the Civil Law in an ancient hostle for Civilians called Henxey hall in St. Aldates Parish in Oxon where making great proficiency he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1531. In 1535 when K. Hen. 8. first founded certain Lectures in the University he appointed Job Storie to read that of the Civil Law and in 1537 he became Principal of Broadgates hall being also about that time Moderator of one of the Civil Law Schools In 1538 he proceeded in his faculty and afterwards performing excellent service at the Siege of Bologne in Picardie in the administration of the Civil Law under the Lord Marshall there the King in consideration thereof did renew his former grant of the said Lecture in form of Letters Pat. for the term of life of the said John in the Year 1546 or thereabouts joyning with him for his ease Mr. Rob. Weston Fellow of All 's College When Qu. Marie came to the Crown she renewed his patent again but soon after resigning his professorship because he had got greater preferment at London and the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Oxon. if I mistake not became a zealous Man in the Religion then professed and an eager enemy against the poor Protestants as the Histories of those times will tell you I find published under his name these things following Oration against Th. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury in 1556. Discourse with Joh. Philpot the Martyr about matters of Religion and with others Answer to Examinations during his imprisonment in the tower of London in 1570. Speech at his execution at Tybourne 1 o June 1571. with other things of which some relate to his profession that I have not yet seen When Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was imprisoned but soon after broke out and going beyond the Sea continued an enemy to the Protestants there became a sworn servant to the Duke of Alva at Antwerp and from him received a special commission to search the Ships for goods forfeited and and for English Books in which service he did very great harm to the English Protestants At length being invited under hand to search the Ship of one Parker an English Man went unwarily therein Whereupon Parker causing the hatches to be shut when Storie was searching under deck he hoised sail and brought him Prisoner into England about the beginning of Decemb. 1570. So that being clap'd up close Prisoner within the Tower of London did undergo there several examinations At length being brought to a trial and stedfastly denying to take the Oath of Supremacy as he had done several times before within the Tower he was drawn thence on a hurdle to Tybourne on the first day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 having been prayed for and animated in his faith by Joh. Feckenham Prisoner in the said Tower where after he had spoken a large speech which was unexspected and therefore not interrupted he was for a little time hanged but before he was half dead he was cut down and when the Executioner cut off his privy members he rose up with alacrity and gave him a blow on the ear But his bowels being soon after draw'd out of his belly and his body quarter'd his head was set upon London bridge and his quarters were hanged on 4 gates of the City Several of his treasons and conspiracies against the English Nation you may see in a pamphlet printed in oct an 1571 bearing this title A copie of a letter sent by a Gentleman student in the lawes of the realm to a friend of his concerning Dr. Storie And what relates to him as praise worthy you may see in Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglica taken from Nichol. Sanders his seventh Book De visibili Monarchia His Martyrdom is imprinted or represented in the English Coll. at Rome and he is called with the two Notons Joh. Felton and others Saints The Franciscans have a great respect for his memory also because he had been a lay-brother of that Order and had done several signal services for them JOHN JEWELL one of the greatest lights that the reformed Church of England hath produced was born at Buden in the Parish of Berinerber in Devon 24. May 1522. His Father was Joh ' Jewell and his Mother of the Family of the Bellamies who sparing neither labour or charge for his education was at length by the care of Joh. Bellamie his uncle educated in Grammar learning first at Branton then at Southmoulton and at length at Barnstaple in his own Country under one Walt. Bowen In which last School being made ripe for the University he was sent to Oxon. in July 1535 and being entred into Merton Coll. under the tuition of John Parkhurst afterwards B. of Norwych was by him made his Portionist now called Postmaster and by his care and severe tuition laid the foundation for greater learning that followed In the Year 1539. after he upon examination had shew'd himself a youth of great hopes he was admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 19. Aug. and the Year after was made Bach. of Arts. So that being put into a capacity by that Degree of taking Pupills many resorted to him whom he mostly instructed in private in Protestant principles and in publick in Humanity he being about that time Rhetorick reader in his Coll. In 1544 he was licensed to proceed in Arts which he compleated in an Act celebrated 9. Feb. the same year When K. Hen. 8. was dead he shew'd himself more openly to be a Protestant and upon P. Martyr's arrival at Oxon to be an admirer and hearer of him whose Notary he was when he disputed with Tresham Cheadsey and Morgan In 1550 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and during the Reign of K. Ed. 6. became a zealous promoter of reformation and a Preacher and Catechiser at Sunningwel near Abendon in Berks. Soon after Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was forced to leave the Nation and retire first to Frankfort with Henry the eldest Son of Sir Franc. Knollys Rob. Horne and Edwyn Sandys and afterwards to Strasburgh with Joh. Poynet Edmund Grindal Joh. Cheek c. After Qu. Maries death he returned in 1558 and in the Year following he was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Salisbury for his great learning and sufferings being about that time appointed one of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Romish perswasion when Qu. Elizab. was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England In 1560 he preached at Pauls cross on the second Sunday before Easter on 1. Cor. 11. 23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you c. In which Sermon he shew'd himself the first who made a publick challenge to all the Rom. Catholicks in the world to produce but one clear and evident testimony out of any Father or famous writer who flourished within 500 years after Christ for any one of the many articles which the Romanists
London and a publisher of certain Sermons between the year 1610 and 1625 must not be taken to be the same with Tho. Muriel Mar. 22. Fines Moryson M. A. of Cambr. He was a Lincolnshire man born was Fellow of Peter House in that University and Brother to Sir Richard Moryson Vicepresident of Mounster After he had taken his Masters degree he studied the Civil Law and in 1589 being then 23 years of Age he obtained license of the Master and Fellows of his House to travel Presently after leaving the University he went to London to follow such Studies that were fit to enable him in his course of Travels and afterwards going to Oxon was incorporated M. of A. as I have told you before On the 1 May 1591 he took ship at Liegh distant from London 28 miles by land and 36 by water and after he had rambled about many parts of the World for 8 years returned and went into Ireland 1598. and became Secretary to Sir Charles Blount Lord Lieutenant of that Realm After his death which hapned about 1614 were published his Travels entit An Itinerary containing his ten years Travels through the twelve Dominions of Germany Bohmerland Sweitzerland Netherland Denmark Poland England Scotland and Ireland Divided in three parts Lond. 1617 in a thick fol. It was first written in Latin and afterwards translated by him into English There were also four more Cantabrigians incorporated among whom Robertus Hemmingius M. A. was one Feb. 23. Creations July 14. Sir Will. Hatton Sir Hen. Vnton Joh. Fitzjames Esquire Knights The first was Son to the Sister of Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England and being Heir to the said Sir Christophes did change his name from Newport to Hatton The second who had been of Oriel Coll. I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1595. The third who was of the antient Family of the Fitzjames of Somersetshire was originally also of this University which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1591. An. 33 Elizab. An. 34 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton who dying 20 of Nov. this year certain Members of the University especially those of the Puritanical Party were for Robert Earl of Essex before mention'd now in great favour with the Queen and others for Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst At length upon the receipt of Letters from the Queen in favour of Buckhurst the Academians elected him 17 Dec. following See more in the Incorporations this year Vicechanc. Dr. James again designed by Chancellour Hatton 16 July Proct. Rich. Braunche of Ch. Ch. Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. Apr. 16. Which Proctors with several Doctors and others went to London to admit the Chancellour to his Office being the first Admission out or without the limits of the University that I have yet met with Bach. of Arts. Mar. 27. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. now in much esteem for his Poetry Apr. 16. Rob. Moor June 4. Arth. Lake of New Coll. The former was adorn'd with variety of Learning the other was afterwards a Bishop Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Queens Coll. Afterwards a learned Nonconformist 9. Walter Wylshman of Exeter Coll. afterwards of Broadgates Hall Jan. 16. Rich. Haydock of New Feb. 7. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity an 1608. Adm. 116. Mast of Arts. May 20. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. lately of Gloc. Hall June 15. Samuel Burton of Ch. Ch. He became Rector of Dry Marston in Glocestershire seven years after this time afterwards Archdeacon of Glocester and at length Justice of the Peace for that County He hath published A Sermon preached at the general Assizes in Warwick 3 March being the first Friday in Lent 1619 on Rom. 1. 4. Lond. 1620. qu. and perhaps other things He died 14 June 1634 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Dry Marston before mention'd Jun. 21. Tho. Hutton Henr. Price of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Nathan Torporley of Brasn Nov. 30. Joh. Day of Oriel Feb. 26. Joh. Hoskyns sen of New Coll. Adm. 56. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Henr. Rowlands of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor Apr. 27. Leonard Hutten Jul. 2. Joh. King of Ch. Ch. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day Nov. 15. Soh Smith of S. Joh. Coll. Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Tho. Hyde of Ball. Coll. On the fourteenth of June 1588 he became Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte having before been Prebendary of Ilfracomb in the said Church and dying in Nov. 1618 was succeeded in his Chancellourship by Dr. Franc. d ee who was afterwards B. of Peterborough Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day On the 5. of July 1576 he was installed Archd. of Rochester in the place of Joh. Calverley deceased and in 1580 he succeeded Dr. Rob. Dorset in a Canonry of Ch. Ch. In an 1582 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury but whether he was Dean of that Church as I have told you in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 259. b. upon false information it appears not In his Archdeaconry of Rochester which he resigned was installed Th. Staller D. D. 5 Jul. 1593 and to his Archdeaconry of Sarum which he kept to the day of his death was collated Will. Barlow on the 12 of March being four days after the death of Pickover an 1614. This person Pickover is commended for a learned man for a good Greecian Hebritian and a frequent Preacher See in the said Hist Antiq. lib. 2. p. 260. a. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was adm the same day July 2. He accumulated as Pickover did Incorporations Jul. 13. George Downham M. A. of Cambridge He was Son of Will. Downham Bishop of Chester was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge of which he became Fellow about 1585 afterwards a great Aristotelian a follower of Ramus and at length Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where dying in 1634 Apr. 17. was buried in the Cath. Church there The Catalogue of all or most of his works you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue Besides him were 15 Cantabrigians incorporated Masters of Arts on the same day being the next after the Act had been concluded but not one of them can I yet find who was afterwards a Writer Bishop c. On the same day also Will. Halke an English Man of the same University who had had the Degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him in the University of St. Andrew in Scotland an 1590 Andr. Melvin being then Rector was also incorporated in this University Oct. 22. Will. Paddie of St. Johns Coll. in this University lately made Doct. of Phys in the University of Leyden was incorporated in the same Degree He was afterwards Physician to K. Jam. 1. a Knight eminent for his practice in that faculty and President if I mistake not of the Coll.
time concerning the Voyages and Travels of several persons he compiled a book intit English Voyages Navigations Trafficks and Discoveries Lond. 1598. 99. and 1600. in three vol. in fol. Which work being by him performed with great care and industry cannot but be an honour to the Realm of England because possibly many Ports and Islands in America that are base and barren and only bear a name for the present may prove rich places in future time Notes of certain Commodities in good request in the East Indies the Molucoes and China MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Pub. Lib. at Oxon. He also illustrated by diligent observation of time and with most useful notes Peter Mart. Anglericus his eight Decades De novo orbe Par. 1587. oct and corrected and much amended and translated into English The discoveries of the World from the first original unto the year of our Lord 1555. Lond. 1601. qu. briefly written in the Portugal tongue by Anth. Galvano Governour of Ternate the chief Island of the Molucoes As also from the said Language into our English tongue Virginia richly valued by the description of the main Land of Florida her next Neighbour Lond. 1609. qu. He paid his last debt to nature 23. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 and was buried in the Abbey Church of Westminster dedicated to S. Peter on the 26. of the same month leaving behind him a Son named Edmund begotten on the body of Frances his Wife to whom he left his Mannor of Bridgplace and several tenements in Tuttlestreet within the City of Westminster Oliver Hackluyt Brother to the said Richard was a Student of Ch. Ch. also and being graduated in Physick had an happy hand in the practice of it In R. Hakluyts Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Joh. Holt of Cor. Ch. coll as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SMITH was born in Warwickshire elected Scholar of S. Johns coll into a Coventry place an 1577. aged 14. and at length was made Fellow and highly valued in the University for piety and parts especially by those that excelled in both Soon after he grew to that note that he was chosen being then Bach. of Div. to be Lecturer in S. Pauls Cathedral in London in the place of that great Man Dr. Lauc Andrews which he discharged not only to the satisfaction but applause of most judicious and learned hearers witnessed by their frequency and attention Not long after he was removed to a Pastoral Charge at Clavering in Essex where being fix'd he shined as a Star in its proper sphere and was much reverenced for his Religion learning humility and holiness of Life He was skilful in the original Languages an excellent Text-man well read in writers that were of note in several ages of the Church which may partly appear from these things following that he wrote viz. The Substance and Pith of Prayer or a brief holy and heavenly Exposition on the Lord's Prayer being the Summ and Marrow of divers Sermons c. on Matth. 6. 9. Lond. 1629. qu. The Essex Dove presenting the World with a few of her Olive branches c. delivered in three several Treatises viz. 1. The Grounds of Religion 2. An Expoon the Lord's Prayer 3. A Treatise of Repentance Lond. 1629. qu. The poor Penitent or the Doctrine of Repentance Preached in divers Sermons c. Lond. 1629. qu. in 14 Lectures published by John Hart. Exposition on the Creed Lond. 1632. fol. Explanation of the Articles of our Christian Faith Which two last books were delivered in 73 Sermons He concluded his last day in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 and was buried in the Church of Clavering before-mentioned leaving then by his Will several books to St. Johns coll Library I have mentioned several John Smiths in this work that were Divines See under the year 1596. and elsewhere THOMAS SPARKE received his first breath in Lincolnshire at South-Somercote as it seems became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll in 1570. in which year he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Soon after by the favour of Arthur Lord Grey he was preferred to the Parsonage of Bletchley in Bucks where he was held in great esteem for his piety In the year 1575. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences without ruling in Arts and about that time was Chaplain to Dr. Cooper Bish of Linc. who that year bestowed the Archdeaconry of Stow on him in the place of Rog. Kelke Bach. of Div. who had succeeded Joh. Harrison in that Dignity 1563. In 1581. he proceeded in Divinity being then in great renown for his learning But his Dignity being remote from his Cure and therefore could not well attend it he gave it up out of Conscience sake in 1582. and contented himself only â—ith Bletchley whereupon Joh. Farmery B. D. succeeded him therein This Dr. Sparke was the person who being noted for a great Nonconformist and a Pillar of Puritanism was by Letters from the King's Council called to the Conference at Hampton-Court an 1603. where appearing in the behalf of the Millinaries as 't is said or rather with Jo. Rainolds as a Proctor for the precise Party not in a Priests Gown or Canonical Coat but such that Turky Merchants wear received then so great satisfaction from his Majesty's most ready and apt Answers to the Doubts and Objections there and then proposed that he tho he spoke not one word did not only for the time following yield himself in his practice to Universal Conformity but privately by word and writing and publickly by his brotherly perswasion He was a learned Man a solid Divine well read in the Fathers and so much esteemed for his profoundness gravity and exemplary life and conversation that the Sages of the University thought it fit after his death to have his picture painted on the wall in the School-gallery among the English Divines of note there viz. between that of Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll whom I have mentioned under the year 1614. and that of Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He hath written A comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience Lond. 1580. oct Brief Catechism with a form of Prayer for Householders Taken as it seems from the Catechism of Vrsinus Sermon Preached at Cheyneys in Bucks at the burial of the E. of Bedford 14. Sept. 1585. on Apoc. 14. 13. Lond. 1585. oct c. Treatise to prove that Ministers publickly and Householders privately are bound to Catechise their Parishioners and Families c. Oxon. 1588. oct Answer to Mr. Joh. de Albines notable discourse against Heresies Oxon. 1591. qu. Serm. at the Funeral of the Lord Grey on Esay 57. 1 2. Ox. 1593. oct The High-way to Heaven by the clear Light of the Gospell c. against Bellarmine and others in a Treatise made upon 37 38 and 39 verses of the 7. of John c. Lond. 1597. oct A brotherly perswasion to Unity and Uniformity in Judgment and
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
what reason it appears not he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree which was accordingly done to his desire and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign he obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex He hath written a Book Entit Arbor Reipublicae c. It is penned in a Juridic Stile and is now or at least lately was reserved as a choice Monument in the Cottonian Library Whether ever Printed I cannot tell At length after King Henry 7. who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill being dead his Successor King Henry 8. did for the Peoples satisfaction issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley then a Prisoner in the Tower of London Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons the eldest of which was John afterwards Duke of Northumberland Father to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester JOHN HOLTE called by some Holtigena was born in the County of Sussex and from being Usher of the School joyning to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College and Bachelaur of Arts was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University that were afterwards eminent in the Nation Since which time and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning by producing a right Grammar-Institution For tho before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure and less care of good Arts yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton Bishon of Ely and the times thereupon became more peaceable our Author Holte made a Grammar Entit Lac Puerorum c. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton then Archbishop of Canterbury Which Grammar Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge being the first of note or most fit for use that was ever Printed in England was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars Afterwards the said Stanbridge and his Scholar Robert Whittington with others did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar but more especially Dr. John Colet the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral who compiled the Eight parts of Speech and William Lilye the first Master of S. Paul's School an English Syntax whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School The learned Erasmus also intreated by Dr. Colet to revise Lilyes Syntax made a new Latin Syntax in 1513. upon which Henry Pryme a School-Master in a certain Monastery and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented the former in 1539. and the other in 1540. But these things being spoken by the by I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar which perhaps are now quite lost and past recovery as the time of his death and place of burial is One Holte who was Master to Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant Which Holte is in the Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John NICHOLAS MAGWIRE was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland Educated among the Oxonians and took one or more Degrees Afterwards returning to his Country he was made Prebendary of Hillard in the Diocess of Laighlin being then and after accounted famous among his Country-men for his great Learning and constant Preaching among them In 1490. he was by provision from the Pope promoted to the Bishoprick of Laighlin aged about thirty one years Where being settled he began to write several Books but being untimely snatch'd away by death finished only these following Chronicon Hiberniae of which Thaddeus Dowling made use when he Composed his Annales Hiberniae and Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc quondan Laighliensis This our Author Magwire year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve 4. Hen. 8. and was buried as it seems in his own Church of Laighlin In his Bishoprick succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws whom I shall remember in his proper place among the Bishops that have received their Education in Oxon. MAURITIUS de PORTU otherwise called O-Fihely who in his time was for his great Learning and Virtue called and written by many The Flower of the World was born in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universiâ—â— and not unlikely in other Learning after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World John Duns Scotus had spent some years in Religion and Learning and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved From Oxon he Travelled into Italy and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua then flourishing in Learning made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks School-Divinity and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns whom he had in so great veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren he became known to and much respected by Pope Julius 2. who for a reward of his Learning and Vertues conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran and in the year following minding to return to his Native Country he obtained a Faculty from the Pope of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there but at his arrival at Galloway being overtaken with a deadly Disease died before he could Celebrate it His Works which have been much admired and
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
then wore was valued at a Thousand pounds besides a Collar of SS about his Neck which weighed Eight hundred pounds in Nobles In the 1. Hen. 8. he was made Lieutenant of the Castle of Guisnes in Picardy and in the 5th of that Kings Reign he was at the Seige of Turwyn In the 10th he was one of the Ambassadors then sent into France for confirming the Articles of Peace between King Hen. 8. and the French and in the 11th was one of the Commissioners appointed to make preparation for that famous interview near Guisnes between King Hen. 8. and the King of France After which he grew into such high esteem at Court that in the 15. Hen. 8. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Name and Title of Nicholas Lord Vaux of Harwedon It is reported by a certain Author that his fancy laid chiefly in the facility of his meeter and the aptness of his descriptions such as he takes upon him to make namely in sundry of his Songs wherein he sheweth the counterfeit action very lively and pleasantly His Book or Books of Poetry I have not yet seen only many of his Copies of Verses in a Book Intit The Paradise of dainty devises c. Printed at Lond. 1578. in qu. Among them I find some which have these Titles set to them 1 A Copy made In his extream sickness which is the eighth Copy in that Book 2 His desire to exchange life numb 17. 3 Of sufferance cometh ease numb 41. 4 No pleasure without some pain fol. 36. b. 5 A lover disdained complaineth fol. 51. a. 6 Of a contented mind 7 Trie before you trust 8 He renounceth all the effects of love 9 Bethinking himself of his end he writeth thus c. There goes a doleful dutty also under his Name beginning thus I loath that I did love c. which was thought by some to be made upon his Death bed At length after this learned and valiant Lord had enjoyed his Honor but a very little time he gave way to fate in May or June in Fiveteen hundred twenty and three year 1523 whereupon his Body was buried as it seems at Harwedon before-mention'd where he founded a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass for his Soul in the Parish Church there or else in the Church of the Black Friers at London THOMAS LYNACRE born as 't is said at Canterbury but descended from the Lynacre's of Lynacre Hall in the Parish of Chesterfield in Derbyshire which may be the reason why Holinshed and others that follow him say that he was born in the Town of Derby was chosen Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1484 where by his close retirement he improved himself very much in Literature and in few Years after much more by his Travels into Italy where taking I suppose the Degree of Doctor of Physick became intimate with Persons famous for learning there The chief Cities of his residence were at Rome and Florence at the last of which places being countenane'd by Laurence Medices Duke thereof had for his instructors Demetrius and Politian and at Rome he became familiar with the learned Hermolaus Barbarus who directed him very freely in his Studies After his return into his own Country he was incorporated Doctor of Physick in this University read a shagling Lecture in that faculty became Tutor to Prince Arthur and to his Princess Catherine for the Italian Tongue Physician to King Hen. 7. as some say afterwards to King Hen. 8 one of the chief Founders of the Coll. of Physicians in Knightridersstreet in London of which he was the first President and at length in Holy Orders and a Priest In 1519. Apr. 29. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of York in the place of Joh. Perot who died in Febr. going before but Lynacre resigning that place in Nov. following was succeeded therein by Rich. Wyatt D. D. who was admitted thereunto 13. of the same Month. At the same time our Author Lynacre had other Dignities in the Church but at what place I cannot justly say He was great with and highly admired by Sir Tho. More whom formerly he had taught Greek Erasmus Grocyn Latimer Tonstall and who not He was one of the first English Men that brought polite learning into our Nation and it hath been justly question'd by some of the Goliahs of learning whether he was a better Latinist or Grecian or a better Grammarian or Physician Sure it is that he being a general Scholar of his time and esteemed the Honor of the Nation was much reverenc'd by the Oxonians especially upon reading his Medicinal Lectures among them gratus and generally by all Persons of Honor and others for his happy practice among them He hath written The Rudiments of Grammar Lond. in aedib Pynsonianis Turn'd into Latin by George Buchanan a Scot Par. 1533. and 50. in oct Which Book hath ever since been the Cynosura for many of our best Grammarians Compendious Regiment or a Dietarie of health used at Mountpillour Lond. by Rob. Wyer in 8vo De Emendatâ Structurâ Latini sermonis libri sex Several times Printed as at Paris 1532. 43. 50 c. Col. Agrip. 1555 c. all in 8vo recognised and amended by Joachim Camerarius Lips 1591. oct The said 6 Books were originally made for the use of the Lady Mary the Kings Daughter the same I think who was afterwards Queen and are much commended by Jo. Leland He also translated from Greek into Latin several of the works of Claud. Galen among which were those De temperamentis de inaequali temperie lib. 3. Venet. 1498. Which Latin Translation as 't is said speaks better than the Original He also translated into the said Language Procli Diadochi Sphaera Venet. 1500 fol. Dedicated to Prince Arthur by a large Epist or Praef. dat at Lond. 6. cal Sept. with other things which you may see in Baleus and Pitseus This Dr. Lynacre died 20. Octob. year 1524 in Fiveteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Paul within the City of London before the Rood of the North Door between the long Form and the Wall directly against the said Rood Over his Grave was afterwards a comely Monument erected at the charge of that eminent Physcian and Antiquary Dr. John Cay of Cambridge out of the Epitaph of which I am instructed in these matters concerning Lynacre viz. That he was a most skilful Critick in the Greek and Latin and an excellent Physician besides being Physician to King Hen. 8. who in his Generation did many miraculous Cures and restored several to life when help was past and even at the very point of death He translated Galen's works out of Greek into Latin with singular perspicuity and clearness He also compil'd a most excellent piece for the rectifying of the frame and module of the Latin Tongue He gave two Lectures to the University of Oxon and one to Cambridge
