly by Sir Tho. More Tho. Lupset Rich. Paice Ulricus Huttenus Esq and Jo. Sapidus Epistolae Sexcentae Epicedia clarorum virorum besides other things which I have not yet seen This Dr. Lee Archb. of York died 13. Sept. year 1544 in Fifteen hundred forty and four aged 62. and was buried in the middle of the South Isle above the Choir of the Cath Church there Over his Grave as there is a little Inscription to continue his memory at that place so in the Windows of the Founders Chamber at Magd. College over the great Gate leading into the quadrangle are these two Verses set up under his Arms impaled by those of the See of York by Dr. Laur. Humphrey an 1556. Unus erat Leyus velut inter sydera Phaebus Sic vicit socios temporis ipse sui In the said Windows Dr. Humphrey caused to be put up the Arms of all such Bishops that had been educated in Magd. Coll. even to his time an 1566. I have seen several Letters written by this Dr. Lee to K. H. 8. and in one he wonders that the Popes Supremacy should be a cause for Martyrdom and that Fisher Bishop of Rochester should dye in defence of it when in other matters of faith and errors against the same he hath dissembled and hath not been content with such as have written against them for the favor he bare to the Party in whose Books they are found c. JOHAN LUDOVIC VIVES was born at Valenza in Spain educated in Grammar learning there but in Logic at Paris at which time all good Arts were banished thence and the Students totally bent on Sophistical Cavils Soon after being taken off from those vain bablings he applied himself to the Study of Humanity and became his Age consider'd noted for it Afterwards he went to the University of Lovaine where he seriously applied himself to Lat. and Gr. learning and sought out all ways to be acquainted with polite and learned Men being then by that time so polite himself that in detestation of his former errors in following vain sophistry he wrot a Book Contra Pseudo-Dialecticos At riper Years he applied himself to the study of the Civil Law and of Divinity and to the searching of the Writings of all the learned Doctors of the Church by the advice of Des Erasmus who had a particular respect for him for mending and correcting some of his Writings and collecting his Adagies On the 4. July 1517. he was made being then at Lovaine one of the first Fellows of Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. by the Founder therof By which time his fame being spread over England and the more for this reason that Catherine of Spain the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. had a peculiar respect for him and cherished his Muse he was invited into England by Cardinal Wolsey as it seems in the Year 1523 and coming to Oxon in Aug. or Sept did read the said Cardinals lecture of Humanity in the Hall of the said College and that as 't is said of the Civil Law before the Members of the University Farther also to add grace and honor to him it pleased K. Hen. 8. Qu. Catherine and the prime Persons of their Courts to be as some report his Auditors about the latter end of the aforsaid Year he having been solemnly incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law before as he had stood in another University While he remained here he wrot his Books De ratione studii puerilis and De consultatione and became so much admired by the Academians for his great learning and eloquence and the more for this reason that their studies were then wholly bent towards Humanity that they revived the Degrees of Grammar Rhetorick and Poetry which had been before much neglected Afterwards he retired to Bruges in Flanders from whence he came where about that time he took to him a Wife but the next Year viz. in March 152 4-5 he was at Oxon again as it appears from an Epistle to K. Hen. 8. dated then thence at which time if I mistake not he continued his Lectures either in Humanity or the Civil Law and was constituted Tutor for the Latin tongue to the Young Lady Mary Dau. of King Hen. 8. His Writings are many being mostly printed in two Tomes at Basil 1555 but least I should break the Method that I have hitherto followed I shall make a recital of some Jesu Christi triumphans Wrot at Paris in Apr. 1514. De initiis sectis laudibus philosophiae lib. 1. De tempore quo natus est Christus Virginis Deiparae Oratio Fabula de
sent forth for his welfare and blessed proceedings in the Reformation then in hand This great Person who was also Duke of Somerset died on Tower-hill near London by the stroke of the ax 22. January in Fifteen hundred fifty and two which was the sixth Year of K. Ed. 6. but where he was buried I cannot yet tell NICHOLAS UDALL whom Leland stiles Odovallus was born in Hampshire and descended from those of his name living sometimes at Wykeham in the said County was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in June 1520. aged 15 or more Probationer Fellow in Sept. 1524. being then Bach. of Arts and two Years after supplicated for the Degree of Master but took it not at that time being as 't is probable denied because he was much addicted to the opinions of Luther Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of Eaton School near Windsor and proceeded in Arts 1534 but in 1540-41 had like to have lost that place as being suspected to be conscious to a robbery committed by two Scholars of his School who having stole images plate and other matters belonging to the College of Eaton were with Udall examined by His Majesties Council in the beginning of March that Year What became of the matter I know not sure 't is that our Author Udall was made Canon of Windsor in the beginning of Edw. 6. and is stiled by a certain Author to be Elegantissimus omnium bonarum literarum magister earum felicissimus interpres He hath written Flowers for Latin speaking selected and gathered out of Terence and the same translated into English together with the exposition c. newly corrected When this was first Printed I cannot tell That Edit which I have seen was Printed at Lond. 1568. in oct Which Book being esteemed good in its time and very useful for young Scholars Joh. Leland and Tho. Newton wrot Verses in commendation of it not only set before the Book but Printed in their respective Encomia's c. Commentary on the Apothegms of Erasmus Epistolae Carmina ad Gul. Hormannum Joh. Lelandum Comedies Epistles and divers Verses He also translated into English at the request of Qu. Cather Parr 1 Paraphrase on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles Lond. 1551. fol. written by Erasmus 2 Pet. Martyrs Treatise wherein he openly in the Univ. of Oxon. declared his whole and determinate judgment concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. in qu. and 3ly The Tragedy of Popery and other things as Bale will tell you When this our Author Udall died I know not nor any thing else of him only that his Memory is celebrated by polite Verses written by Joh. Leland Joh. Parkhurst and Tho. Newton of Chestire to which I refer to the Reader I have seen the Copy of a commission granted in the beginning of the Year 1572 to one Catherine Yerbury otherwise Udall Daugh. of Nich. Udall of Fenne in Somersetshire giving her power to administer the goods debts and chattels of him the said Nich. Udall lately deceased Whether this Nic. Udall be the same with him that was the Writer the Reader is to judge RALPH RADCLIFF was born of and descended from an ancient Family of his name in Cheshire received part of his Academical Education in this University particularly as I conceive in Brasenose Coll. about the time of its first foundation but whether he took a Degree it appears not The genie of this Person being strangely addicted to the instruction of Youth he obtained part of the Carme's House at Huchin or Hitchin in Hertfordshire an 1538. being about that time dissolved wherein he not only opened a School but framed out a lower room into a Stage for his Scholars to act Latin and English Comedies to the end that they might be emboldened for speaking and pronuntiation Which practice being used by them several Years his School was in great renown he grew rich and was had in much veneration in the neighbourhood He had many Tragedies Comedies Epistles Orations c. laying by him in the time of K. Ed. 6. which as he would often tell his Friends he would never publish till they had remained by him 9 Years And whether they were ever published I cannot yet learn The titles of some of his labours were these Dives and Lazarus a Comedy Patient Greseld Com. Friendship of Titus and Gisippus Com. Chaucers Melibie Com. Job's afflictions Trag. Delivery of Susanna from the Elders The burning of Sodom Pugna nominis verbi De pueroum institutione Epistolae ad Tyrones Epigrammata c. With other things which may be seen in Baleus who further tells us that he was in great renown at Huchin in Fifteen hundred fifty and three He lived several Years after died and was buried there but when I cannot yet learn One or more of his descendants for he was married and had issue were Knights particularly Sir Edw. Radcliff of Hitchin living in the time of K. James 1. JOHN RHESE or ap Rise or Prise or Priseus so many ways I find him written by Authors was born of a gentile and ancient Family in Wales but in what County is yet uncertain or in what House in Oxon educated unless in the ancient hostle called Broadgates now Pembroke Coll. wherein several of both his names and time have studied Among them was John Prise Bac. of the Civil Law who in the Year 1530. supplicated for the Degree of Bac. of Can. Law and two Years after John ap Rice a secular Chaplain was admitted to the same Degree which probably may be the same with Joh. Price Bach. of the Civil Law Farther also I find that in 1523. one John Prise of Allsouls Coll. was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law and that he died 1554 And in 1534. occurs another Joh. Price of Broadgates Hall I think who was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law without any title added to it which perhaps may be the Author that I am further to mention who being encouraged in his studies by William Earl of Pembroke made great advances therein especially as to the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country In 1546. March 2. he with many others received the honor of Knighthood from the hands of Edward Lord Protector of England About which time our Author observing the great and manifold errors which were made by Pol. Virgil in his Historiae Anglicae Libri 27 wherein many things redounded to the dishonor of the British Nation he thereupon published Fides Historiae Britannicae Defensio Regis Arthuri And wrot about the Year 1553. 1. Mar. a Book intit Historiae Britannicae defensio But the Author dying before he could have it published was at length in the Year 1573. put out in qu. under the name of Joh. Priseus by his Son Rich. Prise D. D. He the said Sir John did also write A description of Cambria now called Wales Augmented and made perfect by Humph. Lloyd and
find another Tho. Talbot to have been born in the said County of Lancaster and entred into the Society of Jesus an 1598. aged 26. who after he had wrot several Books died in 1652 but this Person was not as I can yet learn originally bred among us HENRY Lord STAFFORD the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks attained and executed for treason in 1521. was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time and tho not the inheritor of his Fathers honours yet he was a Man of great virtue learning and piety In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge to which his Father had been a benefactor where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue and in that language he wrot several things as 't is said as well in verse as prose but such I have not yet seen He translated into English a Book intit De vera differentia regiae potestatis ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque c. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford This translation was printed in oct but when it appears not in the Book He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans c. Lond. 1553. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This noble Lord gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell nor in what County born unless in Staffordshire wherein he was possessor of many Lands ROBERT BROKE or Brook Son of Thom. Broke of Claverley in Shropshire year 5121 by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Hugh Grosvenor of Farmot in the said County was born as I conceive at Claverley laid a foundation of Literature at Oxon which was a great advantage to him when he studied the municipal Laws in the Middle Temple where he became the compleatest Lawyer of his time In 1542 he was elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that House and in the latter end of the Year in Lent 1550 he was elected Double-Reader In 1552 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1553 being the first Year of Qu. Mary he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas and not of the Common-bench as some say and about that time received the honor of Knighthood from that Queen In whose Reign and after he was held in high value for his profound knowledge in the Law and for his just and upright dealing in all matters relating to the profession thereof He hath written An abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Bookes till the time of Qu. Marie Lond. 1573. fol. 76 86 c. qu. Certain cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marie from 6. Hen. 8. to the 4. of Qu. Marie Lond. 1578. 1604. 25. c. in oct The original title of this Book is in French Ascuns novel cases c. Reading on the Statute of limitations 32. H. 8. c. 2. Lond. 1647. oct Printed I think before that time This Sir Rob. Broke who was a zealous Cathol died as it seems in Aug. or Sept. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell In his Will proved 12. Oct. the same Year he several times remembers the Church and Poor of Putney near London I find another of both his names who is written Esquire Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London under whose name was published Reading upon the statute of Magna Charta chap. 16. Lond. 1641. qu. before which time the Author was dead Whether the same with Rob. Brook of Brasenose who was admitted Master of Arts 1584. I think not As for Sir Rob. Broke the Judge he obtained a fair estate by his endeavours which he left to his posterity remaining at Madeley in Shropshire and at one or two places in Suffolk PAUL BUSH was born of honest and sufficient Parents became a Student in this University about the Year 1513 and five years after took the Degree of Bach. of Arts being then numbred among the celebrated Poets of the University Afterwards he applied his mind to the supreme faculty entred into the Order of the Bonhom's studied among the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin now Wadham Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and at length became Provincial of his Order that is of Bonhoms This Person being noted in his time for his great learning in Divinity and Physicks was by K. Hen. 8. made the first Bishop of Bristow after he had placed an Episcopal See there an 1542 and by the name and title of Paulus Bush capellanâs Regis S. Theologiae Bacalaureus had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging to that See 16. June in the same Year But he taking to him a Wife whom one calls a Concubine in the days of K. Ed. 6. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary an 1553 whereupon he spent the remaining part of his days at Bristow He hath written several things in Divinity and Medicine as well in verse as prose of which number these are some An exhortation to Margaret Burges Wife to Jo. Burges Clothier of Kingswood in the County of Wilts Lond. temp Ed. 6. in oct Notes on the Psalm beginning with Miserere mei Deus c. Treatise in praise of the Cross Dialogues between Christ and the Virgin Mary Treatise of salves and curing remedies besides Poems of divers kinds which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this World on the eleventh of Octob. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 68 years was buried on the North side of the choire near to the entrance leading into the North Isle of the Cath. Church at Bristow Over his grave was soon after erected a low altar tomb and on it was fastned his statue in his Episcopal Robes lying on his back On the 4 corners of the Tomb were erected four small Pillars bearing a Canopy about which is this written Hic jacet D. Paulus Bush primus hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus qui obut undec die Octob. an Dom. 1558. aetatisque suae 68 cujus animae propitietur Christus About the tomb beneath the statue are certain verses engraven on three sides thereof the fourth joyning to the Wall some of which follow Agnus qui primam nostrum sua tempora miram Indueret jacet hic Bristoliense decus A patre Bush dictus Paulum baptisma vocavit Virtus implevit nomen uterque Pari. Paulus c. Ille animos verbis impensos pavit egenos Hinc fructum arbusto portulit ille suo Ut madidos arbusta tegunt sic foedere rupto Inter discordes pacificator erat This Monument was erected near to the stone under which his sometimes Wife called Edyth Ashley was buried who died 8. Oct. 1553. ROBERT WARDE a native of the Dioc. of Durham was elected
in number 37. to be enquired of in his general visitation exercised by him in the City and Dioc. of Lond. an 1554 These being very unusual articles I do therefore here set them down especially for this reason that Jo. Bale hath commented on them with a great deal of raillery in a Book entit A Declaration of Edmund Bonners articles Lond. 1561. oct A profitable and necessary doctrine or Catechisme with certaine Homelies adjoyned thereunto for the instruction and information of the People within the Dioc. of Lond. Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Or thus A necessary doctrine containing an exposition on the Creed seaven Sacraments ten commandments the pater noster Ave Maria and the seaven deadly sins Various letters declarations arguings disputes c. As in the said Book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was for denying the Oath of Supreamacy deprived of his Bishoprick again as he himself hath set it down in a spare leaf before Eusebius his Ch. Hist with Ruffinus his commentary printed at Basil in the Year 1528. Which Book I some years ago bought for the sake of the note which he had written running thus Litera dominicali A. an dom MDLIX die Maii XXX vocatus ad concilium recusavi praestare juramentum omnino deprivatus Afterwards being committed to his former prison the Marshalsea in Southwarke near London continued there in a cheerful and contented condition till the time of his death which therefore made those that did not care for him say that he was like Dionysius the Tyrant of Syracuse who being cruel and peremptory in prosperity was both patient and pleasant in adversity 'T is said that Dr. Bonner being sometimes allowed liberty he would walk as his occasions served in the street and sometimes wearing his tippet one begg'd it of him in scoff to line a coat no saith he but thou shalt have a fools head to line thy cap. To another that bid him Good morrow Bishop quondam he streight replyed Farewel knave semper Which answers are Epigrammatiz'd by an admired Muse of our Nation in his time When another Person shew'd the said Bonner his own picture in the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. commonly call'd the Book of Martyrs on purpose to vex him he merrily laugh'd and said a vengeance on the fool how could he get my picture drawn so right And when one asked him if he were not ashamed to whip a Man with a beard he laugh'd and told him his beard was grown since but said he if thou hadst been in his case thou would'st have thought it a good commutation of pennance to have thy bumm beaten to save thy body from burning c. He gave way to fate in the aforesaid Prison 5. Sept. year 1569 in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine and was at midnight buried near to the bodies of other Prisoners in the Cemitery belonging to St. Georges Church in Southwark in which Parish the Marshalsea is situated He had caused formerly two of his Nephews Sons of one of his Sisters before-mention'd to be educated in Broadgates hall one of which was named Will. Darbyshire who by his Uncles favour became Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral and dying in Broadgates was buried in St. Aldates Church adjoyning 3. July 1552. The other was Tho. Darbyshire who proceeded Doctor of Laws as a Member of Broadgates in 1555 under which year you may see more of him in the Fasti ANDREW KINGSMYLL Son of John Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire was born there or in that County elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. from that of Corp. Chr. in 1558 studied the Civil Law wherein he attained to a considerable knowledge and was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Institutions in that faculty in the beginning of the Year 1563. About that time also he exercised himself much in the Scriptures and having a great memory could readily rehearse memoriter in the Greek tongue St. Pauls Epistles to the Romans and Galatians and St. Johns first Canonical Epistle besides other Chapters of the Old and New Test and several Psalmes He exercised himself also by writing of sundry matters that he might grow in judgment readiness and aptness to teach others if at any time he should be called thereunto whereof a little treatise entit A view of Mans estate c. yieldeth some proof which he wrot at about 22 years of Age. He esteemed not so much the preferment and profit whereunto many ways he might easily have attained by the profession of the Law as the comfortable assurance which he usually urged and blessed hope of life eternal Wherefore to further himself therein he sought not only the exact knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew tongues but also for a time to live in some one of the best reformed Churches where he might both by the doctrine and discipline of the Gospel be dayly confirm'd in the true worship of God and well prepared for the Ministry of the Church For this end he settled in Geneva where he remained the space of three years being well liked by the learned and godly there From thence he removed to Losanne where being too good for this world ended this mortal life leaving behind him a rare example of godliness among the Calvinistical Brethren there He hath written A view of mans estate wherein the great mercy of God in mans free justification is shewed Lond. 1574. 1580 c. oct A godly advice touching marriage Lond. 1580. oct Excellent and comfortable treatise for all such as are any manner of way either troubled in mind or afflicted in body Lond. 1578. oct Godly and learned exhortation to bear patiently all afflictions for the Gospel of Jes Ch. on Gal. 6. 14. Conference between a godly learned Christian and an afflicted conscience concerning a conflict had with Satan All which and I think a Sermon on S. Joh. 3. 16. printed in oct were published after the Authors death by his friend and contemporary Franc. Mylls a Kentish Man M. of A. and Fel. of All 's C. As for the Author he surrendred up his last breath in the prime of his years at Losanne and therefore the more lemented by the brethren in the Month of Sept. in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine year 1569 leaving behind him an excellent pattern of his virtues and piety which all should but few did imitate It must be now known that in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the Univ. of Oxon was so empty after the R. Cath. had left it upon the alteration of Religion that there was very seldom a Sermon preached in the University Church called Sr. Mary and what was done in that kind was sometimes by Laurence Humphrey President of Magd. C. and Thom. Sampson Dean of Ch. Ch. But they being often absent a young Man of Allsouls Coll. would often step up and Preach to the admiration of all his auditors This young Man whom as Sir Hen. Savile Warden
favour with Dr. Bonner Bishop of London and with Gardiner B. of Winton became Chancellour to the last and of noted repute during the Reign of Qu. Mary who had so great a respect for him and his abilities that she commissionated him with Dr. Storie to go to Oxon to trie and examine Archb. Cranmer He published A treatise proving that the marriage of Priests and professed Persons is no marriage but altogether unlawful Lond. 1554. qu. Whereupon Joh. Ponet or Poynet Bishop of Winton came out with an answer thus entit An apology fully answering by Scriptures and antient Doctors a blasphemous book gathered by Dr. Steph. Gardiner Dr. Rich. Smyth Albertus Pighius and other Papists as by their books appears and of late set forth under the name of Tho. Martyn Doct. of the Civ Law c. Printed beyond the Sea an 1555-56 in oct In which book fol. 9. Ponet saith thus Thy book hath betrayed thee Martyn for thy fondness was not known before it came abroad but assoon as that shewed it self in Mens hands they might easily perceive that in playing the Christmas Lords minion in New Coll. in Oxon in thy fools coat thou didst learn thy boldness and began to put off all shame and to put on all impudence By the aforesaid title we are given to understand as if B. Gardiner Dr. Smyth c. were Authors of or at least had considerable hands in it with whom agrees Baleus before-mention'd who stiles Martyn Winchesters voice but whether true I cannot say it The book hath been commended by many learned Persons and no doubt but he had helps in it but whether by any of the former is doubtful About the same time came out another answer entit A defence of Priests marriages establyshed by the imperial laws of the Realm of England c. printed in qu. To which tho no name is set to it yet it is said to be written by Dr. Mathew Parker who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury The same year Tho. Martyn put out A confutation of Dr. Joh. Poyners book entit A defence for the marriage of Priests c. Lond. 1555 qu He hath also extant Oration to Dr. Cranmer Archbishop 12 March 1555. The beginning of which is Albeit there are two governments c. Discourse between him and Archbishop Cranmer concerning conscience and matters of Religion The beginning is Mr. Cranmer you have told here a long glorious tale c. Which oration and discourse you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Ch. by Jo. Fox under the Year 1555 besides Examinations and Conferences under the Year 1556. Vita Gul. Wicami Wintoniensis Episc Lond. 1597 Ox 1690 in a large qu. Printed after the death of the Author who took much of his matter from the life of the said Bishop written by Tho. Chaundler sometimes Warden of New Coll. There is a copy of this book in the Library of the said Coll. and in a leaf before the title are curiously delineated with a Pen the effigies of the said W. Wykeham setting in a chaire On the right hand is Chichley founder of All 's and on the left Waynfleet of Magdalen College both holding the pictures of their respective Colleges in their hands and presenting them as 't were to the founder of New Coll. they having had their education therein As for our Author Th. Martyn he concluded his last day in Fifteen hundred eighty and four year 1584 for in that year several books of his gift or bequest were sent to New Coll. Library to be there reposed for the use of the Fellows thereof In my former searches among records I found one Joan the relict of Tho. Martin lately of Isfield in Sussex to have received a commission from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury dated 26. June 1584 to administer the goods debts chattels c. of the said Th. Martin lately deceased but without the addition of Doctor of Civil Law or of that of Gent. or Esq However he may be the same with the Doctor because as I have observed many whose names have been odious among some or have retired in private because of their Religion their names in wills or administration are barely written without addition of a title or town sometimes only in general of the County EDMUND PLOWDEN Son of Humph. Plowden by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Joh. Sturey of Rosshall in Shropshire was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Plowden in the said County spent 3 years in the study of Arts Philosophy and Medicine at Cambridge and afterwards as I conceive was entred into the Inns of Court Soon after coming to Oxon he spent 4 years more in the same studies there and in Nov. an 1552 he was admitted to practice Chirurgery and Physick by the Ven. Convoc of the said University But as about that time Dr. Tho. Phaer did change his studies from common Law to Physick so did our Author Plowden from Physick to the common Law being then about 35 years of age In 1557 he became Autumn or Summer reader of the Middle Temple and three years after Lent reader being then a Serjeant at and accounted the Oracle of the Law He hath written in old French The Commentaries or Reports of divers cases being matters in Law and of arguments thereupon in the times of the Reigns of K. Ed. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth In two parts Lond. 1571. 78. 99. c. fol. To which was a table made by Will. Fleetwood Recorder of Lond. They are esteemed exquisite and elaborate commentaries and are of high account with all professours of the Law Afterwards they were abridged in the French tongue Lond. 1659. oct and several times before translated by Fabian Hicks Esq and printed also in oct There goes also under our Author Plowdens name Plowdens Queries or a moot-book of choice cases useful for the young Students of the common Law This was several times printed and afterwards translated from French into English methodised and enlarged by H. B. of Lincolns Inn Esq Lond. 1662. oct At length as this famous Lawyer Plowden mostly lived a R. Cath. in his heart so he dyed in that faith on the sixth day of Feb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples between the body of Catherine his Wife Dau. of Will. Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire Esque and the North wall near the East end of the choire leaving then this character behind him which shall serve instead of his Epitaph notwithstanding there is one already over his grave that ut in juris Anglicani scientia de qua scriptis bene meruit facile princeps ita vitae integritate inter homines suae professionis nulli secundus He left behind him a fair estate in lands lying at Plowden before-mention'd at Shiplake in Oxfordshire and at Burfield in Berks as also a Son of both his names to enjoy it who dying in less than
Countess of Pembroke At length Sir Philip being wounded in the battle at Zutphen while he was getting up the third horse having had two slain under him before on the 22 Septemb. year 1586 in Fifteen hundred eighty and six he was carried to Arnheim where languishing under his wound 25 days or thereabouts he died on the sixteenth of October following This was that Sidney whom as Gods will was he should be therefore born into the world even to shew unto our age a sample of ancient virtues so his good pleasure was before any looked for it to call for him again and take him out of the world as being more worthy of Heaven than Earth Soon after his death his body was brought to Flushing and being embarqued with great solemnity on the first of November landed at Tower Wharf on the sixth day of the said month Thence 't was conveyed to the Minories without Aldgate where it lay in state for some time till his magnificent funeral in St. Pauls Cathedral 16. of Feb. following which as many Princes have not exceeded in the solemnity so few have equalled in the sorrow for his loss He was buried near to that place which his Father-in-law Sir Francis Walsingham had designed as I have heard to be entombed in without any monument or inscription save only a copy of English verses written on a wooden table that were divers years after his death put over his grave When his said father-in-Father-in-law was buried in that place afterwards there was a fair tomb designed for them both and epitaphs composed by Dr. Jo. Rainolds a copy of which for Sidney you may see elsewhere James King of Scots afterwards of England honored him with an Epitaph of his composition The muses of Oxon also lamenting much for his loss composed verses to his memory printed at Ox. 1587. qu. among which I find Cardinal Wolsey's Daughter lamenting the loss of her Alumnus Those of New Coll. in their Peplus Sidnaei dedicated to Henry Earl of Pembroke who married Sir Philips Sister as having been formerly of that house did bewail his death The most ingenious of Cambridge University did also exercise their fancies made publick by Alex. Nevill a member thereof Lond. 1587. qu. besides several private Persons among which was L. B. who wrot a pastoral Elegie and Eglogue on his death entit Astrophel printed at the end of Edm. Spencers Poetry called Colin clouts c. Lond. 1595. qu. The said Sir Philip left behind him a Daughter named Elizabeth who being born in 1585 Scipio Gentilis an eminent Civilian wrot a Lat. Poem on her nativity entit Nereus sive de natali Elizabethae illustriss Philippi Sydnaei filiae Lond. 1586. in one sh in qu. She was afterwards married to Rog. Mannours Earl of Rutland but died without issue by him THOMAS BOURCHIER was descended from those of his name who were Earls of Bathe but in what County born I cannot yet tell received some parts of literature in this University particularly as I conceive in Magd. Coll. yet took no Degree there unless in the Reign of Edw. 6. when the common register of the University was in a manner totally neglected Afterwards upon pretence of being weary of the heresie as he call'd it that in his time was practised in England he went beyond the Seas settled in Paris took upon him then if not before the habit of St. Francis and lived as a Brother in the house of that order there where also others of his Country lived and at length became Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbon at which time he was held in great esteem for his Religion and learning Afterwards going to Rome he lived among those of his order in the Monastery called by Latin Authors Ara coeli and at length became Penitentiary to the Church of St. John Lateran there He hath written Historia Ecclesiastica de Martyrio fratrum ordinis Minorum Divi Francisci de observantia qui partim in Anglia sub Henrico 8 Rege partim in Belgio sub Principe Auriaco partim in Hybernia tempore Elizabethae regnantis Reginae passi sunt ab an 1536. ad an 1582. Par. 1582. and 1586. in oct Ingolst 1583. in tw The names of those English Men that suffered Martyrdome in England were Father Anton. Brorbe or as some call him Brockby Tho. Cortt Thom. Belchiam and Father John Forest All which were executed in 1537. and 38. What other things our Author Bourchier hath written I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only year 1586 that he departed this mortal life about Fifteen hundred eighty and fix and was buried either in the Church of St. John Lateran or in that belonging to the Monastery called Ara coeli before-mention'd THOMAS BRASBRIDGE a Northamptonshire Man born was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. by the endeavours of Peter Morwyng an 1553 aged 16 where after he had continued a sedulous Student for some years was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls College in 1558. Thence also he returned to Magd. Coll. of which he became Fellow in 1562 and soon after proceeding in Arts applied his mind partly to Divinity and partly to Physick In 1574 he supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not The next year he resign'd his Fellowship having a spiritual cure or School or both conferr'd on him at or near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where as it seems he practised Physick His works are The poor Mans Jewell viz. a Treatise of the pestilence To which is annexed a Declaration of the virtues of the hearbes Carduus benedictus and Angelica c. Lond. 1578. and 91. in oct Questiones in Officia M. T. Ciceronis c. c. Oxon. 1615. oct Dedicated to Dr. Laur. Hamphrey President of Magd. Coll. an 1586. What other things he published I cannot yet tell nor any thing of his latter end JOHN FOX the noted Martyriologist was born at St. Botolphs town commonly called Boston in Lincolnshire an 1517 became a Student of Brasenose Coll. at about 16 years of age under the inspection and patronage of Mr. Joh. Hawarden Fellow thereof Afterwards he was elected Fellow of Magd. Coll. and proceeded Master of Arts in 1543 which was the highest Degree he attained to in this University being then esteemed eminent for his learning and knowledge in the three tongues About that time King Hen. 8. setting up a mongrel Religion in the Land which our Author did not like by shewing his opinion in several respects especially by absenting himself from the Chappel did with others of the same mind resign his Fellowship about St. Mary Magd. day in 1545 meerly as 't was thought to prevent expulsion Afterwards he was entertain'd for a time in the house of Sir Thom. Lucy in Warwickshire where as 't is said he took to him a Wife and then went to Riegate in Surrey to be tutor and teacher to the children of the Duke of
