raised by the Long Parl. against K. Ch. 1. was cast out of his Benefice of Austie by the Committee of Religion in 1643 as you may see in that diabolical Pamphlet entit The first Century of scandalous and malignant Priests c. pr. 1643. qu. p. 13. and lost other Spiritualities The said Dr. Tho. Mountfort had also another Son named James who succeeded his Father as it seems in the Rectory of Tewing before mention'd who also being a zealous man for the Church of England was thrown out of Tewing by the said Committee as you may see in the said Phmphlet p. 10. Jul. 4. Thom. Pye of Mert. 9. John Prime of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 11. Rob. Devereux Earl of Essex and Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge being then accounted one of the best Poets among the Nobility of England and a person adorned with singular gifts of Nature This Incorporation was the better to capacitate him to be Chancellour of this University when that honourable Office should become void as it shortly after did He had received his Academical Education in Trinity Coll. in Cambridge under the tuition of Dr. John Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury and hath written 1 Advice to Reger Earl of Rutland in his travels MS. the beginning of which is My Lord I hold it a principle in the course c. This MS. which I have in my Library was if I am not mistaken printed in a Book entit Profitable instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all Nations Lond. 1633. oct said in the title to be written by Robert Earl of Essex Sir Philip Sidney c. 2 His apology against those which falsly and malitiously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of his Country written to Sir Anth. Bacon which piece had such esteem among men that they thought that nothing could be more honourably utter'd nor more to the Writers praise so far as belongs to a noble Orator than it 3 Letters to Qu. Elizabeth and Lord Howard c. MS. in bib Bod. 4 His speech and prayer at the time of his Execution printed at the end of Dr. Will. Barlow's Sermon preached at Pauls Cross 1 Mar. 1600. Lond. 1601. oct with other things which I have not yet seen He left behind him when beheaded in 1600 a Son of both his names educated in this University whom I shall mention elsewhere Apr. 11. Abraham Hartwell M. of A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated He was Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Amanuensis to John Archb. of Canterbury a Traveller and at length Rector of Tuddyngton in Bedfordshire He hath written 1 Regina literata seu narratio de regina Elizabetha carmine Lond. 1565. oct 2 Report of the Kingdom of Conge a region in Africa printed 1597 qu. and translated from french into English 4 A true discourse upon the matter of Martha Brossier of Romantin pretended to be possessed by a Devil Lond. 1599. qu. See another Translation made by him in Walt. Haddon mention'd in these Fasti an 1552. July⦠Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge was also then incorporated He was at this time a pastoral Sonnet-maker and Author of several things which were pleasing to Men and Women of his time They made much sport and were valued among Scholars but since they have been mostly sold on Ballad-mongers stalls The Titles of some of them are these 1 Euphues his censure to Philautas Lond. 1587. qu. 2 A quip for an upstart Courtier or a dispute between Velvet breeches and Cloth breeches Lond. 1592. qu. 3 His mourning Garment given him by repentance at the funerals of Love One Edition of this book was printed at Lond. 1616. qu. 4 His groats worth of wit bought with a million of repentance c. Lond. 1617. qu. second Edit The first Edit was printed after his death and hath at the end of it his Epitaph in six Stanzaes 5 Theeââs falling out true men come by their goods or the Belman Lady Fitzwaters Nightingale Several times printed 7 His nusquam sera est or a treatise deciphering those particular vanities that hinder youthful Gentlemen from attaining to their intended perfections Several times printed 8 The history of Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay 9 Greens Ghost haunting Cunny Catchers One Ed. of which was printed at Lond. 1626. qu. Other trifles he hath extant which he wrot to maintain his Wife and that high and loose course of living which Poets generally follow He assisted also Thom. Ledge in the composure of several Plays as I have told you in my discourse of that person among the Writers under the year 1625. He wrot against or at least reflected upon Gabriel Harvey in several of his Writings whereupon Harvey being not able to bear his Abuses did inhumanely trample upon him when he lied full low in his grave even as Achilles tortured the dead body of Hector This R. Green died about 1592 of a Surfeit taken by eating pickled Herrings and drinking with them Rhenish Wine At which fatal Banquer Tom. Nash his Contemporary in Cambridge was present who in his Apology of Pierce Penniless doth make excellent sport with him and some of his Works I have seen a witty Comedy called Greens Tu quoque or the City Gallant not pen'd by the said Green but by one John Cook Gent. published by Thomas Heyword an 1622. and another entit Planetomachia or The first part of the general opposition of the seven Planets c. Lond. 1585. qu. said in the Title to be written by R. Green but whether the same R. Green the Poet I cannot tell On the eleventh day of the said month of July supplicated to be incorporated one Joh. Osbourne Doct. of Physick of Leyden whose Grace being granted simpliciter I therefore think that he obtained his Option Creations When Robert Earl of Essex was incorporated these persons following who had formerly been partly educated in this University were actually created Masters of Arts Apr. 11. Which Creation was usually called the Essexian Creation because done upon his account Thomas Lord Clinton Son of the Earl of Lincoln Sir John Norris Kt. President of Mounster in Ireland second Son of Henry the first Lord Norris and one now celebrated among the famous Captains of our Nation He died discontented as being not rewarded according to his worth an 1597 or thereabouts Sir Robert Sidney Kt younger Brother to Sir Philip Sidney This Sir R. Sidney was afterwards the first Earl of Leycester of his name who dying at Penshurst in Kent 13 July 1626 was there buried Sir Hen. Norris Kt. younger Brother to Sir John before mention'd who died of a wound about the same time and place that his Brother Sir Thomas did which Sir Tho. was also President of Mounster Sir Philip Boteler Kt. Rob. Carew Fulke Grevil Francis Darcie Esquires Of Fulke Grevil who was afterwards Lord
Scotland He was afterwards made a Baron of England by the Title of Lord Bruce of Whorlton in Yorkshire and departed this life 21 Dec. 1663 leaving then behind him a Son named Robert created Earl of Aylesbury in Bucks by K. Ch. 2. who dying on the 19 of Octob. or thereabouts an 1685 he being then Lord Chamberlain to the houshold of K. Jam. 2. was buried at Ampthill in Bedfordshire where if I mistake not the body of his Father had been interr'd He was a learned Person and otherwise well qualified was well vers'd in English History and Antiquities a lover of all such that were Professors of those studies and a curious collector of MSS especially of those which related to England and English antiquities Besides also he was a lover of the regular Clergy as those of Bedfordsh and Bucks know well enough Henry Spencer of Magd. Coll. eldest Son of William Lord Spencer Baron of Wormleighton This Henry was afterwards Earl of Sunderland and taking part with K. Ch. 1. when he was opposed by his rebellious Subjects was slain in the Battel at Newbury in Berks 20. Sept. 1643. whereupon his body was carried to Braynton commonly call'd Brinton in Northamptonshire and there buried George Lord Digby of Magd. Coll. the eldest Son of John Earl of Bristow William Lord Craven of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Earl of Craven and is now 1690 living Will. Herbert of Exet. Coll. a younger Son of Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Coventrie Bach. of Arts and Fellow of All 's Coll. Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie Keeper of the great Seal See among the Bachelaurs of Law an 1638. Rich. Lovelace a Gentleman Commoner of Gloc. Hall Afterwards eminent for his valour and poetry as I shall tell you either in the next Vol. or elsewhere Hen. Jacob the curious critick of Merton Coll. Ralph Brideoakâ of New Coll. sometimes a Student in that of Brasn He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester Frederick Schlâde of the Palat. in Germ. Nich. Oudart Esq This Person who was born at Mechlin in Brabant and brought from beyond the Seas by Sir Henry Wotton who afterwards trusted him with his domestick Affairs studied Physick of which faculty he was Bachelaur as I shall tell you among the Creations under the year 1642. About which time he became Secretary to Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State at Oxon and afterwards attending King Charles 1. in the Treaty in the Isle of Wight an 1648. lived for some time obscurely At length he became Secretary to the Princess of Orange then Latin Secretary to William Prince of Orange and of his Council in which capacity I find him in 1669. and afterwards Latin Secretary to King Charles 2. He paid his last debt to nature in or near to Whitehall about the day of the nativity of our Saviour an 1681. One Nich. Oudart of Bruxells who was official of Mechlin died 1608 whom I take to be Father or Uncle to the former Paul Becker of the Palatinate George Kendall of New Inn. Joh. Suatosius c. Bach. of Div. Sam. Keme or Kem of Magd. Hall sometimes of Magd. Coll. Mark Zeiglier of Exeter Coll. who entitles himself Archipalatinus He was a learned Man and whether he hath published any thing I cannot justly tell He became a Sojournor in the University 1623. Doct. of Law Sir Dudley Carleton of Holcombe in Oxfordshire Knight He was soon after made one of the Clerks of the Council and whether Secretary of State as an Author of no good credit tells us I cannot tell See more of him in Sir Dudley Carleton among the Writers under the year 1631. num 519. Sam. Henton or Hinton He died at Lichfield in 1668. Will. Turner of Wadham Coll. He was now or soon after a Civilian of Doctors Commons and in the time of the rebellion he sided with those that were uppermost In the middle of Jan. 1659 he was appointed by the Rump Parliament then newly restored by General Geor. Monk one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and of the Court for Probat of Wills Dr. Walt. Walker and Mr. W. Cawley being the other two And after his Majesties restauration he became Chancellour of Winchester a Knight and Advocate to the Duke of York He died at Richmond in Surrey as I conceive an 1670. At the same time that these were created Doctors of the Civil Law was a proposal made in the Convocation that Sir John Finet Knight Master of the Ceremonies should be also created or at least diplomated Doctor of the said faculty but whether he was really so it appears not in the publick register However what I have to say of him shall be briefly this viz. 1 That he was the Son of Rob. Finet of Soulton near Dover in Kent Son and Heir of Thomas Son and Heir of John Finet of Siena in Italy where his name is antient who came into England in the quality of a Servant to Cardinal Laur. Campegius Legat a latere from the Pope by his Wife the Daughter of one Mantell sometimes a Maid of honor to Qu. Catherine the Royal Consort of K. Hen. 8. 2 That the said John Finet was always bred in the Court where by his wit innocent mirth and great skill in composing songs he pleased K. Jam. 1. very much 3 That he was sent into France an 1614. about matters of publick concern and in the year after he received the honour of Knighthood at Whitehall about which time he was made Assistant to the Master of the Ceremonies with reversion of that place 4 That upon the death of Sir Lewis Lewknore Master of the Ceremonies he had that office confer'd upon him 12. March 1626 being then in good esteem with his Majesty King Charles 1. 5 That he wrot Fineti Philoxenis Some choice observations touching the reception and precedency the treatment and audience the punctilio's and contests of foreign Ambassadors in England Lond 1656. oct Published by James Howell and by him dedicated to Philip Lord L'isle 6 That he translated from French into English The beginning continuance and decay of Estates c. Lond. 1606. qu. Written originally by R. de Lusing And lastly that dying 12. July 1641 aged 70 years was buried in the North side of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster by the body of Jane his sometimes Wife daughter of Henry Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead in Suffolk Sister to the Earl of Cleevland Doct. of Phys Peter Turner of Mert. Coll. lately Geometry Professor of Gresham Coll. now the Savilian Professor of Geometry in this University John Carter of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a practitioner of his faculty near to Chancery-lane in Lond. Gaspar Hopfius of the Palat. in Germany Doct. of Div. George Warburton of Brasn Coll. was the first and senior Theologist that was actually created Doct. of Div. He was a Cheshire man born of an antient Family had been Chaplain in Ord. to K. Jam. 1.
in his Church of St. Laurence but when it appears not leaving then behind him a Son of both his Names Scholar of St. Johns coll an 1600. which he left after he was M. of A. to prevent expulsion I find another John Smith who hath published 1 The bright Morning Star or the resolution and exposition of the 22 Psalm Cambr. 1603. in tw 2 A pattern of true Prayer being an exposition or commentary on the Lords Prayer c. Lond. 1605. and 1624. oct besides other things But in his Epistle Dedicatory before the said Exposition it appears that he was then 1605 and before a Lecture in the City of Lincoln and that he had received part of his education in Cambridge I shall make mention of another Joh. Smith of St. Johns coll under the year 1616. PETER BALES Balesius a most dextrous Person in his profession to the great wonder of Scholars and others spent several years in Sciences among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in Gloucester hall But that study which he used for a diversion only proved at length an employment of ptofit His Works are these The art of Brachygraphy that is to write as fast as a man speaketh treatably Lond. 1597. in tw 2 edit The order of Orthography The Key of Calygraphy that is of fair Writing Printed with the former Before these Treatises are 18 copies of Verses made in praise of them four whereof or more were made by the Students of Glouc. hall among whom Edw. Mychilbourne a most noted Poet of his time hath two and three or more by the Students of St. Johns Col. who are proprietaries of that hall What afterwards became of the said Balesius who was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons An. 1600. I cannot tell nor whether he published any other matters I find one of both his Names a Divine who published 1. The Lords prayer pleading for better entertainment Lond. 1643. qu. 'T is a Sermon as it seems on Luke 11. 2. 2. Infirmities inducing to Conformity on Jam. 3. 2. Printed 1650. qu. and other things Whether this Peter Bales was Son or kinsman to the former I cannot tell FRANCIS CLERKE or Clarke was originally of Oxon but making little stay there he retired to Doctors Commons in London and for about 40 years practiced the Civil Law in the most famous Courts in England as in the Court of Arches Admiralty Audience Prerogative and Consistoral of the Bishop of London besides his employment divers times in the Ecclesiastical Causes of the delegated Power of the King and chief Commissioners In 1594. he having then practiced his Faculty 35 years at ãâã had the degree of Bach. of Civil Law conferred upon him by the venerable Convocation of Doctors and Masters not by way of creation but as the Register saith by admission to the reading of the imperial institutions tho no exercise he did for it in this University The reason for this their Civility was that he had performed the part of chief Proctor for the said University by vertue of Letters and their common Seal in all their concerns in the aforesaid Courts He hath written Praxis tam jus dicentibus quam aliis omnibus qui in foro Ecclesiastico versantur apprime utilis This book was finished by the Author and made ready for the press in April 1596. but what diverted him from the publication thereof unless death I know not Afterwards several imperfect Copies of it flying abroad one supposed to be true came into the hands of Tho. Bladen D. D. Dean of Ardfort in Ireland and Chaplain to the Duke of Ormond who caused it to be printed at Dublin in 1666. qu. Praxis curiae Admiralitatis Angliae Dubl 1666. qu. published by the said Doctor But the Copy from whence that Edition was published being as 't was pretended false in many matters a better Copy was published at London 1667. in 8vo by E. S. One Sir Franc. Clerke of Bedfordshire Knight was a benifactor to Sydney Col. in Cambridge tho not educated there whom I take to be the same with Sir Francis Clerk of Merton Priory or Abby in Surrey Son of Barthol Clerk mentioned in the Fasti under the year 1574. quite different from the Writer JOHN MARTIALL a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was born at Dalysford in Worcestershire near Chippingnorton in the County of Oxon educated in Grammatical learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of probation an 1551. took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law five years after about which time he was made Usher or second Master of the aforesaid School under Tho. Hide whom I shall anon mention In the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left his Employment Fellowship and at length the Kingdom and going beyond the Seas to Lovaine he made proficiency there in the studies of Divinity and at length by the procurement of Lewis Owen Archdeacon of Cambray afterwards Bishop of Cassano he was made Canon of St. Peters Church at L'isle in Flanders Which place he keeping eight years resigned it being then D. of D. to the end that he might give himself solely upto his devotions and prepare himself for another World He hath written A Treatise of the Cross gathered out of the Scriptures Councils and ancient Fathers of the primitive Church Antw. 1564. in oct Whereupon Jam. Calfhill of Ch. Ch. making an answer to it our Author came out with a reply intit A reply to Mr. Calfhills blasphemous answer against the Treatise of the Cross Lov. 1566. qu. Afterwards he wrote Treatise of the tonsure of the Clerks Left imperfect and therefore never printed He departed this mortal Life at L'isle beforementioned to the great grief of the R. Catholicks in the Arms or Embraces of Will Gifford Dean of that Church year 1597 on the 3. of Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter before-mentioned At his death he bequeathed a rich ring with a stone in it to adorn a piece of our Saviour's Cross in the Cathedral there Whose Will being performed by the said Gifford that bequest was esteemed as a Trophy of Victory over Calfhill and is at this day as I have been informed preserved as a choice relick there THOMAS HIDE a noted Rom. Priest of his time was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks. Descended from the ancient and gentile Family of his Name in that County educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual fellow of New Col. 1543 took the degrees in Arts that of master being compleated 1549. In the year after he leât his Fellowship was made Prebendary of Winchester and in 1552. succeeded Will. Everard in the chief mastership of the said School where continuing till Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he left all he had and all he pretended to for Conscience sake and going beyond the Seas spent the remainder of his
1 The Song of Songs which was Solomons metaphrased in English heroicks by way af dialogue Lond. 1621. qu. dedic to Hen. King Archd. of Colchester Son to the Bishop of Lond. 2 The Brides ornament Poetical Essayes upon a Divine Subject In two books Lond. 1621. qu. The first dedic to Jo. Argall Esq the other to Philip Brother to Henry King 3 Funeral Elegy consecrated to the memory of his ever honoured Lord John King late B. of London c. 1621. He also wrote a Book of Meditations of Knowlege Zeal Temperance Bounty and Joy And another containing Meditations of Prudence Obedience Meekness God's Word and Prayer Which two books of Meditations were intended by the author for the Press at the same time with the former Poetry But the ever lamented loss of his most honoured Lord which did change all his Joys into Sorrows and Songs to Lamentation did defert their publication and whether they were afterwards published I know not HENRY BILLINGSLEY Son of Roger Billingsley of the City of Canterbury did spend some time among the Muses in this University as others did who were afterwards Traders in London particularly Benedict Burnham of St. Albans hall afterwards a rich Citizen Sheriff and Alderman of London But before our author Billingsley had continued there three years in which time as 't is probable he became known to an eminent Mathematician called Whytehead then or lately a Fryer of the Order of St. Augustine in Oxon he was taken thence and bound an Apprentice to an Haberdasher as it seems in London Afterwards setting up for himself he became so rich that he was made successively Sheriff Alderman one of the Queen's Customers in the Port of London and at length 1596. Lord Mayor thereof and a Knight But the chief matter which I am to let the Reader know concerning him is that when the said Whytehead was put to his shifts after the demolition of his house in the latter end of Hen. 8. he was received by Billingsley into his Family and by him maintained in his old age in his house in London In which time he learned Mathematicks of him and became so excellent in them that he went beyond many of his time whether Lay-men or profess'd Scholars When Whytchead died he gave his Scholar all his Mathematical observations that he had made and collected together with his notes on Euclids Elements which he had with great pains drawn up and digested Afterwards our author Billingstey translated the said Elements into English and added thereunto plain Declarations and Examples manifold additions Scholias annotations and inventions from the best Mathematicians both in time past and in the age he lived in Which being done he published them under this title The Elements of Geometry of the mos ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara faithfully translated into the English tongue Whereunto are added certain Scholias annotations c. Lond. 1570. fol. To which book Dr. Joh. Dce did put a large Mathematical Preface containing a great deal of Learning pertaining to that Science As for Billingsley he departed this mortal life in a good old age 22. year 1606 Nov. in sixteen hundred and six and some weeks after his body was buried in a little Vault under his Pew in the Church of S. Catherine Colman in London What or where was the end of Whytehead I cannot tell yet thus much I know that what I have said relating to him and Billingsley concerning Mathematicks I had from the Mathematical observations of our Antiquary Brian Twyne and he from the information of that noted Mathematician Mr. Th. Allen of Glouc. hall and he from an eminent Physician called Reb. Barnes M. D. who was elected Fellow of Merton coll 29. Hen. 8. dom 1537. and remembred and had some acquaintance with Whytehead and Billingsley I find also one Rob. Billingsley who was not long since a teacher of Arithmetick and Mathematicks and author of a little book of Arith. and Algebra called An Idea of Arithmetick c. Whether he was descended from or related to Sir Henry I know not JOHN SAVILE elder Brother to Sir Henry Son of Henry Savile of Over-Bradley in Staneland near to Eland not far from Halifax in Yorkshire Esq was born in that County particularly as it seems at Over-Bradley became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1561. or thereabouts where laying a considerable foundation of Acad. learning was taken thence before he could attain to a degree in the University and sent to the Middle-Temple where making great proficiencie in the Municipal Laws was called to the Bar fell into considerable Practice became Autumn-reader of that house 28 Elizab. dom 1586. Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield in his own Country called to the degree and honour of the Coif in 1594 made one of the Barons of the Exchequer 98. and about that time one of the Justices of Assize When K. James came to the Crown he not only continued him in his Barons place 4. Apr. but also conferred on him just before his Coronation the honour of Knighthood 23. July following an 1603. being then one of the Judges that was to attend that Solemnity He left behind him at his death certain things fit for the Press of which only this following is as yet made publick Reports of divers special Cases as well in the Court of Common Pâeas as of the Exchequer in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1675. in a thin fol. Printed in old French in a black character and published by John Richardson of the Inner-Temple Sir Jo. Savile paid his last debt to nature at London on the 2. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and six aged 61. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet London and his heart carried to Medley in Yorkshire where it was buried in an Isle joyning on the South side of the Church belonging to that place Soon after was a very fair Monument erected over it with the Effigics thereon of the Defunct in his Judges Robes cut out from stone laying thereon The Reader is to know that there was one John Savile a great pretender to Poetry in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. patronized in his studies by his kinsman a young Spark called George Savile Son of Sir George Savile Knight which John wrote among several things K. James his entertainment at Theobalds with his welcome to London and a salutory Poem Lond. 1603. qu. This I thought fit to let the Reader know lest Posterity may take him to be the same with Sir Jo. Savile before-mentioned The Name and Family of the Saviles are numerous in Yorkshire and pretend to be descended from the Savelli in Italy a Family accounted by some to be the ancientest in the World having been in Italy about 3000 years some of which have been Consuls before and after the time of our Saviour But how any of our Saviles in England can make it out that
made Archdeacon of Winchester His Works are Carmina in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandon c. Lond. 1552. qu. De Pii V. Gregorii XIII furoribus contra Elizabetham Reginam Angliae Lond. 1582. oct An Exhortation to true Love Loyalty and Fidelity to her Majesty Lond. 1587. oct Treatise against Treasons Rebellions and such Disloyalties Printed with the Exhortation to c. Syntagma hortationum ad Jacobum Regem Angliae Lond. 1604. oct and translated from English into Latin An apology or defence of Priests Marriages written by Joh. Poynet or Ponet B. of Winchester The other Works done by him may be seen in a certain author who knew Rhenniger well which made him therefore say of him In omni bonarum literarum ac linguarum genere it a se exercuit ut famam non vulgarem inde meruit He died on the 26. of Aug. year 1609 in sixteen hundred and nine aged 89 years and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Crawley before-mentioned under the Communion Table Over his Grave was soon after a Marble Stone laid with an inscription thereon in prose and verse a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. b. This Dr. Rhenniger died rich left a fair Estate some of which laid in Lincolnshire and a Son named Samuel to injoy it In his Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Dr. Ranulph Barlow of Cambridge THOMAS SMITH was born of sufficient Parents in a Town called Abendon in Bârkshire educated in Grammar learning there in the Free School founded by Joh. Royse Citizen and Mercer of London an 1563. became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 78. and six years after was elected one of the Proctors of the University About that time he being esteemed a religious and a discreet Gentleman was made Secretary to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex who had an especial respect for him So that being thereupon introduced into the Court raised himself meerly by his own merits to considerable eminency as first to be Clerk to the High Court of Parliament afterwards to be one of the Clerks of the Council a Knight in 1603. Secretary of the Latin Tongue and one of the Masters of the Requests 'T is supposed by some and confidently reported by others that are learned that tho he lived not to publish any thing yet several matters he left behind him fit for the Press but of what Subject or Faculty they treat I could never learn He deceased in the prime of his years whereby a stop was given to his father promotion at his house called Parsons Green near to London 28. Nov. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Fulham in Middlesex on the 7. of Dec. following Over his grave was soon after erected a comely monument by his disconsolate Widdow Frances the Daughter of William Lord Chandois afterwards the Wife of Thom. Earl of Exeter by whom he had a Son named Robert who was entred a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term an 1620. aged 15. and became an Inheritor for a time several Lands which his Father left to him particularly the Mannor of Barwick upon Tease in Yorks The said Sir Thomas bequeathed a considerable sum of Money to this University to buy books for the new or East part of the Publick Library as also a Mathematical instrument gilt besides 100 l. to the poor of Abenaon for their relief All which was accordingly done and setled by his younger Brother Rich. Smith sometimes a Member of Ch. Ch. also who had been prime Mourner at his Brothers Funeral I find another Sir Tho. Smyth to have been of Bidborough in Kent second Son of Tho. Smith of Ostenhanger in the same County Esq who dying 7. June 1591. was buried in the Church of Ashsord adjoyning Son of John Smith of Corsham in Wilts Gent. Which Sir Thomas who had sarmed the Customs in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and therefore by some called Customer Smith was so much in favour with K. James that he sent him Embassador to the Emperour of Russia 19. Mar. 1604. From whence returning he was made Governour of the Society of Merchants trading to the East-Indies Musââie the French and Summer Islands and Treasurer for the Colonies and Companies of Virginia There goes under this Man's name a book intit Sir Thomas Smith's voyage and entertainment in Russia with the tragical ends of two Emperours and one Empress within one Month during his being there c. Lond. 1605. qu. But him I take not to be the author because it was published unknown to him and without his consent What else I find of him is that his fair and magnificent house at Deptford near to London was burnt on 30. Jan. 1618. and that upon several complaints against him for certain frauds used by him in withdrawing sums of Money in his Rectorship and place of Treasurer before mentioned he was removed from those imployments in Apr. 1619. His eldest Son Sir Joh. Smith married Isabel Daughter of Rob. Earl of Warwick and another the Natural Daughter of Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy without the consent of his Father in Nov. 1618. but in the middle of July following he upon some discontent left England without taking leave of his Father or Wife Besides these two I find another famous Sir Tho. Smith who went before them not only in time but eminence His native place was Saffron-Walden in Essex his Parents John Smith of the same place and Agnes the Daughter and Heir of one Charnock Gent. and the place of Academical education Queens coll in Cambridge where at riper years he was made choice of such was his proficiency in learning to be sent into Italy at the King's charges and there to be educated in certain kinds of learning which our Universities at home could not then yield or rather for the compleat polishing of his parts and studies After his return he became so eminent for his acquired learning that he was not only made the publick Orator of Cambridge but also the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue and at length the King's Professor of the Civil Law in which Faculty he was incorporated Doctor at Cambridge in 1542. and afterwards at Oxon but the particular time when it appears not through the imperfectness of the Registers of that time In the Reign of Ed. 6. he found so much favour with the Duke of Somerset that he was made one of the Secretaries Sir Will. Cecill being the other to that King a Knight Steward of the Stanneries and Dean of Carlile in the place of one Lancelot Salkeld then ejected About the same time also he became Provost of Eaton coll whereof he had very well merited but when Q. Mary came to the Crown she deprived him of those dignities assigning
had in favour by all such that were lovers of Arts and Sciences At length obtaining an honourable Office under the Queen he became one of her favourites which he held for no short term but had the longest lease of any and the smoothest time without rub In the beginning of 1588. he among other persons of honour and quality was actually created Master of Arts which I think was the highest degree that was conferred upon him in this University In 1603. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. and soon after obtained the grant of the ruinous Castle of Wârwick In the 12. year of the said Kings reign he being constituted under Treasurer and Chancellour of the Exchequer he was made choice of for one of Kings Privy Council And meriting much for his faithful services in those employments was by Letters Patents bearing date 9. Jan. 18. Jac. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Brook of Beauchamps court In Sept. 1621. he was made one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Bedchamber whereupon giving up his Chancellourship of the Exchequer Rich. Weston afterwards Earl of Portland succeeded him He was always esteemed a brave Gentleman and honourably descended as being sprung from the family of Willoughby Lord Brook was favoured by Qu. Elizabeth and such that knew he had interest in the Muses His life was always single and tho he lived and died a constant Courtier of the Ladies yet he prosecuted his studies in History and Poetry In which consider him as a Gentleman of noble birth and great Estate he was most excellent in his time as these things following shew composed in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Ph. Sidney Poems A Treatise of humane learning Inquisition upon fame and honour Treatise of Wars Tragedy of Alaham. Trag. of Mustapha Caelica containing 109 Sonnets Letter to an honourable Lady Letter of Travels Written to his Cousin GrevilVerney residing in France c. Some of the said things having been singly published were all remitted into a little thin Folio printed at Lond. 1633. and had this general title put to them Certain learned and elegant works of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke c. The first five years of King James or the condition of the State of England and the relation it had to other Provinces Lond. 1643. qu. The life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all foreign Princes c. Lond. 1652. oct Published by P. B. Short account of the Maxims and Policies used by Qu. Elizab. in her Government Printed with the former book Remains containing Poems of Monarchy and Religion Lond. 1670. oct never before printed with other things among which is his Trag. of Marc. Tull. Cicero which I have not yet seen At length our author who was Counsellour of State to Ch. 1. neglecting to reward one Haywood who had spent the greatest and chiefest part of his time in his personal service for which he expostulated the matter with his Master but was sharply rebuked for it the said Haywood thereupon gave him a mortal stab on his Back they two being then only together in his Bed-chamber in Brook house in Holbourne near London of which wound he died 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight aged 74. year 1628 Which being done the Assassianate discerning his own condition desperate went into another room and there having lock'd the dore murdered himself with his own Sword On the 27 of Oct. following he the said Lord Brook was buried in a Vault situate on the north side of the collegiat Church at Warwick which formerly had been a chapter house belonging thereunto wherein he had in his life time erected a fair Tomb with this Epitaph thereon Fulke Grevil Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellour to King James and friend to Sir Philip Sidney In his honour and dignity succeeded his kinsman Robert Grevil being then 1628. one and twenty years of age educated in Academical learning not in this but in the other University of Cambridge as I have been informed where being well tutor'd became learned considering his quality But being afterwards unhappily attainted with fanatick and antimonarchical principles by the influence of one of his near relations and some Schismatical preachers tho in his own nature a very civil and well humour'd person was without much difficulty drawn in by those fiery spirits of the Long Parliament which began 1640. By whom being back'd on he became an active man in the House against the Prerogative Bishops and the establish'd discipline of the Church insomuch that no less than the abolishing of all decent order in the service of God would satisfie him So that the members of the said Parliament looking upon him as a faithful person for the cause that they then drove on appointed him a Commander in their Army as I shall anon tell you As for the things which he wrote and published are 1 The nature of truth c. Lond. 1643. oct Animadverted upon by John Wallis a Minister in London afterward Geom. Professor of Oxon Printed at Lond. 1643. 2 A discourse opening the nature of Episcopacy which is exercised in England Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Assisted therein by some puritanical Minister and printed when the Press was open to receive all books against the Prerogative and Bishops 3 Two speeches spoken in the Guild-hall in London concerning his Majesties resusal of a Treaty of peace Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Answer to the speech of Philip Earl of Pembroke concerning accommodation Which answer was spoken in the House of Lords 19 Dec. 1642. Pr. in one sh in qu. by order of the House 5 Speech at the election of his Captains and Commanders at Warwick Castle Lond. 1643. qu. In the beginning of the Civil War an 1642. he became Commander in chief of those Forces which were sent to assault the Church-Close at Lichfield then defended by a small Garrison placed there by his Majesty out of a pious intent for the preservation of the stately Cathedral which the Lord Brooke intended presently to destroy when taken by his Forces But so it fell out that he having planted his great Guns against the South-east gate of the Close he was tho harnessed with plate-armour cap-a-pe shot from the Church in the Eye by one Diot a Clergy-mans Son who could neither hear or speak as he stood in a dore whether he came to see the occasion of a sudden shout made by the Soldiers of which he instantly died This memorable accident hapned on the second day of March an 1642. which is the festival of that sometimes famous Bishop S. Cedd or Chad to whose memory Offa King of the Mercians did erect the said Cathedral and devoutly dedicate it Archbishop Laud being then a prisoner in the Tower of London did make this memoire of it in his Diary under the year 1642.
