in this University a Student The famous Didacus Covarruvias professed the Canon Law here Franciscus à Victoria was Professour of Divinity here Dominicus à Soâ—o l. 1. de Iustitia jure cals it his University Saragossa In this ancient City the Kings of Arragon are usually accustomed to be Crowned By Pope Iohn the 22 d the priviledges of this University were restored and ratified Signenca Little is said in Authors concerning the Foundation of this University or donation of priviledges thereto Lerida In this City flourisheth an Academy of great Antiquity wherein Pope Calixtus the 3 d before he obtained the Papacy proceeded Doctor of either Law who afterward became a publick Professor of the Civil Law in the same place Also Vincent a Dominican Frier was there made Doctor of Divinity Huesca Osca or Isca It is a goodly City of Arragon containing an University of great Antiquity which is said to have been erected before the coming of Christ as a Nursery for the Institution of Noble mens children Lisbone It is the Metropolis of Portugall A most renowned University was by the bounty of their Kings erected in this City where even untill this day the liberall Sciences are prosessed with great profoundness to the incredible benefit of Christendom Conimbra It is a most pleasant and goodly City in Portugall An University was therein Founded in these later daies by Iohn the 2 d King of Portugall Iacobus Payva Andradius studied in this University There is Collegium Conimbricense upon a good part of Aristotle his Logick and Physicks Evora It is another famous City of Portugall An University was herein lately erected by Henry Cardinall of Portugall who was Bishop of that place He was a man endued with abundant wealth and exceedingly affected to the Muses Majorica In this City is an ancient priviledged and authorized University where the Arts generally are publikely with great Learning professed Among the Students of this Academy the memory of Raymundus Lullius is with great admiration retained because he received therein his birth and education in so much that even untill this present time a Learned man is there with liberall exhibition entertained to maintain and teach the doctrine professed by Lullius in times past CHAP. XIII Of the Universities of England BRittain which comprehends England and Scotland is the greatest Isleland of Europe it was in times past called Albion say some ab albis montibus primùm ad eam navigantibus apparentibus See Bish. Usher De Britan. Eccles. primord Some of the chief things for which England is famous are comprehended in this verse Mons Fons Pons Ecclesia Famina Lana England is termed by some the Paradise of women the Purgatory of servants the Hell of horses England hath been famous for Learned men and for her Seminaries of Learning as well as other things Renowned Scholars amongst us Alcuinus one of the Founders of the University of Paris Beda styled Venerabilis Anselm and Bradwardine Archbishops of Canterbury Alexander of Hales Tutor to Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure Iohn Wiclef Since the times of the Reformation Iohn Iewell Bishop of Salisbury D r Iohn Reynolds and M r Richard Hooker D r Whitaker Bishop Bilson and Andrews both Bishops of Winchester Bishop Mountague of Norwich D r Iohn Whitgift Papists D r Harding Nicholas Sanders and D r Thomas Stapleton Campian and Parsons and William Rainolds For other studies Lindwood the Canonist Cosins and Cowell eminent in the study of the Civil Laws Bracton and Briton of old times Dier and Cooke of late daies expert in the Laws of England Iohannes de Sacro Bosco the Author of the book of the Sphere Roger Bacon a famous Mathematician Sir Francis Bacon an excellent Philosopher Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor a witty and Learned man Sir Henry Savill a great Grecian Sir Henry Spelman a Learned Antiquary Camden the Pausanias of the British Islands Sir Thomas Bodlie Sir Isaac Wake M r Selden Matthew Paris Matthew of Westminster Roger Hoveden Henry of Huntingdon William of Malmesbury and Thomas of Walsingham all known Historians For Poetry Gower Chaucer Spencer Sir Philip Sidnie Daniel and Draiton Beaumont and Fletcher Ben Iohnson As the messenger of Pyrrhus long since called Italy a Conntry of Kings and Egypt was wont to be called the Country of Physitians so may this blessed Island of ours justly merit the title of The Region of Divines D r Hals Preface to the married Clergy Stupor mundi Clerus Britannieus whence many outlandish men have learned English that they might reade those Books of our Divines which were printed in our Language Ioseph Scaliger findes fault with our English men for speaking Latine Some think they pronounce the a too little and the i too big and broad Caius in his Book De pronuntiatione Graecae Latinae linguae saith that he learned by experience that variety of pronuncing did hinder mutuall commerce mens society and understanding of things He saith that a Greek Patriarck being at London in the Reign of Edward the 6 th did not understand Sir Thomas Cheeke nor Sir Thomas him the Knight using the new kinde of pronouncing the other the old he addes pleading for the old and barbarous pronunciation Quo omnes Graeci ad huc utebantur cum ego essem Venetiis tum è Cathedra Graecas literas profitendo tum in templis sacra celebrando Audiebam enim data opera saepius At si ego tacerem norit Oxoniensis schola quemadmodum ipsa Graecia pronunciarit ex Matthaeo Calphurnio Graeco quem ex Graecia Oxonium Graecarum literarum gratia produxerat Thomas Wolsaeus de bonis literis optimè meritus Cardinalis cum non alia ratione pronunciarit ille quà m qua nos jam profitemur Id si ita sit nos Britanni docebimus ipsos Graecos in ipsa Graecia oriundos sua verba sonare suas voces atquè literas pronuâ—tiare plus in aliena lingua sapiens quà m ipsa gens atquè natio cui lingua Graeca familiaris atque etiam vulgaris est successione temporum continuata tanquam per manus esse tradita Nam privata haec pronunciatio paucorum hominum in Britania est eorum juvenum alibi minimè recepta gentium There are in England many triviall Schooles in Towns and Cities Amongst which the most famous are That of Eaton and Westminster founded by Henry the 6 th Edward the 4 th and Q. Elizabeth and of Winchester Schola certè Augusta ante 200 ampliùs annos erecta ut adolescentes suavioribus disciplinis imbuti ad artes Academicâ—s meliori genio animum intendant Europaei orbis Academiae There are also in London that of Pauls and Merchant Taylors The two Universities of England may equall many beyond Sea Ubi tot Academiae quot Collegia Scultetus de curriculo vitae Magnae in Collegiis Angliae opes vectigalia verbo vobis dicam unum Oxoniense
another Kingdom who holds Oxford to be the ancienter Oxford also hath been famous for Learned Scholars Mathematicians and Schoolmen for the later there is no question and I shall mention divers of them when I speak of Merton Colledge For the first Roger Bacon Bradwardine Simon Bredon and Oddington were famous The first Professor in Civil Law in England viz. Vacarius was of Oxford Oxford lies in a Champion plain It is a fair and goodly City whether a man respect the seemly beauty of private houses or the stately magnificence of publick buildings together with the wholesom sight or pleasant prospect thereof It is formed in the figure of a Cross two long streets thwarting one another each of them near a mile in length containing in that compass thirteen Parish Churches and a See Episcopall founded here by King Henry the 8 th Anno 1541. For the Stateliness of the Schools and publick Library and Gallery the bravery and beauty of particular Colledges all built of fair and polished stone the liberall endowment of those houses and great incouragements of Industry and Learning in the salary of the Professors in most Arts and Sciences it is say some not to be paralleled in the Christian world D r Iames hath set out two Catalogues of the publick Library in Oxford One published in the year 1605 which mentions the Books Alphabetically distinguished according to the four Faculties The other 1620. in which there is only a care had of the Alphabeticall order by this more exact Catalogue one may readily finde any Authour and all the Works of that Authour uno intuitu If the Library be inferiour to the Popes Vaticane in sumptuous building yet in Printed Books if not in Manuscripts there being many choice ones given by Sir Thomas Bodlie and of late by my Lord of Pembroke and Archbishop Laude in almost all Languages it may well contend with it for a Superiority Reckon the number of Volumes in the publick Library whereof the greatest part are in Folio which amount to 11 or 12 thousands of divers Authours the plurality of Languages the diversity of Sciences wherein these Books are written the condition of the Books whether written or printed by Protestants or Papists or any other the use for six hours every day throughout the whole year Sundaies and Holydaies excepted and we shall finde that the like Library is no where to be found D r Iames of the Corrupt of Script Counc and Fath. part 5. In Oxford there are 18 Colledges endowed with Lands besides 7 Halls where Students live at their own charges in both of them Professors of the Arts and Sciences as also of Divinity Law Physick and the learned Languages with Liberall Salaries University Colledge Founded 872. Alfred or Allured King of the West Saxons being addicted to Religion and good literature for the increase and study of Divinity Philosophy and other Arts in the 2 d year of his reign founded this Colledge by the name of University Colledge George Abbat Archbishop of Canterbury was of this Colledge Baliol Colledge Founded 1262. Iohn Baliol born at Bernads Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham a worthy Warriour to King Henry the 3 d in his civil Warres against his Barons with his wife Dervorgilla a Lady of Honourable Parentage Parents of Iohn Baliol King of the Scots Founded this Colledge giving thereunto both Lands and Revenews for the maintenance of a Master 10 Fellows and 11 Scholars which is Recorded to be the first and most anciently endowed Colledge in this University as some late Historians constantly affirm Iam Fundatoris imprimis Balioli Regis Scotiae nomen jactat quasi tum olim Scotia suos Reges Academiae nostrae propitios in Baliolo suo sposponderit quod in Iacobo nostro jam faeliciter appropinquante praestitit Wake Rex Plat. Iohn Wiclefe was of this House Wiclefus ille Restaurator Religionis cui non notus Baliolensis Alber. Gent. Laud. Acad. Perusin Oxon. Merton Colledge Founded 1274. Walter de Merton sometimes L. Chancellour of England Counsellour to King Henry the 3 d and Edward the first Bishop of Rochester Founded this Colledge by the name of Merton Colledge endowing it in effect with all the Lands and Revenews which at this present are belonging thereunto ordaining in the same a Warden and no definitive number of Fellows It may be styled Collegium