another Book Comment in Contica Canticorum Proverbia Salomonis Institutions for Novices Of the contempt of the World De Christo duodeni a Homily Other things he hath written which Jo. Baleus and Theod. Petreius do mention the last of which saith that he died 16. Nov. in Fifteen hundred thirty and one year 1531 and that he was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Charter-house John Houghton Prior of Beauvale in Nottinghamshire sometimes a Carthusian of the said House was elected Prior in his place and about 4 Years after suffered death by hanging for denying the Kings Supremacy RICHARD KEDERMYSTER a Worcestershire Man born taking his Sirname as I conceive from a Mercat Town so called in that County was at 15 Years of Age received into the Monastery of Benedictines at Winchcombe in Glocestershire and at 19 sent to Glocester Coll. in the N. W. suburb of Oxon. to obtain Theological and other Learning in which College was an appartment belonging to the said Monastery called Winchcombe Lodgings where spending three Years and an half was sent for home at which time being about 22 Years of Age he was by the favour of his Patron and fautor of his Studies John Twynnyng Lord Abbat and by the Decree of the Chapter of the said Monastery of Winchcombe made Scholar or Pastor thereof In the 3. of Hen. 7. Dom. 1487. he was elected Lord Abbat on the Death of the said Twynnyng and how he made it flourish like to a little University you may see elsewhere In the Year 1500 being then D. D. he travelled to Rome where tarrying more than a Year did improve himself much in learning and experience Afterwards he became a frequent Preacher and a great Man in the Court of King Hen. 8. In the seventh Year of that King Dom. 1515. he Preached a Sermon at Paul's cross while the Parliament sate in maintenance of the exemption of the Clergy from temporal Judges At which time were great agitations between the Clergy and Seculars concerning divers ecclesiastical liberties whereupon arising a great dispute between those Parties one Dr. Hen. Standish Guardian of the Convent of the Franciscans in London did in an Assembly of Bishops Judges and others maintain the contrary Soon after there was a grand Committee of Bishops and Judges in the House of the Black-Fryers in London assembled to discuss that matter which being ended Articles were exhibited against the said Standish for being a promoter of all evils Many other things may be said of our Author Kedermyster as they were noted by himself in his Life written in the History or Catalogue of the Abbats of Winchcombe which History I shall anon mention but that Book being burnt and when I saw it I did not in the least dream that I should write these Athenae Oxonienses they are therefore here omitted The Books that he wrot are these Tractatus contra doctrinam M. Lutheri Finished in the Year 1521. See in Hist Ant. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 247 and lib. 2. p. 35. a. wherein is mention made of his Book De veniis which I presume is the same with that against Luther I have also seen a register sometime belonging to Winchcombe Abbey which was totally composed by our Author an 1523 containing first Historia fundationis Manasterii de Winchcomb in com Glouc. The beginning of the Preface to which is Quoniam antiqua testimonia de prima nostri Winchelcombensis caenobii institutione c. Which Preface with part of the History you may see in the first Vol. of Monasticon Anglicanum p. 188. And secondly Catalogus vel Historia Abbatum Monast de Winchcomb in com Glouc. This Cat. or History commences from one German who was appointed Abbat of Winchcombe by S. Oswald Bishop of Worcester in the 7 Year of K. Edgar an Dom. 988. and reaches down to the Author Rich. Kedermyster In the said Register also which contains these matters lib. 1. fol. XI is set down at large the story of the Life of St. Patrick and of the antiquity of Glastenbury Abbey which you may see in Monast Anglic. vol. 1. p. 11. Also Renovatio privilegiorum chartarum ac aliorum munimentorum Monasterii de Winchcomb c. This Register of Winchcombe in which these things are containing at least 5 Books or Parts came after the dissolution of the Abbey there into obscure hands At length it being produced by an ordinary Farmer at an Assize held at Glocester for the proof of some matter then in question at which Sir Will. Morton Lord of the site of Winchcombe Abbey was present he by some device got it out of the Farmers hands as belonging more properly to him and kept it sometimes in his House at Kidlingtom in Oxfordshire and sometimes in his Lodgings at Serjeants Inn in Fleetstreet London But so it was that the said Sir William who was one of the Justices of the Kings Bench being in his Norfolk Circuit at what time the dreadful conflagration of London hap'ned which was Sept. 2. 3. c. 1666. the said Book with other of his goods and the Inn it self was totally consumed to ashes Whether there be any other Copy left I am not certain sure it is that Dr. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. had a Copy of it written either in Vellum or Parchment about 1630 as by some notes taken thence as then remaining in his custody which I have seen doth manifestly appear but from whence he had it or to whom it did afterwards return for I think he borrowed it I know not Sir Will. Moreton also shew'd to me in his House at Kidlington several extracts made from that Copy which was sometimes in his hands written by one of his Clerks but in many material things false Which extracts I presume are in the hands of his Son Sir James Moreton As for our learned and curious Author Rich. Kedermyster he gave way to fate to the great reluctancy of all that knew the virtue and piety of the Man year 1531 in Fifteen hundred thirty and one or thereabouts and was buried in his own Church of Winchcombe Abbey On which Church he had before done great cost and inclosed the Abbey it self towards the Town with a main stone Wall ex quadrato saxo RICHARD PAICE Pace or Pacey so many ways I find him written was one of the lights of learning in his time and therefore commended by Erasmus who among several things that he saith of him is that he was utriusque literaturae callentissimus and all other Heroes of learning in that Age. When he was a Boy he became à manu Minister as he himself saith to Tho. Langton Bishop of Winchester and was trained up at School with others at his charge Which Bishop also perceiving him to profit in Musick above his Years for those under his patronage did learn if capable that faculty also did often express to his Attendants about him that seeing he did overcome
Musick easily his Genie therefore was born to greater Studies In short time after he sent him to Padöua in Italy which was then most flourishing in literature to obtain or rather advance himself in good letters and allowed him an yearly Pension to defray his Charges While he was conversant with the Muses there he was much instructed in his Studies by Cuthb Tonstall and Will. Latymer whom he calls his Praeceptores and whether he took a Degree there I find not After his return into England he retired to Oxon where as I conceive he had studied for some time before he travelled and settled for a time as 't is supposed in Queens Coll. of which his Patron T. Langton had been Provost and soon after was received into the service of Dr. afterward Cardinal Christopher Bambridge who succeeded his said Patron in that Provostship as I have elsewhere told you From the service of the said Cardinal he was received into the Royal Court where his parts being soon discovered and his accomplishments made known to the King was by him made Secretary of State and employed in matters of high concern In the beginning of 1514 he was admitted Prebendary of Bugthorpe in the Church of York in the place of Thom. Wolsey consecrated Bishop of Linc. and on the 20. of May the same Year he was made Archdeacon of Dorset upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll. in this University Afterwards he was sent in one or more Embassies by the King which he performed with very great honor to himself and the English Nation In 1519 he became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London on the Death of Dr. Joh. Colet and about that time Dean of Exeter but whether he was ever Dean of Salisbury it appeareth not 'T is true that Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury doth say in the Life and Reign of King Hen. 8. under the Year 1536. that Pet. Vannes then Archdeacon of Worcester was not long before that time made co-adjutor to Rich. Pace Dean of Salisbury being then thought commonly distracted and out of his Wits But how that can be I cannot find for 1 it doth evidently appear from the Registers of that Church that one Raymund Pade had that Deanery conferr'd upon him 19. Jan. 1522. 2 That in the said Registers no mention at all is made of R. Pace as Dean and thirdly that Pet. Vannes beforementioned became Dean of the said Church by virtue of the King's Letters on 3. Feb. 1539. in the place as 't is supposed of the said Pade at which time R. Pace had been dead 7 Years In 1521 he being made Prebendary of Combe and Harnham in the said Church of Sarum he shewed himself serviceable to the University of Oxon the Members of which would then have had him to adorn their Lycaeum with a degree if certain customs belonging thereunto did not hinder him Afterwards our Author Paice who was then esteemed by all ripe in wit learning and eloquence and very expert in Foreign Languages was sent in the Kings Affairs Ambassador to Venice which function there he so discharged that it is hard to say whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians both for dexterity of his wit and especially for the singular promptness in the Italian tongue wherein he seemed nothing inferior neither to Pet. Vannes here in England the Kings Secretary for the Italian tongue nor yet to any other which were the best for that tongue in all Venice For opinion and fame of learning he was so generally accepted not only here in England with Lynacre Grocin Sir Tho. More and others but also known and reported abroad in such manner that in the great Volume of Erasmus his Epistles he wrot almost to none so many as he wrot to this our Author Paice It must be now noted that while he continued at Venice he grew much out of favour with Cardinal Wolsey first for shewing his readiness to assist Charles Duke of Burbon with Money while the said Cardinal who had little or no affection for that Duke did under hand keep back a vast summ of Money which K. Hen. 8. had sent to the said Duke to carry on his War near Pavia against Francis 1. K. of France and secondly for his negligence in advancing the said Cardinals designs to succeed in the Papacy P. Adrian the 6. who died 1523. I say for these two reasons especially he was so much inflamed against Paice that he forthwith took such causes that for the space almost of two Years he had neither writing from the King or Council how he should proceed in his Affairs at Venice nor any allowance for his diet notwithstanding he had sent Letters for the same to England very often Upon this and especially upon some private intimation from his Friends at home he took such an inward thought and conceit that his wits began to fail him It is reported that the Venetian Ambassador residing in London repaired to the Cardinal and desired to know of him whether he would command any thing to the English Ambassador at Venice Whereupon he made answer Paceus decepit Regem Which words coming to Paice's knowledge so deeply pierc'd his stomach that he in a manner fell quite besides himself Soon after his frensie and the reason thereof being made known to the King he was forthwith sent for home and by the Kings command he was so carefully attended by his Physicians that in short time he came to his wits again and began to study the Hebrew Language with Rob. Wakfeld About that time the Cardinal being absent Paice's Friends found such means that he was brought to the King then residing at Richmond where they had private discourse for two hours or more not without great rejoycing to His Majesty to see him so well amended in his senses Afterwards the Cardinal hearing what had passed and suspecting that he had disclosed somewhat to the King which he would not have known as also doubting the King would take Paice into favour again began in short time after to quarrel and to pick up matters to lay to Paice's charge whereas he should have rather cleared himself of those things which Paice laid unto him before the King and then to have proceeded accordingly But so it was that when the King had willed the Cardinal to purge himself of those things which Paice had rightly charged him withal he sitting in judgment with the Duke of Norfolk and other States of the Realm not as a Defendant but as a Judge in his own cause did so bear out himself and weighed down Paice that he was forthwith commanded to the Tower of London as Prisoner where he continuing for the space of two Years or thereabouts was at length by the Kings command discharged While he was in his disconsolate condition he was so deeply sensible of his case that he was more distracted in his wits than
by me viz. of Sir Joh. More the Father and his Lady Sir Thomas the Son and his Lady John the Grandson Margaret Elizabeth and Cicely the Grand Daughters c. were most admirably well depicted by the curious hand of Hans Holbin well known to and acquainted with Sir Thomas More Which piece being an original remaineth to this day 1689 in the House â—f the Lenthals at Besills-Lee near to Abendon in Berks. Round which is an Inscription shewing the names and matches of those that are there depicted but now scarce legible To conclude if any curious Person is desirous to know more of this noted Author Sir Tho. More who hath been and yet is wonderfully celebrated throughout the learned World let him consult 1 His life written by Will. Roper before-mention'd 2 Dr. Tho. Stapleton his Book entit De tribus Thomis mostly as to this Sir Tho. More taken from that written by Roper 3 His life written by Thom. More before-mention'd much of which is taken from the former two 4 His life written by J. H. Haddesdon I think collected from Stapleton and More especially the last which was and is scarce to be had 5 A Book written by Maur. Channey or Chawney sometimes a Carthusian near London intit Historia aliquot nostri saeculi c. which Book and its Author I shall mention elsewhere 6 His life intit The mirror of virtue in worldly greatness Paris 1616. in oct 7 A MS. of his life whether a Copy of that MS. written by Roper I know not in the Library of the Free-School at Colchester The Reader is now to know that Will. Roper before-mentioned who married Margaret More was born in Kent and educated for a time in one of the Universities Afterwards he succeeded his Father John Roper in the Office of Prothonotary of the Kings Bench which after he had kept and faithfully performed 54 Years he resign'd it to his Son Thom. Roper The said William was very bountiful both at home and abroad merciful meek and a Staff to such that were poor oppressed and imprison'd At length after he had lived a Widower 33 Years and 82 in this vain World he submitted to fate 4. Januar. 1577. Whereupon his body was buried next to that of Margaret his Wife in a Vault under a Chappel joining to the Chancel belonging to the Church of St. Dunstan in Canterbury The life of Sir Tho. More before-mentioned written by this Will. Roper I have several times perused the beginning of which is Forasmuch as Sir Tho. More Knight c. HENRY STANDISH descended from a right Ancient Family of his Name in Lancashire became when young a Franciscan or Greyfrier but in what convent I know not as yet studied for some time in the convent of his Order at Oxon and partly at Cambridge proceeded D. of D. of this University as a certain Register belonging to his Order tells us made Guardian of the Franciscan convent in London Provincial of his Order and in 1519. being nominated Bishop of St. Asaph received consecration thereunto in the conventual Church of the Franciscans at Oxon before-mention'd on the eleventh of July the same Year In 1526 he with Sir John Baker were sent Ambassadors to Denmark and in 1530 he was one of the Bishops that assisted and directed Qu. Catherine in the sute concerning her divorce from K. Hen. 8. He was esteemed a learned Man of his time and a most zealous favourer and assertor of the Catholick Religion for which had he lived longer he would have suffer'd much He hath written Several Sermons preached to the People Treatise against Erasmus his translation of the New Testament With other things as 't is probable He gave up the Ghost at London in the beginning of August in Fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans commonly called Greyfriers in the said City now known by the name of Christ-Church Over his Grave was soon after a Tomb erected with the 13 l. 6. s. 8 d. which he bequeathed for that purpose He gave 40 l. to pave the Choir of the Cath of St. Asaph and for other necessaries five marks to the Franciscans of Oxon to be prayed for ten marks also for the reparation of their Church and for the building of an Isle joining to the said Church forty pounds For exhibition of Scholars in Oxon forty pounds besides legacies to Ralph Standish Lord of Standish in Lancashire his near Kinsman to Agnes Worthington his Sister and Will. Standish his natural Brother See more of this H. Standish in Rich. Kedermyster under the Year 1531. JOHN KYNTON was by rule or order a Minorite or Greyfrier and being a Man of parts and noted for his proficiency in Divinity the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Reader of that faculty within their House Which Office he performing with great honour for several Years the Doctors and Bach. of Div. of the University elected him Margaret Professor in the place of Joh. Roper being then D. of D. and a Person of great note in the University He wrot at the command of the King an 1521. Tract contra doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Whether this or any thing else that he did write were ever printed I know not He died in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was as I conceive buried in the Chappel of Durham now Trinitie College in Oxon. for on a little Grave-stone there yet remaining is written this Obiit Johannes Kynton Frater minor sacrae Theologiae professor 20. Januar. 1535. WILLIAM TYNDALE otherwise called Hitchins was born on the borders of Wales brought up from a Child in Grammar Logick and Philosophy in this University particularly for the most part in St. Mary Magdalens Hall where having sucked in the Doctrine of Luther read it privatly to certain Students and to some of the Junior Fellows of Magd. Coll. adjoining Whether he took a Degree either by the name of Tyndale or Hitchins it doth not appear in our Registers and whether he was one of the Junior Canons of Cardinal Wolseys Coll. as some think there is no ground or footstep left to perswade us to it From Oxon he went to Cambridge where being well ripened in Gods word he was entertained by one Sir Joh. Welch a Knight of Glocestershire and by him made Tutor to his Children While he continued there he shewed himself so much a friend to Luther and foe to the Pope before several Abbats Doctors and other Men of the Clergy living in the neighbourhood that he was forced merely for the security of his Person to leave that place So that journying to London he endeavoured to get into the Family of Cuthb Tonstall Bishop thereof but being frustrated of his design he was desirous for the good of his Country to translate the New Testament into English but finding no place to do it in England he left his native Country and
the Summer time before August in Fifteen hundred thirty and eight year 1538 30. Hen. 8. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Norbury before-mention'd Soon after was a blew Marble-stone laid over his Grave with an Inscription thereon which is now remaining His name and posterity are yet as I conceive living at Norbury Tissington and Somersal in Derbyshire and elsewhere JOHN HILSEY or Hildesley was of the same Family with those of Beneham in Berks. and they originally of the Hildesleys of Hildesley in the same County who being much addicted from his Childhood to Learning and Religion nothing was wanting in his sufficient Parents to advance them Whereupon falling under the tuition of a Dominican or Preaching or Black Frier was entred in his manly Years among the Brethren of that Order at Bristow and thence for a time was removed to the House of the Dominicans in the S. Suburb of Oxon purposely to initiate him in the supreme faculty and in some smattering of Philosophical Learning In the Month of May 1527 he supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences but whether he was admitted it does not appear through neglect in the publick Register and in Nov. 1532. he by the name and title of Pater Johannes Hylsey de ordine praedicatorum Bac. SS Theol. supplicated to proceed in Divinity Which being granted he was admitted but did not stand in the Act following to compleat that Degree So that how it comes to pass that a certain Author of note should say that he was Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge I cannot perceive seeing that his name doth not occur in the Catalogue of the Doctors of all faculties who proceeded at Cambridge from 1500 to 1571. Printed at the end of the first Edition of Antiquitates Britannicae Ecclesiae This Doctor Hilsey being elected Bishop of Rochester after the decollation of John Fisher had restitution made to him of the temporalities of that See 4. Oct. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535 where being settled he wrot A Manual of Prayers or Primer with the Epistles and Gospels Which Book being dedicated to Thomas Lord Cromwell was at his command published at Lond. 1539. in 8. He also wrot De veri corporis esu in Sacramento Ded. also to the said Cromwell Of which Book and its Author see in a piece of Lat. Poetry intit Diacosio-Martyrion written by Job White Warden of the College near Winchester afterwards successively B. of Linc. and Winchester As for our Author Dr. Hilsey I know not yet to the contrary but that he hath written other things having always been accounted a Learned Man but what the titles of them are I cannot tell nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying towards the latter end of the Year Fifteen hundred thirty and eight was year 1538 I presume buried in the Cathedral of Rochester In the said See succeeded Nicholas Heath as I shall tell you elsewhere among the Bishops JOHN MAJOR was born at Haddington within the Province of Lothaine in Scotland and trained up from his Youth in the Study of good Letters For some time he heard Philosophy taught in the Universities of England and in Cambridge by his own confession he studied for three Months space in Christ's College but upon what account he continued there no longer he tell us not In a certain note under the hand-writing of our Antiquary Brian Twyne it doth appear that he was conversant among the Oxonian Muses for a time but in what House unless in the Abbey of Osney whose melodious ring of Bells he doth familiarly commend I cannot tell After he had satisfied himself with the curiosities of both the Universities he retired to that of Paris settled in the College of Montacute passed his course there became Doctor of the Arts and of the holy Writ a most Scholastical Doctor of the Sorbon and in Scholastical Divinity Philosophy and Sophistry equal with any of his time His works are Liber fallaciarum part 2. Par. 1516. fol. The matter of this Book which by certain Authors is called Sophisticalia Parisiensia and by others his Opera Logicalia was read and discussed in publick in the Coll. of Montacute before-mention'd In quartum sententiarum quaestiones utilissimae Par. 1516. and 19. fol. dedicated to Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld and Rob. Cockbourne B. of Ross Comment in Mathaeum When printed I know not De auctoritate concilii supra Pontificem Maximum Par. 1518. Excerpted from his comments on Matthew and was reprinted in the first part of Job Gersons works at Paris 1606. fol. In primum sententiarum Par. 1519. fol. Dedicated to George Hepbourne Abbat of Arbroth and of the Privy Council to the King of Scots Historia Majoris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae lib. 6. Par. 1521. qu. Written in a Sorbonick and barbarotis stile yet very truly and with great liberty of spirit not sparing the Usurpation of Rome and taxing in divers places the laziness and superfuity of the Clergy In quatuor Evangelia expositiones luculentae disquisitiones disputationes contra a Hereticos plurimae Par. 1529. fol. He hath also written Placita Theologica and Sermones per an which I have not seen and hath translated Will. Caxton's Chronicle but whether into the Scotch or English Language I know not At length after or about the Year 1530. he retired into his own Country and professed Theology in the Coll. of S. Salvator at S. Andrews whereof he was made Provost and died there being of good Age but when I cannot yet find George Buchanan was his Scholar and bestoweth on him this Charater in studio Theologiae magnum nomen me puero habuit yet in his Epigrams he speaks slightly of him and his works Besides this Job Major I find two of both his names one was Author of In Psalmos Davidis Regis Prophetae paraphrasis heroicis versibus expressa Witeberg 1574. oct and another who was a Licentiat in Grammar of this University an 1452 but whether he hath written any thing in his faculty I know not HENRY PARKER Son of Sir Will. Parker Knight living sometimes at Halingbery morley in the Diocess of London by Alice his Wife Daugh. of Will. Lovell Esq by Alienour his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Rob. Lord Morley was with several other Nobles of his time educated in most kinds of Literature in this University Afterwards retireing to his Estate in Northamptonshire became so much in favour with K. Hen. 8. that he had summons to Parliament in the 21. Year of that King's Reign by the title of Lord Morley and in the 22. of the said Reign Dom. 1530. being one of the Peers at that time sitting in Parliament subscribed that Declaration then sent to P. Clement 7. whereby intimation was given to his Holiness that unless he would comply with K. Henry in the cause of his divorce from Qu. Catherine the farther
acknowledgement of his Supremacy in this Realm would be in danger and in the 25. of the said King was judgment given on his behalf for taking place before the Lord Dcres of Gilsland His younger Years were adorned with all kind of superficial Learning especially with Drammatick Poetry and his elder with that which was divine and therefore worthily characterized to be vir liter is clarus ac genere nobilitate conspicus His writings have been Several Comedies and Tragedies Declaration of the Psalm 94. Deus ultionum Dominus Lond. 1539. oct Lives of Sectaries With other things which I have not yet seen He was living an Ancient Man and in esteem among the Nobility in the latter end of Henry 8. The Reader is now to know that there was another Hen. Parker who wrot a Book intit Dives pauper A compendious treatise an exposition upon the ten Commandments Lond. 1496. fol. There again in 1538 and 1586. oct Which Henry being a Carme of Doncaster in Yorkshire and D. of D. of Cambridge in the time of Ed. 4. must not be taken to be the same with the former EDWARD POWELL was born of British blood within the Principality of Wales educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals in Oxon and was afterwards if I mistake not Fellow of Oriel Coll. for one of both his names occurs Fellow of that House in 1495. After he had taken the Degrees in Arts he gave himselfe solely up to Divinity and in that faculty he became a noted Disputant On the 2. of Nov. 1501. he was admitted to the rectory of Bledon in the of Wells on the death of Mr. Micb. Clyffe and afterwards took the Degrees in Divinity In 1508. he by the favour of Edm. Audley B. of Sarum was collated to the Prebendship of Bedmyster and Redclyve having a little before been admitted Preb. of Lyme and Halstock in the said Church This E. Powell was the Person who for his great learning and undaunted courage was entertained as an Advocate by Qu. Catherine when K. Hen. 8. sought cause for a divorce from her and the same who before had shewed himself very zealous in disputing and writing against M. Luther his Disciples and Doctrine for which the University of Oxon did not only congratulate him for his pains but also in an Epistle to the said Bishop Audley they thus honorably speak of him res ea Oxoniensium quorundam ingeniis discutienda permittitur inter quos eximius ille Edoardus Powell Theologiae condidatus tuae Sarisburiensis Ecclesiae ut vocant Canonicus connumeratus est Is enim ex quo res primum in Literarium certamen venit tam assiduus semper fuit tantum operae ac diligentiae impendit tam denique eruditè adversus eas hereses invectus est ut ex suis immensis laboribus vigilantissimisque studiis nostrae Academiae nonnihil attribui laudis facile auguramur c. Farther also when the University wrot to K. Hen. 8. to certifie him of certain Doctors of Divinity of their own Body that had lately written each of them a Book against M. Luther they make this especial mention of our Author Powell and his Book Editionem tamen Doctoris Poveli tanquam praecipuam lucidam quendam gemmam visum est nobis seligere is siquidem ut est vir summâ gravitate eruditione praeter immensos labores frequentiaque ejus itinera tantam in hâc re exhibuit vigilantiam ut nisi eum eximiâ efferemus laude videamur plane injurii aut potius inbumani Hanc suam editionem in duos potissimum digessit libellos quorum prior de summo extat pontifice Eucharistiaeque Sacramento Posterior de reliquis sex Sacramentis Hunc tuae celsitudini sic commendamus virum ut quamvis eum habeas perquam gratum habeas quaesumus nostrâ tamen commendatione gratiorem c. As for the title of the said Book it runs thus Propugnaculum summi sacerdotii Evangelici ac septenariâ— sacramentorum adversus Mart. Lutherum fratrem fumosum Wiclefistum insignem lib. 3. Lond. 1523. qu. Another Book of his making is intit Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Regis cum Catherinâ matrimonio lib. 1. and other matters as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen At length for his denial of the King's Supremacy over the Church of England whereby he despleased him far more than before he pleas'd him by writing against Luther he was committed to Prison and having received sentence to dye was on the 30. July in Fifteen hundred and forty hang'd year 1542 drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield near London with Tho. Abel whom I am about to name and Rich. Fetherston guilty of the same crime This Dr. Edw. Powell bestowed at least 30 l. about the time when he was licensed to proceed for the making of a double roof with painting gilded knots and lead for the Congregation house house which is now the upper room in St. Maries Church-yard joining on the North side to the Chancel of St. Mariâ—â— Church 22. Hen. 7. Dom. 15 6 7. THOMAS ABEL or Able took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1516 but what Degrees in Divinity I cannot find He was afterwards a Servant to Qu. Catherine the Consort of K. Hen. 8. and is said by a certain Author to be vir longe doctissimus qui Reginae aliquando in Musicorum tacta inguis operam suam navaret In 1529. and 30 he shewed himself a zealous Advocate against the divorce of the said Queen and a passionate enemy against the unlawful doings of the King At which time he wrot Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Catherinae matrimonio In 1534 he by the name of Tho. Able Priest was attainted of Misprision for taking part with and being active in the matter of Elizabeth Barton the holy Maid of Kent Afterwards denying the King's Supremacy over the Church was hang'd drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield year 1540 30. Jul. in Fifteen hundred and and forty having before as 't is thought written other things but lost I find another Tho. Able who hath written against the Gangraena of Tho. Edwards but he being a hundred Years later than the former for he lived in 1646. he must not be taken to be the same Person CHRISTOPHER SEINTGERMAN called by some Senyarmayn or Seyngerman Son of Sir Hen. Seintgerman Knight by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. Tindale Esq was born as I conceive in Warwickshire particularly at Shilton near to the City of Coventry in the Chappel or Church of which place his Father and Mother received Sepulture In his juvenile Years he was educated in Grammatical and Philosophical Learning among the Oxonians from whom by the advice of his Parents he was taken away and sent to the Inner Temple where by the benefit of his Academical Learning certain instructors in the municipal Laws and by his forward Genie and industry he became a