and that religious Protestants are indeed right Catholicks Lond. 1587. qu. The Schoole of vertue and book of good nurture teaching Children and Youths their duties Lond. 1588. oct c. This book is composed in Engl. meter hath at the end of it certain prayers and graces and is at this day commonly sold at the stalls of Ballad singers Dialogue between Lent and Libertie wherein is declared that Lent is a meer invention of Man Lond. in oct He also translated into English the Psalter of David The Letany with Hymnes and turned into meter Davids Psalmes All printed in the time of Ed. 6. in qu. an 1549. c. He also first of all published The Visions of Pierce Plowman Lond. 1550. qu. Which hath since been once or twice made extant with corrections At length this most zealous Person having lived to a fair age mostly spent in continual action for the settlement and propagation of the Protestant Religion submitted to the stroke of death in Fifteen hundred eighty and eight year 1588 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church dedicated to St. Giles situated and being near to Cripplegate in Lond. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with this inscription engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth the body of Robert Crowley Clerk late Vicar of this Parish who departed this life the 18 day of June an dom 1588. GEORGE ETHRYG or Etheridge or as he writes himself in Latine Edrycus was born in a mercate town in Oxfordshire called Thame admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. in Nov. 1534 being then put under the tuition of John Shepreve and in Feb. 1539 was made Probationer-Fellow In 1543 he was licensed to proceed in Arts and two years after was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Aphorismes of Hypocrates At length being esteemed by all to be a most excellent Grecian he was made the Kings Professor of that language in the University about 1553 and kept that lecture till some time after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown and then because he had been a forward Person against the Protestants in Qu. Maries Reign was forced to leave it So that following the practice of his faculty of Medicine with good success in and near Oxon especially among those of his opinion gained a considerable stock of wealth He mostly lived and kept a Family in an antient decayed place of literature called George hall opposite almost to the South end of Catstreet in St. Maries Parish in Oxon in which he took to him in the condition of Sojournours the Sons of divers Catholick Gentlement to be instructed in several arts and sciences among whom was Will. Gifford afterwards Archbishop of Rheimes who received from him rudiments in Grammar Musick and partly in Logick He constantly adher'd to the R. Catholick Religion wherein he had been zealously educated for which he suffer'd at the reformation by losing his lecture perhaps his Fellowship too and by continual imprisonments to be great impoverishment of his health and estate In a word he was esteemed by most Persons especially by those of his opinion a noted Mathematician well skill'd in vocal and instrumental Musick an eminent Hebrician Grecian and Poet and above all an excellent Physician as it appears in certain books of his composition the titles of which follow Musical compositions Diversa Carmina MS. Acta Henrici octavi carmine Graec. Presented in MS. to Qu. Elizabeth when she was in Oxon. 1566. Hypomnemata quaedam in aliquot libros Pauli Aeginetae seu observationes medicamentorum quae hâc aetate in usu sunt Lond. 1588 oct He also turn'd the Psalmes of David into a short form of Hebrew verse and translated most if not all of the works of Justin Martyr from Greek into Latin with other things which I have not yet seen He was living an antient Man in fifteen hundred eighty and eight but when or where he died I know not nor where buried unless in the ayard of St. Maries Church in Oxon in which his Father and Mother were before buried John Leland who was his familiar friend did celebrate his memory by verse while he lived and told him thus Scripsisti juvenis multâ cum laude libellos Qui Regi eximiè perplacuere meo PETER LEVENS or Levins was born at or near Eske in Yorkshire became a Student in the University an 1552 was elected probationer-Fellow of Madg. Coll. into a Yorkshire place 18. Jan. 1557. being then Bach. of Arts and on the 19. Jan. 1559 was admitted true and perpetual Fellow In 1560. he left his fellowship and one Thomas Dunne M. A succeeded him but whether our Author Levens proceeded in Arts or took a degree in Physick or was licensed to practise that Faculty it appears not in our Registers Afterwards he taught a Grammar-School and practised Physick which is all I know of him only that he wrot and published these things following A Dictionary of English and Latine words c. the English going before the Latine necessary for Scholars that want variety of words and for such as use to write in English metre Lond. 1570. in 18. sh in qu. A right profitable book for all diseases called the Path-way to health wherein are most excellent and approved medicines of great vertue as also notable potions and drinks and for the Distilling of divers waters and making of Oyles and other comfortable receipts Lond. 1587. qu. The Author is stiled in the title page Master of Arts of Oxon. and student in Physick and Chirurgerie This Book was afterwards several times printed with corrections and one Edition came out at Lond. 1664. what else Peter Levens hath written I cannot yet tell THOMAS SAMPSON was born about the year 1517 educated in Grammar and Academical learning amongst the Oxonian Muses afterwards studied the municipal Laws in one of the Temples where being converted to the Protestant Religion did shortly after as 't is said convert John Bradford the Martyr Whereupon they both taking Orders from Nich. Ridley Bishop of London became noted Preachers in the Reign of Ed. 6 and about that time Sampson as 't is said was made Dean of Chichester In the beginning of Qu. Mary he absconded at which time being well acquainted with one Rich. Chambers a zealous Protestant they collected moneys in the City of London from the well affected there to be distributed among such poor Scholars of each University that were haters of the Roman Catholick Religion Which matter being at length discovered he with his wife the Neice of Hugh Latimer were forced with Chambers to go beyond the Seas to Strasburge where wholly applying himself to the study of Divinity as much advanced in the knowledge thereof by his often associating himself with learned Tremelius After Queen Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his native country and became a frequent Preacher in London and much followed by the reformed party there and afterwards in
the Roman Catholick Religion practised Physick in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign but soon after left the University and whether he went beyond the Seas and was Doctorated there I cannot tell Under this Hierom Rainolds our Author William who was the next Brother did receive most of his tuition while he was a Junior in Oxon. The third Brother was Edm. Rainolds before-mentioned Fellow of C. C. College also who leaving that House because he was in animo Catholicus retired to Glocester Hall where living many years in the condition of a Tutor dyed a wealthy Man The fourth Brother was James Rainolds Master of Arts and Fellow of Exeter Coll. The fifth and youngest was Nicholas who lived at Pynhaws on the Lands of his Ancestors Father to Will. Rainolds of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire Gentleman sometimes a Member of Glocester Hall under his Uncle Edmund from whom I formerly received a writing under his hand concerning his Ancestors and Relations for three Generations above him part of which is here mentioned WILLIAM ALLYN Allen or Alan so many ways I find him written was the second Son of John Allen by Joanet or Jennet Lyster his Wife Sister of Tho. Lyster of Westby in Yorkshire the Son of George Allen of Staffordshire who having an Uncle or near Kinsman called Allen Abbat of Delawise setled at Rossal in Lancashire by the endeavours of the said Abbat who demised to him divers Lands there which belonged to his Monastery At that place Rosial was Will. Allyn or Alan whome we are farther to mention born and being arrived to about the fifteenth year of his age was sent to Oxford in 1547. entred into Oriel Coll. and committed to the tuition of Morgan Philips the chiefest Tutor then in that House under whome having profited to a miracle in Logick and Philosophy was unanimously elected Fellow of that Coll. in 1550. 4. Ed. 6. Four years after he proceeded in Arts and stood in that Act wherein proceeded Tho. Hardyng and Nich. Harpesfield two noted Writers the former being then a Proceeder in Divinity and the other in the Civil Law In 1556. or thereabouts he became Principal of St. Mary's Hall and in that and the year following one of the Proctors of the University In 1558. or thereabouts he was made Canon of York but soon after upon the coming to the Crown by Q. Elizabeth and the alteration of Religion that followed he left his Country and Preferment about 1560. and going beyond the Seas he retired to Lovaine then an eminent Acamedy especially for the study of Divinity to which place did several eminent Theologists repair for a time as Saunders Harding Dorman Rastal c. purposely to avoid the places infected with Heresie as they called it While he continued at Lovaine he wrote a Book in the English Tongue against Mr. Jewel treating of Purgatory which afterwards was Printed About that time falling into a grievous disease by too careful attending a Pupil of his of gentile extraction in England had advice given him by his Physicians to retire to his Native Country for Health's sake Whereupon returning into England he kept himself unknown till he had recovered his former strength and then endeavouring to reconcile People to the Church of Rome and to terrifie them from going to the Meetings of Hereticks as he stiled them was forced by the Magistrates to leave that harbour Lancashire So that going to a certain place near Oxon he practiced the like and wrote two Books in English one Of the Authority of the Priesthood and the other Of Indulgences From thence he removed his Quarters to the County of Norfolk and lived sometimes in the House of the Duke of that Name and sometimes near it where he wrote Certain brief Reasons concerning Catholick Faith whereby the vanity of Heresie and excellency of Catholick Faith as therein it is said were evidently set down purposely to settle such who were wavering in other Opinion Afterwards tho advantage was given to him to return to Lovaine by the opportunity of a Ship then going from England yet he neglected it and went near to Oxon again went to the University and meeting with one of his Contemporaries did work so much upon him by his discourse that he promised him to abstain for the future from Protestant Company and their Meetings Which act of his being made known to the Parents of the said Contemporary they prosecuted Allyn so close that he was forced to leave England after he had continued there about three years So that retiring to a certain Monastery at Mâchlin in Brabant became a Divinity Reader there which Office he performed with great commendations for some time Afterwards being desirous to go to Rome in the company of Dr. Jo. Vendivile the King's Professor at Doway afterwards Bishop of Tournay did make some advance that way but for certain Reasons that then passed between them Allyn turned his Face and went to Doway at which place in Academy was setled about 1562. where he studied Divinity became Doctor of that Faculty and so much esteemed for his rare and active Parts that he was made Canon of the Church of Cambray Afterwards by his endeavours he began a Seminary at Doway about 1568. to receive all such learned English Catholicks that had fled their Country for Religion sake where soon after they framed for themselves a common Discipline after the manner of a College and got the Pope to assign them an yearly Pension Soon after our author Allyn being made Canon of Rheimes he procured another Seminary to be erected there by the Guises Kinsmen to Mary Q. of Scots For the Netherlands wherein Doway is situated being run into confusion the English Fugitives or Scholars were banished thence by the command of Don Lewis de Requesens so that thence going to Rheimes they setled there for a time Afterwards our active Author began another Seminary at Rome and two in Spain to the end that English Youths might be trained up purposely to keep up the Roman Catholick Religion in England At length for these his great and indefatigable labours he was created a Priest Cardinal of St. Martin in montibus by Pope Sixtus 5. on the 28. July according to our accompt An. 1587. and two years after was made Archbishop of Mechlin or Machlin the Metropolis of Brabant The character given of this Man by several of our English Authors of the reformed Party is That he with R. Persons the Jesuit and others did lay in continual wait for the destruction of Prince and People of England and who by exciting both Forreigners abroad and natural Subjects at home plotted the reducement of the R. Religion to its antient vigour c. Farther also That after he had put off both his love to his Country and his obedience to his Prince he incensed the Spaniard and the Pope of Rome to assault England And to that purpose adjoyned himself to all pernicious consultations about that
moity of the Church of Cotgrave He gave way to fate about the beginning of Dec. as it seems in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 whereupon one Thomas Milner was instituted in the said moity on the 18. of Dec. the same year and Cuthb Scot. D. of D. of Cambridge was much about that time nominated to succeed him in the See of Chester the temporalities of which were given to him 25. of Sept. 1556. ARTHUR BOKELY or Bulkley was descended from an ancient Family of his name living in the Isle of Anglesie but in what coll or hall he was educated unless in New Inn I cannot justly tell About the time that he took the degree in the Canon Law he was beneficed and dignified in Wales where he was held in esteem for a good Canonist At length being promoted to the See of Bangor and consecrated thereunto had the temporalities of that See given to him on the eleventh of Febr. 1541. After his death which happened in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 succeeded in the said See Dr. Will. Glynn of Qu. coll in Cambridge an excellent Scholar and a very good disputant of his time who dying about the latter end of May 1558. was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor under that very place where the Sepulcher on Goodfriday and in Easter time use to stand Not long after his death Qu. Mary nominated to succeed in that See one Maurice Clennock a Welsh man Bach. of Law of this University Preb. of York and an Officer in the Prerogative Court under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury but the said Queen dying before he was consecrated thereunto he with Goldwell Bish of S. Asaph fled beyond the Seas and going to Rome Clennock some years after became the first Rector of the English Hospital there after it was converted into a college for English students where he was mostly called by the name of Dr. Maurice and much noted by the said students for his great partiality used towards his own Country-men of Wales which always caused during his time a great faction between the Welsh and English students abiding in that college ROBERT ALDRICH Doctor of divinity of this University an eminent Orator and Poet of his time became Bishop of Carlile in 1537. and died in the latter end of the year fifteen hundred fifty and five under which year you may see more among the writers In the See of Carlile succeeded Dr. Owen Ogelthorpe of whom I shall make large mention among these Bishops under the year 1560. JOHN HARLEY was born as it seems in Herefordshire or at least extracted from those of his name there admitted Fellow of Magd. coll about 1537. being then Bachelaur of Arts and Master of the Free-school joyning to that college Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy orders became Preacher to the Earl of Warwick and Tutor to his children a zealous Preacher in Oxon against the R. Catholicks upon the coming to the crown of K. Ed. 6. as I have elsewhere told you and at length chaplain to that Prince who for the zeal Harley had in Preaching up the reformed religion gave him a Prebendship in the Church of Worcester on the decease of Humph. Webley Bach. of Div. an 1551. Where being settled he had the rectory of Vpton upon Severne and the Vicaridge of Kederminster in Worcestersh bestowed on him he being then Bach. of Div. Afterwards the See of Hereford being void by the death of Joh. Skipp he was elected Bishop of that place So that being consecrated thereunto on the 26. May 1553. was within few months after deprived of it by Qu. Mary for his wilful avoiding the hearing of Mass and for being married Joh. Leland the famous Antiquary who knew the said Harley well doth in an high manner praise him for his great vertue and learning especially in the classical Authors and Poets for his fine vein in Poetry c. but what he hath published that author tells us not nor Baleus or his follower Pitseus Afterwards Harley absconding for a time did at length go from place to place in an obscure condition to consolate the poor remnant of Protestants and confirm them in their belief but died soon after in his wandring to and fro in England In the See of Hereford succeeded one Rob. Perfey sometimes called Warbington and VVarton formerly Abbat of the exempt Monastery of S. Saviour of Bermondsey educated in the University of Cambridge of which he was Bach. of Divinity who dying in the time of winter 1557. was buried in his own Church at Hereford Afterwards Tho. Raynolds D. D. Dean of Exeter and Warden of Mert. coll was design'd to succeed him by Qu. Mary but she dying before he was consecrated he was laid aside whereupon Joh. Scory a Norfolcian born Doct. of Div. and Chaplain to the Queen succeeded in 1559 having been a sufferer upon account of religion during Qu. Maries reign in which time he wrote An Epistle unto all the faithful that be in prison in England or in any other trouble for the defence of Gods word c. printed at Waterford in Ireland 1555. oct Wherein he doth by the example of divers holy Martyrs comfort encourage and strengthen them particularly to suffer for Christs sake persecution In the same year also he published his translation of S. Augustin's two books the one of Predestination of Saints the other of Perseverance unto the end with the determination of two general Councils concerning that matter Printed in oct And in the year following he published his translation of S. Ciprian's Sermon of Mortality or the willing for saking of this life Also his Exhortation to Martyrdom and his Exhortation to keep and endure the faith of Christ c. Printed in oct This Joh. Scory dyed in his house or palace at VVhitbourne in the country of Hereford 26. June 1585. and was as I suppose buried there He left behind him a Son named Silvanus Scory a very handsom and witty man and of the best education both at home and beyond the Seas that that age could afford His Father lov'd him so dearly that he fleec'd the Church of Hereford to leave him an estate but Silvanus allowing himself the liberty of enjoying all the pleasures of this world reduced it to nothing so that his Son Edm. lived by hanging on Gentlemen and by his shifts Silvanus was also esteemed a learned man and upon that account did Ben. Johnson dedicate to him a piece of his Poetry but whether he published any thing I cannot yet tell nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate in the Parish of S. Peter near Pauls Wharff in London in Sept. or Oct. 1617. was buried in the chancel of S. Leonards Church by Shore-aâtch near to the grave of his Mother Elizabeth who dyed 8. March 1592. JOHN BELL a Worcestershire man born as it seems had most of his education in Balliol
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 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
find any one that was afterwards a Bishop a Writer Dignitary or Man of note Bach. of Div. July Thomas Beel a Canon Regular of the Order of S. Austin and Prior of the Students of that Order living in S. Maries Coll. See more among the D. of D. an 1514. Oct. 17. Fr. John Howden a Dominican Jan. 16. James Dickson M. A. Feb. 1. Fr. Rob. Osbourne a Carme Which two last are several times mentioned in the public Register to be Clari perdocti viri Besides these were about thirteen that supplicated for the said degree but not admitted this year among whom was Will. Gyllingham of the Order of S. Benedict who succeeded Rob. Holyngbourne in the Guardianship or Wardenship of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon. about this year Doct. of Law Not one either in the Canon or Civ Law was licensed to proceed this year In the Canon Law were three that supplicated to be Doctors viz. David Talley Abbat of Tally in the dioâ of S. David Will. Wollur and John Lacy all Bachelaurs of that Faculty In the Civil Law was only one whom I shall mention the next year Doct. of Physick Nov. 3. Rich. Barthlet mention'd under the year 1503 supplicated that he might be licensed to proceed in Physick but whether he was admitted or did really proceed or stood in the Act it doth not by the neglect of the Registrary appear in the Register of this or of any year following He was about this time admitted by the Name of Dr. Rich. Barlot into the Coll. of Physitians in London and some years after was made President thereof He died about the latter end of the year 1556 being then possessed of Lands in Cudesdon and Denton in Oxfordshire and was buried in the Church of Great S. Bartholomew in London In the Annals of the Coll. of Physitians before-mention'd is this Character left of him by the famous Dr. Jo. Cay of Cambridge This good and venerable old man very famous for his Learning great Knowledge and Experience in Physick died in the 87 year of his Age at whose Funeral the President and College attended it being the first time that the Statute Book of the College adoned with Silver was carried before the President He the said Dr. Bartlet did bequeath to Allsoules College his tender Parent his Bason and Ewre of Silver and to his Brother Edm. Bartlet and his Children of Castel Moreton in Worcestershire several considerable Legacies Doct. of Div. Not one was admitted or licensed to proceed or stood in the public Comitia which we usually call the Act. Four I find who supplicated for the said degree viz. 1. Fath. Walt. Goodfield a Minorite who proceeded in 1510. 2. Rich. Dudly of Oriel Coll. lately Proctor of the University 3. John Mylford a Benedictine and Bac. of Div. 4. Nicholas Bradbridge M. A. and Fell of Mert. Coll. Which last was afterwards D. of D. and Chancellor of the Cath. Church of Lincoln He died 14 March 1532 and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. See among the Incorporations in 1526. Incorporations Nov. 5. John Smyth D. of D. of Cambridge Dec. 12. John Wilcocks D. of D. in Vniversitate Tantaronensis as the Register saith Qu. in what Country that University is An. Dom. 1509. An. 1. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Will. Fauntleroy D. D. ' to whom were sometimes Deputies Dr. Tho. Mychell and Dr. Jo. Kynton Proct. Tho Erytage of Oriel Rich. Ducke of Exet. Coll. Both which Proctors were according to a former Statute lately much neglected elected on one and the same day being the first of Easter-Term Bach. of Musick Mayâ¦John Wendon a Scholar of Musick whose Graâe was granted to be admitted Bachelaur conditionally that he compose a Mass to be sung in the Act following Jul. 2. John Clawsey was then admitted Bach. of Mus Both these were eminent in their Professions Bach. of Arts. About 15 were admitted of whom Rich. Consent or Consenett a Can. sec was one and James Fitzjames of Merâ Coll. another and 7 supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of the Civ Law Mayâ¦Lancelot Collyns or Colynson He was Nephew to Christopher Bambridge Archbishop of York by whose favour he became Treasurer of that Church in the beginning of May 1514 upon the Resignation of Robert Langton LL. D. mention'd under the year 1501. After Colynsons death Will. Clyff LL. D. of Cambridge was installed Treasurer of the said Church 13 Apr. 1539 the same Will. Clyff I mean who became Chauntor of that Church on the resignation of Will. Holgyll then or lately Master of the Savoy Hospital near London in the beginning of Nov. 1534. As for the Treasurership Clyff by this Letters resign'd it into the hands of K. Edw. 6. which being confirmed under the common Seal of the Dean and Chapter of York he was afterwards made the third Dean of Chester in the place of Hen. Man Bishop of the Isle of Man This Will. Clyff died at London about the 7th of Decemb. in 1558. and was succeeded in his Deanery by Roger Walker M. of A. June 2. Giles Hakeluyt of All 's Coll. One the 5 of Sept. 1514 he became Sub-dean of the Church of Salisbury on the Resignation of John Robinson Nine more were admitted Bach. of the Civil Law and seven supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of the Can. Law June 11. Oliver Poole or Pole of Nevylls Inn involved in the limits of C. C. C. afterwards Principal of Greek Hall near to the Ch. yard of S. Frideswyde and in that Parish was then admitted Bach. of the Can. Law He is stiled in the public Register of this time Vir doctus praeclarus which is all I know of him only that he was of noble Race Juneâ¦Will Page a Canon Regular and Prior of Ivy Church in the County of Wilts One Richard Page who was an Oxford May by Education but not graduated as I can yet find occurs Prior of Idrose or Ederos in the same County an 1526. Besides these two were but two more admitted and 13 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Mast of Arts. Thirteen were admitted and five supplicated who were not admitted this year but none of them were afterwards Writers or Bishop and whether Dignitaries I know not Opponents in Div. Seven were admitted to oppose who were afterwards admitted Bach. of Div. and eight supplicated some of which were afterwards Bach. of Div. also Bach. of Div. May 10. The reverend Father Edmund Forest a Canon regular and Prior of the Monastery of Langthony near Glocester Jun⦠William Arden a Dominican See more among the Incorporations an 1520. Jun. 21. Robert Cleyton of Linc. Coll. Principal of Staple Hall in Schoolstreet stiled in the public Reg. Vir dâlus Jul. 5. Henry Broke a Benedictin One Thomas Brâks who had been of this University of Glocester College I think did supplicate for or at least took a degree in this University but 't was before the time that these
Fasti begin In 1504 âân 21. he was confirmed Abbat of Mâchelney of the Benedictin Order in Somersetshire after the death of one William Wyke and ãâã in 1522 John Shirbourne was confirmed Abbat in his place on the 6 of Nov. in the same year Jul. 6. Father Aâth Etton or Eâton a Doââ or ãâ¦ã who had studied two years in the University of ãâã three in Lovaine and five in Oxon. Besides these others were admitted and several supplicated Doct. of Law Not one admitted or licensed either in the Canon or Civil Law and but one supplicated for the degree of Doct. of Civ Law who was admitted the next year Doct. of Div. June 19. Humphrey Wystow of All 's Coll He had before this time been Principal of S. Edm. Hall and was now beneficed at Tamworth in Staffordshire where dying in Oct. 1514 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there dedicated to S. Edys or Edyth March 19. Thomas Drax Rector of Linc. Coll. There were three also supplicated for the said degree viz. 1. John Baker Bac. of Div. who became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire upon the Resignation of Thomas Wolsey afterward a Cardinal in the beginning of Jul. 1509. 2. Hugh Bolles B. D. a Benedictin 3. Pet. de Campo a Portugnese and Minorite mentioned under the year 1507. An. Dom. 1510. An. 2 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Commiss VVilliam Fauntleroy John Thornden Thomas Mychel D. D. oftentimes stiled Vicechanc. D. D. Proct. John Burgeis of Magd. Coll. Bor. John Hewys of Mert. Coll. Austr April 10. Bach. of Musick Janâ¦John Gilbert His Order and Place are not set down Grammarians Feb. 3. John Toker or Tooker Bach. of Arts was then admitted to inform and instruct in Grammar Bach. of Arts. Feb. 28. William York a Canon Regular See more among the Bach. of Div. 1519. Besides him were about 40 admitted and about 30 who supplicated for that degree but were not admitted this year Bach. of the Civ Law Nineteen were admitted among whom Anthony Maycok was one and several others who were afterwards Dignitaries in the Church and nine that supplicated who were not adm this year Bach. of the Can. Law Feb. 3. Will. Fleshmonger of New Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Chichester as I shall tell ye elsewhere Thomas Leson was admitted the same day See among the Bach. of Div. 1512. Will. Taylour a Canon regular of the Premonstratensian Order was also admitted the same day Feb. 3. Besides which three were about 33 admitted and more than twenty that supplicated who were not admitted this year Among these last I find one Rich. Wraxhall a Benedictine who on the 7 Jan. 1516 was confirmed Abbat of Athelney in Somersetshire in the place of John Wellington some time before deceased which Wellington had been confirmed Abbat 27 July 1503 in the place of one John George who had been elected Prior 29 Oct. 1485 on the death of Robert Hill who died on the tenth day of the same month These things I note because all the said Abbats had received Academical Education in this University Mast of Arts. Eleven were admitted this year among whom John Cottisford afterwards Rector of Linc. Coll. and Canon of the Coll. of K. H. 8. was one and fifteen that supplicated among whom was Jeffrie Wren afterwards Canon of Windsore Bach. of Div. Jun. 12. Fr. Joh. Byrd a Carme On the 2. May going before he was adm to oppose in his faculty and many years after this he became the first Bishop of Chester Jun. â¦Tho Wolsey M. A. of Magd. Coll. He was now Dean of Lincoln and afterwards a Cardinal and Archbishop of York Dec. ⦠John Longland of Magd. Coll. now a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict as the publick register of this time saith See more in the year following Thirteen supplicated for the said Degree but not as I conceive admitted this year among whom Rich. Gray a Canon regular was one written in the publick register Canonicus regularis Gardianus S. Augustini and John Essex a Benedictine was another of whom I shall make mention in 1515. Doct. of the Civ Law May 14. Edw. Culpeper of Alâs Coll. June ⦠Joh. Kydwelly of the same Coll. sometimes Principal of S. Edwards hall June ⦠Pet. Porkyn of New Inn one of the Advocates in the Court of Arches and Rector of St. Leonards Church on New-fishstreet-hiâ in London He died 1. May 1520 and was buried in the Church there For the said Degree supplicated 1 Edm. Horde B. of the Civ Law of All 's Coll. sometimes Principal of Greek hall afterwards Princ. of Burnells Inn alias London Coll. 2 John Noble Bach. of the said faculty Princ. of Broadgates hall and Official to the Archdeacon of Berks. He died 2. June 1522 and was buried in Doclingtons Isle now the Chappel wherein the Society of Pembroke Coll. celebrate divine service joyning on the South side of St. Aldates Church Under the upper South window of which is a raised Monument of alabaster with the proportion of this John Noble from head to foot carved from alabaster with the habit of a Bach. of Civ Law and his Crown tonsur'd Doct. of the Can. Law May 14. Thom. Orton or Horton now or lately Principal of White hall and Pyrie hall in St. Michaels Parish near to the North gate of Oxford Jan. ⦠Edw. Hygons lately Princ. of Burnells Inn alias London Coll. in St. Aldates Parish There also supplicated for the said Degree 1 Thom. Thomlyn a Canon regular and Bach. of the Can. Law 2 Will. Balborow Bach. of both the Laws lately Princ. of St. Mildrids hall in St. Mildrids Parish and now Princ. of New Inn. Doct. of Physick James Radbourne Bach. of Physick did supplicate on the 29. June to be licensed to proceed in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not nor that he stood in the Comitia Doct. of Div. May 12. Frater John Howden a Dominican Prior of the Coll. of Black-fryers or Dominicans in the South Suburb of Oxon. Fr. Walt. Goodfield a Minorite or Franciscan now or lately Prior or Gardian of the Coll. of Franciscans in the South Suburb of Oxon. was adm the same day Besides these two that were licensed to proceed were eight Bach. of Div. who supplicated to be admitted Doctors of the same faculty viz. 1 John Waldgrave 2 Will. Godmersham a Benedict Monk 3 John Claymond President of Magd Coll. 4 Richard Beverley a Dominican and Bach. of Div. of Cambridge 5 Rob. Kynge a Benedictine who afterwards proceeded in 1518. 6 Jam. Foston a Cistercian Monk 7 Will. Helmysley of the same Order 8 Tho. Castell a Benedictine Incorporations Oct. 11. Will. Gantlin Doct. of Physick of the Univ. of Mountpelier Nov. 20. Tho. Wells or Wellys M. A. of this Univ. and sometimes Fellow of New College afterwards D. of D. beyond the Sea was then or the day after incorporated D. of D. being then Domestick Chaplain to Dr.
July and November yet not set down as admitted In a certain writing dated this year he is written thus John Incent LL. Bac. Episcopi Winton commissarius ejusdem consistorii Episcopalis Praesidens He became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in 1537 in the place of Richard Sampson promoted to the See of Lichfield and about the same time was made Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near Winchester He founded a Free-school at Berchamsted the place of his nativity in Hertfordshire for 120 Scholars to be taught therein allowing to the Master Ushers and School it self a very ample salary 33. Hen. 8. The visitor of which is the Warden of All 's College and several of its Masters have been of that society In the old hall belonging to Doctors Commons near St. Pauls Cathedral were in one of the Windows his Arms viz. Argent on a bend gules a fair and innocent Virgin stark naked with her hair loose about her shoulders or her right hand is extended above her head holding a Chaplet of roses therein and her other hand covers her privities The other four who supplicated were 1 Matthew Knightley 2 Richard Browne 3 William Marbull 4 Peter Ligham all Bachelers of the Civil Law Doct. of Can. Law May 25. Edmund Horde sometimes by a mistake written Forde of Allsouls College This Person whom I have mention'd among the Civilians in 1510 was about this time a noted Advocate in the Court of Arches and Procurator of the Charter house near London William Fleshmonger of New Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Chichester in the place of John Young Bishop of Callipolis who died 1526 and a Benefactor to New College See Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. a. There also supplicated for this Degree 1 Ailnoth Arscot sometimes Principal of Perkwaters Inn now involv'd within the limits of Christ Church 2 Michael Wogan or Ogan Both which were Bachelers of the Canon Law Doct. of Div. Apr. ult William Goderyche May 4. Fr. Henry Osbourne a Dominican 13. The ven Father Hugh Whitehead a Benedictine Monk In 1512 he succeeded Thomas Castell in the Wardenship or Gardianship of Durham College in Oxon and in 1524. he succeeded another Thomas Castell in the Priorship of the Church of Durham See more in the year 1511 among the Doctor of Div. This Hugh Whitehead living to see his Priory dissolved he was soon after made the first Dean of Durham by the foundation Charter of King Hen. 8. dat 12. May an reg 33. Dom. 1541. In which Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Horne of Cambridge by the donation of King Ed. 6. dat 20. Nov. an reg 5. Dom. 1551. The said Whitehead dying at London was buried in the Church of the holy Trinity called the Minories but when I cannot yet tell May 15. Kobert Hyll of Merton Coll. June 27. Fr. Thomas Anyday Robert Saunderson Gilbert Saunders John Smythe John Browne Minorites or Grey-fryers Nov. 19. Nov. 25. Richard Ferys the Provincial of the Carmes or White fryers He was now or lately Prior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon. January 22. John Baker 23. Edm. Forest Prior of Langthony See among the Bach. of Divinity 1509. 25. Laurence Stubbes of Magdalen Coll. Afterwards President of that house in the room of Dr. John Hygden 29. John Hygden of Magdalen Coll. In 1516 he became President of that College in 1524 Dec. 2. he was admitted Prebendary of Wighton in the Church of York and the year following Dean of Cardinal College in Oxon. In 1529 he was made Prebendary of Wetwang in the said Church of York and in 1532 Dean of the Coll. in Oxon. founded by King Henry 8. on the site of that of Cardinal in which year dying he was succeeded by Dr. John Oliver in the said Deanery Feb⦠John Byrde a Carme In the year 1516 he succeeded the aforesaid Richard Ferys in the Provincialship of the Carmes and was at length Bishop of Chester as I have told you in 1510. Four also supplicated this year to be admitted Doctors of Div. of whom Robert Cheltenham a Benedictine was one and Simon Mollonde Bach. of Div. of Mert. College another but were not admitted The other two were afterwards admitted as I shall tell you when I come to them Incorporations Jul⦠John Wythers of Magd. Coll. M. of A. and sometimes Proctor of the University afterwards made Doctor of the Canon Law by the Popes Bull was then incorp Dr. of the Canon Law Oct⦠Thomas Hanyball or Hannyball Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge In the year 1504 May 14. he was installed Prebendary of Gevendall in the Church of York upon the resignation of John Hatton Bishop of Nigrepont and in the year 1514 he became Chancellour of the Diocels of Worcester in the place of one Rob. Hallesworth Doctor of Decrees who succeeded Tho. Alcock LL. D. in that office 1508 and Alcock Tho. Wodyngton Dr. of Dec. 1503. In 1522. 14 Hen. 8. I find the said Tho. Hanyball to be living in Rome in the quality of the King of Englands Orator and in that of Agent or Factor for Cardinal Wolsey to the last of which he ever and anon gave an account by Letters of the Affairs of Rome In one dated 13 Dec. 1522 he told the Cardinal that his Holiness hath sent for Erasmus Rot. under a fair colour by his brief and if he come not I think saith he the Pope will not be content c. In 1524 the said Dr. Hanyball was made Master of the Rolls in the place of Dr. John Clerke which honorable Office he keeping till 1528 was succeeded therein by Dr. John Taylor of whom I shall speak at large in 1522. Nov. ⦠Robert Byse or Bysse Dr. of the Civil Law in the Court of Rome In the year following 1514 he occurs by the Name of Rob. Besse LL. D. Principal of Henxsey Hall and in 1524 he became Vicar General to the Bishop of B. and Wells by the death of Roger Church Dec. Doctor and Canon of Wells as also a great Pluralist in the Dioc. of Wells and elsewhere He died in the month of Dec. or thereabouts 1546. Nov. 18. William Latymer Bach. of Art of this University and Mast of Arts beyond the Seas was then incorporated M. of A. Perhaps this William Latymer may be the same whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1545 where you 'll find another Will. Latymer who was Dean of Peterborough This year also supplicated to be concorporated 1 John Buke D. D. beyond the Seas 2 John Dolman Dr. of Civ Law of Cambridge 3 Charles Lucy Bach. of Phys of Cambridge but whether any of them were accordingly incorporated I cannot yet find I think Dolman was because his Supp was granted simpliciter There was also a Supplication made that Richard Mayster M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge might be incorporated but whether granted I know not I take this Rich. Mayster to be the