his Father-in Law Will. Purefey Esque as also of Vindiciae Sabbathi c. Lond. 1641. qu. as I shall tell you farther in Tho. Broad under the year 1635. And of Brief notes upon the whole book of Psalms c. Lond. in qu. besides other things But whether this George Abbot was ever of Oxford I cannot as yet tell A third George Abbot I find to have been elected Probationer Fellow of Merton coll 1622. and admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1630. but he hath written nothing and nothing else do I know of him only that he was Son of Sir Maurice Abbot sometimes Lord Mayor of London brother to Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury HENRY CARY Son of Sir Edw. Cary of Aldenham and Berchamsted in Hertfordshire Knight Master of the Jewel house to Q. Elizabeth and K. James by Katherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Hen. Knevet Knight was born in that County and at about 16 years of age was sent to obtain Academical learning in this University particularly as it seems to Exeter coll where by the help of a good Tutor and extraordinary parts be became a most accomplished Gentleman 'Ts said that during his stay in the Vniversity of Oxford his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time but how true it is seeing Henry was then a young man and not graduated I cannot in the least perceive Had those things been spoken of Lucius Cary his Son who retired several times to and took commons in Exeter coll while his Brother Lorenzo studied therein 1628. and after I should have rather believed it But let the matter rest as 't is Sure I am that after Hen. Cary had left the University where he had obtained a celebrated name he was introduced into the Royal Court was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold one of his Privy Council Lord Deputy of Ireland an 1622. and about the same time Viscount Falkland in Scotland being then in much esteem by that King for his great abilities and experience in state affairs He wrote several things but not printed and is supposed to be author of The History of the most unfortunate Prince K. Edw. 2. with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites Gaveston and Spencer containing several passages of those times not found in other Historians Lond. 1680. oct Which book being found among the Papers of the said Henry Visc Falkland was published therefore as his when the Press was open for all such books that could make any thing against the then Government with a Preface to the Reader patch'd up from very inconsiderable authors by Sir Ja. H. as is supposed The Reader is to know that in 1628. was published at Lond. in oct an historical Poem intit The deplorable life and death of Edward the Second K. of England together with the downfal c. written by one Rich. Hubert which Poem being printed without the knowledge of the author and so consequently full of faults and not according to his mind a true copy was printed at Lond. in the year following in oct bearing this title The History of Edw. 2. sirnamed Carnarvon one of our English Kings together with the fatal downfal of his two unfortunate Favourites Gaveston and Spencer Published by the authors own copy with the Addition of some other observations both of use and ornament written by his elder Brother Sir Franc. Hubert or Hobert Knight As for Henry Lord Falkland he gave way to fate occasioned by the breaking of his Leg on a stand in Theobald's Park in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 but where he was buried I cannot tell He left behind him a Son named Lucius Cary begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfield L. Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had the Mannor of Great Tew the Priory with the Rectory and Demesnes of Burford in Oxfordshire and other Lands Whether this Lucius was born at Burford as some think he was the publick Register of that place which commences about the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. takes no notice of it However that he was mostly nursed there by a wet and dry Nurse the Ancients of that Town who remember their names have some years since informed me So that the place of his Nativity being yet doubtful to me I must tell you that when his Father became Lord Deputy of Ireland he carried his Son Lucius then a wild Youth with him into that Country where he caused him to be educated in Academical learning in Trinity coll near to Dublin and afterwards sent him to travel under the tutelage and protection of a discreet person who making a very great reformation in him as to life manners and learning Lucius had ever after a great respect and veneration for him Upon his return he retired several times to Oxon to enlarge that learning which he had acquir'd as I shall anon tell you His first years of reason were spent in Poetry and polite learning into the first of which he made divers plausible sallies which caused him therefore to be admired by the Poets of those times particularly first by Ben. Johnson who hath an Epigram on him in his Vnderwood in the second vol. of his works 2. By Edm. Waller of Beconsfield who highly extols his worth and admirable parts and 3. By Sir John Suckling who afterwards brought him into his Poem called The Session of Poets thus He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost forgot his Poetry Though to say the truth and Apollo did know it He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. Much about the time of his Fathers death he became one of the Gent. of his Majesty's Privy Chamber had frequent retirements to Great Tew and sometimes to Oxon as he had done very frequently before his Marriage for the company of and conversation with learned and witty men Among whom were Will. Chillingworth of Trinity coll John Earle and Hugh Cressy of Merton coll George Aglionby of Ch. Ch. Charles Gataker of Pembroke coll Son of Thom. Gataker of Redriff or Ridrith near to London who I think was afterwards his Chaplain Thom. Triplet a very witty man of Ch. Ch. and others He had also intimate acquaintance with George Sandys the Poet who usually lived at Caswell near to Witney in the house of Sir Franc. Wânman who married his Sister whose company was usually frequented when Lucius retired to his house at Burford In 1639. he was put in Commission for his Majesty in the expedition against the Scots and upon his safe return thence Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and a great admirer of him hath an excellent copy of verses wherein are several things honourably mentioned of him and his learning In the
Oxford He was Son of John Vere Earl of the said place who dying in 1562 left this his Son Edw. a vast Estate which he afterwards squandred for the most part away upon some distaste taken against his Wives Father Will. Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England who refused to endeavour when it laid in his power to save the life of his beloved and entire Friend Thomas Duke of Norfolk for what he was charged with relating to Mary Queen of Scots This most noble Earl of Oxon was in his younger days an excellent Poet and Comedian as several matters of his Composition which were made publick did shew which I presume are now lost and worn out All that I have yet seen are certain Poems on several Subjects thus entit 1 His good name being blemished be bewayleth 2 The complaint of a Lover wearing black and tawnie 3 Being in love he complaineth 4 A lover rejected complaineth 5 Not attaining to his desire he complayneth 6 His mind not quietly setled be complayneth thus with many such like things that were highly valued in their time He gave way to fate in a good old age 24 June 1604 and was as I conceive buried by the body of his Father at Earls Colne in Essex Will. Haward or Howard Baron of Effingham Lord Chamberlain to the Queen He was Son of Thomas the second Duke of Norfolk by Agnes his second Wife dau of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Lincolnshire Kt. Tho. Butler Earl of Ormond This person is one of the Ancestors of the present Duke of Ormond was now in great favour with Qu. Elizab. and by her employed several times in matters of concern relating to Ireland especially in that of quelling the Rebellion there made by some of his house as Sir Edm. Butler Pierce and Edw. his Brethren Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick He was the eldest Son that survived of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland beheaded for High Treason in the Reign of Qu. Mary and elder Brother to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester Chanc. of this University Hen. Lord Strange Son of Edw. Earl of Derby He became Earl of Derby after his Fathers Death an 1572. Edw. Stafford Joh. Sheffield Barons The first of these two Barons was the true heir of the Staffords Dukes of Buckingham and is Ancestor to John Howard the present Viscount Stafford The other Joh. Sheffield died in 1568. leaving then behind him a Son of about two years of age named Edmund who was created Earl of Mulgreve or Mulgrave by K. Ch. 1. in the first year of his Reign Sir Will. Cicill Secretary of State He was afterwards Lord Burleigh and Father to Tho. Earl of Exeter Rob. Earl of Salisbury and Edw. Vicount Wimbleton ⦠Rogers Controller What his Christian Name was I cannot yet tell Sir Franc. Knollis Knight Captain of the Halbertiers Sir Nich. Throcinorton Knight a wise and stout man lately leiger Embassadour in France and about this time chief Butler of England and Chamberlaâne of the Exchequer He died suddenly in Leycester House in the Parish of S. Clement without Temple barre London on Munday 12 Feb. 1570. Whereupon his body was carried to his house in the Parish of Chree Church near Algate where resting till the 21 day of the said month was then buried in the Parish Church there See more of him in Camdens Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1570. John Tomworth or Tamworth Esq of the Privy Council to the Queen The same who in 1564 had been sent to Mary Qu. of Scots to interceed with her for the readmission of some of her Lords that had been against her Marriage with Henry Lord Darnley This Jo. Tomworth had spent much of his youth in travelling beyond the Seas These Nobles and persons of Quality before mention'd were I say actually created Masters of Arts in a Convocation held Sept. 6. in the public Refectory of Ch. Church in the presence of Robert Earl of Leycester Chancellour of the University Dr. Kennall Commissary Dr. Laur. Humphrey both the Proctors c. the Queen being then about to leave Oxon. Sept⦠Thom. Randolphe Bach. of the Civ Law sometimes Principal of Broadgates Hall had leave tho absent to be created Doctor of his Faculty but whether he was created it appears not Oct. 11. By vertue of a Commission from the prime Members of the University then bearing date and sealed directed to Dr. Lawr. Humphrey the Queens Professor of Divinity were these five Bishops following made Doct. of Divinity Oct. 30. Joh. Parkhurst Will. Downham Tho. Bentham Rich. Davies Joh. Best Bishop of Norwych Chester Lich. and Cov. S. David Carlile All which were actually created Oct. 30. in the House of one Steph. Medcalf at London in the presence of Will. Standish publick Notary and Registrary of the University Thomas Roberts John Pratt Archdeacon of S. David Walt. Jones Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards Canon of Westminster in the place of Dr. Mathew Hutton and Thom. Huet Chantor of S. David Oct⦠Edward Earl of Ruâland was actually created Master of Arts at London Feb⦠Will. Smyth one of the Clerks of the Queens Council was also created M. of A. at London An. Dom. 1567. An. 9 Eliz. An. 10 Eliz. Chanc. the same Commiss Tho. Cooper D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. elected 26 March Proct. Adam Squyre of Ball. Coll. Henr. Bust of Magd. Coll. elected 9 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. John Chardon of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Downe and Connor in Ireland Jun. 7. Rich. Stanyhurst of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 12. Thom. Williams See among the Writers under the year 1600. Oct. 10. John Case the Philosopher of S. John's Coll. Dec. 16. Edward Lord Russell of Vniv. Coll. eldest Son of Francis Earl of Bedford Adm. 46. Bach. of Law Dec. 9. Michael Maschiart of New Coll. Besides him were 9 admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Apr. 21. Tho. Allen or Alan George Blackwell of Trin. Coll. Thom. Ford was also admitted on the same day This person who was Fellow of Trin. Coll. and a Devonian born did soon after leave the University Country and Friends went to Doway and became a R. Cath. Priest and Bach. of Divinity Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England was taken and imprisoned and at length executed at Tybourne near London 28 May 1582. Jun. 4. Will. Raynolds of New Coll. 20. Jo. Field See among the Writers under the year 1587. Jul. 9. Franc. Bunney of Magd. Coll. He is mentioned at large among the Writers p. 355 but the Printer hath set his name Bunne for Bunney Oct. 17. Nich. Bond of the same Coll. This person I set down here not that he was a Writer but to distinguish him from Nich. Bownd whom I shall mention among the Incorporations an 1577. Thom. Coâe of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day In the latter end of the year in March 1588 he became Archdeacon of the
Anth. Watson in the Deanery of Bristow and dying in May or June 1617 was buried in St. Augustines Church there whereupon Dr. Edw. Chetwind was elected Dean in his place 16. of June the same year Thom. Atkinson Bach. of Div. of Cambr. was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards D. of D. Subdean of St. Pauls Cathedral and died in Apr. 1616. Besides him were 13 Bachelaurs of Div. of Cambr. incorporated of whom I know nothing as yet There was also a supplicate made in the house of Congregation that Thom. Legg Doctor of the Civ Law of Cambr. might be incorporated but whether he was really so I find not He was a Norwich Man born was first of Trinity and afterwards of Jesus College in Cambridge in both which houses he had the name and repute of one of the best in England for composing Tragedies witness his Destruction of Jerusalem and Life of King Rich. 3. which last was acted with great applause in that University He was afterwards made the second Master of Gonvill and Caius Coll. was a Doctor in the Court of Arches one of the Masters of the Chancery the Kings Law Professor and twice Vicechanc. of Cambridge He died in July 1607. aged 72 and was buried as I conceive in the Chap. belonging to the said Coll. to which he was a benefactor An. Dom. 1587. An. 29 Elizab. An. 30 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Francis Willys D. D. constituted by the Chancellour now in England July 17. on which day he was admitted D. of D. Proct. George Dale of Oriel Coll. John Harmar of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Musick Oct. 20. Rob. Stevenson who had studied the faculty of Musick 33 years was then admitted Bach. of Musick On the same day he was admitted Bach. of Arts but did not compleat that Degree by Determination in the Lent following which is all I know of him Bach. of Arts. May 31. Will. Westerman of Gloc. hall Jun. 27. Rich. Jefferay of Magd. Coll. See among the Masters 1590. 28. John Aglionby Rich. Crackanthorpe of Qu. Coll. Nov. 7. John Vicars of Magd. Coll. Quaere One of both his names of Broadgates hall was admitted M. of A. Jul. 1. this year Nov. 29. Tho. Hutton Hen. Price of St. Jo. Coll. On the eleventh of March Clement Edmonds of All 's Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree but was not admitted this year Admitted 117. Bach. of Law Jun. 15. Henry Marten of New Coll. He is to be mention'd at large among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work Two more were admitted to and three that supplicated for the said Degree Mast of Arts. June 22. Sam. Fox of Magd. Coll. See at the end of John Fox among the Writers under the year 1587. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day This memorable person who was the Son of Richard Son of Lewis Winwood sometimes Secretary to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk was born at Ainhoe in Northamptonshire elected probationer Fellow of Magd. Coll. an 1582 and in 1590 took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law See more in that year Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day June 28. Charles Butler of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards publickly known by a book of Rhetorick that he published and other things Adm. 69. Bach. of Div. July 6. Rich. Potter of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Prebendary of Worcester and Father of an ingenious Son named Francis Author of the Interpretation of 666 c. whom I shall remember among the Writers under the year 1678. Will. Watkinson of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day 17. Francis Willys of S. Johns Coll. See among the Doct. of Div. this year Adm. 7. Doct. of Law June 17. Will. Wood of All 's Coll. This eminent Civilian died in the beginning of the year 1605 and was buried in the Chappel of Tallin in the Isle of Anglesey in which Isle he was born leaving Issue behind him William and Owen Wood. c. Feb. 13. Francis James of All 's Coll. He was yonger Brother to Dr. Will. James Bishop of Durham was Chancellour of the Diocess of Wells and Bristol and afterwards of London one of the Masters of the Chancery and Judge of the Court of Audience of Canterbury He died in the beginning of 1616 and was buried I presume according to his Will in the Parish Church of Barrow in Somersetshire in the upper end of that Isle which was formerly the Church or Oratory for the Nunns sometimes living at that place and is now belonging and appertaining to the Lord of the Mannour of Minchin-Barrow Will. Bird of All 's Coll. was admitted or licensed the same day This person who was Son of Will. Bird of Walden in Essex was afterwards principal Official and Dean of the Arches a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in the place as I conceive of Sir John Bennet Knight He died without issue and was buried in Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London 5 Sept. 1624 leaving behind him a Nephew of both his names whom I shall mention in 1622. â Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. July 17. Francis Willys Canon of Bristow of which City he was a Native and President of S. Johns Coll. On the eleventh of June this year he was installed Dean of Worcester having that Dignity confer'd upon him in the year before on the death of Dr. Tho. Wilson and dying 29 Oct. 1596 was buried in a little Isle joyning to the south side of the Choire of the Cath. Church at Worcester near to the grave and monument of Dr. Wilson before-mentioned In his Presidentship which he resign'd in 1590 succeeded Ralph Huchenson and in his Deanery Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. as I have elsewhere told you An. Dom. 1588. An. 30 Eliz. An. 31 Eliz. Chanc. Robert Earl of Leycester who dying 4 Sept. Sir Christop Hatton Knight of the Garter and Lord Chancellour of England was by the major part of the Academians elected into his place on the twentieth day of the same month In the vacancy between Death and Election there was no Cancellarius natus as formerly only the Vicechanc. this year mention'd who before had been nominated by the Earl of Leycester It is to be noted that at the Election of Hatton Robert Earl of Essex a popular and ambitious person was his Competitor having been incorporated M. of A. in April going before as I shall anon tell you thinking that if he might have obtained the said place of Chancellour he might be as powerful among the Gown-men as among the Gentlemen of the Sword But he being generally looked upon as a great Patron of the puritannical Party and consequently if he had obtained it he might do as much mischief in his Office as the Earl of Leycester had done before he was therefore especially upon the commendations to the University of Hatton by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury laid aside Vicechanc. Martin
and Widow of this Dr. Peter Turner I know not Oct. 30. Rich. Pilkington M. of A. of Cambridge Creations Juneâ¦Hen Cotton Bishop of Salisbury sometimes Master of Arts of Magd. Coll. was actually created Doctor of Divinity at Salisbury by Dr. Edm. Lillye Vicechancellour Dr. Tho. Holland the Kings Professor of Divinity and both the Proctors with the Superior Beadle of Divinity attending them by virtue of a Commission from the Vicechancellour dated 2 of June 1599. An. Dom. 1600. An. 42 Elizab. An. 43 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Tho. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. George Abbot D. D. Master of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 15. Proct. Nich. Langford of Ch. Ch. Laur. Humphrey Son of Laur. of Magd. Coll. Apr. 2. Bach. of Musick Jul⦠Henry Porter of Ch. Ch. Some of his compositions I have seen but none of them I think are extant He was Father to Walt. Porter sometimes Gentleman of the royal Chappel of King Ch. 1. and Master of the Choristers at Westminster author of Mottets of two voyces for Treble or Tenor and Bass c. to be performed to an Organ Harpsycon Lute or Bass-viol Lond. 1657. fol. The words of some of the Mottets are taken out of the learned Poet George Sandys his Paraphrase on the Psalmes of David This Person who had been patroniz'd in his endeavours by Sir Edw. Spencer was after his ejectment from his office in the beginning of the grand rebellion exhibited to in his old age by Edw. Laurence Esq Bach. of Arts. Jun. 5. Rob. Harris of Magd. hall 17. Rob. Mandevill of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. David Jenkins of St. Edm. hall Afterwards the famous Welsh Judge 7 Humph. Lynd Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bish of B. and Wells 10. Joh. Dunster of Magd. Oct. 14. Will. Twysse of New Dec. 4. Isaac Singleton of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1604. Dec. 11. George Browne of St. Joh. Coll. He soon after changed his Religion went beyond the Seas and I think was made a R. Cath. Priest Feb. 8. Dabridgcourt Belchier of Ch. Ch. This Person who was the eldest Son of Will. Belcher of Gillesborough in Northamptonshire Esque translated into English Hans Beer-pot his visible Comedy of see me and see me not Acted in the Low-countries by an honest company of Health-drinkers Lond. 1618. qu. Which translation was made at Vtrecht in 1617 about which time he wrot several Poems and made other translations but whether publish'd I cannot tell He died in the Low-countries in 1621. As for Rob. Harris D. Jenkins Will. Piers and Will. Twysse will be large mention made in the second vol. of Writers and Bishops Adm. 115. Mast of Arts. Apr. 5. Joh. Hanmer Rich. Moket of All 's Coll. Jun. 4. Theoph. Higgons of Ch. Ch. 14. Will. Loe of St. Alb. 10. Degorie Wheare of Broadg. hall 17. Aegeon Askew Rog. Mathew of Qu. Coll. The last of which who was a Warwickshire Man born hath published The flight of time on Job 9. 25. printed 1634. qu. and perhaps other things July 4. Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll. Charles Fitz-Geffry of Broadgates hall 8. Theodore Goulson of Mert. 11. Rob. Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. 12. Dudley Carleton of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16. Joh. White of New Coll. Adm. 89. Bach. of Div. Apr. 14. Edw. Gee of Brasn Coll. Thom. Cooper of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was a Londoner born became Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1586 was about this time beneficed at or near Oundle in Northamptonshire and was Author of The Worldlings adventure c. in two Sermons at the visitation of the Free Grammar School at Oundle in Northamptonshire on Matth. 16. 26. Lond. 1619. qu. One of both his names and an Oxford Man was Author of Nonae Novembris aeternitati consecratae c. Oxon 1607. qu. written in verse and prose but whether by the former Tho. Cooper I cannot justly say because he doth not write himself in the title Bach. of Div. as in the former book Besides these two Tho. Coopers were two more of the same time also and Writers besides Tho. Cooper B. of Winchester but whether both of them were of Oxon I cannot tell June 27. Rich. Pilkington of Qu. Jul. 16. Will. Thorne of New Dec. 14. Sebastian Benefield of C. C. Coll. Admitted 44. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Jam. Hussee of New Coll. He was afterwards Principal of Magd. hall Chancellour to the B. of Salisbury a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. and dying at Oxford of the plague on the eleventh of July 1625 was buried late at night without any solemnity or company only by two that carried his Corps in the Chancel of St. Maries Church in Oxon. â Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 14. Leonard Hutten of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Hen. Airay John Aglionby of Qu. Coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Brooke Nathan Dod compounders of Ch. Ch. 10. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. Incorporations Jul. 4. John Bridgman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards D. of D. Master of Magd. Coll. in that University Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. by whose favour he became Rector of the rich Church of Wigan in Lancashire in January 1615 Bishop of Chester in 1618. and in June 1621 Rector of Bangor which he held in Commend with his Bishoprick He was Father to Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Bt. sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and a sufferer in some measure for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. He died in Teddington or Tuddington in Middlesex in in Summer time 1674. 9. Gedeon da Man or Montmartin Son of a Noble Man and Master of Arts of Cambridge Wolfgangus Mayer M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day He was Grandson by the Mothers side to Martin Bucer 10. Jerem. Ratcliffe D. D. of Cambridge John Downe Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day He was educated in Emanuel College the members of which presented him to the Vicaridge of Winsford in Somersetshire where he continued for a while Afterwards he became Rector of Instow in Devonshire where he died and was buried about 1631. Ten of his Treatises the first of which is A Treatise concerning the force and efficacy of reading were published after his death by Dr. George Hakewill his neighbour Oxon. 1633. qu. with a funeral Sermon before them preached by the said Doctor containing many things in behalf of the Author and the said Treatises as also an Epiââle by Dr. Hall Bishop of Exon wherein are several Encomiums of the Author 11. Will. Paddie Doct. of Phys of Leyden He stands in the publick register as twice incorporated see in the year 1591. He was esteem'd one of the prime Physicians of his time and was highly valued by the chief Men of his faculty especially by Sir Theodore de Mayerne He gave way to fate in Decemb. 1634. and was buried in St. Johns Coll.
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
beneficial in his generation July 5. John Nicholaus Vaughan a Cambra-Britaine sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University afterwards Doctor of the Laws of Padua was also then incorporated having spent 10 years in the study of that faculty He was the Son of Joh. Nich. Vaughan Esq 10. John Brownlowe sometimes of Brasnose Coll. afterwards of St. Maries Hall and at length in 1631 Doctor of Physick of Leyden was then taken into the bosome of this University Oct. 12. Daniel Brevint of the Isle of Jersey Master of Arts of the Univ. of Saumare in France 16. Antonius Aubertus Master of Arts of the University or Academy of Deinse Deia Augusta Vocuntiorum The said Degree was conferr'd upon him there on the Ides of Septemb. 1619. Nov. 7. George Ent Doctor of Physick of Padua This learned Person who was the Son of Josias Ent was born at Sandwich in Kent 6. Nov. 1604 educated in Sydney Coll. in Cambridge was after he had been doctorated Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London eminent for his practice during the times of Usurpation afterwards President of the said College and at length had the Degree of Knighthood conferr'd upon him by King Charles 2. He hath written 1 Apologia pro circulatione sanguinis contra Aemilium Parisanum Lond. 1641. oct Wherein he hath learnedly defended Dr. William Harvey against the said Parisanus and rendred a very rational account concerning the operation of purging Medicines c. 2 Animadversiones in Malachiae Thrustoni M. D. diatribam de respirationis usu primario Lond. 1679. oct before which is his picture in a long periwig What other things he hath published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him at present only that he dying 13. October 1689 was buried in a Vault under part of the Church of St. Laurence in the Jewry within the City of London Dec. 6. Charles Vane Mast of Arts of Saumaure He was a Cadet of the knightly Family of the Vanes of Fairelane in Kent and being nearly related to Sir Hen. Vane closed with the Faction and in 1650 was sent Agent into Portugal by the Parliament of England Jan. 19. Thom. Temple Bach. of Div. of Linc. Coll. sometimes M. of A. and Fellow of Trin. Coll. near to Dublin was then incorporated Bach. of Div. The said degree he took there 18. June 1630 and in the beginning of March following he was licensed to proceed in this University as 't is before told you This person who was Brother to Sir Joh. Temple Knight Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties Privy Council in Ireland continued not long in Linc. Coll. for upon the turn of the times in 1641 I find him in London to be a forward Preacher and about that time Minister of Battersea in Surrey afterwards a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament and one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I know of him only he hath certain Sermons in print which he preached before the said Members one of which is entit Christs government in and over his people before the H. of Com. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642 on Psal 2. 6. Lond. 1642. qu. Creations Apr. 11. John Juxon an Officer belonging to the Lord Treasurer qui ad cubitum summi totius Angliae Thesaurarii à computis est as the Register hath it was declared Bach. of the Civil Law by a Diploma then read and sealed He was nearly related to Dr. Juxon Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer of England Philip Warwick Secretary to the Lord Treasurer qui ad cubitum c. ab epistolis est as in the said Reg. was also diplomated Bach. of the Civ Law the same day This noted person who was Son of Thom. Warwick Organist of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster and he the Son of Thom. Warwick of Hereford descended from the Warwicks or Warthwykes of Warwick in Cumberland was born in the said City of Westminster educated in Eaton Coll. School near Windsore and was for a time Chorister at Westminster Afterwards he travelled into France and was much at Geneva under the instruction and good counsel of Deodatus the famous Divine Thence returning into his native Country with many accomplishments became Secretary to the Lord Treasurer before mention'd one of the Clerks of the Signet and in 1640 was elected a Burgess for the Town of Radnor in Wales to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. the same year But perceiving soon after what desperate courses the Members thereof took he retired to his Majesty was with him at Oxon and sate in the Parliament there an 1643 at which time and after he had his Lodging in Vniversity Coll. and his Counsel much relyed upon by his Majesty Afterwards he was one of the Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon an 1646 and in 1648 he did attend his Majesty in his disconsolate condition in the Isle of Wight In the times of Usurpation he was involved in the same troubles as all Loyalists were but after his Majesties Restauration being then fix'd in the Clerkship of the Signet he became Secretary to Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England in which place he acted so much and so dexterously that he being then a Knight was usually called Sir Philip the Treasurer This person tho he hath published nothing yet he hath left behind him several things fit for the Press among which are 1 Memoirs or reflections upon the Reign of K. Ch. 1. in fol. 2 Of Government as examined by Scripture Reason and the Law of the Land or true weights and measures between Sovereignty and Liberty fol. c. He was esteemed by those that knew him to be a person of a publick spirit above the riches and preferments of the World and to be just in all his Actions and needed not therefore that Character which a certain nameless Author gives of him thus that he never lies more than when he professes to speak the sincerity of his heart He died on the 17 of the Cal. of Feb. 1682 aged 74 years and was buried in the Church at Chiselherst in Kent where he had an Estate I have seen an Epitaph made on him by Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury the first part of which runs thus Cavesis tibi viator ne legens lugeas nam cujus fidem veriverbio Carolus primus celebravit Carolusque secundus expertus est Nec majora quidem nec plura de se dici voluit Vir coelo natus bonorum in terris desiderium optimus veri aestimator aequi bânique tenacissimus Philippus Warwick c. His âon and Heir was Philip Warwick Esquire sometimes Envoy extraordinary from his Majesty to the King of Sweeden who returning post thence to the Court at Newmarket in order partly to take the last breath of his Father died suddenly of an Apoplexy there in his bed on Monday the 12
what reason it appears not he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree which was accordingly done to his desire and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign he obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex He hath written a Book Entit Arbor Reipublicae c. It is penned in a Juridic Stile and is now or at least lately was reserved as a choice Monument in the Cottonian Library Whether ever Printed I cannot tell At length after King Henry 7. who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill being dead his Successor King Henry 8. did for the Peoples satisfaction issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley then a Prisoner in the Tower of London Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons the eldest of which was John afterwards Duke of Northumberland Father to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester JOHN HOLTE called by some Holtigena was born in the County of Sussex and from being Usher of the School joyning to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College and Bachelaur of Arts was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University that were afterwards eminent in the Nation Since which time and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning by producing a right Grammar-Institution For tho before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure and less care of good Arts yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton Bishon of Ely and the times thereupon became more peaceable our Author Holte made a Grammar Entit Lac Puerorum c. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton then Archbishop of Canterbury Which Grammar Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge being the first of note or most fit for use that was ever Printed in England was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars Afterwards the said Stanbridge and his Scholar Robert Whittington with others did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar but more especially Dr. John Colet the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral who compiled the Eight parts of Speech and William Lilye the first Master of S. Paul's School an English Syntax whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School The learned Erasmus also intreated by Dr. Colet to revise Lilyes Syntax made a new Latin Syntax in 1513. upon which Henry Pryme a School-Master in a certain Monastery and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented the former in 1539. and the other in 1540. But these things being spoken by the by I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar which perhaps are now quite lost and past recovery as the time of his death and place of burial is One Holte who was Master to Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant Which Holte is in the Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John NICHOLAS MAGWIRE was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland Educated among the Oxonians and took one or more Degrees Afterwards returning to his Country he was made Prebendary of Hillard in the Diocess of Laighlin being then and after accounted famous among his Country-men for his great Learning and constant Preaching among them In 1490. he was by provision from the Pope promoted to the Bishoprick of Laighlin aged about thirty one years Where being settled he began to write several Books but being untimely snatch'd away by death finished only these following Chronicon Hiberniae of which Thaddeus Dowling made use when he Composed his Annales Hiberniae and Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc quondan Laighliensis This our Author Magwire year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve 4. Hen. 8. and was buried as it seems in his own Church of Laighlin In his Bishoprick succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws whom I shall remember in his proper place among the Bishops that have received their Education in Oxon. MAURITIUS de PORTU otherwise called O-Fihely who in his time was for his great Learning and Virtue called and written by many The Flower of the World was born in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universiââ and not unlikely in other Learning after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World John Duns Scotus had spent some years in Religion and Learning and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved From Oxon he Travelled into Italy and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua then flourishing in Learning made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks School-Divinity and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns whom he had in so great veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren he became known to and much respected by Pope Julius 2. who for a reward of his Learning and Vertues conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran and in the year following minding to return to his Native Country he obtained a Faculty from the Pope of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there but at his arrival at Galloway being overtaken with a deadly Disease died before he could Celebrate it His Works which have been much admired and
taken into the Hands of all Catholicks are mostly these Expositio sive lectura accuratiss in questiones dialecticas Divi Johan Scoti in Isagogen Porphyrii Ferrar. 1499. Ven. 1512. c. fol. Commentaria Doctoris Subtilis Johan Scoti in xii lib. Metaphysicae Aristotelis Emendata Quotationibus Concordantiis atque Annotationibus decorata Venet. 1507. fol. These Comments were made to the new Translation of and the many Additions made to the said twelve Books by that most famous Disciple of Duns Scotus named Antonius Andreas a Franciscan of the Province of Aragon Epithomata in insigne formalitatum opus de mente Doctoris Subtilis c. Ven. 1514. fol. Dictionarium Sacrae Scripturae universis conoionatoribus apprimè utile necessarium Venet. 1603. fol. This Dictionary reaches but to the latter end of the Letter E. to the Word Exnitguere Enchiridion fidei Printed in 1509. Epistolae diversae ad Jo. Camersium with several other things besides his postillizing the whole Doctrine of Duns Scotus and his subtile Comments on his Vniversals as Ant. Possevinus in his Apparatus Sacer will farther tell you He gave way to fate at Galloway before he could reach to Tuam as it is already told you to the great reluctancy of all learned Men especially those of his own Country and of Padöua on the eighth of the Cal. of June in Fifteen hundred and thirteen year 1513 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans commonly called the Grey Friers at Galloway In the See of Tuam succeeded one Thomas O-Mullaly commonly called Laly which Sirname occurring often in our Registers and Records there is no doubt but that he had received some knowledge of good Letters among us HENRY BRADSHAW was born in the antient Town of West-Chester commonly called the City of Chester and being much addicted to Religion and Learning when a Youth was received among the Benedictine Monks of S. Werbergs Monastery in the said City Thence at riper years he was sent to Gloucester College in the Suburb of Oxon where after he had passed his course in Theology among the Novices of his Order he returned to his Cell at S. Werberg and in his elder years wrote De antiquitate magnificentia Urbis Cestriae Chronicon c. and translated from Latin into English a Book which he thus entituled The life of the glorious Virgin S. Werberg Also many Miracles that God hath shewed for her Lond. 1521. qu. He died in Fifteen hundred and thirteen 5. Henry 8 and was buried in his Monastery year 1513 leaving then behind him other matters to posterity but the subject of which they Treat I know not JOHN HARLEY of the Order of the Preaching or Dominican commonly called Black Friers did also pass his course in the supream Faculty among those of his Order in the College pertaining to them sometimes situated and being in the South Suburb of Oxon where making great proficiency in his Profession was at length honored with the Degree of Doctor of Divinity being then accounted one of the prime Theologists of his Order not only for Learning but for conspicuous Vertue sanctimony of Life and acuteness in all Subtilities and Scholastical Disputations He hath written according to Anton. Senensis a Brother of the said Order Bina Commentaria super 4. libros Sententiarum Tract de Praedestinatione Dei Quodlibeta varia The time when he left this vain and transitory life my Author Anton. Senen tells me not only that his name sounded high and was in great renown for his erudition and most refined sanctity of life in Fifteen hundred and fifteen which was the seventh year of King Henry 8. of England THOMAS FICH was an Irish Man born and a Student for some time in Oxon as certain imperfect Notes shew but what Degree he took I find not Afterwards upon his return into his Country being then if not some years before a Canon Regular he became Subprior of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin and in his elder years wrote De rebus Ecclesiae Cath. SS Trinit Dublin lib. 1. It is in MS. and was sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware who saith it was usually called The White Book and takes it to be the same with the Obital Book of that Church for in his time it was written as by the Character it appears being at this day reserved as a great rarity in the Library of Trinity College near Dublin This person Tho. Fich who is supposed to have written other things gave way to fare on the sixteenth of the Cal. of Febr. in Fifteen hundred and seventeen year 1517 which was the ninth year of King Henry 8. and was buried in the aforesaid Cathedral Church GEORGE COGLEY another Irish Man but later in time than the former did spend some time in the study of the Civil Law among the Oxonians and after his return to his own Country became a Publick Notary and Registrary to the Bishops Court at Meath where having opportunity time and place to peruse the Registers of that Church wrote and commended to Posterity Catalogus Episcoporum Midensium MS. Sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware Knight This Catalogue commences with Simon Rochfort or de Rupe forti who was the first of English Men that obtained the Bishoprick of Meath in 1194. or thereabouts and reaches down to Hugh Ynge who became Bishop in 1511. A Copy of this Cataloge if not the Original was sometimes in the hands of the famous Dr. Usher Bishop of the said place who communicated it to Sir James Ware when he was composing his two Books De Script Hibern JOHN COLET the eldest Son of Sir Henry Colet sometimes twice Lord Mayor of London by Christiana his Chast and faithful Wife Son of Robert Colet of Wendover in Buckinghamshire was born in London in the Parish of S. Antholin as it seems in the year 1466. was Educated in Grammaticals partly in London or Westminster and being fitted for greater Learning was sent to the Habitation of the Muses the University of Oxon about 1483. at which time one or more of his Sirname were of S. Mary Magdalen College where after he had spent seven years in Logicals and Philosophicals was Licensed to proceed in Arts being about that time so exquisitely Learned that all Tullies Works were as familiar to him as his Epistles He was also no stranger to Plato and Plotinus whom he not only read but conferred and paralleled perusing the one as a Commentary on the other And as for the Mathematicks there was scarce any part thereof wherein he was not seen above his years Having thus obtained a most admirable competency in Learning at home he Travelled into Foreign Countries to improve it by seeing the variety of Learning As first into France where at Paris he advanced himself much in Divinity and in Italy he prosecuted his Studies therein so effectually that there were none of his
2 Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man 3 Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life 4 The gathered Councils of Isidore Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo He hath also written Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium Nisenum Paynellum Written from C. C. C. in Oxon as by their dates it appears Those to Edw. Lee Archb. of York were written in behalf of Erasmus between whom and the said Lee were learned bickerings and are printed in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia Basil 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus In Ciceronis philippicas Sermones ad Clerum Preached mostly at Calais See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two year 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London which Church was translated afterwards to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Sion Coll. Over his Grave tho there be no memory of him by Inscription yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia Trophaea c. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow buried in 1545. JOHN BOURCHIER Lord Berners Son of Humph. Bourchier eldest Son of Sir Joh. Bourchier Knight Lord Berners of Hertfordshire the fourth Son of William Earl of Ewe by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. de Wodestock Duke of Glocester the sixth Son of K. Edw. 3. was instructed in several sorts of learning in this University in the latter end of K. Edw. 4 in whose Reign and before were the Sons of divers of the English Nobility educated in Academical literature in Balliol Coll. wherein as 't is probable this our Author was instructed also After he had left the University he travelled into divers Countries and returned a Master of several Languages and a compleat Gentleman But that which made him first known to the World was his valour shew'd in quelling the fury of the Rebels in Cornwall and Devon under the conduct of Michael Joseph a Blacksmith about 1495 whereby he greatly gained the favor of K. Hen. 7. In the 6. Hen. 8. he was made Chancellor of the Kings Exchecquer for life and about that time attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France in order to her Marriage with K. Lewis 12. Afterwards being made Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches adjoyning in France spent most of his time there and wrot Of the duties of the Inhabitants of Calais Comedie called Ite in vineam meam Usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers He also translated into English 1 The life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight 2 The famous exploits of Hugh of Bordeaux 3 The castle of Love a Romance And besides something of Marc. Aur. Ant. must not be forgotten that noted translation of his which he performed at the command of K. Hen. 8. viz. The Chronicles of France and England composed originally in the French Tongue by Sir Joh. Frossard Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to K. Edw. 3. as also to Queen Philippa These Chronicles have been more than once if I mistake not printed in English in an English Letter in fol. This worthy Lord Sir Joh. Bourchier died at Calais beforemention'd 16 March in Fifteen hundred thirty and two aged 63 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of our Lady there where was if not still a comely Mon. over his Grave JOHN FRYTH Son of Rich. Fryth an Inholder of Sevenoake in Kent was born there some say at Westram in the said County and educated in Kings Coll. in Cambridge till he was Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards being incited to go to Oxon for preferment was for his towardly parts made one of the junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's College and soon after viz. in Dec. 1525. he was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same degree of Bachelaur But before that time falling into the acquaintance of Will. Tyndale a zealous Lutheran they conferred together privately about the abuses in Religion So that in short time after he being by him converted to his opinion Fryth made a publick profession of it Whereupon being seized and examined by the Commissary of the University he was imprisoned within the limits of the said College At length being freed thence in 1528 or thereabouts he went beyond the Seas where improving himself much in his religious opinions returned into England about two Years after leaving his Wife behind But then again finding few Friends there that favoured his opinions he wandred to and fro and in fine was taken for a Vagabond at Reading in Berks. set in the Stocks and endured misery for want of relief At that time his condition being made known to Leonard Cox the Schoolmaster of that Town who presently understood the merits of the Person by his discourse procured his releasment refreshed his hungry stomack and gave him money Afterwards he went to London where endeavouring to gain Proselytes he was by the care of Sir Tho. More Lord Chancellor seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower where he had several disputes with Sir Tho. and others At length being examined by the Bishops sitting in St. Pauls Cath. who persuaded him to recant his opinions but in vain they condemned him to be burnt So that being delivered to the L. Mayor and Sheriffs was committed to Newgate where he remained in the Dungeon till he was conveyed thence to be burnt His works are Treatise of Purgatory Answer to Joh. Rastal's Dialogues of Purgatory This Jo. Rastal was Son in-Law to Sir Tho. More Answer to Sir Tho. More 's Dialogue concerning Heresies Answer to Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester The Subsidie or Bulwark to his first Book against Jo. Rastal His judgment upon Will Tracy of Todington in Glocestershire his Testament an 1531. Letter unto the faithful followers of Christ's Gospell Written from his Prison in the Tower 1532. A Mirror or Glass to know thy self Written in the Tower 1532. Mirror or Looking-glass wherein you may behold the Sacrament of Baptisme Written 1533. An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope Of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ in answer to Sir Thom. More 's letter which he wrot against the first little treatise of Fryth made concerning the Sacrament c. an 1533. Lond. 1548. oct Articles wherefore he dyed Written in Newgate Prison 23. June 1533. All which treatises were reprinted at London in fol. an 1573. He also translated into English Patricks places written by Patr. Hamilton At length after he had remained in the said Prison about a Fortnight or more he was carried thence to Smithfield on the 4.