place of credit and considerable profit and introduced into the acquaintance of most of the Nobility that frequented the Court He hath transmitted to posterity Opusculum plano divinum de mortuorum resurrectione extremo judicio in quatuor linguis succinctè conscriptum viz. Lat. Angl. Ital. Gall. Lond. 1545. and 47. in qu. Declaration of certain Articles with a recital of the capital errours against the same Lond. 1546. in oct Meditations on death declinatione verborum De Italica De Gallica He hath also translated from French into English A treatise of Nobility with other things written and translated which I have not yet seen At length being clap'd up Prisoner within the Tower of London whether for matters of Religion or any other thing I know not did to avoid publick shame as 't is thought hang himself in his Chamber with his girdle on the tenth of May in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 leaving this character behind him by a Calvinistical Author that he was an open Enemy to the Gospel and all godly Preachers The Reader is to note that several of both his names occur in records as first Joh. Clerke a Berkshire Man born who became Fellow of Magd. Coll. 1482. 2 Joh. Clerke of the same Coll. as it seems who proceeded M. of A. 1516. 3 Joh. Clerke a Cambridge Man afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells whom I shall elsewhere mention 4 Joh. Clerke who was originally of Cambridge afterwards of Cardinal College in Oxon and incorporated M. of A. 1525 but ejected the said Coll. soon after for Lutherisme 5 Joh. Clerke a Benedictine Monk incorporated Bach. of Divinity 13. July 1538 as he before had stood at Cambridge proceeded in that faculty at Oxon within few days after and stood in an Act to compleat that Degree 29. of the same Month in the said Year But of all the said Joh. Clerks not one as I conceive is Joh. Clerke the writer except you 'll say the second ALEXANDER de BARKLAY who seems to have been born at or near a Town so called in Somersetshire was for a time educated in this University particularly as it seems in Oriel Coll. of which his great Patron and Favourer of his studies Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne was then Provost Afterwards he travel'd beyond the Seas and at his return became by the said Bishops endeavours to whom he was Chaplain one of the Priests of the College of St. Mary at Otery in Devonshire founded by Joh. Grandison B. of Exeter But his Patron dying soon after he entred into the Order of St. Benedict or into that of St. Francis as one who gives him an ill report because he lived and died a single Man tells us but at what place I know not Sure 't is that living to see his Monastery dissolv'd he being about that time Doctor of Divinity became Vicar of Much Badew in Essex and in 1546 Vicar of the Church of St. Mathew the Apostle at Wokey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Rich. Eryngton which I think was all the preferment that he had to the time of his death In his younger days he was esteemed a good Poet and Orator as several specimens of his composition in those faculties shewed but when Years came on he spent his time mostly in pious matters and in reading the Histories of Saints His works are The figure of our Mother Holy Church oppressed by the French King Printed at London by Rich. Pynson in qu. The miseries or miserable lives of Courtiers Besides his answer to Job Skelton the Poet and other things which I have not yet seen He translated from Lat. into English The lives of St. Margaret St. Catherine St. Etheldreda St. George c. Several things also of Jo. Bapt. Fiera Mantuam and other matters as Baleus tells you But above all must not be forgotten his translation out of Latin French and Dutch into the English Language a Book intit The Ship of Fools an 1508. Printed at Lond. by Pich Pynson 1509. fol. and dedicated by the translator to the said Tho. Cornish B. of Tyne and suffragan Bishop of Wells This translation is adorned with great variety of Pictures printed from wooden cuts which could not be but very delightful to the Reader in those days The original Author of that Book was one Sebastian Brantius much famed in his time for his excellent works As for his translator Dr. Barklay who also translated from French into English The Castle of Labour lived to be an aged Man and dying at a Mercat Town called Croyden in Surrey before the 10. of June for on that day his will was prov'd in Fifteen hundred fifty and two was buried in the Church there year 1552 leaving then behind him among some the character of a good Scholar EDWARD SEYMOURE Son of Sir Joh. Seymoure of Wolfhall in Wilts Knight was educated in trivials and partly in quadrivials for some time in this University and whether he afterwards studied in Cambridge of which he was Chancellour in the Reign of Edw. 6. I cannot say If so 't is very strange that one that had conversed with the Muses of both Universities should be so unlearned as one who was an enemy to his memory reports that he could scarce write or read Afterwards K. Hen. 8. marrying his Sister Jane he ascended to and obtained great honours and places in the Realm of England as all Histories will tell you While he was Lord Protector there went under his name Epistola Exhortatoria ad pacem missa ad nobilitatem ac plebem universumque populum regni Scotiae Lond. 1548. qu. In which Year also came out his Expedition into Scotland written by another hand After he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for divers miscarriages in his Government he made very great shew of sanctity and seemed not to omit any opportunity whereby he might employ his time religiously as it well appears by a Book that he then wrot entituled A spiritual and most precious Pearl teaching all Men to love and embrace the cross as a most sweet and necessary thing c. Lond 1550 oct At that time before and after he was much courted by John Calvin and Peter Martyr as being the chief Person that carried on the reformation The former wrot to him the said Protector An Epistle of godly consolation 22. Oct. 1549. Writ before the time and knowledge of his trouble Which Epistle being delivered to him in the time of his trouble was translated by him from French into English Printed at Lond. 1550. oct The other P. Martyr wrot an Epistle to him about the same time in the Lat. tongue which being much pleasing to him was by his desire translated into English by that noted Zealot Thom. Norton Printed 1550. in oct From which Epistles it doth plainly appear what great respects they Calvin and Martyr and their Parties had for him and what solemn wishes and prayers they continually
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 capellanâ—s 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
into holy Orders and was made Library keeper to K. Ed. 6. who finding him to be a Person of Merit conferr'd the Deanery of Chichester on him about 1551. But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he left his preferments and as a voluntary exile went into Germany where accompanying other English Exiles that had fled thence for Religion sake continued there till the death of Qu. Mary and then returning was restored to what he had lost and without doubt was rewarded with more While he was beyond the Sea he exercised himself much in writing matters in verse and prose in both which he wrot several things with great happiness especially those to his Brother Thomas to embrace the true Doctrine of Jesus Christ that is to leave the R. Catholick Church turn Protestant and come over to him Among many things that he wrot were Paraenesis lib. 1. Written to his Brother Thomas Carmina in mortem Henrici Dudlaei Analysis Scoparum Johannis Cochlei Exposition of a part of S. John's Gospel made in sundry Readings in the English Congregation against the Arrians Printed the second time in an 1558. oct The Readings were ten and they were performed in the English Congregation beyond the Sea Exposition on the fourth Chapter of S. John's Revelations which treateth of the providence of God made before his Countrymen in Germany Printed 1557. in oct Lond. 1577. and 83. in oct Treatise of Repentance besides other things which are mention'd by Jo. Bate He also translated into English The Chirurgerie of Joh. de Vigo Lond. 1580. qu. 2 Edit and the said Vigo's Little Practice Lond. 1562. in octavo In which year which was part of the third and fourth of Qu. Elizabeth Barth Traberon was if I mistake not living HENRY PENDLETON a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Lancashire became a Student in Brasnose Coll. about the year 1538 took the Degrees in Arts and afterwards those in Divinity in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being then beneficed and dignified in the Church In the Reign of Qu. Marie he shew'd himself so grand a Zealot for the Cause then professed in several Sermons by him preached that when in one by him delivered at Pauls Cross which was very sharp against the Hereticks as they were then called a Gun was discharged at but miss'd him Under his Name were these things following printed Homilies to be read in the Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Communication between him and Mr. Lour Sanders Disputation between him and Mr. Joh. Bradford Protestants an 1555. The Contents or part of which Communic and Disput you may see in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. and also Pendleton's Arguings with Bartlet Green and certain Protestant Martyrs Other things he hath written which I have not yet seen and was always accounted a learned Doctor of his time and so endear'd to the Cath. Religion that he made a solemn Protestation in Qu. Maries Reign that he would see the nntermost drop of his Grease molten away and the last gobbet of his Flesh consumed to Ashes before he would forsake God and his truth He lived after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and was imprison'd for a time but when or where he died I know not PETER MARTYR who is to have a place in these Athenae was born in the great and rich City of Florence in Italy in Sept. on the Nativity of the Virgin Marie an 1500 educated in several sorts of Learning in that City by the great care of his Father Steph. Vermilius became a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin at 16 years of age in the Coll. at Fiesoli more than a mile distant from Florence After he had spent three years there he was sent to Padua to enlarge his Learning that University then being in a flourishing Condition and setling in the Monastery of St. John de Verdera of the same Order of S. Austin spent almost 8 years in philosophical Studies and all other Arts especially in the Greek Tongue and Poets which at length he conquered At 26 years of age he began to preach and the first time he performed that Office was in the Church of St. Afra in Brescia and afterwards frequently in the most famous Cities of Italy However all the time that he could obtain from his Function was spent in sacred Learning Philosophy and in obtaining the Hebrew Tongue At length being cried up for a celebrated Scholar he was made Abbat of Spoleto in the Duchy of L'Ombria in Italy where he continued three years Thence he was translated to Naples and there became Abbat of the Monastery of his Order called St. Peter ad aram being of greater profit and a far more pleasant place than Spoleto After he had been setled there for some time he began to see the verity of the Gospel especially after he had read some of the Works of Bucer and Zwinglius Three years being spent there also he fell into a dangerous Sickness but the strength of Nature overcoming it he was advised by his Physitians to take better Air than what Naples afforded To that end therefore that he might with convenience be absent from his Cure the Fathers chose him General Visitor of their Order that is of the Order of S. Austin and soon after was elected Prior of S. Fridian within the City of Luca which is a place of great dignity having Episcopal Jurisdiction in the middle part of the said City Being setled at that place he instituted a most admirable way of Studies for the younger sort at Luca but at length his Opinions as to Heresie then so called being discovered snares were laid for him so that being not in a capacity to speak his mind he by the advice of certain Friends committed the best part of his Library to the Custody of one of them gave another part to the Coll. and forthwith left Luca and went to Pisa whence he wrote Letters to Card. Pole shewing the Reasons of his Departure Afterwards he went into Schwitzerlands and fixed for some time at Zurich Thence to Strasburgh where for about five years he read and taught sacred Letters in which time he took to Wife he being near 50 years of Age one Cath. Dampmartin causing thereupon his Enemies to say that he left his Order and Monastic Vows purposely for the sake of a Woman Which Wife after she had lived with him about 8 years died at Oxon as I shall anon tell you In 1547 he was invited into England by Edward Lord Protector and Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury to the end that his Assistance might be used to carry on a Reformation in the Church In the Month of Dec. the same year he with Bemnardine Ochine another Italian arrived in England and retiring to Lambeth were kindly received by Archb. Cranmer and entertained there for some time About the latter end of the same year in Feb. or
in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
While he continued at Madrid in Spain in the quality of an Ambassador he was accused to have spoken somewhat unreverently of the Pope Whereupon he was excluded from the Court and afterwards thrust out of Madrid into a Country Village his Servants compelled to be present at Mass and the exercise of his own Religion forbidden and this whether in more hatred to the Queen of England or to Religion I cannot say whereas she in the mean time had shewed all kindness to Goseman the Spanish Ambassador allowing him his own Religion This Man-goose hath as I have been informed written and translated several things but none have I yet seen only his translation from Latin into English of Common places of Christian Religion gathered by Wolfg. Musculus c. Lond. 1563. fol. and 1573. in a thick qu. He paid his last debt to nature at London 18. March in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight and received sepulture in the Chancel of St. Anns Church near Aldersgate in the same City leaving issue by his Wife Frances Dau. of Edm. Herenden of London Mercer several Children some of whose posterity do now or at least did lately live at Hatfield-Braddock in Essex In his Deanery of Glocester succeeded Dr. Tho. Cooper afterwards B. of Winchester and in the Wardenship of Merton Coll. Dr. Tho. Bickley afterwards B. of Chichester Besides this Jo. Man I find another of both his names of New Coll. born at Writtle in Essex who being LL. B. was presented by the Warden and Fellows of the said Coll. to the rectory of Great-Horwood in Bucks an 1551 where he died 1565. EDMUND BONNER a Person much esteemed by those of his profession for the zeal he bore to the R. Catholick cause was the natural Son of George Savage Priest Parson of Davenham in Cheshire natural Son of Sir Job Savage of Clifton in the said County Knight of the Garter and one of the counsel to K. Hen. 7. Which Geo. Savage Priest had seven natural Children by three sundry Women viz. 1 George Savage Chancellour of Chester 2 Joh. Wymesley Parson of Torperley in Cheshire who was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Ed. Bonner 3 Randal Savage of Lodge in the said County 4 Edm. Bonner of whom we are to make further mention begotten on the body of Elizab. Frodsham who was the Wife after Bonner had been begotten of Edm. Bonner a Sawyer living with a Gentleman called Armingham of Potters Hanley in Worcestershire besides three Daughters named Margaret Ellen and Elizabeth Our Author who was called by his supposed Fathers name Edm. Bonner was born either at Elmeley or at Potters-Hanley in Worcestershire and in 1512 or thereabouts became a Student of Broadgates hall now Pembroke Coll. being then a noted nursery for Civilians and Canonists Soon after having made a sufficient progress in Philosophy and the Laws he was on the 12. June admitted Bach. of the Canon and on the 13. of July following an 1519. Bach. of the Civil Law About that time he entred into Holy Orders and performed many matters relating to his faculty in the Dioc. of Worcester by the appointment of the then Bishop In 1525 he was licensed to proceed in the Civil Law and about that time obtained the rectories of Ripple Bledon Dereham Cheswick and Cherriburton in Yorks Afterwards he was one of the Kings Chaplains a favourer of the Lutherans of the divorce between the K. and Catherine of Spain a favourer of the Kings proceedings in expelling the Popes authority from the Kingdom of England and Master of the Faculties under Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury In 1535 he became Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Edw. Fox promoted to the See of Hereford which Fox had been installed in that Archdeaconry upon the resignation of Steph. Gardener LL. D. 27. Sept. 1531. and by the endeavours of Thom. Cromwell Secretary of State he was employed Ambassador to the Kings of Denmark and France to the Pope and to the Emperour of Germany and made Bishop of Hereford 1538 the temporalities of which See were restored to him by the K. 4. March the same Year But before he was consecrated thereunto he was elected Bishop of London 1. Oct. 1539 being then in an Embassie had restitution made of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 18 Nov. following and was consecrated 3. Apr. 1540. After the death of K. Hen. 8. and Religion being about to be reformed by K. Ed. 6. Bonner seemed at first to be forward for it but recanting what he had done he was enjoyn'd to preach a Sermon at Pauls cross to make farther trial perhaps of his humour wherein leaving out the article of the Kings authority was upon the complaints of Joh. Hooper and Will some call him Hugh Latymer Bach. of Div. and Parson of St. Laurence Pountney who prosecuted him very zealously for it and his slowness in forwarding reformation in his Diocess first committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea 20. Sept. and in the beginning of Oct. following an 1549. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick Soon after which time his Mother Elizab. Frodsham died and was buried at Fulham at whose Funeral Bonner tho a Prisoner gave to several Persons mourning coats In the beginning of Aug. 1553. he was released out of the Marshalsea and restored to his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary in whose Reign he shew'd himself severe being put upon it by publick authority against the Protestants as may be fully seen in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church As for the writings of the said Bonner they are many but all that I have yet seen are only these viz. Preface to the oration of Stephen Bish of Winchester concerning true obedience Printed at London in Lat. 1534. 35 and at Hamburgh 1536. oct Translated and imprinted by a most zealous enemy to the Papists called Mich. Wood who wrot a bitter and libellous Epistle before and a conclusion after it to the Reader Print at Roan 1553. oct I have seen another translation of it perhaps by the same hand without the said lib. Epist printed in oct an 1536. In the said Pref. written by Bonner are several matters against the Popes power in England and in defence of the Kings divorce from Qu. Catherine Several Letters to the Lord Tho. Cromwell an 1538. A declaration to the Lord Th. Crom. describing to him the evil behaviour of Steph Bish of Winchester an 1538 These two last are mention'd in the Acts and Mon. of the Church under that year Responsum exhortatio Lond. 1553. in oct Which answer and exhortation to the Clergy in praise of Priesthood beginning Dum tacitus apud me considero c. were utter'd by our Author after Joh. Harpesfield had finished his Sermon to the Clergy in St. Pauls Cath. in Lond. 16. Oct. 1553 and the orations ended of John Wymesley Archdeacon of London before-mention'd and of Hugh Weston Dean of Westminster All which were printed and bound together in one volume Articles
the society when he was ejected from among them in 1554. Epistola ad Scipionem Patritium Venetum de causis cur Episcopi Angliae ad concilium Tridentinum non convenirent an 1559. This also is printed in an appendix to the second edit of the translation of the Hist of the Council of Trent made by Sir Nath. Brent Lond. 1629. fol. Letters between him and Dr. Hen. Cole upon occasion of a Sermon that Mr. Jewell preached before the Queen and her Council Lond. 1560. oct This Letter-Combat began 18. March 1559 and continued till 18. May 1560. Sermon at Pauls cross the second Sunday before Easther an 1560 on 1. Cor. 11. 23. Lond. 1560. oct In which he gave out a bold challenge against the Papists as I have before told you Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae Lond. 1562. oct Which book was so much esteemed by the Men of Zurich and all Protestants that it was translated almost into all tongues to the end that it might be generally known The Council of Trent held at that time saw and censured it and appointed a Frenchman and an Italian to answer it but they hung back and would or rather could not It was several times printed in England and beyond the Seas and in Greek at Oxon. 1614. oct This book was soon after its first publication translated into English by Anon. with this title An Apologie or answer in defence of the Church of England concerning the state of Religion used in the same Lond. 1562. qu. But Tho. Hardyng coming out with a confutation of it our Author published A defence of the Apologie of the Church of England containing an answer to a certaine book lately set forth by Mr. Harding and entit A confutation c. in 6 parts Lond. 1564. 67. fol. Translated into Lat. by Tho. Braddock Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Christs Coll in Cambr. printed beyond the Seas 1600 fol. Soon after the first publication of the said Defence Hardyng publishing A detection of certaine errours in the said Defence our Author came out with An answer to Mr. Hardings book entit A Detection of certaine errours c. Lond. 1565. Lov. 1568. Afterwards followed A reply to Mr. Hardings answer By perusing whereof the discreet and diligent reader may easily see the weake and unstable grounds of the Rom. Religion in 27. Articles Lond. 1566. fol. Therein also is an answer to Mr. Hardyngs preface to his aforesaid answer This reply of Jewell is translated into Lat. by Will. Whitaker Fellow of Trinity Coll. in Camb. Genev. 1585. fol. and with it is printed his Apologie A view of a seditious Bull sent into England from Pius 5. Bishop of Rome an 1569. Delivered in certain Sermons in the Cath. Ch. of Sarum 1570. Lond. 1582. oct A treatise of the Holy Scripture gathered out of his Sermons preached at Salisbury 1570. Lond. 1582. oct Exposition on the two Epistles of the Apostle St. Paul to the Thessalonians Lond. 1594. oct A Treatise of the Sacraments gathered out of his Sermons Lond. 1583. oct Certaine Sermons preached before the Qu. Majestie at Pauls cross and elsewhere They are in number at least 13 viz. on Josh 6. 1. 2. 3. Haggat 1. ver 2. 3. 4. Psal 69. 9. c. All which Books the five first excepted Sermons and Apolgie are printed in one Vol. in fol Lond. 1609. with an abstract of his life set before them but full of faults written by Don. Featly Besides them he hath left behind him these MSS which as I conceive are not yet printed viz. A paraphrastical exposition of the Epistles and Gospels throughout the whole Year A continuate exposition of the Creed Lords prayer and 10 Commandements Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galathians Com. on the Epist of St. Peter At length this worthy prelate paying his last debt to nature at Monkton-Farley 23. year 1571 Sept. in Fifteen hundred seventy and one was buried almost in the middle of the Choire of his Cathedral at Salisbury At which time Giles Laurence Archdeacon of Wilts preached the funeral Sermon and Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. formerly a Lay-preacher administred at the funeral See more of Joh. Jewells works in Job Garbrand under the Year 1589. DAVID WHITHEAD a great light of learning and a most heavenly professor of Div. of his time was of the same family with those of Tuderley in Hampshire and when at ripe years was educated in all kind of learning and virtue in this University but whether in Brasenose or All 's Coll. as some surmise I find not What Degrees he took it doth not appear or whether he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences because in the latter end of Hen. 8. and all the time of K. Ed. 6. the publick registers are very imperfect In the time of Hen. 8. he was Chaplain to Anna Bulleyne by whose means he had some preferment in the Church and in the beginning of Qu. Mary he among several zealous Protestants went to Frankfort in voluntary exile where being in great esteem with the English congregation wrot Lections and Homelies on St. Pauls Epistles In A brief discourse of the Troubles began at Frankfort in Germany c. printed 1575. you 'll find several of his discourses and answers to the objections of Dr. Rob. Horne concerning matters of discipline and worship See there in p. 128. 129. c. 146. 147. c. After his return into England he had a hand in the third edition of the English Liturgy in 1559 and was chosen one of the Disputants against the R. Cath Bishops So that in his discourses shewing himself a deep Divine the Qu. thereupon had so great an esteem for him that she offer'd him the Archbishoprick of Canterbury but he refused it as about the same time he did the Mastership of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near to London affirming that he could live plentifully on the preaching of the Gospel without either So that whether he had any spiritualities of note confer'd on him is yet doubtful he being much delighted in travelling to and fro to preach the word of God in those places where he thought it was wanting His life was spent in celebacy as it became a true Theologist and therefore the better esteemed by the Queen who had no great affection for such Priests that were married He was conducted by death to the habitation prepared for old age in Fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 but in what Church or Chappel buried I know not Take therefore this for his Epitaph which was made by one of his acquaintance Nominis unatui est Album caput altera pars est Quadrant in mores scilicet ista tuos Candidius nihil esse potest nam moribus ist is Dulce vocant omnes te lepidumque caput THOMAS KEY or Cay whose name and the same bearers of armes tho they have continued for several generations at Woodsome or Wodersome and elsewhere in Yorkshire yet I
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
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