by a Writer of his Country to be a learned Man as indeed he was considering the time he lived in as other Authors also till us One Nich. Quemmerford I have mention'd among the Writers but what this Edward hath written I cannot yet find About 41 were admitted this year and about 10 that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Civ Law Jul. 12. Henry Siddall He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. and in the Reign of Edw. 6. a great admirer and follower of Pet. Martyr a turner about in Qu. Maries Reign and a returner in that of Qu. Elizabeth such was the mutability and poor spirit of the Man See more among the Doctors of Div. in 1552. and 1558. Besides him were seven admitted of whom Richard Plunket a Secular Chapl. was one and nine that supplicated for the said Degree but were not admitted Bach. of Can. Law Apr. 24. John Man a Sec. Chapl. and Fellow of New College Not the same with him who was admitted Bath of Arts 1533. but another Jul. 12. Henry Siddall beforemention'd Besides these two were seven also admitted and but two that supplicated Mast of Arts. Jun. 10. John Hoker of Magd. Coll. Jul. 1. Jam. Brokes of C. C. C. Afterwards B. of Gloc. Besides these two were about 27 admitted among whom August Cross of Exet. Coll. was one afterwards Fellow of Eaton Coll. and a rich Dignitary Bach. of Div. Apr. 23. Fath. Rob. Joseph a Benedictine Monk In the year 1537 I find him to be Prior of Glocester Coll. in Oxon. and in 1538 it appears that Thom. Wellys succeeded being the last of the Priors of that Coll. Jul. 1. Fath. Humph. Cherytey Nov. 3. Fath. Nich. Andrews John sometimes written Thom. Adelston John Neott Benedictines Feb. 12. Owen Oglethorp President of Magd. Coll. Besides these 8 more were admitted and about 13 that supplicated who were not this year admitted among whom were Fath. Will. Pond an Austen Fryer Fa. Hugh Glasyer a Minorite â Not one Doctor of the Can. or Civ Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick Jul. 5. John Warner of All 's Coll. In the year following he was made Warden of the said Coll being about that time the publick Professor of Physick in the University and in 1541. or thereabouts he became one of the first Prebendaries of Winchester In 1547 in July he was made Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. Rich. Langrigg or Langrish deceased and afterwards became Archdeacon of Ely in the room of Dr. John Boxall but the year when I cannot tell In 1559 1. Eliz. he being then Preb. of Vlfcomb in the Church of Sarum was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Edm. Steward and dying in his house in Warwick-lane in London 21. March 1564 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Stanemere in Middlesex In his Wardenship of All 's Coll. Rich. Barber LL. D. succeeded in his Archdeaconry of Clievland which he resign'd about an year before his death one Christoph Malton M. A. was installed in Apr. 1564. in his Archd. of Ely which also he had resigned one Rob. Wisdome of Cambridge a good Lat. and English Poet of his time and one that had been an Exile in Qu. Maries Reign succeeded but the year when I cannot justly say and in his Deanery of Winchester followed Franc. Newton D. D. an 1565. As for Rob. Wisdome before-mention'd who was also Rector of Settrington in Yorkshire died in 1568. Jul. 5. John Gaynes sometimes written Jaynys M. A. and Bac. of Phys was then adm being the same day on which Dr. Warner was admitted One Will. Coole M. A. and B. of Phys supplicated to be adm Doctor of that fac but was not Doct. of Div. May 8. James Blythe the Kings Chaplain See among the Incorporations an 1527. Jul. 5. Fa. Edward Hynmersh or Inmarsh a Benedictine He was lately Warden or Gardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon and now Chancellour to Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham Jul. 5. Fa. Will. Bennet Roger Bell Benedictines Feb. 17. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. was then adm D. of D. having but 5 days before been admitted B. D. John Hastyngs of the Kings Coll. and Anth. Sutton both Masters of Arts and Bach. of Div. supplicated to be admitted Doctors of the said fac but were not this year An. Dom. 1536. An. 28. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same as in the year 1534. Proct. Will. Wetherton of Magd. Coll. Will. Pye of Oriel Coll. May 5. Bach. of Arts. May 29. Alexand. Nowell of Brasenose Coll. Jul. 5. John Harley of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards B. of Hereford 12. Ralph Skynner of New Coll. Whether he took the Degree of M. of A. or of any other faculty in this University I cannot in all my searches find Yet when he was elected Warden of New Coll. in the beginning of May 1551 he is said to be M. A. In 1560 March 5. he was installed Dean of Durham in the place of Rob. Horne promoted to the See of Winchester and dying in 1563 was succeeded by Will. Whittingham to whom the Queen gave it notwithstanding she had promised it to Dr. Tho. Wilson on the 19 Jul. the same year Feb. 27. John Harpesfeild of New Coll. He was afterward a grand zealot in the times of reformation for the R. C. cause Besides these four were about 30 more that were admitted besides about 7 that supplicated Bach. of Law Jun⦠Will. Binsley of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of both the Laws After he had resign'd the Vicaridge of Adderbury in Oxfordshire 1554 he became about that time Chancellour to D. Pole Bishop of Peterborough and Archdeacon of Northampton in which last Dignity he was succeeded by one Nich. Sheppard Master of St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge about 1571. This Binsley is reported to have been a persecutor of Protestants in Queen Maries Reign while he was a Chancellour And that after Qu. Elizah came to the Crown he was notwithstanding that made Archdeacon of Peterborough c. Mar. 22. Rich. Read of New Coll. See among the Doctors in 1540. Besides these two were but two more that were admitted and but three that supplicated that were not admitted among whom Donatus Tayge an Irish Man was one Not one was admitted in the Canon Law nor one that supplicated For Religious houses being about this time dissolved there occurs not the third or fourth part of Bachelaurs of the Can. or Civ Law especially the former as before Mast of Arts. For the same reason but eleven Masters were admitted this year five of whom were of Merton Coll. and but two that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Div. May 13. Rich. Smyth of Merton Coll. now the Kings Professor of Divinity Jun. 28. Tho Raynolds of the same Coll. See afterwards among the Doctors this year Mar. 9. Father James Procter a Monk of that Order of St. Bernard alias Cisteaux and Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Edw. Fox who
John Cox who was a Student of C. C. 1555 I cannot yet resolve you ⦠The Wylson of Brasn Coll. a Yorkshire man born See in the year 1516 and 1553. In all about 36. â Not one Admission in the Law or Laws is this year registred Mast of Arts. ⦠Tho. Neale of New Coll. now eminent for the Hebrew as well as for the Greek Tongue ⦠Leonard Bilson lately of Mert. Coll. as it seems now the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks. This person who was Uncle to Dr. Tho. Bilson B. of Winchester had several Dignities in the Church of which a Prebendship of Winchester was one ⦠Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. He is reported to be afterwards Bishop of Meath in Ireland See in the year 1543. The Admissions of Masters being not registred by the Scribe I can only say that only 10 stood in the Act celebrated 11 Jul. this year â The Admissions of Bach. of Div. are omitted in the Reg. â Not one Doct. of Law or Physick was adm this year Doct. of Div. June⦠James Brokes of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Gloc. as I have before told you Incorporations June⦠John Crayford D. of D. of Cambridge He was originally of Queens Coll. in that University from whence being ejected he went to Oxon was elected Fellow of Vniv. Coll. an 1519. incorporated M. of A. in 152â as I have before told you in that year became Proctor of Camb. in the year following and in 1523 he was made one of the Canons of Cardinal College Afterwards leaving Oxon he went to Cambridge the third time swhere he commenced D. of D. an 1535 and was soon after Vicechancellor of that University In Octob. 1544. he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of John Edmunds being then Prebendary of North Aulton in the said Church and in the middle of July 1545 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Berkshire on the death of Rob. Audley On the 17 of March following he was collated to the Prebendship of Chermister and Bere in the Church of Sarum upon the resignation of George Heneage and in Sept. 1546 he having been newly incorporated D. of D. as 't is before told you he was elected Master of Vniv Coll being then also Prebendary of Winchester He concluded his last day soon after whereupon Henr. Parry succeeded him in the Chancellorship of Saâum in Sept. 1547 and in the Mastership of the said Coll. one Rich. Salveine M. A. As for his Archdeaconry which he before had resigned did succeed him therein Will. Pye 7 Oct. 1545. An. Dom. 1547. An. 1 Ed. 6. Chancellour the same namely John Longland D. of D. and Bish of Lincoln but he dying on the 7 day of May this year Rich Coxe D. of D. and Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was tho at London by a solemn Decree of the University elected in a Convocation not in a Congregation of the Regents according to the antient manner on the twenty first day of the said month Dr. Hugh Weston in the mean time being Cancellarius natus The 22 of July following the said Chanc. coming to Oxon was received with the publick Congratulation of the Vicechancellour Doctors Proctors and other Members of the University at Magdalen Coll. near to the East Gate of the City where being present also Dr. Oglethorpe the President with the Fellows of that House Mr. Tho. Hardyng the Kings Professor of the Hebrew Tongue delivered an eloquent Oration before him which being done he was conducted to his Lodging at Ch. Ch. Vicechanc. or Commiss Walter Wryght L. L. D. sometimes Principal of Peckwaters Inn now Head or Governour of Durham Coll. and Archdeac of Oxford designed to the Office of Vicechanc. by Dr. Coxe about S. John Baptist's time Proct. Edm. Crispyne of Oriel Hen. Baylie of New Coll. Elected a little after the new Chancellour had taken his place the senior being then six years and the other five years standing in the degree of Master which was not altogether according to the order of K. Hen. 8. made 1541 appointing that the Proctors should be elected from the senior Masters of eight years standing at least These two Proctors were afterwards eminent Physitians in the time they lived and the senior died in the latter end of the year in March 1549. Bach. of Gram. Edward Pendleton the famous Schoolmaster of Manchester in Lancashire was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Grammar that is to the degree of Bach. of Grammar but the day or month when is not set down in the public Register now very much neglected Bach. of Arts. Humph. Lhoyd or Lhayd now or soon after of Brasnose Coll. Julius Palmer of Magdalen Coll This person was elected Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. 25. Jul. 1549 and true and perpetual Fellow in the year following In 1553 he left his Fellowship and what became of him after John Fox in his Book of The Acts and Mon. of the Church c. will tell you at large among the Martyrs that stood up and died for the Protestant Religion under the year 1556. This year also was admitted Bach. of Arts one Barthelmew Green but whether the same with Bartier that is little Barthelmew Greene who suffered Martyrdom for the Protestant Cause an 1556 as you may see at large in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church under that year I cannot justly say John Fox who hath written his story tells you that he was educated in the University of Oxon and afterwards in the Inns of Court Thirty and one Bachelaurs were admitted this year Bach. of Law Tho. Randall or Randolphe of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Principal of Broadgates Hall and a frequent Embassadour in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth Besides him I find but one more admitted the Register as I have told you before being much or in a manner altogether neglected Mast of Arts. Thomas Godwyn Thomas Bentham of Magd. Coll. They were afterwards Bishops Richard Edwards William Whittyngham of Ch. Ch. The former was lately of C. C. Coll. and now in much esteem for his Poetry the other was lately of All 's Coll. but not as yet known to have any eminence in him James Bicton of Ch. Ch. now Dean of Kilkenny in Ireland He died in 1552 and was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Christop Malton of Ch. Ch. also as it seems On the 3 of April 1564 he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. John Warner resigning and dying in the latter end of the year in March 1569 was succeeded by Ralph Coulton M. of A. and Prebendary of York afterwards Bach. of Div. Bach. of Div. Jul⦠Rich. Bruerne of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards Hebrew Professor of this University Canon of Ch. Ch. and of Windsore Fellow of the College at Eaton of which he was elected Provost about 1561 but soon after ejected He died about the latter end of April 1565
and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore John Leland numbers him among the learned men of his time and saith That he was Hebraei radius chori Several other Bachelaurs of Divinity were admitted this year but not registred among whom Rich. Turner of Magdalen College was one â Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick Feb⦠Tho. Hughes or Hewes of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Physitian to Qu. Mary and one of the College of Physitians at London He died at London in the Month of August 1558 and was a Benefactor to the College which had given him Education Edmund Crispyne of Oriel Coll. lately a shagling Lecturer of Physick now one of the Proctors of the University did supplicate to be licensed to proceed in Physick Also Henry Bayliâ the other Proctor did in like manner do so and were without doubt licensed tho not registred so to be because I find them afterwards to be written and stiled Doctors of Physick â Not one Doctor of Divinity was admitted or licensed this year Incorporations Feb⦠Pet. Martyr Doct. of Div. of the University of Padua was then incorporated Doct. of Div. He was this year designed by the King to read a Divinity Lecture in the University which he accordingly began to do in the beginning of the next year One Edward Banke and John Chaundler were incorp Bachelaurs of Arts but of what University they had been is not set down which is all I know of them An. Dom. 1548. An. 2 Ed. 6. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Coxe Dean of Ch. Ch. Vicechanc. Dr. Walt. Wryght Proct. John Redman of Magd. Coll. Thomas Symons of Mert. Coll. adm 20 April Bach. of Arts. The Admissions of Bachelaurs and Catalogue of Determiners being this year omitted by the Registrary I cannot give you the Names of any who were afterwards Bishops Writers c. only David de la Hyde whom I have mention'd among the Writers an 1580. Bach. of Law Maurice Clenneck was admitted but the day or month when appears not He was afterwards elected to the Episcopal See of Bangor but Queen Mary dying before his Consecration thereunto he fled beyond the Seas and what became of him there I have told you already in Arthur Bokely among the Bishops under the year 1555. Mast of Arts. James Neyland of All 's Coll. This person who was Fellow of that House and an Irish man born is reported by one of his Countrymen to be a learned Physitian John Boxall of New Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Chichester Windsore c. and a man of note in the Reign of Queen Mary Besides these two were but nine more stood in the Act celebrated this year 16 July The Admissions of them and many other are omitted in the Register Doct. of Civ Law David Lewes of All 's Coll. He was afterwards the first Principal of Jesus Coll. Judge of the High Court of Admiralty Master of S. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London one of the Masters of the Chancery and of her Majesties Requests He died on Munday 27 April 1584 in the Coll. called Doctors Commons at London whereupon his Body was conveyed to Abergavenny in Monmouthshire where it was buried on the 24 of May following in the North Chancel of the Church there under a fair Tomb erected by him while living which yet remains as an Ornament to that Church Doct. of Div. Richard Beisley of All 's College The day and month when he was licensed to proceed is omitted One of both his names was an Exile in Queen Maries Reign Incorporations Christopher Tye Doct. of Musick of Cambridge This person who seems to be a Western man born was now one of the Gentlemen of the Chappel belonging to K. Ed. 6. and much in renown for his admirable skill in the theoretical and practical part of Musick The Words of several of his Divine Services and Anthems are in a Book entit Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals and Collegiate Choires in the Church of England Lond. 1663. oct collected and published by Jam. Clifford Petty Canon of Pauls sometimes Chorister of Magdalen College in Oxon. We have also some of his Compositions among the ancient Books in the publick Musick School of six parts but long since with others of that time antiquated and not at all valued He also translated into English Meeter The Acts of the Apostles with notes to sing each Chapter by printed 1553 in oct An. Dom. 1549. An. 3 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. the same Proct. Leonard Lyngham of Brasn Rich. Hughes of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Arts. James Calfill of Christ Church Will. Good of Corp. Ch. Coll. He was afterwards a Jesuit Hieronimus Philippides of Ch. Ch. Alan Cope Lawr. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. Both which were afterwards noted Writers John Abulines an Helvetian of Ch. Ch. He is the same I suppose who is written but false Johannes ab Vlmis The Admissions and names of the Determiners are omitted this year by the carelesness of the publick Scribe and therefore the number of them is uncertain Bach. of Law Will. Awbrey of Allsoules College He was afterwards successively Principal of New Inn the Kings Professor of the Civil Law in this University Judge Advocate of the Queens Army at S. Quintins in France Advocate in the Court of Arches one of the Council of the Marches of Wales Master of the Chancery Chancellor to John Archbishop of Canterbury throughout his whole Province and lastly by the special favour of Queen Elizabeth he was taken to her nearer Service and made one of the Masters of Requests in Ordinary What other Bach. of this Fac. were admitted I find not for they are not inserted in the Register Four occur that supplicated who I presume were admitted among whom Joh. James or Jamys was one who was afterwards one of the first Fell. of S. Johns Coll. and on the 24. of March 1563 succeeded Thom. Curteys in the Subdeanery of Salisbury and he Rob. Elyot in Dec. 1561. Mast of Arts. Michael Renniger Arth. Saule of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Exiles for their Religion in the time of Queen Mary Of the first I have made mention among the writers an 1609. The other Arthur Saul became Prebendary of Bedmynster and Radclive in the Church of Sarum which is a Residentiary in January 1559 and had other Dignities besides benefices confer'd upon him One of both his names was Author of The famous game of Chesse-play lately discovered and all doubts resolved c. Lond. 1614. oct dedicated to Lucy Countess of Bedford Whether this Ar. Saul who writes himself Gent. was descended from the former I cannot justly say it Thom. Hyde of New John Piers of Magd. Coll. The former was afterwards an Exile for the R. Cath. Religion in the time of Queen Elizab. the other was an Archbishop in her Reign The admissions of Masters are also omitted this year but the number of those that stood in an
of Windsore and about that time Preb. of Canterbury He died 1. Nov. 1600. and was buried at Windsore Doct. of Civ Law John Gibbons lately of All 's Coll. now Principal of New Inn was admitted this year but the day or month is not set down He was afterwards a Member of Doctors Commons and died at London in the Parish of St. Faith the Virgin about the beginning of the year 1581. â Not one Doctor of Phys or Divinity can I find admitted or licensed to proceed this year An. Dom. 1551. An. 5 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicehanc Owen Oglethorpe D. D. President of Magd. Coll. who being several times absent this year Rich. Martiall Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. and John Warner Doct. of Phys of All 's Coll. officiated for him Proct. Will. Martiall of Mert. Coll. Pet. Rogers of Ch. Ch. Bach. of Arts. George Savage of Ch. Ch. See more in the year 1574. Harbert Westphaling of the same house He was afterwards B. of Hereford James Bell of C. C. Coll. In the latter end of May 1556 he as a Somersetsh Man born was elected Fellow of Trinity Coll. but whether he be the same Jam. Bell who suffer'd death by hanging at Lancaster for being a Rom. Priest in Apr. 1584 or James Bell a Translator of several books into English I cannot tell This last was a zealous Protestant and translated 1 A treatise touching the liberty of a Christian Lond. 1579. oct written in Latin by Dr. Mart. Luther 2 Sermon of the Evangelical Olive written by Jo. Fox See more in Jo Fox among the Writers an 1587. 3 The Pope confuted Written by the said Fox see there again 4 Answer apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective Lond. 1581. qu. Begun to be written in Lat. by Dr. Walt. Haddon but finished by John Fox beforemention'd The admissions and names of Determiners are omitted this year and therefore you are not to expect the just number of Bachelaurs that were admitted Bach. of Civ Law Nich. Saunders of New Coll. He was afterwards a zealous R. Catholick and a forward and indefatigable writer in defence of the Religion he professed Mast of Arts. Humph. Lhoyd or Lhuyd of Brasnose Coll. He was afterwards in much esteem for his great knowledge in British antiquities The admissions of Masters are this year omitted yet the number that stood in the Act or Comitia celebrated 6. of July is 21. The Junior of which called Ralph Treiver of Ch. Ch. was with the approbation of the Vicech and whole congregation admitted into the School of the Physicians or entred on the Physick line in Jan. 1552. Bach. of Div. John Morwân of C. C. Coll. This Person did about this time upon a fight of the decay of the fac of Div. enter himself on the Phys line but whether he continued in it I cannot tell John Harpesfield of Nâw Coll. Christoph Goodman of Ch. Ch. sometimes of Brasen Coll. John Molens or Mullins of Magd. Coll. Hen. Pendleton of Brasnose Coll. â Not one Doctor of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted or licensed to proceed this year as it appears in the imperfect register of this time Incorporations Rob. Johnson LL. Bach. of Cambridge as it seems was incorporated Bach. of both the Laws but the day or month when appears not In 1544 Jul. 10. he was installed Prebendary of the Church of Worcester in the place of Tho. Baggard LL. D. deceased and in the same month as it seems was made Chancellour of the Diocess of Worcester which had been held by the said Baggard In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he kept both those places though wrot privately against Jo. Hoper B. of Glocester and Worcester in 1555 Feb. 22. tertio Mariae Reg. he was installed Prebendary of Stillington in the Church of York and in Jul. 1558 he was collated by Nich Archb. of York to the rectory of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire on the death of Arth. Cole President of Magd. Coll. but enjoyed it for a short time This Person who was esteemed learned and well read in the Theological faculty did write a book against Hoper beforemention'd but did not publish it After his death which hapned in 1559 the book came into the hands of one Henry Joliff or Jolliff Bach. of Div. sometimes Proctor of Cambridge afterwards Rector of Bishops Hampton in Worcestershire one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester and in 1554 Dean of Bristew in the place of Tho. Rainolds promoted to the Deanery of Exeter I say that the said Jolliff having the book in his hands carried it with him beyond the Seas when he fled there upon the alteration of Religion in the beginning of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth and setling for a time at Lovaine did correct put some additions to and publish it under his and the name of Rob. Johnson with this title Responsio sub protestatione facta ad illos articulos Johannis Hoperi Episcopi Vigorniâe nomen gerentis in quibus à Catholica fide dissentiebat ãâã cum quibusdam confutationibus ejusdem Hoperi replicationibus reverendiss in ch pat Steph. Gardineri Episc Winton tunc temporis pro confessione fidei in carcere detenti Antwerp 1564. in a thick oct dedicated by Joliff to Philip K. of Spain acknowledging not only his favours shew'd to him in England while he was King there but also at Lovaine Whether Rob. Johnson the original Author died at Worcester or York I know not or Joliff at Lovaine Sure I am that the last died in 1573 for on the 28. Januar. in that year a commission issued out from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to one Will. Secrs a Stationer of London to administer the goods debts chattels c. of Hen Joliff Clerk late Dean of Bristow who died in parts beyond the Seas c. I find another Hen. Joliff in whom Dr. John Whyte Bishop of Winton took much delight for his towardliness and great vertues but he was a youth and dying 19. Aug. 1548 must not be understood to be the same with Hen. Joliff beforemention'd who also wrot against Nich. Rydley nor Rob. Johnson of All 's Coll. who was admitted Bach. of Law 1552 or thereabouts to be the same with him that was the original Author of Responsio c. About this time Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp spent some time in study in the condition of a Sojourner within this University Afterwards he became a most admirable Cosmographer the Ptolomey of his time and the ornament of the learned World He died in 1598. An. Dom. 1552. An. 6. Ed. 6. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Rich. Coxe to whom it was granted by the venerable congregation this year Jul. 19 that whereas he was about to resign his office of Chancellour within a short time he should never after be burdned with the office of Vicechancellour The 14. Nov. following he resign'd it and on the 18 the congregation of Regents and Non-regents elected according to their new statutes Sir
Rom. Cath. Cause in this University being authorized by publick Authority was born at a Town in Spain called Garcia or Garcevile and being from his Childship much addicted to Letters he was while a Boy received among and instructed by the Dominicans or Black Fryers in his own Country so that in a short time profiting much under them in several sorts of Learning especially in Divinity he took the Degree of Bach. of that Faculty in the University of Valladolid he being then a Member of S. Gregories Coll. there Afterwards upon the performance of certain Exercise for the said Degree in this University had it confer'd upon him as I have told you under the year 1555 and this year being licensed to proceed stood in an Act celebrated in S. Maries Church on the 11 of July This is the person who with Hen. Syddal Canon of Ch. Ch. a very inconstant man in his Religion took great pains in perswading Archb. Cranmer to recant his Opinions when he was condemn'd to be burnt at Oxon and the same who hath this character given of him by one living in his time in this University Prâelegit autem nostra memoria Frater Johannis Hispanus scientissimus cum 27 non excesserat annos Platonis autem disciplinacum cyclopedian absolvisset tum apud Philosophos Oxonienses Platonicam Aris telicam mysticam sacram professus est c. Whether he hath published any Books I cannot tell Sure I am that after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to the Country from whence he came leaving then behind him the character of a most subtile Philosopher and Theologist This Fryer was the only person that was admitted D. of D. this year and but 3 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom were Baldwyn Norton Bath of Div. and Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll who the next year became Prebendary of Langtoft in the Ch. of York Creations Jul. 8. John Boxall Bach. of Div. of New Coll. now Secretary of State to Qu. Mary Dean of Windsore c. was tho absent actually created Doct. of Div. by a Certificate or as we now call it a Diploma sent to him under the Seal of the University An. Dom. 1559. An. 1 Elizab. An. 2 Elizab. Chanc. Hen. Fitzalan Earl of Arundel who resigning his Office 12 June this year Sir John Mason one of the Queens Privy Council was elected Chancellour again 20 of the same month in which Vacancy Dr. Tresham was Canc. natus Commiss Dr. Will. Tresham in one years space twice Cancellarius natus who continuing in his Office till Michaelmas Dr. John Warner of All 's Coll. succeeded as it seems by Election mention being made of his Resignation Proct. John Daye of Magd. Coll. Edw. Bramborow of New Coll. elected 5 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 17. Tho Owen either of Ch. Ch. or Broadgates Hall Rich. Bristow was admitted the same day May 8. Leonard Fitzsimons of Trin Coll. 30. Rich. Whyte of New Coll. The same who afterwards wrot himself in the Titles of his books Ricard Vitus Basingtochius Jun. 5. Lawr. Tomson Nov. 27 Tho. Kingsmill of Magd. Coll. Feb. 19. Will. Sheperey of C. C. Coll. The same who afterwards wrot himself in the Title of a learned book which he published Guliel Scepraeus Adm. 50. Mast of Arts. Dec. 14. Joh. Watkyns of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and Dean of Hereford See among the Bach. of Div. 1569. Feb. 16. Pet. Morwyn or Morwyng of Magd. Coll. In the said month of Feb. did supplicate for the said Degree Pet. Levens of the same Coll. but whether admitted it appears not however in his Book intit The path way to health he writes himself M. of A. of Oxon. Adm. 18. â This year was but one Bach. of Law admitted and but three that supplicated As for Physick not one was adm Bach. or supplicated in that Faculty Bach. of Div. Dec. 18. Will. Bocher or Butcher President of C. C. C. He was the only Bach. of that Fac. who was admitted this year Soon after he left his Presidentship being in animo Catholicus and retiring to his small Cure at Dounsbourne Militis near Cirencester in Glocestershire lived there obscurely many years At length giving way to fate was buried in the Church there on the first of Nov. 1585. â Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Nov. 27. Thomas Coveney President of Magd. Coll. He was deprived of his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winchester in his Visitation of that Coll. 25 Sept. 1561 either for being not in sacred Orders or for that he was a R. Cath. and refused the Oath of Supremacy Howsoever it is sure I am that he was admitted Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisb. in Jul. 1563. For the said Degree supplicated Job Dotyn of Exeter Coll. whom I have mention'd under the year 1534 and James Good M. A. and Bach. of Phys whom I shall mention in the next year Doct. of Div. Dec. 9. Francis Babyngton Master of Ball. Coll. This person who was originally of All 's Coll. did proceed M. of A. in an Act celebrated 16 Jul. 1554 was elected one of the Proctors of the University 18 Apr. 1557 admitted Bach. of Div. in July 1558 Master of Ball. Coll. 5 Sept. 1559. D. of D. 9 Dec. this year as before 't is told you Commissary or Vicechanc. of the University 21 May Rector of Linc. Coll. in August and Margaret Professour about the latter end of 1560. Which sudden and quick Promotions are not to be attributed to the deserts of the Person but to the emptiness of the University at this time to the want of Theologists to perform Offices and that any one in a manner proceeded as he or they pleased An. Dom. 1560. An. 2 Elizab. An. 3 Elizab. Chanc. Sir John Mason Knight Commiss Franc. Babyngton D. D. designed by the Chancellours Letters dated 21 May Dr. Warner having then or before resigned Proct. Rob. Leech of Ch. Ch. Tho. Scot of Trin. Coll. elected 24 April Bach. of Arts. Jul. 23. Edm. Bunney of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards eminent for the Books which he published Nov. 28. Edm. Campian Greg. Martin of S. John's Coll. Both afterwards stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. Cause Jan. 27. Edm. Raynolds of C. C. Coll. See more among the Masters of Arts 1564. Adm. in all 47. Bach. of Civ Law Eight this year were admitted of whom Thom. Tookey of All 's Coll. was one afterwards Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Carlile Two or more of the others were also Dignitaries Mast of Arts. May 27. Rob. Pointz John Fowler of New Coll. 28. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll. June 26. John Pratt of Brasn Coll. now Archdeacon of S. Davids and a Compounder for his Degr. Admitted 19. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Will. Stock of S. John's Coll. This person who was a Herefordshire man born was originally of Brasn Coll. from whence for
shall tell you elsewhere Jul. 9. Anthony Rudde Bach. of Div. of Cambr. was also then incorporated He was of Trin. Coll. in that University was afterwards D. of D. and in 1584 he became Dean of Glocester in the place of Lawr. Humphrey who four years before had been promoted to the Deanery of Winchester In 1594 June 9. he was consecrated Bishop of S. David being then accounted a most admirable Preacher and died 7 March 1614 having before published four or more Sermons He had a Son of both his names who was a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1603. Jul. 19. Nich. Bownde M. A. of the said University He was afterwards D. of D. beneficed at Norton in Suffolk and famed for several things that he published in his life time Among which are 1 Sabbatum veteris novi Testamenti or the true doctrine of the Sabbath held and practised of the Church of England both before and under the Law c. This book was first published as one observes in 1595 and was the first of that nature which first saw light and occasion'd the observation of the Lords day more solemnly to be kept which before was not Whereupon his Doctrine was opposed by several persons of whom Tho. Rogers was one as I have elsewhere told you 2 The holy exercise of fasting c. in certain Homilies or Sermons c. Lond. 1604. oct dedicated to his great Lord and Patron Dr. John Jegon B. of Norwych 3 A storehouse of comfort for the afflicted in spirit set open in 21 Sermons Lond. 1604. qu. The two first are on the title of Psalm 20 To him that excelleth the rest are on the six first Verses of the said Psalm 4 Vnbelief of S. Thomas the Apostle laid open for believers c. printed 1608 oct with other things which I have not yet seen Nov⦠John Delabere sometimes of Ch. Ch. and Bach. of Phys of this University afterward Doct. of the same Faculty at Basil in Germany was then incorporated Doct. of Phys He was afterwards Principal of Gloc. Hall Feb. 18. Nich. Goldsborough M. A. of Cambridge He was incorporated also Bach. of Div. in 1597. An. Dom. 1578. An. 20 Eliz. An. 21 Eliz. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Martin Colepeper Doct. of Phys and Warden of New Coll. was adm Jul. 15. being the next day after the Act was ended Proct. Ralph Smyth of Magd. Clem. Colmer of Brasn Coll. They were elected in Congregation 9 Apr. Bach. of Arts. May 14. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 12. Rob. Hues Husins of S. Maries Hall lately of Brasn Coll. Nov. 12. Leonard Hutten Tho. Ravis Joh. Howson of Ch. Ch. The two last were afterwards Bishops Nov. 12. John Terry of New Dec. 9. Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. Jun. 28. Walter Warner One of both his names was an eminent Mathematician in the Reigns of K. Jam. and Ch. 1. as I have elsewhere told you Jun. 28. Will. Wood Will. Wilkenson of Brasn Coll. See another Will. Wood in 1561. As for Will. Wilkinson I find one of both his names to be Author of A confutation of certain articles delivered to the family of Love c. Lond. 1579 oct and of A godly treatise of the exercise of Tasteng c. Lond. 1580 oct but him of Brasn Coll. I take to be too young to be an Author he being this year about 20 years of age See another Will. Wilkinson an 1593. Feb. 26. Thom. Gibson See among the Masters 1580. Rich. Parks of Brasn Coll. was admitted the same day Mar. 17. Tho. Bentham of Mert. Coll. See among the Masters of 1581. Adm. 107. Bach. of Law Jul. 2. Henry Dethick M. of A. was admitted Bach. of Law being now Chancellour of the Diocess of Carlile About this time also he succeeded one Edw. Threlkeld LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of Carlile who had been collated thereunto 10 Eliz. Dom. 1567-8 the same Threlkeld I mean who had been Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and the same who was so much admired in that University for his excellent Knowledge and Eloquence that he was thought to use the help of some good Genius When he gave up the Chancellourship of Carlile he was Chancellour of the Diocess of Hereford where he became highly valued for his profession In the year 1581 I shall make farther mention of Hen. Dethick who was a man of Learning also but far beneath Threlkeld Beside Dethicke were six Bach. of Law adm this year among whom Joh. Drewry was one See in 1584. Mast of Arts. May 2. Martin Heton Rich. Eedes Will. Watkinson of Ch. Ch. 5. Sim. Harward of New 29. Will. Leigh of Brasn Coll. Jun. 17. Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch. July 4. Giles Tomson of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards of All 's Coll. and a Bishop Adm. 52. â But two Bach. of Div. were admitted this year of whom Edm. Lillye of Magd. Coll. was one afterwards Master of Ball. Coll. Doct. of Law Oct. 13. Rich. Percye of Ch. Ch. He died 10 Nov. 1598 after he had been 20 years Commissary to the Archbish of York and was buried in the Church of Settrington in Yorkshire of which he became Rector in 1591 in the place of Ralph Tomson D. D. Feb. 12. Giles Lawrence of All 's Coll. and Greek Professor of the University He was a Glocestershire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. with his individual Friend John Jewell an 1539 and in 1542 was elected prob Fellow of that of Allsoules On the 18 Sept. an 1564 he became Archdeacon of Wilts on the deprivation of one John Lawrence whether his Father or Uncle I know not being then in great esteem for his learning A certain Author of no mean fame tells us that this Dr. Lawrence was the light and ornament of this Vniversity that he was brought up and nourished in the bosom of Pallas and that into him as also into Barthelmew Dodington the ornament of Cambridge Nature and unwearied Industry had infused and placed all the Greek Treasures and Riches imaginable I have been inform'd that he hath written and published several Books but such I have not yet in all my searches seen nor do I know any thing else of him only that in the time of Queen Mary he was Tutor to the Children of Sir Arthur Darcey living near the Tower of London and that he was in being in 1584. Feb. 23. Robert Salisbury of Jesus Coll. He was a younger Son of Sir John Salisbury of Lewenie in Denbighshire Knight and Uncle to Sir John Salisbury of the same place who died 1613 which is all I know of him Doct. of Phys Nov. 12. Henry Bust of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards superior Reader of Lynacre's Phyâ Lecture practised his Faculty many years in Oxon with great repute and dying in his house in S. Aldates Parish was buried in the Church belonging thereunto 17 Feb. 1616. Doct. of Div. July 10. Edw. Chapman of Cambridge See among the Incorporations
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. â Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Jun â0 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 Quâre 9. John ââwers 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 ãâã when he spake before him he was apt to sleep but Sleep the Depâty Orator of Cambr. was quite contraây 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 Canteâbury 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.