Scholasticorum Bacon Burlie Occham Scotus Bradwardine Gatisdene Dumbleton Nicholas Gorrham Suitzaeus great lights of Europe were of this Colledge What one Colledge ever yielded at one time and from one Country three such Divines as Iewell Raynolds and Hooker or two such great Wits and Heroicall spirits as S r Thomas Bodley and S r Henry Savill D r Hackw Epist. Dedicat. to Oxford before his Apology Of this Colledge also were Bishop Carleton S r Isaac Wake the University Orator Excester Colledge Founded 1316. Walter Stapleton being descended of Noble Parentage for his Wisdom Gravity and Learning was often employed in Embassages from King Edward the 2 d who made him Bishop of Excester Lord Treasurer of England and one of his Privy Councell Founded this Colledge it was much augmented by Sir William Peter D r Hakewell Fellow of this House erected and finished the new Chappell D r Prideaux was Head of this House D r Holland was of this House Orial Colledge Founded 1337. King Edward the 2 d erected it it was so called because it was indeed a work which might beseem a King Queens Colledge Founded 1340. Robert Eglesfield Batchelor of Divinity Chaplain to Queen Philippa wife to King Edward the 3 d founded this Colledge in his own ground by the name of Queens Colledge commending the Patronage thereof to his Lady the Queen and to the Queens of England successively which he endowed with Lands and Revenews They are called to Dinner and Supper by the sound of a Trumpet Doctor Ayrie who wrote so well upon the Philippians was Provost of this Colledge Learned D. Langbane is now the Provost of it and worthy M. Barlow the Publick-Library-Keeper a Fellow of it New Colledge Founded 1375. William Wickam principal Secretary to King Edward the 3 d Keeper of the Privy-Seal Bishop of Winchester Lord High Treasurer and Chancellour of England founded this Colledge He also founded a Colledge at Winchester wherein he established one Warden ten Fellows two Schoolmasters and seventy Scholars with Officers and servants which all are maintained at his charge out of which School he ordained should be chosen the best Scholars alwayes to supply the vacant places of the Fellows of this Colledge Thomas Chaundlerus librum de Wiccami vita rebus gestis sane perelegantem conscripsit Waynfleti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wickamus celebratur ab erudito Iurisconsulto Martino Of this Colledge was Philpot the famous Martyr and S r Thomas Rives Bishop Lake D r Twisse and D r Iames. Lincoln Colledge Founded 1420. Richard
Fleming Bishop of Lincoln in the eighth year of the reign of King Henry the 5 th founded this Colledge by the name of Lincoln Colledge which was afterward in Richard the thirds time in the year of our Lord 1479. by Thomas Rotheram Bishop of the same Sea and Secretary to four Kings much augmented and increased D r Kilbie a learned Hebrician was Head of this Colledge and that learned School-Divine D r Sanderson was Fellow of this House All-Souls Colledge 1437. Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canterbury layed in Oxford the foundation of two goodly Colledges this and that of S t Iohns Colledge the last being reedified by S r Thomas White Lord Maior of London There is Vita Henrici Chichele Descripta ab Arthuro Dâ—â—k Magdalen Colledge Founded 1459. William Wainflet Bishop of Winshester founded first Magdalen Hall after that this Colledge dedicating the same to the honour of S. Mary Magdalen He builded also a great part of Eaton Colledge before begun by King Henry the sixt Prince Henry was of this Colledge Claimund and Doctor Bond were Presidents of it Brazeâ—-Nose Colledge Founded 1515. William Smith Bishop of Lincoln during the reign of King Henry the 7 th laid the foundation of this Colledge After whose death Richard Sutton Esquire took upon him to perfect the same which he accomplished Alexander Nowel was of this house M r Bolton and I think M r Iohn Ball. Corpus Christi Colledge Founded 1516. Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester and Godfather to King Henry the 8 th founded this Colledge It nourished Iewel Rainolds Wâ—tton Hooker Cardinal Pool who was chosen Pope D r Featley and other learned men Christ-Church Colledge Founded 1546. Thomas Wolsey Cardinal Archbishop of York and Lord high Chancellour of England laid the foundation of a most ample and spacious Colledge but he falling his design failed with the Founder Henry the eight enriched the same with many goodly revenues annexing thereunto Canterbury Colledge It hath a spatious Court or quadrangle nay divers and a Hall both spatious and splendid wherein is a most beautifull glasse Lanthorn there is also a very fair Kitchin which only was finished by the Cardinal and gave oceasion to that scoff of an outlandish man Egregium opus saith he Cardinalis Collegium incepit popinam absolvit Sanna vix è coquina deprompta adeo sale caret saith Sir Isaac Wake in his Rex Platonicus Peter Martyr was once Prebend of this Colledge as his own Epistles shew He writes thus Amico cuidam in Anglia Ego cum essem Oxonii vestibus illis albis in Choro nunquam uti volui quamvis essem Canonicus mei facti ratio mihi constabat Toby Matthew Archbishop of York was of this House and M r Burton who wrote of Melancholy upon whose Tomb there is this witty Epitaph Paucis notus paucioribus ignotus Hic jacet Democritus Iunior Cui vitam pariter mortem Dedit Melancholia Trinity Colledge Founded 1556. Sir Thomas Pope Knight founded this Colledge in the fourth year of the Reign of King Philip and Qu. Mary dedicating the same to the Trinity S t Iohns Colledge Founded 1557. Henry Chichley Doctor of the Civil-Law Archbishop of Canterbury among other building laid the foundation of this Fabrick it was enlarged by William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury Iesus Colledge Founded 1572. Hugh Prise Doctor of the Civil Law founded this Colledge it was perfected by Queen Elizabeth it hath had many other Benefactors Wadham Colledge Founded 1613. Nicholas Wadham Esquire in the seventh year of the raign of King Iames founded it Pembrok Colledge Founded 1620. It was first Broadgate-Hall but was called Pembroke Colledge from William Earl of Pembroke then Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Visitor of that Hall There are also in this University seven Hals in which there are many Students living at their own charge viz. Glocester-Hall Which being first built for Monks was after converted to a House for Scholars by Sir Thomas White Knight Edmund Hall It was builded by S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury Albon Hall It was builded by the Abbot of S t Albons for their Monks to study in Hart Hall It was built by Walter Stapleton Bishop of Excester M r Selden was of this House New Inne Heretofore it was called Turlocks Inne S t Mary Hall It was founded by King Edward the second Sir Thomas More Chancellour of England was of this Hall Cardinal Allen was principal of it about the same time Magdalen Hall It was founded by William Wainfleet Bishop of Winchester and D r Budden who writes his life and death cals it Aulam Magdaelene parentem Collegii and a little book which mentions the several Colledges in Oxford and Cambridge makes the Hall a eleven years elder then the Colledge Cambridge THis is the other University and eye of England a most famous Storehouse of good Literature and Godlinesse it standeth upon the River Cam which divideth it into two parts and hath a Bridge over it whence arose the name Cambridge There is not wanting any thing here which a man may require in a most flourishing University were it not that the air is somewhat unhealthfull arising as it doth out of a Fenny-ground hard by That Cantaber a Spainard 3751. years before Christs Nativity first began and founded this University is affirmed by Caius but Leland the great Antiquary and Camden also confute that conceit and M r Camden saith It was a seat of learning about the time of King of Henry the first and that under the reign of Edward the first some think it should be the second Grantbridge of a School was made an University such as Oxford is by the Court of Rome Hugh Balsham Bishop of Ely in the year 1284. built the first Colledge called Peter House and endowed it with lands whose example the other Founders did imitate and follow saith the same Camden That which some relate also That a publick Academy was erected at Cambridge by King Sigebert Anno Christi 630. Id vero dubia annalium fide nititur Cantabrigiensium quoque aemuli Oxonienses pernegant fortiter Et ut quaedam fuerit instituta procul dubio rudis fuit nec in longum tempus Caeterum nono seculo majori verisimilitudine laus illa competit Coring De Antiq. Academ Dissertat 3. Vide plura ibid. p. 73. See Petrus Blesensis at the end of Ingulphus That which some urge for the honour of Cambridge of Bedes reading there is a fable well confuted by Sir Isaac Wake in his Rex Platonicus in his Acts of the fourth day Bedam vero ipsum unquam Cantabrigiae fuisse quis nisi cerebri laesi putat Quum ipse dissertissimis scriptis suis asserat se nunquam extra monasterium suum operam literis dedisse ac ne inde unquam ferè egressum à pueritia Cantabrigiam verò sua aetate adeò Academiam celebrem non fuisse ut fuisse planè
desolatam civitatulam asserat Caius the Physician styled himself Londinensem when he wrote De Antiq. Cantab. Acad. though he was of Cambridge and only a Londoner by birth ne si Cantabrigiensis videretur affectum quoque suum in scribendo prodidisse videretur That passage of Caius's De Antiqu. Cantab. Acad. lib. 1. therefore might well have been spared Caeterum ad has discordias rumpendas atque finiâ—ndas sanctamque pacem componendam atque statuendam cum neque Oxâ—niensis Cantabrigiensem nec Cantabrigiensis ferat Oxoniensem in controversia judicem quòd pro sua cujusque affectione rem tractatam iri uterque indicet ex libidine magis quà m ex vero celebratam aut obscuratam existimet res suasit commiseratio jussit ut ego homo Londinensis medio loco inter utrumque positus eodem animo in utrumque affectus cui longa triginta annorum absentia à gymnasiis nisi subinde invisendi gratia charitatis studio omnem affectum juvenilem in Gymnasia sustulit hanc controversiam ut inutilem imo verò rem damnosam alioqui tanquam communis amicus definirem ac componerem Vide librum ejus de libris propriis My worthy friend Sir Simonds D'Ewers in his Speech touching the Antiquity of Cambridge saith If I should lose time to reckon up the vain allegations produced for the Antiquity of Oxford by Twyne and of Cambridge by Caius I should but repeat deliria senum At the present Cambridge consists of sixteen Colledges and Hals for there is little difference there between them erected and maintained with the Lands and Revenues of their several Founders Kings Colledge Chappel being founded by Henry the sixth is all of free-stone a very curious structure and from its form called the University Cradle Trinity Colledge founded by King Henry