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
Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns for they were all Scholars that acted among whom were Miles Windsore and Thom. Twyne of C. C. C. before the Queen came to Oxon was by them so well liked that they said it far surpassed Damân and Pythias than which they thought nothing could be better Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death he would run mad But this it seems was the last for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him He also wrot Several Poems in Engl. and Latine Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit The paradise of dainty devises Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer with other Mens Poems mix'd among them Among which are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford the best for Comedy in his time who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet who hath about nine Copies in the said collection Jasp Heywood Nich. Lord Vaux Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein R. Hall R. Hill T. Marshall Tho Churchyard a Salopian Lodowyke Lloyd one Yâoop and several others At length this noted Poet and Comedian R. Edwards made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six or thereabouts When he was in the extremity of his sickness he composed a noted Poem called Edwards Soulknil or the Soules knell which was commended for a good piece One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs Epigrams Songs Sonnets c. which I shall hereafter mention printed at Lond. the second time 1570 hath an Epitaph on his death made by Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. and another by himself ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderliâ in Glocestershire where his Family was gentile gave breath and Wykehams School near to Winehester education was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd upon him in 1560 but went away before he compleated it by standing in the Comitia Afterwards leaving his Relations Country and all future expectation for Religion sake settled at Lovaine in Brabant as it seems became a Student in Divinity and published Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers which lived far within six hundred years Lov. 1566. oct Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing Printed with the former book Miracles performed by the Eucharist This last with other things that he hath written as 't is said I have not yet seen An 100 years after this R. Pointz lived another of both his names and of the same Family a writer also and a Knight of the Bath whom I shall remember hereafter ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh Esq Son of Rob. Browne by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire by Joane Kirkham his second Wife Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country was born in Essex and being made soon ripe for the University was sent thereunto but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple of which after he had been some years an Inner Barrester he was elected summer-Reader 1 o Mariae but did not read till the Lent following In the 2 Year of the said Queens Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law and was the antientest of the call and soon after was made Serjeant to the King and Queen In oct 1558. 5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after and Elizabeth succeeding she remov'd him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time as it seems a Justice of the Common-pleas and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench in which dignity he dyed having but an year before his death received the honor of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeths time and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen had not too much modesty laid in the way What he did as to that was concealed and partly published under another name as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown conceiv'd by Sir Anth. Browne Justice Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England was by him answered and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned Our Author Sir Anthony wrot a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester as one reports but what the contents of it are he mentions not At length having always lived a R. Catholick he gave way to fate at his house in the Parish of South-weld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven year 1567 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the tenth of June following What Epitaph was put over his Grave I know not Sure it is that these verses were made on him several years after his death which may serve for one Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum Gentis Anglorum regia sceptra tenet Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit On the 9. Nov. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died Joan his Widow Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire and formerly the Widow of Charles Bothe Esq died and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony before-mentioned who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple made Serjeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died being about 33 Years after he was made a Serjeant WILLIAM SALESBURY a most exact Critick in British antiquities was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire spent several year in
Laurence in the Old Jewrie to which the learneder sort in the City of London would resort Afterwards also when he was L. Chanc. of England he wrot treatises against the Lutherans and when at home on Sundays he would sit in the choir in a surplice and sing service But to return as for our Author Rich. Taverner he for security sake when Qu. Mary came to the Crown did receede to his house called Norbiton hall in Surrey where he mostly continued all her Reign But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he presented to her a gratulatory Epistle in Latin by which being made more known to her than formerly she had so great respect for and confidence in him that she not only offer'd to him the Degree of Knighthood but put him into the commission of peace for the County of Oxon wherein he had several mannors that had belonged to religious houses entrusted him with a considerable share of the concerns thereof and in the 12 Year of her Reign Dom. 1569 made him High Sherriff of the said County In which office he appeared in St. Maries Pulpit with his sword by his side as 't is said and a chain of gold hanging about his neck and preached to the Scholars a Sermon there being then a great scarcity of Divines in the University beginning thus Arriving at the mount of St. Maries in the stony stage where I now stand I have brought you some five biskets baked in the oven of charity carefully conserv'd for the chickens of the Church the sparrows of the spirit and the sweet swallows of salvation c. Which way of preaching was then mostly in fashion and commended by the generality of Scholars This Rich. Taverner hath written and published The sum or pith of the 150 Psalmes of David reduced into a forme of prayers and meditations with other certaine godly orisons c. Lond. 1539. oct Recognition or correction of the Bible after the best exemplars Lond. 1539 fol. Allowed to be publickly read in Churches in the English tongue with an Epist dedic to the King whose servant Taverner then was But after the death of the Lord Cromwell the Kings Secretary an 1540 the Bishops caused the Printers of the Bible in the Engl. tongue to be imprison'd and punished and this our Author for his labours was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but he so well acquitted himself that he was shortly after released and restored to his place in Court and in the Kings favour The Epistles and Gospels with a brief postill upon the same from Advent to Low Sunday which is the Winter part drawn forth by divers learned Men for the singular commoditie of all good Christian Persons and namelie of Priests and Curats Lond 1540. qu. The Epist and Gosp with a brief postill upon the same from after Easther till Advent which is the summer part set forth c. Lond. 1540. qu. Fruite of faith containing all the prayers of the holy Fathers Patriarks Prophets Judges Kings renowned Men and Women in the Old and New Test Lond. 1582. in tw Various Poems in Latine and English Hortus sapientiae lib. 2. Sententiarum flores In Catonis disticha lib. 4. In Mimum publianum Catechismus fidei These are mention'd by Jo. Bale but I have not yet seen any of them and therefore I cannot tell you whether they are in Engl. or Lat. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Rob. Capito Grosthead his prayers on the Psalmes Lond. 1539. oct 2 Confession of the Germans exhibited to the Emperour Charles 5. in the Councell of Augusta in the Year 1530 to which is added The Apologie of Melancton of the said confession Lond. 1536 in oct Translated at the command of the Lord Cromwell Lord Privy Seal 3 Common places of Scripture orderly and after a compendious forme of teaching c. Lond. 1577. oct Written by Erasmus Sarcerius 4 An introduction to a Christian concord and unitie in matters of Religion Translated from Erasm Roterd. De sarciendâ ecclesiae concordiâ Which translation was done by our Author upon K. Hen. the eighth his coming into the Parliament house an 1545 at which time he exhorted the members thereof of which number R. Taverner our Author was one to charity unity and concord At length after he had lived beyond the age of Man and had been a zealous promoter of reformation and the Protestant Religion laid down his head in peace and willingly resign'd up his last breath at Woodeaton near to and in the County of Oxford in the mannour-house now standing there which he did build from the ground about 1544 on the 14 day of July in Fifteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church there by two Heralds or Officers of Arms about 5 days after year 1575 was buried in the Chancel with great solemnity near to the body of his first Wife Margaret Soon after the said Officers caused to be hung up on the North wall of the said Chancell an helmet standard pennon and other cognisances belonging to Esquires All which continued there several years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and then were pulled down by Mr. Joh. Nourse the Lord of that mannour to make room for a monument and banners for his Relations He the said Rich. Taverner had married two wives the first was Margaret Dau. of Walt. Lambert Esq by whom he had several Sons whose male issue is now as I conceive worn out except that of Peter his second Son of Hexton in Hertfordsh His second Wife was Mary Daughter of Sir Joh. Harcourt of the noble and antient family of the Harcourts of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire by whom having only one Daughter that survived named Penelopie she was married to my Grandfather by the Mothers side named Robert Le Petite commonly called Pettie of Wifald near to Henlie and of Cottesford near Bister in Oxfordshire Gentleman a younger Son of Joh. Pettie of Tetsworth and Stocke-Talmache near Thame in the said County Esq The next Brother in order to the said Rich. Taverner was named Roger born in Norfolk also and educated for a time in Cambridge afterwards surveyour general on this side of the river Trent of the Kings woods to Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizabeth who in the Year 1560 wrot a book De fame viz. of the means to prevent famine in this land dedicated to Qu. Elizab. who delivering it to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury he gave it afterwards with many other MSS. to Bennet Coll. Library in Cambridge where it now remains and hath had this testimony given of the writer by some of that house in the beginning of Ch. 1. that tho the Author was no professed Scholar yet he was competently learned well versed in the affairs of the Commonwealth and of the Estates of Kingdoms in Forreign parts and that the book was worthy of publication He died at Upminster in Essex where he had a fair Estate and was buried
in the Church there in 1582 leaving behind him a Son named John who in 1600 publish'd a little treatise concerning The making of ponds breeding and feeding of fish and planting of fruits c. printed several times Which John succeeded his Father in the surveyourship before-mention'd and dying in 1606 was as I conceive buried by his Father leaving then behind him a Son named Roger living 1636. HENRY BULL a Warwickshire Man born became Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1535 or thereabouts perpetual Fellow in 1540. being then Bach of Arts and afterwards a zealous Man for reformation in K. Edw. days an exile in the time of Qu. Marie and a double if not a treble beneficed Man in the Reign of Qu. Eliz. He hath transmitted to posterity Christian prayers and holy meditations as well for private as publick exercise gathered out of the most godly learned of our time Printed at Lond. several times one edit bears date 1584 another 92. a third in 1605. and all either in oct or 16o. Lydlies prayers with certaine godly additions He also translated from Lat. into English A commentary upon the 15 Psalmes called Psalmi Graduum that is Psalmes of degrees from Psal 120 to Psal 133 faithfully copied out of the Lectures of Dr. Mart. Luther Lond. 1577. qu. c. Published with an Epistle before it by Joh. Fox the Martyrologist at which time the translator had been dead about two or three years for if I mistake not he gave way to fate about Fifteen hundred seventy and five year 1575 One of both his names who was a rich Physician of London died there in June or thereabouts in 1577 but of what kin to the former I know not NICHOLAS WHITHALK a Theologist of Losanne studied several years in Merton Coll. for the sake of the Warden thereof Dr. Bickley with whom he had contracted an acquaintance while he was an Exile in the time of Qu. Mary but whether he took a degree tho supplicate he did for one it appears not He hath written Christianae fidei ac verae religionis compendium in locos communes digestum nunc primum in vulgus emissum Lond. 1575 oct Dedic to Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh No doubt there is but he hath published other things but such I have not yet seen LAURENCE NOWELL the third Son of John Nowell of Great Meerley in Lancashire where his ancestors had lived several generations before him by Dowsabell his Wife Daughter of Thomas Hesketh of Rufford in the said County Esq was born as I conceive at Great Meerley before-mentioned or at least in the said County sent to Brasnose Coll. to obtain Academical learning about 1536 where applying his Muse to the study of Logick for a little while went to Cambridge where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts return'd to Oxon. and was incorporated in the said Degree in July 1542. In the year following he was licensed to proceed in Arts and about that time being in sacred orders became Master of the Free-school at Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire where he continued for some years In the Reign of Qu. Mary he absconded for a time in the house of Sir Joh. Perrot called Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire where besides that Knight he found two of his perswasion viz. Mr. Perrot Sir Johns Unkle who had been reader of the Greek tongue in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. and another Gent. called Banister But before that Queen died he went into Garmany where finding out his Brother Alexander Nowell sorted himself among the English Exiles there After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was made Archdeacon of Derby and Dean of Lichfield which he kept with one or more benefices besides that Prebendship of Ampleford in the Ch. of York which he obtained upon the relignation of Will. Day Bach. of Div. 27. May 1566. to his dying day He was a most diligent searcher into venerable antiquity a right learned Clerk also in the Saxon Language and was one of the first that recalled the study thereof When he abode in Lincolns Inn in the lodgings of one of his brethren who was a Counsellour of note there he was a tutor in those studies to Will. Lambard the Antiquary of Kent who was esteemed the second best in them and made use of his assistance and notes when he compiled his book De priscis Anglorum legibus Our famous Antiquary Will. Camden tells us that he Laur. Nowell was a Man of good note for his singular learning and was the first in our age that brought into ure againe and revived the Language of our Ancestours the Saxons which through disuse lay forlet and buried in oblivion He hath written Vocabularium Saxonium or a Saxon English Dictionary Written in 1567. 'T is a MS. in qu. and was sometimes in the hands of the learned Selden but now in Bodlies Library Franc. Junius who maketh honourable mention of the Author had a Copy of it and Will. Somner the Antiquary of Canterbury made use of the original when he compiled his Saxon Dictionary He also L. Nowell made several collections from antique historical MSS. which as rarities are kept to this day in the Cottonian Library One of them is thus entituled Collectanea ex Chronicis Gregorii Caerquent Monachi Coenobii Glocestrensis ab an 681. ad an 1290. 'T is under Vespasians head A. 5. with other collections out of the Registers of Worcester and Glocester This eminent Antiquary died as it seems year 1576 in Fifteen hundred seventy and six his will being dated 7. Oct. the same year aged 60 or more but where buried unless in the Cath. Ch. at Lichfield I cannot tell He left behind him a Son of both his names who was a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 1590. aged 18 and had if I mistake not for his successor in his Deanery one George Bulleyn D. D. who dying in Januar. 1602 was succeeded by Dr. Will. Tooker One Hen. Boleyne D. D. was sometimes Chauntor and Residentiary of Lincolne Archdeacon of Chichester and Rector of Borneford who dyed 1491. but what relation George had to this Henry I know not GERARD LEGH Son of Hen. Legh or Leigh of London natural or base Son of Randal Legh by his Concubine one Woodroffs Widow of Derby second Son of Sir Edm. Legh of Baguly in Cheshire Knight living 39. H. 6. was born in London where being trained up for a time in Grammaticals was sent to Oxon to compleat them and to obtain so much of the Logicals that he might the better conquer the rudiments of the municipal Law for if I am not mistaken he studied for some time in one of the Inns of Court But such was the vigour of his natural genius to Heraldry Genealogies and History that he postpon'd those beneficial studies and totally gave himself up to those of honor and less benefit All that he hath published is that fruitful and worthy treatise entit The Accedence of Armorie Lond. 1568. and 1612. in
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
Benedicti inhumatur monumento laqueis plintheis carchesiis scamno Hypocratis glossocomtis aliis chirurgicis ex Bribasio Galeno machinamentis exornato The Coll. of Physicians was then in Knight-riders-street in London not far from the Church of St. Benedict near Pauls Wharf EDWARD RISHTON of a right ancient Family in Lancashire became a Student in the University about 1568 particularly as it seems in Brasenose College where after he had spent some years in Philosophy and Mathematicks supplicated the Ven. congr of Regents in Apr. 1572 for the Degree of Bach. of Arts having performed all excercise requisite thereunto but whether he was admitted it appears not in the University registers Afterwards he left his native Country and Friends and went to Doway where studying for some time in the English Coll. was made M. of A. Thence he went to Rome in 1577 and after he had consummated certain studies in Divinity was made a Priest in 1580 or thereabouts Soon after he was sent into the Mission of England but before he was quite settled he was taken and kept close Prisoner in the Tower of London and elsewhere 3 or 4 years At length being released his life spared and he condemned to banishment with Jam. Bosgrace a Jesuit John Hart and others he went into France and settled for a time in the University of Pont-à -musson in Loraine to the end that he might proceed in the study of Divinity and take a Degree or Degrees therein but the plague being then there and he careless to avoid it in time was infected therewith and soon after died This is that Edw. Rishton qui impie ingratus as one saith in Principem cui vitam debuit publicatis scriptis malitiae virus illico evomuit The titles of the said writings are these Synopsis rerum ecclesiastiearum ad an chr 1577. Whether in Engl. or Lat. I know not for I have not yet seen it Profession of his faith made manifest and confirmed by 24 reasons or motives It must be now known that Nich. Saunders left behind him at his death two imperfect books De schismate Anglicano with the beginning of the third commencing with the Reign of Q. Elizabeth which coming into the hands of our Author Rishton after he had suffered imprisonment for some time in England he supplied what was defective in them corrected and caused them to be published at Colen 1585. to which he added of his own composition besides the third book which was in a manner all his Rerum pro religione catholica ac inturri Londinensi gestarum ab an 1580. ad an usque 1585 indiculus seu diarium with a preface to it Religiosorum sacerdotum nomina qui pro defensione primatus Rom. Ecclesiae per Martyrium consummati sunt sub Henrico 8. Angliae rege c. Mostly taken out of Saunders his book De visibili Monarchia Ecclesiae c. These additions with the book De Schismate having undergone several impressions as I have told you elsewhere have been since added to them 1 An appendix which makes a fourth book exerpted from certain of the works of Peter Ribadeneira a Jesuit 2 Summarium rationum quibus Cancellarius Angliae Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethae Angliae Reginae persuaserunt occidendum esse Mariam Stuartum Scotiae Reginam c. Which being published in English were translated into Latine and had added thereunto Supplicium mors Reginae Scotiae c. by the labour of Romoald Scot 3 Epistola Doctoris Johannis Pistorii Nidani ad D. Jacobum Grynaeum Ministri verbi Ecclesiae Basiliensis 4 Mariae Stuartae Reg. Scotiae innocens à cade Darleanâ c. written by Obertus Barnestapolius Which four things being added to Rishtons additions to Saunders book De Schismate were all printed together at Colen 1628 in a thick oct What other things our Author Rishton hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying near to St. Manhou after year 1585 or about Fifteen hundred eighty and five in his flight from Pont-à -mosson to avoid the pest was buried there by the care of Joh. Barnes an English exile the same I suppose with John Barnes the Benedictine Monk whom I shall mention elsewhere I find one Edw. Risden a Secular Priest of the English Coll. at Doway in this Mans time who was afterwards of the Order of Carthusians but he being descended from the Risdens or Risdons of Devonshire must not be taken to be the same as some are apt to do with Edw. Rishton before-mention'd I find also one Edw. Risden or Risdon a Devonian to have been Fellow of Exeter Coll. and Master of Arts 1566 which probably may be the same with the Carthusians sed Qu. HENRY SIDNEY who was learned in many languages and a great lover of learning was born of and descended from a noble Family of his name living at Cranleigh in Surrey became a Student in New Coll. as it seems in 1543 or thereabouts but making no long stay there he went to the Court where he became a coâpanion to Prince Edward afterwards King Ed. 6. and by him much esteemed In the third year of that Kings Reign he received the honour of Knighthood and was forthwith being then about 22 years of age sent Embassadour into France where he behaved himself far beyond his years In the 2 and 3 of Phil. and Mary he was made general Governour of all the Kings and Queens revenues within the Realm of Ireland and about two years after Lord Justice thereof In the 2 of Qu. Elizab. he was appointed Lord President of the Marches of Wales and 4 years after was made Knight of the honorable order of the Garter having before been employed in one or more Embassies In 1568 in the month of Apr. he was constituted Deputy of Ireland and in Aug. the same year being then at Oxon. he was actually created Master of Arts. Afterwards he was Lord Justice again and twice Deputy of the said Kingdom c. This Person hath written many things which chiefly continue at this time in MS. All that I have seen are A godly letter to his Son Philip. Lond. 1592. oct Since which time have been other letters of his to the said Person made extant two of which I have seen without date as that which begins thus Son Philip I have received two letters from you And the other My Son the virtuous inclination of thy matchless mother c. He hath also written Miscellanies of Irish affairs MS. and caused also the Statutes of Ireland to be first published in print He paid his last debt to nature in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester in his return from Ludlow on the fourth day of May in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 and was buried 21. of June following in the Church at Penshurst in Kent he having some years before obtained the mannour thereof to him and his posterity for ever The
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 Allens or Allyns of Staffordshire from whom he is descended are Parted per Chevron Gules and Ermine two Lyons heads erased in the upper part or The next Card. that the English Nation hath been honoured with is Philip Howard third Son of Henry Earl of Arundel and younger Brother to Henry Earl of Norwich and Duke of Norfolk who at this day is living at Rome He was born in Arundel House in the Parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple-Bar near London an 1629. and there educated under several Tutors till he was 14 years of age At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he left the Nation and travelled with his Grandfather Thomas Earl of Arundel into Italy and at 15 years of age became a Dominician or Black-Frier at Cremona After several years spent there he returned into England and upon the Marriage of King Charles 2. with Katherine the Infanta of Portugal he became Lord Almoner to her and continued in her service several years Afterwards upon the People's being exasperated against Popery he quitted that Noble Office and went to Bornheim in Flanders where having a Convent of English Fryers of his Order had not continued there long but at the desire of his sometimes Tutor then Confessor to Pope Clement 10. had a Cardinals Cap sent to him by the said Pope in the month of May 1675. by his Messenger Seignior Con at which time Father Howard was at Antwerp with the Bishop of that place By vertue of which and the instrument with it he was made Cardinal Priest Sub tt Ecclesiae S. Mariae supra Minervam which Church was in most ancient time built upon the ruines of the Temple of Minerva at Rome where the said Card. is now generally stiled The Cardinal of Norfolk and by some The Cardinal of England Afterwards taking his journey towards Rome he was attended by his Uncle William Viscount Stafford beheaded in 1680. upon account of being engaged in the Popish Plot Mr. John Howard Son of the said William Lord Thomas Howard Nephew to the said Cardinal and younger Brother to the present Duke of Norfolk Seignior Con before-mentioned Dr. Joh. Laybourne President of the English or Clergy College at Doway then Secretary or Auditor to the Cardinal and others He took his journey through Flanders to Doway where he was with great solemnity received and lodged in the said Coll. The next day he designing to visit the College of English Benedictines at that place he was received by the whole Convent in their Church in a solemn procession with Copes a Te Deum and other Ceremonies as appointed in the Ritual for such receptions From the Church he was conducted into the Cloyster and entertained with a banquet and a Panigyrick spoken to him by a Student of that college All which was so well performed that Visâ Staââord was pleased to say that it was the only fit reception his Eminence had met with in all his journey Afterwards his Eminence went to Paris where he continued for some time incognito At length with other Nobility and Persons of Quality added to the former company he journeyed to Rome and made his entry for the defraying of which and his journey he had the assistance of the Pope and not of King Charles 2. and Queen Catherine as the common report then went ADAM HYLL a most noted and eloquent Preacher of his time was elected Fellow of Baliol Coll. in 1568. being that Bachelaur of Arts stood in the Act to compleat the degree of Master of that Faculty in 1572. and on the 12. of Jan. following he resigned his Fellowship About that time he being noted for his practical way of Preaching he became Vicar of Westbury in Wilts in which County he was as it is probable born Parson of Goosage in Dorsetshire and at length Prebendary of Gillyngham Minor in and Succentor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury In 1591. he took the degrees in Divinity and had he not been untimely snatched away by Death he would have been advanced to an high degree in the Church He hath written and published Several Sermons Among which are 1 Godly Sermon shewing the Fruits of Peace and War on 2 Cor. 20. 1 Lond. 1588. oct 2 Serm. On Gen. 18. 21 22. Lond. 1593. oct 3 Serm. concerning Christs descent into Hell Preached 28. Feb. 1589. but on what Subject I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it It was answered by Alex. Humo a Scot whereupon our Author Hyll came out with a Book intit A defence of the Article Christ descended into Hell with an Answer to the arguments objected against the truth of the said Doctrine by one Alexand. Hume c. Lond. 1592. qu Afterwards Hume came out with A Rejoinder wherein the answer to Dr. Hylls Sermon is justly defended Printed 1593. qu. But before our author Hyll could come out with another answer he gave way to fate which hapning at Salisbury about the 16. of Febr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Cath. Church there on the nineteenth day of the same Month. Soon after his dignity or dignities in the said Church were bestowed on one Tho. Crump As for the said Alex. Hume he was Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated here as I shall tell you in the Fasti and wrote besides what is before mentioned A Treatise of Conscience c. 2 Treatise of the Felicity of the World to come c. 3 Four discourses of praises unto God c. All which were printed at London in 1594. in oct JOHN THORIE or Thorius Son of John Thorius Doctor of Physick who intitles himself Balliolanus Flandrus was born in London matriculated in this University as a Member of Ch. Ch. 1 Oct. 1586. aged 18. but whether he took a degree it appears not though in one of his Books he writes himself a Graduat of Oxenford He was a Person well skilled in certain Tongues and a noted Poet of his time as several pieces of his then published shew All the things that I have seen of his writing or translating are these A Spanish Dictionary Lond. 1590. qu. Added to his translation into English of a Spanish Grammar written by Auth. de Corro which Dictionary contains the explication of all the Spanish Words cited in the said Grammer and is as a Key to open every thing therein Letters and Sonnets to Gabr. Harvey An. 1593. See at the end of a book entit Pierces Superarogation written by the said Harvey And at the end of another called Have with you to Saffron Walden c. written by Tho. Nash anoted Poet of his time and a Dramatick Writer as his published Comedies shew Our author Thorius also translated from Spanish into English a book entit The Councellour A Treatise of Councils and Councellours of Princes Lond. 1589. qu. written by Barth Philip. L. L. D. and another entit The Serjeant Major or a Dialogue of the
time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine He was a Person of a strict life and conversation as those of his Perswasion say of great gravity of severity and a lover of vertue and vertuous men He hath written A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks Lov. in oct and other things as I have been told but such I have not yet seen which if printed few or no copies come into England He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman on the 9. year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there near to the horn of the Gospel leaving then behind him this character that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON a most excellent Latin Poet Philosopher and Physician of his time was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. 2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar. left it after he was M. of Arts and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School in the place of Tho. Hyde where by his industry and admirable way of teaching were many good Scholars sent to the Universities All the time that he could get at vacant hours he spent upon his beloved study of Physick which he practiced in the City of Winchester but not to the neglect of his School At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty did shortly after resign his School and repairing to London practiced with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West where being accounted eminent was admitted as it seems a Member of the Coll. of Physicians He hath written and published Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi Written in 140 long and short Verses 14. Dec. 1564. Printed 1 on the broadside of a sheet of Paper with Wykehams Arms encompassed with the Garter before them 2 At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius Lond. 1573. And 3 in a Book intit A brief view of the State of the Church of England as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 37 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight an 1608. and made publick by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son then no Friend to the Church of England Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton Series Written in Verse also and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus In Verse also at the end of the said Poems Counsel against the Plague or any other infectious Disease Lond. 1577. oct Question Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no Printed with the Counsel c. Ranarum murium pugna Latino versu donata ex Homero Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh in qu. with other things as it is probable but such I have not yet seen See more of him in Rich. White under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there as it seems situated and being in Fleetstreet He dyed wealthy left several Sons and Daughters behind him and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law a Student in Physick his Executor who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books and succeeded him in his Practice JASPER HEYWOOD a quaint Poet in his younger days Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigramatist of his time was born in London sent to the University at about 12 years of age an 1547. educated in Grammar as well as in Logic there took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll where remaining about 5 years in all which time he bare away the Bell in disputations at home and in the publick Schools did upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanors for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild to the great grief of their Father resign his Fellowship to prevent expulsion on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master and in Nov. ensuing he was elected Fellow of All 's coll where abiding for a little while left the University and soon after England and entred himself into the Society of Jesus But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following Various Poems and Devises Some of which are Printed in a Book intit The Paradise of dainty Devises Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer an 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse 1 Thiestes the second Tragedy of Seneca Lond. 1560. oct Published again with other Tragedies of that author by Thom. Newton Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him in an 1607. 2 Hercules furens another Trag. of Seneca And 3 Troas a third published also by the said Newton 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion and in 1562. being then at Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus 21. May in the then professed house of the Jesuits there After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them he was sent to Diling in Switzerland where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Hereticks in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity and of the four Vows At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him with others the same year into the mission of England and the rather because the Brethren there told his Holiness That the Harvest was great and the Labourers few Being setled then in the Metropolis of his own Country and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England it was noted by all that knew him That he kept many Men Horses and Coaches that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priest-like c. At length going into France about publick matters relating to the Order was when ready to land in Normandy drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore where being taken and examined was with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship and set on shore in France in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity he made a copy of verses mentioned by a noted Poet of his time concluding with these two Thanks to that Lord that will me good For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the City of Dole where he was troubled much with Witches thence to Rome and at length fixed in the City of Naples where as at Rome he became familiarly
of Broughton in Lincolnshire as being a younger Son of Thomas Anderson descended from the Addersons of Scotland who lived first in Northumberland and afterwards at Broughton before-mentioned did spend some time in Oxon in Linc. coll as it seems from whence being sent to the Inner Temple did by his indefatigable study obtain great knowledge in the Municipal Laws In the 9. of Q Eliz. he was either Lent or Summer Reader of that House in the 16. Double Reader and in the 19. of the said Queen's Reign Serjeant at Law In 1582. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas in the place of Sir Jam. Dyer deceased and in the year following he was made a Knight being then esteemed a zealous promoter of the established discipline of the Church of England as afterwards a severe prosecuter in his Circuits of the Brownists In 1586. he sate in judgment on Mary Q. of Scots at which time he was Chief Justicer of the Bench as a certain author stiles him being then a learned Man of the Law He wrote much but nothing is printed under his name only Reports of many principle Cases argued and adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth in the Common Bench. Lond. 1664. fol. Resolutions and judgments on the cases and matters agitated in all the Courts at Westminster in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth Collected by Joh. Goldesburg Esque and by him published at Lond. in qu. This Sir Edm. Anderson died at London on the first of August in sixteen hundred and five year 1605 and on the 5. of Sept. following his Funerals were solemnized at Eyworth or Eworth in Bedfordshire where he had an Estate leaving issue several Sons whose Posterity remaineth there and elsewhere to this day In the place of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas suceeded Sir Francis Gaudy of the Inner Temple RALPH WARCUPP Son and Heir of Cuthb Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esq descended from those of Warcupp in Yorkshire became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1561. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts went to travel and became in time the most accomplished Gentleman of the age he lived in and Master of several Languages Afterwards setling in his Native Country he became Justice of Peace and Parliamentarian Knight for Oxfordshire in that Convention met at Westminster 43. Eliz. In the beginning of K. James's Reign he was by him designed Embassador either to France or Spain and had gone but was prevented by death He hath written and translated several things as 't is said but I have only seen his translation of Prayers on the Psalms Lond. 1571. in sixteens written originally by August Marlorat He died much lamented in the sixtieth year of his age on the Ides of Aug. in sixteen hundred and five and was buried in the Chancel year 1605 of Nuffield near to English before-mentioned Soon after came out a little book of verses on his death made by sixteen of the Members of New coll of which Will. Kingsmill his Kinsman was one and the chief from whence may be collected that the said R. Warcupp was the most compleat Esquire of his time FRANCIS TRESHAM Esq Son of Sir Tho. Tresham Knight who died 11. Sept. 1605. and he the Son of Sir John Tresham of Rushton in Northamptonshire was born in that County where his Family was ancient gentile and knightly educated either in St. Johns coll or Gloc. hall or both in which he laid the foundation of some learning that he afterwards improved by experience He hath written as 't is supposed A Treatise agaist Lying and fraudulent Equivocation MS. among those given by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to Bodlies Library See more in George Blackwell under the year 1612. After the Gunpowder Treason was discovered the said book was found by Sir Edw. Coke in a Chamber in the Inner Temple where Sir John Tresham used to lie 5. Dec. 1605. The said Fr. Tresham wrote De Officio Principis Christiani In which he maintains the lawfulness of deposing Kings an obstinate Heretick having no right to Dominion At length this person who was a strict R. Catholick being deeply ingaged in the Gunpowder-Treason as he had before been in that of Robert Earl of Essex in 1600. was taken and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died of the Stranguary say some others that he murthered himself yet a venerable author tells us that he being sick in the Tower and Dr. Will. Butler the great Physician of Cambridge coming to visit him as his fashion was gave him a piece of very pure Gold to put in his mouth and upon taking out of that Gold Butler said he was poysoned He died on the 20. of Nov. year 1605 in sixteen hundred and five aged 38. or thereabouts Whereupon his head being cut off and set with the rest of the heads of the Conspirators on London Bridge his body I suppose was buried within the Precincts of the Chappel of St. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London Quere This Francis Tresham was the person who wrote the Letter to the Lord Mount-Eagle who lived then at Bednall green near Algate who communicating it to the Secretary of State and he to the King the Plot for blowing up the Parliament House was thereupon discovered See in Tho. Habington under the year 1647. CHARLES TURNHULL a Lincolnshire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 24. Dec. 1573. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1581. about which time he was made Fellow of the said coll and became Famous for his admirable knowledge in the Mathematick Science He hath written A perfect and easie Treatise of the use of the Celestial Globe written as well for an introduction to the unskilful in Astronomy as for the use of such as be exercised in the art of Navigation Lond. 1597. oct Which I think was the second Edition He also built and made those several sorts of Dialls that stand upon a Pillar in the middle of C. C. coll Quadrangle an 1605. What other things he wrote or when he died I cannot yet find See more in Rob. Hegge an 1629. AEGEON ASKEW a person as well read in the Fathers Commentators and Schoolmen as any man of his age in the University was born in Lancashire became a Student in the University in 1593. aged 17. or thereabouts Chaplain of Queens coll in 98. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a noted Preacher and a great admirer of Dr. Jo. Raynolds and Ric. Crakenthorpe In the beginning of the Reign of K. James he lest the college and retiring to Greenwich in Kent became Minister I think of that place His works are Of brotherly reconcilement in several Sermons Preached in Oxon. Lond. 1605. qu. The author then lived at Greenwich An Apology of the use of the Fathers and secular learning in Sermons In which two books is shewed much