He was a perfect hater of all indirect or fraudulent dealings being sincerely faithful to his Friends and well belov'd of all ranks and degrees of Men c. As for the two Physick Lectures which he gave to the University of Oxon I have largely mentioned elsewhere and upon what account they came to be settled in Merton Coll. and how the Readers whether Superior or Inferior are to read in the common Hall there to any of the University that will bestow the pains to be Auditors Those that have read the Superior Lecture who are called the Superior Readers and have received 12 l. per an for their pains have been these 1 Rob. Barons or Barnes Fellow of Mert. Coll. and a Learned Physician who was appointed after several others had read it by the nomination of the Feoffees of Tho. Lynacre by the Society of Merton Coll. with the consent of Cuhbert Tonstall the last surviving Feoffee an 1558. He the said Dr. Barnes died the 26. Oct. 1604. 2 Tho. Dotchen Med. D. of Magd. Coll. was elected by the Warden and Society of that of Merton Coll. 4. Nov. 1604. He died 29. Jan. following 3 Henry Bust M. D. of Magd. Coll. Elected 15. Feb. 1604. 4 Bartholomew Warner M. D. of St. Johns Coll. 12. Apr. 1617. Buried in Magd. Parish Church in the North Suburb of Oxon. 26. Jan. 1618. by the Body of Anne Dobson his sometimes Wife 5 Edw. Lapworth M. D. of Magd. Coll. originally of St. Albans Hall 9. Aug. 1619. He died at Bathe about the 23. May 1636. and was buried in the Church of St. Peter and Paul there having before resign'd this Lecture 6 John Bainbridge M. D. 25. May 1635. 7 Edw. Greaves M. D. of Allsouls Coll. 14. Nov. 1643. 8 Dan. Whistler M. D. of Merton Coll. 1. Aug. 1650. 9 Rich. Lydall M. A. of Mert. Coll. and Student in Phys 1. Aug. 1653. 10 Edm. Dickinson Med. D. of Mert. Coll. succeeded Dr. Lydall and after him hath been two or three or more THOMAS NIGHTINGALE who writes himself Philomelus was born in London and educated if I mistake not under Will. Lilye before he taught in Pauls School by whose endeavors he became excellent for the Latin Tongue and Poetry Afterwards being sent to this University he made proficiency in Logicals Philosophicals and the Civil Law Which last being the faculty he was noted for was admitted Bachelaur thereof in January 1515. Hence he retired to his Native place where for his wit and innocent mirth he was held in admiration by his contemporaries especially for the things he published as De obitu Johannis Colet Carmen In mortem Gulielmi Lilii Elegiae With other matters of the like nature which I have not yet seen He was in great esteem among Men in the sixteenth Year of King Hen. 8. but when he died I know not JOHAN de COLORIBUS by Birth an Outlander by Profession a Black Frier was a Reader of Divinity in this University several Years in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. and proceeded in Divinity 1517. Afterwards he became a favourite of Cardinal Wolsey by whose power he was appointed one of the learned Doctors of the University to write against Luther and in 1525. he was by him promoted to be a Member of his new erected Coll. at Oxon but in what capacity I know not He hath written Tract contra doctrinam M. Lutheri an 1521 with other things which I have not yet seen written when he was in great esteem among the Oxonians in Fifteen hundred twenty and five 17. of Hen. 8. and after WILLIAM de MELTON was a Yorkshire Man born as it seems had part of his Education among the Oxonians and at length being fam'd for his great knowledge in Philosophy Divinity and for his admirable way of Preaching became Chancellor of the Cathedral Church at York on the resignation of William Langton D. D. in the Month of January 1495 to which Office the Prebendary of Laghton in the said Church being annex'd he was admitted thereunto by the Name of Will. Multon 15. Jul. 1498. This Person whom some call Gul. Melitona report withal that he was Chancellor of Paris and by Order a Dominican but how true it is seeing that Baleus mentions no such thing I cannot yet discern His writings are Postilla in XII Prophetas MS. in the Library of the Dominicans at Bononia in Italy Comment in Epist ad Hebraeos MS. in the said Library the beginning of which is Narrabo nomen tuum c. Sermons in Evangelia Com. in Pentateuchum with other things mentioned by Baleus He concluded his last day in the latter end of the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 and was buried either in the Cathedral Church at York or in the Church of Acklam in which Town he made his Will 20. Aug. 1528. whereupon his Chancellorship was bestowed on Hen. Trafford a Licentiat in Divinity in Feb. the same Year JOHN SKELTON the eminent Poet of his time was originally if not nearly descended from the Skeltons of Cumberland and having been educated in this University as Job Baleus attests who stiles him Oxonii Poeta laureatus became highly renowned among Men for his Poetry and Philology Afterwards taking holy Orders he was made Rector of Dysse in Norfolk where and in the Diocess he was esteemed more fit for the Stage than the Pew or Pulpit The Reader is now to know that one John Skelton was made Vicar of Dultyng in the Diocess of Bath and Wells an 1512 upon the promotion of Hugh Ynge to the See of Meath in Ireland where having continued some Years without a degree as some Chancellors Archdeacons nay Priors Abbats and Deans have so done in their respective times and places did retire to Oxon study there with leave from his Diocesan and in July 1518. 10. Hen. 8. was admitted to the extraordinary reading of any Book of the Decretals that is to the degree of Bach. of Decrees which some call the Canon Law The next Year I find him to be made Rector of Westquamtoked in the said Diocess by the Name and Title of John Skelton Bach. of Decrees and in 1525. Rector of Clotwortley there But this Joh. Skelton I cannot take to be the same with him that was the Poet and Rector of Dysse who having been guilty of certain crimes as most Poets are at least not agreeable to his coat fell under the heavy censure of Rich. Nykke Bishop of Norwich his Diocesan especially for his scoffs and ill language against the Monks and Dominicans in his Writings In which also reflecting on the actions of Cardinal Wolsey he was so closely pursued by his Officers that he was forced to take Sanctuary at Westminster where he was kindly entertained by John Islipp the Abbat and continued there to the time of his Death Erasmus in an Epistle to King Hen. 8. doth stile this Poet Britannicarum Literarum lumen decus and
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
Barrester and a Counsellor of note being then esteemed eminent not only in the Common but also in the Civil Law by which afterwards he obtained immortal fame among the Citizens of London Besides this his profound knowledge he was admirably well read in Philosophy and the liberal Sciences which made his company desired by Scholars and Clergy He lived always a single Man was an adorer of Chastity and chast Men and shew'd himself generous in his profession to those that stood in need of it for very seldom or never did he take a fee. What he got and what he could spare out of his paternal estate he expended in purchasing Books So that several Years before he died his Library exceeded any one or two that belonged to a Person or Persons of his profession Every night after his business was past he read a Chapter in the Bible to those that belonged to him and the Substance thereof he expounded to them By the doing of which and his interposing himself in matters relating to Religion and the Clergy some R. Catholicks have thought that he halted in his Opinion that is that he was inclined to the way of Hereticks His Writings are many partly written in Latin and partly in English the titles of some of which are these Dialogus de fundamentis Legum Angliae de conscientia Lond. 1528. 1598. 1604. 1613 c. oct This is the Book which is commonly called Doctor and Student being a Dialogue between a Doctor of Div. and a Student in the common Laws of England With the edition of the said Book 1528. I have seen this Book following bound with several Copies of it Principia five maximae Legum Angliae à Gallico illo ut fertur sermone collecta sic in Latinum translata non solum generosis studentibus verum etiam terrarum dominis possessoribus summè necessaria Printted by Rich Lant 24. Dec. 38. Hen. 8. Dom. 1546. in oct Whether this Book which is printed in an English Character as the Dialogue is was compiled by Seintgerman I know not certain I am that the English Copy of Dialogus c. called Doctor and Student c. Printed at Lond. in oct an 1604. contains two Books of Dialogues the first of which hath 32 Chapters whereas the Latin impression of 1528 and 1604. contains but 24 and the second 55 Chapters Among other things that the said Seintgerman hath written are Of the power of the Clergy according to the Law Treatise shewing that the Clergy cannot make Laws Treatise of the Church and the meaning thereof Treatise of the Sacraments thereof Apologie written to Sir Tho. More Dialogue concerning the power which belongs to the Clergy and the power which belongs to the People With several other things which are mention'd in another place At length this worthy Person dying in Sept. the 28 day saith Baleus who falsely adds 1539. in Fifteen hundred and forty year 1540 was buried not far from the Grave of Tho. Lupset in the Church of St. Alphage within Cripplegate in the City of London Which Church was afterwards translated to that Church now called St. Alphage near Sion College In the last will and Testament of the said Seintgerman dated 10. July 32. Hen. 8. Dom. 1540 and proved 30. May 1541. it appears that he was not only a Benefactor to the Church of Shilton before-mention'd but also to that at Laleford Lawford in Warwickshire and to the Church at Cathorp in Leicestershire at which Towns 't is probable he had Lands and Inheritances JOHN PALSGRAVF was born in London and educated in Grammar learning there studied Logic and Philosophy at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he went to Paris where spending several Years also in Philosophical and other learning took the Degree of Master of the said faculty and became so excellent in the French tongue that he was thought fit to be Tutor to the Daughter of K. Hen. 7. called the Lady Mary when she was about to be married to Lewis the 12. K. of France But that King dying soon after the said Palsgrave came with her into England taught the French Language to divers of our young Nobility and became well benefic'd In 1531. he settled in Oxon for a time and the next Year being incorporated Master of the faculty of Arts was in few days after admitted to the reading of the Sentences that is to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity he being then Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and esteemed the first Author of our Nation or of the French Men that had reduced the French tongue under certain rules and the first in that kind of exercise that did begin to labour as it plainly appears by his most laborious piece intit Lesclarcissement de la Language Francois Lond. 1530. in three Books in a thick fol. Before which the Author hath a large Introduction in English after which follows 1 A table of Substantives 2 A table of Adjectives 3 The Pronoun 4 The Numerals c. I never yet saw but one Copy of this Book which being fill'd with Marginal Notes by whom I know not in a scribling hand was bought by the learned Selden and in his Library at Oxon. I perus'd it The said Joh. Palsgrave hath also written Several Epistles and published a translation of a Book intit Ecphrastes Anglica in comoediam Acolasti Or the Comedy of Acolastus translated into our English tongue after such a manner as Children are taught in the Grammar School first word by word as the Latin lyeth and afterwards according to the sense and meaning of the Latin sentences c. Lond. 1540. in qu. The said Comedy was made by one Will. Fullonius Hagiensis an 1529 and was living when it was put into English by Palsgrave who was in great renown among Men for his Learning in Fifteen hundred and forty which was the two and thirtieth Year of King Hen. 8. LEONARD COX second Son of Laurence Cox by Elizab. his Wife Daugh. of Willey Son of Job Cox of Monmouth was born in Monmouthshire educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon in 1528. where making some stay for the sake of study was incorporated in the same Degree in the Year following and intending to make a longer stay he supplicated for the Degree of Master of Arts but whether admitted it appears not About the same time he was a Schoolmaster at Reading in Berks. and was there in much esteem when Joh. Fryth the Martyr was taken for a Vagabond and set in the Stocks to whom for his learning and nothing else he shewed singular courtesies as I have already told you in John Fryth Afterwards he travelled into France Germany Poland and Hungary taught there the Tongues and became more eminent in Foreign Countries than at home which Joh. Leland the Antiquarian-Poet seems to intimate in these Verses written to him Inclyta Sarmaticae Cracovia gloria gentis Virtutes novit Coxe diserte
in Italy then most flourishing in Literature where he became noted to all ingenious men for his forward and pregnant parts After his return being then as it seems Doctor of the Lawes but not of Cambridge he had divers dignities and places of trust confer'd upon him successively Among which I find the Archdeaconry of Chester to be one a Prebendship in the Church of York another the Vicarship General to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury a third Afterwards he was Master of the Rolles keeper of the Privy Seal was employed in one or more Embasies made Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Longland in the Month of June 1521 and at length Bishop of London to which See he was consecrated 19. Octob. 1522. Whereupon his Deanery was bestowed on one Reymund Pade in January following Two years after he with Sir Rich. Wingfield Knight of the Garter and Chancellour of the Duchy of Lanc. were sent Embassadors into Spayne and in 1530. he was translated to Durham From which See being ejected for his Religion in the time of K. Ed. 6. was restored by Queen Mary in the beginning of her Reign but thrust out thence again in 1559. when Qu. Elizabeth was settled in her Throne He was a Man passing well seen in all kind of more polished literature a Person very rare and admirable and in whom no Man in his time did reprehend any thing but his Religion except foul-mouth'd Bale who calls him Melancholicus Saturninus somniator atque excogitator omnium malorum and another as bad as he who run's upon the same strain a still dreaming Saturn a plotter of Mischief and I know not what There was scarce any kind of good literature in which he was not excellent He was a very good Grecian and Ebritian an eloquent Rhetorician a skilful Mathematician a noted Civilian and Canonist and a profound Divine But that which maketh for his greatest commendation is that Erasmus was his friend and he a fast friend to Erasmus in an Epistle to whom from Sir Thom. More I find this character of Tonstall that As there was no Man more adorned with knowledge and good literature no Man more severe and of greater integrity for his life and manners so there was no Man a more sweet and pleasant companion with whom a Man would rather choose to converse He hath written and published De arte supputandi lib. 4. Lond. 1522. qu. dedic to Sir Tho. More Afterwards it was printed at several places beyond the Seas I find honorable mention of it in the Preface of Sim. Grynaeus to Euclid in Greek with the Scholia of Theon on it Which Book was published by the said Grynaeus and dedicated to Tonstall In laudem matrimonii Oratio habita in sponsalibus Mariae filiae Hen. 8. Francisci Francorum Regis primogeniti Lond. 1518. qu. Sermon on Palm-Sunday before K. Hen. 8. on Philippians 2. from ver 5. to 12. Lond. 1539. and 1633. qu. De veritate corporis sanguinis Domini in Eucharistiâ lib. 2. Lutet 1554. in qu. Concerning the printing and authenticalness of the said Book you may see at large in Dr. George Carleton's Life of Bern. Gilpin printed at Lond. 1628. p. 12. 13. 33. Compendium in decem libros Ethicorum Aristotelis Par. 1554. oct Contra impios Blasphematores dei predestinationis opus Antw. 1555. qu. Godly and devout prayers in English and Lat. Printed 1558. in oct His and the Letter of Joh. Stokesley B. of Lond. to Cardinal Reginald Pole Lond. 1560. and 79. qu. The beginning is For the good will we have born to you c. It shews the Bishop of Rome to have no special superiority over other Bishops He hath also made two thousand faults and noted many corruptions in William Tyndales translation of the New Testament and hath written several Epistles to Budeus and a Book against the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome as Bale saith which as I conceive is his Letter to Card. Pole before-mentioned But that or his faults on Tyndale or Epistles I have not yet seen At length being deprived of his Bishoprick of Durham as I have before told you about Midsomer in 1559. was then as 't is said committed to free custody at Lambeth with Mathew Archb. of Canterbury but how that can be seeing that the said Mathew was not consecrated Archbishop till 17. Dec. 1559. I cannot yet perceive With him also 't is farther said that he continued four Months and that dying on the 18. year 1559 of Nov. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine which was a full month before Dr. Mathew Parker was consecrated was buried at the charges of the said Mathew in the Chancel of the Parochial Church of Lambeth in Surrey Over his grave was a fair Marble stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon made by Dr. Walter Haddon an admirer of his learning and virtues Joh. Leland who calls him Dunostallus hath bestow'd a collation not without desert upon him as also upon his Friend Budaeus before-mention'd which you may see in his Encomia Trophaea c. p. 45. JOHN BEKINSAU a younger Son of Joh. Bekinsau an inhabitant of Hampshire but a native of Bekinsau in Lancashire where his name was ancient and gentile received his first breath at Broadchalke in Wilts and his Grammatical education in Wykeham's School near Winchester At which place being made soon ripe for the University was sent to New Coll. where after he had served two Years of probation was admitted perpetual Fellow in 1520. In 1526. he compleated the degree of M. of A. being that year about to take a journey beyond the Seas for the sake of study as one of the University registers informs me at which time he was esteemed in his Coll. a most admirable Grecian But whether he did then or after perform his journey it doth not farther appear there Sure I am that I find it entred upon record that John Beconsaw second Son of John Beconsaw of Hartley-Wespell in Hampshire born at Beconsaw in Lancashire was Reader of the Greek Lecture at Parys and afterwards came over and died at Sherburne in Hampshire In 1538. John Bekinsau left his Fellowship of New Coll. because he had then taken a Wife but what preferment or employment he had afterwards I know not At that time he was acquainted with and had in veneration by the most learned Men of the Nation among whom was John Leland the famous Antiquary and Historian who in his Poetry doth speak several things to his honor of his being bred in Oxon and of his studying at Parys with several other things which shew him to have been a great Scholar In 1546. when he saw that the Pope's power was quite exterminated he wrot a Book entit De supremo absoluto Regis imperio Lond. 1546. oct Printed also in the first vol. of Monarchia S. Romani imperii c. by Melchior Goldast Hamensfeldius Franc. 1621. fol. The Author
mention them in their respective places THOMAS PAYNELL or Paganell descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Lincolnshire was from his youth always exercised in virtue and good letters While he was in his juvenile years he was made a Canon Regular of Merton Priory in Surrey the Monasticks of which place having had interest in the College of St. Mary the Virgin situated in the Parish of St. Michael and St. Peter in the Baylie built purposely for the training up of young Can. Reg. in Philosophical or Theological learning or both he was sent thither where improving himself much in Divine learning returned to his Monastery and a little before the dissolution of that and others became Prior of a certain Monastery of Canon Regulars near to London as Baleus saith tho the name of the place he tells us not But being soon after ejected when his Monastery was to be imployed for a laical use had a pension allowed him during his life Whereupon retiring to London and sometimes to Oxon had the more leisure to write and translate Books the titles of which follow Pandicts of the Evangelical Law Lond. 1553. oct The pithy and most notable sayings of all the Scripture after the manner of common places c. newly augmented and corrected Lond. 1560. oct A Table of many matters contained in the english works of Sir Tho. More This is set before the said works that were published by Will. Rastell an 1557. A fruitful Book of the common places of all St. Pauls Epistles right necessary for all sorts of People c. Lond. 1562. oct Preface to the Book of measuring of Land as well of Woodland as Plowland Printed at Lond. in the time of Hen. 8. in oct The Book it self was written by Sir Rich. de Benese sometimes Canon of Merton Priory but corrected and made fit for the press by Paynell In the Year 1519. one Rich. de Benese a secular Chaplain supplicated the Ven. congregation for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether the same with the writer I cannot justly say because he is written secular Chaplain Neither can I say that Rich. Benese Clerk Parson of Long Ditton in Surrey in the time of H. 8. be the same also who in his last Will and Test dated 3. Nov. 1546. and proved 20. Oct. 1547. doth bequeath his body to be buried in the yard belonging to the Church there Our Author Thom. Paynell did also translate from Lat. into English 1 Of the contempt of the world Lond. 1533. oct written by Erasmus 2 Of the Medicine Guacum and of the French disease c. Lond. 1536. and 1539. oct written by Ulrich Hutten a Knight of Almaine It treateth of the wood called Guacum which healeth the French Pox the Gout Stone Palsey c. 3 Of the comparison of a Virgin and a Martyr Lond. 1537. oct written by Erasmus This translation is dedicated to John Ramsey Lord Prior of Merton 4 Sermon on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1539. oct written by St. Cyprian 5 A faithful and true story of the destruction of Troy Lond. 1553. oct written by Danus Phrigius 6 A devout prayer expedient for those that prepare themselves to say Mass c. Lond. 1555. oct written by St. Ambrose 7 Brief Chronycle of all the Earls of Holland Lond. 1557. oct written by Hadrianus Barlandus 8. Salerni sanit regim The Regiment of health teaching all People how to govern them in health Lond. 1558 oct 9 Of the examples of virtue and vice Lond. 1561. oct written by Nich. Hannape 10 Fruitful treatise of well living containing the whole summ and effect of all virtue Printed at Lond in oct written by St. Bernard 11 The Precepts teaching a Prince or a noble estate his duty print in oct written originally in Greek by Agapetus He also translated from French into English 1 The civility of Chidhood with the discipline and institution of Children Lond. 1560. oct 2 The assault of Heaven Lond. in qu. besides other translations which you may see elsewhere In my searches I once saw a Will without date made for Thom. Paynell Priest born at or near to Bothby-Paynell in Lincolnshire afterwards-Parson as it seems of Cotyngam lying between Hull and Beverley in Yorkshire to which place he was a Benefactor and left considerable Legacies to 20 poor Maidens born and dwelling there He gave to St. Johns Coll. in Oxon wherein as it seems he had studied in his elderly years in the latter end of H. 8. and in the time of Ed. 6. at which time it was called St. Bernards Coll. all his Books in his Chamber at London and desired that at his Funeral a Sermon be Preached by a Catholick Doctor or a Bach. of Divinity c. This will which seems to have been made at London was proved in the Praerogative Court of Conterbury on the 22 of March according to the English accompt in Fifteen hundred sixty and three year 1563 I do and always did take it to be made for Thom. Paynell the writer and conclude thence that he died in the Winter time 1563. but where buried I cannot tell EDWARD FERRERS a most ingenious Man of his time was of the same Family with those of Baldesley-Clenton in Warwickshire but the name of the particular place where he was born or the name of the House in Oxon wherein educated I cannot justly say Sure it is that he continued there several years being then in much esteem for his Poetry and about the time that he left the Univ. wrot Several Tragedies Com. or Interludes All which being written with much skill and magnificence in his meeter gave the King so much good recreation as the Author of the Art of English Poesie saith as he had thereby many good rewards and adds farther that for such things as he hath seen of his writing and of the writing of Tho. Sackvile they deserve the price c. Our Author Ferrers hath also written these two Poems following viz. The fall of Rob. Tresilian Cheif Justice of England and The unlawful murder of Tho. of Woodstok Duke of Glocester with several other things which I have not yet seen and was Author as one or more writers say of a Book intit A mirroure for Magistrates Lond. 1559 Published by Will. Baldwin whom I shall anon mention In which Mirrour are involved the two Poems before-mentioned and other things of the composition of the said E. Ferrers who was in great renown in Fifteen hundred sixty and four being if I mistake not the same Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley Clinton who died and was buried there in that year leaving behind him a Son named Henry whom I shall mention under the Year 1633. WILLIAM BALDEWYN who seems to have been a Western Man born spent several years in Logic and Philosophie in this University being the same Will. Baldwyn as 't is probable who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might take a Degree
in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
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
qu. Which being the first book of that nature that was ever printed in the English tongue was a pattern or platform to those that came after viz. to Will. Wyrley in his True use of Armory Printed 1592. qu. to Joh. Boswell when he wrot his Works of Armory in 3 books Lond. 1597. qu. and to others In the beginning of Apr. 1577. there was some dispute made among the relations of the said Ger. Legh who should administer his goods debts chattels c. So that I presume he died in Fifteen hundred seventy and six year 1576 18. Elizab. which is all that I yet know of him or his works WILLIAM BLANDIE was born at Newbury in Berkshire educated in Wykâhams School near to Winchester elected Probatione-Fellow of New Coll. in 1563 took one Degree in Arts three years after and the same year was removed thence by the Bishop of Winton in his visitation of that Coll. but for what reason unless for Popery I cannot tell About the same time he went to London became Fellow of the Middle Temple and afterwards translated from Lat. into English The five Books of Hicronimus Osârius containing a discourse of Civil and Christian Nobility Lond. 1576. qu. What other things he hath translated or whether he hath written of any Subject I cannot tell ANTHONY RUSSHE a florid and frequent Preacher of his time was born in the Diocess of Norwych admitted Probationer-Fellow of Magd. Coll. in July 1554 did compleat the Degree of Master of Arts 1558 and soon after quitting his Fellowship became Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Dean of Chichester in the place perhaps of Barth Traheron Doctor of Divinity and in the Year 1567 Canon of Windsore He hath written A President for a Prince wherein is to be seen by the testimonie of antient writers the duty of Kings Princes and Governours Lond. 1566. in qu. and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature on the first day of April year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 or more and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Over his grave is an Epitaph containing a great Elogie of him which for brevity sake I shall now omit and in the mean time proceed to the next writer in order to be mentioned RALPH GUALTER Son of the famous Ralph Gualter was born at Zurich in Helvetia spent several years in this University mostly in Merton Coll. took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1573 and then returning to Zurich became Minister of St. Peters Church there where he was held in great admiration for his quick and forward parts He hath written Elegia de militia Christianorum in his terris adversus satanem carnem mundum militantium Epitaphium in Hen. Bullengeri obitum written in Greek Epicedium in obitum Joh. Parkhursti Episcopi Nordovicensis Tigur 1576. qu. Argos Helvetia Sive carmen de Tigurinorum navigatione Tiguro Argentoratum usque uno die confecta Carmina in imagines Doctorum nostri seculi virorum Varia Epigrammata Epitaphia At length having spent his short life in learning and virtuous industry surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 25 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried as 't is said in St. Peters Church before-mention'd at which time the chief Scholars there did much bewail his loss by their Poetry A certain Author tells us that this Ralph Gualter the Son hath written Homilies on the lesser Prophets but such I have not yet seen The Father hath and therefore I suppose there is a mistake in the matter MORGAN PHILIPPS or Philip Morgan a Monmouthshire Man born in the Dioc. of Landaff became a student in the University in 1533 or thereabouts made so great a progress in Logick and Philosophy and became so quick and undermining a Disputant that when he was Bach. of Arts he was commonly called Morgan the Sophister In the Year 1538 he was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. being then an year standing in the Degree of Bachelaur and taking that of Master of Arts he entred into the sacred function In 1546 he was made Principal of St. Maries Hall and three years after was one of the Triumviri that undertook a publick disputation in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr In 1550 he resign'd his Principality being then Bach. of Div. and in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign he became Chauntor of St. Davids Cathedral Whereupon and because of his absence from Oriel Coll. for more time than was allowed he was denounced non socitis in 1554. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he left his preferment friends and country for Religion sake spent most of his time at Lovaine and Doway and wrot several books as 't is said but I have seen only these following which go under his name viz. Defence of the honour of Mary Queen of Scotland with a declaration of her right title and interest to the Crowne of England Leig 1571. in 2 books in oct A treatise shewing that the regiment of Women is conformable to the Law of God and nature in one book Ib. 1571. oct These two treatises containing three books were published under his name but written as a noted Author tells us by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse in Scotland upon occasion of sundry Pamphlets that came out against the marriage of Mary Qu. of Scots to be had with the Duke of Norfolk and the right by which she claimed to become heir unto England Which Bishop as 't is farther added did afterwards ingeniously acknowledge in his Commentaries that he had his arguments for her right of succession secretly from Sir Anth. Browne Chief Justice of the Common-pleas and from Serjeant Joh. Carryll an excellent common Lawyer of the Inner Temple So that if Morg. Philipps was not the Author of the said treatises I cannot justly say that he wrot any thing else only his Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Univ. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem 31. Maii an 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. c. See more in Pet. Martyr an 1562. and in Will. Tresham 1569 c. But let our Author Camden and his follower here quoted say what of Leslie's being the Author of those books and other judge of the matter as he and they please while I tell you that a writer before Camden in time and equal with him in learning as to the studies he professed reports that the said Morgan Philipps a Man of good account for learning among those that knew him was thought to have written the said treatises divided into three books by the advice and assistance of Sir Anth. Browne which thing is made the more credible by the many authorities of our common Law which there are alledged The first book doth endeavour to clear Mary Q. of Scots for the murther of the Lord Darley her Husband which by many was laid
was trained up became a zealous Protestant but he lived and died before the time of the former Jo. Nicolls See more in Jo. Bale cent 9. nu 26. THOMAS HETH or Heath well known to and respected by Dr. Job d ee and Mr. Tho. Allen was born in the City of London admitted Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1567 proceeded in Arts 1579 being then in great repute for his admirable skill in Astronomical and Physical affairs The products of which are A manifest and apparent confutation of an Astrological discourse lately published to the discomfort without cause of the weak and simple sort Brief Prognostication or Astronomical prediction of the conjunction of the two superiour Planets Saturne and Jupiter which shall be in 1583. Apr. 29. c. Printed with the former book Both these were written 25 March the same year to Sir George Carey Knight Knight-Marshal of her Majesties most honorable houshold who was a cherisher of the muse of our Author and printed at Lond. 1583. oct The said Astrological discourse which our Author answer'd was written in the beginning of January an 1582. upon the great and notable conjunction of the two superior Planets Saturne and Jupiter which was to happen 28 Apr. Heth saith 29. 1583 by Rich. Harvey a native of Saffron-Walden in Essex Brother to Dr. Gabr Harvey and a Student in Cambridge particularly as I conceive in Trinity hall afterwards a professed Divine and a Man of note Upon the coming out of the said Astrological discourse the common sort of People were driven out of their wits and knew not what to do But when nothing hapned which was therein predicted they fell to their former security and condemned the discoverer of extreme madness and folly Whereupon Tom Nash did register down the infinite scorn that the whole realm entertained it with the adages also that ran upon it with Tarltons and Eldertons nigrum theta set to it What became of our Author Tho. Heath I know not nor of another Tho. Heath Bach. of Arts of Magd. hall an 1570 whom my friend takes to be the Astronomer and not him of All 's Coll. but mistaken as I conceive for certain reasons not necessary to be now set down Heath the Astronomer was in great renown among those of his profession in Fifteen hundred eighty and three but when he died or where he was buried I cannot justly say As for Rich. Harvey before-mention'd it was the very self-same Person who read the Philosophy Lecture at Cambridge and the same whom the whole University histat if you 'll believe that noted Buffoon Tho. Nash his contemporary there who farther adds that Tarlton at the theater made jests of him and W. Elderton consum'd his ale-cramn'd-nose to nothing in bear-baiting him with whole bundels of ballads 'T was the same Ric. Harvey also that set Aristotle with his heels upward on the School-gates at Cambridge and asses ears on his head a thing that the said Tom did in perpetuam rei memoriam record And the same Person who coming to take one Smiths a young Bachelaur of Trinity Coll. questions cried out when he durst not venture on them Aquila non capit muscas and so gave them to him again Whereunto the other being a lustly big-bon'd fellow and a Goliah or Behemoth in comparison of him strait retorted nec eliphas mures and thereupon parted The same Dick Harvey also of whom Christoph Marlo was wont to say that he was an asse and good for nothing but to preach of the iron age But to let pass other matters which these vain Men report of Rich. Harvey it is fit that the reader should know some of the other works that he hath done which shew him quite another Person that what they make him to be as 1 A discourse of the ecclipse of the Sun which hapned in 1582 as also A compendious table of phlebotomie Both printed at the end of the Astrological discourse Lond. 1583. oct 2 Ephemeron sive Paean in gratiam propurgatae reformataeque Dialecticae Lond. 1582. oct 3 Theological discourse of the Lamb of God and his enemies Containing a brief commentary of Christian faith together with a detection of old and new barbarisme Lond. 1590. qu. and fourthly was as I conceive the Author of another book entit Philadelphus or a defence of Brutes and the Brutans history Lond. 1593. qu. This Rich. Harvey had a Brother named John Harvey a Cambridge Man also who wrot An addition to the late discourse upon the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Lond. 1583. oct which discourse as I have told you before was written by his Brother Richard and thereunto was adjoyn'd by John his translation of Hermes Tresmagistus his Jatromathematica and was afterwards Author of A discoursive problem concerning prophecies how far they are to be credited according to the surest rules of Div. Phil. Astrol and other learning c. Lond. 1588. qu. THOMAS MARTYN a younger Son of Tho. Martyn Gent. was born at Cerneley commonly called Cearne in Dorsetshire educated in Wykebams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1539 where applying his genius to the faculty of the Civ Law made great proficiency therein At length obtaining leave to travel went as a Tutor to certain young Gentlemen into France where making his chief residence in the University of Bourges took the Degree of Doctor in the same faculty there Of whose behaviour and manner of life while he continued there is a testimony extant written by Francis Bâldwin of Arras Doctor of the Civ Law and publick Reader at Bourges But forasmuch as the said Baldwin was an ill natur'd turbulent and quarrelfom Man as I understand from other places and Jo. Bale the publisher of the said testimony full of ill language as bad almost as he and one that speaks well of no R. Catholick not so much as of Sir Tho. More Cuthb Tonstal Cardinal Job Fisher c. especially of those that wrot against Priests marriages as our Author Thom Martyn did they therefore I presume are not to be believed tho there is no doubt but that Martyn had his faults as well as they Besides what is in that testimony Bale calls him a known pedant or paederastes the subtile summener of Berkshire and the clark protector of the Popes Sodomites under Winchester a polytick Gentleman that runs with all winds the great Hercules and mighty defender of stinking buggeries c. besides other ill language elsewhere But if you 'll consult Pitseus you 'll find him quite another Man as others also of his perswasion make him which I shall now omit In 1553 he resigned his Fellowship being then in good practice in the Court of Arches and an officer in the Archdeacons Court of Berks. In the Year 1555 he was incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law in this University about which time being in
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 ãâã 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
the English side saith he there were slain Latewar D. of Div. and Chaplain to the Deputy and Cranmer his Secretary both most learned men and for that much beloved of him besides some others also c. But the time that he appoints for his death is false for whereas he saith it was in 1600. it was not till the year following being then buried in the Church at Armagh year 1601 Soon after was erected an honorary Monument for him in St. Johns coll Chappel with a handsome inscription thereon a copy of which you may see elsewhere But whereas it is said that he died on the 27. July 1601. aged 41. is false as it seems for one that was upon the place when he received his deaths wound tells us that he was shot at Benburb July 16. and died the day following an 1601. See more in the Affaniae of a celebrated Lat. Poet of his time named Fitz-Geffry wherein among the Cenotaphs at the end you will find one upon this Latewar which without flattery was justly written HUGH LLOYD a most admired Grammarian of the age he lived in was born at Llynn in Caernarvonshire educated in Wykeham's School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1564. promoted to the Chancellourship of Rochester in 1578. being then Bach. of the Civil Law Afterwards he was made chief Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester before-mentioned was admitted Doctor of his Faculty in 1588. being then noted to be not only eminent in Divinity and the Civil Law but also for his admirable sufficiencies in the Greek and Lat. tongues He hath written several books but all that I have seen are only these following viz. Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris Commentariis Cicerone aliisque in usum Scholae Winton Oxon. 1654. in a large oct Dictata Printed with the former Both which were published by John Lamphire M. of A. sometimes Fellow of New coll afterwards Dr. of Physick History Professor and Principal of Hart hall The said Dr. Lloyd departed this mortal life year 1601 on the 17. Octob. in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in New coll outer Chappel See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 153. He had a Brother named Joh. Lloyd who was Fellow of All 's coll Doctor of the Civil Law and Judge of the Admiralty but whether he was of any kin to Hugh Lloyd D. D. of Barton-Segrave in Northamptonshire who succeeded Dr. Will. Swaddon in the Archdeaconry of Worcester 18. Aug. 1623. and died in July 1629. I know not EDWARD GRANT or Graunt the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his time was educated in Grammar learning in the coll School at Westminster spent several years in the study of Logick and Philosophy either in Ch. Ch. or Broadgates hall took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1572. and about that time became the learned Master of the said School whence by his sedulous endeavours many persons went away well grounded in learning who were afterwards eminent in Church and State In 1577. he was made Canon or Prebendary of the twelfth and last Stall in the collegiate Ch. at Westminster in the place of Tho. Wats D. D. who had succeeded in that Stall Gabr. Goodman 1561. in which year the said Goodman was made Dean and about that time being admitted Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated in that degree with us in the year 1579. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty but not of this University was esteemed a most noted Latin Poet as several of his copies of verses printed in various books shew and was well skill'd in all kind of humane literature He hath written Grecae linguae specilegium c. Lond. 1575. qu. Contracted by his learned Usher Will. Camden He also collected viewed and received and corrected all Rog. Aschams Epistles and Poetry and at the end added of his Graunts composition Oratio de vita obitu Rogeri Aschami ac dictionis Elegantio cum adhortatione ad Adolescentulos Lond. 1577. oct What else he hath published I know not nor any thing material of him besides only 1 That he resigning his Mastership of Westm School about the Month of Feb. 1592. was succeeded therein by Will. Camden 2 That dying in Sept. year 1601 or Octob. in sixteen hundred and one was buried in St. Peters Church at Westminster whereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Will. Barlow D. D. Now I am got into the Name of Graunt I cannot without the guilt of concealment but to let you know some things of the most ingenious person considering his education and employment that his time hath produced His name is Joh. Graunt born at the sign of the Seven Stars in Birchin-lane within the Parish of St. Michael-Cornhil in London between 7 and 8 of the clock in the morn of the 24. of Apr. 1620. Son of Hen. Graunt a Hampshire man educated while a boy in English learning bound an Apprentice to a Haberdasher of small wares which Trade he mostly followed tho free of the Drapers company Afterwards he went through all the Offices of the City as far as a Common-Council-man bearing that Office two years He was also Captain of the Trained-band several years and Major of it two or three and then laid down his Trade and all publick Employments upon account of Religion For tho he was Puritannically bred and had several years taken Sermon notes by his most dextrous and incomparable faculty in short-writing and afterwards did profess himself for some time a Socinian yet in his latter days he turned Rom. Catholick in which Persuasion he zealously lived for some time and died He hath written 1 Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality c. Lond. 1661. and 62. in qu. afterwards in oct with several additions done upon certain hints and advice of Sir Will. Petty 2 Observations on the advance of Excise And 3 something about Religion but these two are not yet printed He died on the 18. of April being Easter-Even 1674. and was buried four days after in St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet in the body thereof under the Pews towards the Gallery on the North side London At which time his body was attended with a great number of ingenious persons and among others with tears was that great Vertuoso Sir Will. Pettie before-mentioned The said Joh. Graunt was an ingenious and studious Person generally beloved was a faithful Friend a great Peace-maker and one that had often been chosen for his prudence and justness an Arbitrator But above all his excellent working head was much commended and the rather for this reason that it was for the publick good of learning which is very rare in a Trader or Mechanick JOHN HOOKER alias Vowell sometimes written Vowell alias Hooker was born within the City of Exeter educated in Grammar and Logick for a time in this University either in Exeter or C. C. coll but whether he took a degree our