the eighth one of the compleatest Colledges in Europe A Colledge for stately greatnesse for uniform building and beauty of rooms scarce inferiour to any other in Christendom saith Camden Next to it is S t Iohns Colledge S t Peters Colledge or House Founded 1280. Hugh Basham Bishop of Ely began the foundation of this Colledge about Anno 1257. He setled not the endowment till anno 1284. Clare-Hall Founded 1280. Richard Badew Chancellour of the University first founded this Hall by the name of the University-House or Hall Afterwards the first foundation was resigned into the hands of Elizabeth Countesse of Clare widow which Lady by the licence of King Edward the 3 d established and finished the same and changing the name thereof willed that for ever after it should in memory of her family from whence she was descended be called Clare-Hall D r Butler the famous Physician was sometimes Fellow and President of this House Pembroke Hall Founded 1343. Mary de S. Paul Countesse of Pembroke daughter to Guido Chastillion Earl of S t Paul in France procured Licence from King Edward the 3 d to found this House by the name of the Colledge of Mary Valence after called Pembroke Hall Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester Edmond Grindall and Iohn Whitgift Archbishops of Canterbury William Fulk Doctor of Divinity were all Masters of this House and have by gifts of Lands Money Plate Books augmented the same and Lancelot Andrews Doctor of Divinity late Master and Bishop of Winchester hath given a thousand pounds with three hundred seventy four folio Books well bound M r Bradford Martyr was Fellow of Pembroke Hall and first lived in Katherine Hall and the Masters of those Colledges strove which should have him as himself relates in one of his Letters not to boast of himself but to shew Gods goodness towards him Bishop Ridley was also of Pembroke Hall and there in the Orchard learned without Book almost all Pauls Epistles yea and all the Canonical Epistles save only the Apocalypse So he saith of himself Corpus Christi Colledge Founded 1351. Henry of Monmouth sirnamed Torto Collo ordained this Colledge It hath been since much inlarged Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England were of this House and great Benefactors to it Trinity Hall Founded 1353. William Bateman Bishop of Norwich founded this Hall Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and Chancellour of this University was of this House Gonvill and Caius Colledge Founded 1353. Edmond Gonvill Parson of Terrington in Norfolk obtained License of King Edward the 3 d to erect this Colledge Afterward Iohn Caius Doctor of Physick Anno 1557. was made a Co-founder by Letters Patents who caused it to be called Gonvill and Caius Colledge King Iames being in Caius Colledge presented with Caius his Antiquitates Cantabrigiensis Academiae he said What should I do with the Antiquities of Cambridge Give me Caius de Canibus Kings Colledge Founded 1441. King Henry the sixth in the nineteenth year of his Reign began this royal Foundation In which Colledge at this present is standing one of the fairest Chappels in the world which only he finished but intended to have made the Colledge conformable thereunto D Goade was of this House Queens Colledge Founded 1448. Queen Margaret wife to Henry the sixth laid the Foundation of this Colledge but leaving the same imperfect Queen Elizabeth wife to King Edward the fourth obtained Licence to finish the same which she accomplished Bishop Davenant was Master of this Colledge Sir Thomas Smith principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth was Fellow of this Colledge Katherine Hall Founded 1475. Robert Woodlork Chancellour of Cambridge founded this Hall it hath been since inlarged by many other Benefactors D. Sibbes and Gouge were of this House Iesus Colledge Founded 1496. Iohn Alcock Bishop of Ely and Lord Chancellour of England procured Licence of King Henry the 7 th to found this Colledge Christs Colledge Founded 1505. It was first begun by King Henry the sixth and after his decease brought to perfection by the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond and mother of King Henry the 7 th This is called by D. Willet Collegium Theologorum the Colledge of Divines M. Perkins M. Bains and D. Ames were all Fellows of this Colledge S t Iohns Colledge Founded 1508. The Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond founded this Collenge which hath been much inlarged since by other Benefactors D. Whitaker was Master of this Colledge There is a fair Library in it founded by Bishop Williams Magdalen Colledge Founded 1519. Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham founded this Colledge it is since much inlarged by divers Benefactors Trinity Hall Founded 1546. It was founded and erected by King Henry the eight it is since much inlarged by divers Benefactors Emanuel Colledge Founded 1584. Sir Walter Mildmay Privy Councellor to Queen Elizabeth obtained Licence of the said Queen to found and erect this Colledge It hath since been much augmented by the liberality of divers Benefactors Doctor Preston was first Fellow of Queens Colledge and the Master of Emanuel Sidney Sussex Colledge Founded 1598. Frances Sidney Countesse
charites habuisse domicilium existimo Bibliander de Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum He hath written De utilitate legendae Historiae A Dissertation De Cometis and other Works Io. Iac. Grynaeus He hath expounded severall parts of Scripture and published two Books of select Epistles with other Works Epistolae selectae plenae gravissimarum rerum lectuque dignissimae Melch. Ad. in ejus vita He said Erasmus did more hurt the Pope of Rome jocando quam Lutherus stomachando He answered thus to Chytrans Si non amplius in his terris te visurus sum ibi tamen conveniemus ubi Luthero cum Zuinglio optimè jam convenit Melch. Ad. in ejus Vita â— Rudolphus Gualtherus a Poet and Divine He was born at Zurick the chief City of the Helvetians Anno 1518. His son also of the same name was a Learned Divine There are extant his verses in imagines Doctorum nostri seculi virorum Rodolph Gualterus the sonne hath written Homilies upon the lesser Prophets and other Learned Works Baptista Guarinus Stephanus Guichardus Estienne Guichard a Learned French Linguist He hath written a French book entitled L' Harmonie Etymologique des Langues an Etymologicall Harmony of Languages in which he compares at least twelve Languages with the Hebrew and excellently shews their originall and signification out of the Hebrew Language Franciscus Guicciardinus He seems to be inferiour to none of the Ancients for he excels in faith diligence prudence and other vertues and in the relation of things done in discovering of Counsels in noting the manners of men in describing of persons and in recounting Orations he hath many things which are wanting in others who have written the History of those times Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him A Tito nullus si quis mihi credat in orbe Clarior hoc uno floruit Historiâ Melchior Guilandinus Vir fuit sine dubio literatissimus qui instar Gorgiae de qualibet re proposita copiosè atque disertè poterat disputare Caâ—tellanus de vitis Medicorum Iohannes Guinterius Andernacus a Learned Physitian His Works are mentioned by Castellanus De vitis Medicorum Gyldas He wrote the Annals of the British Nation Lylius Gregorius Gyraldus Petrus Crinitus and he have both written of the Poets but he farre better Longe hoc viz. Crinito doctior diligentior Voss. De Histor. Lat. lib. 3. part 4. c. 1. Cujus extat Historia dialogis decem perscripta de Poetis antiquis opus sicut magni ingenii judicii sic ingentis doctrinae atque industriae ita ut exspectandum non sit ne quis deinceps hanc denuo provinciam suscipiat Vossius De Poetis Latinis cap. 7. CHAP. IV. H GEorge Hackwâ—ll Doctor of Divinity A very Learned and Pious man There are these Works of his published An Apology of the Power of God in the Government of the world King Davids Vow for Reformation His Answer to Carrier And some Sermons Theodoricus Hackspanius Professor of the Hebrew at Altdorph He hath put out Quadriga Disputationum and other Tracts Gualterus Haddonus Walter Haddon an Eloquent and Learned Doctor of the Civil Law There are published his Lucubrationes Poemata Oratio in Funere Mart. Buceri Responsio contra Hier. Osorium Continuata per Jo. Foxum l. 3 Hadrianus the Cardinall A man of profound Learning as appeareth by what he hath written of the Fundamentals of Christian Religion There is a Book also of his published De Sermone Latino modis Latinè loquendi Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayck Bohemus Aulae Caesareae medicus most skillfull in Physick Philosophy and Astronomy Sunt sanè hi quatuor viri D. Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayck M. Bartholomaeus Scultetus Gorliciensis D. Andreas Nolthius Embecksensis D. Nicolaus Winklerus Halae Suevorum Physicus tum in aliis Doctrinarum generibus tum praesertim in Mathematicis scientiis excellenter periti quorum duo priores mihi ex facie noti sunt Amicitia diuturna conjunctissimi Tych. Brah. De Cometa Anni 1577. l. 2. c. 10. membrum secundum Iohn Hales a great Grecian one who when he was young wrote Notes on Chrysostom and is often honourably mentioned by Andrew Downes the Greek Professor of Cambridge He hath printed a Sermon concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture Ioseph Hall Bishop of Exceter a Learned and pious man He hath written Three Volumes of Contemplations on the Old and New Testament An Explication of all the hard Texts of Scripture And divers other Treatises Bertholdus Hallerus a Learned Helvetian Divine Dionysius Halycarnasseus a grave Historian He lived under Augustus Caesar. He hath written De Rom. Antiq. Gr. Praecepta Rhetorica Opuscula varia De Thycididis historia Iudicium D r Henry Hammod a Learned Divine of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford He hath published severall Works Large Annotations on all the New Testament A practicall Catechism And divers other Works in English And a Latine Tract against Blondell of Church-Government Thomas Harding A Doctor of Lovane an English man the Target of Popery in England as he is styled by Peter du Moulin He wrote a Confutation of the Apology and Replied severall times to Bishop Iewell Iohn Lord Harrington He was both Learned and pious M r Stock the Divine hath written his Life William Harvey Doctor of Physick Gassendus makes honouaable mention of his book De Circulatione Sanguinis De vita Peireskii l. 4. p. 323. And other outlandish men mention him with great respect The Anatomicall part of Physick seems to be rising toward the Zenith of perfection especially since our never sufficiently honoured Countryman D r Harvey discovered the wonderfull secret of the blouds circular motion Webst. Exam. Acad. c. 6. Scientiam humani Corporis Physicae partem utilissimam in libris suis de motu Sanguinis de Generatione Animalium mirabili sagacitate detexit demonstravit Gulielmus Harvaeus R. R. Iacobi Carolique medicus primarius solus quod sciam qui doctrinam novam superata invidiâ vivent stabilivit Hob. Praefat. ad Elem. Philos. Sect. 1. De Corpore He hath put out Exercitatio Anatomica de motu Cordis Sanguinis in animalibus D. Haymo a Monk of Fulda Anno Dom â—40 One of the learnedest of his time He hath written upon all the Scriptures De varietate Librorum and other things besides Casparus Hedio He was a most faithfull and diligent Pastor of the Church of Argentine for 23 years and a good Historian His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Alexander Hegius Erasmus was his Scholar He first brought the Greek learning into the Low-Countries as Rudolphus Agricola did restore it to Germany Daniel Heinsius Publick Professor of History at Leyden Secretary and Bibliothecary of the same University appointed to be Notary in the Synod of Dort He hath published Exercitations upon the New Testament and