born at Bolingdon in the same County educated as it seems in New Inn where applying his studies to the Civil Law was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions an 1524. at which time the said Inn was replenished and did excellently flourish with Civilians After he had left the University he became supreme Moderator of the Free-school within the cemitery gate at Canterbury and in 1553 Mayor of that City At length growing rich for his School was very much frequented by the youth of the neighbourhood many of which went afterwards to the Universities he purchased Lands at Preston and Hardacre in Kent which he left to his posterity He was a Person well read in Greek and Lat. Authors in the histories and antiquities of our Nation and much valued for his abilities in other matters by the learned Men of his age particularly by his acquaintance Joh. Leland who numbers him among the illustrious worthies of his time He hath written De rebus Albionicis Britannicis atque Anglicis commentariorum libri duo Lond. 1590. in oct written to his Son Thomas who afterwards with an Epistle made it publick Our Author John Twyne hath also written and collected divers things of antiquities which are dispersed in several hands and some of them descending to his Grandson Brian Twyne he gave them at his death to the Library of C. C. Coll. At length our Author arriving to a good old age year 1581 gave way to fate 24. Novemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one and received sepulture in the Chancel of the Church of St. Paul withing the City of Canterbury Over his grave is an inscription wherein he is stiled Armiger and said to have been Mayor of Canterbury in the time of Wyatts rebellion in the beginning of Qu. Mary This Epitaph being written in verse I shall now omit and commend you to that just Encomium of him given by Leland before mentioned By Alice his Wife who died 20. Oct. 1567. aged 60 and in the 43 year of her Wedlock Daughter of Will. Piper of Canterbury he had issue divers Sons The first was Laurence Twyne who was Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and Bach. of the Civil Law an ingenious Poet of his time as several copies of verses set before books written in commendation of their respective Anthors do sufficiently attest He was a married Man lived at Hardacre in Kent and left issue behind him at his death several Children The second was Tho. Twyne before-mention'd whom I shall mention under the Year 1613. The third was John Twyne whose ingenuity also is scatter'd in several copies of verses before books in the time of Qu. Elizabeth and the fourth was Nicholas of whom I know nothing RICHARD COXE was born as 't is said at Whaddon in Bucks elected from Eaton School Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in 1519 where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon for preferment was made one of the junior Canons of the Cardinal Coll. and in Decemb. 1525 was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same Degree About that time he supplicated that he might answer at the Austin Fryery now called Disputations in Austins and answer the Masters in formal disputations which was granted conditionally that he also oppose at the said Fryery This exercise being by him performed in order to the taking of his Masters Degree he was licensed to proceed in Arts 8. Feb. following and accordingly did proceed in an Act celebrated 2. July 1526. Soon after being notoriously known to be a follower and abettor of the opinions of Luther he was forced to leave Oxon and some years after became Master of Eaton School near to Windsore where by his diligent instruction the boys profited much About the Year 1537 he proceeded D. of D. at Cambridge became Archdeacon of Ely in the room as it seems of Tho. Thirlby promoted to the See of Westminster and afterwards was incorporated at Oxon in the Degree of Doctor In 1543. Jan. 8. he was made Dean of the new erected Cathedral of Osney near Oxon and in 1546 when that See was translated to Ch. Ch. he was also made Dean there In 1547 he was chosen Chancellour of the University of Oxford being in great favour with the then K. Ed. 6. By which election it fell out that as the Oxonians enjoyed one that had been partly educated in Cambridge so it was with the Cantabrigians in former time by their election of John Bromyerd an Oxonian and an eminent writer in the Reign of Rich. 2. and since by their election of Dr. Thomas Ruthal in the Reign of Hen. 7. But what mad work this Dr. Coxe did in Oxon while he sate Chancellour by being the chief Man that worked a reformation I have elsewhere told you In 1548. July 16. he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thomas Magnus who resigned that dignity in 1547 and about that time was made one of the Privy Council Almoner to the King and Dean of Westminster But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he among others fled to Frankfort in Germany where he shewed himself among the English Exiles a zealous Man for the Common Prayer as used in the days of K. Ed. 6. against Joh. Knox a Scot and a violent Calvinist When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded in the Empire he was appointed the chief of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Rom. perswasion in a disputation when that Queen was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England But that disputation coming to nothing he was made Bishop of Ely to which See he was consecrated 21. Dec. 1559 yet whether it was for his retiredness or small hospitality or the spoil he was said to make of his woods and parks feeding his Family with powdered venison he was but in little favour with the said Queen At Cambridge he was esteemed a good Scholar and a better Poet than Dr. Wal. Haddon who call'd him Master as having been either his Scholar or Servant There goes under this Dr. Coxe's names Oration at the beginning of the disputation of Dr. Tresham and others with Pet. Martyr Oration at the conclusion of the disputation These two orations which are in latine were printed 1549. in qu. and afterwards among Pet. Martyrs works Dr. Coxe also had a considerable hand in framing the first Liturgy of the Church of England and a hand in the third an 1559 and also turned into metre the Lords Prayer at the end of the Psalmes of David besides other works not yet remembred by publick Authors He yielded up his last breath 22. Jul. year 1581 in Fifteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the Cath. Church of Ely near to the monument of Bishop Goodrich I find another Rich. Coxe who was living and a writer in the tâ—me of the former but that Rich. Coxe which Joh. Leland the Antiquary and Poet doth so much celebrate for his faith and integrity in
about him the charms of a plausible behaviour of a fluent tongue and good parts and another who was his most beloved friend saith that he was upright in conscience deep in judgment and ripe in Eloquence As for the works by him written and published under his name they are these Nectar Ambrosia Trag. Much praised by Greg. Martin Rationes decem oblati certaminis in causa fidei redditae Academicis Angliae Printed first of all privately in the house of one Stonor a Cath. Gent. living near to Henly in Oxfordshire an 1581 afterwards at least five times publickly beyond the Seas of which once was at Aug. Trev. 1583 in Concertat Eccles Cath. and at length were translated into English Lond. 1687. qu. These reasons were very learnedly answered by Will. Whittaker of Cambridge and replyed upon by John Durey a Scot which Durey was answered by Dr. Laur. Humphrey Nine articles directed to the Lords of the Privy Council an 1581 See more in Mer. Hanmer under the Year 1604 and in Rob. Persons an 1610. Various conferences concerning Religion had with Protestant Divines in the Tower of London on the last of Aug. and on the 18 23 and 27. of Septemb. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. Among those Divines that he disputed with were Alex. Nowell Dean of St. Pauls Cath. and Will. Day Dean of Windsore The History of Ireland in two books Written 1570. The MS. or original of which being in the Cottonian Library was afterwards published by Sir James Ware of Dublin Knight Dubl 1633. fol. Chronologia Universalis Much commended by Greg. Martin before-mention'd Narratio de divortio Hen. 8. Regis ab uxore Catherina Printed at the end of Nic. Harpesfeild's Ch. History at Doway by the care of Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit who also added thereunto a Lat. translation of John Speeds Catalogue of religious Houses Colleges and Hospitals in England and Wales Ingolst 1602. oct Orationes Epistolae Tractatus de imitatione Rhetoricâ Among which orations are those as I suppose which he made at the funeral of Sir Tho. Whyte and of the Lady Amey Robsert the first Wife of Robert Earl of Leycester whose body having been at first buried in Comnore Church near Abendon for there she died or rather was murdered in the mannor house there belonging to Anth. Forster Gent. 8. Sept. 1560 was taken up and reburied in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Literae ad Rich. Chenaeum Episc Glocestr The beginning of which is Non me nunc alium c. Letters to Everard Mercurian General of the Society of Jesus giving an account of his proceedings in England an 1580. Printed in Lat. in Concertatio Eccles Cath. in Anglia part 1. p. 3. and elsewhere Besides all these are other things of our Author Compian which I have not yet seen that were collected and published among some of his works by Silvester à Petra Sancta a Jesuit of Italy printed at Antw. 1631. in tw but those things being scarce and rare to be had I can make no farther report of them nor their Author only that he with other Rom. Priests having been found guilty of treason according to the Act of 25. Ed. 3. and of adhering to the Bishop of Rome the Queens Enemy and of coming into England to disturb the peace and quiet of the Realm c. were executed at Tybourne near London on the first of Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 but what afterwards became of Campians carcass I know not Paul Bombin a Jesuit hath written his Life and Martyrdom published at Antw. 1618. in 12o. and afterwards at Mantua an 1620. in oct But that Pamphlet which I have several years look'd after but in vain is the Report of the death and martyrdom of E. Campian R. Sherwyn and A. Briant printed in English in oct soon after their death The two last of which I am now about to mention RALPH SHERWYN where born unless in the Western parts of England I know not was made Fellow of Exeter Coll. by Sir Will. Petre a principal benefactor thereunto in July 1568 went through with great industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy and in 1574 proceeding in Arts was made Senior of the Act celebrated 26 July the same year being then accounted an acute Philosopher and an excellent Grecian and Hebritian Afterwards he with Joh. Currey M. of A. and Fellow of the said Coll. obtaining leave to travel beyond the Seas in July 1575 left the University utterly renounced the Religion in which he had been mostly educated went to Doway spent some time in the study of Divinity in the English Coll. there and was made Priest with Laur. Johnson who afterwards was hanged by the name of Richardson 23. March 1576 7. In that place and for a time in the English Coll. at Rome he continued in making progress in divine studies till about the beginning of 1580 and then instead of going into England with certain Persons of his society into the Mission he went to Rheimes upon publick concerns to be had with Thom. Goldwell Bishop of St. Asaph then there who being at that time in a sickly condition and therefore not able to serve Sherwin and his Brethren as to Episcopal confirmation and other matters relating to the mission he waited upon the said Bishop in the quality of a Chaplain during his sickness Afterwards being well and sent for to Rome Sherwin went into England and before he was quite settled in London he was taken in the house of one Roscarriot or Roscarrock committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea and had fetters fastned to his legs While he continued there he had notice once or twice that he should prepare himself to dispute with certain Protestant Divines whereupon shewing himself very ready to encounter them he was translated to the Tower of London where after he had many questions proposed to him concerning Campian Persons and other Priests he shew'd himself afterwards to be a Man of parts and one that needed not to be asham'd of his education in Exeter College At length after he had continued there more than an year in great misery was at length tried for his life and refusing several times the Oath of Supremacy and going to hear service in the Protestant Churches was condemned to die His writings are Discourse in the tower of London with Edm. Campian the Jesuit ◠account of the disputations in Wisbich Castle between Will Fulk of Cambridge and certain R. Priests who were Prisoners there These two are not printed but kept in MS. as choice reliques among R. Cath. beyond the Sea Where or else in the Tower Rich. Stanyhurst saw them Epistles and Letters to divers Persons Two of which are in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae Aug. Trev. 1594. fol. 71. 72. c. See more of him in the latter end of Pet. White under the Year 1590. At length being found guilty of high treason was hang'd drawn
I cannot take to be the same with the former because he of Ch. Ch. seems then to be Master of Arts. As for our R. Bristow he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of the Year 1559 that also of Master in 1562 and was Junior of the Act celebrated 13 of July the same Year at which time he was entred in the Proctors book as a member of Ch. Ch. About that time having obtained great credit among the Academians for his admirable speeches spoken while Junior of the Act he applyed himself to the study of Divinity became noted in the University for his acute parts and being recommended therefore to that singular lover of learning Sir Will. Petre was by him promoted to one of his Scholarships or Fellowships in Exeter Coll. in July 1567 where exercising himself much in Theology did in a set disputation in the Divinity School put the Kings Professor L. Humphrey to a non-plus as those of our Authors perswasion do report At length being convinced that he had erred in his opinion left the Coll. in 1569 his Religion and the Kingdom went to Lovaine and became acquainted with Dr. William Allen who made him the first Moderator or Prefect of studies in the English Coll. by him founded at Doway took upon him the Priesthood being the first in that Coll. that did so and read the publick lecture of Divinity there In 1573 his said Scholarship or Fellowship of Ex. Coll. being pronounced void because he had been absent several years John Petre Son of Sir W. Petre before-mention'd did put into his room Mr. Oliver Whiddon Archdeacon of Totness 27. Oct. but resigned it in the latter end of Nov. following Afterwards upon Dr. Allens instituting another Seminary at Rheimes Bristow was sent for and the care of that place was committed to him also in 1579 while another was his substitute at Doway About which time he took the Degrees in Divinity partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine and became famous in those parts for his Religion and learning He hath written A brief treatise of diverse plaine and sure wayes to find out the truth in this doubtful and dangerous time of heresie containing sundry motives unto the Cath. Faith or considerations to move a Man to believe the Catholicks and not the Hereticks Antw. 1599. in tw and before at another place Dr. W. Allens testimony of this treatise is prefixed dat 30. Apr. 1574 wherein he saith that the said book contains with great perspicuity order and art divers most excellent works whereby to discern in Religion the true judgment of the Catholick Church from the false vanity of the Hereticks c. that it is also in all points Catholick learned and worthy to be read and printed These motives were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge Reply to Will Fulke in defence of Dr. Allens scrowle of articles and book of Purgatory Lov. 1580. qu. Whereupon Dr. Fulke came out with a rejoinder the Year following Anti-Heretica Motiva omnibus catholicae doctrinae orthodoxis cultoribus pernecessaria Atrebat 1608. in two tomes in qu. This large book which contains most if not all the former motives was translated into Lat. by Thom. Worthington a Secular Priest afterwards a Jesuit an 1606. and by him published at Arras two years after Demands 51 in number to be proposed by Catholicks to the Hereticks Several times printed in oct This also was answered in a book entit To the seminary Priests late come over some like Gentlemen c. Lond. 1592. qu. A defence of the Bull of P. Pius 5. He also collected and for the most part wrot Annotations on the New Testament translated into English at Rheimes And was also as it seems Author of Veritates aureae S. R. ecclesiae autoritatibus vet patrum c. Printed 1616. qu. for the name of R. Bristous Anglus is set to that Book At length after our Author had lived at Rheimes about two years went privately into England by his Physicians advice for healths sake in 1581 and going to London was kindly received by and entertain'd in the Family of one Bellamie Rob. or Jerome Bellamie as it seems a sincere and constant Lover of R. Catholicks and their Religion But his distemper being gone too far dyed the year following and was by Bellamie buried pivately year 1582 but where unless near to Harrow on the hill in Middlesex where the Bellamies had a seat and Lands I know not In the Year 1682 I received a note from one of the English Coll. in Doway whereby I was instructed that Rich. Bristow was made D. of D. at Doway from whence he was sent into England where he died not far from London 18. Oct. 1581. But this note I reject because that what I have said already of his death I had from the writings of one that knew him viz. Tho. Worthington who published his Motives GREGORY MARTIN received his first breath at Macksfield near to Winchelsey in Sussex was put in one of the original Scholars of S. Johns Coll. by the Founder thereof Sir Tho. White in 1557 where going thro the usual forms of Logick aad Philosophy with incredible industry took the degree of Master of Arts 1564. Afterwards he was taken into the Family of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk to be Tutor to his Son the Lord Philip afterwards Earl of Surrey and his Brethren where continuing for some years it hapned in that time that the said Duke came to Oxon and giving a visit to S. Johns Coll. had an eloquent Speech delivered before him by one of that Society wherein of Gr. Martin he said thus Habes illustrissime Dux Hebraeum nostrum Graecum nostrum Poetam nostrum decus gloriam nostram After he had done with his service in the said Dukes Family and received sufficient rewards for his pains he went beyond the Seas and renouncing his Religion openly for before he was but a Catholick in private he retired to Doway where applying his mind to the studies of Divinity was made a Licentiat in that Faculty in 1575. Afterwards going into Italy he went to Rome to do his Devotions to the places and Temples of the Apostles but making no long stay there he went to Rheimes in France where fixing his station in the English Coll. became publick Professor and one of the Divinity-Readers there He was a most excellent Linguist exactly read and vers'd in the Sacred Scriptures and went beyond all of his time in humane literature whether in Poetry or Prose As for those things he hath written they have been and are taken into the hands of Men of his profession but all that I have seen of them are only these A treatise of Schisme shewing that all Catholicks ought in any wise to abstaine altogether from heretical Conventicles viz. their Prayers Sermons c. Doway 1578. oct A discovery of the manifold corruptions of the Holy Scripture by the Hereticks of our days especially
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 coâ—panion 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
in the society of Jesus about 25 years to their great renown and honour The next Person in order to be mention'd is one as famous in his way as the former but of the reformed Religion THOMAS MOUFET or Muffet was born in London in or near St. Leonards Shoreditch as I conceive because his name and relations lived in that Parish and one John Muffet died there in 1596. After he had been educated in Grammar learning in that City he spent some time in this University afterwards travelled into divers Countries in Europe where he became known to the most eminent Men especially Physicians and Chymists of that time and was doctorated in Physick in some noted University in his travels After his return he fell into very great practice within the City of his nativity became much honoured and beloved by Peregrine Bertie Lord Willoughby of Eresbie and esteemed the famous ornament of the body of Physicians and the true pattern of all polite and solid Literature He hath written De jure praestantia Chemicorum Medicamentorum dialogus Apologeticus Francof 1584. Ursell 1602. oct and in the first volume of Theatrum Chemicum Argent 1623. oct pag. 70. Epistolae quinque Medicinales Most of which werâ— written to one whom the Author calls Philalethes a German Chymist They were printed with the former book in that impression of 1602 and I think elsewhere Nosomantica Hippocratea sive Hippocratis prognostica cuncta ex omnibus ipsius scriptis methodicè digesta c. Franc. 1588. oct in 9 books He also by his great labour and charge did enlarge and finish Insectorum sive minimorum Animalum Theatrum olim ab Edw. Wottono Conrado Gesnaro Thomaque Pennio inchoatum Which Book the Author leaving behind him in MS. at his Death it came some years after into the hands of Sir Theod. de Mayern Knight who published it in Fol. at Lond 1634. with an Epistle Dedicatory before and Preface to it But before that time some imperfect Copies of it were published by Laur Scholzius an 1598 c. This Book was published in the English Tongue at Lond. 1658. Fol. by J. R. M. D. Dr. Moufet hath written also Healths improvement or Rules comprising and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of Food used in this Nation This was corrected and enlarged by Christoph Bennet Lond. 1655. 4to Whatelse our Author Moufet hath written I know not nor any thing more of him only that in his latter days he lived much at Bulbridge near Wilton in Wilts as a retainer to the Pombrochian Family from which he had an yearly Pension allowed to him to his last day mostly by the favour of that incomparable Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke He concluded his last day towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth and was as I have been credibly informed by one or more ancient Men that belonged to the said Family buried at Wilton Contemporary with him was Joh. Securis an eminent Physician of Sarum whom I have mentioned before PETER WHITE noted for his excellency in Humane Learning while he continued in the University was born in the Diocess of Waterford in Ireland elected Fellow of Oriel Col. An. 1551. and in the year 1555. was admitted Master of Arts. About the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign he returned to his Native Country and became the Happy Schoolmaster of Mâ—ster and Dean of Waterford for a time From which last place being ejected for his Religion about 1565. he continued notwithstanding in his beloved Faculty of Pedagogy which was then accounted a most excellent Employment in Ireland by the Catholicks especially for this Reason that the Sons of Noblemen and Gentlemen might be trained up in their Religion and so consequently keep out Protestancy His School was during his time in a flourishing condition and by his care and industry many learned Persons issued thence Among such not that I shall mention Rich. Stanyhurst of whom I shall speak hereafter was one Peter Lombard born in Waterford who afterwards studied at Lovaine in Brabant where after he had spent two years and an half in Philosophy he was chosen when he proceeded Master of Arts Primus Vniversitatis by the uniform consent of the Four Principals which preferment did not happen in such sort for many years before About that time the said Lombard wrote Carmen heroicum in Doctoratum Nicholai Quemerfordi with other things afterwards which were much valued at Lovaine but such I have not yet seen See another Pet. Lombard in my discourse of Will. Camden As for P. White he hath written Epitome copiae Erasmi lib. 1. Epit. figurarum Rhetoricarum lib. 1. Annotationes in Orat. pro Archiâ poetâ Annot. in Orat. pro T. A. Milone Epigrammata diversa lib. 1. He lived as I guess to the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but the particular time when he died I find not Equal in time with the said Pet. White was another of both his Names an English-Man born and a severe Calvinist who among several things that he hath written published a Book intitled An Answer to certain crabbed Questions pretending a Real Presence in the Sacrament together with a discovery of the Jesuitical Opinion of Justification guilfully uttered by Sherwin at the time of his Execution Lond. 1582. oct Also A Sermon against Idolatry on Apoc. 1. 12 13. Lond. 1581. oct c. Whether he was an Oxford Man I cannot yet find THOMAS NEALE was born at Yeate in Glocestershire sped a Child into the College near Winchester by the endeavours of his Mother's Brother Alex. Belsire Fellow of New College where profiting exceedingly in Grammer Learning in the School there was chosen Probationer of New College in 1538. and two years after was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of the said House Afterwards prosecuting his Studies with great industry took the degree of Master of Arts in 1546 Holy Orders and soon after became an able Theologist and admirably well skill'd in the Greek and Hebrew Languages the last of which he read to several young Scholars in the University particularly to Bern. Gilpin of Queen's College About that time Sir Tho. Whyte who was afterwards Founder of S. John's College having had notice of his pregnant Parts and Vertues did for an encouragement allow unto him an yearly Pension of 10. l. In the beginning of Q. Mary he became Chaplain to Dr. Bonner Bishop of London and in 1556. being newly returned from Paris and other places in France he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then Rector of Thenforth in Northamptonshire But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and he thereupon bereft of his Lord and Patron Bonner he betook himself to Oxon and in 1559. he was made the Queen's Professor of the Hebrew Lecture entred himself a Commoner of Hart Hall and built little Lodgings opposite thereunto joyning to the West end of New Col. Cloister wherein he lived several years but his Religion
Onuphrius in Rome I have more than twice sent to that place for the day and year of his death with a copy of his Epitaph but as yet I have received no answer Therefore take this Epitâ—â— made for him which I have met with elsewhere Inveni portum spes fortuna valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite nunc alios HENRY SALESBURY born of and descended from a right ancient family of his name living in Denbigbshire became a commoner of S. Albans hall in 1581 aged 20 years took one degree in Arts and no more in this University entred on the Physick line practiced afterwards in his own country and was esteemed by the learned not only an eminent Physician but a curious Critick especially as to matters relating to the Antiquities and Language of his country He lâ—th written Dictionarium Britannicum Which being left 〈◊〉 in MS came into the hands of Job Davies who made great use of it when he was 〈◊〉 his Dictionary in British and Lat. and in Lat. and British What our author Salesbury hath written besides or when he died I find not nor any thing else of him only that he was of the same family with and very nearly related to Will. Salesbury whom I have mentioned under the year 1567 from whose endeavours this H. Salesbury found divers materials when he was composing his Dictionary before-mentioned and perhaps had received instruction from his own Person in matters relating to British affairs ISAAC COLFE fourth Son of Amandus Colfe alias Coult of Callis in France and of the City of Canterbury in England was born in Kent particulary as I suppose in the said City become a Commoner of Broadgates Hall in the beginning of the year 1576. took the Degrees in Arts Holy Orders and was afterwards beneficed if not dignified in his own Country His Works are Sermon 17. Nov. 1587. on Psal 118. 22. to the end of 26. Lond. in oct A Comfortable Treatise of the Temptation of Christ Lond. 1592. in oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen His eldest Brother Rich. Colfe was born at Callis educated in Ch. Ch. in this University and was afterwards Doctor of Divinity as I shall elsewhere tell you He left behind him several Sons among whom were Isaac of Ch. Ch. and Jacob of All Souls Col. JOHN PENRY or ap Henry that is the Son of Henry better known by the Name of Martin Marprelate or Marpriest as having been a Plague to the Bishops and Ministers of his time than by his own was born and bred as he used to say in the Mountains of Wales particularly as others say in the County of Brecknock became a Sub-sizer of Peter House in Cambridge about 1578. At which time as one a saith he was as arrant a Papist as ever came out of Wales and that he would have run a false Gallop over his Beads with any Man in England and help the Priest for a shift to say Mass at midnight c. In 1583. or thereabouts he took a Degree in Arts in that University and afterwards did perform some or most of the Exercise requisite for Master but leaving the said University abruptly for what cause I know not he retired to Oxon and getting himself to be entred a Commoner of St. Alban's Hall notwithstanding the vigour of Puritanism did then Reign among the Heads of the University which makes me to think that Penry was not then inclined to Popery he continued there for some time finished the remaining part of his Exercise and in the beginning of July 1586. he was licensed to proceed in Arts as a Member of the said Hall and on the eleventh of the said Month compleated that Degree in an Act celebrated in the Church of St. Mary About that time he took Holy Orders did Preach in Oxon and afterwards in Cambridge and was esteemed by many a tolerable Scholar an edifying Preacher and a good Man but being a Person full of Welsh Blood of a hot and restless Head did upon some discontent change the course of his Life and became a most notorious Anabaptist of which Party he was in his time the Corâ—pâ—â—â—us and in some sort a Brownist and the most bitter Enemy to the Church of England as any that appeared in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth He hath written A view of some part of such Publick Wants and Disorders as are in the Service of God within her Majesty's Country of Wales with an Humble Petition to the High Court of Parliament for their speedy redress Printed 1588. in oct Therein is shewed not only the necessity of Reforming the State of Religion among that People but also the only way in regard of substance to bring that Reformation to pass A defence of that which hath been written in the questions of the ignorant Ministry and the communicating with them Printed 1588. in oct written against Rob. Some D. D. of Cambridge who published the same year A Treatise deciding several questions concerning the Ministry Sacrament and Church Lond. in qu. As also A confutation of some of Mr. Penry's Errours About that time J. G. of Oxon published a Book entit Mr. Some laid open in his Colours wherein the indifferent Reader may easily see how wretchedly and loosly he hath handled the Cause against Mr. Penry Printed in oct Penry hath also written Exhortation unto the Governours and People of her Majesty's Country of Wales to labour earnestly to have the Preaching of the Gospel planted among them Printed 1588. in oct Theses Martinianae i. e. certain demonstrative conclusions set down and collected by Martin Marprelate the Great serving as a manifest and sufficient confutation of all that ever the College of Catercaps with their whole Band of Clergy-Priests have or can bring for the defence of their ambitious and Antichristian relacy Published by Martin Junior 1589. in oct and dedicated to John Kankerbury that is John Archbishop of Canterbury At the end of which Book Martin Junior hath an Epilogue The just censure and reproof of Mart. Marprelate to Martin Junior Printed with the former Protestation of Mart Marprelate Wherein notwithstanding the surprising of the Printer he maketh it known unto the World that he feareth neither proud Priest Antichristian Pope Tyrannous Prelate nor godless Catercap c. Printed 1589. in 120. by stealth and very full of faults Dialogue wherein is plainly laid open the tyrannical dealings of the Lords Bishops against God's Children Printed 1589. in qu. Therein are several reflecting stories on Dr. Martin Culpeper Warden of New College and on Dr. Nich. Bond of Magd. College and on his excellent dancing This scandalous Dialogue which was reprinted when the Long-Parliament began An. 1640. purposely to spite Archbishop Laud and the Bishops was with other like stuff of the said Mart. Marprelate answered by T. C. that is Thom. Cooper in his Admonition to the People of England c. See more in Tho. Cooper under
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— Staâ—â—ord 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