the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law conferr'd on him elsewhere but at what place or by whom I cannot yet find He hath written Christian Ethicks or Moral Philosophy containing the difference or opposition of vertue and voluptuousness Lond. 1587. oct An historical collection of the continued Factions Tumults and Massacres of the Romanes and Italians during the space of 120 years before the peaceable Empire of Augustus Caesar c. Lond. 1600. oct and 1601. in qu. A parallel or conference of the Civil Law the Canon Law and the Common Law of this Realm wherein the agreement and disagreement of these three Laws and the causes and reasons of the said agreement are opened and discussed in sundry Dialogues Lond. 1602. qu. in 2 parts But this book lying dead on the Booksellers hands he put a new Title to the first part as if the whole had been reprinted at London 1618. but to the second not leaving the old Title bearing date 1602. The Pandects of the Laws of Nations or the discourses of the Matters in Law wherein the Nations of the World do agree Lond. 1602. qu. What else he hath written I know not nor when or where he died One Henry Fulbeck related to the said William hath published A direction or preparation to the study of the Civil Law wherein is shewed what things ought to be observed and what ought to be eschewed and avoided Printed at Lond. in oct much about the time that the former was SAMPSON ERDESWICKE Son of Hugh Erdeswicke Esq was born at Sandon in Staffordshire studied in the condition of a Gent. Com. in Brasnose coll in 1553 and 54. 1. and 2. of Q. Mary where he laid the foundation of some learning that advanced him to greater in future times Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony at Sandon where applying his Muse to that kind of learning which his genie led him to became at length a Gentleman well accomplished with many vertuous qualities He was very well vers'd in Histories but more in Antiquities especially in those of his own County and therefore stiled by the learned Camden A very great Lover and diligent Searcher of venerable Antiquity adding that in this regard he is no less worthy of remembrance than for that he is directly in the Male-line descended from Sir Hugh Vernon Baron of Shipbrook the name being changed by the use of that age according to sundry habitations first into Holgrave and afterwards into Erdeswicke At length for the tender respect he had to his Native Country and desiring much the honour of it wrote A short view of Staffordshire containing the Antiquities of the same County MS. The beginning of which is Sir having disposed with my self to take a farther view of the Shires of Staffordshire and Chester c. It was began about the year 1593. and continued by him to his death from ancient Evidences and Records with brevity clearness and truth The original of this or at least a copy is in the hands of Walt. Chetwind of Ingestre in Staffordshire Esq who is and hath been several years in the collecting of the Antiquities of that County Collections of Genealogies Monuments Arms c. MSS. Some of which are in the hands of the said W. Chetwind and elsewhere and have been used by divers Antiquaries It is said also that 'our author Erdeswicke wrote a book intit The true use of Armory published under the name of Will. Wyrley an 1592. as I shall more at large tell you hereafter but let that report remain with its author while I tell you that Erdeswicke submitted to the stroke of death on the eleventh of Apr. year 1603 in sixteen hundred and three and was buried under a goodly Monument of Free-stone with his proportion thereon erected by himself in his life-time in the Church of Sandon before-mentioned Which Church was a little before new glazed and repaired by him See more of him in William Wyrley among these Writers under the year 1617. THOMAS D'OYLIE descended from a right ancient Family of his name living or Oxfordshire was born in that County elected Probationer-Fellow of Magd coll an 1563. and after he had taken the Magisterial degree entred on the Physick line travelled and became Doctor of his Faculty in the University of Basil Afterwards setling in London he became one of the College of Physicians and much frequented for his successful Practice in his Faculty He had a chief hand in a book intit Bibliotheca Hispanica containing a Grammer with a Dictionary in Spanish English and Latin Lond. 1591. qu. in two parts This book was published by one Rich. Percyvall Gent. who had another hand in it yet with the advice and conference of Dr. D'oylie who dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred and three year 1603 was buried in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew in London leaving then behind him a Son named Francis born 8. Feb. 1597. and a daughter married to Hugh Cressy a Counsellour Father to Hugh Cressy a Benedictine Monk WILLIAM GILBERT Son of Hierom Gilbert of Colchester in Essex was born there and educated in both the Universities but whether in Oxon first or in Cambridge I cannot justly tell Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas where I presume he had the degree of Doctor of Physick conferred upon him and at his return being famed for his learning depth in Philosophy and admirable skill in Chymistry became one of the Coll. of Physicians in Lond. and Physician in Ord. to Q. Elizabeth who had so high a value for him that she allowed him an annual Pension to encourage his studies He hath written De magnete magneticisque corporibus de magno magnete tellure Physiologia nova Lond. 1600. fol. To which book the author added an Appendix of 6 or 8 sheets but whether printed I cannot tell De mundo nostro sublunari Philosophia nova Amstel 1651. qu. Published from a MS. in the Library of the Famous Sir Will. Boswell Knight He also was the first that invented the making description and use of the two most ingenious and necessary instruments for Sea-men to find out thereby the Latitude of any place upon the help of the Sun Moon and Stars Which invention was published by one Tho. Blondeville Lond. 1602. qu. This Dr. Gilbert gave way to fate in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and three year 1603 having always lived a single life Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity in Colchester in which Parish he was born and accounted the chief person thereof By his last Will and Test he gave all his books in his Library his Globes Instruments and Cabinet of Minerals to the Coll. of Physicians which part of his Will was exactly performed by his Brethren viz. William so he is written in his Will a Proctor in the Arches Hierom Ambrose and George who participated of his Estate The picture of this famous Doctor drawn to the life
his Countryman and another by a Scot. Which last stiles our author Carew another Livie another Maro another Papinian and highly extolls him for his great skill in History and knowledge in the Laws Besides the Rich Carew was another but later in time author of Excellent helps by a warming-stone Printed 1652. qu. RICHARD KILBYE was born at Radcliff on the River Wreake in Leicestershire elected Fellow of Lincoln coll 18. Jan. 1577. being then about three years standing in the University Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted Preacher in the University In 1590. he was elected Rector of his College took the degrees in Divinity was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln and at length Hebrew Professor of this University He hath written Commentarii in Librum Exodi Part. 2. MS. in the hands sometimes of Will. Gilbert Fellow of Linc. coll The chief part of which is excerpted from the Monuments of the Rabbins and Hebrew Interpreters He also continued Jo. Mercers notes on Genesis and would have printed them but was denied had a hand also in the translation of the Bible appointed by K. Jam. 1. an 1604. and did other very laudable matters relating to learning Serm. in S. Maries Church Oxon 26. Mar. 1612. at the Funeral of Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity in this Univ. on 1 Cor. 5. 55 56 57. Oxon. 1613. qu. He the said Dr. Kilbye was buried in that Chancel in Allsaints Church in Oxon. which is commonly called The College Chancel because it belongs to Linc. coll on the 17. year 1620 Nov. in sixteen hundred and twenty aged 60. or thereabouts Whereupon Paul Hood Bac. afterwards D. of Divinity succeeded him in his Rectorship and Edward à Meetkerk Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in his Professorship Besides this Rich. Kilbye was another of both his names and a writer too as I have under the year 1617. told you JOHN CARPENTER received his first breath in the County of Cornwal was entred a Batler in Exeter coll about 1570. where going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy for the space of four years or more with unwearied industry left the University without a degree and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon He hath written and published A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct Remember Lots Wise two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct Preparative for Contentation Lond. 1597. qu. Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard or two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599. oct Christian Contemplations or a Catechism Lond. 1601. oct K. Soloman's Solace Lond. 1606. qu. Plain Man's Spiritual Plough Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh before-mentioned in the latter end of the year viz. in March in sixteen hundred and twenty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there before the 25. of the said month as it doth partly appear in the Register of that place leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accompts by way of Debtor and Creditor Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian WILLIAM TOOKER second Son of Will. Tooker by Honora Eresey of Cornwall his Wife Son and Heir of Rob. Tooker was born in the City of Exeter educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1583. in which year he shewd himself a ready Disputant before Albertus Alaskie Prince of Sirad at his being entertained by the Oxonian Muses in S. Maries Church In 1585. he left his Fellowship being about that time promoted to the Archdeanconry of Barnstaple in his own Country Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth and Prebendary of Salisbury took the degrees in Divinity 1595. became Canon of Exeter and at length Dean of Lichfield on the death as it seems of Dr. George Boleyne in the latter end of 1602. He was an excellent Grecian and Latinist an able Divine a person of great gravity and piety and well read in curious and critical authors as may partly appear by these books following which he wrote and published Charisma sive donum Sanatiânis seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilium Sanitatum gratiâ c. Lond. 1597. qu. In this book he doth attribute to the Kings and Queens of England a power derived into them by Lawful Succession of healing c. Which book is reflected upon by Mart. Anton. Delrius the Jesuit who thinks it not true that Kings can cure the Evil. With him agrees most Fanaticks Of the Fabrick of the Church and Church mens livings Lond. 1604. oct Singulare certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuitâ futiliter refutante apologiam monitoriam praefationem ad Imperatorem Reges Principes quaedam Orthodoxa dogmata Jacobi Regis Magnae Britaniae Lond. 1611. oct This learned author Dr. Tooker died at Salisbury on the 19. of March or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there 21. of the said month in sixteen hundred and twenty leaving behind him a Son named Robert Tooker of East-Grinsteade in Surrey In June following Dr. Walt. Curle of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanry of Lichfield and him Dr. Augustin Lindsell another Cantabrigian an 1630. HENRY SWINBURNE Son of Thomas Swinburne of the City of York was born there spent some years in the quality of a Commoner in Hart hall whence translating himself to that of Broadgates took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law married Helena Daughter of Barthelm Lant of Oxon and at length retiring to his native place became a Proctor in the Archbishops Court there Commissary of the Exchecquer and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York He hath written Brief Treatise of Testaments and last Wills In 7 parts Lond. 1590. 1611 35. 40. 77. c. qu. Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts c. Lond. 1686. qu. In which two books the author shâws himself an able Civilian and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty He paid his last debt to âââure at York and was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral there Soon after was a comely Monument fastned to the wall near to this grave with his Effigies in a Civilians Gown kneeling before a deske with a book thereon and these verses under Non Viduae caruere viris non Patre Pupillus Dum stetit hic Patriae virque paterque suae Ast quod Swinburnus viduarum scripsit in usum Longius aeterno marmore vivet opus Scribere supremas hinc discat quisque tabellas Et cupiat qui sic vixit ut ille mori There is no day or year on the Monument to shew when this H. Swinburne died
title Of Law or a discourse thereof in 4 books Lond. 1627. 36. 61. c. oct From the said book is mostly extracted another intit A summary of the Common Law of England Lond. 1654. oct done by another hand Our author Finch also wrote Of the calling of the Jews By which book it appears that the studies of the author were not altogether confin'd to the Common Law But his judgment therein as to the subject matter dissenting from the opinions of ingenious persons yet they cannot otherwise but allow him to have learnedly maintained an Errour He departed this life on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and was buried as I conceive in St. Martins Church near Canterbury leaving then behind him a Son begotten on the body of his Wife Vrsula Daughter and Heir of Will. Thwayts called John Finch born the 17. Sept. 1584. educated in the Common Law in Greys Inn afterwards a Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Finch of Fordwyche forced out of England by the severity of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1640. had leave afterwards to return and lived privately at the Mote near Canterbury and dying the 20. Nov. an 1660. was buried in the Church of S. Martin before-mentioned This John Lord Finch who had a younger Brother called Henry seems to have had some considerable knowledge in Mathematicks and Astronomy as it appears by a Manuale Mathematicum curiously written on Velom with his own hand preserved to this day as a rarity in Dugdale's Press among the MSS in the Ashmolean Musaeum RICHARD FOWNS a Ministers Son and a Worcestershire man born was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1577. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts became Chaplain to Prince Henry Bach. and D of D. 1605. and about that time Rector of Stoke upon Severn commonly called Severnstoke in his own Country He hath written Trisagion or the three Offices of Christ Lond. 1619. qu. He was buried in the Church of Severnstoke 25. Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and soon after was put a Mon. over his grave with an inscription thereon but so miserably defaced in the Civil War that brake out 17 years after that 't is not now as I have been informed legible otherwise I should have given you a copy of it here A Latin Sermon of one Rich. Fowns preached on 2 Thess 2. 34. was published in 1660. but whether preached by our author or another of both his names I cannot tell because I have not yet seen it CHRISTOPHER BAGSHAW was originally descended from the Bagshaws living at Ridge or Abney in Derbyshire but the name of the place wherein he received his first breath I cannot yet find In 1572 he was by the endeavours of Rob. Persons afterwards a Jesuit elected Probationer-Fellow of Balliol coll being then a Bach. of Arts and a celebrated Logician and Philosopher Soon after proceeding in his Faculty he was much noted for his zeal to Protestancy yet proved troublesome in his publick disputes and in his behaviour towards Persons About the year 1579. he was Principal or at least Deputy for a time of Gloucester hall where also being disliked he left that place soon after and his Fellowship in 1582. which was pronounced void the year following About that time he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion and being made a Priest in France and getting helps and directions from Fa. Persons he journied to Rome where for some time he lived in the English college But being troublesome there also and raising great garboyles among the Scholars of that place Cardinal Boncompagno Protector of the English Nation expelled him thence as one that had no good will for him saith Yet our author in his own vindication tells us that he had a Benedicessit and departed very orderly Afterwards he returned to Paris where as 't is said he was made Doctor of Div. and one of the Sorbon at which time and after the Jesuits used to stile him Doctor Erraticus and Doctor per Saltum Afterwards he was sent into England to gain Souls to his Religion but taken and committed Prisoner to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire where I find him in 1593. among many other Priests and Gentlemen of the Rom. Cath. Religion that had some years before been secured in that place 'T is said while he continued there that he carried away the glory and fame of all that was heretofore laudably done in that Castle before Fa. Edmonds alias Weston a Jesuit began to shew his tricks and then that Party and those Lay-persons that favoured them would condemn Bagshaw as a man of no worth unruly disordered and a disobedient person not to be favoured or respected by any c. Afterwards being freed from that prison he went beyond Sea again where he ended his days He hath written An answer to certain points of a Libel called An Apology of the Subordination in England Par. 1603. oct He had a considerable hand also in writing a book intit Declaratio motuum ac turbationum inter Jesuitas Sacerdotes Seminariorum in Anglia Rothomag 1601. in qu. Set out under the name of one Joh. Mush a Yorkshire man born and a learned Priest who engaged himself much in composing the differences that happened among the Priests and Jesuits in Wisbich Castle Dr. Bagshaw had also a hand in A true relation of the Faction began at Wisbich by Father Edmunds alias Weston a Jesuit 1595 and continued since by Father Walley alias Garnet the Provincial of the Jesuits in England and by Fa. Persons in Rome Printed 1601. qu. This Dr. Bagshaw died and was buried at Paris after the year sixteen hundred twenty and five as I have been informed by Franc. Ã Sancta Clara who remembered and knew the Doctor well but had forgotten the exact time of his death JOHN GEE the Son of a Minister of Devon but whether of John or George Gee whom I have before mentioned in Edw. Gee under the year 1618. I cannot justly say was entred into Brasnose coll in 1613. aged 16. where making no long stay he entred himself a Batler among his Countrymen of Exeter college and having holy Orders confer'd on him after he had taken one degree in Arts became beneficed at Newton near to Winwick in Lancashire of which last place Mr. Josias Horne being then Parson Gee had oftentimes several conferences with him concerning matters of Religion but they savouring much of a mind inclining to Popery Mr. Horne and the neighbouring Ministers concluded among themselves that he had changed his Religion before he had left that place Thence taking his rambles he retired to London and became acquainted with the noted persons of the R. Cath. Perswasion that then lived there But at length being moved to leave them and his opinions newly embraced by the urgent letters of his Father and by the valid reasons concerning the vanity as he term'd
will tell you He dyed in that parish in 1649. as I think but was not of the University of Oxon. PETER ALLIBOND an ingenious man in the opinion of all that knew him was born at Wardenton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where his name and family had for some generations lived became a Student of Magd. hall in the beginning of 1578. aged 18. years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts travelled for some time beyond the Seas and at his return became Rector of Cheyneys in Bucks Where continuing many years did much improve the ignorant with his found doctrine What he hath written I know not nor translations which he hath made only these two from French into English viz. 1 Comfort for an afflicted conscience wherein is contained both consolation and instruction for the sick c. Lond. 1591. oct written by John de L'espine 2 Confutation of the popish transubstantiation together with a narration how that the Mass was at sundry times patched and pieced by sundry Popes c. Lond. 1592. oct And a translation from Lat. into English entit The golden chain of Salvation Lond. 1604. qu. written by Harman Renecher This Pet. Allibond died on the sixth day of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Cheyneys before mention'd leaving then behind him three Sons one of which was called John a witty man of Magd. coll whom I shall mention elsewhere another named Peter of Linc. coll Proctor of this University in 1640. and a third Job who changing his Religion to which he had been carefully brought up for that of Rome which was the reason I presume why his name was omitted in his Fathers Will did at length get a place in the Post Office which kept him and his in a comfortable condition This Job was Father of Rich. Allibond a Barrester of Grays Inn who being also a Roman Catholick was not only Knighted by K. James 2. but also made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench to which Office he was sworn by the name of Rich. Allebone 28. Apr 1687. He dyed at his house near to the back part of Grays Inn 22. of Aug. 1688. aged 47 years of thereabouts and was buried on the fourth of Sept. following at Dagenham in Essex near to the grave of his Mother JAMES LEY a younger Son of Henry Ley of Teffont-Evias in Wilts Son of Henry Ley of Ley in the parish of Bere-Ferres in Devonsh Esq was born at Teffonts-Evias became a Commoner of Brasenose coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 17. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and on the first of May 1577. he was admitted a Student of Lincolns Inn where making great proficiency in the Municipal Law which was much advanced by his Academical learning he became a Councellour of great repute was call'd to the Bench. 22. Eliz. and in the 44. of that Qu. was Lent reader of that Inn. After which his profound learning and other great abilities deservedly rais'd him to sundry degrees of honour and eminent employment For in the 1. of Jac. 1. he was called to the state and degree of Serjeant at Law and in the year following he was constituted Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in Ireland in which place he continued till Mich. term 6. Jac. 1. and then being a Knight he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries in England Shortly after he obtained a Privy Seal from the Kings Maj. dat 15. May 7. Jac. 1. to take place in the said Court of the Kings Attorney General which till then was never used but since hath constantly been observed By virtue of that Seal and by appointment of Rob. Earl of Salisbury then Master of the said Court he took the place the same day of Sir Hen. Hobart Knight then Attorney General to his Majesty During his continuance in that place he was made a Baronet and in the 18. Jac. he was removed from that Court having been Attorney 12 years and upwards and was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in England In 22. Jac. he was made Lord High Treasurer of Engl. and a Counsellour of State and on the last day of the same month he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron by the title of Lord Ley of Ley before mentioned In the 1. of Car. 1. he was created Earl of Marlborough in wilts and in the fourth of that King he resign'd his place of Treasurer and was made Lord President of the Council He was a person of great gravity ability and integrity and of the same mind in all conditions He hath written Treatise concerning Wards and Liveries Lond. 1642. oct composed by the author while he was Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Reports of divers resolutions in Law arising upon cases in the Court of Wards and other Courts at Westminster in the Reigns of King James and King Charles Lond. 1659. fol. He also collected with intentions to publish some of the historical writers of Ireland for which end he caused to be transcribed and made fit for the Press the Annals of John Clynne a Friâr Minor of Kilkenny who lived in the time of K. Ed. 3. the Annals of the Priory of St. John the Evangelist of Kilkenny and the Annals of Multifernan Resse and Clonmell c. But his weighty occasions did afterwards divert his purpose After his death the copies came into the hands of Henry Earl of Bathe who also did intend to make them publick but what diverted him I cannot tell Our author Sir Jam. Ley E. of Marlborough ended his days in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 14. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church of Westbury in Wilts in which Parish he had purchased an Estate Over his grave was soon after a stately monument erected by Hen. Ley his Son who succeeded him in his honour begotten on the body of his Father's first Wife named Mary Daughter of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach and Tetsworth in Com. Oxon Esq THOMAS VICARS who writes himself Vicarsus and de Vicariis was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland made his first entry into Queens coll in the beginning of 1607. aged 16. where after he had been a poor serving Child Tabarder and Chaplain he was elected Fellow 1616. being then M. of A. Six years after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he being esteemed an able Theologist Preacher and well qualified with other learning was taken into the Family of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester and by him preferr'd after he had married his Daughter Anne to the Vicarage of Cockfield near Horsham in Sussex and as it seems to a Dignity in the Church of Chichester His works are Manuductio ad artem Rhetoricam ante paucos annos iâ privatum quorundum Scholarium usum concinnata c. Lond. 1621. oct there again 1628.
the Parliament forces in the year 1646. at which time the Wars were ceased he was sent to S. Johns coll in Cambridge where he had not been there many months e're came forth the first issue of his prodigious wit entit Horae vacivae or Essayes with some occasional considerations Lond. 1646. oct with his Picture before them aged 19. The sudden breaking forth of which amazed not only the University as I am instructed by one of his Fellow Collegiats but the more serious part of men in the three Nations where they were spread The same year about New-years time came out his Poems Lond. 1646. and with them The second book of divine Poems Pr. in oct Both which books were much admired After he had continued more than an year at Cambridge in the condition of a Commoner and Gent. Com. he was translated to Greys Inn where he added to the Structure of a most admirable Romance intit Lucenia which he had began in Cambridge but by the lending it forth to a friend it was smother'd In 1648. his mind being sufficiently known to encline towards a Commonwealth he sided with the Independent and wrote A Satyr against Presbytery and in 1649. he published An humble motion to the Parliament of England concerning the advancement of Learning and Reformation of the Vniversities Printed at Lond. in 6. sh in qu. In which taking occasion to court the then Rulers got him a present sum of Money and a Pension of 100. l. per an from the Councel About the same time he wrote Four Paradoxes to which he added two more in 1653. Published at Lond. 1653. in tw under the name of Joh. de la Salle by Joh. Davies of Kidwelly And in 1650. being commanded by the Councel of State into Scotland to attend Oliver Cromwell to make such observations on affairs there as might conduce to the setling of the interests of the Commonwealth he wrote a book intit The grounds and reasons of Monarchy with an Appendix of An Epitomy of the Scotish affairs Both printed at Edenburgh in qu. and afterwards at London About that time he was called to the Barr and sometimes pleaded and in 1651. he published A Gag to Loves Advocates c. wherein he justified the Parliaments proceedings in the execution of Christop Love a forward and busie Presbyterian What other things he either wrote or published are briefly these 1 A Preface before with remarks upon a book intit A true relation of the unjust cruell and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the E. Indies by the Netherlandish Government and Councell there Which book tho it had been published in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and the third time at Lond. 1632. in qu. Joh. Hall thought it necessary to revive it at that time 1651. because of the then differences between the Dutch and the English This book he dedicated to the General O. Cromwell and was much bought up Whereupon the Dutch Embassador residing then in Westminster made a complaint of that book and demanded punishment on the reviver of it but the Parliament thinking it a seasonable service done to the publick took no notice of it 2 He rendred into English from the Original The height of Eloquence written by Dionis Longinus Lond. 1652. oct Dedicated to Balstrade Whitlock one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 3 He wrote A Letter from a Gent. in the Country concerning c. an 1653. just after the Long Parliament was dissolv'd tending to settle the humours of the people in that great emergency 4 Answer to the grand politick Informer Printed 1653. fol. which Politick Informer being a virulent Pamphlet writen upon the Assembly of Barbone's Parliament and therefore censured and suppressed it was thought expedient that Hall should answer it and he was well rewarded for it from the Exchequer He put out Lusus Serius in 1654. written in Lat. by Mich. Majerus Half of which almost was done in one afternoon over a glass of Wine in a Tavern 6 He made a translation of Hicrocles upon the golden verses of Pythagoras teaching a vertuous and worthy life Published after his death by his friend John Davies of Kidwelly Lond. 1657. oct with other things as Poems Translations Treatises which were never published At length being overtaken with a disease which he could not thoroughly shake off he left London in Jul. 1655. and retiring to Durham died there on the first of Aug. 1656. having not fully arrived to the 29th year of his age and was buried there near to the grave of his Father who died about an year before just after his Sons arrival there To conclude had not his debauches and intemperance diverted him from the more serious studies he had make an extraordinary person for no man had ever done so great things at his age So was the opinion of the great Philosopher of Malmsbury Besides this John Hall of Durham were others of both his names and writers as Joh. Hall of Richmond author Of Government and Obedience in four books Lond. 1654. fol. and of other things and another John Hall author of The true Cavalier examined by his principles and found not guilty either of Schism or Sedition Lond. 1656. besides other matters A third also who was Bach. of Div. now or lately living was author of Jacobs Ladder or the ãâã souls ascension to heaven in Prayers c. WILLIAM HINDE was born at ãâã in Westmorland became a poor serving Child of ãâã in Mich. Term 1586. aged 17. afterwards ãâ¦ã M of A. and perpetual Fellow of the said house wherein having been alwaies a close and severe ãâã the ãâ¦ã and beloved by the famous Jo. Rainolds a Commoner of the said Coll. during his time Whose doctrine making impressions on the Juniors there our author Hinde became an admirer of him At length being full ripe for a removal he left the Society about 1603. being then much in esteem among them for his excellent Theological Disputations and Preachments and became Minister of Gods word at Bunbury in Cheshire where he was much noted among the puritanical party for his piety and so much followed by them for his frequent preaching that he was esteemed the Ring-leader of the Nonconformists in that County during the time that Dr. Tho. Morton sate Bishop of Chester with whom our author had several contests about Conformity He hath written The office and use of the Moral Law of God in the days of the Gospel justified and explained at large by Scriptures Fathers and other Orthodox Divines c. Lond. 1623. qu. Path to Piety a Catechism A faithful remonstrance or the holy life and happy death of John Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford in the County of Chester Esq exhibiting variety of many memorable and exemplary passages of his life and at his death c. Lond. 1641. oct Published by Sam. Hinde a Minister Son of William the author The said John Bruen who was a noted Calvinist and
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 beââââ him other things fit to be printed as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man HENRY YELVERTON Son âf Sir Christop ãâã of Eston-Manâuit in Northamptonshire one of the Justices of the Kings ãâã and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at ãâã in Norfolk was born on S. Peters day in 1566. educated for a time ãâã the Oxonians and afterwards among the Students ãâã ãâã Inn near London where after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrâster he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religiâus Gentleman and a person well read in the Municipal ãâã In 1613. he was made Solicitor ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã the endeavours of Carr Earl of ãâã March 1616. he was constituted Attorney ãâã 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 ãâã and ãâã 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
the performance of which service he took for his Text these words of the Apostle Let every Soul c. Rom. 13. 1. In canvassing whereof he fell upon the point of the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical which he handled as the most rev Arch. Spotswood who was present at the Sermon hath informed us of him both soundly and learnedly to the satisfaction of all the hearers only it grieved the Scotch Ministers to hear the Pope and Presbytery so often equalled in their opposition to Soveraign Princes c. As for the Presidentship of S. Johns coll our author Buckridge keeping but a little more than five years became B. of Rochester to which he was consecrated 9. June 1611. Afterwards by the endeavours of his sometimes Pupil Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells he was nominated B. of Ely upon the death of Dr. Nich. Felton who died 1626. the Temporalities of which See were restored to him 18. Jul. 1628. A person he was of great gravity and learning and one that knew as well as any other person of his time how to employ the two-edged Sword of the holy Scripture of which he made good proof in the times succeeding brandishing it on the one side against the Papists and on the other against the Puritans and Non-conformists In reference to the first 't is said of him in general by a certain author that he endeavoured most industriously both by preaching and writing to defend and propagate the true Religion here by Law established which appears plainly by his learned laborious piece entituled De potestate Papae in rebus temporalibus sive in regibus deponendis usurpata adversus Robertum Cardinalem Bellarminum Lib. 2. In quibus respondetur authoribus Scripturis rationibus exemplis contra Gul. Barclaium allatis Lond. 1614. in a larg qu. In which book he hath so shaken the Papal Monarchy and its superiority over Kings and Princes that none of the learned men of that party did ever undertake a reply unto it Johannem itaque Roffensem habemus saith my before mentioned author quem Johanni Roffensi opponamus Fishero Buckridgium cujus argumentis siquid ego video ne a mille quidem Fisheris unquam respondebitur With like success but less pains unto himself he managed the controversie concerning kneeling at the Lords Supper against those of the Puritan Party the piety and antiquity of which religious posture in that holy action he asserted with such holy reasons and such clear authorities in A Sermon preached at Whitehall 22. Mar. 1617. touching prostration and kneeling in the Worship of God on Psal. 95. 6. Lond. 1618. qu. and in A discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion printed with the Sermon that he came off without the least opposition of that party also Besides which he hath published Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 23. Sept. 1606. on Rom. 13. 5. London 1616. qu. Another on Heb. 4. 7. printed 1618. qu. A third which is a Funeral Serm. on Heb. 13. 6. was printed 1626. qu. and a fourth on the same chap. vers 16. was published at the end of B. Andrew's Sermons in fol. Lond. 1661. The day and place when and where this most worthy and learned Bishop died I know not only that he was buried in the parish Church of Bromley in Kent the manner of which belongs to the See of Rochester on the last day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt. Carle whom I shall mention elsewhere and in Ely Dr. Francis White the Kings Almoner JOHN HOSKYNS Junior was born at Mounton in the parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1601. took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated 1613. in which year he left the coll being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Rob. Bennet B. of Hereford as he was afterwards to K. James Prebendary of Hereford and Parson of Ledbury in his native Country He was an able Civilian but better Theologist and much followed for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching He hath published Eight Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxon. Pauls Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1615. qu. The first is on Luke 12. 41. The second on Isa 28. 1. The 3. and 4th on Matth. 11. 19. c. He hath also extant a Sermon upon the parable of the King that taketh an account of his Servants on Matth. 18. 23. Lond. 1609. oct A short Catechisme upon the Lords Prayer the ten Commandements and the Creed very profitable for Children and others Lond. 1678. 9. oct published by Charles Townsend M. of A. He ended and finished his course at Ledbury before mentioned 8. August in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the parish Church there Soon after was an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of eight verses the two first of which are these Sub Pedibus Doctor jacet hic in Legibus Hoskyns Esse pios docuit quodque docebat erat The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 145. 6. DANIEL PRICE elder brother to Sampson Price before mentioned was born in the antient Borough of Shrewsbury and there educated in Grammar learning In 1594. and in the sixteenth year of his age he became a Commoner of S. Maries hall in Midsomer Term but before he took a degree in Arts he was transplanted to Exeter coll where by the benefit of a diligent Tutour he became in short time a smart disputant After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he had holy Orders confer'd upon him and was a frequent and remarkable preacher especially against the Papists About that time he was constituted one of Prince Henries Chaplains in Ordinary whereupon taking the degrees in Divinity he was made Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. as afterwards to K. Ch. 1. Dean and Canon residentiary of Hereford Rector of Worthyn near Caus Castle in Shropshire and of Lanteglos in Cornwall Justice of the Peace also for the Counties of Shrewsbury Hereford Montgomery and Cornwall He hath written and published The defence of truth against a book called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras 1609. by Humph. Leech Oxon. 1610. qu. He hath also published at least Fifteen Sermons Among which are these 1 Praelium praemium The Christians war and reward on Rev. 2. 26. Oxon. 1608. qu. 2 Recusants Conversation on Esay 2. 3. Ibid. 1608. qu. 3 The Merchant on Matth. 13. 45. 46. Lond. 1608. qu. 4 Spiritual Odours to the Memory of Pr. Henry in four of the last Sermons preached in S. James after his Highness death the last being the Sermon before the body the day before the burial The first is intit Meditations of Consolation on our Lamentations on Psal. 90. 15. The second which hath the same title is on 2 Sam. 12. 23. The third which is intit Sorrow for
maxims of the Laws of England Lond. 1641. qu. Afterwards printed in oct and tw Perfect conveyancer or several select and choice Precedents Lond. 1655. qu. 2d edit collected partly by Will. Noy and partly by Sir Rob. Hendon Knight sometimes one of the Barons of the Exchequer Rob. Mason sometimes Recorder of London and Henry Fleetweod formerly Reader of Greys Inn. Reports and cases in the time of Qu. Elizabeth K. James and King Charles 1. containing the most excellent exceptions for all manner of Declarations Pleadings and Demurs exactly examined and laid down London 1656. fol. The compleat Lawyer or a Treatise concerning Tenures and Estates in Lands of inheritance for life and other hereditaments and chattels real and personal c. Lond. 1661. and 74. in oct with his picture before it Arguments of Law and Speeches He also left behind him several choice collections that he had made from the Records in the Tower of London reduced into two large paper books of his own hand-writing One contained collections concerning the Kings maintaining his Naval power according to the practice of his Ancestors and the other about the privileges and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical Courts Dr. Tho. James of Oxon. when he compiled his Mannduction or Introduction unto Divinity printed 1625. he afterwards acknowledged himself beholding to the Extracts out of the Tower fairly and largly transcribed as he saith by the said Mr. Noy a great Antiquary of Law Which extracts I presume are the same with those before mention'd At length his body being much out of Order by continual toyling and drudging he retired to Tunbridge-wells to gain health in the month of July but the waters effecting nothing he died there on Saturday the 9. of Aug. following in sixteen hundred thirty and four year 1634 whereupon his body being conveyed to New Brentford in Middlesex was privately buried on the Munday following under the communion table of the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a stone soon after laid with a brass plate fastned thereunto and an inscription thereon but soon after defaced The next day after his departure the news of it came to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury then at Croydon who thereupon made this observation of him in his Diary I have lost a dear friend of him and the Church the greatest she had of his condition since she needed any such His body being opened after his decease his heart was found shrivel'd like a leather penny Purse nor were his Lungs right which caused several conjectures by the Puritans But that which was most observable after his death was his Will dated 3 June 1634. at which all the world wondred because the maker thereof was accounted a great Clerk in the Law for therein after he had bequeathed to his Son Hamphrey an hundred marks per an to be paid out of his tenements in the hundred of Pydar in Cornwall he concludes reliqua omnia c. and the rest of all my Lands Goods c. I leave to my Son Edward Noy whom I make my Executor to be consumed and scattered about nec de so mellus speravi c. But Edward lived not long to enjoy the estate for within two years after he was slain in a Duel in France by one Captain Byron who escaped scot-free and had his pardon as Will. Prynn an inveterate enemy to Will. Noy his Father reports As his Majesty was somewhat troubled at his loss and the Clergy more so the generality of the Commons rejoyced The Vintners drank carouses in hopes to dress meat again and fell Tobaco Beer c. which by a fullen capricio Noy restrained them from The Players also for whom he had done no kindness did the next Term after his decease make him the subject of a merry Comedy stiled A projector lately dead c. He had his humours as well as other men but certainly he was a solid rational man and tho no great Orator yet he was a profound Lawyer and none more better vers'd in Records than he In his place of Attorney General succeeded Sir Joh. Banks and the next year Sir Rob. Heath being removed from the Ch. Justiceship of the Kings Bench for bribery Sir John Finch came into play whereupon these verses were made Noyes Flood is gone The Banks appear Heath is shorn down And Finch sings there THOMAS HICKS or Hyckes Son of Francis Hicks mention'd under the year 1630 was born at Shipson in the parish of Tredington in Worcestershire became a Student in Balliol coll in Mich-Term an 1616. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and at length by the favour of Doctor Duppa Dean of Christs Church became one of the Chaplains or Petticanons of that House about 1628. He hath written The life of Lucian gathered out of his own writings Oxon. 1634. qu. Which life is set before his Fathers translation of certain dialogues of that author Notes and illustrations upon each dialogue and book of Lucian c. Besides his great skill in the Greek rongue he was esteemed among the Academians a good Poet and an excellent Limner And without doubt had not death cut him off in the prime of his years on the sixteenth day of December in sixteen hundred thirty and four he might have benefited the Commonwealth of learning with other matters He died in Christ Church and was buried in the Cathedral there which is all I yet know of him only that Dr. J. F. the publisher of Hist Antiq. Oxon. committed a grand mistake of him in that book lib. 2. p. 283. b. Another of both his names was author of A dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker c. To which a continuation was added by the same author in 1673. in oct ARTHUR PITS or Pitsius as he writes himself a younger Son of Arthur Pits Bach. of Law sometimes Fellow of All 's coll afterwards Registrary of the Diocess and Achdeaconry of Oxford and Impropriator of Eifley near to and in the County of Oxon. was born at Eifley educated for a time either in All 's or Brasnose coll or in both successively having been a Chorister of the first as it it seems but before he took a degree he left the University Country and Relations went to Doway spent some time in the English coll there return'd into his Country was taken and imprison'd but at length being released and ship'd with other Priests and Jesuits at Tower-Wharf at the Queens charge in Febr. 1584. was set on shoar in Normandy Whereupon retiring to Doway passed a course in Divinity became Doctor of that faculty and at length was made Chancellour to the Cardinal of Loraine being then a person much in esteem for his great knowledge in the supream faculty He hath written In quatuor Jesu Christi Evangelia Acta Apostolorum commentarius Duac 1636. in a thick quarto Which being all that he hath written as I suppose was published after his death by
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
Canon of Windsore in 1479. and about that time Rector of Sutton Courtney near Abendon in Berkshire In 1489. he was made Prebendary of Bolun in the Cath. Church of York on the death of Dr. Tho. Chaundler and in the same year in Nov. he was made Preb. of Beamister secunda in the Cath. Church of Sarum upon the promotion of Rich. Hyll to the See of London being then also dignified in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter On the 6. of Nov. 1496. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichf and Coventry and on the 28. of the same month had the temporalities of that See restored to him The author of the Comment of the English Bishops tells that he was translated from that See to Exeter 1501 tho elsewhere I find that the translation was made on the last day saving one of June 1502. and that the temporalities thereof were not given to him till 26. Sept. 19. Hen. 7. Dom. 1503. He surrendred up his last breath in the house belonging to the Bishops of Exeter within the parish of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr year 1503 near to London 15. March in fifteen hundred and three and was buried on the sourth side of the high altar in the Church of St. Clement before mention'd This Joh. Arundell did upon the desire of the chief members of this University promise to them 20l. towards the finishing of S. Maries Church but he dying before 't was given they recovered that sum of his Executors I find another John Arundell of Exeter coll who was one of the Proctors of the University 1426. afterwards Doctor of Physick Physitian to K. Hen. 6. and Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter I take him to be the same John Arundell M. D. who was collated to the Archdeaconây of Richmond in the latter end of Octob. 1457. in the place of Laur. Bothe promoted to the See of Durham and had for his successor in that Dignity John Bothe collated to it in May 1459 and afterwards became Bishop of Exeter JOHN MORGAN alias Yong a Weââ man and Doctor of the Laws of Oxon. was installed Dean âââsore in the place of Will. Benley an 1484. 2. ãâ¦ã and being elected Bish of S. Davids on the death of ãâ¦ã sometimes B. thereof an Oxford Scholar and a âenefactor to the building of S. Maries Church had restitution made to him of temporalitie belonging to that See 23. Nov. 12. Hen. 7. Dâm 1496. He gave way to fate in the latter end of Apr. or beginning of May in fifteen hundred and four whereupon his body was buried between the pillars on the sourth side of the body of the Cath. Church of S. David By his Will which I have seen dated 25. Apr. 15â4 and proved the 15. of May following it appears that his desire was to have a Chappel made over his grave in the best manner that might be according to the disposition of his Executors but whether ever performed I know not THOMAS PYGOT a Denbighshire man born as it seems was consecrated Bishop of Bangor in the year of our Lord 1500 year 1504 and paying his last debt to nature on the fifteenth day of Aug. in fifteen hundred and four was as I suppose buried in his own Church This Tho. Pygot I take to be the same who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University in order to to the taking of the degree of Bachelaur of the Civil Law an 1458. One of both his names was confirmed Abbat of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at York on the death of Thom. Stayngreve 24. May 1398. and died in 1405. but what relation the former had to this I cannot tell WILLIAM BARONS Doctor as it seems of the Law Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and afterwards Master of the Rolls in the room of Dr. Will. Warham 1502 and one of the Kings Council was upon the translation of the said Dr. Warham to Canterbury elected to the See of London which being consented to by the King the temporalities thereof were restored to him 13. Nov. 20. Hen. 7. Dom. 1504. He died in Oct. or Nov. in fifteen hundred and five and was buried in his own Church of S. Paul He had studied the Laws in Oxon. and had presided the Chair but in what hall or School it doth not appear In his Bishoprick succeeded Richard Fitz James as I shall hereafter tell you WILLIAM SEVER or Siveyer was born at Shinkley in the County Pal. of Durham educated in this University but whether in Merton coll I am as yet uncertain However as to that which the author of the Commentary of the English Bishops saith that he was Warden of Merton coll and Provost of that of Eaton near Windsore is false for 't was not William but Henry Sever who lived before this mans time that enjoyed those places After Will. Sever had left Oxon wherein I presume he had studied either in Glouc. or Durham college nurseries for those of the Order of St. Benedict he himself being a Benedictine he retired to his Monastery of S. Mary at York succeeded Thom. Bothe in the Abbatship of that place and in 1495. being elected B. of Carlile on the death of Rich. Bell who had been formerly Prior of Durham had the temporalities thereof delivered to him on the eleventh of Decemb. the same year and liberty then given to him to keep his Abbatship in Commendam In 1502. he being elected to the See of Durham had the temporalities thereof surrendred into his hands by the King on the 15. of Octob. the same year where setting but three years payed his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred and five and was buried in the Cath. Church there In his Abbatship succeeded Rob. Wanhop in Dec. 1502. Sever being then Bish of Durham and in his Chaire at Durham Christop Bainbridge whom I shall hereafter mention The book or Hist of the Ch. of Durham calls this Bish Will. Sinewes or Senwse and Leland Senose which book tells us that he was translated from Carlile to Durham by vertue of a Bull sent from the Pope and so by the Breve of K. Hen. 7. dat 15. Oct. in the 18. year of his raign he was consecrated Bishop of Durham 1502. and stood three years c. so that according to time this Sinews must be the same with Sever. THOMAS CLERKE and English man became Archdeacon of the Isle of Man after he had left the University and and at length by provision from the Pope became Bishop of Killala in Ireland 1498. which office he keeping till fifteen hundred and five then resigned it I take this Thomas Clerke to be the same with Thomas written and stiled Thomas Aladensis Episcopus that is Tho. Bish of Killala who by that name and title was admitted Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Joh. Fynne 12. Janu. 1505. and dying