Rome was corrupt and needed Reformation and some that were his contemporaries and also after him did the like One saith the Papists Liturgies are full of Idolatry and blasphemies their Legends full of lies their Ceremonies of superstition Cardinall Mattheo Langî Archbishop of Salzburg told every one that the reformation of the Mass was honest the liberty of meats convenient and the demand just to be disburthened of so many Commandments of men but that a poor Monk should reform all was not to be endured And Cornelius Scoperus the Emperours Secretary said that if the Protestant Preachers had money they would easily buy of the Italians what Religion pleased them best but without gold it was impossible to make theirs shine in the world Hist. of the Counc of Trent l. 1. pag. 55. The Pope in the beginning of the Councell of Trent being desired to make a Reformation to please the Lutherans No saith he it is in vain a whole Reformation will undo the Church and a half Reformation will not gratifie the Lutherans therefore it is better to imbitter both the parties In the vacancies of the Sea of Rome the Cardinals use to compose certain capitulations to reform the Papall Government which all swear to perform if they shall be assumed to the Popedom though it appear by all precedent examples that every one sweareth with a minde not to keep them in case he shall be Pope For so soon as he is elected he saith he could not bind himself and that he is at liberty by gaining the Papacy History of the Councel of Trent l. 1. p. 71. The Cardinals chosen by Pope Paul the third to consider of the State of the Church made report that there were many corruptions in it 31 abuses especially in the manners of Bishops and Clergymen That the Bishops were idle did not instruct the people nor feed the Flock nor look to the Lords Vineyard that they lived in Princes Courts and kept not home That the Cardinals had sometimes three sometimes four Bishops in Commendam not without great prejudice to the Church for that those Offices are not compatible or to be held together That the Covents ought to be clean banished out of the Church B. Iewels Epistle concerning the Councell of Trenâ—t In the midst of Popery God had his people which holding the foundation rejected their errours and out of Babylonish darkness he brought many to the sight of the truth as Waldo Wickliff Luther Zuinglius God stirred up in severall ages some publick and constant Confessors of the Faith which publickly set themselves against Popery some of which resisting it even unto blood had the Crown of Martyrdom Those Confessors may be distributed into three Classes or ranks The first comprehends the whole Churches the Waldenses and the Greek Church The other comprehends the Emperours and Kings which opposed themselves to the Papall Tyranny The third the Doctors and Martyrs which taxed the errours and abuses brought into the Church Bellarmine Bozius Cocceius Costerus and others have written many things of the Marks or Signes of a Church Costerus reckons three Cocceius five Bellarmine fifteen Bozius a hundred Some assign more some fewer Marks but all greatly glory of the holiness of the Roman Church as a speciall and infallible note If the question be of the Roman Church they answer It is One Holy Catholicall Apostolicall If of the Papall Sea The Holy Apostolicall Sea If of the Pope of Rome The most Holy Father If they speak to him Your Holiness Oh quam sancta omnia But whether we understand of holiness of Doctrine or holiness of Life how little holiness is to be found amongst them What holiness of Doctrine is there in that Tenet to hold that Priests may not marry See Heb. 13. 4. What holiness of life there is amongst them their Stews and their dissolute courses shew The nine choice persons elected by Paul the third to reform their Church complain of the Stews Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Cum leno aut meretrix Scurra Cinaedus ero Vivere qui sancte cupitis discedite Româ Omnia cùm liceant non licet esse pium Mantuan How dissolute and prodigiously wicked many of the Popes have been the Popish Writers themselves mention How unclean and Sodomiticall many of their Cardinals were we have evident Testimony See the Scarlet Gown or the History of all the present Cardinals at Rome How desperate the life and death of many Jesuites hath been who have against their own consciences opposed the truth Elias Hasenmullerus in his Historia ordinis Iesuitici reports who relates many examples to that purpose seen and heard by himself See Chap. 4 5. of their publick and private life Chap. 11. of their death Of their filthy Monks and Votaries Bale hath written two parts For their worshipping of Reliques what a fond thing is that When many of their Saints are but supposed and their Reliques also To worship the supposed Relique of a supposed Saint Calvin an eye-witness testifieth that when Genevah received the Doctrine of the Gospel the Reliques were visited by the authority of the Magistrate and it was found that what they had adored till then as if it had been the brain of Peter was a Pumice stone and what they had beleeved to be S t Anthony's arm was the sinew of a Hart or Stag. The parts and parcels of wood kept in Europe which they say are parts of the Cross whereon Christ died are so many that if they were all gathered together they would load a ship and yet it was no greater then a man may bear The milk of the Virgin Mary is so plentifull in many places that seven of the best Kine in Holland are not able to give so much milk in ten years saith One. They shew Iudas his Lanthorn at S t Denis in France At Rome there is kept in S t Iohns Church in Lateran the circumcised foreskin of Christ and the Altar at which Iohn did say Divine Service in the Wilderness See D r Willet on Exod. 16. Confer 5. and D r Halls no Peace with Rome p. 661. For the holy Scripture though Bellarmine brags Romanenses pluris facere Scripturam quam Lutheranos yet Gerhard in the first Generall book of his Catholick Confession part 2. c. 4. shews that the Papists weaken the Divine Majesty and authority of the Scriptures twelve waies besides the severall reproaches cast upon it by divers of them which he there also mentions Petrus Fragius Doctor of Divinity made an Oration to the Fathers of the Councell of Trent to assert the authority of the Pope of Rome He told them God had prayed for Peter who being after converted confirmed his brethren in the faith Si igitur said he Dominus pro Petro precatus est cur jam pro Iulio non precabitur What is Christ more weak or cruell now then he was and is Iulius inferiour in
exercise of their Religion and their Synagogues viz. at Amsterdam I shall not need I hope to say much against their Toleration the thing is so grosly evil and of that dangerous consequence to a Protestant State D r Downam Bishop of Derry preaching before the Lord Deputy and the State at Christ Church in Dublin in Ireland Novemb. 26. 1626. produced the judgement of four and twenty Bishops whereof only now the most reverend Primate of Armagh is living against it Whose reasons I shall here insert First It is to make our selves accessory not only to the Papists Superstitions Idolatry Heresies and in a word to all their abominations of Popery but also which is a consequence of the former to the perdition of the seduced people which perish in the deluge of the Catholick Apostasie Secondly To grant them a Toleration in respect of money to be given or contribution to be made by them is to set Religion to sale and withall the souls of the people whom Christ our Saviour hath redeemed with his most precious bloud And as it is a great sinne so it is matter of most dangerous consequence and beseeching God to make all in Authority zealous of Gods glory and the Advancement of the true Religion resolute and couragious against all Popery Superstition and Idolatry he said Let all the people say Amen which they did with a loud acclamation It is a Question propounded by Helvicus An Iudaei à Magistratu Christiano tolerandi quomodo tractandi Whether the Jews be to be tolerated by the Christian Magistrate and how they are to be handled He saith it is a perplex Question by reason of the different judgements He propounds first divers Arguments of those which hold they are altogether to be cast out of a Christian Commonwealth by reason of those horrible blasphemies which daily both in their ordinary prayers and in their speeches they belch out against Christ the Virgin Mary our faith and all Christians in general and for other reasons which he there alledgeth Secondly He urgeth other Arguments to prove that the Jews are not to be cast out but tolerated under the Christian Magistrate because by that means many of them may be converted by continual converse with the Christians and the Scripture seems evidently to confirm that Hosea 3. 4. Zephany 3. 7. Luke 21. 24. Romans 11. 