book of Jests or Clinches which at length was sold on the stalls of Ballad-mongers This person was living in his middle age in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but when or where he dyed I cannot tell for so it is and always hath been that most Poets dye poor and consequently obscurely and a hard matter it is to trace them to their Graves FABIAN à NIPHO Son of James à Nipho was born in Italy left his Country for Religion sake went to London where obtaining Letters of recommendation from Robert Earl of Leicester Chanc. of this Univ. dat 19. Oct. 1581. he retired to Oxon for relief So that by virtue of those Letters wherein the Members thereof found that he was a person recommended to them for his great skill in Physick and Philosophy they were pleased to confer on him the degree of Bachelaur of Physick in January following and permitted him to read a Shagling Lecture in that Faculty to gain contributions from the Students thereof How long he continued with us I know not nor how long he read that Lecture Sure it is if you 'l believe him That he having suffered oppression by the wickedness of certain People in England upon what account he tells us not unless we suppose that they suspected him to be a Papist and so dealt with him accordingly he retired to Leyden in Holland where as it farther appears after he had made himself to be believed that he was an honest man the States encouraged his Studies and forthwith he wrote a book which he dedicated to them bearing this title Ophinus seu de caelesti animarum progenie divinatio Lugd. Bat. 1599. qu. There is no doubt but that he hath published other things but such I have not yet seen neither do I yet know to the contrary but that he made a return again to this University THOMAS WILCOCKS or Wilcox a grave and reverend Divine in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth was originally of St. Johas coll but whether ever Fellow thereof their Register shews not His Name stands in the Matricula of the University sub tit coll S. Jo. Bapt. in the year 1564. but I cannot find him Graduated in the publick Register of that time belonging to the University One Tho. Wilcocks a Kentish man was as a Member of St. Albans hall admitted Master of Arts in Febr. 1589. But this I cannot affirm to be the same with the former unless we suppose him to be about 40 years of age when he took that degree as many did in those times at that age after they had been Parsons or Dignitaries many years As for Tho. Wilcocks whom we are farther to mention he retired to London after he had left the University where he became a very painful Minister of God's Word a frequent Writer and Translator and was much resorted to by wavering and dubious Persons for relief and settlement of their Consciences His Writings are Exposition on the book of Canticles or Solomon's Song Lond. 1585. qu. Exposition on certain Verses of the 8. Chap. of the Rom. namely upon Vers 18 19 20 21 22 23. Lond. 1587. oct Short and sound Commentary on the Prov. of Solomon Lond. 1589. qu. Expos on the whole book of Psalms wherein is contained the division and sense of every Psalm c. Lond. 1591. qu. All these were reprinted in one fol. at Lond. 1624. by the care of Dr. Jo. Burges who married the author's Daughter and had this general Title put to them The Works of the Reverend Divine Mr. Tho. Wilcocks Summary and short meditations touching certain points of Christian Religion Lond. 1579. oct Concordance or Table containing the principal words and matters which are comprehended in the New Testament Lond. 1579. oct Answer to Banister the Libertine Lond. 1581. oct Glafs for Gamesters and namely for such as delight in Cards and Dice wherein they may see not only the vanity but also the vileness of those Plays plainly discovered and overthrown by the Word of God Lond. 1581. oct Form of preparation to the Lord's Supper Lond. in oct On the substance of the Lord's Supper shortly and soundly set forth together with c. Lond. 1581. oct Comfortable Letter for afflicted Consciences written to a godly man greatly touched that way Lond. 1584. in tw Three large Letters for instruction and comfort of such as are distressed in Conscience c. Lond. 1589. oct Narration of a fearful Fire at Wooburn in Bedfordsh Lond. 1595. oct He also translated into English 1 A Catechism Lond. 1578. oct originally written by Joh. Fountein 2 Three propositions the first on the 1. Chap. of St. Joh. ver 1. to 5. c. Lond. 1580. written by Jo. Calvin 3 Treatise of the Church wherein the godly may discern the true Church from the Romish c. Lond. 1582. oct written by Bertrand de Loques 4 Discourse of the true visible marks of the Cath. Church Lond. in oct written by Theod. Beza 5 Two Sermons on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. 1588. oct written by the said Beza whereunto is added The substance of the Lord's Supper mentioned before 6 Bertram the Priest concerning the Body and Blood of Christ c. Lond. 1582. oct See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. 7 Meditations on Psal 101. Lond. 1599. oct written in French by Phil. Mornay Lord of Plessis What else our author hath written and translated I know not nor any thing of him beside only that he was living and much in esteem in fifteen hundred ninety and nine Two or more of his Sirname studyed in Broadgates hall in the time of K. Ed. 6. whos 's Christian Names being not in a possibility to be discovered I cannot judge farther of them RICHARD HOOKER that rare and admirable Theologist was born in or near to the City of Exeter about the time of Easter an 1554. of which City some of his Name and Family have been Mayors was exhibited to while a School-boy by John Jewel B. of Sarum became one of the Clerks of C. C. coll in 1567. Scholar 24. Dec. in 73. Fellow and Master of Arts in 77. DeputyProfessor of the Hebrew Language in the University 14. July 1579. entred into Orders and became a frequent Preacher married a clownish silly Woman and withal a meer Xantippe became Rector of Drayton-Beauchamp in Bucks an 1584. Master of the Temple in the year following in the place of Rich. Alvey Bach. of Div. deceased who was the first Canon of the fifth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster Rector of Boscomb in Wiltshire Sub-dean of the Church of Salisbury and prebendary of Netherhaven in the same Church both which he obtained by the resignation of Dr. Nich. Balgay in July 1591. and at length Rector of Bishops-Bourne near Canterbury by the presentation thereunto of the Queen in 1595. There hath been no learned college in the World that hath yet yielded at one time almost and from
Registers which are in the time of K. Ed. 6. very imperfect shew not Afterwards retiring to his Native place he became the first Chamberlain thereof an 1554. about which time applying himself to the study of Astronomy and English History became noted in his time for them especially after he had published his labours for the benefit of Posterity in these books following Order and usage of keeping the Parliaments in England Lond. 1572. qu. The Events of Comets or blazing Stars made upon the sight of the Comet Pagonia which appeared in the month of Nov. and Dec. 1577. Lond. in oct An addition to the Chronicles of Ireland from 1546. where they ended to the year 1568. Lond. 1587. fol. This addition is in the second vol. of the Chronicles first collected and published by Raphael Holinshed Will. Harrison and others The said Chronicles of Ireland did begin an 1186. about which time Giraldus Cambrensis concluded his Irish History and were continued by several hands to the said year 1546. A Catalogue or History of the Bishops of Exeter from Werestan as he calls him to John Woolton an 1579. Remitted into the third vol. of Ra. Holinshed's Chronicles Lond. 1587. fol. pag. 1300. He also translated into English the Irish History of Giraldus before-mentioned and put Scholias to the same which being by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Raleigh with a large Epistle were remitted into the second vol. of the Chronicles of Ra. Holinshed Will. Harrison and others Lond. 1587. fol. He also took great pains in augmenting and continuing to the year 1586. the said first and second vol. of Chronicles which were also printed at London 1587. fol. The first impression of the said Chronicles were made at Lond. 1577. in fol. by the said R. Holinshed descended from those of his name that lived at Boseley in Cheshire educated in one of the Universities was a Minister of God's Word as I have heard and died at Bramcote in Warwickshire towards the latter end of 1580. Whereupon all or most of his notes collections books and MSS. came into the hands of Thom. Burdet Esq an inhabitant if not Lord of the said Town of Bramcote As for our author John Hooker he lived to a fair age and dying in Nov. year 1601 in sixteen hundred and one was buried at Exeter He gave up his Chamberlains place about a quarter of a year before he died and was succeeded therein by Will. Tickell There hath been two of the Hookers that have been Mayors of Exeter viz. Joh. Hooker in 1490. and Rob. Hooker in 1529. from one or both of which I presume our author Joh. Hooker was descended as also Rich. Hooker the eminent author of Eccles Policy CROMWELL LEA a younger Son of Sir Anth. Lea or Lee of Burston in Bucks Knight by his Wife the Daughter of Sir Thomas Wyat Knight descended from the Lees of Quarendon in the said County was educated in all inferiour Arts in this University and afterwards travelling and spending several years in Italy he attained to so great knowledge in the common Language of that Country that at his return he wrote A Dictionary in Italian and English Which tho it reaches but to the Word Tralingnato and so consequently wanteth the following Letters to the end of the Alphabet yet it is as big as a Church-Bible This book the author giving in MS. to the Library of St. Johns coll in this University of which coll he had been sometimes a Commoner about its first foundation the Society did so highly value it that one of them named Tho. Poticarie M. of A. and Bach. of the Civil Law did transcribe it in a very fair character Which being so done it was reposed in their Library as a choice thing and is at this day among the printed books B. 31. This Crom. Lea who had married Mary the Relict of Rich. Taverner mentioned under the year 1575. died at his house in Halywell in the North Suburb of Oxon about the beginning of Winter in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 but where buried I know not Whereupon this Epitaph was made on him by an Oxford Scholar Here lyeth old Cromwell Who living lov'd the Bum well When he dy'd he gave nothing to the poor But half to his Bastards and half to his Whore JOHN CHARDON or Charldon a Devonian born became a Sojourner of Exeter coll in 1562. or thereabouts made Probationer thereof 3. March 1564. perpetual Fellow in Octob. two years after entred into Holy Orders in Aug. 1567. being then Bach. of Arts and resigned his Fellowship on the 6. Apr. in the year after About that time being beneficed in his own Country particularly within the City of Exeter he proceeded soon after in Arts became a noted Preacher and wonderfully followed for his edifying Sermons In 1581. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences or the Epistles of St. Paul as it was then among the Puritans stiled proceeded in Divinity five years after and in 1596. in May he was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor in the Church of St. Patrick at Dublin in Ireland All that are extant of his writing are only Several Sermons Preached in the Churches of St. Peter in Exeter St. Maries in Oxon and at S. Pauls-Cross in the City of Lond. viz. 1 Sermon of the World on Luke 21. 25. Lond. 1580. oct 2 Serm. at S. Mar. in Ox. on Joh. 9. 1 2 3. Ox. 1586. oct 3 Serm. at S. Mar. Ox. 11. Dec. 1586. on Joh. 9. 4 5 6 7. Lond. 1587. oct 4 Serm. at Pauls-cross 29. May 1586. on Matth. 6. 19 20 21. Lond. 1586. oct 5 Fun. Serm. on 1 Thes 4. from 13. to 18. verse Ox. 1586. oct He hath another Sermon extant on Isay 1. ver 1 2. Lond. 1595. but this and others which he hath printed as I conceive I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing of him besides save only that he died in Ireland in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 but where buried unless in his own Cath. Church I cannot tell The next in order according to time to be mentioned is a most reverend and learned Divine and an ornament to his profession in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth ALEXANDER NOWELL the second Son of John Nowell of Great Meerley in Lancashire was born in that County in 1511. and at 13 years of age became a Commoner of Brasmose college where profiting much in Grammar Logick and Philosophy took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1536. He was afterwards Fellow of that house Master of Arts and grew very famous for Religion and Learning In the Reign of Ed. 6. and perhaps before he taught School at Westminster where he very zealously trained the Youth up in Protestant principles but when Q. Mary began to Reign he among other Divines much averse to the R. Cath. Religion did leave the Kingdom for Conscience sake and lived as opportunity served in Germany Upon the coming of Q. Elizabeth to the Crown he
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
and said to be printed at Middelberg in 1599. qu. Printed also at Ox. 1629. qu. whereunto are added certain latin Letters between him and Dr. Alb. Gentilis concerning the same matter See more in Will. Gager under the year 1610. Apologia Thesium de Sacra Scripturâ Ecclesiâ Lond. 1602. oct Epistle to Tho. Pye at the end of Rob. Burhills book intit In controversiam c. in sex commentationes Oxon. 1606. qu. written upon Pyes submitting his lat Epistle against Dr. Howson's Thesis to his censure and approbation It containes also several emendations and corrections of Pyes Epistle before it went to the Press See more in Tho. Pye under the year 1609. Defence of the judgment of the reformed Churches that a man may lawfully not only put away his wife for her adultery but also marry another wherein Rob. Bellarmine the Jesuits latine treatise and an English pamphlet of a nameless author maintaining the contrary are confuted printed 1609. qu. Consura librorum Apocryphorum veteris Testamenti adversus Pontificios imprimis Robertum Bellarmin c. Oppenhiem 1611. Tom. 2. Which book was consulted by Matthew Poole when he composed his third volume of Sinopsis who saith that the said Censura c. was written multijugâ stupendâ eruditione c. which is very true for the author was seven years in writing and composing it The prophesie of Obadiah opened and applyed in sundry learned and gratious Sermons preached at Allhallows and S. Maries in Oxon. Oxon. 1613. qu. Published by Will. Hinde of Queens coll Letter to his friend containing his advice for the study of Divinity dat 4. Jul. 1577. Lond. 1613. in tw in one sheet Orationes duodecem in C. C. C. Oxon. 1614. and 28. in oct Among which are the two before mention'd printed The rest were corrected and published by Hen. Jackson Bach. of Divinity The first of those which Jackson published which is the third of the said twelve and hath this beginning Si quis adsit in hoc conventu c. was translated into English by Joh. Leycester of Cheshire for the use all such that affect the studies of Logick and Philosophy Lond. 1638. in tw Epistolae ad Guliel Rainoldum fratrmm suum Guliel Whitakerum Elizab. Reginam Printed with Orationes duodecem The discovery of the man of sin a Sermon on 2 Thes 2. 3. Ox. 1614. qu. published by Will. Hinde before mentioned Letter to Sir Franc. Knollys concerning some passages in Dr. Rich. Bancrofts Serm. at Pauls-cross 9. Feb. 1588. Lond. 1641. qu. The original of Bishops and Metrapolitans briefly laid down Ox. 1641. qu. 'T is but a little thing and included in Archb. Vshers discourse of that matter Other titles have it thus Dr. Rainolds his jugment touching the original of Episcopacy more largly confirmed out of antiquity by James Vsher Archbish of Armagh Judgment concerning Episcopacy whether it be Gods ordinance In a Letter to Sir Franc. Knollys Kt. 19. Sept. 1598. Lond. 1641. qu. which Sir Franc. was Son of Sir Fr. Knollâ—s Knight Prophesie of Haggai interpreted and applyed in 15. Sermons Lond. 1649. qu. Published by Edw. Leigh Esquire who had the Copy from Nath. Hinde a Minister of Staffordshire Son of Will. Hinde before mention'd who had view'd and perfected it What else is printed under Rainolds name unless a Treatise against the Racovian Catechism as some say which I doubt I know not Among the MSS. which he left behind him I find these Commentarii in tres lib. Aristot de Rhetorica Answer to Nich. Saunders his books De Schismate Anglicano in defence of our reformation c. Defence of our English Liturgy against Rob. Browne his Schismatical book This Browne who was a Knights Son of Rutlandshire and educated in Cambridge and afterwards Father of the Sect called Brownists did use to say that the true Protestants had no Church in England yet afterwards he found the way into their Church and became Pastor of a place in Northamptonshire called Aychurch Bonum nomen bonum omen quantum mutatus ab illo And then he used to say that there was no Church in England 〈◊〉 his and that was A Church He died in Prison in 〈…〉 after he had been in very many before about the year of his age 80. and the year of our Lord 1630. or as some say 34. Treatise of the beginning and progress of Popish errors and that for the first 300. years after Christ Bishops ruled their own Dioceses without subjection to the Pope Collectayeâ— quaedam potissimè Theologica MS. in the Libr. of Dr. Tho. Barlow Collectanea continent diversa Rhetorica Theologica MS. in oct in the same Library Where also I have seen some of his Orations and Declamations which have not been yet printed He also translated into Latin Plutarchs two books viz. 1 De utilitate ex hostibus capienda 2 De morbis animi corporis This last was also translated by the before-mentioned Hen. Jackson some time after Rainolds's death but differs much by the comparing which I have made between them Our author Rainolds also translated into Latin Maximus Tyrius his Three Disputations Which Translations with his Epistles to his Brother William Will. Whittaker and Q. Elizabeth are printed at the end of his Orationes duodecem Oxon. 1628. oct The translation of Plutarchs two books were also printed at Ox. 1614. in oct At length after he had lived many years a severe Student and a mortified devout person he surrendred up his last breath to him that first gave it 〈◊〉 Thursday next after the Ascension being then the 21. of May in the year sixteen hundred and seven On the Monday following his corps was carried to S. Maries Church where a Funeral Sermon was Preached by Dr. Hen. Ayray the Vicechancellour Which being ended the corps was removed into the Chancel of the said Church where Isaac Wake the Orator of the University made an elegant Oration in praise of the Defunct Which being ended also it was carried to C. C. coll where the Chappel being not spacious enough an Oration was excellently well delivered from a Pew covered with mourning in the middle of the Quadrangle by Dan. Featley Fellow of that house containing a brief History of the life and death of our most admired author He was buried in the inner Chappel of the said coll under the North wall and had a Monument with his bust fastned to the said Wall by Dr. Joh. Spenser his Successor in the Presidenship of the said coll with an inscription thereon in golden letters a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. THOMAS COGAN a Somersetshire Man born of the same Family with those of Chard was elected Fellow of Oriel coll 1563. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he entred on the Physick line and took a degree in that Faculty 1574. The year after he resigned his Fellowship being about that time
THOMAS LEYSON an eminent Poet and Physician of his time received his first breath at Neath in Glamoâ—â—â—shire was educated in Grammaticals in the famous School of Will of Wâ—behm admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1569. took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line and in 1583. was Proctor of the University in which year he shewed himself an exact Disputant before Alb. Alaskie Prince of Sirad when he was entertained by the Oxonian Muses About that time taking one degree in Physick he setled within the City of Bath where he became as much noted for his happy success in the practice of Physick as before he was for his Lat. Poetry in the University He wrote in Lat. Poem describing the scite and beauty of St. Donats Castle in Glamorganshire Which Poem coming to the sight of Dr. John David Rhese his worthy acquaintance who stiles it Venestum Poema he turned it into Welsh and gave the author of it this character Vir cûm rci medicae tùm Poetices merilissimus I have seen much of his Poetry scattered in several books which if gathered together might make a pretty Manual Sir John Harrington the famous Epigrammatist had an especial respect for his learning and so had Sir Edw. Stradling of St. Donats Castle who never failed in all his life-time to incourage learning and ingenuity Joh. Stradling also whom I shall anon mention hath several Epigrams written unto him one especially upon the sending to him a Poem of a Crott which was paraphrased by Charles Thynne This Mr. Leyson died at Bath and was buried in St. James's Church there near to the body of his Wife but the year when I cannot tell I have been credibly informed by several Scholars of Wales that he hath written divers other things but what they could not justly tell me SIMON HARWARD whose native place is to me as yet unknown became one of the Chaplains of New coll in 1577. was incorporated Bach. of Arts the same year as he had stood elsewhere but in what Univ. or Academy it appears not Afterwards he proceeded in Arts as a Member of the said coll left the University soon after and became a Preacher at Warington in Lancashire Thence he removed to Bansted in Surrey about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth and thence having a rambling head to Tanridge in the same County where I find him in 1604. to be a Schoolmaster and as it seems a practitioner in Physick His works are these Two godly Sermons Preached at Manchester in Lanc. The first containeth a reproof of the subtile practices of dissembling Neuters and politick Worldlings on Rom. 10. 19. The other a charge and instruction to all unlearned negligent and dissolute Ministers on Luke 20. 2. Lond. 1582. oct Exhortation to the common People to seek their amendment by Prayer with God Printed with the two Sermons before-mentioned He purposed then also to write the second part of the aforesaid Text on Rom. 10. 19. but because he had occasion to intreat more at large of that article of Justification in another work which he did determine to publish he then thought good to omit it for that time Sermons viz. one Preached at Crowhurst on Psal 1. ver 1. Lond. 1592. oct and another on 1 Sam. 12. 19. Printed 1590. in octavo c. Solace for a Soldier and Sailor containing an Apology out of the Word of God how we are to esteem of the valiant attempts of Noblemen and Gent. of England which incurr so many dangers on the Seas to abridge the proud Power of Spain Lond. 1592. qu. Phlebotomy or a Treatise of letting Blood Lond. 1601. Oct. Discourse concerning the Soul and Spirit of Man wherein is described the Essence and Dignity thereof c. Lond. 1614 oct Discourse of the several kinds and causes of Lightning Written by occasion of a fearful Lightning 17. Nov. 1606. Which in short time burnt the Spire-steeple of Blechingley in Surrey and in the same welt into infinite fragments a goodly ring of Bells Lond. 1607. in three sh in qu. A most profitable new Treatise from approved experience of the art of propagating Plants Lond. 1623. qu This was published after the authors death as it seems by one Will. Lawson at the end of his New Orchard and Garden c. What other things our author S. 〈◊〉 hath written I cannot yet find nor do I know how to trace him to his grave because he died not at Tanridge as a worthy Knight of that Town Sir W. Hayward hath informed me but removed thence to another place which I think was Blechingley before-mentioned THOMAS SACKVILE a person born to good Letters received his first being at or near Withyam in the County of Sussex educated in this University in the time of Q. Mary in Hart hall as it seems where he became an excellent Poet. Afterwards he retired for a time to Cambridge where he had the degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him About the same time being a Student in the Inner Temple he became a Barrister travelled into Foreign parts and was detained for a time a Prisoner in Rome whence his liberty was procured for his return into England to possess the vast inheritance left to him by his Father an 1566. The next year he was advanced to the degree and title of the Lord Buckhurst and after he had been imployed in several Embassies particularly into France 1571. he was incorporated M. of A. of this University in Jan. 1591. having a little before been chosen Chancellour thereof In the 41. of Q. Elizabeth he was constituted Lord Treasurer of England and in the beginning of K. James was created Earl of Dorset From his puerile years to his last he was a continual favourer and furtherer of learning And having been in his younger days poetically inclined did write while he continued in Oxon several Latin and English Poems which tho published either by themselves or mixed among other Mens Poems yet I presume they are lost or forgotten as having either no name to them or that the copies are worn out He had also an excellent faculty in composing Tragedies and was esteemed the best of his time for that part of the Stage But what remains of his labours in that way that are extant I could never see but this following The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex Sons to Gorboduc King of Brittain Acted before the Queen by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple at White-hall 18. Jan. 1561. It was printed at Lond. without the consent of the authors and so consequently very imperfectly an 1565. Afterwards being made perfect it was printed there again in 1570. or thereabouts and after in qu. In the composure of this Tragedy written in old English rhime our outhor Sackvile had the assistance of Tho. Norton who made the three first Acts I mean the same Norton who made some of the Psalms of David to run in rhime as I have told you before However
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 Poâ—sie 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
to and hated him Card. Allen and Sir Fr. Inglefield as bitter Enemies Of this Nic. Dolman who was a grave Priest and of a mild disposition you may read in a book intit A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich 1595 c. p. 12 13 14 c. 32. 47 c. A copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts of Cambridge to his Friend in London concerning some talk passed of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state and some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his Friends in England c. Written in 1584. but the certain year when prinâ—ed unless in 1600. I cannot tell It was also printed in oct as the other was in 1631. and hath this running title on the top of every leaf of the book A Letter of State of a Scholar of Cambridge The first edit and perhaps the second was printed beyond the Seas and most of the copies being sent into England bound with the outside of the leaves coloured with green the book was commonly called Father Persons Green-coat 'T is the same book with that intit Leicesters Common-wealth being a dialogue between a Scholar a Gent. and a Lawyer Lond. 1641. qu. This book tho' commonly reported to be Persons and that he had most of his materials for the composition thereof from Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh which I presume did arise from Dr. Tho. James his affirmation that he was the author of it yet Persons himself saith in his Preface to the Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword that he did not write Leicesters Commonwealth And certainly if he had been the author it Pitseus and Ribadeneira with his Continuators would have mentioned it in their respective Catalogues of our author's works whereas they are altogether silent in that matter Liecesters Commonwealth Lond. 1641. oct written in verse This is a small thing and containeth not the same sense with the former Leicesters Ghost in verse also To both which tho the name of Rob. Persons Jesuit is set in the title yet I cannot any where find that he was the author Apologetical Epistle to the Lords of her Maj. Council in defence of his Resolution in Religion Printed 1601. oct Brief apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and Subordination in England erected these later years by P. Clem. 8. and impugned by certain Libels printed and published of late c. S. Omer 1601. in oct Soon after were certain notes wrote on this by Humph. Ely Manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of certain in England calling them Secular Priests Printed 1602. qu. This is called a Libel in a Reply made to it by W. C. printed 1603. qu. And it was animadverted upon by A. C. in his Second Letter to his dis-jesuited Kinsman concerning the appeal state Jesuits c. Printed 1602. qu. A Decachordon of 10 Quodlibetical Questions about the contentions between the Seminary Priests and the Jesuits Printed 1602. qu. De perigrinatione lib. 1. Printed in tw This I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether it be in Lat. or Engl. The Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword Pr. 1602. in oct Answer to O. E. whether Papists ' or Protestants be true Catholicks Pr. 1603. in ect Treatise of the three conversions from Paganism to Christian Religion Published under the name of N. D. that is Nic. Doleman in three Volumes in oct The first Vol. which containeth two parts of the said treatise was printed at S. Omers an 1603. The second Vol. which containeth the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the Kalender or Catalogue of Protestant Saints Martyrs and Confessors devised by Joh. Fox c. for the first six months was printed at the said place in 1604. And the third Vol. which containeth also the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the said Kalender of John Fox for the last six months was printed at the same place in the same year under the initial Letters of N. D. When the said three Volumes were first published they were sold in Oxon for 20 shillings but some years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. I bought them for 3 sh The same year 1604 came out Around answer to Parsons alias Doleman the Noddy in qu. but whither to any of the former treatises I know not A relation of a trial made before the K. of France upon the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Pleffis Mornay about certain points of corrupting and falsifying authors whereof the said Plessis was openly convicted S. Omers 1604 in oct Published under the initial Letters of N. D. A defence of the precedent relation of a conference about Religion Printed with the Relation of a Trial c. Review of ten publick disputations or conferences held within the compass of four years under K. Ed. and Q. Mary concerning some principal points in Religion especially of the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar S. Omer 1604. in oct under the name of N. D. Fore-runner of Bells downfal or an answer to Tho. Bells downfal of Popery Pr. 1605. in oct An answer to the fifth part of Reports lately set forth by Sir Edw. Coke Knight the Kings Attorney Gen. c. S. Omer 1606. in qu. Published under the name of a Cath. Divine De Sacris alienis non adeundis quaestiones duae Ad usum praximque Angliae breviter explicatae Audomar 1607. in oct Treatise tending to mitigation towards Cath. Subjects in England against Tho. Morton Pr. 1607. qu. The said Morton was afterwards Bishop of Durham The judgment of a Catholick Gent. concerning K. James his Apology for the oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1608. in qu. Answered by Will. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Sober reckoning with Mr. Tho. Morton Pr. 1609. qu. Discussion of Mr. Barlowes answer to The judgment of a Catholick Englishman concerning the Oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1612. This book being almost finished before Persons's death was afterwards compleated and published by Tho. Fitzherbert See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. The Liturgy of the Mass of the Sacrament of the Mass Pr. 1620. in qu. A memorial for reformation or a remembrance for them that shall live when Catholick Religion shall be restored in England in 3 parts 'T is the same I suppose that is called The high Court or Council of Reformation for England The author of it tho twenty years as 't is said in compiling it all which time and after it was secretly kept yet it was never printed in his time 'T was finished by him 1596. and as I have been informed 't was published some years after his death At length a copy of it coming into his hands of Edw. Gee Rector of S. Benedict near Paul's Wharf in Lond. and Chaplain in Ord. to K. Will. and Qu. Mary he published it under this title A Memorial of the Reformation of England containing certain notes and advertisements which seem