Sackvile being afterwards a noted Man in the Eye of Q. Elizabeth to whom he was an Allie and in the State the composition of the whole was attributed to him and the ingenious men of that age did esteem the said Tragedy to be the best of its time even in Sir Philip Sidney's judgment who tells us that it is full of stately Speeches and well sounding Phrases climyng to the heighth of Seneca's stile and as full of notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very and of Poâsie yet in truth it is very desectious in the circumstances c. Our author Sackvile also wrote Induction to the Mirrour of Magistrates Not to that Mirrour published by Will. Baldwyn but to that I suppose which was published by Joh. Higens an eminent Poet of his time whom I shall farther mention in Rich. Nicolls an 1615. Which Induction with the Mirrour it self were highly valued by Scholars in the time of Q. Elizabeth What else this Noble Person hath made publick I know not nor any thing besides material of him only that dying suddenly at the Council board being one of the Privy Council to K. James on the 19. year 1608 of Apr. in sixteen hundred and eight was buried in the Church of Withyam before-mentioned From him is lineally descended Charles Sackvile now Earl of Dorset and Middlesex a person that hath been highly esteemed for his admirable vein in Poetry and other polite learning as several things of his composition while Lord Buckhurst shew LAURENCE TOMSON was born in Northamptonshire elected Demy of Magd. coll 1556. aged 17. and soon after being a great proficient in Logick and Philosopy was admitted Probationer 11. Sept. 1559. and the year after perpetual fellow of the said coll In 1564. he proceeded in Arts was with Sir Tho. Hoby in his Embassie to France and in 1568. he resigned his fellowship What became of him afterward let his Epitaph following speak while I tell you that he translated from Lat. into English 1 Sermons on the Epistles to Timothy and Titus Lond. 1579. qu. written by John Calvin 2 Version and annotations on the New Test Lond. 1589. in oct Which version and annot were made in lat by Theod. Beza He also translated from French into English 1 A Treatise of the excellency of a Christian man Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct written by Monsieur Peter de la Place one of the Kings Councel and chief President of the Court of Aides in Paris 2 The life and death of Pet. de la Place c. Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I cannot tell year 1608 He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Chertsey in Surrey Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after fastned on the east wall of the said chancel Laurentio Tomsono honesta Tomsoniorum familia in agro Northamptoniensi oriundo in collegio Magdal Oxon. educato perigrinatione Sueviae Russiae Daeniae Germaniae Italiae Galliae nobilitato duodecem linguarum cognitione instructo Theologiae Juris civilis municipalis nostri totiusque literaturae politioris scientiae claro ingenii acumine disputandi subtilitate cloquenai suavitate lepore virtute omni pietateque insigni linguae Hebraicae publica Genevae professione celebri accurata Novi Testamenti translatione notabili In politicis apud Walsinghamam Elizabethae Reginae Scribam pracipuum diu multumque exercitato post cujus mortem vitae privatae umbratilisque jucunditate annos XX. continuos Lalamiae Middlisexiae persuncto septuagenario placidissime religiosissmoque desuncto quarto calendas Aprilis an 1608. Vxor Jana Jana filia ex quinque una superstes filiabus amoris ergo posuerunt pietatis The report at Chersey is that he built the House which now stands on the top of S. Anns-hill in Chertsey parish out of the ruins of S. Anns-chappel and on the very place where that chappel stood having a prospect into several Counties In which House the Inhabitants of the neighbourhood will tell you that this learned author died WILLIAM WARFORD received his first breath in that part of Bristow which is in Sommersetshire was admitted a Scholar of Trinity coll 13. June 1576. probationer two years after being then Bach. of Arts Fellow 1579. and Master of Arts in 82. But having more a mind to the Ro. Cath. religion in which he was partly educated than to Protestancy he left the college his friends and the nation went to Rome and obtaining entrance into the English coll there profited very much in Divinity At length being ordained Priest he was sent into the mission of England where making but little stay he returned to Rome and in the year 1594. he was entred into the society of Jesus Afterwards being sent by his Superiors into Spain he spent the remainder of his time in the English Seminaries there He hath written A short institution containing the chief mysteries of Christian religion collected from the holy Scriptures and Fathers Sevil 1600. and at S. Omers in 1616. Translated into Latine by Tho. More a Jesuit descended from the famous Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chancellor of England Printed at S. Omers in 1617. The said Warford also translated into English several of the Histories of Saints written by Pet. Ribadeneira but died before he could finish them at Valladolid in Spain on the 3. Nov. according the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred and eight and was buried in the college of the Jesuits there year 1608 leaving behind him other matters which were in a manner fit for the Press and the character among those of his profession of a godly and learned man WILLIAM WILKES a most excellent preacher in the Court of K. James 1. was born within the diocess of Lichfeild and Coventry elected Probationer-fellow of Merton coll in 1572. entred into the sacred function when Master of Arts and in 1580. became Vicar of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon by the presentation thereunto of the Warden and Society of the said coll where for his excellent Sermons he was much frequented by Scholars and Citizens Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity he resigned the said Church being well beneficed in Wiltshire and dignified After K. James came to the English Crown he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary preached often before him to his great content and wrote Of obedience or Ecclesiastical union Lond. 1605. oct A second memento for Magistrates directing how to reduce all offenders and being reduced how to preserve them in the Unity and Love both in Church and Commonwealth Lond. 1608. oct As for the first memento I have not yet seen unless it be meant of the book Of Obedience c. He died at Barford S. Martins in Wiltshire of which he was Rector leaving behind him one only daughter named Mary who
book written by the hand of Blackwell and subscribed by him as fit for the Press So that no other name being put to it hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it whereas he was not but rather Franc. Tresham as I have told you elsewhere He the said Blackwell died suddenly having been much troubled with swooning fits on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried as I conceive in some Church in London This next person according to time and order that must crave place is one who tho no writer worth the remembrance yet hath he been the greatest promoter of learning that hath yet appeared in our Nation THOMAS BODLEY another Ptolomey eldest Son of John Bodley of the City of Exeter by Joan his Wife Daughter and Heir of Rob. Hone of Otterie S. Mary in Devon Esq Son of Joh. Bodley of Tiverton second Son of John Bodley of Dunscumbe near Crediton in Devon Gent. was born in the said City of Exeter 2 Mar. 1544. partly educated in Grammar learning in the said City but mostly in Geneva while his Father lived there as a voluntary Exile in the time of Q. Mary where tho he was then very young yet he was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew of Berealdus in Greek of Calvin and Beza in Divinity and of some other professors in the University there then newly erected besides his domestical teachers in the house of Philebertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City with whom he was boarded where Rob. Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon read Homer to him After the death of Q. Mary he returned into England with his Father and was sent to Magd. coll in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Laur. Humphrey was admitted Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1563. and soon after being elected Probationer of Merton coll determined in the Lent following In 1565. he by the perswasion of some of the Fellows of that house and for his private exercise did read publickly for some years a Greek Lecture in the hall of that coll without expectation of any reward or stipend for his labour Nevertheless it pleased the Society to allow him soon after of their own accord four Marks by the year In 1566. he was admitted Master of Arts which degree being compleated he read Nat. Philosophy for an year in the Pub. Schools then situated on the East side of Schoolstreet In 1569. he was elected Junior Proctor of the University which office he performing with great commendations bestowed some time in the study of sundry Faculties without any inclination to profess any one above the rest At length being desirous to travel beyond the Seas for the obtaining of knowledge of some special modern tongues and for the increase of his experience in the managing of affairs to no other end but to imploy himself and all his cares in the publick Service of the State did with leave from the Warden and Society of his coll depart England with the allowance belonging to a traveller an 1576. and continued near 4 years in Italy France and Germany Afterwards returning to his coll he remained there for some time in studying politicks and historical affairs and in 1583. he was made Esquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth At length in 1585. having about that time married Anne the Daughter of⦠Carew of the City of Bristow the rich Widdow as I have heard of one Ball was imployed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark Julius Duke of Brunswyke William Lantgrave of Hesse and other German Princes Which imploymnet being faithfully performed he was sent to K. Hen. 3. of France at what time he was forced by the Duke of Guise to leave Paris In 1588. he was sent to the Hague for the better conduct of the Queen's affairs in the Vnited Provinces where making his residence for some years was admitted one of their Council of State took place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and gave a suffrage in all that was proposed In 1593. he returned into England for a time to look after his private Estate but was soon after remanded to the Hague again by the Q. where continuing near one year returned again to deliver some secret overtures to her and to perform thereupon an extraordinary service Soon after the applauding the fruit of his discoveries he was presently commanded to return to the States with charge to pursue those affairs to performance which he had secretly proposed At length all things being concluded and brought to the desired issue he procured his last revocation in 1597. At his return as before in his absence Burleigh the Lord Treasurer did several times tell the Queen that there was not any Man in England so meet as Bodley to undergo the office of Secretary by reason of his well-tryed Wisdom in the Low-Country affairs intending that he should be Colleague with his Son Rob. Cecill But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner not without biting calumniations of Cecill Burleigh found means to divert the Queens mind from him supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecill So that Mr. Bodley being eased of ever expecting that troublesome office he retired from the Court and wholly commended himself to the care and provision for learning worthy indeed the care of the greatest King For about that time setting up his staff at the Library door in Oxford did restore or rather new found it the particulars of which I have elsewhere told you After K. Jam. came to the Crown he received the Honour of Knight from him and a few years before his death wrote His Life an 1609. Which being kept as a choice rarity in the archives of his Library was published at Oxon. 1647. qu. But this little thing is not the reason that I put him among the Oxford Writers but because by his noble and generous endeavours he hath been the occasion of making hundreds of publick Writers and of advancing in an high degree the Commonwealth of learning in which respect he should have craved the first place but I have put him here according to the time of his death which is the method I observe Letters of State Some of which I have seen published not in one vol. but scatteredly Letters relating to Books and Learning Written to Mr. Tho. James MS. in his Lib. He paid his last debt to nature 28. Jan. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll Choire The manner of which you may see at large in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 320. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that Dr. Joh. Morris Canon of Ch. Ch. did bequeath to the University of Oxon. a Rent-charge of 5 l. per an to be given to a Master of Arts that should make
à Jesu printed at S. Omer in 1613. quarto Curry-comb for a Coxcombe Or Purgatories Knell In answer to a Libel by Jebal Rachel against Sir Edw. Hobies Counter-snarle intituled Purgatories Triumph over hell Lond. 1615. qu. Several motions speeches and arguments in the four last Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth Published in the Historical collections of Hayw. Townsend Esq He translated from French into English Politique discourses upon truth and lying An instruction to Princes to keep their faith and promises Lond. 1586. qu. Composed by Sir Mart. Cognet Knight one of the Privy-Councel to the most Christian King master of the Requests to his Houshold and lately Embassador to the Cantons of Zwitzers and Grisons And also from Spanish into English The Origine and practice of War Lond. 1597. oct Written by Don Bernard de Mendoza At length he giving way to fate in Queenburgh Castle on the first day of March St. David's day in sixteen hundred and sixteen his body was conveyed to Bysham before mentioned and buried there in a Chappel called Hoby's Chappel on the south side of the Chancel of the Church there near to the body of his Father Sir Thomas The said Sir Edward left behind him a natural Son named Peregrin Hoby born of the body of one Katherin Pinkney an 1602. From which Peregrin are the Hobyes now of Bysham descended THOMAS EGERTON the natural Son of Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire was born in that County applyed his Muse to learning in this University about 1556. particularly as 't is said in Brasnose coll of which he was a Commoner in the year of his age 17 or thereabouts where continuing about 3 years laid a foundation whereon to build profounder learning Afterwards going to Lincolns-Inn he made a most happy progress in the municipal laws and at length was a Counsellour of note In 1581. June 28. he was constituted by the Queen her Solicitor General and soon after he became Lent-reader of the said Inn. In 1592. June 2. the said Queen made him her Attorney General in 1594. he being then a Knight he was made Master of the Rolls and two years after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal In which emiment office he continued during the whole remainder of Qu. Elizabeths happy Reign On 21. of Jul. 1603. he was raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of L. Ellesmere and upon the 24. of the said Month he was made Lord Chancellour of England In the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was unanimously elected Chanc. of the University of Oxon. and in 14. Jac. 1. dom 1616. he was advanced to the dignity of Vicount Brackley He was a most grave and prudent man a good Lawyer just and honest of so quick an apprehension also and profound judgment that none of the Bench in his time went beyond him He hath written Speech in the Exchequer Chamber touching the Post-nati Lond. 1609. in qu. in 16. sheets Certain observations concerning the office of Lord Chancellour Lond. 1651. oct and left behind him at his death four MSS. of choice collections fit to be Printed concerning 1 The prerogative Royal. 2 Priviledges of Parliament 3 Proceedings in Chancery 4 The power of the Starr-chamber He resigned up his last breath in York-house in the Strand near London 15. March in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church of Dodleston in Cheshire His memory was much celebrated by Epigrams while he was living and after his death all of the long Robe lamented his loss We have his Picture drawn to the life in the habit of Lord Chancellour setting in a Chair hanging in the Gallery belonging to the Bodleian Library called the School-gallery WILLIAM MARTYN Son of Nich. Martyn of the City of Exeter by his first Wife Mary Daughter of Leonard Yeo of Hatherley in Devon Son of Rich. Martyn of the said City and he the second Son of William Martyn of Athelhampton in Dorsetshire Knight was born and educated in Grammar learning within the said City of Exeter where making early advances towards Academical learning was sent to Broadgates hall now Pomb coll an 1579. aged 17. In which place falling under the tuition of a noted Master laid an excellent foundation in Logick and Philosophy Afterwards going to the Inns of Court he became a Barester and in 1605. was elected Recorder of Exeter in the place of John Hele Serjeant at Law But his delight being much conversant in the reading of English Histories he composed a book of the Kings of England as I shall tell you anon Upon the publication of which K. James as 't is said taking some exceptions at a passage therein either to the derogation of his family or of the Realm of Scotland he was thereupon brought into some trouble which shortned his days He hath written Youths instruction Lond. 1612. qu. dedicated to his Son Nich. Martyn then a Student in Oxon. In the said book is shewed a great deal of reading and consequently that the author was no loser of his time The History and Lives of the Kings of England from William the Conquerour to K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1616. and 28. fol. usher'd into the world with the copies of Verses of Nicholas William and Edw. Martyn the Sons of the author and by Pet. Bevis his Son-in-Law To this History was afterwards added the History of K. Edw. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth by B. R. Master of Arts Lond. 1638. fol. At the end of all the impressions was Printed The succession of the Dukes and Earls of this Kingdom of England from the Conquerour to the 12. of James 1. with the then Viscounts Barons Baronets c. which was drawn up by the author and continued after his death by R. B. before-mention'd What other books the said Will. Martyn hath either written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of S. Petrock in the City of Exeter 12. year 1617 Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen The inscription which was on the Stone supposed to be laid for him is worn out and a new inscription cut thereon for one of the same family buried there The next who must follow according to time was a severe Puritan as Martyn was FRANCIS BUNNRY Younger brother to Edmund whom I shall anon mention was born in an antient House called the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks on the 8. of May 1543. became a Student in the University in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Mary an 1558. and perpetual Fellow of Madg. coll in 1562. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders and began to preach Gods word on the first of Nov. 1567. Whose Sermons being noted among many he became soon after Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford but continuing with him not long he left his Fellowship in 1571. and retiring into the north parts of
person of unblameable life and conversation a profound Divine most admirably well read in the Fathers Councils and Schoolmen and a more moderate Calvinian than either of his two Predecessors Holland and Humphrey in the Divinity-chair were which he expressed by countenancing the Sublapsarian way of Predestination His works are The Mirrour of Popish Subtilties discovering certain wretched and miserable evasions and shifts which a secret cavilling Papist in the behalf of one Paul Spence Priest yet living and lately Prisoner in the Castle of Worcester hath gathered out of Saunders and Bellarmine c. concerning the Sacraments c. Lond. 1594. qu. The Exaltation of the Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ Sermons on 110 Psalm from the 1. to the 7. ver Lond. 1601. qu. Antichristi demonstratio contra fabulas Pontificias ineptum Rob. Bellarmini de Antichristo disputationem Lond. 1603. qu. 1608. oct Defence of the Reformed Catholick of Mr. Will. Perkins lately deceased against the Bastard Counter-Catholick of Dr. Bishop Seminary Priest The first part Lond. 1606. qu. The second part was printed at the same place 1607. qu. and the third part 1609. qu. The old way Serm. at S. Maries Oxon on Act-Sunday 8. July 1610. on Jerem. 6. 16. Lond. 1610. qu. The true ancient Rom. Catholick being an Apology against Dr. Bishops Reproof of the defence of the Reformed Catholick Lond. 1611. qu. See more in Will. Bishop an 1624. Antilogia adversus apologiam Andreae Endaemon-Johannis Jesuitae pro Henrico Garnetto Jesuitâ proditore quâ mendacissime c. Lond. 1613. qu. Exercitationes de gratiâ perseverantiâ Sanctorum c. Lond. 1618. qu. In Richardi Thomsoni Angli Belgici deatribam de amissione intercessione justificationis gratiae animadversio brevis The former of which two viz. Exerc. de gratia c. was printed at Francfort 1619. under this title Exercitationes Academicae de gratiâ perseverantiâ Sanctorum itâmque de intercessione justificationis in oct As for Rich. Thomson you may see more of him in the Fasti an 1596. De supremâ potestate regiâ exercitationes habitae in Acad. Oxon contra Rob. Bellarminum Franc. Suarez Lond. 1619. qu. He also wrote a most accurate Commentary in Latin upon the Epistle to the Romans with large Sermons upon every verse in which he handled as his Text gave him occasion all the controverted points of Religion at this day This Commentary which is in 4 volumes in MS. was given to Bodlies Library by Dr. Edw. Corbet Rector of Hasâley in Oxfordshire who married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Nath Brent Knight by his Wife Martha the only Daughter and Heir of the said Dr. Rob. Abbot Other matters also he left behind him fit for the Press but whether they were all printed I know not At length through a too sedentary life which brought him to the terrible disease of the Stone in the Kidneys he gave way to fate on the second of March in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury over against the Bishops seat having in less than two years before married a second Wife for which he gained the great displeasure of his Brother Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury I find another Rob. Abbot who was a frequent writer but after the former in time He was originally of Cambridge and afterwards a Minister of God's Word first in Kent then in Hampshire and at length in London as I shall more at large tell you in the Fasti 1607. WALTER WYLSHMAN a Cornish man born educated in Exeter coll took the degrees in Arts stood as a Member of Broadgates hall in an Act celebrated 1594. to compleat it being about that time Minister of Dartmouth in Devonshire and much resorted to for his frequent and practical way of Preaching He hath written and published The sincere Preacher Proving that in whom is adulation avarice and ambition he cannot be sincere Delivered in three Sermons in Dartmouth upon 1 Thes 2. 5 6. Lond. 1616. oct THOMAS BASTARD a most ingenious and facetious person of his time was born at a Market Town in Dorsetshire called Blandford educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1588. and two years after Bach. of Arts. But this person being much guilty of the vices belonging to Poets and given to libelling he was in a manner forced to leave his Fellowship in 1591. So that for the present being put to his shifts he was not long after made Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Suffolk Lord Treasurer of England by whose favour and endeavours he became Vicar of Beer-Regis and Rector of Amour or Hamer in his native Country being then M. of A. He was a person endowed with many rare gifts was an excellent Grecian Latinist and Poet and in his elder years a quaint Preacher His discourses were always pleasant and facete which made his company desired by all ingenious men He was a most excellent Epigrammatist and being always ready to versifie upon any subject did let nothing material escape his fancy as his compositions running through several hands in MS. shew One of which made upon his three Wives runs thus Terna mihi variis ducta est aetatibus uxor Haec juveni illa viro tertia nâpta seni Prima est propter opus teneris mihi juncta sub annis Altera propter opes tertia propter opem The things that he hath written and published are many but all that I have seen are only these Epigrams Which being very pleasant to the Reader that noted Poet Sir Joh. Harrington of Kelston made one or more Epigrams dedicated to the author of them Pocma intit Magna Britannia lib. 3. Lond. 1605. qu. Dedicated to K. Jam. 1. Five Sermons Lond. 1615. qu. The three first on Luke 1. 76. are called The Marigold and the Sun The two last on Luke 7. 37 38. are intit The Sinners Looking-glass Twelve Sermons Lond. 1615. qu. The first on Ephes 4. 26. is intit A Christian exhortation to innocent anger The second on Exod. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. is The calling of Moses c. This Poet and Preacher being towards his latter end crazed and thereupon brought into debt was at length committed to the Prison in Allhallows Parish in Dorchester where dying very obscurely and in a mean condition was buried in the Church-yard belonging to that Parish on 19. Apr. in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 leaving behind him many memorials of his Wit and Drollery In my collection of Libels or Lampoons made by diverâ Oxford Students in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth I meet with two made by his author One of which is intit An admonition to the City of Oxford or his Libel intit Marprelates Basterdine Wherein he reflects upon all persons of note in Oxon that were guilty of amorous exploits or that mixed themselves with other Mens Wives or with wanton Huswives in Oxon. Another also was made after his
relating to the Protestant Religion he entred into the Society of Jesus at Paris an 1588. aged about 30. Afterwards he taught Divinity in the University of Doll in Burgundy and at length was sent into the Mission of England to labour in the Harvest there He hath written The Garden of the Virgin Mary St. Om. 1619. oct Which contains certain Prayers and Meditations Other matters as 't is said he hath written but being printed beyond Sea we have few copies of them come into these parts LEWIS THOMAS a frequent Preacher in his time became a poor Scholar or Exhibitiner of Brasnose coll in 1582. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders soon after and at length was beneficed in his native County of Glamorgan and elsewhere His works are Certain Lectures upon sundry portions of Scripture c. Lond. 1600. oct Dedic to Sir Tho. Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal who was one of his first promoters in the Church Seaven Sermons or the exercises of Seaven Sabbaths The first intit The Prophet David's Arithmetick is on Psal. 90. 12. The second called Peter's Repentance is on Matth. 26. 75. c. Which Seaven Sermons were printed at London several times in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth once in the Reign of K. James 1619. and once in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. 1630. A short treatise upon the Commandments on Rev. 22. 14. Lond. 1600. c. oct This is sometimes called A Comment on the Decalogue I find another Lewis Thomas of Jesus college who took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house 1597. and that of Master as a Member of St. Edm. hall 1601. But what relation he had to the former or whether he hath published any thing I know not JOHN NORDEN was born of a gentile Family but in what County unless in Wilts I cannot tell became a Commoner of Hart hall in 1564. and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1573. This person I take to be the same John Norden who was author of these books following some of which I have perused but therein I cannot find that he entitles himself a Minister of Gods word or Master of Arts. Sinful Mans Solace most sweet and comfortable for the sick and sorrowful Soul c. Lond. 1585. in oct Mirrour for the Multitude or a Glass wherein may be seen the violence the errour the weakness and rash consent of the multitude c. Lond. 1586. in oct Antithesis or contrariety between the Wicked and Godly set forth in form of a pair of Gloves fit for every man to wear c. Lond. 1587. Pensive Mans Practice wherein are contained very devout and necessary Prayers for sundry godly purposes c. Lond. 1591. in tw Printed there again 1629. in tw which was the fortieth impression Poor Mans rest founded upon motives meditations and prayers c. Printed several times in oct and tw The eighth edit was printed at Lond. 1620. in tw Progress of Piety whose Jesses lead into the Harborough of heavenly Harts-ease to recreate the afflicted Souls of all such as c. Lond. in tw Christian comfort and encouragement unto all English Subjects not to dismay at the Spanish threats Lond. 1596. Mirrour of Honour wherein every Professor of Arms from the General to the inferiour Souldier may see the necessity of the fear and service of God Lond. 1597. qu. Interchangeable variety of things Lond. 1600. qu. The Surveyors Dialogue very profitable for all men to peruse but especially for Gentlemen Farmers and Husbandmen c. in 6 books Lond. 1607. 10. and 18. in qu. Labyrinth of Mans life Or Vertues delight and Envies happiness Lond. 1614. qu. 'T is a Poem dedic to Rob. Carr Earl of Somerset Loadstone to a Spiritual life Lond. 1614. in sixt Pensive Souls delight Or a devout Mans help consisting of motives meditations and prayers c. Lond. 1615. in tw An Eye to Heaven in Earth A necessary Watch for the time of death consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose With the Husband's Christian Counsel to his Wife and Children left poor after his death Lond. 1619. in tw c. Help to true blessedness Pathway to patience in all manner of afflictions c. Lond. 1626. oct This John Norden lived at Hendon near to Acton in Middlesex in most of the Reign of King James 1. being patronized in his studies by or as some say was Servant to Will Cecil Lord Burliegh and Rob. Earl of Salisbury his Son I take him to be the same John Norden Gent. who hath written Speculum Britanniae or an Historical and Chorographical description of Middlesex Lond. 1593. in about 7 sh in qu. And of A Chorographical description of Hertfordshire Printed much about the same time in 4 sh in qu. JOHN BUDDEN Son of Joh. Budden of Canford in Dorsetshire was born in that County entred into Merton coll in Mich. Term. 1582. aged 16. admitted Scholar of Trinity coll 30. of May following took the degree of Bach. of Arts and soon after was translated to Glouc. hall for the sake and at the request of Mr. Tho. Allen where being mostly taken up with the study of the Civil Law yet he took the degree of M. of Arts as a Member thereof At length he was made Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll proceeded in the Civil Law 1602. made Principal of New Inn 1609. the Kings Professor of the Civil Law soon after and Principal of Broadgates hall He was a person of great Eloquence an excellent Rhetorician Philosopher and a most noted Civilian He hath written and published Gulielmi Patteni cui Waynfleti agnomen fuit Wintoniensis Ecclesiae Praesulis coll B. Mariae Magd. apud Oxon fundatoris vita obitusque Oxon. 1602. qu. Reprinted in a Book intit Vitae selectorum aliquot virorum c. Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Published by Dr. Will Bates a Cambridge Man a learned and moderate Nonconformist living then at Hackney near London an eminent writer and worthy of much praise Reverendiss Patris ac Domini Johannis Mortoni Cantuariensis olim Archiep. Magni Angliae Cancellarii trium Regum Consiliarii vita obitusque Lond. 1607. in 3 sh in oct He also translated from English into Latin 1 Sir Tho. Bodley's Statutes of the Publick Library which is remitted into the body of the Statutes of the University 2 Sir Tho. Smith's book intit The Commonwealth of England and the manner and Government thereof in 3 books Printed at Lond. in oct and beyond Sea in tw Also from French into English A discourse for Parents Honour and Authority over their Children Lond. 1614. oct written by Pet. Frodiuâ a renowned French Civilian year 1620 This Dr. Budden died in Broadgates hall on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred and twenty From which place his body being carried to the Divinity School Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. the Deputy-Orator delivered an eloquent Speech in praise of him
stone neither marble nor free with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth Author Lake Doctor in Divinity late Bishop of Bathe and Wells who died on the fourth day of May an 1626. His brother Sir Thomas before mentioned who was of Channous near Edgworth in Middlesex died at Chanous 17. Sept. 1630. and was buried on the 19. of the same month JOHN DAVIES the third person of both his names that I have hitherto mention'd among these writers was born at Chisgrove in the parish of Tysbury in Wiltshire being the Son of wealthy Tanner of that place became a Commoner of Queens coll about the beginning of Mich. Term in the fifteenth year of his age an 1585. wherein having laid a considerable foundation of Academical literature partly by his own natural parts which were excellent and partly by the help of a good Tutor he was removed having taken a degree in Arts as it seems to the Middle Temple wherein applying himself to the study of the Common Law tho he had no great genie to it was in fine made a Barrester But so it was that he being a high spirited young man did upon some little provocation or punctilio bastinado Rich. Martin afterwards Recorder of London in the common Hall of the Middle Temple while he was at Dinner For which act being forthwith expell'd he retired for a time in private lived in Oxon in the condition of a Sojourner and follow'd his studies tho he wore a cloak However among his serious thoughts making reflections upon his own condition which sometimes was an affliction to him he composed that excellent Philosophical and Divine Poem called Nosce teipsum Afterwards by the favour of Thomas Lord Ellesmore Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England he was again restored to his Chamber was afterwards a Concellour and a Burgess for that Parliament which was held at Westminster in 1601. Upon the death of Q. Elizabeth he with the Lord Hunsdon went into Scotland to congratulate K. James as her Lawful Successor and being introduced into his presence the King enquired the names of those Gentlemen who were in the company of the said Lord and naming Joh. Davies among who stood behind them the King straightway asked whether he was Nosce Teipsum and being answered that he was the same he graciously embraced him and thenceforth had so great favour for that soon after he made him his Attorney-general in Ireland While he held that place he was made Serjeant at Law having never been Reader an 1606. the Poesie of whose Rings that were then given being Lex publica lux est Notwithstanding the said degree he returned into Ireland by his Majesty's leave and dispensation kept his office of Attorney and received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall 11. Feb. 1607. Afterwards he came into England for altogether was made one of his Maj. Serjeants at Law here in 1612. and sundry times appointed one of the Justices of the Assize in divers Circuits At length being constituted Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench had his robes made in order to be setled in that high office as his Daughter hath several times reported but died suddenly before the ceremony of settlement or installation could be performed He was held in great esteem by the noted Scholars of his time among whom were Will. Camden Sir Jo. Harrington the Poet Ben. Johnson Jo. Selden Facete Hoskyns R. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and others who esteemed him to be a person of a bold Spirit of a sharp and ready wit and compleatly learned but in truth more a Scholar than a Lawyer His works are Nosce Teipsum This Oracle expounded in two Elegies 1. Of Humane Nature 2. Of the Soul of Man Lond. 1599. qu. dedicated to Q. Elizabeth There again 1622. in oct Hymus of Astrea in Acrostick verse Printed with the former Orchestra Or a Poem expressing the antiquity and excellency of dancing in a dialogue between Penelope and one of her Woers containing 131 Stanzaes unfinished This being also printed with Nosce Teipsum they were all three especially the first much extoll'd by Scholars of all sorts Among them I find one who hath dealt poetically with him by an ingenious copy of verses which begins thus Si tua legisset redivivus c. If Plato liv'd and saw these Heaven bred lines Where thou the Essence of the Soul confines Or merry Martial c. Sir Jo. Harrington also before-mentioned would not let his memory escape his Pen without an Epigram especially for his Orchestra besides other Poets of those times which for brevity-sake I shall now pass by Discover of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued nor brought under obedience of the Crown of England until the beginning of his Maj. happy Reign Lond. 1612. qu. Dedic to the King with this Latin verse only Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos Declaration of our Sovereign Lord the King c. concerning the title of his Maj. Son Charles the Prince and Duke of Cornwal c. Lond. 1614. in 14 sh in fol. Printed in columns one in French and the other in English Le primer Reports des cases matters on ley resolves c. adjudges in les Courts del Roy en Ireland Dubl 1615. Lond. 1628. fol. In the sec edit was added a Table which was not in the former From this book it was that Sir Joh. Pettus Knight did chiefly select matter for another intit Englands independency upon the Papal Power historically and judiciously stated by Sir Jo Davies Attorn Gen. in Ireland and by Sir Edw. Coke L. Ch. Just of England in two reports selected from their great volumes with a Pref. written by Sir Joh. Pettus Lond. 1674. qu. Perfect abridgment of the eleven books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke Lond. 1651. in tw written in French by Sir Joh. Davies translated into English by another hand Jus imponendi vectigalia Or the learning touching Customs Tonnage Poundage and Impositions on Merchandizes c. asserted c. Lond. 1656. 59. c. oct I find one Sir J. D. Knight to have published Reasons Academy Or a new post with Sovereign Salve to cure the worlds madness expressing himself in several essays and witty discourses Lond. 1620. oct Written in prose and at the end of it is Reasons moan written in verse in eleven Stanzaes Whether the said Sir J. D. be the same with Sir Joh. Davies I cannot justly tell Besides the before-mentioned things as also Epigrams as 't is said which were published by and under the name of Sir Joh. Davies are several MSS. of his writing and composing which go from hand to hand as 1 Metaphrase of several of K. Davids Psalms 2 A large Epistle to Rob. E. of Salisbury of the state of the Counties of Monaghan Fennanagh and Downe and of Justices of the Peace and other Officers of Ireland written 1607. 3 Speech when he was Speaker of the H.
of Commons in Ireland before Arthur L. Chichester Visc Belfast L. Lievtenant of Ireland 21. May 1613. These two last were in the Library of Sir Jam. Ware of Ireland and are now if I mistake not in that of the Earl of Clarendon 4 An argument upon the question of impositions digested and divided in sundry chapters This was in the Library once of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultry-Compter and with it was bound up an Answer thereunto Fol. But the question is whether this argument be not part of or involved in Sir John's Jus imponendi vectigalia before-mentioned At length he died suddenly in his house in the Strand near to London in the 57 year of his age for being well at night when he went to rest he was on Thursday morning year 1626 the seventh of December in sixteen hundred twenty and six found dead in his bed by an Apoplexy as 't was said It was then commonly rumour'd that his Prophetical Lady had foretold his death in some manner on the Sunday going before For while she sate at Dinner by him she suddenly burst out with tears Whereupon he asking her what the matter was she answered Husband these are your Funeral tears to which he made reply Pray therefore spare your tears now and I will be content that you shall laugh when I am dead Her name was Elianor Touchet youngest Daughter to George Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven and what she usually predicted she folded up for the most part in dark expressions received from a voice which she frequently heard as she used to tell her Daughter Lucy and she others By this Elianor Sir Joh. Davies had Issue a Son who was a natural Idiot and dying young the Father made an Epitaph of 4 verses on him beginning Hic in visceribus terrae c. So that the said Lucy being sole Heiress to her Father Ferdinando Lord Hastings afterwards Earl of Huntingdon became a Suitor to her for Marriage whereupon the Father made this Epigram Lucida vis oculos teneri perstrinxit amantis Nec tamen erravit nam via dulcis erat After the body of Sir John had laid in state for some time it was conveyed to the Church of St. Martin in the Fields near to Whitehall where it was solemnly inter'd in the South Isle Soon after was a monument fastned to the Pillar near his grave with a large inscription on it part of which runs thus Vir ingenio compto rarâ facundiâ oratione cum solutâ tum numeris astrictâ faelicissimus juridicam severitatem morum elegantiâ amaeniore eruditione mitigavit Patronus fidus judex incorruptus ingenuae pietatis amore anxiae superstitionis contemptu juxta insignis c. Obiit 8. Id. Dec. 1626. His Widdow afterwards lived mostly at Parton in Hertfordshire had her Strange and wonderful Prophesies Printed in qu. an 1649. and dying in St. Brides Parish in London 5. Jul. 1652. was buried near to the relicks of her Husband and soon after had a large Epitaph of commendations put over her grave You may see more of her and her Prophecies in the History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. Part. 2. lib. 4. an 1634. See also in the Diary or Breviat of the life of the said Archb. Printed 1644. p. 18. One Joh. Davies a Bencher of the Inner Temple was buried against the Communion Table in the Temple Church 20. Aug. 1631. What relation he had to the former or whether he collected or published Reports I know not EDMUND GUNTER was a Hertfordshire man born but descended originally from those of his name living at Gunterstown in Brecknockshire elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Church 1599. aged 18. where going through with great industry the several Classes of Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he entred into the Theological Faculty became a Minister of Gods word and in 1615. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences But his excellencies being above all in the Mathematick Arts he was made Astronomy Professor of Gresham coll before he was Bach. of Div. in the place of Edw. Breerewood deceased Where being settled he acted much for the publick by his profession as well by writing as teaching His works are Of the Sector Cross Staff and other Instruments Lond. 1624. 36. qu. Canon Triangulorum five tabulae sinuum artificialium ad radium 10000,0000 ad scrupula prima quadrantis Lond. 1620. oct This being Englished was with the former book published by Sam. Foster Astronomy Professor of Gresham coll sometimes a Member of that of Emanuel in Cambr. with a tract of his own called The use of the Quadrant Lond. 1624. 53. qu. The fifth edition of these works of Gunter was diligently corrected and had divers necessary things and matters pertinent thereunto added throughout the whole work not before printed by Will. Leybourne sometimes a Printer and afterwards an eminent Mathematician Lond. 1673. qu. What these additions are the said Leybourne acquaints us in his Epistle before the said works Wherein he takes notice of some Plagiaries who had then lately thrown into the World several tractates extracted or rather transcribed from Mr. Gunter without the least mention of their true author Some questions in Navigation are added to these works by Hen. Bond teacher of the Mathematicks at Ratcliff near London and to that was then 1673. added The description and use of another Sector and Quadrant both of them invented by Sam. Foster before-mentioned What other things our author Gunter hath written I know not unless one two or more parts of Dialling which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in Gresham coll year 1626 in sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried on the eleventh of December in the same year in the Parish of St. Peter le Poore within the City of London See more of him in Edm. Wingate whom I shall hereafter mention under the year 1656. THOMAS WORTHINGTON Son of Rich. Worthington by Dorothy his Wife Dau. of Tho. Charnock of Charnock in Lanc. was born at Blainscough near to Wygan in that County and being fitted for the Univ. in those parts he was sent to Ox. about 1566. but to what house of learning unless to Brasnose coll I cannot tell After he had been drudging in the studies of Logick and Philosophy for about 4 years he took a degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University his Country and Friends and crossed the Seas to Doway where he was received with great humanity into the English college in Feb. 1572-73 Soon after he took upon him the Priesthood and in 1577. he was promoted to the degree of Bach. of Divinity and the year after being translated to the English college at Rheimes was thence sent into England to gain Proselites but being taken at Islington near to London in the house of my Progenitor Rich. à Wood his Friend and Countryman
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.