25 26. And because they may be serviceable to them against the Pagans and for other reasons He himself goes the middle way and layes down his opinion in certain Propositions First It is better for Jews to live amongst Christians then under Turks or Infidels Secondly The blasphemies of Jews are not to be tolerated but to be prohibited and most severely punished by Christians Thirdly The Jews are to be esteemed among Christians as the servants of servants that is so to be handled that they are exiles and cast off by God himself They are not to have any publick office They are not to practise that unjust Usury for which they are so infamous amongst Christians They are to have also said he some outward mark in their garments by which they may be distinguished from others and to be forced to hear Sermons Many other Cautions doth he give in the receiving of them As for the Toleration of the Jews whosoever they be that suffer the exercise of their Religion with the blasphemies they commonly use against Christ make themselves guilty of all their wickednesse which the Lord keep this Land from as well as from the abomination of the Masse The Pope can tolerate the blasphemy oâ— the jews and the filthinesse of all the Curtisans and Stews and take a yearly rent oâ— them for it and for no respect will allow the exercise of our most holy Religion either in his own Dominions or wheresoever he may prevail against us Travers Answ to a Popish Treatise written to the Lords of the Councel The End of the first Book THE SECOND BOOK OF Learning CHAP. I. I. Of the Dignity and Excellency of Learning THere are three kindes of things to be desired One That which draws us to it self by its own force Non emolumento captans aliquo sed trahens sua dignitate as Virtue Knowledge and Truth 2. Another which is desired for fruit and profit as money A third which draws us both by its own force and dignity and by profit the more to desire it as friendship and a good Name Learning is the perfection of reason it was so prized by the Heathens that they thought a learned man to differ as much from an unlearned as a man from a beast Humane Learning delivers the minde from wildenesse and barbarism Scilicet ingenuas didicisse fideliter Artes. Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros Ovid. de Pont. Artibus ingenuis quarum tibi maxima cura est Pectora molleseunt asperitasque fugit Ovid. ad Gracinum Nemo adeo ferus est qui non mitescere possit Si modo culturae patientem accommodet aurem Horat. But the accent had need be put upon fideliter as Sir Francis Bacon well observes for a superficial knowledge doth rather work a contrary effect Ego benè literatos viros eo benigniores candidioresque semper expertus sim quo magis ingenio eruditione pollerent Pier. Valer. Hieroglyph lib. 23. cap. 4. He instanceth there in Pâ—ntanus Antonius Sabellicus Pâ—mponius Laetus and shews how candid and courteous they were to all and concludes Iacobi Sadoleti nomen aetate nostra in modestiae abiit appellationem How much more effectual is divine learning Esa. 11. 9. Secondly It mitigates the fear of death and adversity If a mans minde be seasoned with the contemplation of mortality and the corruptible nature of things he will be ready to concurre with Epictetus who going forth one day saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth and going forth the next day he saw another weeping for her sonne said Heri vidi fragilem frangi hodiè vidi mortalem mori Thirdly The pleasure and delight of Knowledge and Learning far surpasseth all other pleasure and delight Therefore the Egyptians Caldeans Grecians Romans have so highly prized humane wisdome that they were willing to undergo any labour or cost for the purchasing of it To finde wit in Poetry in Philosophy profoundnesse in Mathematicks acutenesse in History wonder of events in Oratory sweet eloquence in Divinity supernatural light and holy devotion as so many rich medals in their proper mines whom would it not ravish with delight Fourthly It doth perpetuate and immortalize ones memory Excellent to this purpose is that of Seneca Nomen Attici perire Ciceronis Epistolae non sinunt Nihil illi profuisset gener Agrippa Tiberius progener Drusus Caesar pronepos inter tam magna nomina taceretur nisi Cicero illum aperuisset Seneca Epist. 21. Homers verses continued five and twenty Centuries of years and above without the losse of a syllable or
M r Fox shews in his Book of Martyrs He wrote two Sermons one of Repentance on Mat. 4. 17. the 2 d of the L. Supper I finde also in the Oxford Catalogue mentioned His holy Meditations upon the Lords Prayer Belief and ten Commandments A Dialogue of Predestination and Free-will Two Letters for men afflicted in Conscience William Bradshew He hath written well of Justification M r Gataker cals it Aureum quantivis pretiâ— libellum There are also Meditations of his upon the Psalms Thâ— Bradwardine Archbishop of Canterbury King Edward the thirds Confessor A man reputed so pious in those dayes that the Kings prosperous successe then was chiefly imputed unto his piety who followed him in his warres in France as Preacher in the Camp Above three hundred years ago he valiantly defended the truth against the Arminian Doctrine Gratiâ— Dei streâ—uissimus assertor D r Ward in Phil. 2. 12. Henricus Brandius a learned and Pious Divine He hath written a Book entituled Examen Consulationis Lessianae religionis capessendâ— And Analysis in Catechesin religionis Christianae Quae in Ecclesiis Scholis tum Belgii tum Palatinatus traditur Tycho Brahe a Dane and a Knight a great Astronomer Stellae describuntur à Ptolomaeo Alphonso Tychone Brahe triumviris reipub Astronomicae Alsted Eucyclop l. 7. part 1. c. 15. There are divers of his Works published Astronomiae illustratae Progymnasnatum Liber 1. Mechanica Oratio dâ— Disciplinis Mathematicis De munâ—s Aetherei recentioribus Phaenomenes liber secundus Epistolâ— Astronomicae Edw. Brerewood He was the first Astronomy Lecturer in Gresham Colledge He hath written Enquiries touching the Diversities of Languages and Religioâ—s through the chief parts of the world an excellent piece De ponderibus pret vet nummorum â—leâ—â—nta Logicae Treatises of the Sabbath Iohn Brentius He was born Anno 1499. A Divine of great name amongst the Protestants saith Thuanus Vir est gravis modestus doctus sed desiderari in eo nonnihil potest Zanch. Epist. l. 2. ad Bezam His Works are printed in several Tomes in Folio Gâ—ido de Bres He hath written against the Anabaptists in French Of the Authority of the Magistrate and Immortality of the soul. Henry Brigges a famous Mathematician and a pious man His Works are Arithmetica Logarithmica Triganometria Britannica Thomas Brightman a learned and godly man Bishop Andrews in his Answer to Bellarmines Apol. ad cap. 9. is too sharp and bitter towards him I have heard that M r Thomas Cartwright counted him a bright Star in the Church of God He hath put out a Comment in Latine on the Canticles and Revelation And Disputatio de Antichristo Refâ—tatio de Bellarmini Antichristo Io. Brinsley A learned man He hath published Ludus Literarius or The Grammar-School The posing of the Accidens The true Watch and Rule of Life in four parts The Calender Reformation Barnabas Brissonius the learned Chief Justice of France whom one calleth Varro Galliae Ios. Scaliger l. 1. Epist. Epist. 8. 9. speaks somewhat against his book De Regno Persarum and de formulis c. but that De formulis is an excellent work Stephanus Paschasius in the second Book of his Epigrams hath these Verses to him Mirantur eunctis animum te intendere caussis Cùm tot pervoluas noctè dieque libros Queis ego sic Balbus nihil est mirabile factu Plurima nam dicit plurima qui didicit Iohn Briton Bishop of Hereford of profound judgement in the Common-Law He composed a learned Work of the Law and published it in 5. E. 1. by the commandment of Edward the first our Justinian Erasmus Brockman a learned Lutheran He hath put out Theologiae universâ— Systema vol. 3. De speculo veritatis Pontificiae Controversiarum sacrarum qua in salutari Religionis negotio intercedunt orthodoxis cum schola Pontificia partes duae Ioan. Brodaeus a man of stupendious and wonderfull reading of incredible memory and industry Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 34. He hath written divers Miscellanies and learned Commentaries upon Euripides his Tragedies and Xenophon Sir Robert Brook Chief-Justice of the Court of Commonpleas His Abridgement was first published in Anno 16. Reg. Eliz. long after his decase a worthy and painfull work an excellent Table for the year Books of the Law Hugh Broughton well skilled in Hebrew and Greck if he had been as judicious and humble He hath put forth several works his Concentus Sacrae Scripturae is best liked He said it was portended by his Arms that he should be a Grecian for he gave the fowl of Athens for his Arms. Christoph. Browerus a learned man He hath written Fuldensium Antiquitatum l. 4. and other works Henricus Brucaeus Fr. Lucas Brugensis a famous Divine He hath written Notationes in sacra Biblia and Commentarios in quatuor Iesu Christi Evangelia and other works Petrus Brunellus There are Epistles of his published Guil. Bucanus D r Prideaux was wont to say sive Buchanus sive Buchananus they being both ours These are his Works Institutiones Theologicae In Orat. Dominicam Meditationes Aphorismi de controversiis de Religione determinandis Georgius Buchananus A most famous Poet and good Historian for the Scottish affairs Namque ad supremum perducta Poetica culmen In te stat nec quo progrediatur habet Imperii fuerit Romani Scotia limes Romani eloquii Scotia finis erit Jos. Scalig. in Epitaphio Buchanani Vir ingenii felicitate scribendi facultate quod ejus scripta ad omnem aeternitatem victura vel fatente invidia testantur nostra aetate incomparabilis Thuanus Hist. Tom. 3. l. 76. There he commends his History also Ego Psalmorum tuorum lectione incredibiliter delector qui tales sunt quales à te uno proficisci potuerunt Beza in Epist. Carolus Utenhovius saith thus of his Translation of the Psalms Tres Italos Galli senos vicere sed unum Vincère Scotigenam non potuere virum The six Italians were Michael Hospitalis Adrianus Turnebus Ioannes Auratus The three French A. Sannazarius H. Fracastorius A. Flaminius H. Vidas A. Naugerius P. Bembus Martin Bucer born Anno 149. a great instrument of God as well as Martin Luther both Germains and Monks formerly The two judicious Commentators Bucer and Martyr Quam multiplicem in Bucero jacturam fecerit Dei Ecclesia quoties in mentem venit cor mâ—â—m propè lacerari sentio Calvin in an Epistle to Viretus After the Assembly of Regenspurge when Iohn Gropper Embassadour to the Archbishop of Collen was returned home he commended Bucer exceedingly and said he was meetest of all others to take in hand the Reformation of Religion for he was both well learned a lover of peace and of pure life Sleid. Comment l. 14. p. 187. Abraham Bucoltzer Opere Chronologico magnam gloriam adeptus Thuanus Ludovicus Buccaferrens a