after his death in the collegiat Church he built an house to be employed for a School joyning to the coll there on the West part Of this School he appointed a Master and an Usher who were to teach Children Grammar after the use manner and form of the School at Banbury in Oxfordshire where Tho. Stanbridge taught the Grammar composed by John Stanbridge He appointed the President of C. C. coll in Oxon for the time being to elect a Schoolmaster and an Usher the former to have 10l and the other 5 l. per an The Master was to teach freely without reward or taking of Cock-pennies Victor-pennies Potation-pennies c. Whether this School did go to ruine in the time of K. Ed. 6. or was like to be dissolved I know not Sure I am that Hugh Bexwyck clerk and Joan Bexwyck widdow setled the said School 10 Elizab. THOMAS HALSAY or Halsey an English man was conversant with the Muses in this Universitie for a time but in what house or hostle for Civilians or Canonists I cannot yet tell Afterwards travelling beyond the Seas where I presume he had the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him he was made Penitentiarie of the English Nation in the Church of S. Peter in Rome and the Popes Prothonotarie of Ireland At length by the endeavours of Christop Bainbridge Archb. of York and Cardinal he was by the provision of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop of Laighlin in Ireland about the year 1513 but never lived as it seems to visit his See or abide there In 1515 and 16. he was present at the council of Lateran while in the mean time his Vicar general Charles Cavenagh managed his diocess After his return into England in order to go into Ireland year 1519 he died in Westminster about fifteen hundred and nineteen whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy hospital in the Strand Near his tomb-stone on the left side was Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld in Scotland buried an 1522. having been suddenly deprived of his life by the Pest In the same year 1519 died also Joh. Imurily Bishop of Ross in Ireland sometimes a Cistercian monk of Maur in the county of Cork but whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot tell Sure I am that several of the sirname of Immerley studied there in the time or age wherein Jo. Imurily lived JOHN PENNY whose native place is as yet to me unknown was educated in Lincoln coll but whether in the condition of a Fellow I cannot tell Afterwards he being Doctor of the Laws and noted for an eminent Canonist was made Bishop of Bangor in 1504 having before been Abbat of Leycester as John Lâland saith where sitting till 1508. was by the Popes Bull dated at Rome 10. cal Oct. in the same year translated to Carlile and on the 23 of January following paid his obedience to the Archb. of York year 1520 He gave way to fate about fifteen hundred and twenty but where buried unless in his church of Carlile I know His predecessor in that See was Dr. Rog. Laybourne of Cambridge who by his will dated 17. Jul. 1507. desired to be buried in the parish church of S. James near to Charing Cross by London but whether he died in that or in the year following I cannot tell because there was no probat made of his Will Walter Redman D. D. and Master of the coll at Greystock in Cumberland was one of his Executors WILLIAM ATWATER a Somersetshire man born as it seems was first Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magd. coll where while he continued in the state of Bachelaur he was esteemed a good Disputant in Philosophy as afterwards when Master in Divinity In 1489. Dec. 19. he was collated to the Church of Hawbridge in the Dioc. of Wells and in 1492. in Feb. as it seems he proceeded D. of D. In 1497. and several years after he did undergo the office of Commissary of the University being then Rector of Pedylhynton in the Diâc of Sarum and Vicar of Comnore near Abendon in Berks and in Jul. 1498. he was made Rector of Dychcat commonly called Dichet in Somersetshire by the death of John Gunthorp Which Rectory he holding till Oct. 1513. was in the next month succeeded therein by Andr. Ammonius an Italian then Preb. of Compton-Dunden in the Church of Wells In 1499. the said Doctor Atwater became Canon of Windsore and about the same time Fellow of Eaton coll and Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 1502. I find him to be Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the 5. of July 1506. I find him installed Chanc. of the Church of Lincoln Which dignity he holding six years Nich. Bradbridge was installed therein 16. Nov. 1512. In the beginning of Sept. 1509. he was made Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Thom. Ruthall or Rowthall to the See of Durham in which year Thom. Writhiously Garter K. of Arms granted to him the said Atwater a Coat of Arms by the name of Will. Atwater Professor of Divinity of Davington in Somersetshire and Dean of the Kings Chappel c. by which it may appear that he was originally of Davington if such a Town or Village or Hamlet be in that County On the â June 1514. he was installed by proxy Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Joh. Constable Doctor of Decrees and being made Bishop the same year Rich. Rawlyns D. D. was installed in that Dignity on the 18. of Novemb. He was a person much esteemed and valued by Cardinal Wolsey who finding him a man of parts did use his advice and council in all or most of his publick concerns At length by his endeavours he was made his Successor in the Episcopal See of Lincoln to which being consecrated on the twelfth day of Nov. 1514. fate there to the time of his death year 1520 which hapned in fifteen hundred and twenty He was buried in the great middle Isle of the Cath. Chat Lincoln at the foot of the Tomb of Bishop Alnwyke and had soon after a large tomb-stone laid over his grave with the portraiture of a Bishop engraven on a large brass plate fastned thereunto with this inscription following engraven also on plates of brass Hic requiescit reverendus in Christo Pater Willielmus Atwater sacre Theologie professor regum Henrici septimi octavi sacelle prius Decanus mox eorundem a consiliis postea hujus percelebris Ecclesie Episcopus Presedit annos sex menses tres Obiit anno etatis sue octogesimo primo consecrationis septimo à Christo nato millesimo quingentessimo vicessimo die mensis Februarii quarto WILLIAM ROKEBY Brother to Sir Rich. Rokeby Treasurer of Ireland was born in Yorkshire educated partly in an ancient hostle for the reception of Canonists in S. Aldates Parish he himself being afterwards Doctor of the Can. Law and about the same time Rector of Sandall near Doncaster and Vicar of
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
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. Baââ 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 Roâls 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
Warham Archb. of Canterbury and a Dignitary Nov. 29. John Sixtinus LL. D. of the Univ. of Senes in Tuscany was then incorporated having been more than an year in this University He was afterwards dignified in the Church of England and was reckoned one of the Foreigners who were excused from paying a subsidie to the King an 1513. Petr. Carmelian Polyd. Virgil Erasm Roterodamus Andr. Ammonius c. who were beneficed and dignified in the Church were excused also Jan. ⦠Rich. Talot or Tollet Bach. of the Civil Law of this Univ. and Doct. of the same fac at Cambridge Feb. 3. Brian Roos Doctor of Decrees of the Univ. of Valence He died 1529 and was buried in the Church of Chelray in⦠One Will. Petoe M. A. of Cambridge was also incorp on the 14. June One Peter whom some call William Petoe was a Cardinal See among the Bishops under the year 1558. An. Dom. 1511. An. 3. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Will. Fauntleroy again Tho. Drax D. D. of Lync Coll. John Roper Princ. of George hall John Cockys LL. D. Edm. Wylsford D. D. Provost of Oriâl Coll. Proct. Will. Brooke of Oriel Coll. Austr elected on the last day of Apr. Tho. Southerne Bor. elected 2. May. Grammarians Dec. 11. Maurice Byrchensaw a Scholar of the fac of Rhetorick was then admitted to inform in Grammar He taught in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. great gate and was afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law Mar. 18. Edw. Watson a Scholar of the fac of Gram. This Person had afterwards his grace granted to him for the Degree of Bacâ of Grammar conditionally that he compose an hundred verses in praise of the University and also make a Comedy within one year after he had taken that Degree but whether he was admitted or did take it it appears not Bachel of Grammar Apr. 8. John Burgeys a secular Chaplain was admitted to the reading of any book of the fac of Grammar Bach. of Rhetorick Jun. 3. John Bulman a Scholar of the Art of Rhetorick was admitted to the reading of any book of the said faculty viz. the first book of Tullies Offices and the first book of his Epistles Bach. of Arts. Nov. 10. John Constable a famous Latin Poet of his time Feb. 3. John Dovell In one of his supplicates for that Degree he is written Will. Devell yet I cannot take him to be the same with Will. Dovell a Bernardine or white Monk who studied sometimes in St. Bernards Coll. and who succeeded one Rich. Paynter of that Order in the Abbatship of Clyve in Somersetshire Besides these two were 38. or more admitted Bach. of Arts and 8. at least that supplicated who were not adm this year Bach. of Civ Law Jul. ⦠George Grey Son of the Marquess of Dorset Feb. 9. Thom. Colfox of All 's Coll. In the Catalogue of Fellows of that House he is stiled Decanus Salopiae Besides these were adm 4 more and 9 there were that supplicated for that Degree who were not adm this year I find also 5. who were adm Bach. of the Can. Law and six who supplicated most of whom were secular Chaplains Mast of Arts. Jun. 5. James Fitzjames of St. Albans hall lately of Mert. Coll. See more in the year 1516. June 21. John Quarre of Merton Coll. He is the same John Quarre as I suppose who occurs Archdeacon of Landaff 1541. Feb. 6. Rog. Edgworth of Oriel Coll. Feb. 12. John Blyss mention'd under the year 1507. Besides these were about 33 admitted and eleven or thereabouts that supplicated that were not adm this year Opponents in Div. May 31. John Bosforus a Cistercian Monk of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and Abbat of Tiltey in Essex About the same time he supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Div. which I presume was granted tho not set down in the register He is sometimes written Joh. Browne alias Brome Nov. 19. Frat. Rob. Low or Law a Carme Whether he was adm Bach. of Div. according to the custom of those that oppose in that fac it doth not appear in the publick register See more of him among the Doct. of Div. in 1520. Besides these were eleven more that opposed most of whom were afterwards adm Bac. of Div. Bach. of Div. Jul. 1. William Malverne alias Parker a Benedictine Monk On the 4. of May 1514 he was elected Abbat of St. Peters Church in Glocester on the death of one John Newton D. D. and continued Abbat till the dissolution of his Church See more among the Doctors of Div. 1515. Dec. 12. Joh. de Coloribus a Dominican Mar. 14. Hugh Whitehead of Durham now Trinity Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. under the year 1513. Mar. 22. Fr. Rich. Mallet a Fryer of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit who had studied 12. years here and at Cambridge ⦠Rob. Schouldham a Benedictine Monk He was now or soon after an Abbat See in the year 1515. Six more were admitted and 7 supplicated that were not adm this year of whom Rog. Necham a Benedictine was one Doct. of Civ Law Not one admitted only John Jane LL. Bac. of New Coll. supplicated for the said Degree March 25. Doct. of Can. Law Not one admitted only Thom. Byrd supplicated for that Degree Whether he be the same Tho. Byrd who from being a Canon of the Order of St. Austin in the Priory of Taunton was elected Prior of Barlich of the same Order in Somersetsh 3. Sept. 1492 upon the deprivation of Rob. Wynde I know not He resign'd his Priorship on the first of Decemb. 1524 and the very next day one John Norman was elected into that place Doct. of Div. Dec. 15. John Longland of Magd. Coll. Afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Those that supplicated for the Degree of D. of D. this year were 1 Laur Stubbes afterwards President of Magd. Coll. 2 Tho. Castell a Benedictine Monk and Warden or Gardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon. I find one Tho. Castell a Doctor of Oxon to have succeeded in the Priorship of Durham John Aukland D. D. an 1494 but what relation there was between them unless this last was Uncle to the former I know not See more in the year 1513. 3 Will. Porter Bach. of Div. Warden of New Coll. and Chaunter of Hereford 4 John Esterfeild c. Incorporations Apr. 3. Hugh Inge or Yuge sometimes of New Coll. Master of Arts of this Univ. and D. of D. beyond the Seas was incorp D. of D. He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin Rob. Spence LL. D. beyond the Seas was incorporated the same day May ⦠Rich. Smyth M. A. of this Univ. and Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas June 26. Rob. Fairfax Doctor of Musick of Cambridge This Person did afterwards live in Hertfordshire and was buried in the Church at St. Albans near or under the seat where the Mayor of that place usually sits I have seen some of his Musical compositions of three or more parts which
Grammarian He was afterwards Prebendary of Wells Jan. 28. Thomas Nightinghall Vir lepidus poeta as Baleus saith See among the Writers under the year 1524. Besides these two five were admitted and about 16 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Bach. of Can. Law Thirteen were admitted and eleven there were that supplicated who were not admitted this year Many of which were without doubt afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Mast of Arts. Juneâ¦John Constable of Byham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. See among the Writers an 1520. March 5. John Clark of Magd. Coll. Quaere Besides these two were about 25 admitted and eleven or more that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. April 29. Thomas Knolles of Magd. Coll. In the year 1507 he became Subdean of York upon the promotion of Dr. James Harrington to the Deanery of that Church and resigning in 1529 being then Prebendary of Aplethorpe in the said Church Will. Clifton LL. D. succeeded See more among the D. of D. an 1518. May 9. John Essex a Benedictin He was afterwards Lord Abbat of S. Austins at Canterbury Nine besides were admitted among whom was Roger Stanford a Benedictin Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there and about eighteen that supplicated Doct. of Law Not one admitted either in the Canon or Civil Law and but three that supplicated viz. William Barow John Blount and William Middleton Doct. of Physick Not one admitted only Malachias Arthur sometimes a Graduat of Oxon. and afterwards Doctor of Physick of Bononia supplicated to be admitted to practise in the said Faculty Oct. 23. which was accordingly granted Doct. of Div. June 10. Nich. Myles or Mylys of Queens Coll. He was a Benefactor to Learning See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 115. b. Dec. 13. Fr. Will. Wetherall Prior of the College of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit in Oxon. In the year 1531 I find that he was Provincial of the Austin Fryers of England and whether he was the last that bore that Office I know not He is sometimes written but falsely Wodiall See among the Incorporations this year Jan⦠Edmund Smythesby a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin In another place in the Register he is said among the Bach. of Div. to be a Fryer of the Order of S. Austin Besides these who were admitted Doctors of Divinity supplicated for the said dagree about 20 among whom were 1 Will. Malvern Lord Abbat of S. Peters in Glocester as the publick Register stiles him whom I take to be the same that Jo. Leland calls Malvern alias Parker late Abbat of Glocester who made a Chappel joyning to the Church of Glocester to be buried in 2 Rob. Showldham or Shuldeâm mentioned under the year 1511. He was a Benedictin or Black Monk and now or soon after Lord Abbat of S. Saviour or S. Mary Overie in Southwark Also Tho. Marshall a Benedictin Will. Hoddeson a Dominican John a Pantry Bac. Div. and Provost of Queens Coll. John Holder and John Hoper Masters of Arts of Mert. Coll. Tho. Barton and Tho. Sellyng Bachelaurs of Div. and Benedictines c. did supplicate Incorporations Apr⦠Tho. Martyr M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge Oct. 26. Fr. Will. Wetheral Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He soon after was admitted Doctor of that Faculty in this University as 't is before told you Mar⦠Will. Clerke M. A. of Cambridge c. An. Dom. 1516. An. 8 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Laurence Stubbes D. D. and others Proct. Richard Walker of Merton Coll. Edmund Grey of New Coll. April 2. Bach. of Musick Not one appears admitted by the negligence of the Scribe On the 13 of Apr. Hen. Peter or Petre a secular Chaplain who had spent 30 years in Practical and Theoretical Musick supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Musick which being granted he was without doubt admitted One John Draper also a Student in the said Faculty supplicated also which was granted with one or more conditions Bach. of Arts. June 17. James Timbervyle of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter December 16. Thomas Wylson See in 1546 and 53. Besides these were about 38 admitted and about 21 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Law Six in the Canon and nine in the Civil Law were admitted Thirteen in the Canon Law supplicated who were mostly secular Chaplains among whom was Richard Newman a Canon regular of the Order of Premonstratenses as the public Regist saith and about twelve in the Civil Mast of Arts. June 27. Thomas Abell or Able See among the Writers an 1540. John Clerk of Magd. Coll. Besides these were about 34 admitted and about 9 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. May 5. James Fitzjames of S. Albans Hall This person who was Son of John Fitzjames Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England was now Chancellor of the Church of Wells and had several Benefices in that Diocess whereof the Rectorship of the Collegiate Church of North-Cadbury was one In 1534 he was made Prebendary of Warmystre in the Church of Wells and in the same year by the death of Thomas Lovell Decr. Dr. he was made Subdean of Wells and Vicar General to the Bishop thereof He had other Preferments in the Cath. Church of S. Paul in London given to him by his Uncle Dr. Richard Fitzjames Bishop thereof was soon after a Doct. of Div. but whether of this University it appears not and died in the beginning of the year 1541. Besides him were about four admitted and about fifteen that supplicated who were not admitted among whom William York a Canon and Bac. of Arts was one Doct. of Can. Law June 21. William Burghyll a secular Chaplain John Morrice or Morres Peter Lygham or Lyngham February 7. William Clyfton In 1522 he became Succentor of the Church of York on the death of William Cooke and in May 1529 he was made Subdean of the said Church on the Resignation of Dr. Thomas Knolles In the former Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Nooke 1529 in which year Clyfton resigned and in the other by Rob. Babthorp D. D. in September 1548 in which year Clifton died Bapthorp dying in 1570 Edmund Buney succeeded him whom I have elsewhere mention'd Doct. of Div. Not one admitted only three or more supplicated viz. William Wall and William Germyn Minorites and Richard Doke all Bach. of Divinity whom I shall anon mention An. Dom. 1517. An. 9 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Mr. Rich. Doke or Duck of Exeter College now Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey Proct. Thomas Irish of Exon Thomas Musgrave of Mert. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Thomas Garret was this year admitted but the Month or Day when appears not because the Register is imperfect however in the year following he occurs by the Title of Bach. of Arts. He
was afterwards Curate of Honey-lane in London and being much addicted to the Opinions of Martin Luther went to Oxon in 1526 and dispersed divers prohibited Books among his Acquaintance and Contemporaries as Anth. Delaber of S. Albans Hall afterwards a Civilian of Gloc. College Nich. Vdall and John Diot both of C C C. John Clerke Hen. Summer Will. Betts John Taverner a Musitian of Card. Coll. c. All which being Lutherans or Hereticks as they were then called suffer'd much At length Thomas Garret after several Flights from place to place Sculkings and Imprisonments was burnt in Smithfield near London with Dr. Robert Barnes and William Hierome an 1541 as John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church will at large tell you Between the ending of one Register and the beginning of another are the Acts of the Congregation of this year wanting many of which were torn out from the former Mast of Arts. Their Admissions being all wanting in the public Register I therefore recurred to my MS. Book of Inceptions and there found that 30 Masters stood in the public Act or Comitia but none can I yet find who were afterwards Bishops Writers or Men of note Doct. of Civ Law ⦠Will. Pigman was then admitted Doctor of the Civil and Canon Law Who were Candidates for either the Register which is imperfect this year as I have before told you shews not Doct. of Div. Apr⦠Richard Doke or Duck of Exeter Coll. He was about this time Canon of Exeter Cathedral and afterwards became Archdeacon of Wilts and of Salisbury in which last Dignity I find him to occurr 1536. After he was admitted Doctor he was made Commissary of the University as I have before told you May⦠Frat. John de Coloribus a Dominican See among the Writers under the year 1525. Feb⦠Ralph Barnack of New Coll. A Supplication was this year made for one Will. Woddysbury a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict but whether for the degree of Bach. or Doct. of Divinity it appears not because the Register of this year as I have told you is imperfect He was elected Lord Prior of Worcester in 1515 in the place of Thom. de Mildenham deceased and dying in 1518 he was succeeded by one William More who resigning upon a foresight of Ruin Hen. Holbeach alias Randes was elected Prior 13 March 1535 and afterwards became the first Dean of Worcester An. Dom. 1518. An. 10 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Rich. Duck D. of D. before mention'd Proct. John Stevyns of Oriel Roger Dyngley of Allsoules Coll. Bach. of Arts. Jul⦠Paul Bush He was afterwards the first B. of Bristol Thomas Elyot of S. Maries Hall Thomas Runcorne See among the M. of A. 1521. John Shene See among the M. of A. 1523. Jan⦠John Hoper or Hooper He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester and Worcester Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. c. Besides these were about 44 admitted and many that supplicated the ven Congregation for Admission Bach. of Can. Law Jul⦠John Gryffyth or Gruffyth He was afterwards Treasurer of Landaff Dean of S. Asaph and a Dignitary in the Church of Salisbury He concluded his last day in 1559. John Stanley was admitted in the same month About which time studied in this University Thomas Stanley who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Besides these were about six admitted and six or more that supplicated Bach. of Can. Law Jul⦠Frat. John Gregory a Brother of the Holy Trinity for or of the Redemption of Captives He was afterwards the last Minister or Perfect of the House or College of the Brethren of the Holy Trinity situated without the East Gate of the City of Oxford on the South side Jul⦠John Skelton See among the Writers under the year 1529. Thomas Parker See in these Fasti 1525. Feb. ult Fath. John Burton Prior of S. Frideswydes Monastery now Christ Church in Oxon. Richard Gwent of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Archdeacon of London and Dean of the Arches See in the year 1524. Besides these were about 16 admitted and 6 or thereabout that supplicated Mast of Art Jul⦠John Holyman of New Coll. In the year 1514 he took the degree of Bach. of the Can. Law and was long after this time made Bishop of Bristol Tho. Stanbridge of Magd. College an eminent Grammarian He was Brother or nearly related to John Stanbridge the most noted Grammarian of his time was Master of a School at Banbury much frequented for his sake and died in 1522. Besides these two were about 30 more admitted and some few that supplicated and about 40 that stood in two Acts celebrated this year Bach. of Div. Not one admitted and but about ten supplicated for that degree among whom were 1 Richard Yaxley a Benedictin Monk 2 Edward More of New Coll. who was admitted the eighth Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester 29 Oct. 1526 and dying 1541 was buried in the Choir of the Chappel there 3 Arnold Guy alias Buckfast a Cistercian Monk of S. Bernards Coll. in Oxon. He was afterwards Provisor or Prefect of that Coll. and an Abbat perhaps of Buckfast in Devonshire as may seem by his Arms or Rebus of his Name now or lately in one of the middle Chamber Windows of S. Bernards now called S. John Bapt. Coll. wherein is a Crosier thrust thro a Bucks face palewaies One William Arnold was the last Abbat of Merevale in Warwickshire of the Cistercian Order but what Relation he had to Arnold Guy I cannot tell Doct. of Civ Law Feb⦠John London of New Coll. He was about this time Canon of York and Lincoln afterwards Warden of New Coll. Canon of Windsore Prebendary of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury Dean of the Cath. Church of Osney near Oxon and of the collegiat Chappel of Walingford in Berks. He died in the Fleet Prison at London having been committed to that place for Perjury an 1543 and was succeeded in his Canonry of Windsore by Fr. Mallet D. D. and the Kings Chaplain afterwards Confessor to Qu. Mary and Dean of Lincoln Of this Dr. London you may read much in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. penned by John Fox who loads his Memory with a great deal of ill Language Doct. of Can. Law Febr⦠Richard Banger or Benger of New Coll. who had been a Candidate for that degree in 1512 was then admitted He was afterwards Commissary of the University Three there were this year that supplicated to be Doctors of the Can. Law viz. 1 Robert Bysse Doct. of the Civ Law mention'd among the Incorporations an 1513. 2 Will. Cleyton Bach. of the Canon and 3 Lendricus Predi Bach. of the Civil Law Doct. of Phys June⦠Edward Fynch Thomas Bentley of New Coll. I have made mention of Edward Fynch different I suppose from this Physitian among the Masters of Arts an 1504. Doct. of Div. Tho. Knolles of Magd. Coll. a
Civilian of New Coll. and afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells Doct. of Can. Law Jan. 28. John Voysey or Veysey For the same degree John Southwode did supplicate but was not admitted this year Doct. of Physick Jul. 7. Will. Freeman He was afterwards Fellow Censor and at length President of the College of Physitians at London Doct. of Div. June 11. Roger Dyngley of All 's Coll. He was Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and had two or more Dignities in the Church Feb. 27. Fr. John Perrot sometimes written Porret a Minorite Gardian or Prior of the Coll. of Minorites or Franciscans commonly called Grey Fryers at Bostom in Lincolnshire I find one John Perrot to have succeeded Martin Collyns in the Chantorship of York in Oct. 1503. a little before which time in Sept. the said Collyns became Treasurer of the Church there on the death of Hugh Trotter D. D. who had been also Provost of the Church at Beverley But the said John Perrot being a sec Priest must not be understood to be the same with him who was a Minorite Feb. 27. Fr. Thom Kyrkham a Minorete Gardian of the Coll. of Minorites at Doncaster in Yorkshire He was afterwards a very zealous man against the Divorce of King Hen. 8. from Q. Catherine Besides these three were but two that supplicated to be D. D. viz. Rob. Carter of Magd. Coll. and John Tychmersh a Cistercian of S. Bernard's Coll. Incorporations Mayâ¦Nic Bradbridge M. of A. of this University and D. of D. beyond the Seas See more among the Doct. of Div. in 1508. Juneâ¦Will Howe Bishop of Orense in Spain D. of D. beyond the Seas and 16 years a Student in this University was then incorp D. of D. Jun. 26. Thom. Forster Bac. of Arts of this University Master of Arts of Cambridge and Bac. of Div. of Lovaine in Brabant was then incorp B. of D. Feb⦠Rich. Warham Doctor of the Civil Law of the University of Orleans in France He is stiled in one of our Registers Archdeacon of Canterbury but he that enjoyed that Dignity now was Will. Warham and therefore there is a mistake in the Christian name An. Dom. 1527. An. 19 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same viz. Dr. Tho. Musgrave but he dying in Exeter Coll. this year about the latter end of Aug. or beginning of Sept. having made several Supplicates in the Congregation of Regents in the beginning of July going before in order to the taking the degree of D. of D. Martin Lyndsey D. D. and Fellow of Linc. Coll. officiated in his turn till the beginning of Mich. term and then he giving up that employment John Cottysford D. D. of Linc. Coll. became Commissary by the designment of the Chancellour and took his Oath 7. Dec. following Proct. Arth. Cole of Magd. Coll. Rich. Lorgan of Oriel Coll. May. 7. Bach. of Gram. March ult John Skerow or Sherow or Skyrou so many ways I find him written was then admitted Bach. of Grammar In 1538. in Oct. I find him by the name and title of John Sherow Bach. of Grammar to be a Candidate for the Degree of Bac. of Arts but whether he was admitted it appears not In Dec. this year John Parr or Party supplicated to be admitted to inform but not granted See in 1528. Bach. of Arts. Ap. 5. Richard Smyth John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. The former was afterwards an eminent writer and other Dean of Lichfield as I shall elsewhere tell you May 21. Rich. Taverner of Cardinal Coll. I have mention'd him among the writers under the year 1575. Rich. Sherrey of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He is also mention'd among the writers an 1550. Jan. 16. Tho. Goldwell He was afterwards B. of St. Asaph In all about 62 who were this year admitted Bach. of Civ Law Feb. 18. Will. Bennet I take this Person to be the same Will. Bennet who became Archdeacon of Dorset upon the consecration of John Stokesley to the See of London 20. Dec. 1530 and the same who about that time was constituted the Kings Orator to go to Rome to expedite the matter of Divorce from his Consort Qu. Catherine I find him there in 1532 as by the dates of his letters sent thence to the English Court appears And in the year following being dead Edward Fox who was afterwards Bishop of Hereford succeeded him in his Archdeaconry 24. Nov. 1533. See another W. Bermet among the Bach. of Arts an 1512. and another among the Doctors of Div. 1535. Feb. 18. John Pope of All 's Coll. In 1554 he became Archdeacon of Bedford upon the promotion of Gilb. Bourne to the See of Bathe and Wells and about that time was made Residentiary of Linc. Cathedral In Sept. 1558 he was put in Warden of All 's Coll. by Cardinal Pole Archb. of Cant. upon the resignation of Seth Holland but never came to the Coll. for admission He died at Lincolne on the eleventh of Nov. following and was buried in the Nave of the Cathedral there In his Wardenship succeeded Dr. John Warner a Physitian in the latter end of Nov. 1558 he having been Warden before but left it in the Reign of Qu. Mary and in his Archdeaconry of Bedford succeeded Mich. Dunnyng LL. D. of Cambridge and Chancellour of the Diocess of Norwych and him who enjoyed it but a little while Rich. Barber LL. B. of Oxon 14 March 1558. Feb. 18. Hugh Coren or Curwyn He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin in Ireland 19. Walter Wryght See more among the Doct. of Law an 1540. Besides these were about 15 that were admitted and 6 that supplicated Bach. of Can. Law Twenty two were admitted this year among whom Reynold Barnysley a Bened. Monk was one Jul. 8. Thaddaeus Raynold a Sec. Chapl. another Feb. 18. who if I mistake not was an Irish Man and several Welsh Men besides Thirteen also at least supplicated for the same Degree who were mostly Secular Chaplains Some of which were afterwards admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 5. John Marlow or Merlow of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Wells and Canon of the Kings Chap. of St. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminister He died in the beginning of Oct. 1543. See among the Bach. of Div. in 1542. Feb. 14. David Tolley of St. Maries hall One and twenty Masters were admitted this year according to the publick register yet 37 stood in several Acts celebrated in the said year Bach. of Physick Jul. 8. Simon Ball M. A. Humph. Blewet M. A. of Mert. Coll. Both these were learned Men and the last a writer as I shall hereafter tell you For the said Degree supplicated John de Lapeys M. A. of an University beyond the Seas and John Mason M. A. of Allsouls Coll. who was afterwards a Knight and a Man of note as I have told you under the year 1521. but whether they were admitted it appears not Bach. of Div. May 29. Frater Anth. Papudo or Papodo a Portugues by
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
reliquaque faciendi quae spectant ad Doctoris statum in illa facultate incorporati c. See more in the year 1532. Feb. 19. Leonard Cox Bach. of Arts of Cambridge Afterwards he supplicated for the degree of Master as 't is before told you Mar. 15. Reb. Aldridge M. of A. and Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated B. of D. See among the Doctors of Div. in the year following An. Dom. 1530. An. 22 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Dr. Cottysford with his Deputy Dr. Lyndsey Proct. John Warner Thomas Duke again May 4. Which Proctors were continued in their places by the command and Letters of the Lord Cardinal directed to the chief Members of the University Gram. May 12. George Corney was admitted to inform c. Hen. Tapper who had partly studied in this and partly in the Univ. of Cambridge supplicated to be admitted but whether he was so it appears not Bach. of Arts. Mar. 30. Will. Chedsey of C. C. Coll. July 13. Fath. Hen. Bagwell a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin of S. Maries Coll. was then admitted B of A. 1â Hugh Weston of Linc. Dec. 12. John Hoker of Magd. Feb. 16. Will. Harrison Quaere Coll. Rob. Record was adm the same day but of what House he now was unless of All 's Coll. I know not All which except Bagwell were afterwards Writers Six and fifty Bach. of Arts or thereabouts were this year admitted and about eleven there were that supplicated for the said Degree that were not the same year admitted Bach. of Law Apr. 2. John Salysbury In the year before going he was admitted Bach. of the Can. Law Twelve or more were this year admitted in the Canon and about eleven in the Civil Law and thirteen or more supplicated for the degree of the former and but two for the latter Mast of Arts. Jul. 15. Rich. Smythe John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. Dec. 12. Tho. Key or Cay of All 's Mar. 10. Richard Sherrey of Magd. Coll. Mich. Drumm Canon of Cardinal Coll. was admitted the same day These except Ramridge and Drumm were afterwards Writers Ramridge was afterwards Dean of Lichfield as I shall tell you in another place and Drumm who had been formerly of Cambridge was esteemed a learned young man there Bach. of Divinity May 13. Fath. Steph. Merley or Marley Rog. Bell Benedictines June 22. Fath. John Dunster a Canon regular Oct. 15. Fath. John Slatery a Dominican Mar. 4. Fath. Edm. Wetherden or Metberden a Benedictin Five besides these were admitted and 13 at least that supplicated for the said Degree among whom Tho. London a Cistercian was one John Okeley a Carme another and Will. Jerome a Benedictin a third but were not admitted Doct. of Law Not one was admitted this year either in the Canon or Civil law and but one in the Canon Law that supplicated to be Doctor whose name was Will. Draper LL. B. Doct. of Physick Jul. 15. Humph. Blewet of Mert. Coll. This person who was a learned Physitian and Astronomer was born in the Dioc. of Hereford wrot a Book De peste evitanda but never printed and dying several years after at Calis in France was there buried Doct. of Div. Mar. 26. John Holyman sometimes of New Coll now a zealous Preacher against the Lutherans and a stiff Agitator against the Kings Divorce from Q Catherine He was afterwards Bishop of Bristol Apr. 3. Rob. Aldridge who in the year before was incorporated B. of D. was then admitted or licensed to proceed He was afterwards Bishop of Carlile Incorporations John Heryng Bac. of Law and now or lately Fellow of All 's Coll. and Doct. of the Civ Law of an University beyond the Seas was incorporated but the particular time when I know not In 1543 he became Prebend of East Harptrey in the Church of Wells by the Attainder of Rich. Pate or Pates Simon Mathew Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was about the same time also incorporated but the day or month I know not This person who was born at Byggleswade in Bedfordshire and about this time a godly Residentiary of Pauls Cathedral and Vicar of Prescott preached many learned Sermons against the Pope one or more of which were afterwards publish'd in print An. Dom. 1531. An. 23 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Cottysford again Dr. Hen. White Principal of Can. Law School is stiled by the name of Commissary 5 June this year Proct. John Pollard Geo. Cotes of Magd. Coll. April 19. Grammarians June 4. Nich. Badock Jul. 10. Rich Fletcher Jan. 30. Rog. Ford sec Chaplains Which three were admitted to inform in that Faculty and John Richardys supplicated Bach. of Mus June ⦠James Northbroke a secular Chaplain In the same month supplicated for that degree one Tho. Tayler a sec Chuplain also but whether admitted I find not Bach. of Arts. June 23. James Brokes of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester Jan. 23. Armigell Wade or Waad of Magd. Coll. as it seems Feb. 5. Patrick Walsh He was afterwarhs Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland In all about 50 besides ten at least that supplicated who were not admitted Doct. of Musick Dec⦠Joh Gwyneth or Gwynneth a secular Priest who had spent twelve years in the Praxis and Theory of Musick and had composed all the Responses of the whole year in Division-Song and had published many Masses in the said Song supplicated that these his labours might enable him to be admitted to the Praxis of Musick This being granted conditionally that he compose one Mass against the Act following supplicated again that whereas he had spent 20 years in the Praxis and Theory of Musick and had published three Masses of five parts and five Masses of four as also certain Symphona's Antiphona's and divers Songs for the use of the Church he might be permitted to proceed in the Faculty of Musick that is be made Doctor of that Faculty which desire of his being granted conditionally that he pay to the University on the day of his Admission 20 pence he was forthwith licensed to proceed See among the Writers under the year 1557. Bach. of Civ Law May 8 Joh. Sâorie of Henxsey Hall See among the Doct. 1538. Dec. 4. Rowland Merick He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor Besides these two were but four more who were admitted in the said Faculty and but one that supplicated Bach. of Can. Law About 20 were admitted among whom Rob. Fynch who is written Subdecanus was one Rich. Hallsall a secular Chaplain and Compounder for his Degree another and some Welsh men Five also supplicated for the said Degree of whom the senior was Jeffrey Leyson Bach. of the Civ Law and three more of that Degree Mast of Arts. June 26. Thomas Goldwell July 11. John Standish of C. C. Coll. The first was afterwards a Bishop and the other a Writer Besides these were about 20 who were
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 Câttrel 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
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 Coânor 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
President of Magd. Coll. where he continued about an year and then learning it to prevent expulsion sheltred himself in private during the Reign of Qu. Mary After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was made one of her Masters of Requests and by her employed in one or more Embassies His works are 1 A sight of the Portugal Pearl in answer to the Epistle of Hieron Osorius entit A Pearl for a Prince This book which was written in Latin I have not yet seen only the translation of it into English made by Abrah Hartwell an 1565. in tw 2 Lucubrationes Lond. 1565. qu. collected and published by Tho. Hatcher of Kings Coll. in Cambridge These Lucubrations consist of Orations and Epistles Among the Orations is that De obitu Mart. Buceri and among the Epistles is that De vita obitu fratrum Suffolciensium Henrics Caroli Brandon 3 Poemata Lond. 1567. qu. collected also and published by the said Hatcher 4 Contra Hieron Osorium ejusque odiosas insectationes pro Evangelicae veritatis necessaria defensione responsio apologetiââ Lond. 1577. qu. This book was began and carried on by him more than half Afterwards coming into the hands of John Fox was by him finish'd and published and at length translated into English by Jam. Bâll 5 Poematum lib. duo Lond. 1592. oct Before which Poems is printed the life of Walâ Haddon Whether these two books contain his Poems beforemention'd I cannot tell I remember I once saw them but dreaming not in the least of any future mentioning Dr. Haddon I throw'd them aside after I had taken the title otherwise I should have spoken more of him He gave way to fate 21. January 1571 leaving then behind him the Character of Orator dâlcis foecundus and was buried on the 25. of the same month in the Grey fryers Church now called Ch. Ch. within the City of London Over his grave was soon after a comly monument erected which with the Church it self was consumed by the dreadful conslagration that hapned in the said City in the beginning of Sept. 1666. â This year Jul. 20. the publick Registrary or Scribe of the University was deprived of his place for neglecting to set down and enter in the common register the Acts of Congregations for several years behind An. Dom. 1553. An. 7. Ed. 6. An. 1. Mariae Chanc. the same viz. Sir Joh. Mason Knight Vicehanc or Prochanc Dr. Martiall again now Dean of Ch. Ch. Dr. Walt. Wryght occurs also Prochanc this year Apr. 4. and Dr. Will. Tresham who was about the same time a Prisoner in the Fleet commissary Nov. 6. But these two I presume were only Deputies Proct. Thom. Spencer Maur. Bullocke again Bach. of Arts. Jul. 15. Jasp Heywood of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards a noted Jesuit Oct. 11. John Wolley See among the Masters 1557. Dec. 1. Tho. Palmer of Brasen Coll. See also among the Masters in 1556. Feb. 1. Rich. Barnes of Br. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Durham March ⦠John Rogers of Qu. Coll. Quaere Admitted in all this year 52. Bach. of Civ Law â¦Rich Green of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Diocess of Glouc. Oct. 30. Tho. Darbyshire of Broadgates hall He was afterwards Chanc. of Dioc. of London Rob. Johnson of All 's Coll. was also as it seems admitted this year but not to be understood to be the same R. Johnson whom I have mention'd in 1551. Mast of Arts. Jul. 8. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. 14. Dav. de la Hyde of Meât Coll. 15. Hugh Evans of Brasen Coll. I take him to be the same Hugh Evans who occurs Dean of St. Asaph in 1571. Nov. 27. Tho. Wylson whether he be the same with Tho. Wylson of Brasn Coll. who was admitted B. of A. in 1546. as I have under that year told I cannot assure you I find one Tho. Wâlson Bach of Div. and Preb. of Worcester to have succeeded John Pedder in the Deanery there in May 1571 who dying 10. July 1586 was buried in a little isle commonly called the Deans Chappel joyning to the choiâe of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester having before married Dorothy Daughter of Rob. Banister Esq Whether this Tho. Wylson whom I cannot find among the number of our Bachelaurs of Div. be the same with Tho. Wylson of Brasn Coll. mention'd under the year 1546 I cannot yet tell Admitted 24. â Not one Bach. of Div. was admitted this year Doct. of Civ Law June ⦠Thom. Whyte of New Coll. This Person who was now Prebendary of Winchester was elected Warden of his Coll. in the month of Sept. this year being then a zealous Man for the Rom. Cath. Religion In Sept. 1557 he succeeded Will. Pye in the Archdeaconry of Berks. and in Aug. 1571 Hen. Parry in the Chancellourship of the Church of Sarum having before been Preb. of Vlfcomb in that Church He died 12. June 1588 and was buried in the choir belonging to the Cathedral there Jun⦠John Kennall He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. Chancellour of Rochester Archdeacon of Oxân in the place of Dr. Wat. Wryght deceased an 1561. and Canon residentiary of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter where dying in 1591 Joh. Drewry LL. D. succeeded him in the Archdeaconry of Ox. Jul⦠Tho. Stempe of New Coll. about this time Prebendary of Winchester Afterwards he became the eleventh Warden of W. of Wykâhams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. John Boxall He died 9. Feb. 1581 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said College in whose Epitaph there 't is said that he was Legum S. Theologiae Musicesque laude clarissimus Oct. 30. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll. â Not one Doct. of Phys or Div. was admitted this year Incorporations Will. Mowse or Mosse Dr. of the Civ Law of Cambridge was incorporated this year but the particular time when I cannot find He was of Trin. hall in that Vniversity was this year the Kings Professor of the Civ Law in this of Oxon but whether in his own right or in that of Dr. Will. Awbrey is yet to me uncertain On the first of March 1560 he was installed Prebend of Botevant in the Church of York being at that time Master of the aforesaid hall and dying in 1588 became a considerable benefactor to that house Andr. Perne D. of D. of Cambridge was also this year incorporated but the day or month when appears not He was educated in Peter house whereof he was Fellow and Master and in 1557 was made the second Dean of Ely in the place of Rob. Styward who died 22. Sept. the same year This Dr. Perne who is reported to have been a mutable Man in his Religion and of a facetious nature yet a great Mecaenas of learning died at Lambeth in Surrey 26. Apr. 1589 and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church there whereupon John Bell D. of D. succeeded him in his Deanery You may read many things of this Dr. And.