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
discourses and writings against them So that as 't is presumed that party having a hatred towards them the English Recollect Friers at Doway did often brag that this our author and his brother Daniel should one day either carry faggots upon their shoulders or be burned in Smithfield or else recant and be glad to have the office to sweep their Church wherein they had preached false doctrine for an everlasting pennance and their Wives to carry out the dust and filth c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Londons warning by Loadicea's Lukewarmness on Rev. 3. 15 16. Lond. 1613. qu. 2 A heavenly proclamation to fly Remish Babylon on Rev. 18. 4. Oxon. 1614. qu. 3 Ephesus warning before her woe on Rev. 2. 5. Lond. 1616. qu. 4 Clearing of the Saints sight on Rev. 7. 17. Lond. 1617. qu. 5 Beauty of Holiness on Joh. 10. 22 23. Lond. 1618. qa Preached in the Chap. at the Free-School in Shrewsbury 10. Sept. 1617. at what time the said Chappel was consecrated by the B. of Cov. and Lichfield 6 The Twinns of birth and death preached at the Funeral of Sir Will. Bird 5 Sept. 1624. on Eccles. 3. 2. Lond. 1624 5. qu. 7 Londons remembrancer for the staying of the plague on Psal. 42. 4. Lond. 1626. qu. These seven Sermons are all that I have yet seen of his composition and therefore I can saynomore of him but that he was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel of Ch. Church before-mentioned in sixteen hundred and thirty year 1630 and was succeeded in his Vicarage by Mr. Edw. Finch of Cambridge Brother to Sir Joh. Finch afterwards Lord Finch of Fordwich The said Dr. Samp. Price had an elder Brother called Dr. Daniel Price whom I shall mention under the year 1631. FRANCIS HICKS or Hyckes Son of Rich. Hicks an Arras-Weaver of Barcheston commonly called Barston in Warwickshire was born within the large Parish of Tredington in Worcestershire particularly as I conceive in a Muket Town called Shipson matriculated as a Worcestershire man and a Member of S. Maries hall in the beginning of 1579. aged 13. and four years after took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house having had his Tutor and his Chamber as it seems in Oriel college But before he had compleated that degree by Determination he left the University and was diverted by a Country retirement Where tho as a plain man he sye at his time in Husbandry yet he never left the true tast and relish that distinguishes men of his education but rather made continual improvement of that nutriment which he had received in his younger days from the breasts of his honour'd Mother the Univ. of Oxon. His study or rather recreation was chiefly in the Greek tongue and of his knowledge therein he hath left unto the World sufficient Testimonies as his translation from Greek into Latin of 1 Certain select dialogues of Lucian together with his true history Oxon. 1634. qu. Published by his Son Thom. Hicks M. A. and Chaplain of Ch. Ch. 2 The history of the Wars of Peloponesus in 8 books written by Thuciaides the Athenian MS. in Ch. Ch. Library in Oxon. Q. 4. Arts sol 3 The history of Herodian beginning from the Reign of Emperour Marcus MS. in the Archives of the said Libr. in qu. Given thereunto with the former MS. by Tho. Hicks before-mentioned Our Translatâr Franc. Hicks having spent most of his time at Barston before-mentioned and at Shipson adjoyning died in a Kinsmans house at Sutton in Gloucestershire near to Brayles in Warwickshire on the 9. day of Jan. in sixteen hundred and thirty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there As for Thom. Hicks whom I have touched upon before he was an ingenious man has done something about Lucan and therefore shall be remembred elsewhere HENRY BRIGGS Briggius one of the most admired Mathematicians of his time was born in an obscure Hamlet called Warley Weed in the large Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire whos 's Genie being naturally inclined to the Mathematicks was sent from the Grammar School in the Vicinity of Warley to the University of Cambridge where in short time he became Fellow of S. Johns coll After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he was preser'd to be the first Geometry-Reader in Gresham coll at London an 1596. where continuing about 23 years in reading to and improving his auditors Sir Hen. Savile desired him to accept of his Lecture of Geometry chiefly because it was not only better as to revenues but more honouraâââ Wâereupon going to Oxon 1619. and setling in ãâ¦ã coll in the condition of a Fellow-Commoner was soon âfter incorporated M. of A. and kept the Lecture to the timâ of his death It must be now known that ãâ¦ã Scotch man perhaps the same mentioned in the ãâ¦ã under the year 1605. among the ââcorporation coming out of Denmark into his own ãâã called upon ãâã Neper Baron of Marcheston near ãâã and told him among other discourses of a new ãâã in Denmark by Longomontanus as 't is said to save the tââious multiplication and division in Astronomical calculations Neper being solicitous to know farther of him concerning this matter he could give no other account of it than that it was by proportionable numbers Which hint Neper taking he desired him at his return to call upon him again Craig after some weeks had passed did so and Neper then shew'd him a rude draugââ of that hâ called Canon mirabilis Logarithmoâam Which draught ãâã me alterations he printing in 1614. it came forthwith into the hands of our author Briggs and into those of Will Oughtred from whom the relation of this matter ãâã Both which consulting about the perfecting of it the former took a journey into Scotland to confer with Neper about it At length having received some satisfaction from him he perused the matter and in few years after put forth two books of Logarithms after a more commodious method The first is intitled Arithmetica Logarithmetica The other Trigonometria Britannica The former of which shews the construction of Logarithmetical Tables the latter the conjunction of the Tables of Sines Tangents and Secants and the doctrine of Triangles to the great advantage of Astronomy and Astronomical operations These two parts were published with this title Arithmetica Logarithmetica sive Logarithmorum chiliades triginta pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 20,000 a 90. 000. ad 100,000 c. Lond. 1624. fol. Besides these he hath written Treatise concerning the North-west passage to the South Sea through the continent of Virginia c. Lond. 1622. and Commentaries on the Geometry of Pet. Ramus MS. Which after Briggs's death came into the hands of Mr. Joh. Greaves of Merton coll Successor to Dr. Bainbridge in the Astronomy Lecture and from him to his Brother Thomas and from Tho. to Mr. Theod. Haak a Member of
the late Soveraign K. James Lond. 1625. a Poem and other things which I have not yet seen but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops as one or more think He died within the City of Westminster having always been in animo Catholicus in sixteen hundred thirty and three whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter there near to the door entring into the Monuments or the door thro which people enter to see the Monuments on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator musarum amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus c. and another made by a second person which for brevity sake I now pass by In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington afterwards a Jesuit in Mich. Term an 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll an 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house but whether any of them were authors I cannot yet tell or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu. GEORGE ABBOT younger brother to Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was bred also in the same School under Mr. Franc. Taylor entred a student in Ball. coll 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow thereof 29. Nov. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into holy Orders and became a celebrated preacher in the University In 1597. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in the same year being elected Master of Vniversity coll gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship In the latter end of 1599. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Glocester On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 29. of the same month In Febr. following he was translated to London and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury had the Kings consent to it 29. March 1610. On the 9. of Apr. 1611. he was translated to the said See of Canterbury and on the 4. of May following had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto On the 23. of June ensuing he was sworn a member of his Majesties Privy Council and accordingly took his place So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of Gods word was the cause as some think why he was harsh to them and why he shew'd more respect to a Cloak than a Cassock He was a person pious and grave and exemplary in his life and conversation He was also a learned man and had his erudition all of the old stamp He was stiffly principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine which they who understand it not call Calvinism and therefore disrelish'd by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets Those that well remember him have said that tho he was a plausible preacher yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar and tho an able Statesman yet Robert was a deeper Divine The things that he hath written are these which shew him to be a man of parts learning vigilancy and unwearied study tho overwhelm'd with business Questiones sex totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae pro formâ habitis discussae disceptatae an 1597 in quibus è sacra scriptura Patribus quid statuendum sit definitur Oxon 1598. qu. Francof 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah Scultetus Exposition on the Prophet Jonah contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613. The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry unmasked and shewed to be very weak c. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion with as many brief answers of refusal Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome He was also answer'd by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Div. of Cambridge in a book intit A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered and proved a quartron of follies Cambridge 1603. qu. Preface to the examination of George Sprot London 1608. qu. Sermon at Westminster 26 May 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu. Brief description of the whole world Lond. 1617. qu the 9th edition Other editions in oct followed and the book is commonly called Abbots Geography Treatise of perpetual visibility and succession of the true Church in all ages Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it and 't is generally reputed to be his and none but his History of the Massacre in the Valtoline At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox hs book of Acts and Mon. of the Church Lond. 1631. 41. c. His Judgment of bowing at the name of Jesus Ham. 1632. oct Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere At length he being found guilty of casual homicide the particulars of which are mention'd by Historians he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey the place of his nativity where he had erected an Hospital for men and women Afterwards removing to Croyden he gave way to fate in his Pallace there on the fourth day of August year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three aged 71. Whereupon according to his desire his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady within Trinity Church in Guildford Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar or Table-monument with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon supported by six pillars of the Dorick order of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books with a large inscription thereon beginning thus Sacrum memoriae honoratiss Archipraesulis c. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript which begins also thus Aeternae memoriae Sacrum Magni hic Hospes Hospitis monumenta vides c. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury I find another of both his names to have been a writer also but later in time and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased c. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to
the 35. year of her age was buried by her husband in Feb. 1646. Soon after was composed a book by one John Duncon a sequestred Divine intit The returns of spiritual comfort and grief in a devout soul Represented by entercourse of Letters to the right honourable the Lady Letice Vi-countess Falkland in her life time And exemplified in the holy life and death of the said honourable Lady c. Lond. 1648. c. oct To the said book if it may be had I refer the Reader wherein he may soon perceive the unspeakable piety of the woman and the great command of her Pen. By her husband Lucius L. Falkland she had several children of which the eldest named Lucius became a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of the year in Lent time 1646. being then a young man of great hopes but died soon after at Paris as I have heard The next was Henry not educated in Academical learning but so exceeding wild and extravagant that he sold his Fathers incomparable Library for a Horse and a Mare as I have been informed by Sir J. H. who married his Widdow Afterwards he took up and prov'd a man of parts which might have been much advantaged if he had submitted himself to education was elected one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament that began at Westminster 27 Jan. 1658. Burgess for the City of Oxon for that called the Healing Parliament which began 25 Apr. 1660. and a Knight again for the said County to serve in the Parliament that began in May in the year following and at length by his Majesties favour he was made about that time Lord Leiutenant of Oxfordshire He died 2 Apr. 1663. aged 29. or thereabouts and was buried by the graves of his Father and Mother leaving then behind him issue by Rachel his Wife Dau. of Sir Anth. Hungerford of Blackbourton in Oxfordshire Kt. a Son named Anthony now L. Falkland Treasurer Paymaster to the Navy during the raign of K. Jam. 2. a person of great parts and worth HENRY FERRERS Son and heir of Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley-Clynton in Warwickshire Esq was born in that County became a Student in this University in Hart hall as it seems in the beginning of the raign of Qu. Elizabeth but whether he took a degree it doth not appear Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony which was considerable and prosecuting his natural Genie to the study of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities became highly valued for his eminent knowledge in them whereby he did not only give a fair lustre to his ancient and noble family whereof he was no small ornament but also to the County of his nativity He was well known to and respected by the Learned Camden who in his Discourse of the antiquity of the City of Coventry in Warwickshire doth make this honorable mention of him Thus much of Coventry yet have you not all this of me but willingly to acknowledge by whom I have profited of Henry Ferrers of Baldesley a man both for parentage and for knowledge of antiquity very commendable and my special friend who both in this place and also elsewhere hath at all times curteously shewed me the right way when I was out and from his Candle as it were hath lightened mine What this Mr. Ferrers hath published I know not sure I am that he made several volums of choice collections one of which in fol. containing Pedegrees I have seen in the Sheldonian Library now in that of the college of Arms from which but chiefly from those of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire a person naturally qualified with a great affection to Antiquities Will. Dugdale Gent. afterwards a Knight laid a large foundation of that elaborate work which is his Master-piece intit The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated c. Lond. 1656. fol. After Sir Will. Dugdales death several of Mr. Ferrers collections that had come into his hands were reposited in the Ashmolean Musaeum see the book marked with Z. He had also in his younger days a good faculty in Poetry some of which I have seen scattered in divers books printed in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth At length dying on the tenth day of Oct. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 aged 84. was buried in the middle of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Baldesley-Clynton before mentioned leaving behind him the character of a well bred Gent a good neighbour and an honest man WILLIAM FOSTER a Londoner born became a Student in S. Johns coll in Mich. Term 1609. aged 18. afterwards M. of A. Chaplain to Rob. L. Dormer E. of Carnarvan and Parson of a little Town called Hedgley near to Beconsfield in Bucks He hath published Sermon on Rom. 6. 12. printed 1629. qu. Hoplocrisma-Spongus Or a Sponge to wipe away the weapon salve Wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us by applying the Salve to the weapon is magicall and unlawful Lond. 1631. qu. In the composure of which book he had some light from Johannes Roberti a Jesuit and D. of D. who because some Protestants practice this and characterical cures which notwithstanding are more frequent among Roman Catholicks he therefore calls them Magi-Calvinists Characterists c. He makes that generally in them all doctrinal which is but in some few personally practiced But our author Foster tho he hath written rationally and in his book hath shew'd great reading yet he hath been answered not without some scorn by Rob. Fludd Doctor of Physick as I shall tell you elsewhere This Will. Foster lived some years after the publication of his Sponge but when he died or what other things he hath extant I cannot yet tell EDWARD WESTON Son of Will. Weston sometimes of Linc. coll afterwards one of the Society of Lincolns Inn by his Wife Daughter of John Story LL. D. of whom I have made mention under the year 1571. was born in London and at about 12 or 13 years of age an 1578. was sent to the said coll of Lincoln where he had a Tutor that taught him Grammar and Logick for a time Afterwards being taken thence by his Parents he was put under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Case who with licence from the University read to Scholars Logick and Philosophy in his house in S. Mar. Magdalens parish Under him he profited in several sorts of learning to a miracle became a good Disputant and very well read in Philosocal authors But his Parents who were R. Catholicks taking him away from his conversation with the Muses after he had spent at least 5 years in Oxon. without the taking any degrees was sent into France where for a short time he setled in the English coll at Rheimes Thence he went to the English coll at Rome where partly in Philosophy and partly in Divinity he spent six years and at length took the degree of Doctor of Div. in the
of a learned and pious man and of one who by his daily labours had done eminent service to the private and publick WILLIAM JONES the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire the ancient Seat of his Family educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey whence at 14 years of age he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall an 1570. and continued there 5 years But taking no degree he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn according to the course of those times After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following and a Knight in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland in which place he continued three years and then left it upon his own request In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench He hath written and collected Reports of divers special cases as well in the Court of Kings Bench as of the Common Pleas in England as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James as in the years of K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby This book also coming into the hands after the authors death of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law he made very good notes on it as it appears in the original copy sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones Several Speeches in Parliament He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried under the Chappel standing on pillars of Lincolns-Inn on the fourteenth day of the same month Over whose grave tho no writing or Epitaph appears yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws will make his name live to posterity more especially in these parts where he had his education and when Justice did constantly keep Oxford circuit WILLIAM CHIBALD or Chiball a Surrey man born was entred a Student into Magd. coll 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitour or Clerk I know not Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function became a Preacher in London and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fishstreet there where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching He hath written and published A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear for our friends or own visitation by the Plague Lond. 1625. oct An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof Printed with the former Sum of all namely Gods Service and Mans Salvation and Mans duty to God concerning both by way of dialogue Lond. 1630. oct Several Sermons as 1 The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct with others which I have not yet seen Apology for the trial of Faith Lond. in oct when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it He deceased in Febr. about the 25. day in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named James who became a Student in Magd. coll 1623. afterwards a Minister in London and if I mistake not a sufferer there for the Royal Cause when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians MARTIN WESTCOMBE sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France and Bac. of Arts there left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there was sent to Exeter coll among his Countrymen of Devonshire was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and by the favour of the Chancellour of the University proceeded in Arts the next year as a Member of the said college He hath written Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae Ox. 1639. oct Soon after the author of it went beyond the Seas returned to his former Religion as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll have told me and wrote certain matters there in vindication of himself but what they could not tell me ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash Gent was born there or at least in that County and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq Solicitor General to the Queen had his Poetical Genie so far incouraged by that generous person that he sent him to Exeter coll to compleat it with Academical learning in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years What stay he made there or whether he was honoured with a degree it appears not Sure it is that he having about that time composed several poetical and other things had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house and published under these titles Nocturnal Lucubrations or meditations divine and moral Lond. 1638. in tw To which are added Epigrams and Epitaphs The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball before-mentioned and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir He hath also written The swaggering Damsel a Comedy Lond. 1640. qu. Sicelides a Pastoral When printed I cannot tell for I do not remember I ever saw it In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit Sicelides a piscatory several times acted in Kings coll in Cambr. and therefore I presume 't was made by one of that house This Rob. Chamberlaine lived many years after but when he died I cannot justly tell One Rob. Chamberlaine proceeded Master of Arts as a Member of Pemb. coll but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlaine a Physician must not be taken as some of this University have done to be the same with the Poet before-mentioned Will. Chamberlaine of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida an heroick Poem Lond. 1659. oct but whether he was ever an Oxford Student I am hitherto ignorant ATHENAE OXONIENSES The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640. â_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh called Middleton educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School
of Arts to be the same with him who became perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1513 and was afterwards an eminent Schoolmaster Jul. 11. Will. Tresham of Merton Coll. March 15. John Rogers Quaere Bach. of Div. Six admitted of whom Richard Glocester and John Newbolt Benedictines were two and about 23 supplicated who were not admitted this year among whom were John Perrot a Minorite Thomas Hill B. of A. and a Bonhome c. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. John Leffe of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of the College at Maidstone in Kent Vicar General and Keeper of the Spirituality to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near to Winchester He died 19 Aug. 1557 aged 66 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to Wykeham's Coll. near to the said City of which Coll. he was Fellow For the said Degree supplicated Edward Orenge LL. B. and for the Degree of D. of Canon Law supplicated two who were afterwards admitted Doct. of Div. Jan⦠Leonard Huchenson Master of Vnivers Coll. Jan. ult Robert Law or Low a Carme now Prior of the College of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon. In 1505 he was made Provincial of the Carmes in the place of John Vynde or Wynde which honorable Office he keeping about 17 years was succeeded in it by Rich. Ferys Feb. 11. Thomas Mole or Molle a Carme 25. Thomas Francis a Minorite or Franciscan There also supplicated for the said Degree John Burgeis Bach. of Divinity of Magdalen College who was elected President of that House upon Dr. Laurence Stubbes his resignation an 1527 and by the name of President he doth occur in a Deed or Writing dated 10 Jul. the same year but soon after being removed Dr. Richard Knolles was elected Others there were that supplicated who were afterwards admitted except one Mabot Bac. of Div. Incorporations May⦠Father Robert Myles a Dominican Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge Oct⦠Fernandus or Ferdinandus de Victoria Doctor of Physick beyond the Seas now Physitian to King Hen. 8. and the Queen Consort He Dr. Thomas Lynacre and Dr. John Chambre were the first Founders of the College of Physitians at London Oct⦠William Arden a Dominican or Black Fryer Prior elect of the College or Convent of the Black Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon and D. of D. in the Court of Rome Feb⦠Thomas Wellys or Wells Master of Arts of this University and Doctor of Divinity elsewhere Whether he be the same with Thomas Wellys mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1510 I know not This year the month I cannot tell I find that there was a kind of a Supplicate made for one Magnus a Doctor beyond the Sea to be incorporated here but in what Faculty I cannot yet discover This Person was the same with Thomas Magnus who was a Foundling at Newark upon Trent in Nottinghamshire and had the Sirname of Among us given to him as being maintained among certain People there or as some say by certain Yorkshire Clothiers who occasionally travelled that way early in the Morning and first found him At length being brought up in Literature in one of the Universities in England became so much noted to King Henry 8. that he was by him not only promoted to several Dignities but sent Embassador into various Countries whereupon he was by the generality of People called Dr. Magnus and by some Magnus Doctor Among several Embassies that he was employed in was that into Scotland an 1524 where he was employed as the Kings Agent to procure his business and to encline the young Kings eat towards him as also to give intelligence c. Among the Dignities he enjoyed were 1 The Archdeaconry of the East-Riding of Yorkshire to which he was collated in June 1504 upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Mayhew to the See of Hereford 2 The Sacristship of the Chappel of our Lady and the holy Angels at York to which he was collated in Dec. the same year 3 A Canonry in the Church of Windsore an 1520 which he resigning in the latter end of 1547 was succeeded by Dr. Richard Cox 4 The Mastership of the hospital of St. Leonard at York c. And among the benefices he had was the rectory of Bedall in Yorkshire one Towards his latter end he founded a Free-school in the place of his nativity which he well endowed and paying his last debt to nature at Sesay or Sessay in Yorkshire 27. Aug. or thereabouts in 1550 was buried in the Church there Whereupon John Dakyn LL. D. was installed in his Archdeaconry of the East-riding 13. April 1551. I have seen a copy of his last Will and Test dated 8. March 1549. and proved 30. Apr. 1551 wherein he desires that if he dye at his house at Sybthorp or nigh those parts to be buried in the Trinity Isle of the Church of Newark upon Trent afore the midst of the altar there for there he was baptized c. He makes mention therein of his singular good Lord and Master Savage sometimes Archbishop of York and his singular good Lord the Earl of Wilts and Lord Treasurer of England An. Dom. 1521. An. 13. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Commiss Richard Benger D. of Dec. Proct. Henry Tyndall of Merton College Bor. John Wilde Austr April 17. Grammar May 12. John Kendall 13. Richard Guissoll Jul. 8. Henry Golde Sec. Chaplain One George Marshall did also supplicate but was not admitted Qu. Bach. Musick Feb⦠John Sylvester did supplicate and was as it seems admitted in that month being at the same time accounted very eminent in his profession Bach. of Arts. About 60 were admitted and about 29. supplicated who were not admitted this year Jul. 8. John Mason about this time Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. was then admitted He was born at a mercate town called Abendon in Berks the son of a Cowherd by his Wife the Sister of a Monk at that place Which last Person finding him very apt to learn he caused him to be trained up in Grammaticals and Academicals in this University where he obtained for him a Fellowship in the said Coll. of All 's Soon after his pregnant and acute parts being taken notice of by great Persons he was upon the motion of Sir Thomas More sent by the King to the University of Paris to be accomplished with other parts of learning After his return thence he became a favourite to K. Hen. 8. who employed him in several Embassies and made him one of his Privy Council After that Kings death he was made a Privy-counsellour to K. Ed. 6. and tho he was a Knight and a perfect Lay-man yet he enjoyed several Church Dignities or as one saith he was a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Livings Among which the Deanery of Winchester Cathedral was one installed therein in the place of William Kingesmyll the last Prior of St. Swithins Monastery there and the first
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
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
learned yet he was a promoter and encourager of it by founding a Free-school at Agmondesham commonly called Amersam in Bucks and by giving 20 l. per an for the maintenance of a Divinity Lecture in Ch. Ch. or for three poor Scholars for their exhibition to be chosen out of Amersam of which place he was Rector or out of Goldesborough or Knaresborough in Yorkshire at one of which places he was as 't is said born Jul. 15. Thom. Holland of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards the learned Professor of the Kings Lecture of Div. Hen. Ledsham of Mert Coll. a compounder was admitted the same day March 8. Tho. White of Magd. hall He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. This year Camillus Cardonius a Nâopolitan Son of a Baron and a Student in Glocester hall aged 40 did sue after a Degree to be confer'd upon him but in what faculty it appears not Incorporations Mayâ¦Rich Vaughan M. A. of Cambridge He was a Caernaâvanshire Man born educated in St. Johns Coll. in Cambr. and afterwards was successively Bishop of Bangor Chester and London During which time he was accounted an excellent Preacher and a pious liver Jul. 14. Thom. Braddâck M. A. of the said University He was Fellow of Christs Coll. and afterward Bach. of Divinity and translator of Jewell's Defence of the Apologie as I have told you in John Jewell among the Writers an 1571. Nathaniel Cole M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Proctor of the said University Minister of Much Parrington near Harlow in Essex and at length of St. Leonards Bromley on the backside of Stratford-bow in Middlesex He hath published 1 The godly Mans assurance of his own Salvation Lond. 1615. qu. 2 Preservatives against sin or bow to live and not sin c. Lond. 1618. qu. 3 The Christians welcome to the Court of Heaven c. a Sermon Lond. 1625. qu. and other things which I have not seen Edw. Scambler M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the same day One E. Schambler Vicar of Râe in Sussex and a member of Peter house in Cambr. wrot and published A Medicine proved for a desperate conscience printed at Lond. in oct whether written by Edward Scambler M. of A. or Edmund Scambler who was afterwards Bishop of Peterborough and Norwich I cannot tell Quaere Andrew Willet M. of A. of Cambr. was also then Jul. 14. incorporated being in a congregation after the conclusion of the Act He was born in Ely in Cambridgshire educated in Christs Coll. succeeded his Father Mr. Thom. Willet in a Prebendship of Ely and in the Parsonage of Barley in Hertfordshire published divers books the titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue and dying 4. Dec. 1621. was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Barley An. Dom. 1585. An. 27 Elizab. An. 28 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leycester who going into the Low Countries this year deputed Sir Tho. Bromley Knight Lord Chanc. of England to execute the office of Chancellour of the University 5. Decemb. Vicechanc. Edmund Lilye D. D. Master of Balliol College July 16. Proct. Tho. Singleton of Br. Coll. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. Apr. 21. Bach. of Musick June 26. Nathaniel Giles See more of him in an 1622. He was Father to Nath. Giles D. D. whom I shall mention under the year 1625. Jul. 14. Matthew Godwyn whether he hath published any matters relating to the fac of Musick I know not Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Alexander Cook of Brasnose afterwards of Vniversity College Oct. 27. Hen. Wilkinson of Queens Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of Mert. Coll. and Author of The Debt-book c. Feb. 1. Rich. Eaton of Lincolne Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Divinity in 1599. Admitted 128. or thereabouts Mast of Arts. Ap. 3. Hen Parry of C. C. Coll. Rich. Fownes of Ch. Ch. Jun. 3. Will. Hubbocke of C. C. 10. John Smith of St. Johns 14. George Carleton of Merton Coll. Jul. 6. Peter Allibond of Magd. hall 8. Richard Parks of Brasn Dec. 17. George Abbot of Ball. Coll. Admitted 67. Bach. of Div. June 21. Erasmus Webbe of All 's Coll. In 1589 he was made Archdeacon of Buckingham in the place of him who if I mistake not succeeded in that Dignity one Richard Porter deprived about 1560 and on the 30. Sept. 1590 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of William King Bach. of Div. and Prebendary of Canterbury deceased He died 24. March 1613 and was buried at Windsore whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Rob. Newell Bac. afterwards D. of Div. and his Canoâây on Dr. Tho. Sheafe of Cambridge Jun. 21. Thom. Pye of Merton Coll. Admitted 10. Doct. of Law July 13. Gabriel Harvey M. of A. of Cambridge where he obtained his grace this year to proceed in the Civil Law was then admitted Doctor of the Civ Law here He performed certain exercise in this University for the said Degree and stood in the Act to compleat it 11. Jul. 1586. This Person who made a great noise in his time was born at Saffron-walden in Essex and tho his Father was a Rope-maker as Thom. Nash a great scoffer and his Antagonist tells us yet he had rich kindred and was nearly allied to Sir Thom. Smith the great Statesman in Qu. Elizabeths Reign His first Academical breeding was in Christs Coll. in Cambridge where in short time he made great proficiency to the wonder and amazement of his Tutor Afterwards he became Fellow of Trinity hall and so excellent and learned an Orator and Poet that books of those faculties were dedicated to him Afterwards he was Proctor of that University and at elder years he applied his studies to Astrologie wherein he became eminent and wrot as 't is said Almanacks much in esteem in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth His other works are 1 Rhetor sive 2. dierum oratio de natura arte exercitatione Rhetorica Lond. 1577. qu. 2 Ciceronianus vel oratio post reditum habita Cantabrigiae ad suos auditores Lond. 1577. qu. 3 XAIPE vel gratulationum Valdenensium libri quatuor Lond. 1578. qu. in Lat. vers 4 Smithus vel Musarum Lachrymae pro obitu honoratiss viri c. Thomae Smith Eq. aur Majestatisque regiae Secretarii Lond. 1578. qu. 5 A new letter of notable contents with a strange sonnet entituled Gorgon Lond. 1593. qu. 6 Pierces superarrogation or a new praise of the old asse A preparative to certain larger discourses entit Nashes S. fame Lond. 1593. qu. with Letters and Sonnets before and after the said book made upon the Author Harvey by several Poets of that time 7 An advertisement for Pap-hatchet and Martin Marprelate printed with the former book with other things wherein he tramples much upon Rob. Green the Poet which I have not yet seen This Dr. Gab. Harvey was esteemed an ingenious Man and an excellent Scholar but 't was his and his Brother
Brook I have spoken at large among the Writers under the year 1628. An. Dom. 1589. An. 31 Elizab. An. 32 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton Kt. who by the death of Robert Dudley Earl of Leycester became also High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge Vicechanc. Nich. Bond D. D. President of Magd. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. John Harding of Magd. Coll. John King of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Will. Thorne of New Coll. June 25. Sebast Benefeild of C. C. Coll. July 12. George Benson of Queens Coll. See more among the Doctors of Div. an 1607. Nov. 5. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Dec. 1. Tho. Frith of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Divin 1605. 17. Edmund Griffyth of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bangor Feb. 11. John Tapsell See among the Doct. of Div. 1617. Adm. 104. Bach. of Law June 30. Will. Gager July 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. See more among the Doctors of the Civ Law this year In the month of April this year Edwyn Sandys of C. C. Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Law but was not admitted Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. June 9. George Warwick of Qu. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Carlile in the place as I suppose of Hen. Dethick 18. Christoph Sutton of Linc. 21. Griffith Powell of Jes Coll. 27. John Budden of Gloc. Hall lately of Trin. Coll. July 4. Rich. Brett Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. 11. George Cranmer Dec. 5. Alexand. Gill. of C. C. Coll. Adm. 74. Bach. of Phys Nov. 4. John Case the noted Philosopher of S. Johns Coll. Besides him was only one admitted and another licensed to practise Medecine Bach. of Div. July 6. Thomas Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mar. 21. Giles Tomson of All 's John Spenser of C. C. Coll. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Hen. Manning of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Exet. and died in 1614. Jun. 30. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law Joh. Estmond of New Coll. was admitted the same day He was now Principal of Nâw Inn. Jul. 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. He was lately one of the Proctors of the University afterwards Vicar Gen. in Spirituals to the Archb. of York Prebendary of Langtoft in the Church of York Chancellour to Qu. Anne a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury In the beginning of 1617 he was sent Embassadour to Bruxelis to question the Archduke in behalf of his Master the King of Great Britain concerning a late famous Libel wrot and published as 't was supposed by Erycius Puteanus who neither apprehended the Author nor suppressed the Book untill he was sollicited by the Kings Agent there only interdicted it and suffered the Author to fly his Dominions Afterwards in 1621 the said Sir Joh. Bennet was for bribery corruption and exaction in his place of Judge of the Prerogative first committed to custody to the Sheriff of London then to prison afterwards fined 20000 l. and at length deprived of his place of Judicature till such time that he had restored what he had unjustly taken away He died in the Parish of Christ Church in London in the beginning of 1627 and was buried I suppose in the Church there July 11. Thomas Crompton M. A. of Merton Coll. His Grace had before been denied because he was suspected to have something of a Papist in him but afterwards making a protestation of his Religion according to the Church of England in a solemn Congregation of Regents he was permitted then July 11. to proceed He was afterwards a Knight Judge of the Court of Admiralty and one of the first Burgesses that the Members of this University chose to sit in after they had been impowr'd to send them to Parliament He died in the latter end of 1608 having before as I conceive been engaged in the Earl of Essex his Treasons Doct. of Phys June 30. John Bentley of Ch. Church Nov. 4. Joh. Case of S. Johns Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Physick and were learned men Doct. of Div. July 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Dean of Worcester as I have before told you among the Writers Creations June 16. Sir Charles Blount Kt. He was originally of this University was afterwards Earl of Devonshire and dying in 1606 left behind him a natural Son named Montjoy Blount created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight by K. Charles I. which Montjoy dying in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon. 12 Feb. 1665 was buried in the south Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church near to the Grave of Will Lord Grandison the King with his Court having about that time left Oxon to which place he before had retired to avoid the Plague raging in London Sir Charles Danvers Kt. was actually created M. A. the same day He was afterwards beheaded on Tower hill near London for being deeply engaged in the Earl of Essex's Treasons an 1601. Sept. 17. Ferdinando Lord Strange He was soon after Earl of Derby and dying in the flower of his Youth not without suspicion of poyson on the 16 of Apr. 1594 having enjoyed his Earldom but for a little time was buried near to the body of his Father in a Chappel joyning to the Church of Ormeskirke in Lancashire Sept. 17. Sir George Carew Kt. He was afterwards Earl of Totness Sir John Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire Kt. All which were actually created Masters of Arts. An. Dom. 1590. 32 Elizab. 33 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 16 who in 1581 had undergone the same Office Proct. Jasp Colmer of Mert. Coll. Jeh Evelegh of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Tho. Bastard of New Jul. 9. Joh. Davies of Queens Coll. George Carew of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day Quaere Dec. 14. Thom. Cooper or Couper of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1600. Feb. 5. Sam. Page Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. The two last I shall mention among the Writers in the second Volume Feb. 5. Mathew Lister Lionel Day of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Incorporations an 1605 and of the other who was originally of S. Albans Hall among the Bach. of Div. 1608. 10. Lancelot Bulkley of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland Adm. 133. Bach. of Law May 2. John Owen of New Coll. the Epigrammatist Feb. 2. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. This person whom I have mention'd among the Masters in 1587 was Proctor of the University two years after and travelling beyond the Seas return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman In 1607 June 28. he received the honor of Knighthood at Richmond was sent Embassadour into the Low Countries soon after made Secretary of State 29 Mar. 1614 being the very day that Sir Tho. Lake was
London and a publisher of certain Sermons between the year 1610 and 1625 must not be taken to be the same with Tho. Muriel Mar. 22. Fines Moryson M. A. of Cambr. He was a Lincolnshire man born was Fellow of Peter House in that University and Brother to Sir Richard Moryson Vicepresident of Mounster After he had taken his Masters degree he studied the Civil Law and in 1589 being then 23 years of Age he obtained license of the Master and Fellows of his House to travel Presently after leaving the University he went to London to follow such Studies that were fit to enable him in his course of Travels and afterwards going to Oxon was incorporated M. of A. as I have told you before On the 1 May 1591 he took ship at Liegh distant from London 28 miles by land and 36 by water and after he had rambled about many parts of the World for 8 years returned and went into Ireland 1598. and became Secretary to Sir Charles Blount Lord Lieutenant of that Realm After his death which hapned about 1614 were published his Travels entit An Itinerary containing his ten years Travels through the twelve Dominions of Germany Bohmerland Sweitzerland Netherland Denmark Poland England Scotland and Ireland Divided in three parts Lond. 1617 in a thick fol. It was first written in Latin and afterwards translated by him into English There were also four more Cantabrigians incorporated among whom Robertus Hemmingius M. A. was one Feb. 23. Creations July 14. Sir Will. Hatton Sir Hen. Vnton Joh. Fitzjames Esquire Knights The first was Son to the Sister of Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England and being Heir to the said Sir Christophes did change his name from Newport to Hatton The second who had been of Oriel Coll. I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1595. The third who was of the antient Family of the Fitzjames of Somersetshire was originally also of this University which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1591. An. 33 Elizab. An. 34 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton who dying 20 of Nov. this year certain Members of the University especially those of the Puritanical Party were for Robert Earl of Essex before mention'd now in great favour with the Queen and others for Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst At length upon the receipt of Letters from the Queen in favour of Buckhurst the Academians elected him 17 Dec. following See more in the Incorporations this year Vicechanc. Dr. James again designed by Chancellour Hatton 16 July Proct. Rich. Braunche of Ch. Ch. Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. Apr. 16. Which Proctors with several Doctors and others went to London to admit the Chancellour to his Office being the first Admission out or without the limits of the University that I have yet met with Bach. of Arts. Mar. 27. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. now in much esteem for his Poetry Apr. 16. Rob. Moor June 4. Arth. Lake of New Coll. The former was adorn'd with variety of Learning the other was afterwards a Bishop Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Queens Coll. Afterwards a learned Nonconformist 9. Walter Wylshman of Exeter Coll. afterwards of Broadgates Hall Jan. 16. Rich. Haydock of New Feb. 7. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity an 1608. Adm. 116. Mast of Arts. May 20. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. lately of Gloc. Hall June 15. Samuel Burton of Ch. Ch. He became Rector of Dry Marston in Glocestershire seven years after this time afterwards Archdeacon of Glocester and at length Justice of the Peace for that County He hath published A Sermon preached at the general Assizes in Warwick 3 March being the first Friday in Lent 1619 on Rom. 1. 4. Lond. 1620. qu. and perhaps other things He died 14 June 1634 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Dry Marston before mention'd Jun. 21. Tho. Hutton Henr. Price of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Nathan Torporley of Brasn Nov. 30. Joh. Day of Oriel Feb. 26. Joh. Hoskyns sen of New Coll. Adm. 56. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Henr. Rowlands of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor Apr. 27. Leonard Hutten Jul. 2. Joh. King of Ch. Ch. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day Nov. 15. Soh Smith of S. Joh. Coll. Adm. 15. â Not one Doctor of Law or of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Tho. Hyde of Ball. Coll. On the fourteenth of June 1588 he became Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte having before been Prebendary of Ilfracomb in the said Church and dying in Nov. 1618 was succeeded in his Chancellourship by Dr. Franc. d ee who was afterwards B. of Peterborough Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day On the 5. of July 1576 he was installed Archd. of Rochester in the place of Joh. Calverley deceased and in 1580 he succeeded Dr. Rob. Dorset in a Canonry of Ch. Ch. In an 1582 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury but whether he was Dean of that Church as I have told you in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 259. b. upon false information it appears not In his Archdeaconry of Rochester which he resigned was installed Th. Staller D. D. 5 Jul. 1593 and to his Archdeaconry of Sarum which he kept to the day of his death was collated Will. Barlow on the 12 of March being four days after the death of Pickover an 1614. This person Pickover is commended for a learned man for a good Greecian Hebritian and a frequent Preacher See in the said Hist Antiq. lib. 2. p. 260. a. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was adm the same day July 2. He accumulated as Pickover did Incorporations Jul. 13. George Downham M. A. of Cambridge He was Son of Will. Downham Bishop of Chester was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge of which he became Fellow about 1585 afterwards a great Aristotelian a follower of Ramus and at length Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where dying in 1634 Apr. 17. was buried in the Cath. Church there The Catalogue of all or most of his works you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue Besides him were 15 Cantabrigians incorporated Masters of Arts on the same day being the next after the Act had been concluded but not one of them can I yet find who was afterwards a Writer Bishop c. On the same day also Will. Halke an English Man of the same University who had had the Degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him in the University of St. Andrew in Scotland an 1590 Andr. Melvin being then Rector was also incorporated in this University Oct. 22. Will. Paddie of St. Johns Coll. in this University lately made Doct. of Phys in the University of Leyden was incorporated in the same Degree He was afterwards Physician to K. Jam. 1. a Knight eminent for his practice in that faculty and President if I mistake not of the Coll.