Writer There is his Book Contra Socinum and others Carolus Clusius a great Linguist Lipsius thus sported on him Omnia Naturae dum Clusi arcana recludis Clusius haud ultra sis sed Aperta mihi His Works are mentioned by Boissard Pet. Cluniacensis In the year 1150. He was called Venerabilis Petrus His Works are in one Volume Philippus Clunerius His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Vir stupendae lectionis curae Dilher Disput. Acad. Princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus Voss. de Histor. Graec. Magnum Germaniae ornamentum doctissimus Cluuerius noster Voss. Hist. Pelag. Iohn à Coch or Cocceius Amama in an Epistle to Martinius before that book of his entituled Duo tituli Thalmudici Sanhedrin Maccoth gives this Elogy of him Excitatum eum divinitus esse statuo ad provehenda altius linguarum Orientalium studia reseranda nobis Iudaeorum sacraria Nullus equidem Christianorum tantum in thalmudicis publice unquam praestitit quantum ille eruditissimo hoc de quo non nisi eruditissimi judicabunt scripto His Exposition of Iob the small Prophets and his Book De foedere are well esteemed Christ. Columbus an Italian a most skilfull Cosmographer He found out America called the New world Anno 1492. Columbus by his glorious discoveries more justly deserved a place for a Ship among the Southern constellations then ever the Argonantes did for their so celebrated Argo M r George Sandys Commentary upon the 13 th Book of Ovids Metamorphosis To him most truly agrees Plus ultrá Realdus Columbus Anatomicorum post Vesalium princeps Neand. Pet. Comestor He and Peter Lombard and Gratian were brethren born in adultery as some hold but Bellarmine thinks that opinion is without ground seeing they were of several Countreyes Philip de Commines Knight was born at Commines a Town in Flanders In his youth he served Charles Duke of Bâ—rgnudy and afterward Lewis the 11 th of that name King of France who imployed him in his weightiest and secretest affairs The French Tongue he spake perfectly and eloquently the Italian Dutch and Spanish reasonably well He hath written the History of France under Lewis the 11 th and Charles the 8 th his Sonne He was the Spectator and actor of his History Nothing more grieved him then that in his youth he was not trained up in the Latine Tongue which his misfortune he often bewailed The Emperour Charles the fifth and Francis the first King of France made so great account of this History that the Emperour carried it continually about with him and the King was much displeased with the publishing thereof Philippus Cominius rerum gerendarum usu clarissimus senator Bod. de Repub. lib. 3. cap. 7. He in his History dived so farre into and writ so plainly of the greatest affairs of State that Queen Catharine de Medices used to say that he had made as many hereticks in State-policy as Luther had done in Religion Stephanus Paschasius hath this Epitaph of him Gallorum nostrae laus una gloria gentis Hic Cominaee jaces si modo fortè jaces Historiae vitam potuisti reddere vivus Extincto vitam reddidit Historia Hier Commelinus Annas Comnenas Empresse of the East a learned woman She hath written eight books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De rebus à Patre gestis Gr. CHAP. XIII COncilia Councels There were six Oecumenical Councels orthodox and almost received by all Bishop Andrews in his Sermon on Numb 10. v. 1 2. reckons up seven See that Sermon The first Nicene Councel called by the Emperour Constantine the Great against Arius who denied the Deity of Christ. This was held in the year of our Lord 325. at Nice in Bithinia It consisted of 318 Bishops The Fathers of that Councel did publish a Creed against the Arians The greatest of all Councels next to the Apostles Councel the great Councel of Nice of 318 Bishops Urbs Nicaea clara à Synodo Nicaena quo coacti à Magno Constantino primo Christiano Imperatore convenorunt contra Arium Alexandrinum in Aegypto Diaconum 318 Episcopi quorum plerique Constantia tempore persecutionis dono miraculorum clari fuere teste Eusebio probatissimo Graeco scriptore Neand. Geog. parte 2 da. Vide Aug. Roch. Biblioth Vatic p. 58. to 75. of all these Councels The first Constantinopolitan Councel called by the Emperour Theodosius the elder against Macedonius who denied the Deity of the holy Ghost in the year of the Lord 383 or 384. The first Ephesine Councel called by Theodosius the younger against Nestorius who held That there were two persons in Christ in the year 430 or 434. 4. The Chalcedonian Councel called by the Emperour Martian against Eutyches which affirmed That there was onely one Nature in Christ after the Incarnation in the year of the Lord 451 or as some 452 and others 454. To these two other Councels are added the fifth the second Constantinopolitan in the year 548 or as others reckon it 553. called by Iustinian against the Arians Nestoriaens Eutychians The sixth is the third Constantinopolitan Councel against the Monothelites in the year 681 called by Constantinus Pognatus or Barbarus For the Councel of Trent Calvin wrote against it whilst it sate and Chemnitius and Gentilettus since Vide ejus Exam. Conc. Trid. l. 3. Sess. 12. Because nothing was resolved by the Fathers at the Councel of Trent but all in Rome a blasphemous Proverb was generally used That The Synod of Trent was guided by the holy Ghost sent thither from time to time in a Cloak-bag from Rome In this mock-Councel the Pope which was the principal party accused of Heresie was the onely Judge and disposer of all things passed therein against all good Examples Laws Equity and Reason Though the Councel of Trent hath been sufficiently answered by the Protestant Divines yet that excellent History of the Councel of Trent was never answered by the Papists In the Councel of Constance Communion under both kindes and Wickliffs opinions were condemned Iohn Hus and Ierom of Prague were burned against faith given and safe conduct granted by the Emperour Then that wicked maxim was established Haereticiâ— fides non est seruanda which is against Nature Scripture and the Law of Nations There is Summa Conciliorum Pontificum à Petro usque ad Concilium Tridenti num per Bartholomaeum Caranzam Ord. praedicat The National Synod of Dort began in the year 1618. To which were sent from England France Germany and other Reformed Churches many Learned and Orthodox Divines to discusse and unfold those unhappy Arminian Controversies with which the Low-countreys was then molested Confessiones variae The Confessions of Faith of the Churches professing the Gospel having been long ago exhibited to the several Princes of the Countreys States and Kingdoms where these Churches are are now of â—ate very profitably published to the just conviction of all such
1503. a very Learned Protestant Vir doctus literarum humaniorum apud Basilienses Professor Zanch. Epist. He hath put out Miscellanies a Book De amplitudine regni Dei De utilitate legendae Historiae and other Works Vide Boissard Icones His sonne also Caelius Aug. Curio hath published Hieroglyphicks and other Works Quintus Curtius writes pure Latine He flourished under the Emperour Vespasian Petrus Curtius He hath published a Work De Civitate Castellana Faliscorum Nic. de Cusa or Cusanus a Germane by Nation Doctor of Divinity and afterward Cardinall He is commended by Trithemius for the most skilfull in the Scriptures of all the Divines of his time D. Cypriauus Anno Dom. 250. 244 saith Helvicus 240 Illyricus He was Bishop of Carthage and Crowned with Martyrdom He wrote a famous Treatise of Mortality to comfort men against death in the time of a great plague His Book de Unitate Ecclesiae is most cited and commended Eruditissimus Cyprianus tam vitae sanctitate quam facundia clarus Pier. Valer. Herog l. 22. c. 4. His Deacon Pontianus wrote the story of his Life and Sufferings Cyrillus Alexandrinus Cyrill Bishop of Alexandria 430. He is styled Fortis Athleta by Photius that valiant Champion of the Church nay he is styled Beatus Cyrillus twice for condemning the Nestorian Heresie Lives of the Primitive Fath. He wrote ten Books against Iulian the Apostate which being joyned to his other works are full of Learning Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus Cyrill Bishop of Ierusalem Anno Dom. 370. His Cateshism is yet extant Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople There is his Confessio Fidei CHAP. XV. D JOhn Daillè a Learned French Divine My Lord Falkland and M r Chillingworth made very much use of him in all their Writings against the Romanists The Lord Falkland was wont to say it was worth a voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him he cals him our Protestant Perron He hath written severall Books in French and Latine One Of the Right use of the Fathers translated into English and highly esteemed Against Milletier A most accurate Commentary De Imaginibus An Apology for the French Churches A most accurate Demonstration of Faith out of the Scriptures De Satisfactionibus Poenis De Pseudepigraphis De Iejuniis Quadragesima an elegant Piece Iohn Damascene 740. He was born in Damascus See Act. 9. 2. One that laid the Foundation of School Divinity amongst the Greeks as Peter Lombard afterward did among the Latines He was the first amongst the Greeks which hath handled Divinity in Philosophicall terms and who wrote for the adoration of Images therefore they put him among their Saints Nicolaus Damascenus Vastissimae eruditionis vir nec sine laude nominandus Vossius de Rat. Stud. Pet. Damianus There are his Epistolae cum aliis opusculis De Institut Ecclesiast and other Works Damasus the first Pope a Spaniard He had an elegant wit in composing verses as Ierom and Suidas say He appointed the Psalms to be sung alternis vicibus in the Church and in the end of them these words were added Gloria patri filio spiritui sancto Matth. Westm. alii He first gave authority to Ieroms Writings when before the Writings of the Septuagint were only esteemed Platina Lambertus Danaeus a French Divine of Orleance Petrus Danesius He was most skilfull in the Greek tongue and Professor of it in the reign of Francis the first King of France Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 64 He was at the Councell of Trent and a Doctor of Divinity of Paris there making an Oration against the abuse of Benefices at Rome another mocking said to his fellows Gallus cantat the Frenchman sings or the Cock crows to whom Petrus Danesius wittily replied Utinam Gallicinio Petrus ad resipiscentiam fletum excitetur Olim Francisci 11. praeceptor ob id Vaurensi Episcopatu donatus homo doctissimus quanquam nullis editis scriptis meruit ut inter doctrina literis politioribus praestantes hujus aevi viros numeretur Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 63. Vide Scaev. Samarth Elog. Gall. Dante 's Aligherius Poeta sui saeculi nulli secundus Italus natione patria Florentinus Boissard Icon. His Life is written by Paprius Massonus Dante 's the first Italian Poet of note being a great and wealthy man in Florence He lived in the time of Ludovicus the Emperour about the year of our Lord 1300. and took part with Marsilius Patavinus against three sorts of men which he said were enemies to the truth that is the Pope Secondly the order of Religious men Thirdly the Doctors of Decrees and Decretals His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Dante 's quidam Aligherius quintus ut aiebat à Dante Florentino poeta Polit Miscel. Câ—nt 1. c. 19. Vide Pier. Valer. De Literatorum infelicitate l. 1. Claudius Dausqueius He hath put out these Works S. Pauli Apostoli sanctitudo in utero extra in solo incaelo Conciliabuli Dordraceni ascia Antiqui novique Lat. Orthographica Iohn Davenant Bishop of Salisbury a Learned and Judicious Divine as his Exposition of the Colossians his Praelectiones de duobus in Theologia Controversis capitibus de Iudice Controversiorum de Iustitia habltuali actuali his Determinations and other Works both in Latine and English shew Philippus Decius The most famous Lawyer of Italy in his time He died Anno salutis Christianae M. D. XXXV His Works are mentioned by Boissard and many of them in the Oxford Catalogue Pontificem Iulium secundum defendit Gerh. Confess Cath. l. 1. General part 2. c. 3. Iohn Dee a Learned Englishman There are severall Works of his published De praestantioribus naturae viribus Monas Hieroglyphica Propaedeumata Aphoristica Mathematicall Preface to Euclides Elements Parallaticae Commentationis praxeosque nucleus quidam Eruditus is tractatulus sanè appriméque ingeniosus nec parùm ad Paralaxium differentias enucleandas atque ab invicem discernendas conducens Tych. Brah. De nova Stella c. 9. His generall and rare Memorials Martinus Antonius Delrio is much commended by Philippus Alegambe in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Iesu as a great Linguist and generall Scholar but Ioseph Scaliger in his Elench Trihaeres Serar as much slights him He hath published divers Works many of which are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Demosthenes his force in pleading is commended Qui populum flectit de mulcet mitigat urget Nominat hunc tellus Attica vim populi Paschasii Icones His Book de Corona is most esteemed He wrote out Thucidides eight times that he might better imitate him in his Orations See in Plutarks Lives a witty reply of his to the thief Chalcus Thomas Dempster a Learned Scotchman Multisciae lectionis eruditionis vir Dilher Disput. Acad. Eruditus Scotus beneque de literis meritus Voss. de vitiis Sermonis l. 1. c. 10. He