16. or thereabouts where continuing an indefatigable Student several years took the degrees in Arts and then as 't is said translated himself to St. Maries hall In 1596. he became the first Astronomy Professor in Gresham coll in London wherein as in Oxon he always led a retired and private course of Life delighting with profound speculations and the diligent searching out of hidden verities It was also observed that tho he never published any thing while he injoyed this earthly Tabernacle yet to avoid the fruitless curiosity of that which some take upon them to know only that they may know he was ever most ready in private either by conference or writing to instruct others repairing unto them if they were desirous of his resolution in any doubtful points of learning within the ample circuit of his deep apprehension The things that he wrote were many the first of which that was published was as I conceive this De ponderibus pretiis veterum nummorum eorumque cum recentioribus collatione lib. 1. Lond. 1614. qu. Published by his Nephew Rob. Brerewood of Chester who was Commoner of Bras coll 1605. aged 17. Remitted into the eighth vol. of the Criticks and in the Apparatus before the first vol. of the Polyglot Bible He also wrote Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages and Religion through the chief parts of the World Lond. 1614. 23. 35. c. qu. and in 1647. c. in oct published by the said Rob. Brerewood who if I mistake not hath written a large and learned Preface to it Elementa Legicae in gratiam studiosae juventutis in Acad. Oxon. Lond. 1614. and 15. c. in oct Tractatus quidem Logici de Praedicabilibus Praedicamentis Oxon. 1628. 37. c. oct Treatise of the Sabbath Oxon. 1630. qu. Which coming in MS. into the hands of Nich. Byfield a Minister in Chester and by him answered was replied upon by our author in A second Treatise of the Sabbath Ox. 1632. qu. The Puritans it seems then before our authors death 1613. did verily think there was a Plot against the power of godliness but could never be pulled down whilst the Sabbath stood upright and therefore the Patrons of impiety as they said did rightly project to take that out of the way which stood so much in theirs Rich. Byfield did vindicate his Brother against Brerewood and Joh. Ley wrote partly against him in his Sunday a Sabbath An old and zealous Puritan named Theophilus Brabourne an obscure Schoolmaster or as some say a Minister of Suffolk was very stiff for a Sabbath in his books published 1628. and 31. and endeavoured to take off all objections that might be said against one yet by maintaining the indispensable morality of the fourth Commandment and consequently the necessary observation of the Jewish Sabbath did incline several of his Readers to Judaism Tho. Broad who was esteemed an Anti-Sabbatarian did write almost to the same effect that Brerewood did tho Brerewood's first book did dissent from his opinions in those points opposed by George Abbot in his Vindiciae Sabbathi wherein are also surveyed all the rest that then had lately written on that subject concerning the Sabbath viz. Francis White B. of Ely Pet. Heylyn D. D. and Christop Dowe whose several treatises on the said subject he calls Anti-Sabbatarian Tractatus duo quorum primus est de meteoris secundus de oculo Oxon. 1631. Published by Tho. Sixesmith M. A. and Fellow of Bras coll Commentarii in Ethica Aristotelis Ox. 1640. qu. Published by the said Sixesmith and 't is called by some Brerewood de moribus The original MS. of which written with his own hand in the smallest and neatest character that mine eyes ever yet beheld was by him finished 27. Oct. 1586. The Patriarchal Government of the ancient Church declared by way of answer unto four questions c. Ox. 1641. qu. He ended his days in Gresham coll of a Feaver to the great reluctancy of all good men that knew the learning and the excellencies of the person year 1613 on the fourth of Nov. in sixteen hundred and thirteen and was buried the eighth day of the same month near to the Readers Pew in the Chancel of the Church of Great S. Helen within the City of London In his Lectureship of Astronomy in the said coll succeeded Edm. Gunter as I shall tell you elsewhere WILLIAM WESTERMAN was entred a Commoner of Gloucester hall in the latter end of 1583. took one degree in Arts translated himself to Oriel coll proceeded in that Faculty and by continual study and unwearied industry he became a proficient in Divinity and Minister of Sanbridge in Hertfordshire Afterwards his merits introducing him to the knowledge of Dr. Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury was by him made his Chaplain so that taking the degree of Doctor of Div. was also by him prefer'd to a Dignity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A prohibition of revenge on Rev. 12. 19. Lond. 1600. oct 2 Sword of maintenance on Amos 5. 15. Lond. 1600. oct 3 Faithful Subject or Mephibosheth on 2 Sam. 19. 29 30. Lond. 1608. oct 4 Salomons Porch or a Caveat c. on Eccles. 4. 17. Lond. 1608. oct 5 Jacobs Well on Joh. 4. 6. Lond. 1613. oct c. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of the author JOHN DUNSTER born of a Family of his name living at Doneat near to Ilminster in Somersetshire was made Demy of Magd. coll in 1598. aged 16. perpetual Fellow 1602. afterwards Master of Arts Proctor of the University 1611. and at length Chaplain to Archb. Abbot who bestowed on him a Benefice or Dignity about 1613. in which year Dunster resigned his Fellowship He hath published Caesar's Penny Serm. on 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. Oxon. 1610. oct Prodromus Or a literal exposition of the 79 Psalm concerning the destruction of Jerusalem Lond. 1613. oct In his younger days being esteemed a noted Poet by his Contemporaries had several copies of verses printed in various books especially in that made by the Society of Magd. coll on the death of a noble young Man of that house named Will. Grey Son of Arth. Grey Baron of Wilton who died 18. Feb. 1605. WILLIAM SYMONDS an Oxfordshire Man born was elected Demy of Magd. coll in 1573. and perpetual Fellow six years after but whether he was M. of A. it appears not About the time that he was made Fellow he entred into holy Orders and had a Spiritual Cure bestowed on him at Halton Holgate in Lincolnshire by Sir Rob. Bertie Lord Willoughby where continuing several years was called thence and became at length Preacher at S. Saviours Church in Southwarke and D. and D. 1613. He was a person of an holy life grave and moderate in his carriage painful in the Ministry well learned and of rare understanding in Prophetical Scriptures He hath written Pisgah Evangelica according to the method of the Revelation presenting the
Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there or at least in that County became a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of leâ—rning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellour a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉 and in the Saxon Language In the latter â—nd of Q Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple and about that time one of the Justices Itinerant for S. Wales He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity which being crept into private hands the publick is thereby rob'd of the benefit of them However some of them I have seen which bear these titles Nomina Hydarum in com Northampton MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire I have a copy of this lying by me Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book Used also the by said Vincent who after he had been Rouge Croix and Windsore Herald as also had published A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility written by Raphe Brook did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls Wharf in London The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire but where they are now I know not His opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England See more in Joh. Doderidge under the year 1628. Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen He lived a single Man and dying so on the 16. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 was buried I suppose in the Church belonging to the Temples He had a Nephew Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre called Zouch Tate who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year where siding with the Factious Crew took the Covenant and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause Two or more Speeches of his are printed one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queens Cabinet of Letters Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle where the King was worsted Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell RICHARD FIELD received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford was entred a Student in Magd. coll in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book till he was about Bachelaurs standing retired to Magd. hall took the degrees in Arts and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy but also a Moderator and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine and other Pontificians before his Fellow-Aularians and many others Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester and afterwards in Lincolns Inn and when Doctor Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsore on the death of Jo. Chamber an 1604. but also the Deanry of Gloucester in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanry of Winchester Both which he kept with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy a powerful Preacher a profound Schoolman exact Disputant and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists that few or none went beyond him in his time as it doth plainly appear in these his labours Of the Church four books Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against or wrested to the maintenance of the Romish Errours All which were reprinted at Oxon 1628. fol. He also published A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall on Jude ver 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendred up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it on the 21. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 being then reviewing the said books and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them and was buried in the outer Chappel of St. George at Windsore a little below the Choire Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastned thereunto Richardus Field hujus olim coll canonicus Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus verè Doctor Theologiae author librorum quinque de Ecclesia Vna cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima Charissima conjuge ex qua sex reliquit filios filiam unicam Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum qui faelicitatem quam ingressi sunt adventu suo perficeat ac consummet Obierunt in Domino ille an sal 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an sal 1614. aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanry of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land and in his Canonry of Windsore Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School in 1570. took the degrees in Arts lived for some time in the Middle Temple where I presume he studied the Municipal Law Afterwards he entred into holy Orders and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster an 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this that his Genie urging him to the study of History especially to the Marine part thereof which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London From whom and many small Pamphlets and Letters that were published and went from hand to hand in his
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 itâ—mque 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 Hasâ—ley 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 nâ—pta 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
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâ—ctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâ—s delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
Inn Ben. Johnson Thom. Wenman of the Inner Temple c. which last I take to be the same that had been Fellow of Ball. coll and Publick Orator of this University These two books or parts in fol. were also printed in two vol. in oct 1625. which I have not yet seen Our author Browne hath also written a Poem intit The Shepard's Pipe in 7 Eglogues Lond. 1614. oct The fourth Eglogue is dedicated to Mr. Tho. Manwood who died about that time Son of Sir Pet. Manwood and the fifth to his ingenious Friend Mr. Christop Brook mentioned elsewhere in this work Elegy on the never enough bewailed c. Prince Henry Lond. 1613. qu. and other Poems as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen However the Reader is to know that as he had honoured his Country with his elegant and sweet Pastorals so was he expected and also intreated a little farther to grace it by drawing out the line of his Poetick Ancestors beginning in Josephus Iscanius and ending in himself but whether ever published having been all or mostly written as 't was said I know not In the beginning of the year 1624. he retired to Exeter coll again being then about 34 years of age and was Tutor or Gov. to Rob. Dâ—rmer of that house the same who was afterwards Earl of Caernarvon and killed in Newbury fight 20. Sept. 1643. In the same year he was actually created Master of Arts as I shall tell you elsewhere in the Fasti and after he had left the Coll. with his Pupil he became a retainer to the Pembrochian Family was beloved by that generous Count William E. of Pembroke and got wealth and purchased an estate which is all I know of him hitherto only that as he had a little body so a great mind In my searches I find that one Will. Browne of Otterie S. Mary in Devon died in the Winter time 1645. whether the same with the Poet I am hitherto ignorant After the time of the said Poet appeared another person of both his names author of two Common Law-books written in English intit Formulae bene placitandi and of Modus intraadi placita generalia and of other things pertaining to that Faculty JOHN DAVIES an excellent Mathematician as the learned Camden stiles him was the Son of John Davies of London in which City he was born at about six of the clock in the evening of the eighth of Feb. in 1559-60 and educated in Gramaticals there In 1574. he made his first entry into this University and setling in Gloucester hall under the tuition of one that was much enclined to the Rom. Perswasion made great proficiency in his studies and Mr. Tho. Allen of that house finding that his Genie was much addicted to the Mathematicks instructed him therein and gave him all the incouragement imaginable to proceed in that noble Science In 1581. he proceeded M. of A. as a Member of Glouc. hall continued there for some time after and then retiring to the great City was instructed in Astrological matters by one Dr. Sim. Forman a very able Astrologer and Physician as it appears by the MS. books he left behind him when he died tho a certain author tells us he was a very silly fellow In Feb. 1587. he was first of all introduced into the Royal Court where he was made known to and received with great courtsie by that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex In 1589. he travelled into France and made a voyage into Portugal whereby he advanced his knowledge as to men and the Languages of those Countries very much In 1596. after he had been married 3 years he went under the conduct of the said Count towards Spain where doing most admirable service at the taking and sacking of Cadiz he received the honour of Knighthood and of Baneret In 1597. he travelled to the Islands of Terceres where he performed that employment he went about to the great honour of himself and in 1598. Jan. 31. he was made Surveyor of the Ordnance by the endeavours of his singular good Lord the E. of Essex under whom in the year following he went as a prime Officer into Ireland where his service was much remarkable against the Rebels In 1600. he was deeply ingaged in that Earls Teasons for which he was taken and committed to custody on the 8. Feb. the same year About the eleventh of the same month the Archbishop of Canterbury issued out a Direction for the Ministers and Preachers in his Province to the end that they give the People a right understanding what the Earl of Essex intended by his treasonable conspiracy in which Direction I find these matters of Sir Joh. Davies viz. that he was brought up in Oxford and was by profession a seller of figures and on whom that hateful Earl hoth to God and man did repose great affiance insomuch that he made him chief Officer about the Ordnance in the Tower and thought him one of the faithfull'st Servants he had to make his Keeper c. This Davies was one that favoured nothing less than the Gospel for being in hold the chiefest motion that he made to the Gentleman that had the custody of him for that time was that if it were possible he might have a Priest to confess him c. In March following he was tried among other Conspirators for his life and being in a manner convicted by his own Conscience and confession held his peace and then being taunted by the way that he was a Papist he denied not but that in Oxon he was instructed in the Romish Religion by his Tutor and confirmed in the same by Sir Christop Blount one of the Conspirators while he was in the Irish Wars At which words when he perceived Blount was moved he straight appeased him affirming that he was confirmed in that Religion not by Blounts perswasion but by the example of his Christian and Religious life Afterwards being condemned to be hang'd drawn and quartered he requested that altho he was no Nobleman yet he might suffer as they did that is by beheading if not not to be quarter'd in pieces but to be buried Christianly After sentence he was remanded to his prison but by the intercession of Friends the Queen signed his Pardon 5. Feb. 1601. which was allowed by the Judges in Westminster hall on the 12. of the same month So that being free he purchased an Estate in the Parish of Pangborne in Berks where he spent the remainder of his days in a retired and studious condition This person who is stiled in literis Mathematicis apprime eruditus hath written many things of Mathematicks and Astrology but hath nothing as I can yet find that is extant There went from hand to hand a volume of Letters which were written by this Sir Joh. Davies Dr. Joh. d ee and Dr. Mat. Gwinne concerning Chimical and Magical secrets which as some say tho I cannot yet be satisfied in it
am that after he had continued many years there and had taken the degrees in Divinity he was promoted to the See of Landaff upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort where he behaved himself so admirable well to the credit of our Nation as some Ch. Historians will tell you that after his return he was upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich elected to the See of Chichester confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgment and of various reading a bitter Enemy to the Papists and a severe Calvinist which may farther appear in some of these books following of his composition Heroici Characteres ad illustriss equitem Henricum Nevillum Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sydney in Bodleiomnema and in other books Tithes examined and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right Lond. 1606. 1611. qu. Jurisdiction Regal Episcopal Papal Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes and of the Church c. Lond. 1610. qu. Consensus Eccles Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scripturis Ecclesia fide gratia c. Lond. 1613. oct Dedicated to the Mertonians A thankful remembrance of Gods mercy in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts Short directions to know the true Church Lond. 1615. c. in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords the States General Lond. 1619. in one sh and an half in qu. The madness of Astrologers or an examination of Sir Christop Heydons book intit A defence of judiciary Astrology Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. who had married the authors Daughter It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651. Examination of those things wherein the author of the late Appeale holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians to be the doctrines of the Church of England Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination made to the Appeale of Rich. Mountague who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester came out six more viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter a second by Dr. Dan. Featly a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates hall in Oxon a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Div. sometimes of Eman. coll in Cambridge afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London A joynt attestation avowing that the discipline of th Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort Lond. 1626. qu. Vita Bernardi Gilpini vere sanctiss famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries and Episcopal government in England Printed several times in qu. and oct The edit in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet Latin Letter to the learned Camden containing some notes and observations on his Britannia MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper Mi Camdene Brittaniam tuam c. Several Sermons viz. one that is joyned to the English life of Bern. Gilpin Another on Luke 2. from ver 41. to 50. in tw A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct c. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations and in the New Translation of the Bible which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken yet were not compleated and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Choire near to the Altar of his Cath. Church at Chichester on the 27. of the same month By his first Wife named Anne Daughter of Sir Hen. Killegrew Knight and Widdow of Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere in Berks he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton living sometimes in the Parish of Furâ—e in Sussex elected Burgess for Arundel to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nov. following he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain in which office and command he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Bishops JOHN DODERIDGE or Doddridg was born at or near to Barnstaple in Devonshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1572. took one degree in Arts about 4 years after and compleated it by Determination About that time being entred into the Middle Temple he made great proficiency in the Common Law became a noted Counsellour and in 45. Eliz. Lent Reader of that Inn. In 1603. Jan. 20. he was made Serjeant at Law being about that time Prince Henry's Serjeant but in the year following he was discharged of his Serjeantship and became Solliciter Gen. to King James 1. In 1607. Jun. 25. he was constituted one of the Kings Serjeants and on the 5. July following he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. at Whitehal In 1612. Nov. 25. he was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas afterwards of the Kings Bench and in Feb. 1613. he was actually created Master of Arts in Serjeants Inn by the Vicechanc both the Proctors and five other Academians Which degree was conferred upon him in gratitude for his great service he had then lately done for the University in several Law suits depending between the said University and City of Oxon. While he continued in Exeter coll he was a severe Student and by the help of a good Tutor he became a noted Disputant So that by the foundation of learning which he had laid in that coll forwarded by good natural parts and continual industry he became not only eminent in his own profession but in the Arts Divinity and Civil Law insomuch that it was difficult with some to judge in which of all those Faculties he excelled But being mostly taken up with the Common Law he could not be at leisure to honour the World with his great knowledge only with these things following The Lawyers light or due direction for the study of the Law c. Lond. 1629. qu. A compleat Parson or a description of Advowsons and Church-livings c. Lond. 1630. qu. Delivered in several
had in favour by all such that were lovers of Arts and Sciences At length obtaining an honourable Office under the Queen he became one of her favourites which he held for no short term but had the longest lease of any and the smoothest time without rub In the beginning of 1588. he among other persons of honour and quality was actually created Master of Arts which I think was the highest degree that was conferred upon him in this University In 1603. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. and soon after obtained the grant of the ruinous Castle of Wâ—rwick In the 12. year of the said Kings reign he being constituted under Treasurer and Chancellour of the Exchequer he was made choice of for one of Kings Privy Council And meriting much for his faithful services in those employments was by Letters Patents bearing date 9. Jan. 18. Jac. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Brook of Beauchamps court In Sept. 1621. he was made one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Bedchamber whereupon giving up his Chancellourship of the Exchequer Rich. Weston afterwards Earl of Portland succeeded him He was always esteemed a brave Gentleman and honourably descended as being sprung from the family of Willoughby Lord Brook was favoured by Qu. Elizabeth and such that knew he had interest in the Muses His life was always single and tho he lived and died a constant Courtier of the Ladies yet he prosecuted his studies in History and Poetry In which consider him as a Gentleman of noble birth and great Estate he was most excellent in his time as these things following shew composed in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Ph. Sidney Poems A Treatise of humane learning Inquisition upon fame and honour Treatise of Wars Tragedy of Alaham. Trag. of Mustapha Caelica containing 109 Sonnets Letter to an honourable Lady Letter of Travels Written to his Cousin GrevilVerney residing in France c. Some of the said things having been singly published were all remitted into a little thin Folio printed at Lond. 1633. and had this general title put to them Certain learned and elegant works of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke c. The first five years of King James or the condition of the State of England and the relation it had to other Provinces Lond. 1643. qu. The life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all foreign Princes c. Lond. 1652. oct Published by P. B. Short account of the Maxims and Policies used by Qu. Elizab. in her Government Printed with the former book Remains containing Poems of Monarchy and Religion Lond. 1670. oct never before printed with other things among which is his Trag. of Marc. Tull. Cicero which I have not yet seen At length our author who was Counsellour of State to Ch. 1. neglecting to reward one Haywood who had spent the greatest and chiefest part of his time in his personal service for which he expostulated the matter with his Master but was sharply rebuked for it the said Haywood thereupon gave him a mortal stab on his Back they two being then only together in his Bed-chamber in Brook house in Holbourne near London of which wound he died 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight aged 74. year 1628 Which being done the Assassianate discerning his own condition desperate went into another room and there having lock'd the dore murdered himself with his own Sword On the 27 of Oct. following he the said Lord Brook was buried in a Vault situate on the north side of the collegiat Church at Warwick which formerly had been a chapter house belonging thereunto wherein he had in his life time erected a fair Tomb with this Epitaph thereon Fulke Grevil Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellour to King James and friend to Sir Philip Sidney In his honour and dignity succeeded his kinsman Robert Grevil being then 1628. one and twenty years of age educated in Academical learning not in this but in the other University of Cambridge as I have been informed where being well tutor'd became learned considering his quality But being afterwards unhappily attainted with fanatick and antimonarchical principles by the influence of one of his near relations and some Schismatical preachers tho in his own nature a very civil and well humour'd person was without much difficulty drawn in by those fiery spirits of the Long Parliament which began 1640. By whom being back'd on he became an active man in the House against the Prerogative Bishops and the establish'd discipline of the Church insomuch that no less than the abolishing of all decent order in the service of God would satisfie him So that the members of the said Parliament looking upon him as a faithful person for the cause that they then drove on appointed him a Commander in their Army as I shall anon tell you As for the things which he wrote and published are 1 The nature of truth c. Lond. 1643. oct Animadverted upon by John Wallis a Minister in London afterward Geom. Professor of Oxon Printed at Lond. 1643. 2 A discourse opening the nature of Episcopacy which is exercised in England Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Assisted therein by some puritanical Minister and printed when the Press was open to receive all books against the Prerogative and Bishops 3 Two speeches spoken in the Guild-hall in London concerning his Majesties resusal of a Treaty of peace Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Answer to the speech of Philip Earl of Pembroke concerning accommodation Which answer was spoken in the House of Lords 19 Dec. 1642. Pr. in one sh in qu. by order of the House 5 Speech at the election of his Captains and Commanders at Warwick Castle Lond. 1643. qu. In the beginning of the Civil War an 1642. he became Commander in chief of those Forces which were sent to assault the Church-Close at Lichfield then defended by a small Garrison placed there by his Majesty out of a pious intent for the preservation of the stately Cathedral which the Lord Brooke intended presently to destroy when taken by his Forces But so it fell out that he having planted his great Guns against the South-east gate of the Close he was tho harnessed with plate-armour cap-a-pe shot from the Church in the Eye by one Diot a Clergy-mans Son who could neither hear or speak as he stood in a dore whether he came to see the occasion of a sudden shout made by the Soldiers of which he instantly died This memorable accident hapned on the second day of March an 1642. which is the festival of that sometimes famous Bishop S. Cedd or Chad to whose memory Offa King of the Mercians did erect the said Cathedral and devoutly dedicate it Archbishop Laud being then a prisoner in the Tower of London did make this memoire of it in his Diary under the year 1642.