exposition on Geneâis Whether the same with him who was incorporated I cannot yet tell Quâere William Alabaster M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day He was bred in Trin. Coll. in that University was the rarest Poet and Grecian that any one age or nation hath produced Afterwards he attended as Chaplain on Robert Earl of Essex in Cadiz voyage where he changed his Religion and wrot Seven Motives for what he had done answer'd by one John Racster an 1598 and by Roger Fenton the year following But upon some discontent taken from the Rom. Party he return'd to the Church of England and was made Prebendary of St. Pauls Cath. in London D. of D. and Rector of Tharfield in Hertfordshire He hath written 1 Roxana Tragedia admirably well acted more than once in Trin. Coll. hall in Cambr. and was soon after published full of faults contrary to the Authors mind Whereupon he took great pains to correct and amend it Which being done 't was printed to the Authors mind at Lond. 1632. oct 2 Lexicon Pentaglotton Hebraicum Chaldaicum Syriacum Talmudico Raabinium Lond. 1637. fol. The titles of other books of his writing you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue He also began to describe in a Latin Poem intit Eâisaeis the chief transactions of Qu. Elizabeths Reign but left unfinish'd at the time of his death which hapning about the beginning of Apr. 1640. was buried according to the discretion of his dear friend Nich. Bacon of Greys Inn in Holbourn near London whom he made his sole Executor Rich. Her rick the Poet in his Hesperides doth highly celebrate Alabaster for his elaborate works Aug. 19. Hen. Wriothsley Earl of Southampton M. of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards deeply engaged in the treasons of his entire friend Robert Earl of Essex and therefore by his Peers he was condemned to dye but by the favour of the Queen he was saved When K. James 1. came to the Crown he was restored by Parliament was made Knight of the Garter and Captain of the Isle of Wyght and of Caresbrook Castle He died in the Netherlands an 1624 and was buried at Tichfield in Hampshire by the bodies of his Ancestors Dec. 18. Thomas D'oylie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. Doctor of Physick of the University of Basil in Germany Creations Aug. 19. Will. Somerset of Magd. Coll. in this University eldest Son of Edward Earl of Worcester was actually created Mast of Arts. These Persons following were created Mast of Arts 27. Sept. while the Queen was in Oxon being then entertained by the University Edward Earl of Worcester He was afterwards Master of the Horse to K. Jam. 1. and Knight of the Garter Geo. Clifford E. of Cumberl He was an excellent Mathematician a great Navigator and one that did more prodigious things at Sea to the great impoverishment of his estate than any Subject of this Realm had done before He died 30. Oct. 1605 and was buried at Skipton in Craven in Yorkshire by his ancestors Hen. Herbert E. of Pembroke Kt. of the most noble order of the Garter and President of the Council in the Marches of Wales He died 1601 and was succeeded in the Earldom of Pembroke by his Son and Heir called William afterwards the most noble Chancellour of this University Sir John Wingfield Tho. Coningsby Will. Knollis Knights The last of which who had been formerly of Magd. Coll. was afterwards Earl of Banbury Michael Stanhop Esq He was Brother to John Lord Stanhop of Harrington Tho. Knevet Esq He was afterwards as it seems Lord Knevet of Escricke Edward Darcey Joh. Stanhop Will. Pointz Rich. Brakenbury Esquires Thom. Lake Esq This Gentleman who was born at Southampton was bred a Scholar and afterwards was taken into the service in the condition of an Amanuensis of Sir Franc. Walsingham Secretary of State by whom being commended to Qu. Elizabeth he read to her French and Latin A little before her death she made him Clerk of her Signet and after her death he was chosen by this state into the place to attend K. Jam. 1. from Barwick who afterwards made use of his present service in some French affairs and confer'd upon him the honour of Knighthood After Sir Rob. Cecills time the place of Secretary was joyned in two Principals and not long after he was one of them and so continued with honorable esteem of all Men until that malice and revenge two violent passions over-ruling the weaker sex concerning his Wife and Daughter involved him into their quarrel the chief and only cause of his ruine Anth. Ashley He made additions for the use of English Men to The marriners mirrour c. written in Dutch by Luke Wagener of Ein husen set forth in English by the said Ashley in two parts adorned with variety of Sea-charts and Mapps printed at London in fol. 1588-89 and dedicated to Robert Earl of Leycester from St. James One Sir Anth. Ashley Knight was a courtier in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 and tho then a hater of Women yet he was induced to marry one of the Family and Relations of George Duke of Bucks which administred mirth to the Courtiers Whether this Sir Authony be the same with the former I know not Qu. Hen. Noell Esq He was younger Brother to Sir Andrew Noell of Leycestershire was one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to Queen Elizabeth a Man of excellent parts and well skill'd in Musick He died in the latter end of Feb. 1596 and was by the command of Qu. Elizabeth who had an especial respect for him buried in St. Andrews Chappel within the Precincts of the Abbey Church at Westminster In a convocation celebrated the same day after dinner for the former creations were made in a Convocation held in the morning were these following Persons actually created Masters of Arts also viz. Monsieur Beauvoys La Noude Embassador from the King of France to the Queen of England Monsieur Mauditor or Manditor Sir Edward Stafford an English Knight An. Dom. 1593. An. 35 Elizab. An. 36 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Edm. Lillye again July 17. Proct. Will. Aubrey of Ch. Ch. Rich. Latewarr of St. Job C. Apr. 26. Bach. of Musick Feb. 25. Arth. Cock Orgainst of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter Matthew Jeffrye Vicar choral in the Church at Wells Their Graces were then pass'd and no doubt there is but that they were admitted Some of the compositions of Arth. Cock I have seen in our publick Musick School and certain divine Services and Anthems were composed by one Jeffrye the words of which are extant but whether by this Matthew or George Jeffrye who were both eminent Musicians I cannot tell Bach. of Arts. May 21. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. June 20. Nathaniel Brent of Mert. Coll. Feb. 6. Joh. Marston of Brasn Coll. Qu. Whether not the same Person who was afterwards the celebrated Comedian Feb. 6. Rob. Wakeman 8. Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll.
large and learned Pref. of about 16 leaves in oct written by the said Josselin and reprinted by L'isle 2 The words of Aeilfric Abbot of St. Albons and also of Maââsbury taken out of his Epistle written to Wulfine Bishop of Sâyrburne c. 3 The Lords Prayer the âreed and ten Commandments in the Saxon and English tongue This W. L'isle died in 1637 and was buried as I presume at Wilburgham beforemention'd Creations Jul. 17. Matthew Gwinne M. A. of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon who had studied Physick ten years was then actually created Doct. of Physick by virtue of two Letters of the Chancellour of the University for that purpose Sept. 24. The most illustrious heroe Pre-Johannes de la Fri Eques Charnotensis so he is written in the publick Reg. Embassadour from the King of France to the Queens Majesty of England Nichol. Ruffus Dominus St. Aubin Ludovic Baro D'Orbee created the same day Which three Nobles were actually created Masters of Arts and were with great civility treated by the Heads of the University An. Dom. 1594. An. 36 Elizab. An. 37 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Lillye to continue in the said office till the Chancellour otherwise please Proct. Hen. Foster of Brasn Coll. Hen. Cuffe of Mert. Coll. Apr. 10. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 5. Tobias Matthew of Ch. Ch. He was Son of Tob. Matthew who was afterwards Archb. of York and after he had taken the Degree of M. A. he became a Jesuit and at length a Knight as I shall tell you at large in the 2d vol. 22. Will. Burton of Brasn Coll. He is to be remembred also in the 2. vol. Jul. 1. Will. Laud of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Archib of Canterbury Dec. 11. Edm. Deane of Merton Jan. 27. Tho. Thomson of Qu. Feb. 22. Hayward Townshend of St. Maries hall Coll. Thom Ireland of Linc. Coll. was admitted the same day See among the Doct. of Div. an 1611. 28. Alexander Spicer of Exeter Mar. 1. Will. Vaughan of Jes Coll. 7. Thom. Cheast of Oriel Coll. See among the Masters an 1598. Adm. 195. Bach. of Law Jul. 1. James Whitlock of St. Johns Coll. Jul. 12. Franc. Clerke or Clarke Besides these two were 4 more admitted and two that supplicated who were not admitted this year Mast of Arts. Apr. 16. Tho. Fryth of All 's Coll. May 13. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Qu. Coll. 3. Walt Wylshman of Broadgates lately of Exeter Coll. Dec. 12. Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. Jan. 15. Rob. Moor of New Coll. Adm. 7â Bach. of Div. May 16. George Carleton of Mert. Jun. 27. Joh. Williams of All 's Jul. 2. Rich. Latewarr of St. Joh. Coll. 4. Will. Tooker of New Dec. 16. Hen. Ayray of Qu. Coll. Adm. â1 Doct. of Law Jul. 9. Christopher Helme of Merton Coll. In 1618 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Barnabas Goch or Gough Doct. of Law being about that time Rector of Bredon in the said Diocess in which office he was succeeded by Jam. Littleton Bach. of Law an 1628. The said Goch or Gough did succeed Tho. Wood LL. D. an 1610. and Wood Rich. Cosin the eminent Civilian an 1598. but whom Cosin succeeded in 1578 or thereabouts I cannot tell Dec. 10. Rob. Masters of All 's Coll. He was about this time Principal of St. Albans hall and afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Rochester and of the Dioc. of Lichfield and Coventry He died 10. Jul. 1625. aged 63 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield Jan. 25. Edward Spurroway of All 's Coll. On the sixth of July Ralph Winwood M. of A. and Bach. of the Civ Law of Magd. Coll. supplicated to be admitted Doct. of the faculty but whether admitted it appears not Doct. of Phys Jul. 1. Barthelmew Warner of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of Physick and superior reader of Lynacre's Lecture He was buried in the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of Oxford 26. January 1618 as I have else where told you Doct. of Div. Jun. 25. Rich. Lewys of Exeter Coll. July 4. Francis Cox Will. Tooker of New Coll. Henry Ball of New Coll. also was admitted the same day being about this time Archdeacon of Chichester ãâã He died in the beginning of the year 1603. Jul. 4. Miles Smith of Brasn Coll. The same who was afterwards Bishop of Glocester Incorporations Jul. 9. Hen. Nevill M. A. of Cambridge Son and Heir of Edward Nevill Lord Abergavenny Rich. Milbourne M. of A. of Qu. Coll. in the same University was incorporated the same day On the eleventh of Decemb. 1611 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Blague deceased and in July 1615 he being promoted to the See of St. David Rob. Scot D. D. was installed Dean 13. of the same month of whom by the way I desire the reader to know that he was born at Banston in Essex was originally a Fellow of Trin. Coll. in the said University and afterwards Master of Clare hall and esteemed by those that knew him a learned Man He died in Winter time in December I think an 1620. and was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Godf. Goodman Jul. 9. Joh Racster M. A. of Cambridge He was Author of a certain book entit The seven planets or wandring motives of Will Alabasters wit retrograded and removed Lond. 1598. qu. and perhaps of other things Joh. Hull M. of A. of Cambr. was incorp the same day He was of Gonvill and Caius Coll. in that University was afterwards Bach. of Div. and a Preacher of Gods word at Cork in Ireland He hath written and published 1 St. Peters Prephecy of these last days printed 1610. qu. 2 Christs proclamation to Salvation Lond. 1613. oct 3 Exposition on a part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah c. Lond. 1618. qu. c. Jul. 9. Richard Kilby M. A. of the said University The number of Cambridge Masters who were incorporated on that day comes to 30. Creations On the ninth of July being the day after the Act had been finished these following Persons were actually created Mast of Arts. Sir Joh. Hungerford Knight Anthony Hungerford Esquire Rich. Baker Esq He was afterwards a Knight and Author of that Chronicle that goes under his name Joh. Aske Will. Monson Esquire A proposal was made in the ven house of Convocation this year that the Degree of M. of A. should be bestowed on the honorable Sir Will. Russel Knight the design'd Lord Deputy of Ireland but whether it was accordingly confer'd upon him it appears not because it standeth not in the register He was the fourth Son of Francis Earl of Bedford and was with his brethren brought up in Magd. Coll. Oxon at the feet of Dr. Lawr. Humphrey Afterwards he travelled through France Germany Italy Hungary and other Countries and upon his return he spent not his time idely in the Court but
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
very uncouth Language to a Princes ears the particulars of which you may see elsewhere For the Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 he was elected again for the same place but being soon after fully satisfied what desperate courses the Members thereof took he left them and retiring to his Majesty at Oxon sate in the Parliament there 1643 and so consequently was a shater of Sufferings then incident to Royalists I have seen divers of his Speeches in MS. but whether made publick I cannot tell He died in 1647 or thereabouts leaving then behind a natural Son of both his names and the character of a man of very loose principles Adm. 65. Bach. of Div. Jul. 6. Will. Laud of S. Johns Coll. Jan. 18. John Burbadge of Linc. Coll. a rich Dignitary in the Church He was nearly related to Rich. Burbadge of the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch near London which Richard who is stiled by the learned Camden to have been alter Roscius died 9 March 1618. Feb. 22. Robert Wakeman of Balliol Coll. On the second day of March this year Gabriel Powell Bach. of Arts of S. Maries Hall who had studied Divinity nine years supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. but whether his desire was granted it appears not I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1607. Adm. 12. â Not one Doct. of Law Phys or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations July 10. Rob. Hill Bach. of Div. of Christs Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time Parson of S. Barthelmew near to the Exchange in London was afterwards D. of D. and always esteemed a learned man and a good and painful Preacher He hath written 1 Life everlasting or the true knowledge of one Jehovah Cambr. 1601. oct 2 The path way to prayer and piety c. Lond. 1613. oct 3 A Communicant instructed c. printed 1617. oct with an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and other things which I have not yet seen See more among the Incorporations an 1598. This Dr. Hill died in 1623 and was buried near to the Body of his Wife in the Chancel of the Church of S. Barthelmew before mention'd One Rob. Hill was Parson of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester an 1604 but him I take to be different from the former I find only five Masters of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated this year and two Bach. of Div. of whom Rob. Hill the Writer before mention'd was one Daniel Plancius a Belgian born was this year a Sojourner in the Univ. for the sake of the publ Library and did soon after publish several Books which shew'd him a learned man one of which was answer'd and animadverted upon by Heribert Ross-weidus and Rob. Swertius Joh. Drusius also was a Sojourner not in a private House but in Gloc. Hall who being admirably well skill'd in the Hebrew Chalday and Syriack Tongue was recommended to the chief Heads of the University to read those Tongues either privately or publickly He soon after removed to Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took a degree in Arts as I shall tell you in the year following An. Dom. 1605. An. 3 Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again July 16. Proct. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. Joh. Hanmer of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. June 11. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. Many year after his death were published by Dr. Sim. Patrick Dean of Peterborough his Works entit Reliquiae Raleighanae 20. Hen. Jackâon of C. C. Coll. 27. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Pet. Turner Oct. 21. Hen. Rogers of Jes Coll. 23. Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Dec. 17. Joh. Andrews of Trin. Coll. Feb. 26. Franc. Stewart of Ch. Ch. Son of the Earl of Murray and of kin to his Maj. James 1. See more in the year 1616 among the Creations Joh. Drusius of Ch. Ch. Son of the learned Critick Joh. Drusius was admitted the same day 28. Sampson Price of Hart Hall lately of Exet. Coll. Of Raleigh Jackson Fell Turner Rogers and Ley will be large mention made in the second Vol. Adm. 190. Mast of Arts. Apr. 17. Daniel Fairclough commonly called Featley of C. C. Coll. 24. Benj. Culme of Linc. Coll. lately of S. Albans Hall He was the Son of Hugh Culme of Molland in Devonshire and going afterwards into Ireland became at length D. of D. and Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin where he was accounted a learned man and an excellent Preacher and Theologist But he being forced thence by the Rebellion that broke out in 1641 went into England lived several years in a retired condition at Mudghill near to Lidiard St. Johns in Wiltshire where dying in October an 1657 aged 76 was buried in the Church-yard of Lidiard before mention'd Over his Grave was soon after an Altar-tomb erected with a large Inscription thereon wherein 't is said he died 21 Octob. May 16. Joh. Bery or Bury of Balliol lately of Corp. Christ Coll. Jun. 16. James Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. 9. Thom. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. This Gentleman who was a Londoner born was second Son of Will. Aylesbury by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Poole Esquire and from Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. 1598. After he had left the University he became Secretary to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and to George Duke of Bucks his Successor in that great Office By the endeavours of which last he was made one of the Masters of the Requests and Master of the Mint being about that time a Baronet which places he keeping till the grand Rebellion broke out in 1642 he adher'd to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and in 1649 when all things were in a Confusion as to the Royal Party he retired with his Family to Antwerp in Brabant where continuing till 1652 he removed to Breda and dying in 1657 aged 81 was buried in the great Chnrch there leaving behind him a Son named William of whom I shall speak elsewhere and a Daughter named Frances the Wife of Edw. Hyde of Pirtân in Wilts since made Earl of Clarendon These things I mention because the said Sir Tho. Aylesbury was a learned man and as great a Lover and Encourager of Learning and learned men especially of Mathematicians he being one himself as any man in his time June 9. Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. 12. Joh. Warner of Magd. 23. George Webb of C. C. Jul. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Dec. 16. Edw. Abbot of Vniversity Coll. In the year 1616 Jan. 13. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of Wells in the place of Rich. Boughton sometimes of Magd. Coll. in this University and dying in 1634 Sebastian Smith M. A. of Ch. Ch. was admitted to that dignity on the 9 of March the same year Will. Boswell of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was afterwards Chaplain to John
as temporal and in many dangers of his life which God did miraculously deliver him from At length K. James the first of England did call him into England and to the holy Ministry he being then 58 years of age and upon the promotion of Dr. John Bridges to the See of Oxon in the latter end of 1603 he made him Dean of Salisbury in Febr. 1604. He hath written 1 Assertiones Theologicae pro vera verae Ecclesiae nota quae est solius dei adoratio contra falsae ecclesiae creaturarum adorationem Rupell 1603. oct 2 England and Scotlands happiness in being reduced to unity of Religion under K. James Lond. 1604. qu. 3 Orthodoxo-Jacobus Papa apostaticus c. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Anti-Bellarmino-tortur sive Tortus retortus Juliano papismus c. Lond. 1612. qu. 5 Of the ceremonies of the Church of England Lond. 1612. qu. besides Sermons and other things He departed this mortal life in August 1619 and was I suppose buried in the Cathed Ch. at Salisbury whereupon Dr. John Williams succeeded him in the Deanery of that place about the 10. of Sept. and installed in the middle of Oct. following To Sir Rob. Gourden of Sudderland who married his only Daughter and Heir named Lucy he left his MSS. of his own composition written in Latine and English desiring him that the English may be published in Scotland and the Latine beyond the Seas to the end that the great pains that he had taken about them may not be lost These Noble Men Knights and Esquires following were actually created Masters of Arts on the 30. of August the King being then in Oxford The illustrious Prince Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox near of kin to the King James 1. of England He was Father to Lodowick the first Duke of Richmond of his name Henry de Vere Earl of Oxford He was Son of Edw. de Vere called by some the Poetical Earl of Oxford and died at the Siege of Breda in the Netherlands an 1625. Henry Percy the most generous Count of Northumberland a great encourager of learning and learned Men especially Mathematicians who as others have in a high manner celebrated his worth He died 5. of Nov. 1632 and was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex Robert D'Evereux Earl of Essex now a young Nobleman of Merton Coll. See more in the year 1636. Will. Herbert Earl of Pembroke the very picture and Viva effigies of Nobility a Person truly generous a singular lover of learning and the professors thereof and therefore by the Academians elected their Chancellour some years after this His Person was rather Majestick than elegant and his presence whether quiet or in motion was full of stately gravity His mind was purely heroick often stout but never disloyal and so vehement an opponent of the Spaniard that when that match fell under confideration in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he would sometimes rouze to the trepidation of that King yet kept in favour still for His Majesty knew plain dealing as a jewell in all Men so was in a Privy Counsellour an ornamental duty and the same true heartedness commended him to K. Ch. 1. Philip Herbert his younger Brother now Earl of Montgomery He was quite different in nature from the aforesaid William being a Person esteemed a very frequent swearer and one so intolerably cholerick quarrelsome and offensive while he was Lord Chamberlain to K. Ch. 1. that he did not refrain to break many wiser heads than his own Mr. Thomas May the translator of Lucan and afterwards Historian to the Long Parliament felt the weight of his staff which had not his office and the place being the Banquetting-house protected it might have been a question whether ever he would have struck again See more of him in Will. Herbert among the writers under the year 1630. William Cecill Viscount Cranbourne Son of Robert Earl of Salisbury He was after the death of his Father Earl of Salisbury and Knight of the Garter and lived to 1668. John Bridges Bishop of Oxon sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge and lately Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Dr. John Piers to the See of Rochester was then also created He was now famous for the several books that he had published the titles of some of which you may see in Bodlies or Oxford Catalogue He died on the 26. March 1618 and was buried in the Church of Marsh-Balden or Balden in the Marsh near to and in the County of Oxford as I have elsewhere told you He was Doctor of Divinity and therefore I presume the Registrary of the University should have put him among such that were incorporated this year and not among the Creations of Masters of Arts. Theophilus Howard Baron of Walden Son and Heir of Thomas Earl of Suffolk He was afterwards Earl of Suffolk and Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter He died 3. June 1640 and was buried in the Church at Walden beforementioned Charles Howard Baron of Effingham Son of Charles Earl of Nottingham He was afterwards Earl of Nottingham Thomas West Lord La Warr commonly called Lord de la Ware Grey Brugges or Bridges Lord Chandois He was commonly called King of Cotswould because of his numerous attendants when he went to Court He died at the Spaw in Italy 1621. Will. Compton Lord Compton He was afterwards the first Earl of Northampton of his name and dying 14. Jun. 1630 was buried by his ancestors in the Church at Compton in the hole in Warwickshire Edward Bruce Master of the Rolls and Baron of Kinloss in Scotland He died 14. Jan. 1610 aged 62 years and was buried in the Chappel of the Rolls in Chancery-lane London He was Father to Thomas Earl of Elgin in Scotland and Baron of Whorlton in Yorkshire as I shall tell you elsewhere ⦠Erskeine a noble Man of Scotland Perhaps he was the same with Sir James Erskeine Knight of the Bath Son to the Earl of Marre or with Alex. Erskeine who was after his Fathers death Viscount Fenton in Scotland and died in the beginning of the year 1633. Sir Hen. Nevill Knight He was afterwards Leiger Embassador at Paris being the same I think of Billingbere in Berks who died about the later end of June 1629. Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. now Tutor to Prince Henry William Herbert John Egerton afterwards Earl of Bridgwater Valentine Knightley John Ramsey a Scot Knights Sir Roger Aston Knight He was the natural Son of John Aston Gentleman second Son of Rich. Aston of Aston in Cheshire had all his breeding in Scotland which made some to take him to be a Scot born was originally the Barber to K. James 1. while he was King of the Scots as a libellous Author tells you though from record it appears that he was Groom of the Bedchamber to him and belonged to it in the time of that Kings Father and Grandfather He was
him among the Masters 1610. Jul. 8. Edw. Chaloner of Magd Coll. Oct. 17. Joh. Reading of Magd. Hall 20. Arth. Hopton of Linc. Joh. Wylde of Balliol Coll. Of the last of these two see more among the M. of A. an 1610. Dec. 9. Edw. Seimour of Magd. Coll. Son of Edward Lord Beauchamp Son of Edw. Earl of Hertford Will. Seimour of the same College younger Brother to the said Edward was admitted the same day This William Seimour was afterwards Earl and Marquess of Hertford Chancellour of this University and at length Duke of Somerset He died 24 Oct. 1660. Feb. 1. Roger Manwaring of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. David 5. Tho. Hobbes of Magd Hall He was afterwards the famous Philosopher and Mathematician of Malmsbury 25. Giles Widdowes of Oriel Coll. As for Robinson Reading Manwaring Hobbes and Widdowes there will be a large mention made of them in the other Volume of this Work Adm. 154. Bach. of Law Apr. 21. Joh. Reinolds of New Dec. 16. Arth. Duck of All 's Coll. Besides these two was but one more admitted this year Mast of Arts. Jun. 12. Sim. Birckbek of Queens Coll. 18. Nathan Pownoll of Ch. Ch. Rich. Tillesley of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Tho. Baylie of Magd. Oct. 20. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Dec. 14. Rich. Capell of Magd. Coll. Adm. 101. Bach. of Physick June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll. 28. Edm. Dean of S. Alb. Hall Besides these two was but one more Will. Barker of S. Maries Hall admitted Bach. of Div. Apr. 23. Rich. Moket of All 's Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll. Jul. 9. Mich. Boyle of S. Joh. Joh. Bancroft of Ch. Ch. Coll. Which two last were afterwards Bishops 18. Will. Gilbert of Magd. Coll. Whether he be the same Will. Gilbert who was afterwards D. of D. and Minister of Orset in Essex where he died about 1640. I know not Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Jan. 14. Thomas Gwynne of All 's Coll. He was afterwards or about this time Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury as the cat of the Fellows of that Coll. tells us but falsely and Chancellour of Landaff He was a Benefactor to Jesus Coll. in Oxon as you may see elsewhere and lived if I mistake not till the Reign of Oliver Protector Doct. of Phys Jul. 4. Will. Barker of S. Maries Hall He was a learned Physitian but whether he hath published any thing I know not Doct. of Div. July 8. Will. Wilson of Mert. Coll. In 1584 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Will. Wickham promoted to the See of Lincoln being about that time Chaplain to Edmund Archb. of Canterbury Afterwards he became Prebendary of Rochester and Rector of Clyve or Cliffe in Kent He died 14 May 1615 aged 73 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore near to the Body of his Father and not in the Cath. Ch. at Rochester near to the Bodies of his sometimes Wives Isabel and Anne Charles Sonibanke of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Salopian born and originally of S. Maries Hall was now Canon of Windsore Rector of Hasely in the County of Oxon and possessor of the Donative of Wrotham in Kent I have seen a Sermon of his intit The Evenuchs conversion preached at Pauls Cross on Acts 8. 26 27 28 c. Lond. 1617 qu. And what else he hath published I know not Quaere He died on the 12 Oct. 1638 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Haseley before mention'd Jul. 8. Rich. Pilkington of Queens Coll. Francis Bradshaw of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was born of a gentile Family in Bucks was a Dignitary in the Church and hath written certain matters of Divinity as some Antients of his Coll. have told me yet all that I have seen which he hath published is only a Sermon intit The Worlds wisdome or the Politicians religion on Psal 14. 1. Oxon. 1598 oct July 8. Mathew Davies of New Coll. He was Brother to Sir Joh. Davies whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1626. George Benson of Queens Coll. was admitted the same day He was about this time Canon residentiary of Hereford and Parson of Rock in Worcestershire Author of A Sermon at Pauls Cross on Hosea 7. from ver 7. to 12. Lond. 1609. qu. and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen He was born of a gentile Family in Westmorland was Fellow of Qu. Coll. Proctor of the University and died at Rock I think about 1647. Jan. 14. Geor. Darrel of All 's Coll. This Person who was Brother to Sir Marmaduke Darrel Cofferer of his Majesties Houshold was installed Canon of the sixth Stall in the Collegiate Church of Westminster on the 8 of June this year in the place of Dr. Griff. Lewys deceased and dying on the last of Oct. 1631 Pet. Heylyn Bach. of Div. was nominated to succeed him the next day and accordingly was installed on the 9 of Nov. Incorporations May 16. Thom. Bell M. of A. of Cambr. One of both his names had been a Rom. Catholick afterwards a Protestant and a Writer and Publisher of several Books against the Papists from 1593 to 1610 and after as the Oxford Catalogue will partly tell you Quaere whether the same July 14. Patrick Kinnimond M. A. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland He was afterwards benificed in Dorsetshire Anth. Cade M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day He hath published A justification of the Church of England Lond. 1630. qu. and certain Sermons as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you Rob. Abbot M. A. of the same University was incororated the same day He was afterwards Vicar of Cranbrook in Kent a sider with the Presbyterians in the Rebellion which began in 1642 was Minister of Southwick in Hampshire and at length of S. Austin's Church in Watling street near S. Paul's Cath. in London where after he had been tumbled and tossed to and fro enjoyed himself quietly for some years in his old Age. He hath written and published several things among which are 1 Four Sermons c. Lond. 1639 oct dedicated to Walter Curle Bishop of Winchester to whom he had been Servant who then exhibited to his two Sons one at Oxon and another at Cambr. 2 Tryal of our Church for sakers c. on Heb. 10. 23. Lond. 1639 oct 3 Milk for Babes or a Mothers Catechism for her Children Lond. 1646. oct 4 Thâee Sermons printed with the former book 5 A Christian Family builded God or directions for Governours of Families Lond. 1653. oct At which time the Author was two years above the great climecterical year Other things he hath also published among which is Be thankful London and her Sisters Sermon on Psal 31. 21. Lond. 1626. qu. which for brevity sake I shall now omit Creations Jul. 14. The most noble John Kennedi a Knight of the illustrious Family of the Earls of Cashills in Ireland
was then actually created Master of Arts. An. Dom. 1608. An. 6 Jac. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Thomas Earl of Dorset but he dying the 19 Apr. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury succeeded in the Chancellourship on the 22 of the same month He was born at Farnworth in Lancashire in Sept. 1544 Son of Joh. Bancroft Gent. by Mary his Wife Daughter of Joh. Curwyn Brother to Dr. Hugh Curwyn Archb. of Dublin and after he had been severely trained up in Grammatical Learning he was first placed in Christs and soon after removed to Jesus Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards by the endeavours of his said Uncle Dr. Curwyn he became when young Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Dublin but the Uncle removing and dying soon after he was made Chaplain to Dr. Cox Bishop of Ely who gave him the Rectory of Teversham in the Country of Cambridge Being thus put into the road of preferment he was admitted Bach. of Div. 1580 and five years after Doctor About which time he put himself into the Service of Sir Christoph Hatton Lord Chancellour of England by whose recommendations he was made Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Mr. Joh. Wickham an 1592 from whence he had the easier passage to S. Pauls in London of which Cathedral he was Treasurer Vicechanc. Dr. King again Jul. 17. Proct. Edw. Vnderhyll of Magd. Coll. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. Apr. 6. Bach. of Musick Dec. 13. Will. Stonard Organist of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. He hath composed certain Divine Services and Anthems the words of one or more of which are published in the Collection of Divine Services and Anthems put out by Jam. Clifford an 1663. We have also some of his Compositions in our publick Musick School at Oxon sent by Walter Porter to his Kinsman Joh. Wilson Doct. of Musick and the publick Professor of the praxis of that Faculty in Oxon to be reposed and kept for ever in the Archives of the said School In the Organists place of Ch. Ch. succeeded Edward Low of Salisbury about 1630 who was afterwards publick Professor of the musical praxis in this University and Author of Short directions for the performance of Cathedral Service printed at Oxon in oct an 1661. The second Edition of which came out at the same place in 1664 with a review and many useful Additions relating to the Common Prayer by the same hand This Mr. Low who was judicious in his profession but not graduated therein died on the 11 of July 1682. whereupon his Body was buried at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. near to the Body of Alice his sometimes Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Peyton the younger of Dodington in the Isle of Ely Kt. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. 16. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. See among the Doct. of Div. an 1625. 20. Will. Lewis of Hart Hall afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. See among the Creations 1627. 31. Rich. Gove of Magd. Hall June 2. Gilb. Ironside of Tâin Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bristow James Martin of Broadgates was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1611. 6. Joh. Wall of Ch. Ch. Jul. 7. Edward Bagshaw of Brasn Coll. 9. Joh. Barlow of Hart Hall Oct. 14. Isaac Colf of Ch. Ch. Nov. 19. Gilb Stâakes of Hart Hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1646. Jan. 25. Sam. Smith Will. Greenhill Accepted Frewen of Magd. Coll. The last of which three was afterwards Archb. of York Feb. 16. Hen. Lord Clifford Baron of Skypton eldest Son of the Earl of Cumberland was then admitted Bach. of Arts as a Member of Ch. Ch. After this man's time studied in the same house Henây Clifford Son of Francis Earl of Cumberland who by the various Copies of Verses that he wrot but whether published I know not obtained the character of the best of Poets among the Nobility He was afterwards Earl of Cumberland and dying on the 11 of Decemb. 1643 was buried by his Ancestors in a Vault under the Church of Skâpton in Craven in Yorkshire Feb. 16. Nich. Guy of Hart Hall See among the Masters an 1611. 1â Rich. Eedes of Brasn Coll. One of both his names who was a Warwickshire man born and afterwards the Presbyterian Curat of the rich Church at Cleve in Glocestershire hath written Christ exalted and Wisdom justified or the Saints esteem of Jesus Christ as most precious handled c. Lond. 1659. oct besides one or more Sermons which he before had published Whether the same with him of Brasnose Quaere 17. Joh. Ball of S. Maries Hall lately of Brasn Coll. 20. Thom. Howell of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bristow 23. Will. Slatyer of Brasn Coll. As for Harrys Gove Ironside Wall Bagshaw Greenhil Frewen Howell and Slayer before mentioned will be large mention made of them in the second Volume of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 213 or thereabouts Mast of Arts May 1â Henr. Whistler of Trin. Coll. May 30. Sam. Fell Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Henr. Rogers of Jes June 2. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. 6. Sampson Price of Hart Hall afterwards of Exeter Coll. July 7. Gabriel Richardson of Brasn Mar. 18. Hen. Jackson of C. C. Coll. Admitted 98 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. June 1. Lionell Day Fellow of Balliol sometimes of Oriel Coll. was then admitted He was younger Brother to John Day mentioned among the Writers under the year 1627 was Rector of Whichford near to Brailes in Warwickshire and Author of Concio ad Clerum habita Oxonii die Martis post Comitia an dom 1609. in Luc. 22. 31. Oxon. 1632. qu. besides other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died in 1640 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Whichford before mention'd June 30. Joh. Davies of Lincoln sometimes a Student in Jesus College Jul. 7. Thom. Peacock of Brasn Coll. He was a Cheshire man born and Tutor to the famous Rob. Bolton the Author of whose Life doth much celebrate the said Peacock for his learning and great sanctity of life and conversation He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 7 Dec. 1611. 13. Joh. Sandsbury of S. Johns Coll. Besides these four were 24 more admitted among whom Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. was one and Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. another both Accumulators Doct. of Law Apr. 16. James Cook of New Coll. He was the only Doctor admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll. He had improv'd himself much in his Faculty in his Travels beyond the Seas which afterwards made him highly esteemed among learned men and others Will. Turner of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day He was a Londoner born and was Master of Arts of Cambridge in which degree being incorporated with us an 1602 entred himself into Balliol Coll. having before spent some years in foreign Academies in the study of Phys and as a