Cardinal a Dominican He hath written learnedly on all the Scripture Antonius Hulsius a learned man He hath put out Theologia Iudaica and Notes on the Psalms in Latine Humbertus Episcopus Whom Leo the 9 th made Cardinal for the rare Learning and vertue which was in him and sent him to Constantinople to suppresse the andaciousnesse of another Leo Bishop of the Bulgarians Laurentius Humphredus Laurence Humfrey Doctor of Divinity and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford a learned and pious man He hath written Bishop Iuels life in Latine and Iesuitismus De Interpretatione Linguarum He hath written in English Of Civil and Christian Nobility shewing the Original Nature Duties Right and Christian Institution thereof Also a Treatise by Philo a Jew of the same Argument translated Seven Sermons Iohn Hus a Bohemian born in a Town named Hassenitz He died as a Martyr of Christ at Constance Anno 1415. His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He and Ierom of Prague were condemned in the Councel of Constance against the publick faith given them Hus in the year 1415. but Ierâ—m in the year following which Bodin though a Papist disliked De Repub. l. 5. c. 5. The people which were present at the execution of Hus so admired his constancy and pious death that they said What that man taught or did before we know not certainly those things are great evidences of true piety for he prayed most servently to God a little before his death Hulrichus Huttenus a Knight and Poet laureate born Anno 1488. He was Luthers good friend and encouraged him to constancy His Works are mentioned by Boissard In Vallam de donat constant Huttenus captivus Huttenus illustris Satyra nemo De Schismate extinguendâ— Exhortatio in Concil Basil. contra decimas De laude Germanorum De morbo Gallico Arminius Dialogus His Poetical Works are in one Volume There was this Epitaph made of him Hic eques auratus jacet oratorque disertus Huttenus vates carmine ense potens C. Iulius Hyginus Hypatia or Hypathia a most learned woman daughter to Theon the Geometrician she taught publickly at Alexandria many flocking thither to hear her Andreas Gerhardus Hyperius a most learned and diligent Divine Anno 1511. His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones CHAP. VI. I Dr THomas Iackson a learned Divine as his Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed and other Works shew Mr. Arthur Iackson a Reverend Divine and good Exposâ—â—or of Scripture He hath commented on the Pentateuch on the Historicall Part and five Poetical Books King Iames a learned and wise Prince His several Works shew his great Learning I finde in the Appendix of the Oxford Catalogue these words Opera Regis Lat manu propria inscripta Acadomiae suae Oxoniensi donâ— data in perpetuam Regiae munificentiae memoriam in Archivis reposita In the Catalogue it self his Poeticall Exercises and other particular Works are enumerated He died in March Non miror regem si Martius abstulit Anglis Pacificis semper Mars inimicus erat Arth. Jonstoni Epig. Iacobus De Voraigne He wrote the golden Legend Richard Iames. M r Selden speaks of him and Patrick Young as his Assistants in his Work of Marmora Arundelliana Sed ut expeditiùs res absolveretur rogo ut in operae societatem adsciscerentur amici communes eruditissimus Patricius Iunius multi jugae doctrinae studiique indefatigabilis vir Richardus Iamesius For this Richard Iames there is this censure of him that he preached three Sermons one without a Text another against his Text and a third besides it D r Thomas Iames. He was a laborious man As His Corruption of Scriptures Councels and Fathers The Downfall of Jesuites Bellum Papale and other Works shew Iamblychus a famous Philosopher and Porphyrius his Scholar He hath written a Book of the mysteries of the Egyptians Chaldeans and Assyrians and three Books of the Sect of Pythagoras with Commentaries of Simplicius the Philosopher Io De Ianduno Cornelius Iansenius He was born at Hilstane in Flanders One of the Papists learnedest and best Expositors of the Gospel He was sent by King Philip the second King of Spain to the Councel of Trent Fuit in hoc viro praestans ingenium exacta linguarum trium Latinae Graecae Hebraicae cognitio singularis prudentia eximius rerum usus inprimis verò summum religionis ac pietatis studium Quantus Theologus fuerit clamant doctissimi in Concordiam suam Evangelicam orbis judicio probatam Commentarii qui aequales aliquot in his Salmeronem Beauxamamum in eadem arena desudantes à suis tunc edendis deterruerunt Auberti Miraei Elog. Belg. He was uncle to the other Iansenius Bishop of Iper who wrote Sanctus Augustinus This Iansenius wrote another Book also against the French and styles it Patricius Armachanus whence Petavius cals the Jansenians Armachani or because Iansenius was so much beholding to the Archbishop of Armaghs Goteschalci Historia for his Book Rabbi Salomon Iarchi a learned French Jew who hath commented on the whole Bible and to whom Lyra is much beholding for what he hath of the Hebrew Iason Maynus His Works are in six Volumes Iesuitae The Jesuites In the fifth year of Pope Urbane the fifth began first the Order of the Jesuites Men of famous industry and excellent reach in all subtill and profound Arts but ignorant and besotted in matters of faith and mysteries of salvation D r Iacks on the Creed Vol. 1. l. 2. c. 1. Thuanus and Pasquier though Papists speak against the titles of Jesuites as proud and blasphemous Novo atque ut plerisque visum est superbo nomine appellati sunt Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 15. See Thuan. Hist. tom 2. l. 36. at the beginning and Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 3. c. 42 43. against them A Book called the Jesuites Rule discovers what they are See also Monarchia Iesuitica Arcana Societatis Iesu Mysteria Patrum Iesuitarum De studiis Iesuitarum abstrusioribus and the Jesuites Catechism The best Expositors amongst the Papists are Pererius Ribera Tolet Maldonate Estius all which except Estius were Jesuites The ablest for controversies are Bellarmine Stapleton Gregory De Valentia two of which were also Jesuites The best Philologers are Sirmondus Andraeas Schottus Fronto Ducaeus Serarius all Jesuites Some of the Papists are very bitter and malicious as Genebrard Gretzer Scioppius Others more candid and ingenuous Schottos Frontones Acostas Petavios Rosweydos aliquos alios viros eruditos modestos excipio Montac Appar 7. Ignatius Anno Dom. 102. 96. Helv. Chron. He was the Scholar of S t Iohn the Evangelist Bishop of the Church of Antioch a man of great Sanctity and a most ardent lover of our Lord Jesus Christ he was was wont to say of him My love was crucified Bishop Usher and Vedelius shew
Christian faith He published divers Works in which he both discovered the devises of the refractary Jews and promoted Learning A book De sexcentis tredecim Mosaica sanctionis seu Pentateuchi dictis Philosophia prophetia ac Thalmudistica pro veritate Christiana tuenda cum juniori Hebraeorum synagoga disputatio mirabili ingenii acumine in tres divisa tractatus Farrago ex Thalmudis codice Isagoge in Caballistarum doctrinam which Erasmus commends in his Epistles And other Works he also published which are mentioned by Melchior Adam Nicholas Ridley Bishop of London the most learned Martyr in Queen Maries daies He wrote a Book in prison of the Lords Supper which is turned into Latine with an Epistle prefixed wherein he and that Tract are commended Petrus Riga There is his Aurora Nicolaus Rigaltius There are his Observationes notae in Auctores finium regundorum In Glossas Agrimensorias Glossarium Funus Parasiticum Vita S. Romani Notae in Martialem Ioh. Riolanus both the Father and the Sonne There is the Fathers Anthropographia The Sonnes Anotomica Ioachimus Fortius Ringelbergius He was born at Antwerp Nullum perfecit librum nisi dum a typographo excuderetur The manner which he observed in writing books Melchior Adam mentions in his life and himself in his Book De Ratione Studii p. 85. seems to intimate His Works were published in one Volume at Leyden and the particular Treatises are mentioned by Melchior Ad. vit Germ. Philos. Fridericus Risnerus He was Ramus his helper in the Mathematicks he hath written four books of the Opticks Conradus Ritterhusius He was born at the City Brunswick in Saxony Anno Christi 1560. when Melancthou died He was acquainted with the learned and famous men of his age Ioseph Scaliger Iustus Lipsius Casaubone Thuanus Lectius Ortelius Canterus Bongarsius both the Douzas Heinsius Freherus Gruterus Stenius the Camerarii Remus Caselius Velserus Dionysius Gothofredus Melissus Posthius Stuckius Monavius Beza Mornie and many other great Schollers His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Sir Thomas Rives the Kings Advocate These are his Works The poor Vicars Plea Regiminis Anglicani in Hibernia Defensio Adversus Analecten Historia Navalis in two parts Defensio Justiniani contra Nicolaum Alemannum Andrew Rivet a learned and godly French-Divine He hath very well expounded Genesis Exodus the Prophetical Psalms and Hosea and wrote learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius Criticus sacer seu censura Patrum Isagoge in S. Scripturam Synopsis doctrinae de natura gratia Other learned Treatises hath he published in Latine and French William Rivet his brother is also a learned man He hath published a Book De Iustificatione a