Perne in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under the year 1557. written by John Fax wherein you 'll find him a zealous Man for the Cath. cause in the Reign of Qu. Mary One of both his names who was M. of A. and sometimes Fellow of Katherine hall in Cambridge afterwards Minister of Wilby in Northamptonshire was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament that began at Westminster an 1640 ran with those times and published several Sermons I find another And. Perne LL. D. sometimes an Inhabitant of Westwratting in Cambridgshire who died in 1680. An. Dom. 1554. An. 1 2 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. John Warner Doct. of Phys and Warden of All 's Coll. was designed by letters from the Chancellour Proct. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. Christop Hargrave of Linc. Coll. Which Proctors taking their places on the nones of April Maur. Bullock and Gilb. Mounson of Ch. Ch substitute to Mr. Spencer receeded Bach. of Arts. Jul. 4. Will. Barker of Magd. Coll. One of both his names translated into English An exhortation to his kinsman to the study of the Scriptures Lond. 1557. oct written by St. Basil the Great Whether he be the same with the Bach. of Arts Quaee Anth. Russh of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 11. John Bodye One of both his names supplicated to be admitted Bach. of the Civil Law an 1552 which I take to be the same with this who was Bach. of Arts but not the same who was executed at Andâver in Hampshire an 1583 for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England See more in these Fasti among the Masters of Arts an 1575. Jul. 16. Tho. Atkyns He was elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Mert. Coll. this year in whose Cat. or Alb. of Fellows this addition is put to his name Fuit procurator generalis regius apud Wallos Reginae Elizabethae à consiliis ibidem ad audiendum determinandum malefacta cujuscunque generis justitiarius c. He was born in the Dioc. of Worcester but took no higher Degree in this University Mar. 13. John Bridgwater Aquepântanus either now of Brasnose Coll. or of Hart hall He was afterwards a learned Jesuit Admitted 48. Doct. of Musick Apr. 21. John Shepheard who had been a Studenâ in Musick for the space of 20 years did then by his Dean supplicate the ven congregation that he might be licensed to proceed in that faculty that is to be admitted Doctor of Musick but whether he was admitted or stood in any Act following it appears not in our registers The words of some of his Church services are made publick in The Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in Cathedrals c. Lond. 1663. oct collected and published by James Clifford as I have told you under the year 1548. I have seen some of his compositions of six parts in six MS. Books remaining at this day in the Archives of our publ Musick School containing Church Musick or Anthems and certain Songs Mast of Arts. But 13 were admitted this year among whom Will. Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. was one afterwards a Cardinal and Archb. as I have before told you and Sextus Quaterman of New Coll. another In an Act celebrated 16. July were 19 that stood of whom the said Allyn was junior whom we usually call Junior of the Act who with the Senior perform exercise in the name of the rest of the Masters Bach. of Div. Jun. 7. Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. sometimes Cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey now Fellow of Eaton Coll. and Canon of Windsore was adm to the reading of the Sentences by Dr. O. Oglethorp Dean of Winds in a certain Chamber belonging to his Lodgings there by power and authority given to him for that purpose by Dr. Rich. Smyth Provicechancellour of the University This Mr. Cole had his grace granted in order to the taking of that Degree in 1545 and in 1555 he succeeded the said Dr. Oglethorp in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. Jul. 5. John Boxall of New Coll. He was now Archdeacon of Ely and Warden of the Coll. near Winchester c. Besides these two were but 3 more admitted this year Doct. of Civil Law Jul. 13. Tho. Huyck of Mert. Coll. He died at London 1575 having a little before been made the first and original Fellow of Jesus Coll. to which he was a Benefactor Rob. Raynold of New Coll. was licensed to proceed the same day He was now Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near to Winchester Prebendary of Linc. and Chichester and about 1557 Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winton Will. Awbrey of All 's Coll. was admitted also on the same day See before under the year 1549. A Person he was of exquisite learning and singular prudence and therefore mention'd with honour by Thuanus and others He was born in Bricknockshire particularly as I conceive at Cantre wrot divers things but not printed among which are several letters to his Cousin Dr. John Dee concerning the Sovereignty of the Seas some of which I have seen and dying 23. Jul. 1595 was buried within the Cath. Church of St. Paul in London Afterwards there was a Mon. with his bust set over his grave which with the Cathedral it self was consumed in that dismal conflagration which hapned in that great City in the beginning of Sept. 1666. Doct. of Physick May 9. Rich. Master of All 's Coll. On the 14. of March 1562 he was installed Prebendary of Fridaythorpe in the Church of York being about that time Physician of the Chamber to Qu. Elizabeth His eldest Son George Master setled in the Abbey at Cirencester in Glocestershire where his posterity yet remaineth Another Son named Robert was Doctor of the Civ Law in 1594 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall lately of Ch. Ch. but originally of Brasnose Coll. was admitted the same day Thom. Francis of Ch. Ch. was also admitted the same day After this Person had taken the Degree of M. of A. he applyed his studies to the Theological faculty but the encouragement thereof being in these days but little he transfer'd himself to the School of Physicians and with the consent and approbation of Dr. Wryght the Vicechancellour was entred on the Physick line 4. Aug. 1550. In the year after I find him supplying the place and office of the Kings Professor of Physick being I presume only Deputy for Dr. John Warner and on the 9. Mar. 1553 he was admitted Bach. of Phys In 1561 he succeeded Hugh Hodgson in the Provostship of Qu. Coll. and was afterwards Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much respected by her Jul. 14. John Symings or Symmings In what Coll. or Hall educated I know not Sure I am that he was one of the Coll. of Physicians in London where he was in great practice and dying in his house in Little St. Barthelmew in Smithfield 7. July 1588 was buried in the Church
were admitted among whom Laurence Twyne of All 's Coll. was one an ingenious Poet of his time Mast of Arts. Apr. 14. Arthur Atey of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Orator of the University Principal of St. Albans hall Secretary to that great and popular Count Robert Earl of Leicester and after his death became a favourite to another popular Person called Robert Earl of Essex in whose treasons being engaged in 1600 was forced to abscond and withdraw himself for a time In the beginning of K. James 1. he had the honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him and dying in 1604 was buried in the Church of Harrow on the hill in Middlesex Jul. 3. Edm. Campian Greg. Martin of St. John Coll. Oct. 20. Tho. Brasbridge Lawr. Tomson Thom. Kingsmill of Magd Coll. Nov. 20. Edm. Raynolds of C. C. Coll. This Person who was a moderate Romanist gained to himself a great name by a publick disputation had with his younger Brother John held before Robert E. of Leycester an 1584. See Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 300. 301. He died 21 Nov. 1630. aged 92 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Wolvercote near Oxon. where he had an estate which he left to his Sisters Son named Matthew Cheriton Esq Feb. 3. Christoph Wharton of Trin. Coll. This Person who was a Yorkshire Man born did soon after leave his Fellowship of that house his Country and Friends and went to Douay where he was made a R. Cath. Priest Afterwards he returned and officiated as a Seminary being esteemed among those of his party a very godly Man At length being taken and imprison'd was for being a R. Cath. Priest and denying the Queens Supremacy executed at York 28. March 1600. 14. Edm. Bunney of Magd. soon after of Mert. Coll. Admitted 39. â Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year Doct. of Civ Law Feb. 14. John Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Judge of the Admiralty Rob. Lougher commonly called Loffer of All 's Coll. was admitted on the same day He was now Principal of New Inn was soon after the Queens Professor of the Civil Law and Chancellour of Exeter In May 1577 he was constituted Official of the Consistory of Edwin Archb. of York and his Vicar General in spirituals being then a Civilian belonging to the Arches He died in the beginning of June 1583 leaving behind him a Son named John â Not one Doct. of Phys or Div. was admitted this year Incorporations Feb. 20. Rob. Johnson M. A. of Cambridge was then incorporated being the very next day after the Act had been celebrated This Rob. Johnson who was Son of Maurice Johnson Alderman of Stanford in Lincolnshire was afterwards Bach. of Div. and twice made Prebendary of Rochester which he twice resign'd In 1570 he was installed Prebendary of Norwych which Dignity he resigning Griffith Toy M. A. of Jes Coll. in Oxon succeeded an 1575. In 1572 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Joh. Browne Bac. of Div. and in 1591 he was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Hugh Blythe Can. of Windsore resigning being about that time honorary Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. He founded two Grammar Schools in Rutlandshire one at Vphingham and another at Okeham two Hospitals also in the same County which he endowed four exhibitioners in Sydney Coll. in Cambridge to come from the said Free-schools and was a benefactor to the weekly Preachers at St. Pauls Cross in London He died on the first of Aug. 1625 being then or lately Rector of N. Luffenham in Rutlandshire In 1560 one Edm. Johnson Schoolmaster of St. Anthonies in London became Canon of Windsore and then by little and little as one observes followed the spoil of St. Authonies Hospital He first dissolved the choire conveyed away the plate and ornaments then the bells and lastly put out the Almes-men from their houses allowing them portions of 12 d. per week which also in short time vanished away This I thought good to let the reader know because the Author here quoted having reported these matters to be done by one Johnson have caused some to think them done by Reb. Johnson beforemention'd Creations Feb⦠Thom. Yong Archbishop of York who was admitted Bachelaur of the Civil Law an 1537 being then of Broadgates hall was by power granted by the ven Congregation of Regents 13. Feb. this year actually created soon after at London as it seems Doctor of his faculty by Dr. Dav. Lewes and Doctor Tho Huyck An. Dom. 1565. An. 7 8 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester c. Commiss Dr. Kernnall elected by scrutiny in a Convocation on the 25. Feb. Proct. Thom. Garbrand alias Herks of Magd. Coll. John Merick of New Coll. elect 2. Mar. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. Christoph Perkins In what Coll. or Hall this Person was educated I know not Sure I am that he leaving the University abruptly without compleating his Degree by Determination went beyond the Seas and having spent some time in one of the new erected Seminaries entred into the society of Jesus and lived among them in good repute for his learning At length upon the coming to Rome under the name of a Traveller of Mr. William Cecill afterwards Earl of Exeter Grandson to Will Lord Burleigh there were whisperings in the English Coll. of doing him some mischief in revenge for what his Grandfather had done in apprehending several Priests and putting them to death yet they came to nothing Whereupon Perkins possessed him with fears and took upon him to direct him what to do and how tobehave himself And when Mr. Cecill had seen Rome and the Monuments thereof Perkins did conduct him out of the City and being a Man of a very great understanding and Mr. Cecill therefore delighting much in his company he perswaded him to accompany him to England Afterwards they came together and Mr. Cecill recommending him to his Grandfather for a wise understanding Man and one that had taken much care of him at his being in Rome and withal having been a Jesuit he was now reconciled to the Church of England the Lord Burleigh did thereupon precure for him the Deanery of Carlile which had been before possess'd by Sir John Wolley and about the same time procured of the Queen that he should be employed into Germany to make answer in the Queens name to the complaints of the Hanse-towns about their customes to the Emperour an 1595. After his return tho it was the desire of the said Lord Burleigh that he should live at Carlile and follow the Ministry and nothing else yet he lived in London and being brought into the acquaintance of Dr. Bancroft Bishop of that place that Doctor did make use of him both for his discovery beyond the Seas and likewise upon other occasions In 1600 he with the said Doctor and Joh. Swale were as Delegates or Embassadors sent by the Queen to Embden to parley
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 inteâment 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 custâm 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 â 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
and in his Chauntorship by Rich. Boughton Besides these were four that supplicated for the said degree among whom were Thomas Summaster of All 's Coll. and John Chandler Incorporations July 11. Lancolot Andrewes M. A. of Cambridge He was of Pembr Hall in that University and lately one of the honorary or tituler Scholars of Jesus Coll. in this University Afterwards he became Master of the said Hall Doct of Div. and Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Richard Bancroft promoted to the See of London an 1597 Dean of the said Church of Westminster in the room of Gabriel Goodman deceased 1601. Soon after he was made Bishop of Chichester then of Ely and at length on the 22 Feb. 1618 was translated to Winchester He died in Winchester House in Southwark 26 Sept. 1626 and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Saviour there Several Authors having made mention of this worthy person I shall forbear to speak any farther of him only say this that he was the most eminent Divine of our Nation in his time William Pembertom M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day This person who was second Son of Hen. Pemberton of Moreton in Châshire Gent. was afterwards Parson of High Ongar in Essex Doctor of Div. and a Publisher of several Sermons among which are 1 The godly Merchant preached at Pauls Cross on 1 Tim. 6. 6. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Sermon on Deut. 1. 16. 17. Lond. 1619. oct He died 10 March 1622 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at High Ongar In the same month of July was a Supplicate made for one Will. Temple M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated but whether he was so it appears not He was the same person who was Fell. of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Master of the Free School in the City of Lincoln Secretary to Sir Philip Sidney when he received his Deaths Wound at Zutphân and after his death to Will. Davison one of the Secretaries of State and at length to Rob. â of Essex Earl Marshal of England whom if I mistake not he served while he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In 1609 he upon the importunate Solicitations of Dr. James Vsher accepted of the Provostship of Trinity Coll. near to Dublin after which he was knighted and made one of the Masters of the Chancery in Ireland He hath written 1 Pro Maldupetti de unica methodo defensione contra Diplodophilum commentatio Lond. 1581 oct 2 Nonnullarum â Physicis Ethicis quaestionum explicatio pro Petro Ramo contra a Lieblerum 3. Epistola de Rami dialectica ad Johannem Piscatorem Argentinensem 4. Analysis Anglica triginta psalmorum à primo scilicet ad tricesimum primum Lond. 1611. oct He gave way to fate an 1626 or thereabouts aged 72 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of the Holy Trinity leaving then behind him the Character of à person of great piety and learning An. Dom. 1582. An. 24 Elizab. An. 25 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rob. Hoveden D. D. Warden of All 's Coll. July 12. Proct. Robert Cook of Brasn Coll. John Browne of Ch. Ch. The day when they were elected appears not because of the imperfectness of the Registers Bach. of Arts. March 28. Simon Presse of Broadgates Hall He was afterwards Minister of Egginton in Derbyshire and published A Sermon concerning the right use of things indifferent on 1 Cor. 8. ver 10 11 12 13. Oxon 1597 oct What other things he hath published I know not April 31. Geo. Abbot of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury July 4. John Buckridge of S. Johns Coll. He was made Bishop of Ely in 1627. 10. Tim. Willys of S Johns Coll. He was afterwards ejected from his place in that House for certain Misdemeanours but getting soon after into the favour of Qu. Elizabeth he was by her diploma made a Doctor Bullatus of the Laws I suppose and by her sent Embassador into Muscovy Nov. 15. Ralph Winwood lately of S. Johns now of Magd. Coll. See more among the Masters an 1587. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day March 18. Philip Jones One of both his names was Author of Three Sermons on Jam. 1. 9 10. Lond. 1588 oct Whether written by him or by Philip Jones who was admitted Bach. of the Civ Law an 1562 or by a third Phil. Jones who as a Bristol man born and a Member of Ch. Ch. was matriculated in 1581 aged 18 I know not Adm. 152. Mast of Arts. Mar. 30. Will. Warford of Thin May 4. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. June 18. John Harmar John Terry of New Coll. July 2. Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. 4 Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall Oct. 12. Will. Wâgge of New Coll. One Will. Wygge sometimes called Way was executed for being a Seminary and denying the Oath of Supremacy at Kingston in Surrey on the first day of Octob. 1588. Whether the same with him who was M. of A. I know not I have mention'd another Will Wygge or Wygges under the year 1566. Feb. 6. Edw Philipps of Broadgates Hall 7. Rob. Abbot of Baâl Coll. 15. John King of Ch. Ch. Mar. 23. Hen. Perry of Gloc. Hall Adm. 60. Bach. of Div. July 5. John Garbrand of New 10. Hen Robinson of Queens 13. Thomas Holland of Balliol Coll. Feb. 19. Dav. Powell of Jesus Coll. Joh. Argall of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. Will. Merick of New Coll. Chancellour of Bangor c. Clement Colmer of Brasn Coll. Chancellour of the Diocess of Durham was admitted the same day Miles Lee and Rich. Bellyngham both Bachelaurs of the Civ Law did supplicate for the said degree but were not admitted Doct. of Phys July 5. Anthony Aylworth of New Coll. the Kings Professor of Physick and Physitian to Queen Eliz. He died 18 Apr. 1619 and was buried in New Coll. Chappel 21. Will. Donne of Exeter Coll. Doct. of Div. July 5. William Souch or Zouch of Ch. Ch. On the 14 of Feb. 1583 he became Chauntor of Salisbury on the resignation of Tobie Mathews D. D. John Garbrand of New Coll. was admitted the same day He accumulated the degrees in Divinity Meredith Hanmer of C. C. Coll. was also admitted the same day On the 2 Apr. Tho. Blague a Student in Divinity and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to the Queen supplicated for the said degree of Doct. of Div. but whether admitted it appears not In 1591 Feb. 1. he being then D. of D. and about that time Master of Clare Hall in Cambridge was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of John Coldwell M. D. promoted to the See of Salisbury and in 1604 or thereabouts he became Rector of Bangor upon the Translation of Dr. Rich. Vaughan from Chester to London He died in Octob. 1611 and was succeeded in his Deanery by Rich. Miâbourne D. D. who was installed in that Dignity on the 11
Heton D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. July 10. Proct. Tho. Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Musick July 8. Thomas Morley one of the Gentlemen of her Majesties Royal Chappel This person tho he had not so excellent a hand on the Organ as Bull had yet his Compositions were admirable in their time as 1 Consonets or little short songs to three Voices Lond. 1593. qu. 2 The first book of Madrigalls to four Voices Lond. 1594 qu. 3 The first book of Ballets to five Voices Lond. 1595. in a large qu. 4 Madrigalls to five Voices Lond. 1595 in a large qu. 5 Introduction to musick Lond. 1597 c. in a thin fol. This last Book which shews the Authour to have been admirably well skill'd in the theoretick part of Musick hath afforded some matter to Christop Simpson when he composed his Compendium of Musick but more to the Author of An introduction to musick Lond. 1655 c. oct published by John Playford a Seller of musical Books and Paper near the Inner Temple Gate Lond. and a practitioner in Musick who as I have been informed had the assistance of Charles Pidgeon of Greys Inn in the drawing it up The said Morley also hath composed Divine Services and Anthems the words of some of which are published and also collected and published Madrigalls the triumphs of Oriana to five and six Voices composed by divers Authors Lond. 1601 qu. Among which Authors Tho. Morley is one Michael Est Joh. mundy Joh Hilton Rich. Carlton Tho. Hunt Edw. Johnson George Marson c. all Bachelaurs of Musick were others which last was nearly related to Simon Marson a Servant to Sir Thom. Mounson in the time of K. Jam. 1. and a good Musitian as you may see elsewhere The said Thomas Morley had been bred up under the most famous Musitian Mr. Will. Byrde one of the Organists belonging to Queen Elizab. I mean the same Byrde who was Author and Composer of Graduallia seu cantionum sacrarum quarum aliae ad quatuor aliae vero ad quinque sex voces editae sunt Lond. 1610. qu. in 6 Vol. Also of several Divine Services and Anthems in English the words of which are extant and of a most admired Composition of forty parts but this last is not yet extant I say by this Byrde's endeavours the said Morley became not only excellent in Munck as well in the theoretical as practical part but also well seen in the Mathematicks in which Byrde was excellent July 3. John Dowland one of the Gent. of her Majesties Royal Chappel was then also with Tho. Morley adm Bach. of Musick He enjoyed the same place also when King James 1. came to the Crown being then esteemed a most admirable Lutinist about which time an Anagram was made on his name Johannes Doulandus running thus annos ludendi hausi He was the rarest Musitian that his Age did behold and therefore admired by foreign Princes among whom the King of Denmark was one who being infinitely taken with his playing when he was in England to visit his Sister the Queen an 1606 took him with him at his return to Denmark where as 't is supposed he died He hath among other things written Necessary observations belonging to Lute-playing Lond. 1610 in a thin fol. printed with Variety of Lute lessons published by his Son Rob. Douland a most excellent Lutinist also who before while his Father was absent had been trained up to the Lute by excellent Masters at the care and charge of Sir Tho. Mounson before-mention'd The said Rob. Douland published also of his own composition A musical banquet Lond. 1610. in a thin fol. and The pilgrims solace for three and four parts c. which was composed by him as it seems and not by his Father Bach. of Arts. May 6. John Hoskyns senior of New Coll. June 12. Sam. Burton of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1591. Jan. 13. Mathew Slade of S. Albans Hall Henry Wotton of Queens Coll. supplicated in June for the degree of Bach. of Arts but I cannot find him admitted or his name among the Determiners in the Lent following Adm. 114. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Feb⦠Henry Cromwell Fellow of S. Johns Coll. This person who was third Son of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchinbrook in Huntingdonshire Knight I put not down here as a Writer or learned man but only that he was a noted Gent. of his Country had a fair Estate at Vpwood there was a Justice of Peace and Uncle to Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England See among the Bach. of Law an 1599. Adm. 14. Mast of Art Dec. 23. Rich. Latewar of S. Joh. Jul. 2. Alexand. Cook of Vnivers Feb. 20. Henr. Cuffe of Mert. Coll. In the month of June Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated by his Dean or Censor that whereas it was 16 years since he took the degree of Bach. of Arts three solemn Lectures pro forma performed by him might be sufficient for the taking the degree of Mast of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should stand in the Act following but his Admission and Inception occurs not Here you see is mention made that he was Bach. of Arts which if true for no such matter occurs in the Register of that time then must that Will. Camden mention'd under the year 1573 be the same person who was afterwards known by the Title of Clarentius and sirnamed The learned See more among the Creations an 1612. Admit 64. Bach. of Div. July 4. Robert Temple M. A. of Magd. Coll. He hath published A Sermon concerning the abuses of the Church preached at Pauls Cross on 1 Cor. 14. 1. Lond. 1592 he being then Chaplain to John Bishop of London What else he hath written or published I know not nor any thing besides only he was an Oxfordshire man born Adm. 4 Doct. of Law Jul. 9. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. He was the only person admitted Doctor of his Faculty this year â Not one Doct. of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 4. Thom. Mountfort a Compounder This worthy Doctor who was Son of John Mountfort of the City of Norwych was now or about this time Prebendary of Harleston and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul as also Prebendary of Westminster in which last Dignity he succeeded one Thomas whom some call John Browne an 1584. He died in London 27 Feb. 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Tewing in Hertfordshire whereupon one Gabr. More sometimes Chaplain in the House of George Villiers the first Duke of Buckingham of his name succeeded him in Westm but who in the Residentiaryship in S. Pauls I cannot yet tell He left behind him a Son named John Mountfort D. of D. and Rector of Austie in Hertfordshire who being a most zealous man for the Church of England suffer'd much in the time of the Rebellion
of Qu. Dec. 14. Geor. Warburton of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Div. created 1636. Feb. 1. Tobie Venner of S. Alb. Hall 16. Will. Higford of C. C. Coll. Winniffe Venner and Higford are to be remembred at large in the second Voll Adm. 111. Mast of Arts. June 26. Will. Laud of S. Joh. July 4. Thom. Thompson of Qu. 6. Rich. Lloyd of Linc. lately of Oriel 8. Rob. Fludd of S. Joh. Coll. Thom. Cheast of S. Maries Hall lately of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day He hath published 1 The way to life serm at Pauls Cross on Amos 5. 6. Lond. 1609. qu. 2 The Christian path-way Serm. at Pauls Cross ult June 1611 on Ephes 5. 1. Lond. 1613. qu. and perhaps other things Oct. 17. Jam. Mabb of Magd. Coll. 20. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Dorset by which Title he occurs in 1640. 31. Nath. Brent of Mert. Coll. Nov. 7. Rich. Carpenter Edw. Chetwind of ãâã Coll. Feb. 5. Tho. James Tho. Lydyat of New Coll. 19. Will. Chibald or Chiball of Magd. Coll. Adm. 88. Bach. of Div. May 29. Christoph Sutton June 28. Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. Jul. 19. Will. Bradshaw of Vniv. Coll. lately M. of A. of Balliol I set him down here not that he was a Writer but to distingtuish him from another of both his names who was sometimes Fellow of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a writer and publisher of several Theological Tracts the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue â Not one Doct. of the Civ Law was admitted Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Gifford of New Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick did afterwards practise in London and was one of the College of Physicians He died in a good old age in 1647 and was buried in the Parish Church of Hornchurch in Essex near to the body of his Wife Doct. of Div. Jul. 8. Thomas Maxfield of St. Edmunds hall He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity was about this time dignified in the Church and dying about 1604 was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ashe in Kent of which Church he was Rector Incorporations Jun. 7. Thom. Ridley Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge This learned Person who was the Son of Thomas Son of Lancclot Son of Nicholas Ridley of Willymonds Wyke in Northumberland Esq was born in the City of Ely educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near to Windsore in Academical in Kings Coll. in Cambridge of which he was Fellow Afterwards he became Schoolmaster of Eaton one of the Masters of the Chancery a Knight Chancellour to the B. of Winchester and Vicar-general to George Archb. of Canterbury He was a general Scholar wrot A view of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law and dying 23. of January 1628 was buried on the 27. of the same month in the Parish Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London Jul. 8. Sam. Heron D. of D. of the same University was then incorporated Doct. of that faculty He was Fellow of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge and dying about the latter end of the yeare 1615 was buried either in the Chap. belonging to that Coll. or in the Chancel of Market Fankenham in Norfolke where he had some cure A Person of eminent note who writes himself Samuel Hieron was born at or near to Epping in Essex educated in Eaton School elected Scholar of Kings Coll. 1590 where while he was Bach. of Arts he became eminent for his Preaching About that time he had a pastoral charge confer'd upon him by Mr. Hen. Savile Provost of Eaton College but the Church of Modbury in Devonshire soon after falling void he was presented thereunto by the Provost and Fellows of Kings Coll. where being setled he was much admired and resorted to for his practical way of preaching While he continued there he published several Sermons which with many others lying by him he remitted into one volume printed at London with certain Prayers at the end an 1614. fol. He died at Modbury in 1617 aged about 45 and was buried in the Church there After his death many of his Sermons and Lectures that had not before seen the light were collected together by one Rob. Hill whom I shall mention among the Incorporations 1604 who causing them to be printed in fol. 1620 are known by the name of the Second vol. of Mr. Sam. Hierons works These things I thought good to let you know to the end that what was written by Sam. Hieron might not be attributed to Sam. Heron. Jul. 10. Roger Manors Earl of Rutland M. A. of the said Univ. of Cambridge He was an eminent Traveller and a good Soldier was afterwards sent Embassador by K. Jam. 1. to the King of Denmark and dying 26. June 1612. was buried at Botsford in Leycestershire Jul. 11. Edw. Aubrey Joh. Bladworth Christop Wyell Bac. of Law of Camb. Joseph Hall M. of A. of the same Univ. was then also incorporated In 1611. Oct. 30. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. King to the See of London and in Dec. 1616 he became Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Arth. Lake promoted to the See of Bathe and Wells He was afterwards first the most learned and religious Bishop of Exeter and afterwards of Norwych Laurence Bend Doct. of Div. of the said Univers was also then Jul. 11. incorporated Creations On the tenth of July these Knights and Esquires following were actually created Masters of Arts with one Lord. Thomas Lord Burgh Sir Christoph Blount Kt. He was beheaded on Tower-hill an 1601 for being deeply engaged in the treasons of Robert Earl of Essex Anthony Pawlet Francis Knollis Knights The last was Son of Sir Franc. Knollis mention'd among the Creations an 1566 and among the Writers an 1596. He was sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. and was now valued for his learning by Dr. Joh. Rainolds Rob. Osbourne Rob. Digby Rob. Vernon Esquires About this time Abraham Scultetus was a Sojouânour in Oxon and much favoured by both the Abbots George and Robert He was afterwards a most eloquent Preacher a learned Divine and Author of several books which shew him to have been profound in Divinity Antiquity and Ecclesiastical History He died at Embden in E. Frislandt 24. Oct. 1626. and was there buried An. Dom. 1599. An. 41 Eliz. An. 42 Eliz. Chancellour the same Vicechanc. Dr. Tho. Thornton again Jul. 16. Proct. Will. Osbourne of All 's Coll. Franc. Sidney of Ch. Ch. Apr. 18. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 24. Barnab Potter of Qu. Coll. He was afterward Bishop of Carlile Jun. 18. Anth. Duck Jul. 8. George Hakewill of Exet. Coll. 23. Brian Twyne Tho. Jackson of C. C. Coll. Oct. 25. Norwych Spackman of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1602. Thom. Broad of St. Alb. hall was admitted the same day Jan. 29. Barthelm Parsons of
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. Foâiot 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 Aâdley 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 ãâã subâmationis 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 pâpish 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 ãâã 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