trial of a Christian's sincere love to Christ in four Sermons ca 1 Cor. 16. 22. on Ephes 6. ver ult c. Oxon. 1630. c. in tw He died much lamented in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 30. year 1629 or thereabouts and was buried in Magd. coll leaving then beâ—â—â—â— him other things fit to be printed as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man HENRY YELVERTON Son â—f Sir Christop 〈◊〉 of Eston-Manâ—uit in Northamptonshire one of the Justices of the Kings 〈◊〉 and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at 〈◊〉 in Norfolk was born on S. Peters day in 1566. educated for a time 〈◊〉 the Oxonians and afterwards among the Students 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Inn near London where after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrâ—ster he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religiâ—us Gentleman and a person well read in the Municipal 〈◊〉 In 1613. he was made Solicitor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the endeavours of Carr Earl of 〈◊〉 March 1616. he was constituted Attorney 〈◊〉 that time committed Prisoner to the Tower for denying to appear and plead publickly against his Patron Carr in the matter of Sir Thomas Overbury's death In 1621. May 5. he was discharged of his office of Attorney fined and committed Prisoner to the Tower again upon a late sentence in the Star-Chamber for passing some clauses in the City-Charter of London when he was Attorney Gen. not agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant These things being mostly done by the power and aggravation of the D. of Bucks who hated him because he had been a friend to Somerset Yelverton continued where he was without any hopes of release or future advance At length upon some things utter'd in Buckingham's care when he came incognito to speak with and examine him concerning certain matters in the Tower he was afterwards released taken into favour and in 1625. was made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and afterwards of the Common Pleas which last he enjoyed to the time of his death and had not the Duke been untimely cut off he would in all probability been made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Under his name goes Several Speeches spoken in Parliament One of which was in answer to matters charged against him by the Commons before the H. of Lords in 1621. Soon after the Lords declared that for sundry things uttered in the said Speech which touched the Kings honour he should be fined to the K. ten thousand marks be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure and make a submission to his Majesty And for the scandal committed in some words against Buckingham he should pay him five thousand marks and make his submission to him Several years after his death was published under his name this book following Reports of divers special cases in the Court of Kings Bench as well in the latter part of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth as in the first ten years of K. James Lond. 1661. and 74. fol. It was printed by the original in French written with the authors own hand remaining with Sir Tho. Twisden Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and published by Sir Will. Wild Knight and Baronet then 1661. Serjeant at Law the Kings Serjeant and Recorder of the City of London and since one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench He died near Westminster 23. Nov. or thereabouts 1679. Rights of the People of England concerning impositions Lond. 1679. oct He also gathered and published 32 Sermons of Edw. Philips a zealous and Puritannical Preacher as I have told you under the year 1603. and other things as 't is probable of the like nature but such I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 in winter time before February and was buried I suppose where his chief Seat was viz. at Eston-Manduit or Maudet in Northamptonshire leaving then behind him a Son named Robert and a Brother called Sir Christopher who was about that time one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. From this Sir Hen. Yolverton was descended Charles Yelverton who was called up to the House of Lords by the name of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen as being the Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Yelverton Baronet by Susan his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen JOHN ELYOTT or Elliot â— Cornish man born and an Esquires Son became a Gent. Com. of Exeter Coll. in Mich. Term an 1607. aged 15 years left the University without a degree after he had continued there about 3 years went to one of the Inns of Court as it seems and was made a Barrester In 1618. May 10. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj at Whitehall and ever after to the time of his death was either elected a Knight of his County or a Burgess for some Borough therein to serve in all Parliaments But so it was that he shewing himself in them an active man for the publick a generous assertor as he pretended of the ancient liberty of the Subject and an enemy to the incroachments made by rising Favourites was several times committed to custody He hath going under his name Several Speeches spoken in Parliament as 1 Speech against George Duke of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 grievances 2 Sp. by way of Epilogue concerning the Duke of Bucks impeachment These two were spoken in 1626. and soon after he with Sir Dud. Digges who spoke the Prologue to the said impeachment were committed both prisoners to the Tower but soon after were released whereupon Elyott spoke 3 A Sp. to clear himself as to the particulars charged against him In the same year he was imprison'd in the Gatehouse at Westm for refusing to part with money on the Loan and thereupon in a Petition to the King he set forth the illegality of the said Loan or of any Tax without a Parliament Which way he took when his Council would not assist him otherwise alledging farther that his conscience could not submit to it and prayed for his liberty but could not obtain it 4 Speech upon the Kings giving notice to both Houses that he did intend shortly to end the Session of Parliament an 1628. 5 Sp. against the D. of Bucks interrupted in it by the Speaker 6 Sp. concerning Religion an 1628. This was printed in 1641. in one sh in qu. 7 Sp. against particular persons spoken in 1628. and therefore a little before the dissolution of the Parl. he with other Members were committed to the Tower All which Speeches with Certaine Debates of the said Sir Joh. Elyott you may see in the first vol. of Historical Collections made by John Rushworth What more to be added is that about the same time 1628. was an information exhibited against Sir John in the Court of the Kings Bench for a sower of discord for his murmurings seditions c. against the King Nobles Prelates
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 Translatâ—r 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 honouraâ—â—â— Wâ—ereupon going to Oxon 1619. and setling in 〈…〉 coll in the condition of a Fellow-Commoner was soon â—fter incorporated M. of A. and kept the Lecture to the timâ— of his death It must be now known that 〈…〉 Scotch man perhaps the same mentioned in the 〈…〉 under the year 1605. among the â—â—corporation coming out of Denmark into his own 〈◊〉 called upon 〈◊〉 Neper Baron of Marcheston near 〈◊〉 and told him among other discourses of a new 〈◊〉 in Denmark by Longomontanus as 't is said to save the tâ—â—ious 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 draugâ—â— of that hâ— called Canon mirabilis Logarithmoâ—am Which draught 〈◊〉 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 〈◊〉 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
Poems and Epistles before mentioned and at the end are Elegies on the authors death Six Sermons Lond. 1634. qu. Fasciculus Poematum Epigrammatum Miscellaneorum Translated into English by Jasp Mayne D. D. with this title A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams Lond. 1632. oct Ignatius his Conclave or his inthronization in a late election in hell c. Lond. 1635. in tw there again in 1653. An edition of this came forth in 1626. in oct intit Ignatius his Conclave viz. of establishing a Church in the Moon Apology for the Jesuits Pr. with the former Eighty Sermons Lond. 1640. fol. Among which are involved the six Sermons before-mentioned These eighty Sermons are called The first vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Declaration of that Paradox or Thesis that self homicide is not so naturally a Sin that it may not be otherwise Lond. 1644. 48. c. qu The original under the authors own hand I have seen in Bodley's Library dedicated to Edward L. Herbert of Cherbury Essays in Divinity c. Lond. 1651. oct Published by his Son John who tells us that they were written before his Father had entred into holy Orders Prayers Pr. with the former Paradoxes Problems Essays and Characters Lond. 1652. oct In which book are involv'd several or most of the Paradoxes Problems c. before-mentioned Various Sermons Lond. 1649. fol. vol. 2. Six and twenty Sermons never before published Lond 1660. 61. fol. This is called the Third vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Letters to several persons of honour Lond. 1651. qu. Some of which I think were before printed He had also lying by him at his death many Sermon notes and other papers containing an extract of near fifteen hundred authors All which as his last Legacy he left to Dr. Hen. King afterwards B. of Chichester but what became of them after that Bishops death in 1669. I know not He also translated from Greek into English The ancient history of the Septuagint Lond. 1633. in tw written originally by Aristeus Which translation was revised and very much corrected by another hand Lond. 1685. oct He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of March year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the South Isle behind the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul near to the Monument of Dr. Jo. Colet Both whose Epitaphs with the Pictures of their respective Monuments you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale lately Garter K. of Arms. Our Author Dr. Jo. Donne left behind him a Son of both his Names but of none of his virtues manners or generous qualities and therefore by many his memory is condemn'd to utter Oblivion while that of his Father flourisheth in the History of his life written by Isaac Walton the first edition of which printed 1653. coming into the hands of the best critick of the last age I mean Jo. Hales of Eaton he affirmed to his friends that he had not seen a life written with more advantage to the Subject or more reputation to the writer than it JOHN RAWLINSON a fluent and florid Preacher of his time was born in London educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns coll 1591. aged 15. and was afterwards Fellow M. of A. and so great a frequenter of the Pulpits in Oxon that his name being cried up for an excellent Theologist became successively Rector of Taplow in Bucks Vicar of Asheldam in Essex Prebendary of Sarum D. of D. Principal of S. Edmunds hall Chaplain to Tho. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere L. Chanc. of England and in Ordinary to K. Jam. 1. Rector of Celsy in Sussex and of Whitchurch in Shropshire In all which places he was much followed for his frequent and edifying preaching great charity and publick Spirit He hath published Divers Sermons as 1 The four Summons of the Shulamite preached at Pauls Cross on Cantic 6. 12. Oxon. 1606. in oct 2 Fishermen Fishers of Men on Matth. 4. 19. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The Romish Judas preached on the 5. Nov. 1610. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Mercy to a Beast on Prov. 12. 10. Oxon. 1602. qu. 5 Vnmasking of the Hypocrite preached at S. Maries in Ox. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1616. qu. 6 Vivat Rex Let the King live or God save the King on 1 Sam. 10. 24. Ox. 1619. qu. 7 The Dove-like Soul on Psal 55. 6. Oxon. 1625. qu. 8 Lex Talionis on Judg. 1. 7. Ox. 1625. qu. 9 Surprising of Heaven on Mat. 11. 12. lb. 1625. qu. 10 The Bridegroom and Bride on Cant. 4. 8. lb. 1622. c. qu. Which four last Sermons viz. the 7 8 9 and 10. were all published together under the title of Quaâ—riga Salutis or Four Quadragesimal Sermons c. These are all the Sermons of his publication that I have yet seen and whether he be author of an Explication of the Creed Ten Commandments and Lords Prayer which is published under the name of Rawlinson in oct I know not He departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch in Shropshire before-mentioned where his name continues precious to this day among the inhabitants of that place and in the neighbourhood In his Prebendship of Salisbury called Netherbury in Ecclesia succeeded Thom. Fuller 18. Jun. 1631. the same who was afterwards the author of divers historical books and him Tho. Henchman 17. Aug. 1661. JOHN BUCKRIDGE Son of Will. Buckridge by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Tho. Keblewhyte of Baselden Son of John Keblewhyte Uncle to Sir Tho. Whyte the Founder of S. Johns college and he the Son of Henry some say John Keblewhyte of Fawley was born as I conceive at Draycot near to Marlborough in Wiltshire educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of the said coll in 1578. soon after Fellow and through the degrees in Arts Doctor of Divinity in the latter end of 1596. about which time he was Chaplain to Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury After he had left the University I find him to have been first of all Rector of North-Fambridge in Essex afterwards Chaplain to Robert E. of Essex Rector of North Kilworth in Leicestershire Vicar of S. Giles Church without Cripplegate London Archdeacon of Northampton Canon of Windsore and Hereford Chaplain to K. James and at length President of S. Johns college 1605. At which time his eminent abilities in the Pulpit had brought him into great credit with K. James insomuch that he was chosen to be one of the four Dr. Andrews B. of Chichester Dr. Barlow B. of Rochester and Dr. Jo. King then Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon were the other three who were appointed to Preach before his Maj. at Hampton Court in the month of Sept. 1606. for the reduction of the two Melvins and other Presbyterian Scots to a right understanding of the Church of England In
the performance of which service he took for his Text these words of the Apostle Let every Soul c. Rom. 13. 1. In canvassing whereof he fell upon the point of the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical which he handled as the most rev Arch. Spotswood who was present at the Sermon hath informed us of him both soundly and learnedly to the satisfaction of all the hearers only it grieved the Scotch Ministers to hear the Pope and Presbytery so often equalled in their opposition to Soveraign Princes c. As for the Presidentship of S. Johns coll our author Buckridge keeping but a little more than five years became B. of Rochester to which he was consecrated 9. June 1611. Afterwards by the endeavours of his sometimes Pupil Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells he was nominated B. of Ely upon the death of Dr. Nich. Felton who died 1626. the Temporalities of which See were restored to him 18. Jul. 1628. A person he was of great gravity and learning and one that knew as well as any other person of his time how to employ the two-edged Sword of the holy Scripture of which he made good proof in the times succeeding brandishing it on the one side against the Papists and on the other against the Puritans and Non-conformists In reference to the first 't is said of him in general by a certain author that he endeavoured most industriously both by preaching and writing to defend and propagate the true Religion here by Law established which appears plainly by his learned laborious piece entituled De potestate Papae in rebus temporalibus sive in regibus deponendis usurpata adversus Robertum Cardinalem Bellarminum Lib. 2. In quibus respondetur authoribus Scripturis rationibus exemplis contra Gul. Barclaium allatis Lond. 1614. in a larg qu. In which book he hath so shaken the Papal Monarchy and its superiority over Kings and Princes that none of the learned men of that party did ever undertake a reply unto it Johannem itaque Roffensem habemus saith my before mentioned author quem Johanni Roffensi opponamus Fishero Buckridgium cujus argumentis siquid ego video ne a mille quidem Fisheris unquam respondebitur With like success but less pains unto himself he managed the controversie concerning kneeling at the Lords Supper against those of the Puritan Party the piety and antiquity of which religious posture in that holy action he asserted with such holy reasons and such clear authorities in A Sermon preached at Whitehall 22. Mar. 1617. touching prostration and kneeling in the Worship of God on Psal. 95. 6. Lond. 1618. qu. and in A discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion printed with the Sermon that he came off without the least opposition of that party also Besides which he hath published Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 23. Sept. 1606. on Rom. 13. 5. London 1616. qu. Another on Heb. 4. 7. printed 1618. qu. A third which is a Funeral Serm. on Heb. 13. 6. was printed 1626. qu. and a fourth on the same chap. vers 16. was published at the end of B. Andrew's Sermons in fol. Lond. 1661. The day and place when and where this most worthy and learned Bishop died I know not only that he was buried in the parish Church of Bromley in Kent the manner of which belongs to the See of Rochester on the last day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt. Carle whom I shall mention elsewhere and in Ely Dr. Francis White the Kings Almoner JOHN HOSKYNS Junior was born at Mounton in the parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1601. took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated 1613. in which year he left the coll being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Rob. Bennet B. of Hereford as he was afterwards to K. James Prebendary of Hereford and Parson of Ledbury in his native Country He was an able Civilian but better Theologist and much followed for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching He hath published Eight Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxon. Pauls Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1615. qu. The first is on Luke 12. 41. The second on Isa 28. 1. The 3. and 4th on Matth. 11. 19. c. He hath also extant a Sermon upon the parable of the King that taketh an account of his Servants on Matth. 18. 23. Lond. 1609. oct A short Catechisme upon the Lords Prayer the ten Commandements and the Creed very profitable for Children and others Lond. 1678. 9. oct published by Charles Townsend M. of A. He ended and finished his course at Ledbury before mentioned 8. August in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the parish Church there Soon after was an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of eight verses the two first of which are these Sub Pedibus Doctor jacet hic in Legibus Hoskyns Esse pios docuit quodque docebat erat The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 145. 6. DANIEL PRICE elder brother to Sampson Price before mentioned was born in the antient Borough of Shrewsbury and there educated in Grammar learning In 1594. and in the sixteenth year of his age he became a Commoner of S. Maries hall in Midsomer Term but before he took a degree in Arts he was transplanted to Exeter coll where by the benefit of a diligent Tutour he became in short time a smart disputant After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he had holy Orders confer'd upon him and was a frequent and remarkable preacher especially against the Papists About that time he was constituted one of Prince Henries Chaplains in Ordinary whereupon taking the degrees in Divinity he was made Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. as afterwards to K. Ch. 1. Dean and Canon residentiary of Hereford Rector of Worthyn near Caus Castle in Shropshire and of Lanteglos in Cornwall Justice of the Peace also for the Counties of Shrewsbury Hereford Montgomery and Cornwall He hath written and published The defence of truth against a book called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras 1609. by Humph. Leech Oxon. 1610. qu. He hath also published at least Fifteen Sermons Among which are these 1 Praelium praemium The Christians war and reward on Rev. 2. 26. Oxon. 1608. qu. 2 Recusants Conversation on Esay 2. 3. Ibid. 1608. qu. 3 The Merchant on Matth. 13. 45. 46. Lond. 1608. qu. 4 Spiritual Odours to the Memory of Pr. Henry in four of the last Sermons preached in S. James after his Highness death the last being the Sermon before the body the day before the burial The first is intit Meditations of Consolation on our Lamentations on Psal. 90. 15. The second which hath the same title is on 2 Sam. 12. 23. The third which is intit Sorrow for
Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. By his Wife Anne Hamden he had a Daughter named Alice who was married to Dr. Rich. Corbet afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Norwich ROBERT HUES or Husius as he writes himself was born at Little Hereford commonly called Harford near to Leonminsher in Herefordshire who tho well grounded in Grammar learning and of good parts and therefore of desert yet at his first coming to the University he was only a poor Scholar or Servitour of Brasnose and among the pauperes Scholares is he numbred in the publick Matricula under Coll. Aenean about 1571. In that house he continued for some time a very sober and serious Student and was countenanced by one or more of the Seniors thereof but being sensible of the loss of time which he sustained there by constant attendance he translated himself to S. Maries hall and took the degree of Bac. of Arts at about 7 years standing being then noted for a good Grecian Which degree he compleating by Determination he afterwards travelled and in fine became well skill'd in Geography and Mathematicks The last of which being the faculty he excelled in made him respected by that generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland who allowed him an yearly Pension for the encouragement of his studies but whether he was ever Mathematick Professor of Gresham coll as a certain learned Gent. reports I cannot tell He hath written De Globis celest terrest Tract 2. Several times printed in Lat. and Engl. in oct The first edition of this book had this title Tractatus de Globis eorum usu accommodatus iis qui Londini editi sunt an 1593. sumptibus Gulielmi Sandersoni Civ Lond. Lond. 1593. oct It was afterwards illustrated with figures and annotations by Joh. Isaac Pontanus Professor of Philosophy at Harderwicke in Gelderlandt Amstel 1617. 1624. c. Oxon. 1663. in oct and twelv Breviarium totius Orbis Printed several times at Lond. in Lat. and Engl. in oct and tw This Mr. Hues died in the Stone-house then belonging to Joh. Smith M. of A. Son of Tho. Smith Cook of Ch. Ch. opposite almost to the Inn called the Blew-Boar in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon on the 24. year 1632 of May in sixteen hundred thirty and two aged 79 years and was buried near to the grave of Dr. Hutten within the limits of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. before-mentioned His Epitaph is printed in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. wherein you 'll find other matters relating to him which I have not here set down I find one Rob. Hughes who was an English Merchant in the Kingdom of India and City of Agemer author of a Dictionary containing the English and Persian Languages an 1616. MS. sometimes in the Lord Hattons Library now in that of Bodley but what relation there was between this and the former I know not I think none because their names differ The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that the said R. Hues the Mathematician having spent one year or two in the condition of a Tutor to Algernon Son of Hen. Earl of Northumberland in Ch. Ch. he was therefore thrust among the writers of that house against the consent of the author into Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. by the publisher thereof who endeavoured to disturb the course of that History to satisfie his partial ends He also thrust in of his own accord among the Bishops of the said House Joh. Piers Archb. of York and Miles Smith B. of Glouc. The former who had been Dean for a time had most of his education in Magd. coll and the other who had been Petty-Canon was chiefly educated in that of Brasnose ALEXANDER COOKE received his first breath in Yorkshire at or near to Beeston by Leeds and educated in Grammar learning in those parts In Michaelmas-Term an 1581. he was admitted a Member of Brasnose coll being then 17 years of age and after he had taken one degree in Arts he was chosen into a Percy-Fellowship of Vniversity coll in 1587. In the year following he took the degree of M. of A. and about that time holy Orders So that applying himself solely to the study of the sacred writ became a frequent and noted Preacher in these parts took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty in 1597. and had some little Cure bestowed upon him At length upon the decease of his Brother Robert whom I have mentioned under the year 1614. he became Vicar of Leeâ—s in his own Country He was a person most admirably well read in the controversies between the Protestants and the Papists vers'd in the Fathers and Schoolmen a great Calvinist yet witty and ingenious and a Satyrical Enemy in his writings against the Romanists as it evidently appears in these books following which have been much taken into the hands of ingenious men Pope Joan. A dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist manifestly proving that a Woman called Joan was Pope of Rome c. against Rob. Bellarmine Caes Baronius Flor. Raemundus c. impudently denying the same Lond. 1610. qu. Which book being in great request among Protestants beyond Sea was translated into French by J. de la Montagne Printed at Sedan 1633. in oct The abatement of Popish Brags pretending Scripture to be theirs Lond. 1625. qu. The Weather-cock of Rome's Religion with her several changes or the World turned topsie turvie by Papists Lond. 1625. qu. More work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1621. qu. Yet more work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1622. qu. Work more work and yet a little more work for a Mass-Priest Lond. 1628. c. qu. 'T is the same with the two former immediately going before only some alterations in and several additions put to it especially in that edition which came out in 1630. What other things he published I know not nor anything else of him only that he was buried in Leeds Church near to the Body of his Brother Rob. Cooke 23. June in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and that he left behind him the character of A good and learned man a man abounding in charity and exemplary in his life and conversation yet hated by the R. Catholicks who lived near Leeds and in Yorkshire and indeed by all elsewhere who had read his works JAMES WHITLOCK was born in London 28. Nov. 1570. descended from those of his name living near to Olyngham in Berkshire educated in Merchant Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1588. took one degree in the Civil Law setled in the Middle Temple became summer Reader of that House 17 Jac. 1. a Knight chief Justice of Chester and at length one of the Justices of the Common Picas as in his Epitaph 't is said tho in his his last Will of the Kings Bench. He had the Latin tongue so perfect that sitting Judge of Assize at Oxon when some Foreigners persons of quality purposely came into the Court to see the manner
all good Arts and Sciences was born at Vttoxeter in Staffordshire on the day of S. Thomas the Apostle in 1542. being a Descendant thro six Generations from Henry Allen or Alan Lord of the Mannor of Buckenhall in the said County was admitted Scholar of Trinity coll 4. June 1561. Fellow in 65. and two years after Master of Arts. But being much inclined to live a retired life and averse from taking holy Orders he left the Coll. and his Fellowship about 1570. and receeded to Gloucester hall where he lived a close Student many years and at length became an eminent Antiquary Philosopher and Mathematician and not only the Prince or Coryphaeus as one saith but the very Soul and Sun of all the Mathematicians of his time Being thus accomplished with various sorts of learning he was several times invited to the families of Princes and Nobles not only of this Nation but of others And when Albertus L'askie Count or Prince of Sirade in Poland was in England he did court him to go with him into his own Country 1583. and to live there as he pleased and accept of such Honours and Dignities which he could get for him but he being delighted with retiredness and an Academical life did evade his civility and thereby as a true Philosopher contemn'd riches and greatness He was also often courted to live in the family of that most noble and generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland a great Patron of Mathematicians Whereupon spending some time with him he was infinitely beloved and admired not only by that Count but by such Artists who then lived with or often retired to him as Tho. Harriot John Dee Walt. Warner Nath. Torporley c. the Atlantes of the Mathematick World Robert Earl of Leicester Chancellour of this University and the grand favourite in Queen Elizabeth's Reign did also before that time entertain him and would have confer'd upon him a Bishoprick but for the sweetness of a retired life he denied that also The truth is that Earl did highly value him and no person was more familiar with him than Mr. Allen and d ee before-mentioned Whence 't was that the author of the book called Leicester's Commonwealth reporteth that they whom he stiles Atheists used the art of figuring and conâ—uring for procuring the said Earls unlawful designs and that also by their Black Art they endeavoured a match between Q. Elizabeth and him How true these things are let others who know the author of that book that reports them judge Certain it is that Allen was so great with that Count that few matters of State passed but he had knowledge of them and nothing of moment was done in the University but Allen gave him it in writing He was also very great and highly respected by other famous men of his time of this Kingdom as with Bodley Saviâ—e Camden Cotton Spelman Selden c. the last of whom saith that Allen was omni eruditionis genere summoque judicio ornatissimus celeberrimae Academiae Oxon. decus insignissimum And Camden that he was Plurimis optimis artibus ornatiss His sufficiencies in the Mathematick Science being generally noted he was thereupon accounted another Rog. Bacon which was the reason why he became terrible to the Vulgar especially those of Oxon who took him to be a perfect Conjurer He was a great collector of scattered MSS. of whatsoever Faculty especially those of History Antiquity Astronomy Mathematicks Philosophy c. sparing neither cost or labour to procure them Some of which I have seen quoted in the works of learned authors as being in Bibliotheca Alleniana By his help advice and communication several of the University became eminent in Mathematicks and Antiquities of which number were Harriot Twyne Hegge the two Jeames Burton Digby c. whom for their labours communicated to posterity I have partly before touched and shall hereafter mention in their respective places As for Allen's collections observations and notes of Astronomy Mathematicks and N. Philosophy they are got into obscure hands and 't is thought that Digby whose name is famous among many hath made use of those of Philosophy All that I have seen written by Allen are these following Claudii Ptolomei Pelusiensis de Astrorum judiciis aut ut vulgo vocant quadripartitae constructionis lib. secundus cum expositione Thomae Alleyn Angli-Oxoniensis The first chapter of which begins thus Hactenus quidem pre ecurrimus ea quorum cognitione c. Cl. Ptolomei de Astror judiciis lib. 3. cum expositione Tho. Alleyn c. These two MSS. coming into the hands of William Lilly the sometimes famous Figure-flinger were by him bestowed on Elias Ashmole Esq in 1652. One of the said copies was transcribed from the original which Sir Tho. Aylesbury had of the gift of Mr. Allen the other copy John Huniades the great Chymist had in his possession who gave it as it seems to Lilly He the said Allen put notes also on many of his books and some were by him put on Joh. Bales book De Scriptoribus Maj. Britanniae which are entred by another hand in the margin of the said author that is in the publick Library at Oxon. At length he having lived to a great age surrendred up his last breath in Gloucester hall year 1632 on the 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and two and the next day an eloquent oration being delivered by Mr. Will. Burton of that house in the publick Refectory there in praise of the Defunct before the Vicechancellour Heads of Colleges and Halls and many of the University then present the body was accompanied by them to the chappel of Trinity coll where after another Speech was spoken by Mr. George Bathurst the body was solemnly inter'd Soon after the chief part of his Library of incomparable MSS. coming into the hands of Sir Kenelm Digby as the owner before had appointed they were the next year given by him to the Bodleian or publick Library where they yet remain Some of them had before and about the time of Allen's death been got from him by Rich. James of C. C. coll for the Cottonian Library and others came into the hands of Sir Tho. Aylesbury Master of the Requests but where those are now in truth I cannot tell Some years since I made a search in the said chappel of Trin. coll for an Epitaph on Mr. Allens grave but not so much as a letter appearing you shall have part of his character instead of it which I found written in a certain MS. in the Library of the said college running thus Vir fuit elegantium literarum studiosissimus Academicae disciplinae tenacissimus apud Exteros Academicos semper in magno pretio eorumque qui in Ecclesia Anglicana atque in Vniversitate Oxoniensi pro meritis suis ad Dignitates aut Praefecturas subinde provecti fuerunt Fuit sagacissimus observator familiariss conviva c. His picture painted to the life he gave to the