with excellent notes of a book entit Concilii Florentini exactissima narratio c. written by Sylvest Sguropulus Hag. com 1660 fol. dedicated to K. Ch. 2. which being animadverted upon by Leo Allatius a Jesuit Creyghton came out with an Answer He hath also one or more Sermons extant and dying 21 Nov. 1672 aged 79 or thereabouts was buried in a Chappel joyning to the Cathedral Church of Wells Over his Grave was soon after erected a fair tomb of Alabaster with his Effigies at length in his pontificalia lying thereon and on the wall over it is a large inscription part of which runs thus Robertus Creyghton c. Natus Dunecaledoniae in boriali Scotia per patrem Thoman ex antiquis Râveniae Toparchis per matrem Margaretam Stuart Johannis Jacobidae filiam ex illustriss familiâ Stuartorum comitum Atholiae Johannis secundi Scotiae regu à trarre pronepos c. Frances the Widow of this Dr. R. Creyghton who was Daughter of Will. Waldrond Esq died on the third of the Kal. of Nov. 1683 aged 68 and was buried near to the said tomb over whose grave was a monument with a large Inscription thereon put at the charge of Rob. Creyghton her Son Chauntor and Canon of Wells Doctor of Divinity Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and Author of The vanity of the Dissenters plea for their separation from the Church of England Sermon on 1 Cor. 1. 10. Lond. 1682. qu. Robert Sheringham M. of A. of Gonvil and Caies Coll. This learned Gentleman who was if I mistake not a Cambr. man born was ejected or at least left his Fellowship of that House in 1643 and afterwards retiring to London for a time went thence into Holland where he taught the Hebrew and Arabick Tongues to young men at Roterdam and in other places After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and lived in a very retired and studious condition being then esteemed a most excellent Linguist especially for the Oriental and Gothick Languages as also admirably well vers'd in the original Antiquities of the English Nation as it fully appears in his book De Anglorum gentis origine disceptatio c. Cantab. 1670 in a large octavo and in his translation from Hebrew into Latin with an illustration by Commentaries of a Talmude book called Joma wherein are several matters treating of Sacrifices Lond. 1648 in qu. He hath also published Two sermons preached as S. Maries Church in Cambridge Lond. 1647 qu. Also The Kings Supremacy asserted printed 1660 in qu. and other things He died of an apoplectical fit which caused him to fall on the fire in his Chamber in Caies College in the Winter time an 1677. Nich. Bernard M. of A. He was at this time Chaplain to the learned Dr. James Vsher Primate of Ireland from whom he had received his Ordination in S. Peters Church in Drogheda an 1626. Afterwards he was made by him Dean of Ardagh some say of Kilmore and intrusted in making useful Observations and Collections for him In the time of the Rebellion in Ireland he being then Doctor of Divinity he suffered much and was often in danger of his life At length having lost all there he returned safe into England to attend on his Lord became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire by the gift of the Earl of Bridgwater Chaplain to Oliver Lord Protector one of his Almoners and Preacher to the Society of Greys Inn. After the Kings Restauration in 1660 being possess'd with just doubts concerning the settlement of Ireland he refused to return to that Country to take possession of his Deanery and perhaps of a Bishoprick Whereupon he continued at Whitchurch before mention'd to his dying day He hath written 1 The penitent death of a woful sinner or the penitent death of John Atherton late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland who was executed at Dublin 5 Decemb. 1640 with some Annotations on several passages Lond. 1641 qu. 42 oct 2 Sermon preached at the burial of Joh. Atherton the next night after his Execution 5 Decemb. 1640 in S. Johns Church in Dublin on Acts 26. part of the 17 verse and all the 18. Lond. 1641 quart 42 octav 3 Letter from the siege of Drogheda to a friend in Dublin 7 Jan. 1641. 4 The whole proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda in Ireland Lond. 1642. qu. To which is added an Appendix concerning other occurrences fallen out since He was present all the time during the said siege and was several times in jeopardy of his life 5 Dialogue between Paul and Agrippa on Acts 26. 17 18. printed 1642. in oct 6 Farewel sermon of comfort and concord preached at Drogheda on 2 Cor. 13. 11. printed 1651 in octav There was another Farewel sermon preached but that I have not yet seen 7 Life and death of Dr. James Vsher late Archb. of Armagh c. in a sermon at his funeral at the Abbey at Westminster 17 Apr. 1656 on 1 Sam. 25. 1. Lond. 1656. oct To which are added some enlargements 8 The judgment of the late Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland concerning first the extent of Christs death secondly of the sabbath c. Lond. 1657. Whereupon Dr. Pet. Heylyn came out with an Answer to it called Respondet Petrus 9 Several Letters between him and Dr. Heylyn See more in Dr. Heylyn among the Writers in the 2 Vol. of this work under the year 1662. 10 Devotions of the antient Church in seven pious Prayers with 7 administ c. printed 1660 in oct 11 Clavi trabales or nailes fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies confirming the Kings Supremacy and Church Government under Bishops c. Lond. 1661. qu. See more in Dr. Rob. Sanderson among the Writers in the 2 vol an 1662. With other books he hath written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Whitchurch in the winter time an 1661. leaving behind him a Son named James Nathan Bernard M. of Arts. Among my searches I find one Nathaniel Bernard to be Lecturer of St. Sepulchers in London an 1629 who for uttering certain words in his prayer before Sermon at Antholines concerning the Queen was brought into the High Commission Court Also for preaching against his Majesties Declaration at St. Maries Church in Cambridge 6. May 1632 and using certain dangerous expressions therein was suspended excommunicated fined and committed to the New-prison near to London where he continued several months c. It doth farther appear also that one Nathaniel Bernard was beneficed in Essex but in the beginning of the grand rebellion in 1642 he was sequestred from his calling and charge there by several Committees sitting at Westminster banished from his dwelling and society of his Wife and Children and they turned out of doors c. Whereupon retiring for safety to Oxon published A looking-glass for rebellion Sermon preached 16. June 1644. in St. Maries Church
Albans Hall Dean of the Arches and a Knight and dying 13. Sept. 1672. was buried the 18. day of the same month in the Church of Barnelmes in Surrey July 4. Alexander Hyde Edward Mottershead of New Coll. Doct. of Phys July 4. Thomas Simpson of Ch. Ch. who accumulated the Degrees in Physick He was a learned Physician but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell Doct. of Div. June 2. Rob. Burhill of C. C. 21. Tho. Lushington of Pemb. 25. Sam. Seward of Linc. 30. Rowl Chedell of Jesus Coll. The two first of these were Writers and the last an Accumulator Incorporations Apr. 17. Joh. Macubie a Scot Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland Mayâ¦John Chamberlayne M. A. of Cambr. Octob⦠James Morecraft Bach. of Arts of St. Leonards Coll. in the said University of St. Andrew March 13. Sir Will. Fleetwood Knight controller of Woodstock Park in Oâfordshire Brother to Sir George Fleetwood a Baron of Sweeden was incorporated Mast of Arts as he had stood at Cambridge In the latter end of this year the day or month occurs not were incorporated Peter the Son of Rob. Salmon of Essex and John Kirton both Doctors of Physick of the University of Padua Of Peter Salmon I know nothing only that a Doctor of his Sirname died at London in Nov. 1675 whom I take to be the same with Dr. Rob. Salmon Author of Synopsis Medicinae c. and other things As for Kirton he spent most of his time afterwards in Italy assisted Sir Robert Dudley Duke of Northumberland to whom he was Physician in his Chimical operations and was living in Florence where he was much resorted to for his practice in June 1673 aged 70 years or more About the same time also in Jan. I think one Alexander Gross M. A. of Cambridge was incorporated and soon after took the Degree of Bach. of Div. Creations March 13. John Oxenstierne a noble Sweed Baron of Kemetso Lord of Fiholme and Tydoon being adorned with a scarlet gown and hood and presented in Convocation by the said Sir Will. Fleetwood was actually created Master of Arts with great observance and solemnity He was the Son of grave John Oxenstierne now Embassador to the King of England from his Father Axel Oxenstierne the grand Chancellour and General-director of the Sweedish affairs Gustavus Horne another noble Sweed Lord of Kamhas and Purkala being adorned with scarlet as the former was and presented by the said Sir Will. Fleetwood was actually created M. of A. in the same Convocation When the Vicechancellour was to admit these two Nobles he openly spake these words to the large auditory Gradum ambiunt Magistri in artibus duo nobiles juvenâs quorum alterius pater alterius patruus pro aris focis pro religione pro libertate denique totius Germaniae tanquam duo fulmina belâi in terrorem domus Austriae jamdiu emicuerunt They were very nobly treated while they continued here had rich gloves presented to them in the name of the University and testimonials of their Degree very fairly written and adorned with the seal of each put into a silver box An. Dom. 1633. An. 9. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Bishop of London who in Sept. this year became Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Br. Duppa again Jul. 23. Proct. Tho. White of C. C. Coll. Freeman Page of Ex. Coll. May 2. Bach. of Mus July 5. John Okever of New College Organist and Vicar choral of the Church of Wells He hath composed several Aires of 2 and three parts for the Violin and Viol which I think are extant He succeeded in the said Organists place one Rich. Browne an eminent Musician 16. Feb. 1619. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Paul Vicount Bayning of Ch. Ch. He was Son of Paul late Vicount Bayning of Sudbury and dying at Bentley-hall in Essex on the eleventh of June 1638 was a little Pamphlet soon after published intit Death repealed by a thankful memorial sent from Ch. Ch. in Oxon. celebrating the noble deserts of the right hon Paul late Vicount Bayning c. printed ât Oxon 1638. in qu. The chief Poets that had a hand in it were Will. Strode Orator of the University Will. Burton alias Democritus Junior Will. Cartwright Rich. West Rob. Meade H. Greisley John Fell Mart. Llewellin c. all Ch. Ch. Men. May 11. Joh. Priaulx of Magd. Hall afterwards of Merton College 14. Nich. Lockyer of New Inn. Hen. Glue of Ball. Coll. The last was afterwards a Minister changed his Religion for that of Rome was made Priest and known to some by the name of Peter Glue 16. Abrah Wright of St. Johns Coll. 28. Thom. Gilbert of St. Edm. Oct. 24. Nath. Newbury of Magd. Hall Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1636. Nov. 19. Andrew Dominick of Trinity afterwards of Pembroke Coll. See more among the Creations of Doctors of Divinity an 1661. Jan. 14. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. Feb. 4. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. See among the Creations of Doctors of Law an 1642. 11. John Bishop of Hart hall See among the Masters 1635. All which Bachelaurs except Bayning Glue Newbury and Bishop will be mention'd elsewhere Adm. 243. or thereabouts Bach. of Law June 25. John Blencow of St. Johns Coll. This Person who had been elected Scholar of the said Coll. from Merchant Taylors School did afterwards publish St. Michaels combate with the Devil Serm. on the 9. verse of St. Judes Epistle Lond. 1640. qu. and perhaps other things Besides him were admitted eight Bachelaurs of the same faculty among whom was Will. Stone of St. Edm. Hall afterwards Principal of New Inn and a most excellent Preacher and Canonist but not to be understood to be the same Will. Stone who was Author of The institution of the Passover pr. 1622 and of one or more Sermons Mast of Arts. May 9. Geor. Kendall of Ex. Edm. Gayton of St. Joh. Coll. 14. Henry Jeanes Will. Durham of New Inn. Jun. 27. Thomas Barlow Gerard Langbaine of Qu. Coll. July 1. Franc. Cheynell of Mert. 3. Joshua Tooker of Exet. Coll. The last became Archdeacon of Barnstaple about 1663. 4. Joh. Hulett of New Inn. Tho. Horne of Magd. Hall Oct. 23. Nich. Monke of Wadh. 24. William Stampe of Pemb. Dec. 17. Thom. Widdowes of Magd. Jan. 17. George Hall of Exet. Coll. Adm. 196. or thereabouts Bach. of Phys Six were admitted this year of whom Charles Bostock of Ch. Ch. was the first but whether any of them were writers I find not On the 3. March Tho. Trapham was licensed to practice chirurgery and accordingly did practise that Art in these parts for some time See more among the Bachelaurs of Physick an 1649. Bach. of Div. Apr. 3. Rich. Washington of Vniv. Coll. He became the eighth Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin in Ireland upon the resignation of Will. Chappell on the first of Aug. 1640. After the rebellion broke out in that Country he retired
to Oxon again and was readmitted to his Fellowship of Vniv. Coll. by the Master and Fellows thereof an 1644 submitted to the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 and was the only Man of the old stock that was then left therein Afterwards going to London for a time died in Fetter alias Feuter lane near to Fleetstreet an 1651. in the Summer time whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstans Church in the West Apr. 13. James Smith of Line June 17. Nath. Holmes of Exet. Coll. July 3. Tho. Twittie of Oriel Coll. This Person who was a Ministers Son of Worcestersh became a Student of the said Coll. of Or. an 1611. aged 17 years and after he had taken the Degrees in Arts became successively Schoolmaster of Evesham in his own Country Minister of St. Laurence Church there Vicar of North Leigh in Oxfordshire beneficed afterwards again in his own Country and at length became Minister of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey He hath published 1 Ad clerum pro forma concio habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon 13. Mar. 1634 in 1. Pet. 3. 8. Ox. 1640. qu. 2 The Art of Salvation Sermon at St. Maries in Oxon on Acts 6. 30. 31. Printed 1643. qu. He died at Kingston beforemention'd in the latter end of the year 1667 and was there buried July 10. George Hughes of Pembr Nov. 7. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll. 9. Joh. Sedgwick of Magd. Hall Jan. 28. Hen. Hammond of Magd. Coll. Admitted 24. Doct. of Law Jun. 3. Will. Nevill of Mârt Coll. Tho. Temple of St. Edm. Hall The first of these two was Chancellour of Chichester and both the Sons of Knights 27. Joseph Martin of Wadham Coll. Doct. of Physick Jun. 21. Edw. Dawson of Line Anton. Saltâr of Exet. Coll. Both which were eminent Physicians of their time and age Doct. of Div. Apr. 3. Hen. Glemham of Trin. 13. Peter Heylyn of Magd. Juneâ¦Rich Downe of Ex. Coll. July 16. Rich. Baylie President of St. Johns Coll. On the 7. of Feb. 1627. this Dr. Baylie who was then Bach. of Div. and one of the Kings Chaplains as also a Dignitary in the Church of St. David was collated to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham upon the promotion of Dr. Jos Hall to the See of Exeter Which Dignity he resigning was succeeded by Dr. Will. Robinson Brother by the Mothers side to Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. who was installed therein 25. of May 1635 At which time Dr. Baylie was Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edm. Mason whom I shall anon mention in the Incorporation He died in a good old age at Salisbury after he had suffer'd much for his loyalty to K. Ch. 1. on the 27. of July 1667 and was buried at the upper end of St. Johns Coll. Chap. on the right side of the grave of Dr. Will. Juxon somtimes Archb. of Cant. In the year 1662 he built a little Chappel at his own charge and not at that of St. Joh. Coll. as by a mistake is elsewhere told you situat and being on the North side of the said Chappel of St. Johns with a vault underneath In which Chappel was soon after his death a stately Monument erected with the Effigies of him the said Dr. Baylie lying thereon curiously engraven in alabaster from head to foot and much resembling him in his last days One Richard Baylie sometimes Minister of Crawley in Sussex wrot The Shepheards star or Ministers guide Conc. ad Cler. in Apoc. 1. 16. Lond. 1640. qu. At which time the Author as it seems was dead But where he was educated being quite different from the former I know not July 16. Thomas Lawrence of All 's Pet. Wentworth of Ball. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Master of Balliol College and Margaret Professor of this University The other who was an Esquires Son of Northamptonshire and Fellow of the said College of Balliol was afterwards made Dean of Armagh by Tho. Earl of Strafford Lord Deputy of Ireland But when the rebellion broke out in that Kingdom he lost all and fled into England where living obscurely till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. refused to return to his Deanery or be made a Bishop there and accepted only of the rectory of Haseley in Oxfordshire He died in the City of Bathe 22. July 1661. aged 60 years and was buried in the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the north side of the stately tomb of Dr. James Mountague sometimes Bishop of the said City In his Epitaph engraven on a brass plate fastned to a plain white stone laying over his grave he is thus charactarized Patriciorum proles doctrinae maritus Summus Hyberniae Decanus Angliae Praeconum Primas c. One Peter Wentworth who was Rector of Much Bromley in Essex and Chaplain to Thomas Lord Darcie hath published A Sermon on Psal 2. 10. 11. Lond. 1587. in oct and is the same if I mistake not who wrot An exhortation to Qu. Elizabeth and discourse of the true and lawful successor printed in 1598. oct But whether he was of this University I cannot yet find or whether he took any Degree or was incorporated July 19. John Elly of Merton Coll. who accumulated In 1623. he was made Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thomas Oates deceased 20. Thom. Walker Master of Vniv. Coll. and Preâ of Litton in the Church of Wells Oct. 7. Arth. Wingham of St. Joh. Feb. 27. Hugh Williams of Jes Coll. This Dr. Williams who was Father to Sir Will. Williams of Greys Inn Baronet and several times Speaker of the House of Commons was now or afterwards beneficed at Kantrisant in the Country of Anglesie where he died in 1670. Incorporations May 9. Jam. Howson M. of A. of Cambridge Oct. 24 Will. Hatton Doctor of Physick of the University of Padua Sam. Bispham a Lancashire Man born and Doct. of Phys of the University of Leyden in Holland was incorporated about the same time Afterwards he practised his faculty in London where he died in 1664. Feb. 6. David Cunningham M. of A. of the Univ. of Glascow in Scotland He had lately received holy orders from James Spotswood Bishop of Clogher in the Church of Clogher in Ireland This year was a supplicate made for one Edmund Mason D. of D. to be incorporated but whether he was really so it appears not All that I can say of him is that he was Tutor to Prince Charles that he became Dean of Salisbury 20. March 1629 on the promotion of Dr. John Bowle or Bowles to the See of Rochester and dying in his house in Petty-France in the City of Westminster on the 24. of March 1634 was buried in the North cross part of the Abbey Church of St. Peter near to the Convocation House Creations Apr. 1. Thomas Turner Bachelaur of Divinity lately Fellow of St. Johns Coll. and now one of his Majesties Chaplains was actually created Doct. of Divinity being by his Majesties command to go with him in
Bishop Mast of Arts. Jun. 25. Nathaniel Newbury of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Minister of Ludenham in Kent and published The Yeomans Prerogative Serm. on 2 Chron. chap. 26. ver 10. Lond. 1652. quarto 30. Charles Gataker or Gatacre of Pemb. Coll. lately of the University of Cambridge Jul. 5. Randall Sanderson of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Westmorland man born Fellow of the said Coll. and afterwards Rector of Weyhill in Hampshire and for many years Prebendary of Salisbury hath written and published An explication of the following direction for the reading of the Bible over in a year Also An explanation to the necessary use and practice thereof Both printed in one sheet of paper in qu. He died at Weyhill and was buried there about 1680. July 7. Charles Hoole of Linc. Thom. Hunt of Pembr Coll. 8. Edw. Gee of Brasn Jan. 24. Hen. Hall of Linc. Mar. 3. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. Adm. 136. Bach. of Phys Jun. 30. Christop Merret of Glouc. Hall Besides him were seven more admitted of whom Nath. Chamberlaine of Pembr Coll. was one which is all I know of him Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. Jun. 25. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards B. of Hereford and is this year 1690 living Jul. 8. Edw. Pocock of C. C. 23. Tim. Woodroff of Ball. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter Coll. Adm. 18. Doct. of Law May 31. Sam. Gardiner of New Coll. was admitted being then accounted a learned Civilian Doct. of Phys Jul. 7. Valentine Broadbent of Magd. Coll. 15. Sim. Owen of Hart Hall who accumulated the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. Nov. 18. Thom. Godwin of Magd. Mar. 9. Alexander Gill of Trin. Coll. Incorporations March 26. Assuerus Regimorterus Londino-Anglus Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland was incorporated Doctor of the same faculty This person who was educated in School learning under the famous Tho. Farnabie hath extant Disputatio publica de febribus intermittentibus Lugd. Bat. 1635. qu. had a hand in a treatise De Rachitide c. Lond. 1650. oct and hath written as I have been informed by one or more Doctors of his Faculty Principia medicinae He lived and practised in Limestreet in London during the Reign of Oliver One of both his names lived at Northâreake in Norfolk and died in 1671 who perhaps was Son of the said Dr. Regimorter Qu. Aug. 31. Walt. Curle Bish of Winchester Math. Wren Bish of Norwich D. D. of Cambr. Of these two I have made mention at large before CREATIONS Aug. 13. Robert Skinner Bishop elect of Bristow lately Fellow of Trin. Coll. and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Ch. 1. was diplomated or actually created D. of D. by a Diploma then dated under the Seal of the University The King Queen and their respective Courts having been entertained this year by the University on the 29 and 30 of August it was his Majesties pleasure upon his leaving the University which was the 31 of the same month that there should be a Creation in several faculties Whereupon the names of those that made sute to be actually created being given into the hands of the Chancellour by one of the Secretaries of State was a Convocation celebrated on the same day in the Afternoon wherein were actually created two Bachelaurs of Arts two Bach. of Law five and forty Masters of Arts ten Bachelaurs of Divinity three Doctors of the Civ Law three Doctors of Physick and one and twenty Doctors of Divinity The names of some who were so created are these Bach. of Arts. Frederick Sagittarie a German of Queens Coll. Son of Fred. Sag. of Heregord in the Palatinat He was afterwards a created Doct. of Phys of this University and practised his faculty in Dorsetshire John Kingsmyll of Trin. Coll. Son of Sir Hen. Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire Knight Mast of Arts. Prince Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Duke of Bavaria second Son of Frederick Prince Elector of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of James 1. King of England was the first person that was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards an heroick General under his Uncle K. Ch. 1. when the Civil Wars began in England an 1642 a Knight of the Garter Earl of Holderness and Duke of Cumberland He gave way to fate after he had performed great Exploits at Sea against the Dutch 29 Nov. 1682 aged 63 or thereabouts and was buried in a Vault on the south side of the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster leaving then behind him a natural Son usually called Dudley Rupert begotten on the body of one of the Daughters of Hen. Bard Vicount Bellomont which Dudley stiled in Prince Ruperts last Will and Test Dudley Bard was educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School being then a modest and meek-temper'd Youth as was by all there observed But he being not much made for Learning he was bred to Arms I think under Sir Jonas Moor at the Tower and after the Prince's death went into the Palatinate to look after a Legacy and a great House left him there and in Germany and was as 't is said kindly received by the Prince Palatine Soon after going to the Siege of Buda he was kill'd in a desperate Attempt made by some English Gentlemen there upon a breach made in the Walls or Fortifications of that City in July or Aug. 1686. At which time his signal Valour being expressed tho scarce twenty years of age his loss was much lamented Pr. Rupert had also a natural Daughter commonly called The Lady Ruperta begotten as I have been informed at the Office of Arms on the body of one Mrs. Margaret Hewes James Steuart Duke of Lenox in Scotland afterwards of Richmond in England sometimes a Student in Trin Coll. in Cambridge He was slain in the Battel at Keinton commonly called Edghill fight 23 Oct. 1642 and was buried at the upper end of Ch. Ch. Choire in Oxon. Will. Seymour Earl of Hertford He was afterwards Duke of Somerset See more among the Bachelaurs of Arts under the year 1607. Rob. D'evreux Earl of Essex who in the year 1605 had been created M. of A. was now actually created again He was afterwards made Lieutenant General of his Majesties Army when he went his Expedition against the Scots an 1639 Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold and soon after such was the mutability of the man Captain Ceneral of the Army raised by the Parliament against the King He hath Several letters extant written to the Speaker and Parliament during the time that he bore that Office He died 14 Sept. 1646 and was buried in S. Pauls Chappel northward of the Capella Regum in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Thomas Howard Earl of Berks. He afterwards suffer'd much for the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and dying 16 July 1669 was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westm Thom. Bruce Earl of Elgin in
and afterwards to K. Ch. 1. was installed Dean of Glocester after Dr. Tho. Winniff's removal to the Deanery of St. Pauls on the eleventh of June 1631 and on the 25. of Aug. or thereabouts following became Dean of Wells on the death of Ralph Barlow He hath published King Melchizedek Serm. at Court at East-hamstead 2. Sept. 1623. Lond. 1623. qu. and whether any thing else I cannot yet tell In 1640 he went to London to attend the Convocation of the Clergy that began with the Long Parliament and dying in Drury-lane in the month of Dec. or thereabouts an 1641 was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Walt. Rawleigh James Hena or Hannay a Scot. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. He was admitted to the Deanery of Wells 13. January 1641. Edw. Burby of Linc. Coll. He was now Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was before enjoyed by Ranulph Barlow D. D. of Cambridge George Gillingham of Pemb. Coll. He was at this time one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 2. Nov. 1639 was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Elly deceased He had other preferments and died 16. Dec. 1668 being then Rector of Chalton in Hampshire Daniel Escott Warden of Wadham Coll. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Morgan Owen of Jes Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne and the last Bishop of Landaff Samuel Marsh of Trin. Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University and at this time Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Sarum Steph. Goffe or Gough of St. Albans Hall lately of Mert. Coll. This Person who was Son of Steph. Goffe the puritanical Minister of Stanmer in Sussex travelled into the Low-countries after he had taken his Masters Degree and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Col. H. Vere whereby he gained good acquaintance and experience which wound him at his return so much into the favour of Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of St. Alban that he was made one of the Kings Chaplains by which title he was created Doctor of Divinity and afterwards employed in the quality of a minor Agent and Envoy into France then into Flanders Holland and other Countries c. In the time of the rebellion he also acted much for his Master in several Countries beyond the Seas and did him great Service but when he saw the English Church ruin'd and Monarchy declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and was thereupon taken into the society of the Oratorians at Paris an order very famous there tho but little known among us The brethren whereof having liberty to improve their particular estates for things are not common among them as with other orders he grew rich upon the stock which he had formerly gathered together by his endeavours whereby he was in capacity sometimes to do courtesies for his exil'd Countrymen Abrah Cowley the Prince of Poets was while at Paris preferr'd and plac'd by him tho the story is perverted in the Family of the said noble Henry then Lord Jermyn Through whose heroical bounty he was afterwards design'd to the Mastership of the Savoy but by certain enemies to the Muses was depriv'd of it Afterwards Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother to whom Goffe was Chaplain committed to the said Goffs care the tuition of the natural Son of K. Ch. 2. known then by the name of James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth with whom continuing till he was about nine years of age was taken from him and committed to the care of a Gentleman called Rose or Rosse who after his Majesties restauration went Secretary to Henry Coventry Esq in his Embassy into Sweeden This Doctor Goffe who was esteemed by some a learned Man and well read in the Fathers and therefore respected by Gerard Jo. Vossius and others died in the house of the Fathers or Brethren of the Oratory situated in the street called St. Howrè at Paris on Christmas day according to our account an 1681. aged 76 or thereabouts and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that house What writings of his are published besides Nine Latin Epistles to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius and his Negotiations taken by the Rebels at the battel at Sherburne in Yorkshire which with George Lord Digby's Cabinet and other things were published at Lond. in qu. 1646. I know not He had a younger Brother named John Goffe who was a true Son of the Church of England as I shall tell you among the Writers under the year 1661. and another called William originally a Salter or a Hatter as some day in London who closing with the Presbyterians in the time of the Rebellion became a Colonel great with Oliv. Cromwell one of the Judges of King Char. 1. and a member of the other house that is one of Olivers Lords See more in the Fasti an 1649. among the Creations Rich. Marsh of the University of Cambridge lately Chaplain to Archb. Laud afterwards to his Maj. Ch. 1. He was now Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York and soon after Vicar of Halyfax in the room of Hen. Ramsden deceased In Nov. 1644. he had the Deanery of York conferr'd upon him on the death of Dr. Job Scot who died in the Kings bench Prison in Southwark At which time his Majesty being at Oxon Dr. Pet. Heylyn endeavoured by his friends to obtain that Dignity but was put aside After his Majesties restauration he was elected 17. of Aug. and installed 20. of the same month an 1660. and dying 13. Oct. 1663. aged 78 was buried near to the grave of Matthew Hutton sometimes Archbishop of York in the South Isle joyning to the Cath. Church there In his Deanery succeeded Will. Sandcroft D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26. Feb. 1663 who being removed to the Deanery of St. Pauls Cathedral in London Dr. Rob. Hitch of the same University succeeded in Dec. 1664. Dr. Marsh hath one or more Sermons extant Edw. Morton lately M. of A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge now Rector of Sefton in Lancashire Chaplain to the Lord Keeper and Prebendary of Chester He was born of an antient Family at Morton in Cheshire and was Father to Dr. Will. Moreton Bishop of Kildare in Ireland Samps Johnson of Magd. Coll. Thomas Whittington Thomas Manwaring of Brasn Coll. Meric Casaubon Edw. Thornborough of Ch. Ch. The last of these two was Son of Dr. Jo. Thornborough Bishop of Worcester was now Archdeacon of Worcester who dying in 1645 Will. Hodges Bach. of Div. of Oxon was admitted in his place 30. of May the same year Mich. Reade of Linc. Will. Haywood of St. Jo. Coll. Laur. Pay of Ch. Ch. These were all the Doctors of Divinity that were then created Afterwards these noble Persons were created in Oct. following Oct. 14. The most illustrious and high born Prince Christianus Landtgrave of Hassia Count in Catzenellebogen Dieza Ziegenhain and Nidda was diplomated Master of Arts. The most illustrious and high born Prince
Ernestus Brother of Christianus beforemention'd Landtgrave of Hassia and Count in the same Countries was dipl. M. of A. the same day The most noble and valiant Winandus à Polhelme Lord in Rozenhall Counsellour to the illustrious Prince of Hassia and Prefect of the Hall was also dipl. M. A. the same day Charles Lodowick Count Palatine of the Rhyne Prince Elector of the Empire c. the eldest Son of Frederick K. of Bohemia did with his own hand matriculate himself a member of this University 30. Aug. 1636. being then entertained by the Heads thereof with his Uncle K. Ch. 1. At the same time Pr. Rupert and several of the English Nobility were also then matriculated Dr. Laud in his Diary saith that the said Ch. Lodowick was then with his younger Brother Rupert actually created M. of Arts yet no such thing appears in the publick register or in any other record of the University An. Dom. 1637. An. 13. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Rich. Baylie again July 29. Proct. Dan. Lawford of Oriel Coll. Job Gilsson of Trin. Coll. Apr. 19. Bach. of Arts. May 13. Joh. Riland of Magd. Oct. 19. Sam. Bolton of Line Coll. Of the last you may see more among the created Doctors of Div. an 1661. Oct. 19. John French of New Inn. Tho. Weaver of Ch. Church 24. Marchamont Nedham of All 's Coll. Will. Harvey of Glouc. Hall One of both the names of the last Will. Harvey who took no higher Degree in this University hath several Sermons and other things extant And one Will. Harvey who writes himself M. of A. and late Vicar of Odyham in Hampshire hath written A treatise concerning the baptizing of Infants c. Lond. 1647. in one sh or more Whether either of these two be the same with him of Gloc. Hall I cannot tell except I could see all the Sermons and other things that have been published under the name of Will. Harvey Dec 15. Sam. Fisher of Magd. Coll. One of both his names who hath been mention'd in these Fasti an 1627. and 1630 is to be hereafter mention'd at large in another vol. And this whom I take to be afterwards a Covenanteer and a Writer is to obtain a place also therein or elsewhere Jan. 18. Philip Taverner of Ex. 27. Rob. Dingâey of Magd. Coll. Feb. 3. Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Author of Totum hominis or the whole duty of Man Serm. on Prov. 24. 21. Printed 1662. qu. and perhaps of other things which is all I know of him only that he was a Staffordshire Man born Mar. 2. Joseph Sedgwick of Magd. Hall He was afterwards M. of A. and Fellow of Christs Coll. in Cambridge All which except Harvey and Fowler will be largely mention'd elsewhere Admitted 195. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Seven only were admitted of which John Nourse of Magd. Coll. was the Senior Apr. 1. but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Abrah Wright of St. Johns Coll. 26. Rob. Waryng of Ch. Ch. Jun. 15. John Grayle Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall July 13. Edward Greaves of All 's Coll. The time when he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts occurs not Sept. 9. Hen. Gregory of Ch. Ch. This Person who was admitted in Convocation the Vice-chancellour made then this honourable mention of him in his supplicate thus Supplicat vobis rei quamplurime juvenis Henr. Gregory Art Bac. ex Aed Christi ripâ hà c ad pedes viri Gamaliele politioris enutritus in cyclo literaturae sicut in legibus ille instructissimi cujus sub auspiciis juvenis hic Duci Eboracensi à primis literis imbibendis adest ut cum tanto Domino matrique Academiae vacare non possit veniam etiam ab honoratiss Cancellario à Collegiorum Aularum Praefectis impetravit singulari hujus domus dignatione ad gradum magistri in artibus promoveatur c. This Hen. Gregory who was younger Brother to John Gregory the Critick and both the Sons of John Gregory of Amersam in Bucks was admitted necessary Regent on the 7. of Oct. following and became afterwards eminent for his learning Oct. 19. John Fountaine of C. C. Coll. This Person who was Son of Will. Fountaine of Seabroke in Bucks and originally of Linc. Coll. was about this time a Barrester in one of the Inns of Court his time going on there as in the University stood afterwards a Neuter at Lond. when the predominant Party in the Parliament House were raising a Rebellion Afterwards he receeded to Oxon. and shew'd himself a great Royalist but when he saw that the Kings cause declined he came in to Rainsborough a Colonel on the Parliament side in Apr. 1646 and afterwards retiring to London struck in with the Usurpers and was by Oliver made Serjeant at Law in Nov. 1656. In Jan. 1659 he with Sir Tho. Widdrington and Serj. Tyrrell were made Commissioners of the great Seal and after his Majesties restauration he was made Serjeant at Law again 1660. This is the Person who was commonly called Turn-coat Fountaine Author of a certain Letter or discourse mention'd among the Writers in Rich. Steuart under the year 1651. He died in the Parish of St. Clements Danes within the liberty of Westminster in May or June 1671. Feb. 21. Nathaniel Heighmore of Trin. Coll. Adm. 110. or thereabouts â Not one Bach. of Physick was admitted this year Bach. of Div. June 12. Thomas Browne of Ch. Ch. July 6. Rob. Crosse of Linc. Elias Wrench of Co. Ch. Coll. 13. Nich. Simpson The last you may find mention'd among the Doctors of Divin in these Fasti an 1608. Nov. 8. Hen. Savage of Ball. Dec. 15. Rich. Chalfont of Linc. Coll. The last of these two hath published A Sermon at a publick fast before the House of Commons at Oxon 10. May 1644 on Jerem. 44. 10. Oxon. 1644. qu. Which is all I think that goes under his name Admitted 19. Doct. of Law June 30. Justinian Lewyn of Pembr Coll. He was afterwards Judge-martial of the Army under Thomas Earl of Arundell in the Scotch expedition 1639 and after that one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and a Knight He was Son of Will. Lewyn of London and Nephew to Sir Justinian mentioned among the Incorporations an 1582. July 10. John Worsley of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys July 7. George Bate of St. Edm. Hall A most celebrated Physician of his time Doct. of Div. June 23. Rob. Rainsford of Wadh. 28. Nathaniel Holmes of Exet. Coll. July 4. Matthew Bemet of St. Maries 6. Adam Ayray Principal of St. Edm. Hall 8. Nathaniel Goulson of Trin. Nov. 22. Hen. Rogers of Jes Coll. Incorporations July 10. Thom. Browne lately M. of A. of Pemb. Coll. now Doct. of Phys of the University of Leyden in Holland was then incorporated Doctor of that faculty Nov. 4. Michael Boyle Master of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin
possession thereof being the first of all Loyal Heads that was restored to what they had lost in this University Soon after he was by his Majesties favour nominated Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Rich. Holdsworth who died 1649 in which Dignity being installed 12 Sept. 1660 kept it to the time of his death which hapning 27 Oct. 1661 was buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel This most learned meek and pious person was strangely desirous to leave this World tho few alive had then such temptations to stay in it That little which he had got since his Majesties return he gave to pious uses either to the poor or reparation of Churches viz. S. Pauls Winchester of which he was Prebendary Worcester and to his Coll. To which last his two immediate Predecessors Wilkinson and Goodwin who were thrust in by the Parliament and Oliver for their Saintship and zeal to the blessed Cause gave not a farthing but rak'd and scrap'd up all that they could get thence as the rest of the Saints then did in the University Dr. Oliver left also a Legacy seal'd up in a paper to Sir Edw. Hyde then Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chanc. of England sometimes his Pupil while he was in the University for upon his motion it was that he was made Dean of Worcester and Legacies to his Nephews Neece who had been kind to him in his wants and Servants There was some affinity between him and Tho. Oliver an eminent Physitian and Mathematician educated as I conceive in Cambridge a practitioner of his Faculty at S. Edmunds Bury where he died and was buried in 1624. The Titles of his Works you may see in the Oxford Catalogue May 9. Thom. Wykes of S. Joh. 17. Aaron Wilson of Queens Coll. The last was now Archdeacon of Exeter in which Dignity he was succeeded by Edw. Yonge D. D. who occurs Archdeacon 1660. Jun. 25. Bruno Ryves of Magd. Coll. Jul. 2. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. 4. Nich. Gibbon of S. Edm. Hall Hall That last of which accumulated 5. Walt. Clark of Magd. Nov. 29. Will. Hobbs of Trin. Coll. Incorporations June 13. Will. Mostyn M. of A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. One of both his names occurs Archdeacon of Bangoâ in 1640. and whether he succeeded in that Dignity Edw. Hughes D. D. Rector of Woughton in Bucks who died in Oct. 1633 I cannot yet tell Rob. Lesley a noble young man of great hopes Son of Henry Bishop of Downe and Connor and M. of A. of Aberdene in Scotland was incorporated the same day The degree of Bach. of Arts was confer'd upon him in the University of Dublin 23 March 1636 and that of Master at Aberdene 16 July 1638. Jul. 2. Rob. Price Doct. of the Laws of Dublin He was afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland 9. Edward Lane M. of A. of Cambridge This person who was educated in Pauls School and afterwards in S. Johns Coll. in the said University became Vicar of Northstrobury in Essex by the favour of the Lord Keeper Coventry 1630 and was thence removed by the same hand to the Vicaridge of Spersholt near to Rumsey in Hampshire He hath written Look unto Jesus or an ascent to the holy mount to see Jesus Christ in his glory c. Lond. 1663. qu. and Mercy triumphant the Kingdom of Christ enlarged beyond the narrow bounds which have been put to it by Dr. Lewis du Moulin in his most antichristian book called Moral reflections on the number of the elect c. Lond. 1680. qu. In which year the Author Ed. Lane was living at Spersholt The said Book was reprinted in the year following with this title Du Moulin's reflections reverberated being a full answer to a pamphlet entit Moral Reflections on the number of the elect together with several arguments about Transubstantiation not in any Author yet To which is added An answer to Mr. Edm. Hickeringil's scurrilous piece stiled The second part of naked truth Will. Gorton Bach. of Div. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated the same day He was now Vicar of Lower Gitting in Glocestershire Jul⦠Thom. Mocket Mast of Arts of Cambridge He was educated in Queens Coll. in that University was about this time Minister of Holt in Denbighshire and afterwards of Gildeston or Gildesden in Hertfordshire He hath published certain Sermons and Christmas the Christians grand feast its original growth and observation Also of Easter Whitsontide c. Lond. 1651. qu. besides other things Jul⦠Edm. Calamy Bach. of Div. of Cambridge After he had left that University he became a Preacher in S. Edmundsbury in Suffolk where as a certain Anonymus observes he complyed with Bishop Wren the Diocesan preach'd frequently in his surplice and hood read prayers at the rails bowed at the name of Jesus and undertook to satisfie and reduce such as scrupled at those ceremonies Thus the said nameless Author yet Calamy himself saith that while he continued there he never bowed to or towards the Altar never read the book of sports never read prayers at the high Altar and that he preached against Innovations c. But so it was let he himself say what he will that after he had continued 10 years at that place and had complyed as is before mention'd Robert the puritanical Earl of Warwick usually said He would be lost if he were not taken off and so removed him to Rochford in Essex where continuing till the Long Parliament began in Nov. 1640 removed thence to London and became Minister of S. Mary Aldermanbury About which time the Presbyterian growing dominant he became a great Evangelist of the new way encouraged the people to Rebellion was one of those that joyned in making Smectymnus which was the first deadly blow in England given to Episcopacy as divers thought that had hapned for many years before His house also in that Parish was a receptacle then for all Presbyterian Ministers and there was the Remonstrance framed against the Prelates and all or most things hatched to carry on the blessed and beloved Cause At that time he was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament and he was the first that did openly defend before a Committee of Parliament that our Bishops were not only not an order distinct from Presbyters but that in Scripture a Bishop and a Presbyter were all one Afterwards he was made one of the Assembly of Divines took the Covenant to which he closely stuck ever after and was not wanting on all occasions to carry on the Cause whereby he gained to himself not only a name and repute among the Brethren but also wealth which was the chief thing he looked after After his Majesties Return in 1660 there were âome offers in private made to him of a Bishoprick conditionally that he would conform but made delays thinking to enjoy that honorable Function as to be alter'd by the Kings Declaration about ecclesiastical affairs and to be used according
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.