of Mrs. Mary Swaine the Wife of Mr. Will. Swaine at St. Botolphs without Aldersgate on Luke 10. 42. Lond. 1611. oct and perhaps other things He died about the beginning of November this year 1614 and was buried I presume in his Church of St. Martin beforementioned Mar. 23. Philip King M. A. of the same University Another of both his names was of this University as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1618. and 1645. This year Charles de Beauvais of the Isle of Guernsey a young Man most conversant in the study of learned arts was entred a Student in Bodies Library but whether he was matriculated as a member of any Coll. or Hall it appears not He is the same Ch. de Beauvais without doubt who was afterwards Author of 1 Dedisciplinis scientiis in genere de recto ordine quo sunt in Scholis Academiis docendae c. 2 Recta delineatio disciplinae Vniversalis seu primae Philosophiae itemque Logicae Which two were printed at Lond. 1648. in oct 3 Exercitations concerning the pure and true and the impure and false religion Lond. 1665. oct at which time the Author was Rector of Witheham in Sussex An. Dom. 1615. An. 13. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Egerton Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again July 17. Proct. Hugh Dicus of Brasn Coll. Richard Baylie of St. John Coll. Apr. 19. Bach. of Arts. May 4. John Bayly of Exet. Coll. 5. Steph. Geree of Magd. Hall July 5. Cornelius Burges of Wadh. 7. Charles Herle of Exeter Nov. 9. Francis Gough of New Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Dec. 13. James Lamb of Brasn College afterwards of St. Maries Hall Feb. 5. Thom. Twittie of Oriel 6. Thom. Paybody of Merton Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1633 and of the other among the Masters of Arts an 1624. 7. John Brian of Queen Coll. I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same John Brian who published a funeral Sermon called The vertuous Daughter on Prov. 31. ver 29. Lond. 1636. qu. c. and perhaps other things Quaere 26. Alexander Gill Son of Alexander lately of Trin. Coll. now of Wadham and afterwards of Trinity again Five of these Bachelaurs namely Geree Burges Herle Lamb and Gill will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 203. Bach. of Law June Tho Merriot John South John Crook of New Coll. The first who will be mention'd in the next volume was a good Latinist and Orator The second was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue and at length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Hyde Chauntor of Salisbury 24. Sept. 1666. He died at Writtle in Essex of which place he was Vicar in August 1672 and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Chauntorship was confer'd on Dr. Dan. Whitbye of Trin. Coll. As for the last John Crook he was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. ãâã Winchester Prebendary of the Cathedral there and Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magd. near to that City Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. May 3. Jerem. Stephens of Brasn 20. Will. Nicholson of Magd. Coll. Jun. 15. Rob. Weldon Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. 17. Will. Thomas of Brasn Tho. Vicaâ of Qu. 27. Griff. Higgs of Mert. Coll. Admitted 106. Bach. of Div. July 13. Sampson Price of Exeter Coll. Nov. 23. Edm. Gunter Samuel Fell Hen. Whistler of Trin. of Ch. Ch. Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. March 4. Fredericus Dorvilius of Exeter Coll. He writes himself Aquisgranensis natione Palatinus educatione being at this time a Sojournour in the said Coll. for the sake of Dr. Prideaux the Rector whom he much admired Adm. 15. â Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick July 3. Clement Westcombe of New Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in Physick He was about this time held in great value for the happy success in the practice of his faculty in and near the City of Exeter where he died in 1652 or thereabouts Doct. of Div. Mar. 27. Sam. Radcliff Principal June 17. John Barnston of Brasn Coll. The last of which who was now Chaplain to Egerton Lord Chancellour of England was about this time Canon Residentiary of Salisbury and afterwards a Benefactor to learning as I have told you elsewhere He lived to see himself outed of his spiritualities and dying 30. May 1645 was buried as it seems at Everton in Wilts Jun. 27. âarnab Potter of Queens July 6. John King of Merton Coll. The last of these two was installed Canon or Preb. of the twelfth and last stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster on the death of Dr. Will. Barlow Bish of Linc. an 1613 and this year 1615 Nov. 23 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Mardoche Aldem deceased He died 7. Aug. 1638 and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. See more among the Creations in the year following Feb. 27. Jasper Swyft of Ch. Ch. March 14. John Barcham of C. C. 21. John Davies of Lincoln Coll. Incorporations July 11. Will. Spicer Bach. of Law of Cambridge See among the Incorporations 1618. Abraham Gibson M. A. of the said University was incorporated the same day and again on the 15. July 1617. This Person who was afterwards Preacher to the Temples in London hath published 1 The Lands mourning for vain swearing Sermon on Jerem. 23. 10. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Christianae-polemica or a narrative to War Serm. at Wool-church in London before the Captains and Gentlemen of exercise in the Attillery-garden on Judg. 7. 18. Lond. 1619. oct and not unlikely other things He was afterwards D. of D. and dying in or near one of the Temples was buried near to the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Temples 5. Januar. 1629. July 11. Godfrey Goodman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge See more of him among the Bishops in Miles Smith an 1624. Samuel Purchas Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day This worthy Divine who is by some stiled our English Ptolemy was born in the County of Essex either at Dunmow or Thacksted but in what Coll. or Hall in Cambridge educated I cannot yet tell After he had left the University he became Minister of Eastwood in Rochford hundred in his own Country but being desirous to forward and prosecute his natural Genie he had to the collecting and writing of voyages travels and pilgrimages left his cure to his Brother and by the favour of the Bishop of London got to be Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate He hath written and published 1 Pilgrimage or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered from the Creation to this present c. in 4 parts Lond. 1614. fol. second edit and there again 1626. fol. 2 Purchas his Pââgrims
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâth right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made ãâã Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
became a Presbyterian Divine and Minister of St. Peters Church in Nottingham where continuing till his Majesties restauration was then suspended for refusing to read the Common-prayer and his living sequestred Afterwards being a Nonconformist he kept Conventicles in those parts and lived to 1682 and after He hath written several things as 1 The Christian temper c. 2 Treatise of the two Covenants c. 3 Fifty Queries seriously propounded to these that question infants right to baptisme 4 Few notes upon T. G's Thom. Granthams Antiqueries c. as also several things against Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Apr. 15. Will. Davis of Ball. Coll. Another of both his names of Gloc. hall was admitted M. of A. on the 3. Jun. following but which of then became Archdeacon of Bath in Dec. 1643 for one Will. Davis M. A. and Vicar of Chard was then admitted to that Dignity I know not June 8. Joh. Aris of Magd. hall He was afterwards Rector of Middle Cleyden in Bucks and published The Reconciler Sermon preached before the Communion on Matth. 5. 23. 24. Lond. 1651. qu. which is all I know of him only that he was a Glocestershire Man born 10. Rob. Maton of Wadh. 22. Rich. Owen of Oriel 30. Hen Edmondsân of Qu. July 9. Sam. Austin of Ex. Coll. Nov. 19. Sam. Fisher of New Inn. Adm. 160. or thereabouts Bach. of Phys Only five were admitted this year and one to practice that faculty but none of them were afterwards writers Bach. of Div. May 12. Thâm Atkinsân Will. Haywood of St. Joh. Coll. The first of these two who was a Londoner born was afterwards Rector of South-warnborough in Hampshire which he exchanged with Dr. Pet. Heylyh for the rectory of Islip near Oxon an 1638. I have seen of his composition 1 Andrei Melvini Anti-Tami-cunicategoria written in Saphicks and Melvinus delirans in Iambicks But whether either of them are printed I cannot tell He was buried in St. Johns Coll. Chappel 6. Feb. 1638. after he had enjoyed Isâip but few months June 15. Sam. Hoard of St. Maries Hall 22. Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. July 8. Tho. Howell of Jesus Dec. 7. Joh. Bayly of Exet. Feb. 22. Humph. Chambers of Vniv. Coll. Admitted 29. Doct. of Law Jun. 30. Will. Boswell of Wadh. Will. Dillon of New Jonath Browne of Gloc. Hall Coll. The first of these three who was a learned Civilian was afterwards High Sheriff of Oxfordshire about 1652 and dying unmarried 5. Apr. 1678 aged 79 years was buried in Allsaints Church in the City of Oxon near to the grave of his Father Will Boswell sometimes Alderman of the said City The last was afterwards Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. Dan Price deceased Preb. of Westminster in the room of Dr. Rog. Bates in the latter end of 1633 Minister of St. Faiths in London from which he was sequestred by the Presbyterians in the time of the rebellion and rector of Hertingfordbury in the Dioc. of London He was an excellent Preacher and a Person much reverenced by all even his enemies for his ecclesiastical aspect He died in the latter end of 1644 or thereabouts whereupon Dr. Herb. Croft who had married his Daughter Anne succeeded him in the Deanery of Hereford â Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jun. 22. Hannibal Potter of Trin. John English of Balliol Coll. Rich. Gardiner Joh. Stubbins Jam. Marsh of Merton Coll. of Ch. Ch. The last was afterwards Archdeacon of Chichester and Rector of St. Dunstans in the West London where he died in 1643. In which year his Archdeaconry was confer'd upon Dr. H. Hammond July 5. Henry Locket of Linc. Tho. Howell of Jesus Dec. 7. Joh. Bayly of Ex. Coll. The two last accumulated Jan. 21. Rob. Bedingfield of Ch. Ch. He had before published A Serm. preached at Pauls cross 24. Oct. 1624. on Rom. 6. 23. Oxon. 1625. qu. and as 't is probable others which is all I know of him only that was a Suffolk Man born elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. 1614 and that he died at Newton in Cambridgeshire of which I think he was Rector in the year 1651. Incorporations July 8 Job Paterson M. of A. of the University of St. Andreââ in Scotland as the pub Reg. saith He was now a Student in this University and was afterwards Bishop of Gaâloway in his own Country Julyâ¦Hugh Symmes Doctor of Physick of Leyden in Holland Octâ¦John Hurne M. of A. Edenburgh in Scotland Whether he be the same Joh. Hurne who wrot and published The history of the Jews deliverance out of Babylon c. in ten Sermons upon Psal 126. Lond. 1622. qu. I know not This year was incorporated for at least was a supplicate made for that purpose one Thomas Taylor Doct. of Div. of Christs Coll. in Cambridge who was at first if I mistake not a Preacher at Watford in Hertfordshire afterwards at Reading in Berks and now this year Pastor of Aldermanbury in London where as-also by most of the Ministers in that City he was esteemed an illuminated Doctor excellent in following and opening an Allegory The first thing that made him known to the World was his Commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul written to Titus Cambr. 1612. qu. c. From which time to 1635 were several Sermons expositions c. published under his name the titles of most of which you may see in the Oxford Catalogue He was also Author of The use of the Law which some call The rule of the Law answered by one Rob. Towne an Antinomian in his book entit The assertion of Grace He died about the beginning of the year 1632 and was buried in the Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury See more in Will. Jemmat among the writers in the other Vol. Ephraim Vdall was entred a Student in the publick Library in the beginning of July this year but how long he continued there or whether he was originally of this University I cannot yet tell This Person who was gathering materials towards the publishing of a book or books I take to be the same Ephraim Vdall who was now or at least shortly after Parson of St Austins in the Old Exchange near St. Austins Gate in London a Man of eminent piety exemplary conversation profound learning and indefatigable industry by preaching a Lecture at his own Parish every Tuesday in the afternoon and if I am not mistaken every Sunday before the first Sunday in the month a preparatory Sermon to the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper Besides all this he was esteemed a Man of an affable courteous and peaceable conversation among his neighbours In a word he was a Man of their own vote viz. of the Puritans or Presbyterians and was without profanation be it spoken a shining and burning light But when he found himself mistaken in the ends and intentions of the Heads of the rebellion that broke out in 1641. and 42 when he saw that the zeal of some did
of March 1682. The before mention'd Tho. Warwick Father to Sir Philip was also one of the Organists of the Royal Chappel belonging to K Ch. 1. and was so admirably well skil'd in the theory part of musick that he composed a Song of forty parts for forty several persons each of them to have his part entire from the other This Song was performed before his Majesty about the year 1635 by forty Musitians mostly belonging to his Majesty and by some to certain Churches among whom Ben. Rogers of Windsore was one Apr. 17. Joh. Maplet of Ch. Ch. was then actually created Master of Arts being about to take a journey to his Uncle in Holland He is hereafter to be remembred as a Writer July 4. Hen. Killigrew of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts. He is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers of this University Theodorus Vchtmannus of Groning was this year in July entred a Student in the publick Library where he studied the supream Faculty He was afterwards Professor of the Hebrew Tongue at Leyden and a publisher of several books An. Dom. 1639. An. 15 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Frewen again Jul. 13. Proct. Edw. Fulham of Ch. Ch. Rob. Heywood of Brasn Coll. Apr. 24. Bach. of Musick Jul. 5. Will. Ellis lately Organist of Eaton Coll. near to Windsore now of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon. He hath some small things of his faculty extant as Rounds Catches sacred Hymns and Canons for Voices which you may partly see in a book entit A choice Collection of Catches Rounds and Canons for three or four Voices Lond. 1652 c. oct collected and published by John Hilton Bach. of Musick sometimes Organist of S. Margarets Church in Westminster and Clerk of the Parish belonging thereunto This Mr. Ellis died in Magd. Parish in the north Suburb of Oxon and was buried in the Churchyard there in the latter end of the year 1680. Bach. of Arts. May 2. Christop Love of New Inn. 16. Joh. Jackson of Gloc. Hall This person who was a Cornish man born is not to be understood to be the same with that Jo. Jackson M. of A. of Cambridge as it seems born at or near Hathornewait in the Forest of Over-Wiersdale in Lancashire beneficed in Essex and Author of several tracts of practical Divinity as of 1 A taste of the truth as it is in Jesus consisting of ten questions and answers c. Lond. 1648. oct 2 Directions for private Worship of God c. printed there the same year besides divers Sermons published in 1641 and 42 c. Jun. 13. Rich. Parr of Exet. Coll. Gilb. Coles Will. Bew of New Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Landaff 15. Thom. Manton of Hart Hall lately of Wadh. Coll. Joh. Nelme of Magd. Hall was admitted the same day See among the Masters an 1642. 19. Hen. Bennet Tho. Willis of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the created Doctors of Law an 1663. The other was afterwards an eminent Physitian Jul. 4. Tho. Lamplugh Tho. Tullie John Dale of Qu. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Archb. of York the other two Writers and the last afterwards of Magd. Coll. 5. Joh. Corbet of Magd. Hall 12. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. See among the Masters 1642. 24. Will. Russell of Lincoln Nov. 19. Sam. Aneley of Queens Dec. 10. Walt. Blandford of Wadh. Coll. The last of which three was afterwards Bishop of Worcester Jan. 18. Thankful Owen of Exeter afterwards of Lincoln Coll. See among the Masters in 1646. 23. Will. Scroggs of Pemb. Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Jackson are to be mention'd among the Writers and in the Fasti in the 2 Vol. of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 217. Bach. of Law Six were admitted this year of whom Joh. Nicholson of Magd. College lately Proctor of the University was one and John Wainwright of All 's Coll. another Both which were Chancellours after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. May 2. George Lawrence of New Inn. 13. Benj. Wells of S. Maries Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. 16. Tho. Holyoake of Qu. Coll. Rob. Wickens of Ch. Ch. July 4. Hen. Vaughan of Jes 5. Thom. Gawen of New Feb. 5. Joh. Riland of Magd. 22. Ralph Button Joh. Priaulx of Mert. Coll. The last saving one was made afterwards by the Parliamentarian Visitors Orator of the University and Canon of Ch. Church Adm. 135. Bach. of Phys But three were admitted this year of whom Edw. Lenton of Magd Hall was one and John Edwards of S. Johns Coll. Reader of the Nat. Philosophy Lecture another Bach. of Div. Jul. 4. Nich. Gibbon of S. Edm. Hall Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll. Dec. 17. Tho. Good of Ball. Feb. 6. Noel Spark of C. C. Coll. The last was a most excellent Latinist and Grecian a most curious Critick in all kind of Learning and admirably well vers'd in the Fathers yet never published any thing His Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. Coll. was admitted the same day Adm. 18. Doct. of Law Jun. 13. Tho. Lloyd of S. Joh. 25. Herbert Pelham Jul. 5. Joh. Nicolson of Magd. Coll. The last who accumulated was after his Majesties Restauration made Chancellour of the Dioc. of Glcc. Doct. of Physick Jun. 14. Joh. Edwards of S. Johns Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Physick being at this time as I have before told you Natural Philosophy Professor 19. Thom. Clayton of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of Physick Warden of Merton College and a Knight Jul. 5. Joh. Aubrey of Magd. Nov. 24. Bridstock Harford of Linc. Coll. Doct. of Div. Apr. 29. John Oliver of Magd. Coll. This person who was a Kentish man born and originally of Mert. Coll. was afterwards successively Demy and Fellow of that of Magd. where his eminence in Learning and orthodox Principles in Religion being conspicuous he was taken into the Service of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and by him made his domestick Chaplain and promoted in the Church but losing all in the time of the Rebellion he was elected President of his Coll. in Apr. 1644 upon the advancement of Dr. Frewen to the See of Lichfield In the latter end of 1647 he was turn'd out of his Presidentship by the Committee of Lords and Commons for the reformation of the University of Oxon and in the beginning of the next year by the Visitors themselves in their own proper persons So that afterwards living obscurely and in great hardship wanted the charities which he before bestowed on the poor and the publick being in a manner the object of charity himself On the 18 of May 1660 which was about a fortnight before his Majesties Return he was by the Authority of Parl. restored to his Presidentship and on the 22 of the said month he took
John Philipot of Kent Herald of Arms by the title of Somerset by Susan his Wife only daughter and heir of Will. Glover Brother to that most skilful Genealogist Robert Glover Somerset Herald was educated in Clare Hall commenced M. of A. and was by those that well knew him esteemed a tolerable Poet when young and at riper years well vers'd in matters of Divinity History and Antiquities He hath extant under his name 1 Elegies offered up to the memory of Will Glover Esq late of Shaldeston in Bucks Lond. 1641. qu. 2 A congratulatory elegy offered up to the Earl of Essex upon his investiture with the dignity of Lord Chamberlayne Lond. 1641. qu. 3 Poems Lond. 1646. oct 4 Villare Cantianum or Kent surveyed and illustrated Lond. 1659. and 1664. fol. To which is added An historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent by John Philipot the Father who indeed is the true Author of Viliare Cantianum 5 The Cripples complaint a Serm. printed 1662. qu. 6 The original and growth of the Spanish Monarchy united with the house of Austria Lond. 1664. oct 7 Antiquitas Theologica Gentilis Or two discourses The first concerning the original of Churches and their direct and collateral endowments the second touching the Religion of the Gentiles c. Lond. 1670. in tw 8 Historical discourse of the original and growth of Heraldry pr. 1672. oct 9 Self-homicide-Murther or some Antidotes gleaned out of the Treasuries of our modern Casuists and Divines against that horrid and reigning sin of self-murther Lond. 1674. qu. He hath written and published other things which I have not yet seen among them is The life of Aesop in English and died in 1684 or thereabouts Jul. 15. Will. Blake Doct. of the Civ Law of Padua This Will. Blake who was now or lately Fellow of Wadham Coll. as also Brother to Rob. Blake General at Sea in the Reign of Oliver died at Bridgwater in Somersetshire 1667. Nov⦠Isaac Basire D. of D. of Cambridge This learned Doctor who had that degree confer'd on him there in July this year and is stiled in the publick Register of this time Vir doctissimus ingenii doctrinae ornamentis praeditus was born in the Isle of Jersey and was about this time one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary and soon after Archdeacon of Northumberland in the place of Ever Gower Bach. of Div. who had that dignity confer'd on him about 1640 by the ceasing of Will. Flathers Bach. of Div. collated thereunto 24 Nov. 1636. In the time of the Rebellion Dr. Bafire fled to Oxon adhered to his Majesties cause preached frequently before him and the Parliament there and was an equal sharer in afflictions with other Loyalists About the year 1646 he left the Nation and travelled into remote Countries purposely to propagate the Doctrine established in the British Church among the Greeks Arabians c. as to the Island of Zante near Peloponesus thence to Morea where the Metropolitan of Achaia prevailed with him to preach twice in Greek at a meeting of some of the Bishops and Clergy From thence after he had travelled thorow Apulia Naples and Sicily in which last place he had been once before he imbarked for Syria where at Aleppo he continued some months and had frequent Conversation with the Patriarch of Antioch From Aleppo he went to Jerusalem and so travell'd all over Palestina At Jerusalem he received much honor both from the Greeks and Latins from the last he procured an entrance into the Temple of the Sepulcher at the rate of a Priest Afterwards returning to Aleppo he passed over Euphrates and went to Mesopotamia Thence to Aleppo again and at length to Constantinople in 1653 in which year he designed to pass into Egypt to survey the Churches of the Cophties there and to confer with the Patriarch of Alexandria as he had done with three Patriarchs besides partly to acquire the knowledge of those Churches and partly to publish ours quantum fert status Afterwards he went into Transylvania and was entertained by Prince George Rogoczi or Rogotzi the second Prince of that Country by whom he was entrusted with the Chair in the Divinity School After the Return of King Charles 2. to his Dominions he took his leave of that Country then in broils returned into England took possession of his Archdeaconry and was made Prebendary of Durham which Dignities he kept to his dying day He hath written 1 Deo ecclesiae sacrum Sacriledge arraigned and condemned by St. Paul Romans 2. 22. Oxon. 1646. qu. Lond. 1668. oct 2 Diatriba de antiqua ecclesiae Britannicae libertate Brugis 1656. oct The MS. of which being found in the Cabinet of John Lord Hopton after his decease by Rich. Watson an exil'd Theologist for his loyalty was by him published at Bruges Afterwards the said Watson translated it into English and put it out under this title The antient liberty of the Britannick Church and the legitimate exemption thereof from the Roman Patriarchate discoursed in four positions Lond. 1661. oct Dedicated by the said Watson by his Epistle dated from Caen in Normandy 12. Aug. 1660. to Sir Rich. Browne Clerk of the Privy Council to his Majesty of Great Britaine he supposing then that Basire the Author had been dead in Transylvania Three chapters or positions of which were selected from a Latin MS. written by F. John Barnes of the order of St. Benedict as I have elsewhere told you 3 Letter to Sir Rich. Browne Resident at Paris for his Majesty of Great Britaine relating his travels and endeavours to propagate the knowledge of the doctrine and discipline established in the Britannick Church among the Greeks Arabians c. dated from Pera near to Constantinople 20. July 1653 and printed at the end of The ancient Liberty of the Britannick Church c. 4 History of the English and Scotch Presbytery c. printed 1659. 60. oct 5 Oratio privata boni Theologi speciatim concionatoris practici partes praecipuas complectens Lond. 1670. in half a sh in oct 6 The dead mans real speech Serm. on Heb. 11. 4. at the funeral of Dr. John Cosin late Bishop of Durham 29. Apr. 1672. Lond. 1673. oct 7 A brief of the life and dignities of the benefactions and principal actions c. of Dr. John Cosin late Bishop of Durham Printed with the former together with An appendix of his profession and practice and of his last will concerning religion This Dr. Basire who without doubt hath published other things paid his last debt to nature in a good old age on the twelfth day of Octob. 1676 and was buried in the Cemetery belonging to the Cathedral of Durham near to the body of an antient servant that had lived many years with him and not by that of his Wife in the Cathedral In his Archdeaconry succeeded Will. Turner Rector of Stanhope in the County Palat. of Durham M. of A. afterwards D. D. and sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll.
at first to be observed by several of his compositions in Poetry After he had taken one degree in Arts and had spent some time in exercising his fancy among the Poets in the great City he was esteemed not Jos Hall of Emanuel coll in Cambridge excepted the best for Satyr among English men At length his mind growing more serious he studied Physick for the improvement of which he travelled beyond the Seas took the degree of Dr. of that faculty at Avenion returned and was incorporated in the University in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth Afterwards setling in London he practiced it became much frequented for his success in it especially by the R. Catholicks of which number he was by many suspected to be one and was as much cried up to his last for Physick as he was in his younger days for his poetical fancy He hath written Alarum against Usurers containing tried experiences against worldly abuses Lond. 1584. qu. History of Forbonius and Prisaeria with truths complaint over England Printed with the Alarum Euphues Golden Legacy found after his death in his cell at Silexedra bequeathed to Philautus Sonnes nursed up with their Father in England Lond. 1590. c. qu. The wounds of a civil War lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla Lond. 1594. qu. A fig for Momus Pr. in qu. Looking-glass for London An historical Comedy Lond. 1598. qu. In the composure of which he had the assistance of Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge Liberality and prodigality Comedy Lady Alimony Com. Luminalia a Maske Lawes of nature Com. Assisted also in these by the said Rob. Green who is accounted the half author of them Treatise of the Plague containing the nature signs and accidents of the same c. Lond. 1603. qu. Countess of Lincol. Nusery Oxon. 1622. in 2. or 3. sh in qu. Treatise in defence of Plays This I have not yet seen nor his Pastoral Songs and Madrigals besides several other things which are as it were lost to the generality of Scholars He also translated into English 1 Josephus his History or Antiquities of the Jews Lond. 1602. 09. 20. c. sol 2 The works both moral and natural of Luc. An. Seneca Lond. 1614. 20. fol. c. This eminent Doctor who practiced his faculty in Warwick Lane in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. and afterwards on Lambert-hill removed thence a little before his last end into the parish of S. Mary Magd. in Old Fishstreet London where he made his last exit of the Plague I think in September in sixteen hundred twenty five year 1625 leaving then behind him a Widdow called Joan but where buried unless in the Church or yard there I know not His memory is celebrated by several Poets whose Encomiums of him being frequent I shall for brevity sake pass them now by and proceed to the next who had a name among those of his perswasion for an eminent Theologist HENRY HOLLAND was born at Daventry commonly called Dantry in Northamptonshire educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near to Winâsore elected Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1565. took one degree in Arts left that house soon after his Friends Country and Religion and went to Dâway in Flanders where making a considerable progress in the Theological faculty was made Priest and Bach. of Div. Afterwards he went to Rheims and in the English coll there was a most noted preacher for several years and at length gave his assisting hand to the Translation of the Rheimish Testament Soon after he was sent into the English Harvest to gain souls to his religion but finding that imployment dangerous he retired to Doway again where being made ãâ¦ã Divinity read and interpreted divine Letters fâr many years in the Monastery of Anchine near to that place His works are De venerabili Sacramento De Sacrificio Missae Duac 1609. Carmina diversa with other things printed beyond the Seas which seldom or never come into these parts He gave way to fate in a good old age within the said Monastery of Anchine year 1625 on the 28. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five and was buried in the Cloyster there Over his grave is an Epitaph beginning thus Dantria me genuit me clara Vigornia fovit Aetona me docuit post doeet Oxonium The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 307. b. In this Hen. Holland's time were one two or more writers of both his names as 1 Hen. Hol. who wrote A treatise against Witchcraft c. Camb. 1590. qu. and the same as it seems who published Spiritual preservations against the Pestilence and added thereunto An admonition concerning the use of Physick Both printed 1603. qu. 2 H. Hol. who published the Hist of Adam or the fourfold state of Man c. Pr. 1606. qu. and Christian Exercise of Fasting private and publick c. Pr. 1596. qu. Whether this H. Holland be the same with the first who was of Cambridge as it seems I cannot tell unless I see their respective books neither can I say to the contrary but that he may be the same H. Holland who published the Posthuma of his Brother Abrah Holland sometimes of Trin. coll in Cambridge Lond. 1626. Which Abraham who was author also of a Poem called Naumachia or Hollands Sea-fight Lond. 1622. qu. died on the 18. of Febr. 1625. 3 Hen. Holland Son of Philemon Holland a Physician and Schoolmaster of the City of Coventry who was born there travelled with John Lord Harington into the Palatinate in 1613. and collected and wrote Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiae S. Pauli Lond. Printed in qu. Also Herologia Anglica sive effigies vitae elogia clarorum doctorum aliquot Anglorum ab an 1500. ad 1620. Lond. 1620. in two tomes fol. and did engrave and pub a book intit A book of Kings being a true and lively Effigies of all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present c. 1618. But this Hen. Holland was not educated either in Oxon or Cambridge having been a Member of the Society of the Stationers in London See in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1572. HENRY FINCH second Son of Sir Thom. Finch of East well in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated in this University particularly as I conceive in Oriel coll wherein several of his sirname and Family studied in the time of Q. Elizabeth From Oxon he was translated to Greys Inn wherein making great proficiency in the Municipal Laws became a Councellour of note Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house 2. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law 1614. and one of the Kings Serjeants and a Knight two years after being then in great esteem for his knowledge in his profession He hath written Nomotexnia cestascavoir un description del common Leys d' Angleterre solonique les rules del Art c. Lond. 1613. fol. in 4 books Done into English by the same author under this
adorned with the degree of Bachelaur of Arts wearing then the Gown and Habit of a Compounder that is one who compounds or pays double or treble Fees for his Degree which is usually done by rich Dignitaries In the year following he was admitted into Commons in Exeter Coll. and allowed to take place among the Fellows of that Society He succeeded in that Dignity Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State an 1540 and was succeeded by John Goodman 1548. John Hopkyns was admitted the same day He is supposed to be the same John Hopkyns who had a hand in turning into English meetre several of Davids Psalms Nov. 3. Rich. Edwards of C. C. Coll. Jan. 12. Roch. Harford of Mert. Coll. Whether he took a higher degree in this University it appears not While he was Bach. of Arts he was Archdeacon of S. Davids which he keeping for some years was at length made Archdeacon of Hereford At the time of his death he gave Lands to Mert. Coll. situate and being within the Town of Walton near to Tewkesbury in Glocestershire Besides these four were 56 admitted In the month of June this year supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts one Will. Walker a Priest but whether he was admitted it appears not In Dec. 1554 he was made Succentor of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in which Dignity he was succeeded by one Hen. Brither in the beginning of 1561. â But 4 Bach. of the Civ Law were admitted the encouragement for that Profession being now much decayed Mast of Arts Apr. 8. Edmund Daniel of Mert. Coll. See in the year 1556. June 13. Christoph Goodman of Brasn Coll. 25. John Heron John Proctor John Watson of All 's Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bish of Winchester Oct. 18. Hen. Pendleton of Brasn Coll. Jan. 28. Tho. Greenaway of C. C. Coll. This Person who was a Hampshire man born was Author of Vita Richardi Fox C. C. C. Oxon. fundatoris breviter descripta an 1566. The beginning of which was Richardus Fox familia satis splendida c. 'T is a Manuscript kept to this day in the Archives of C. C. C. Libr. He was afterwards Bach. of Div. as 't is said tho his Admission is neglected to be registred and at length President of the said Coll. He died at Heyford Purcells in Oxfordshire being then Rector of that place in August 1571 and was buried in the Church there Jan. 28. John Jewell of C. C. C. Besides these 8 were about 24 admitted and several who supplicated among whom Ralph Robinson of C. C. Coll. was one mentioned under the year 1540. Bach. of Div. June 14. James Brokes of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Glocester Two more who were of Brasn Coll. were admitted namely Will. Smyth and Tho. Typping and three there were that supplicated for the said Degree â Not one Doctor of the Civ Law or LL. was admitted or supplicated only one Rob. Raynold of New Coll. and not one in Physick or Divinity only in the last Will. Pye of Or. Coll. whom I have formerly mentioned Incorporations Mar. 11. Andr. Davyson Bac. of Arts of Cambridge afterwards M. of A. beyond the Seas was then incorporated Master of Art An. Dom. 1545 An. 37 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Long and Bishop of Linc. Commiss the same viz. Dr. Tresham Proct. John Stoyt of Mert. Coll. again Simon Perrot of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Arts. June⦠James Neyland See among the M of A. 1548. July⦠Will. Whittyngham of Brasn Coll. He was soon after of All 's Coll. and at length the unworthy thy Dean of Durham Jul⦠John Piers of Magd. Coll. He died Archbish of York Oct⦠Tho. Hyde of New Coll. James Bicton was admitted in the same month See among the Mast of Arts an 1547. The Admissions this year come in all but to about 32. Bach. of Civ Law Nov⦠Valentine Dale of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Wells See more among the Incorporations in 1552. Besides him were only three more admitted Mast of Arts. June⦠Tho. Bickley of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Chichester ⦠John Molens or Mullyns of the same Coll. Besides these two 25 more were admitted and some that supplicated who were never admitted Bach. of Physick ⦠George Ethryg or Etheridge of C. C. Coll. ⦠Rich. Master of All 's Coll. See more among the Doctors of this Faculty under the year 1554. ⦠John Throwley Bach. of Divinity lately a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict was then admitted Bach. of Physick Bach. of Div. ⦠Mathew Smyth the first Principal of Brasn Coll. For the said Degree supplicated Patrick Walsh who was afterwards Bish of Waterford in Ireland Will. Bocher afterwards President of C. C. Coll. and John Smyth afterwards Provost of Oriel which three were without doubt admitted but neglected to be registred by the publick Scribe of the University As for Smyth he was engaged in a Dispute with Hugh Latimer in the Divinity School 18 Apr. 1554. Doct. of LL. Jan⦠John Fuller of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Prebendary of Ely Chancellour to the Bish thereof and Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge You may read of him in the Acts and Mon. of the Church written by John Fox under 1555. In the same month Nich. Bullyngham of All 's Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree but was not admitted See among the Incorporations 1566. Also Rob. Weston of the same Coll. See in ann 1556 among the Doct. of Law â Not one Doct. of Physick was adm this year Doct. of Div. Nov⦠Will. Cheadsey of C. C. Coll. He was now Chaplain to Dr. Bonner Bish of London who was his Promoter to several Dignities in the Church Another Person was also admitted Doctor but his true Name is omitted in the Register Incorp Jun⦠Rich. Coxe M. of A. of this University afterwards D. D. of Cambridge and now Dean of Osney near Oxford was then incorporated D. of D. as he had stood at Cambridge An. Dom. 1546. An. 38 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Smyth of Oriel Coll. Simon Perrot again Elected the first day of Easter Term the senior being then as it seems Bach. of Divinity Bach. of Arts. Jul⦠Justinian Lancaster of C. C. Coll. Whether he took the degree of M. A. it appears not Afterwards he was made Archdeacon of Tauntoâ in Somersetshire in the place I suppose of John Fitzjames deprived an 1560. ⦠Michael Reninger commonly called Rhanger of Magd. Coll. ⦠John Cox of Brasn Coll. I find one of both his names to have made several Translations into the English Tongue as 1. An Exhortation to the Ministers of Gods word in the Church of Christ Lond. 1575. written by Henr. Bullinger 2. A Treatise of the word of God written against the traditions of men Lond. 1583. oct written by Anth. Sadeâll c. But whether the said Translations were made by the aforesaid John Cox of Brasn Coll. or another