most exact French Treatise as some say De Invocatione Adoratione Sanctorum defunctorum Epistola Apologet. Mart. de Roa There are his Singular loc ac rerum l. 5. Singul. l. 6. Observat. in Proverb Do die natali sacro profano Franciscus Robortellus There was a great difference between him and Carolus Sigonius There are his Ephimerides Patavinae Adversus Carolum Sigonium Ang. Roccha There is his Bibliotheca Vaticana Bibliothecae Theot Scripturalis Epitome unà cum Scriptoribus qui in Biblia scripserunt And other Works Robert Roollock a learned Scotch Divine He hath commented on Daniel some Psalms the Gospel of Iohn the Epistle to the Romans and Galatians the Epistle to the Ephesians Colossians Thessalonians and Philemon He hath written De vocat modo revel foed Adrianus Romanus There is his Methodus Polygoniorum Gulielmus Rondeletius an excellent Physician His Life is copiously written by Laurentius Ioubertus in the second part of his Works and his Works are mentioned by him There are these Works of his De piscibus marinis De ponderibus Methodus Curandi morbos De dignosc morbis cum aliis opusc De morbo Gallico Emendatiores Tabulae De dosibus Peter Ronsard Prince of the French Poetâ— Some call him the French Homer and Pindar Petrus Ronsardus Poeticam nostrâ aetate ad summum eâ—lmen evexit Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. lib. 117. part 1. Post Augusti aetatem poetâ— praestantissimus Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 36. Vide ejus Hist. Tom. 4. l. 82. This Epitaph was made of him Hac tegitur Ronsardus humo tot notus in oris Quot patrius flavas Leda percurrit arenas Bartas in his second Week saith thus of him L'autre ce grand Ronsard qui pour oruer sa France Le Grec le Latin despouille d' eloquente Et d' vn esprit hardy manie hereusement Toute sorâ—e de vers de sty la d' argument Cardinal Perron made a Funeral Oration upon his death He much extols him there Il s' est bien ven aux siecles passez des hommes excellens en vn genre de Poesie saith he mais qui ayent embrassé toutes les parties de la Poësie ensemble comme cestuy-cy à faict il ne s' en est point veu jusques â maintenant See more there Io. Rosinus He hath written ten Books of Romane Antiquities Alexander Rosse a learned Scotchman He hath written many good Books in Latine and English in Prose and Verse Virgilius Evangelizans Virgilius Triumphans De rebus Iudaicis Additions to Wollebius and Ursinus Observations upon Sir Walter Rawleigh Marrow of History Chronology Medicus Medicatus Of all Religions And several others Herebertus Rosweydus a learned Jesuite There are these Works of his Dissertatio de fide haereticis servanda Historia Eremitica Anti Capellus Vindiciciae Campensis Lex Talionis 12 tabularum Corollarium contra Coecysmâ—t Capelli de fide haereticis servanda Vetus Martyrologium Romanum Hieronymus Roverius Hier. Rubeus a famous Physician There are these Works of his Disputatio de Melonibus De distillat Hist. Ravennatum Rudolphus II. Imperator There are Tabulae Rudolphinae Astronomicae Exhortatio ad omnes S. Roman Imperii statu pro communi bello adversus Turcam Oratio in Comitiis Generalibus Cracoviae Ioannes Râ—ellius There are these Works of his De Natura stirpium Collect. interpret Medicinae veterinariae Rufinus Presbytâ—r Anno Dom. 390. He was much esteemed by many David Rungius He was skilled in Hebrew Greek and Latine and in the Liberal Arts. He hath published several Works Analysis Ep ad Romanos Praelect in Gen. in Exod. De norma judice Controversiarum Disp. in Ep. ad Rom. Cor. Disput. 8. in Acad. Rupertus Tuicensis vel Tuitiensis Abbas Abbot of Tâ—y He was esteemed one of the most learned men of his age The many Volumes which he hath left written do testifie the eminency of his Learning Some of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Io. de Rupescissa a Monk An. 1350. For rebuking the spiritualty for their greaâ— enormities and neglecting their office and duty was cast into prison
Salomon Glassius a great Critick ibid. Glocester-Hall in Oxford 99 Rodolphus Goclenius 210 Conradus Goclenius first Professor of the Latine Tongue at Lovain 210 Francis and Thomas Godwin ibid Damianus à Goes ibid Seven Cities strove for his birth ibid. Iacobus Golius well skilled in the oriental Tongues ibid. Hubertus Golâ—zius a great Antiquary ibid. Franciscus Gomarus a learned and judicious Divine ibid. Christopher Goodman a learned and pious Scotch Divine 211 Abraham Gorlay his many choice medals of Gold Silver and Brass 211 Io Goropius Becanus a good Artist and Linguist ibid. Gospel How it came into Polonia and the original of the custom of standing up at the Gospel 20. m. The everlasting Gospel or the Gospel of the holy Ghost 115 Dionysius and Iacobus Gothofredus 211 D r Gouge a learned and pious Divine 211 Commended ibid. Simon Goulartius a learned and godly French Minister ibid. Ioannes Goverus or Gouerus a learned English Knight and Poet Laureate ibid. Grammarians who the best 37 38 Io. and Saxo Gramaticus 212 Grammer what it is and whence derived 37 38 Granado 89 Lud. Granatensis 212 D r Grant ibid. Conradus Graserus went some miles to the Jews to understand Hebrew words ibid. Franc. Gratianus when he lived ibid. He compiled the Canon-Law ibid. 44 Gulielmus Gratarolus an excellent Philosopher and Physician 213 Gratius an ancient Latine Poet contemporary with Virgil and Ovid. 213 Iohn Graves ibid. Lady Iane Gray both learned and religious ibid. Greek Language 61 62 Who were the pure Greek Writers 38 Richard Greenham 213 Gregory the Great why so called and when he lived ibid. Bede cals him the Apostle of England and why 214 He first wrote himself Servus servorum Dei 214 Verses of him and two other Popes ibid. Gregory Thaumaturgus why so called ibid. Iohn Gregory of Oxford and Gregory of Tours ibid Iames Gretzer a learned Jesuite and good Grecian the great Defender of Bellar. mine 214 Grindall ibid. Gripswald 71 Groning 74 Iohannes Groperus would not be Cardinal 214 Hugo Grotius when and where born 215 Piscators Verses of him ibid. Learned but heterodox ibid. Ianus Gruterus a famous Critick ibid. Simon and Io Iac. Grynaeus ibid. Rudolphus Gualtherus Father and Sonne 216 Baptista Guarinus ibid. Steven Guichard a learned French Linguist ibid Francis Guicchardine a famous Historian ibid. Paschasius his Verses of him ibid. Melchior Guilandinus ibid. Iohannes Guinterius Andernacus a learned Physician ibid. Gyldas ibid Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus 217 H D r HAckwell 217 Theodoricus Hackspanius 217 D r Haddon ib. Cardinal Hadrian ib. Thaddaeus Hagecius ib. Iohn Hales ib. Bishop Hall 218 Bartholdus Hallerus ibid Dionysius Halycarnassaeus ibid. D. Henry Hammond ibid D. Harding ibid. Lord Harrington ibid. D. Harvey ibid. D. Haymo ibid. Harderwick 74 Hart-Hall in Oxford 99 Heathens called Pagani and why â—5 They are still branded in the Scripture ibid. Their knowledge imperfect and their conversation impious ibid. How the Heathens shall be judged 6 The Heathens worshipt many gods 6 They could not be saved by the light of nature ibid. Who defended the Christian Religion against the Heathens 6 7 Hebrew the first Language and most ancient of all 56 57 58 Who were skilfull in it 58 Gaspar us Hedio 218 Alexander Hegius He first brought the Greek learning into the Low-countreys 219 Heidelberg 69 Daniel Heinsius 219 Heliodorus ib. Helvicus ib. Henry the first King of England why called Beau Clerk ib. Henry the eighth 219 220 He was learned himself and drew many learned men into England 220 Desiderius Heraldus ib. Lord Herbert ib. Hereticks Reformers so called by the Papists and why 20 Hermes Trismâ—gâ—stus 220 Conradus Heresbachius ib. Hermannus Contractus why so called 221 Hermogenes ib. Herodian an eloquent and faithfull Historian 221 Herodotus ib. Verses of him ib. Hesiod ib. Iohn Hessels ib. Landgrave of Hessen 222 Helius Ebanus Hessus ib. Hesychius ibid Ioannes Heurnius ibid. Hieroglyphicks what they are 290 The Bee and Syren the Hieroglyphick of eloquence 39 Hieronymus a very learned Father 222 Hilary Bishop of Poicton and Hilary Bishop of Arles ibid. Hildefonsus 223 Arthur Hilder sham 223 Hiâ—cmarus ib. Hipparchus a great Astronomer ib. Hippocrates the first that wrote methodically the Art of Physick 223 Hippolitus 223 224 History what it is 46 It s double end ibid. The several kindes of History 46 Chronology and Topography the two eyes of it 47 Historians who the chiefest Greek and Latine 47 David Hoeschelius 224 Francis Hottoman a learned French Lawyer 224 Homer Seven Cities contended about his birth His Iliades and Odysses commended 224 225 Alcibiades struck a Schoolmaster for not having Homers Works 225 Festus Hommius 225 Petrus Cornelius Hoofdius 225 Richard Hooker 225 Iohn Hoâ—per a learned and godly Bishop and Martyr ib. Ioachimus Hopperus ib. Horatius Flaccus an ingenious Poet ib. Bishop Horn 226 Conradus Hornaeus ib. Lambertus Hortensius ib. Stanislaus Hosius he was imployed by three Emperours and was President in the Councell of Trent ibid. Rod. Hospintanus ibid. Michael Hospitalius ibid. Bishop Howson ibid. Roger de Hoveden a famous Historian 226 Robert Hues ibid Hermannus Hugo ibid. Hugo Cardinal 227 Antonius Hulsius ibid Humbertus Episcopus ib. D. Humfrey ib. Hulricus Huttenus a Knight and Poet Laureate ibid C. Iulius Hyginus 228 Hipatia or Hypathia a learned woman who taught publickly at Alexandria ibid. Andreas Gerhardus Hyperius a most learned and diligent Divine ibid. I Dr. IAckson and Mr. Arthur Iackson 228 King Iames ibid Verses on his dying in March Iacobus de Voragine the Author of the golden Legend 229 Richard Iames and Doctor Iames 229 Iamblycus a famous Philosopher ibid. Io de Ianduno ibid Ianizaries the great strength of the Turkish Empire 9 Cornelius Iansenius a learned Popish Expositor 229 Iansenius Bishop of Iper who wrote Sanctus Augustinus ibid. Rabbi Salomon Iarchi a learned French Jew who hath commented on all the Bible ib. Iason Maynus 230 Iesuites when their Order began 230 Their title disliked by Papists themselves ibid. Some of them good Expositors able for controversies good Philologers candid and ingenuous ib. Ignatius the Martyr ib. Matth. Fl. Illyricus heretical and wherin 230 231 Some of his Works usefull to the Church 230 231 Ioannes de Indagine a great Astrologer when he flourished 231 Indices Expurgatorii two of them ibid. The purpose of them ibid. Io. Philippns Ingrassius ibid. Ingulphus a learned English Abbot ib. Innocentius tertius Papa a learned man but a great Persecutor of the Church 232 Alanus Insulensis ib. Abbas Ioachimus ib. Arthur Ihonston a famous Scotch Poet ib. Iohns Colledge in Oxford 103 Iornandes 232 Iosephus a famous Jewish Historian 232 233 Iosippus who he was 233 Paulus Iovius commended by some and disliked by others ib. Verses of him ib. Irenaeus when he lived and when he suffered ib. Iohn Isaac a Jew who turned Christian ib. Isidorus Hispalensis and Pelusiota 234 Isocrates a famous Greek Oratour 234 Hâ—â—ricus Isselburgius