tuas Novit eloquii Phaenix utriusque Melancthon Quam te Phaebus amet pieriusque chorus Parga tuas cecinit cecinitque Lutetia Laudes Urbs ergo doctos officiosa viros Talia cum constent c. In the Year 1540. 32. Hen. 8. I find that he was living at Carleon in his native Country where I think he taught School and the same Year to publish Commentaries on Will Lily's construction of the eight parts of Speech Besides which he had before in the said Year translated from Greek into Latin Marcus Eremita de Lege Spiritu and from Lat. into English The paraphrase of St. Paul's Epistle to Titus written by Erasmus Roterod. with whom he was well acquainted Baleus tells us that the said Cox was from his Youth instructed in all liberal arts that he was a Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Divine and a Preacher of God's word Also that he had written against those who in his time wrot of Justification by works and that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and forty All which works besides Verses of divers kinds and Epistles were by him written before the end of that Year as also Latin Verses occasionally set before Books that were published particularly before John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement an 1530. He was living in the Reign of Ed. 6. but when or where he died I cannot yet tell He left behind him a Son named Francis Cox who proceeded D. of D. as a Member of New Coll. in the Year 1594 and he a Son named William who was a Divine of Chichester in Sussex THOMAS WYATT the delight of the Muses and of Mankind Son of Henr. Wyatt of Allington Castle in Kent Knight and Banneret by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Skinner of Surrey was born of an ancient and gentile Family in the said County of Kent sent to Cambridge to be initiated in Academical Learning transplanted thence to Oxon purposely to advance himselfe in knowledge by the hearing of the Cardinals Lectures then lately settled there but whether he took a Degree with us or at Cambridge I find not as yet Afterwards he being sent to travel he return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and was esteemed by all those that knew him to be a Person adorn'd with the endowments as well of body and mind as of fortune By the dayly and unwearied practice of the two former while he was in his travels and after his return he became not only well skill'd in military matters but also in several Arts and Tongues And as esteemed strong and valiant in body so powerful in mind and counsel At length he with Hen. Haward or Howard Earl of Surrey who also had travel'd into Italy and there tasted the sweet and stately measures and style of the Italian Poesie being esteemed to be the first refiners of the English Tongue Wyatt was introduced into the Court was beloved of K. Hen. 8. who honored him with the Degree of Knighthood and sent him in several Embassies beyond the Seas which he very prudently performed with great trust to the honor of his Master But that which is here to be in a special manner marked was his admirable skill in Poetry which in his first Years of reason he expressed in several amorous Songs and Poems With which as also his witty jests the King himself being in an high manner delighted they were so much admired by the Men of that and the next Age tho I persume they are now lost that some have not stuck to report that as Mecaenas Ovid Tibullus c. have been among the Latins most famous for Elegie So Sir Tho. Wyatt the elder Henry Haward Earl of Surrey Sir Franc. Brian of the Privy Chamber to K. Hen. 8. and a Traveller in 1528 Sir Phil. Sydney George Gascoigne Esq c. have among the English been most passionate to bemoan the perplexities of Love For his translation also of David's Psalms into English meeter and other of his Poetry Leland the Antiquarian Poet forbears not to compare him to Dant and Petrarch thus Bellum suo merrito c. translated by another hand as followeth Let Florence fair her Dante 's justly boast And royal Rome her Petrarchs numbred feet In English Wyatt both of them doth coast In whom all grateful eloquence doth meet In his younger Years as I have told youbefore he composed Several Songs and Poems Many of which are in the Songs and Sonnets of Hen. Haward Earl of Surrey Son of that victorious Prince the Duke of Norfolk and Father of that learned Howard sometimes his most lively Image Henry Earl of Northampton Which incomparable Earl of Surrey who entirely loved our Author Sir Tho. Wyatt hath among other things translated Virgils Aeneids the first and second Book whereof he hath admirably rendred almost line for line Sir Th. Wyatt also in his elder Years translated into English meeter 1 The penitential Psalms in one Book 2 The whole Psaltery of David in praise of which last is an Encomium in the Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey before-mention'd At length our Author Wyatt being sent by the King towards Falmouth in Cornwall to conduct Montmorantius sirnamed à Courriers thence to London for he came from Spain in an Embassie did by endeavouring and labouring to please the King rather than to consult his own health make more hast than good speed For by too much riding which was not necessarily requir'd in a very hot season he fell into a violent Feaver Whereupon putting in at a Mercate Town call'd Shirebourn in Dorsetshire was within few days after cut off from among the living in the 38 Year of his Age to the great reluctancy of the King Kingdome his Friends and all that knew the great worth and virtues of the Person He was buried in the great Church there year 1541 in Summer time in Fifteen hundred forty and one and the next Year was a little Book of Verses published on his death by his great admirer John Leland entit Naenia Before the first page of which is Sir Thomas's face with a long curl'd beard like to a Man of 80 Years of Age printed from a wooden cut engrav'd from his face which was painted by a Dutchman commonly call'd Hans Holbin At the same time was an Epitaph made on him by the Earl of Surrey as it seems another also by Sir Tho. Chaloner in long and short Verses and a third which was a large one in Prose by his entire Friend Sir Joh. Mason Chancellor of this University 1553. a Copy of which I have seen and in some things do follow it in my aforesaid discourse This Sir Tho. Wyatt left behind him a Son of both his names begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thom. Brook Lord Cobham who being a Commotioner in the Reign of Qu. Mary lost his Head and left issue by Jane his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Will. Hawte of Bourn Kt.
a Son named Geor. Wyatt of Boxley in Kent Esq restored 13. Elizab. I find another Tho. Wyatt to have been a Student in Cambridge 1587 in which Year he had a Copy of Verses put into Acadedemiae Cantabrigiensis Lachrymae tumulo D. Philippi Sydneii sacratae Published by Alex. Nevill RICHARD TURPIN was descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Knaptoft in Leicestershire extracted from that of the Turpins of Whitchester in Northumberland and educated for a time in Grammatical and Academical Learning in this University Whence being taken before he was honored with a Degree spent afterwards his chief time in Military Affairs at Calice in France under King Hen. 8. He hath written A Chronicle containing matters only of his time and dying at Calice before mention'd in Fifteen hundred forty and one 33. Hen. 8. was buried in the Church of St. Nicholas there leaving then behind him the Character of a Worthy Gentleman RICHARD WHYTFORDE who in his Writings stiles himself the Wretch of Sion was educated for a time among the Oxonians but whether he took a Degree we have no record that shews it Afterwards he was received into the Family of Rich. Foxe Bishop of Winchester and by him was made his Chaplain about the latter end of Hen. 7. at which time he became acquainted with Sir Tho. More then a Young Man between whom was great amity Afterwards Whytforde being minded to leave the World and all hopes of preferment entred himself a Monk of the Order of St. Brigit in the Monastry called Sion near to Brentford in Middlesex About which time being known to Scholars for his divine learning for in Philosophy he was but little vers'd and most sincere holiness he became acquainted with that great light of learning Erasmus who sometimes mentions him in his Epistles and advises him thus Cura at valeas teque tua Philosophia oblectes c. But such was his ill fortune that he lived to see himself turn'd out of his Cell and the Cell it self converted to a profane use Whereupon one Will. Mountjoy descended of a noble race received him into his Family and made him his Confessor which is all that I know of him at present only that he wrot and translated these things following Work of preparation unto the Communion and also for Housholders to govern their Families Lond. in oct When printed I know not for the Copy that I saw was imperfect A Boke called the Pype or Tonne of the life of perfection A work of the three Vows of Religion contrary to the great Hereticks the Lutherans Lond. 1532. qu. The reason of the title is this The Author compares the life of perfection to precious Wine kept in a Pype or Tonne made as it were of three plain boords viz. the three Vows of Obedience wilful poverty and chastity which are bound together as with hoops by their rules as of St. Austine Benedict Francis Basil Which hoops are knit as with wykers with the holy ceremonies of Religion contained in the Statutes Constitutions Injunctions and Customs of every Monastery This allegory he seems to prosecute throughout the whole work His main aim is to commend and defend the religious Orders and those three monastick Vows against the objections of the Lutherans Treatise of patience Also a work of divers impediments and lets of perfection Lond. 1541. qu. The Martiriloge after the use of the Church of Salisbury and as it is read in Sion with additions Lond. in qu. Solitary Meditations Psaltery of Jesus Printed several times in Engl. and French He also translated from Latin into English 1 St. Austin's rule Lond. 1525. qu. to which also he put notes This was done before by another hand but being not well understood by the Nuns of Sion they desired him to do it better which he accordingly did and dedicated it to them 2 St. Bonaventure his lessons entituled Alphabetum Religiosorum Lond. 1532. qu. with other things as 't is probable The Reader is now to know that there was another Richard Whytforde a wealthy Clerk possessed of Lands in Hope Hopedale and Whytforde in Flintshire as also of Lands in Farnworth and Widdous in Lancashire who in his last days entring himself a Brother into the Monastery of Sion before-mention'd died and was buried there 3. Hen. 8. Dom. 1511. But this R. Whytforde who seems to have been born in Flintshire was no writer only Unkle to Rich. Whytforde before mention'd who upon his Unkles account and because of his benefaction to Sion was entred a Brother there being originally as I suppose of Whytforde in Flintshire JOHN SHEPREVE or Shepery was born in or near to the Parish of Radley about a mile or two distant from Abendon in Berks admitted Probationer-Fellow of Corpus Ch. Coll. in the Year 1528. aged 19 or thereabouts took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1533 about which time he was Greek Reader in the said College and afterwards Hebrew Professor of the University in the place of Rob. Wakfeld about 1538. Three Years after he did with leave from the chief Members of the University begin to expound in the publick Schools the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Language and would have gone forward with the Books that follow had not death prevented him He was one of the skilfullest Linguists his Age being considered that ever was in Oxon before his time and was thought to surpass Origen in Memory So excellent a Poet also he was that his equal scarce could be found it having been an ordinary matter with him to compose 100 very good Verses every day at vacant hours some of which are extant Several Authors have celebrated his Memory in their respective Books of Poems particularly John Leland in his Encomia illustrium eruditorum in Angliâ virorum c. and in his Cygnia Cantio in the last of which he stiles him Decus atriusque linguae Also Dr. Joh. White in his Diacosio-Martyrion who entitles him trium Linguarum peritissimus and others Among the Books that he hath written these only I have seen viz. Summa synopsis Novi Testamenti disticis ducentis sexaginta comprehensa First of all published by John Parkhurst at Strasburgh about 1556. in oct with some of his Serious Epigrams at the end taken from his Ludicra or Epigram Juvenilia which I shall hereafter mention under him the said Parkhurst Afterwards the said Summa synopsis were printed at Lond. 1560. and at Oxon. 1586. in oct which last edition was reviewed and corrected by Dr. Laur. Humphrey They are also printed if I mistake not in a Book called Gemma Fabri Lond. 1598. and were by the Author composed to no other end but to assist the memories of Novices and Candidates in Divinity Hyppolitus Ovidianae Phaedrae respondens Before which our Author hath a Preface to the Epistle of Hyppolitus to Phaedra contained in about 350 long and short Verses written to one Mr.
Involved in a book intit Monumenta Westmon âr an historical account of the original increase and present State of S. Peter's or the Abby Ch. of Westminster c. Lond. 1682. in oct Published by Hen. Keep of the Inner Temple Gent. sometimes a Gent. Com. of New Inn in Oxon. Remains concerning Britain their Languages Names Surnames Allusions c. Lond. 1604. 14. c. qu. Published at first under the two letters of M. N. which are the two last letters of the authors name To this book were several additions made by Jo. Philipot Herald of Arms under the title of Somerset Lond. 1637. c. qu. afterwards in oct with Camden's picture before all the editions Rerum ãâ¦ã regnante Eli ãâã in 4 parts The first half with an Apparatus beâore it reaching from the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. to the end of the year 1588. was printed at Lond. in fol. 1615. having had several things therein before that time expunged especially such that related to the story of Mary Q. of Scots The other half reaching from the beginning of 1589. to the death of Q. Elizab. and an Appendix were printed at the same place in fol. 1627. Both printed in two tomes at Leyden in oct and in a thick oct at Amsterdam 1639. and all translated into English by B. N. Gent. and several times printed in fol. The last half was translated into English by Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. afterwards Canon of Windsore and by him intit Tomus alter idem or The History c. Lond. 1629. in qu. His opinion concerning the High Court of Parliament Lond. 1658. oct Printed with the opinions on the same subject of Joh. Doderidge Arth. Agard and Franc. Tate I have seen also a discourse of his concerning the High Stewardship of England but 't is not as I conceive printed Epistolae variae ad viros doctos Written mostly in Latin Annales Regis Jacobi These reach from the death of Q. Elizab. 24. of March 1602-03 to the 18. of Aug. 1623. and no farther because the author being then very ill in body remaining in that condition till his death he could not well continue them any farther So that there wants memories more than for a year to the end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. These Annals are written with the authors own hand in fol. being only a Skeleton of a History or bare touches to put the author in mind of greater matters that he had in his head had he lived to have digested them in a full History as that of Q. Elizabeth The original came after his death into the hands of Mr. Joh. Hacket afterwards D. D. and at length Bishop of Lichfield who as I have been divers times informed did privately convey it out of the Library of the author Hacket being then a Master of Arts of some years standing This original being communicated by the said Dr. Hacket while he was living at Lichfield to Mr. afterwards Sir Will. Dugdale then Norroy King of Arms he contrary to the Doctors knowledge took a copy of it which I have seen and perused at Sir Williams house called Blith hall in Warwickshire but therein I found many mistakes as it afterwards more evidently appeared to me when that Transcript was put into the Ashmolean Musaeum Another copy I have seen in the hands of Sir Hen. St. George Clarenceaux King of Arms which having been transcribed by one that understood not Latin are innumerable faults therein and therefore not at all to be relyed upon After Dr. Hacket's death the original was put into the Library of Trin. coll in Cambridge where it now remains Our author Camden did also put into Latin Actio in Henricum Garnet Societatis Jesu in Anglia Superiorem c. adjectum est supplicium de Hen. Garnet Londini sumptum c. Lond. 1607. qu. And also viewed corrected and published certain old writers to whom he gave this title Anglica Normanica Hibernica Cambrica per varios authores c. Francof 1603. 04. fol. The first of which writers is Asser Menevensis his book De vita rebus gestis Regis Aelfredi At length our author Camden paying his last debt to nature in his house at Chiseihurst in Kent on Sunday the ninth of Nov. about 4 or 5 of the clock in the morn in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 his body afterwards was conveyed to Westminster to the house there where he used to dwell where laying in State for some time 't was on the 19. day of the same month carried to St. Peters commonly called the Abby-Church within that City accompanied by several of the Heralds in their formalities many of the Nobility Clergy Gentry and others All which being placed Dr. Christop Sutton a Prebendary of that Church stept up into the Pulpit and made a true grave and modest commemoration of his life Adding that as he was not sactious in Religion so neither was he wavering or inconstant of which he gave good testimonies at his end prosessing in the Exordium of his last Will that he died as had lived in the Faith Communion and Fellowship of the Church of England Sermon being ended the body was carried into the S. Cross Isle where it was buried in the west side or part of it As soon as the news of his death was certified to the Sages or Governours of the University they in gratitude of so worthy a Benefactor as he had been caused his memory to be celebrated in an Oration publickly delivered by the mouth of ãâ¦ã M. of A. and Student of Ch. Ch. who was then the Deputy Oââtor To which Speech many of the Academians adding verses on the Benefactors death they were with the Speech printed under the title of Camdeni Insignia Oxon. 1624. qu. After these things were done was a Monument erected on the west Wall of the said S. cross isle with the bust of the Defunct resting his hand on a book with Britannia insculp'd on the Leaves thereof This Monument which was composed of black and white Marble was somewhat defaced in 1646. when the Hearse and Effâgies of Robert Earl of Essex the Parliamentarian General were cut in pieces and defaced The Inscription however being left intire I caused it to be printed elsewhere In the last Will and Testam of this great Scholar which I have more than once perused I find besides his publick benefactions his Legacies of 16 l. 10 l. and 5 l. to all his learned acquaintance then in being as to Ja. Gruter Library Keeper to the Prince Pal. Elector of Heidelberg 5 l. To Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. hall in Oxon. 16 l. To Jo. ãâã of the Inner Temple 5 l. c. besides a piece of plate to Sir ãâã Grevill Lord Brook Chancellour of the Exchequer who preferr'd him gratis to his Office and another of 16 l. price to the Company of Painter-Stainers of London and this to be engraven thereon Gul. Camden Clarenceaux
filius Sampsonis Camden pictoris Loââincosiâ THOMAS WHITE Son of Joh. White was born in the City of Bristow in Temple Parish but descended from the Whites of Bedfordshire entred a Student in Madg. hall in the year 1566. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted and frequent preacher of Gods word Afterwards retiring to London he was made Minister of St. Gregories Church near to St. Paul's Cathedral and at length Rector of St. Dunstans in ãâã where he was held in great esteem for his golly and practical way of preaching In 1584. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in Nov. in the year following he had a Canonry in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul and a Prebendship there called Wenlocks barn conferr'd upon him by John Bishop of London upon the nat death of Reb. Towers Bac. of Div. In Apr. 1592. he was made Treasurer of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Sprint deceased in 91. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and in 93. of S. Georges Church at Windsore All that he hath published are only Sermons as 1 Two Serm. at S. Paul's in the time of the Plague the first on Zeph. 3. 1 2 3. the other on Jer. 23. 5 6. Lond. 1577. oct 2 Fun. Serm. on Sir Hen Sidney on 1 Joh 3. 2 3. Lond. 1586. oct 3 Serm. at Pauls Cross on the Queens day 1589. on Luke 3. 10 11 12 13 14. Loâa 1589. oct and others which I have not yet seen This worthy Doctor who was esteemed by all that knew him an honest and generous minded man and a great encourager of learning gave up the Ghost on St. David's day 1 Mar. in sixteen hundred twenty and three and in few days after was solemnly inter'd in the Chancel of his Church of S Dunstan in the West before mentioned Soon after his death being certified to the Heads of the University they in honour to his memory caused an Oration to be publickly delivered by the mouth of Will. Price the first reader of the Moral Philos. Lecture lately founded by the said Dr. White To which speech certain Academians adding verses on the benefactors death were with the speech printed under the title of Schola moralis ãâã Oxon. ãâ¦ã Oxon. 1624. in 2. th in qu. In 1613. he sounded an Alms house in Temple parish within the City of Brislow endowing it with 92 l. per aâ in 1621. he founded a moral philosophy lecture in the University of Oxon and the same year he setled an exhibition for five Students in Magd. hall See ãâã in Hist ãâã Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 43. and 370. a. and b. As for his ãâã to Sion coll in London and to other places expending most if not all his estate which he got from the Church on publick uses let others tell you while I proceed to the next writer to be mention'd according to time JOHN âAVOUR born in the Borough of South ãâã in ãâã was educated for a time in Grammatical learning there Afterwards being compleated for the University in ãâã School he was elected Probationer of ãâã coll in 1576. and two years after was made compâât fellow In ãâã he proceeded Doctor of the civil ãâã and in the year following he became Vicar of Halifax in Yorks in the place of Dr. Henry Ledsham sometimes Fellow of Mert. college resigning At which place he being setled he preached every Lords day lectur'd every day in the week exercised justice in the Common-wealth being Justice of Peace as Vicar of that place practiced for Gods sake and meerly out of Charity Physick and Chirurgery on those that were not able to entertain a professed Doctor or Practitioner On the 23. March 1616. he was collated to the Prebendship of Driffeild in and to the Chauntorship of the Ch. of York on the death of Dr. Joh. Broke or Brook deceased and in the beginning of March 1618. was made Warden of the Hospital of St. Mary Madg. near Ripon in Yorkshire on the death of Ralph Toâstall He was esteemed a person of great piety and charity and one well read in substantial and profound authors as it appears by those books he hath written especially in that published entit Antiquity triumphing over novelty c. or Antiquity a certain note of the Christian Cath. Church Lond. 1619. qu. He concluded his last day in this world on the tenth of March in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in his Church of Halyfax a copy of whose Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 144. a. In his Vicaridge succeeded Rob. Clây D. D. of Mârt coll and him Hugh Ramsden B. of D. another ãâã in 1628. and in his Chantourship of York succeeded Hân Hook D. D. as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SHAW a Westmoreland man born became a Student in Qu. coll about the beginning of 1579. ââed 19. took one degree in Arts left the coll and at length became Vicar of Oling or Wââing in Sârrey where he was had in esteem by many for his preaching and by some for his Poetry His works are these The blessedness of Mary mother of Jesus Serm. on Luke 1. ver 28. and 45. Lond. 1618. oct The comfort of a Christian by assurance of Gods love to him written in verse The complaints of a Sinner The comfort of our Saviour in verse also These two last are printed with the former Sermon Bibliorum Summula seu argumenta singulerum capitum Scripturae Canonicae utrinsque Testamenti alphabâtice distichis comprehensa Lond. 1621. and 23. c. in oct Dedicated to Poynings More Son of Sir Rob. More a servant to K. James Son of Sir George More Son of Sir W. More Kt. These are all the things that I have seen written by this John Shaw who was living at Okâng before mentioned in sixteen hundred twenty and three before which time he had a Son named Tobias who was Bach. of Arts of Magd. coll As for other Sermons and books which go under his name of Joh. Shaw I shall mention hereafter in their proper place as having been written by others of both those names SIMON WASTELL a ãâã and man born and descended from those of his name living at Wastellhead in the ãâã County was entred a Student also in Queens coll in 1580. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts five years ãâã at which time being accounted a great proficient in classical learning and Poetry was made Master of the Free-School at Northampton whence by his sedulous endeavours many were sent to the Universities He hath written The true Christians daily delight being a sum of every Chapter of the Old and New Testament set down alphabetically in English verse that the Scriptures we read may more happily be remembred c. Lond. 1623. in tw Published afterwards with amendments and some additions with this title ãâã or the Bibles âpitome c. Lond. 1629. c. in tw This person
of the Civil Law in the said University Thom. Beacon M. of A. and Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in the said Univ. He was afterwards Orator and Proctor thereof was made Prebendary of Norwych in Jan. 1574 and Chancellour thereof in the year following Ruben Sherwood M. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the said Univ. Schoolmaster of Eaton Doct. of Phys and a noted practitioner of that fac for several years in the City of Bathe where he died 1598 leaving behind him the character of a good Scholar and an eloquent Man Tho. Preston M. of A. and Fell. of Kings Coll. He acted so admirably well in the Tragedy of Dido before Qu. Elizabeth when she was entertained at Cambridge an 1564 and did so gentilely and gracefully dispute before her that she gave him 20 l. per an for so doing He was afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law and Master of Trin. Hall in that University Five more of the said University were then incorporated Masters of Arts also among whom Edw. Stanhop was one On the same day Sept. 6. were these Doctors following incorporated Thom. Wilson Doct. of the Laws beyond Sea incorporated at Cambridge was now incorporated also at Oxon. He was a Lincolnshire Man born elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in 1541 where he afterwards was Tutor and Servant to Henry and Charles Brandon Dukes of Suffolke Afterwards he was one of the ordinary Masters of the Requests Master of St. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London Embassador into the Low Countries in 1577 and in 1579. Feb. 5. had the Deanery of Durham confer'd upon him by the Queen void by the death of Will. Whittyngham he being then Secretary of State and Privy Counsellor to her While he enjoyed the Office of Secretary he became famous for three things 1 For quick dispatch and industry 2 For constant diligence and thirdly for a large and strong memory He hath written 1 Epistola de vita obitu duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandân Lond. 1552. qu. 'T is set before a book of verses made on their deaths by several Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge All which he collecting together did publish them and by an Epistle of his composition dedicated them to Hen. Grey Duke of Suffolke 2. The Art of Rhetorick Printed 1553 60. 67. c. qu. 3 The rule of reason containing the art of Logick First printed in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. afterwards at Lond. 1567. qu. 4 Discourse upon usury Lond. 1572. qu. much commended by Dr. Laur. Humphrey the Queens publick pref of Div. in Oxon He also translated from Greek into English The three Orations of Demosthenes chief Orator among the Grecians in the Olynthians Lond 1570. with other things which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in 1581 whereupon his funeral was celebrated 17. June the same year in St. Catherines Church in East-Smithfield near to the Tower of London The Male issue which he left behind him begotten on the body of Anne Daugh. of Sir Will. Winter Knight setled at Sheepwash in Lincolnshire where the name did lately if not still remain Dr Tob. Mathew did not succeed him in the Deanery of Durham till August 1583. Rob. Furth or Ford LL. Doct. of the said Univ. of Cambridge Of whom I know no more Rob. Huick M. of A. of this University and sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll. afterwards Doctor of Phys of Cambridge and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London and Physician to the Queen was then Sept. 6. incorporated Doct. of Phys in the house of Barthel Lant by the Commissary and two Proctors John Robinson Doct. of Div. of Cambridge sometimes a member of Pembroke Hall there now President of St. Johns Coll. in this University was also then incorporated In 1574 May 31. he was installed Archdeacon of Bedford in the place as it seems of Will. Rodde and about 1576 he succeeded John Aybner or Elmer in the Archdeaconry of Lincoln of which Church he was about that time made Chauntor Oct. 11. Nich. Bullyngham LL. D. of Cambridge and now Bishop of Lincoln was then incorp LL. D. 16. Edw. Eglionbie M. A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge He was now esteemed a good Grecian and Latin Poet was afterwards a Justice of Peace in Warwickshire and drawing the Pedegree of Qu. Elizabeth dedicated it to her for which she gave him 5 l. per an out of her lands for ever 26. John Porie Doct. of Div. and Master of Corp Ch. College in Cambridge One John Pory sometimes of Gonevill and Caius College in Cambridge did translate and collect A Geographical Historie of Africa written in Arabick and Italian by John Leo a More born in Granada and brought up in Barbary Lond. 1600. fol. What relation there was between this John Pory and the other who was Doct. of Div. I know not nor whether he be the same John Pory M. A. who was installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster on the resignation of John Hyll an 1568. Mar. 22. George Ackworth LL. D. and sometimes Orator of Cambridge was incorporated in that Degree He hath published 1 Oratio in restitutione Buceri Fagii Printed 1562. oct 2 Prolegoâânân lib. 2. de visibili Monarchia contra Nich. Sanderi Monarchiam Lond. 1573. qu. Creations Aug. 27. Rich. Barber Bach. of the LL. and Warden of All 's Coll. was then actually created Doctor of the Laws in an upper Chamber belonging to him as Warden by Dr. Will. Awbrey and Dr. Rob. Longher by vertue of a Commission directed to them from the ven Convocation See more among the Bach. of Law an 1540. Edw. Atslow M. of A. and Fellow of New Coll. was actually created Doct. of Phys the same day in the house of Dr. Hen. Baylie situated in the Highstreet leading to the Quadrivium by Dr. Thom. Francis and him the said Dr. Baylie by vertue of a Commission c. Rob. Barnes Bach. of Phys sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. was also actually created Doctor of that Faculty in the same place and on the same day by vertue of a Commission c. Aug. 30. Roger Gifford Bach. of Physick sometimes Fellow of Merton College now or lately Fellow of that of Allsoules was actually created Doct. of that Fac. by Dr. Walter and Henry Baylie in the house of the said Henry by vertue of a Commission c. This Doctor Gifford was afterwards President of the Coll. of Physitians at London and Physitian to Qu. Elizabeth Note that the aforesaid four persons were created because they were appointed by the Convocation to dispute before Qu. Elizabeth when she was to be entertained by the Academians in the beginning of Sept. this year After she had been entertained these noble Persons following with others of quality were actually created Masters of Arts on the 6 day of the said month of Sept. viz. Edward Vere Earl of