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. Wâ—nman 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
Arts and all that he knew he own'd to him Thence his silly Mother who had married to her second Husband a Bricklayer took him home and made him as 't is said work at her Husbands trade At length being pitied by some generous Gentlemen Camden got him a better imployment which was to attend or accompany a Son of Sir Walt. Raliegh in his adventures whereby gaining experience made his company acceptable among many After their return they parted I think not in cold blood and thereupon Ben went to Cambridge and was as 't is said statutably elected into St. Johns coll but what continuance he made there I find not Sure 't is that his Genie being mostly Poetical he did afterwards receed to a Nursery or obscure Play-house called The Green Curtain about Shoreditch or Clerkenwell but his first action and writing there were both ill At length improving his fancy much by keeping Scholastical company he betook himself again to write plays which he did so admirably well that he was esteemed paramount in the dramatick part of Poetry and to teach the stage an exact conformity to the Laws of Comedians Whereupon Sir Jo. Suckling bringing him into the Session of Poets Ben broke silence spoke to the Poets and Bid them remember how he had purg'd the Stage Of Errours that had lasted many an age His own proper industry and addition to books especially to ancient Poets and Classical authors made him a person of curious learning and judgment and of singular excellence in the art of Poetry Which with his accurate judgment and performance known only to those few who are truly able to judge of his works have gain'd from the most eminent Scholars of his time particularly from the learned Selden an increasing admiration Dr. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and other Poets of this University did in reverence to his parts invite him to Oxon where continuing for some time in Ch. Ch. in writing and composing Plays he was as a Member thereof actually created M. of A. in 1619. and therefore upon that account I put him among the Oxford writers for at Cambridge his stay was but short and whether he took a degree in that University I cannot yet learn of any His works are these Every Man in his humour a Comedy Acted 1598. Every Man out of his humour Com. Act. 1599. Cynthia's Revels Com. Act. 1600. Poetaster or his arraignment Com. 1601. Sejanus his Fall a Tragedy Act. 1602. Volpone or the Fox Com. 1609. Alchemist Com. 1610. Cataline his Conspiracy Trag. 1611. Epigrams in number 134. Epigrams called the Forrest in number 15. Part of the Kings entertainment in passing to his Coronation in prose and verse A panegyre on the happy entrance of K. James to his first high Session of Parliament 19. March 1603. A Poem A particular entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Apethorp at the house of the Lord Spencer 25. June 1603. A Poem Private entertainment of the K. and Q. on May day in the morn at Sir Will. Cornwallis his house at Highgate 1604 In verse and prose Entertainment of the two Kings of Great Britain and Denmark at Theobalds 24. Jul. 1606. In Lat. and Engl. verse Entertainment of K. James and Q. Anne at Theobalds when the house was delivered up with the possession to the Queen by the Earl of Salisbury 22. May 1607. Written in verse Twelve Masks at Court Barthelmew-Fair Com. Acted 1614. Devil is an Asse Com. 1616. Staple of News Com. 1625. Magnetick Lady or humours reconciled Com. Tale of a Tub Com. Sad Shepherd or a tale of Robin Hood Trag. Masks Underwoods Consisting of divers Poems entertainments and of some Odes of Horace translated Mortimer his fall Trag. imperfect Horace his Art of Poetry made English This last was afterwards printed by it self Lond. 1640. oct and with it 1 Execration against Vulcan 2 Masque of the Gypsies 3 Epigrams to several noble personages about 23. in number All composed by B. Johnson English Grammar for the benefit of all strangers Discoveries made upon men and matter All which are contained in two vol. in fol. printed 1616. and 1640. Tragedy of Thierry K. of France and his Brother Theodored The New-Inn or the light heart Com. Lond. 1631. octav His Motives Printed 1622. oct He also had a hand in a Com. called The Widdow Lond. 1652. qu. Jo. Fletcher and Th. Middleton were his Assistants Also in Eastward hoe Com. assisted by Geo. Chapman c. and did with Dr. Hacket afterwards B. of Lichfield translate into Latin the Lord Bacons Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral At length B. Johnson after he had arrived to the sixty third year of his age marched off from the stage of this vain World on the 16. year 1637 of August in sixteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried three days after in S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster commonly called the Abbey Church not among the Poets but at the west end near to the belfry under the Escoheon of Rob. de Ros or Roos with this engraven on a common pavement stone laying over his grave at eighteen pence charge given by Jack Young of Great Milton in Oxfordshire afterwards a Knight by the favour of K. Ch. 2. O rare Ben Johnson There was a considerable sum of money gathered from among the Wits and Vertuosi of his time for the erection of a monument and a Statua for him but before they could be done the Rebellion broke forth and hindred the design whereupon the money was refunded I have been informed by a worthy Prelate several years since deceased that this Poet Ben had a pension of an 100. l. per an from the King a pension also from the City of London and the like from several of the Nobility and from some of the Gentry particularly from Sutton Founder of the Hospital that now bears his name which were commonly well paid either out of pure love to him or out of fear of his railing in verse or prose or both When he was in his last sickness the said Prelate who was then M. of A. did among other of his acquaintance often visit him and as often heard him repent of his prophaning the Scripture in his Plays and that with horrour c. Many years after his death did appear to the World another Poet of both his names who writes himself in his Poems published 1672. Ben. Johnson Junior but what relation there was between him and the former I know not ROBERT FLUDD or de Fluctibus second afterwards eldest Son of Sir Tho. Fludd Knight sometimes Treasurer of War to Q. Elizabeth in France and the Low Countries Grandson of Dav. Fludd of Shropshire was born at Milgate in the Parish of Bearsted in Kent became Convictor of S. Johns coll in 1591. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts studied Physick travelled into France Spain Italy and Germany for almost six years In most of which Countries he became acquainted with several of
extracta necnon Medicorum Ethnicorum dictis authoritate comprobata Hoc est portionis tertiae pars tertia de pulsuum scientia Printed with the Catholicon Medicorum c. before-mentioned Philosophia Moysaica In qua sapientia scientia Creatoris Creaturarum sacra verèque christiana utpote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille lapis angularis Jesus Christus ad amussim enucleatè explicatur Goudae 1638. fol. Printed in English at Lond. 1659. fol. Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-spongum Mri-Fosteri Presbyteri ab ipso ad unguenti Armarii validit atem delendam ordinatum Hoc est spongiae M. Fosteri Presbyteri expressio elisio c. Goud 1638. fol. This book was printed at London in qu. in 1631. with this title The squeezing of Parson Foster's sponge ordained by him for the wiping away of the Weapen-salve See more in Will. Foster an 1633. Our author R. Fludd departed this mortal life in his house situate and being in the Parish of S. Katherine in Colman-street within the City of London on the eighth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven year 1637 whereupon his body being afterwards attended by an Officer or Herald of Arms to Bearsted before-mentioned was buried in the Chancel of the Church there under a stone which he before had laid for himself On which or else on a monument which he designed by his last Will to be made after the fashion of that of William Camden in the Abby Church of S. Peter at Westminster and to be set in the wall near to his grave was an Epitaph put a copy of which being printed elsewhere shall now for brevity sake be omitted HENRY GELLIBRAND received his first breath in the Parish of S. Botolph near to Aldersgate in London 17. Nov. 1597. became a Commoner of Trin. coll in 1615. took one degree in Arts about four years after being then esteemed to have no great matter in him At length upon the hearing of one of Sir Hen. Savile's Mathematick Lectures by accident or rather to save the sconce of a Groat if he had been absent he was so extreamly taken with it that he immediately fell to the study of that noble Science and conquered it before the time he proceeded in Arts. Soon after his name being up for his wonderful sufficiencies in Geometry and Astronomy he was elected Astronomy-Professor of Gresham coll in the place of Gunter deceased where tho he wrote and published many useful things yet he suffer'd Conventicles being himself a Puritan to be kept in his lodgings His works are Trigonometria Britannica Goudae 1633. fol. Appendix concerning longitude Lond. 1633. qu. Which is at the end of Capt. Tho. James his Strange and dangerous Voyage in his intended discovery of his northern-east passage into the South Sea A discourse Mathematical of the variation of the Magnetical Needle Together with its admirable diminution lately discovered Lond. 1635. qu. The institution Trigonometrical explaining the doctrine of dimension of plain and spherical Triangles c in oct Epitome of Navigation c. Lond. 1674. c. oct Several necessary Tables pertaining to Navigation A triangular Canon Logorithmical or a table of artificial Sines and Tangents c. Two Chiliads or the Logorithms of absolute numbers from an unite to 2000. Append containing the use of the Forestaff Quadrant and Nocturnal in Navigation These last 4 Treatises are printed with the Epitome of Navigation Treatise of building of Ships MS. Which after its authors death came into the hands of Edward Lord Conway Almanack for the year 1631. This was published under the name of his Servant Will. Beale But the author thrusting into it the Martyrs mentioned by John Fox and omitting divers Saints allowed by the Church of England as the Epiphany Annunciation of our Lady c. he and his man were called into question for it in the High Commission Court and brought into trouble The particulars of which you may see in a book intit Canterbury's Doom But the author of that book Will. Prynne endeavouring all the ways imaginable to bring envy on Dr. Laud then B. of London who did discountenance that Almanack very much the Reader therefore is not to believe every matter which that implacable person doth there set down Our author Gellibrand also wrote a Preface to and published Sciographia or the Art of Shadows c. Lond. 1635. in a large thick oct written by John Wells of Hampshire Esq a Rom. Catholick He also intended other matters but was untimely snatch'd away to the great loss of the Mathematical Faculty in the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven His body was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Broad-street within the City of London at which time Dr. Hannibal Potter his sometimes Tutor in Trinity college preached his Funeral Sermon shewing therein to the auditory the piety and worth that was sometimes in the body that lay dead before them His memory is preserved in the said coll by a Dial set up by him when he was there a Student on the east side of that Quadrangle which is now called the Old Quadrangle HENRY RAMSDEN a Yorkshire man born was admitted a Commoner of Magd. hall in 1610. took the degrees in Arts was elected Fellow of Linc. coll in 1621. and five years after leaving that place wherein he had advanced himself much in the Theological Faculty he became a Preacher in London was much resorted to for his edifying and puritanical Sermons and at length upon the death of Mr. Hugh Ramsden his Brother he was made Vicar of Halifax in his own Country After his death were published under his name Several Sermons as 1 The gate to happiness on Rom. 6. 8. 2 The wounded Saviour on Esay 53. 5. 3 Epicures caution on Luke 21. 34. 4 Generation of Seckers on Col. 3. 1. which four Sermons are intit A Gleaning of God's Harvest Lond. 1639. qu. Published by Joh Goodwin with his Epist before them He ended his days on the seventh of the Cal. of March in sixteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Halifax Over his grave is an inscription to his memory which being large I shall for brevity sake pass by In his Vicarage of Halifax succeeded Rich. Marsh D. D. afterwards Archdeacon and Dean of York JOHN HOSKYNS Senior elder Brother to Joh. Hoskyns whom I have mentioned under the year 1631. both the Sons of Joh. Hoskyns by Margery his Wife Daughter of Tho. Jones of Lanwarne was born at Mownton in the Parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire formerly belonging to the Priory of Lantony near Gloucester to the Prior of which place his Ancestor bore the office of Pocillator While this Jo. Hoskyns was a Child and intended by his Father for a Trade he was very importunate with him to make him a Scholar wherefore at 10 years of age he began his A B C and in
an years time he was got into his Greek Grammar for he was one of a prodigious memory and of wonderful strength of body After he had spent one year at Westminster School he was sped a Child in Wykehams coll near Winchester where making very great proficiency in the School there he was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll an 1584. and two years after was admitted Verus Socius In Feb. 1591. he had the degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him and being Terrae filius in the Act following he was so bitterly satyrical that he was not only denied the completion of that degree by being admitted ad regendum but was expel'd the University Afterwards being put to his shifts he went into Somersetshire where he taught a School for about an year or more at Ilchester and compiled a Greek Lexicon as far as the Letter M. About that time having married a rich Fortune in those parts named Benedicta the Widdow of one Bourne but Daughter of Rob. Moyle of Buckwell in Kent he entred himself a Student in the Middle Temple where after he had spent some years and performed certain exercise he was called to the Bar. In 1614. he sate as a Burgess in Parliament then in being wherein in speaking his mind he made a desperate allusion to the Scicilian Vesper for which being committed Prisoner to the Tower of London 7. June was examined whether he well understood the consequence of that Vesper to which he alluded Whereupon making answer that he had a hint thereof and afterwards a general information from Dr. Lionel Sharp of Cambridge that Doctor therefore with Sir Charles Cornwallis Son of Sir Tho. Cornwallis of Brome in Suffolk were imprison'd in the Tower on the 13. of the same month At the same time that our author Hoskyns was committed to custody were others also imprison'd with him for behaving themselves turbulent in the H. of Commons as Walt. Chute a Kentish man who had lately been put out of his place of Carver to the King one Wentworth Tho. Wentworth mentioned under the year 1627. esteemed by some then living a silly and simple creature and a third named Christopher Nevil second Son to the Lord Abergavenny who was newly come from School and made the House sport with his boyish speeches wherein were these words reiterated O tempora O mores After our author Hoskyns had continued a Prisoner for a full year he with Sharp and Cornwallis were released and ever after were held in great value by the Commons In the 17. of Jac. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader of the Middle-Temple and in the 21. of the said King made a Serjeant at Law and soon after a Judge or Justice itinerant for Wales and one of the Council of the Marches thereof He was the most ingenious and admired Poet of his time and therefore much courted by the ingenious men then living There were few or none that published books of Poetry but did celebrate his memory in them especially his contemporary in New coll named Joh. Owen the Epigrammatist and fewer but did lay them at his feet for approbation before they went to the Press 'T was he that polish'd Ben. Johnson the Poet and made him speak clean whereupon he ever after called our author Father Hoskyns and 't was he that view'd and review'd the History of the World written by Sir W. Raleigh before it went to the Press with which person he had several years before especially during their time of imprisonment in the Tower been intimate He was also much respected and beloved by Camden Selden Sam. Daniel Dr. Joh. Donne Dean of Pauls Rich. Martin Recorder of London Sir H. Wotton and Sir Benj. Rudyerd with the last of whom it was once his fortune upon a quarrel that fell out to fight a duel and to hurt him in the knee but were afterwards soon reconcil'd He was a person always pleasant and facete in company which made him much desired by ingenious men He was an excellent Master of the Latin and Greek tongue well read in Divinity but in the Common Law which was his profession not so well He hath written Lexicon Graecum MS. imperfect Epigrams in Engl. and Lat. Some of which are printed in several books and among them I suppose are his verses on a F t let in the Parliament house which are printed in some of the books of Drollery He had a book of Poems neatly written bigger than those of Dr. Donne which were lent by his Son Benedict to a certain person in 1653. but could never retrieve it Epitaphs in Lat. and English The Art of Memory He was so excellent in it whether artificial or natural that no man ever went beyond him in his time When he was a School-boy at Winchester and had an exercise of verses to make he neglected through idleness the making of them So that fearing a whipping he read the exercise of one of his School-fellows over his shoulder just as he had finish'd it Whereupon the Master entring and the exercise called upon him first he drew up to and told him he had lost it yet nevertheless he would repeat it without book if that would serve his turn so that the Master being contented he repeated 16 or 20 verses that he had before read of the other boys making and so was excused At length the other boy being called and he shewing the verses that Hoskyns had repeated he was esteemed the thief that had stole them away from Hoskyns and thereupon was sorely whip'd for so doing Method of the Law reduced under the heads of Rights Wrongs Remedies All which books with others of various subjects are in MS. and for the most part kept in the hands of his Grandson Sir Joh. Hoskyns Knight and Baronet He departed this life in his house at Morehampton in Herefordshire 27. Aug. in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1638 aged 72. and was buried on the south side of the Choire of Dowr Abbey in the said County Over his grave was erected soon after an Altar-monument with 24 verses ingraven thereon made by Thomas Bonham of Essex Esq The four first run thus Hoc tegitur tumulo totus quem non tegit orbis Hoskinus humani prodigium ingenii Vsque adeo excoluit duo pugnacissima rerum Et qua non subeant nomina pectus idem Pieridumque legumque potens c. RICHARD JAMES was born at Newport in the Isle of Wight admitted Scholar of C. C. coll from that of Exeter 23. Sept. 1608. aged 16. or thereabouts and on the 30. of Sept. 1615. Probationer-Fellow About that time he being involved in the studies of Theology he entred into Orders preached often and at length was Bac. of that Faculty This person tho humorous was of a far better judgment than his Uncle Thom. James mentioned under the year 1629. and had he lived to his age would have surpassed him in published books He was a great traveller also was
in Rushia in 1619. and esteemed to be a person well vers'd in most parts of learning He was noted by all those that knew him to be a very good Greecian Poet an excellent Critick Antiquary Divine and admirably well skill'd in the Saxon and Gothick languages But as for his Preaching it was not except by the graver sort approved by any in the University For of three Sermons delivered to the Academians one of which concerning the Observation of Lent was without a Text according to the most ancient manner another against the Text and a third beside it shewing himself thereby a humorous person The famous Selden was much beholding to him for the drudgery he did for him when he composed his Marmora Arundeliana acknowledging him in his Preface to that book to be Vir multijugae studiique indefatigabilis Sir Rob. Cotton also his great Patron and his Son Sir Thomas could not but acknowledge his like drudgery in the ordering disposing and setling their incomparable Library with the first of whom no great friend to the Prerogative being intimate and familiar was confin'd to close keeping by the Lords when Sir Robert was imprisoned for certain matters uttered in Parliament an 1629. Nothing was wanting to our author and his studies but a Sinecure or a Prebendship either of which if confer'd upon him Hercules his labours would have seem'd a trifle His works are these Several Lat. Sermons as 1 Anti-Possevinus sive concio habita ad clerum 〈◊〉 Acad. Oxon an 1625. in 2 Tim. 4. 13. Oxon. 1625. qu. 2 Conc. habita ad clerum Oxon de Ecclesia in Matth. 16. 18. Oxon. 1633. qu. c. Several Engl. Sermons as 1 Serm. concerning the Eucharist delivered on Easter day in Oxon. on Matth. 26. ver 26 27 28. Lond. 1629. qu. 2 History of Preaching or concerning the Apostles preaching and ours on 1 Cor. 9. 16. Lond. 1630. qu. 3 Serm. concerning the observation of Lent-fast Lond. 1630. qu. To which tho there be no Text yet it is grounded on Luke 4. 2. 4 Serm concerning the times of receiving the Sacrament and of mutual forgiveness delivered in C. C. C. at the election of a President on 1 Cor. 11 25. Lond. 1632. â—qu 5 Apologetical Essay for the righteousness of miserable unhappy People preached at S. Maries in Oxon on Psal. 37. 25. Lond. 1632. qu. Poemata quaedam in mort clariss viri Roberti Cottoni Thomae Alleni Oxon. 1633. qu. With which Poems he published Sir Thom. More 's Epistle written from Abendon in Berks an 1519. to the Univ. of Oxon for the embracing of the Greek tongue which had been for many years neglected among the Members thereof He also translated into English Octavius Ox. 1636. in tw written by Minutius Felix All the afore-mentioned works except the translation bound in one vol. the author gave to Bodlies Library with a copy of verses of his composition written in a spare leaf before the first of them beginning thus Dear God by whom in dark Womb's shade I am to fear and wonder made c. The said copy of verses was made by him when he was confin'd to close custody by the Lords He died of a Quartan Fever in the house of Sir Tho. Cotton Bt. near to Westminster hall by too much studying as 't was supposed and wracking his body with hardship in the beginning of Decemb. year 1638 in sixteen hundred thirty and eight and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in S. Margarets Church within the said City He left behind him several MSS. of his own composition and others collected by him from various authors to the number of 45. or thereabouts all written with his own hand which coming after his death into the hands of his intire Friend and Colleague Mr. Tho. Greaves came after his death to the Bodleian Library where they now are The MSS. of his composition are these 1 Decanonizatio Thomae Cantuariensis suorum fol. This book containing 760. pages hath this beginning Viam regiam mihi patefacit ad decanonizationem ficti fucati Martyris c. and the beginning of the Epist to the Reader is this Amice lector rogatus sum saepius c. 2 Comment in Evangelia S. Johannis in two parts in qu. The beginning is Postmodo ad textum sacrae historiae deveniam ubi prius c. Both parts contain about 12 sheets 3 Notae in aliquot loca Bibliae in 3 sh in qu. The beginning is Videte sub ficu Paraphrastes sub umbrosa ficu c. 4 Antiquitates Insulae Victae in 17 pages in qu. The beginning is Angli Saxones Marciarum c. and of the Epistle to the Reader Vtrum moriar priusque hoc opus perficium deus novit c. 'T is only a specimen or a foundation for a greater work to build on 5 Epistolae ad amicos suos doctos The beginning of the first Ep. which was written to Dr. Seb. Benefeild of C. C. coll is this Sancte Deus c. 'T is a thick quarto and containeth Epistles mostly written to C. C. coll men Epitaphs and some English copies of verses 6 Epigrams in Lat. and Engl. with other Poems 7 Reasons concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages c. These reasons which are six or more have this beginning Sir if you please to learn my mind concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages c. written in 2 sh in fol. 8 Two Sermons The first on James 5. 14. the other on John 12. 32. Both written in fol. papers 9 Iter Lancastrense This Itinerary which was written in English verse 1636. hath this beginning High Holt of Wood and 't is contained in two sheets and an half 10 Glossarium Saxonicum-Anglicum 'T is a long pocket-book 11 Glos Sax. Angl. another part in oct 12 A Rushian Dictionary with the English to it 13 Observations made in his travels through some parts of Wales Scotland on Shetland Greenland c. In 4 sheets in qu. 14 Observations made on the Country with the manners and customs of Rushia or Rusland an 1619. in oct 'T was intended to be transcrib'd and to have other matters added to it but what hindred the design I cannot tell Besides these 14 books I have another of Epigrams written mostly in Latin and partly in Greek in oct dedicated to his Tutor Dr. Sebast Benefeild As for his collections which are in four and twenty quartoes and in about 7 thin folio's all under his own hand are contained in them for the most part notes from ancient MSS. sometimes from printed authors relating to Hist and Antiq. and any thing that could be found against S. Thomas of Canterbury the greatness and corruption of Popes Cardinals Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Friers and the Clergy before the time of Reformation And when he thought that the matter it self from the authors whence he made his collections was not enough sufficient to make them bad his
after he had continued under a strict Discipline for about 3 years he went to the Inner Temple and pursuing his fathers steps in the laudable studies of the Municipal Laws was made choice of for the Autumn Reader of that House 14. Jac. 1. Dom. 1616. and on the 17. Nov. the same year was elected Recorder of London In 1617 about the 17. of March he was made the Kings Sollicitor General upon the promotion of Hen. Yelverton to be Attorney General and afterwards Knighted and made Attorney Gen. On the 30. of Oct. 1. Car. 1. he was advanced to that eminent Office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England tho' of no transcendent parts or same as the Puritans said and upon the 10. Apr. 4. Car. 1. was dignified with the degree of a Baron of England by the title of Lord Coventry of Ailesborough in his native Country He hath extant Several speeches as 1 Speech at the opening of the Parliament 6. Feb. 1625. 2 Sp. in Parl. 29. Feb. 1626. chiefly concerning the Duke of Bucks 3 Sp. at the openâ—ng of the Parl. 17. Mar. 1627. 4 Sp. to both Houses of Parl. 28. Apr. 1628. 5 Sp. at a Conference 26. May 1628. 6 Sp. in Parl. 2. June 1628. 7 Sp. at the delivery of a Message from the K. to the H. of C. 6. Jun. 1628. 8 Reply to Sir â—Jo Finch Speaker 9 Second Reply c. 10 Answer to the Petition against Recusants c. Besides these Speeches and several discourses goes under his name Perfect and exact directions to all those that desire to know the true and just fees of all the Offices belonging to the Court of Common Pleas Chancery c. Lond. in oct He ended his days in Durham House in the Strand near London in a seasonable time said the Puritan and discontented Party on the 14. Jan. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine and was buried in the Church of Crome D'abitot beforemention'd on the first of March following after he had enjoyed the Dignity of Lord Keeper about 15 years if it be not more proper to say that Dignity had enjoyed him so long His front and presence did bespeak a venerable regard not inferior to any of his Antecessors His train and suit of followers were disposed agreeably to shun both envy and contempt not like that of Bacon Visc S. Albans or of Williams B. of Lincoln whom he succeeded ambitious and vain his port was state their 's ostentation c. See more of his character in The Reign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1639. written by Ham. L'Estrange Lond. 1656. fol. which being just I wonder he did not animadvert upon a certain Libel which tells us that had the Lord Coventries actions been scanned by a Parliament he had been found as foul a man as ever lived ROBERT BURTON known otherwise to Scholars by the name of Democritus Junior younger Brother to Will. Burton whom I shall mention under the year 1645 was born of an ancient and gentile family at Lindley in Leicestershire 8. Feb. 1576 and therefore in the titles of several of his choice books which he gave to the publick Library he added to his Sirname Lindliacus Leycestrensis He was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire whence he was sent to Brasnose coll in the long vacation an 1593. where he made a considerable progress in Logic and Philosophy in the condition of a Commoner In 1599. he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and for form sake tho he wanted not a Tutor he was put under the tuition of Dr. John Bancroft afterwards Bishop of Oxon. In 1614. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and on the 29. Nov. 1616. he had the Vicaridge of St. Thomas Parish in the West Suburb of Oxon confer'd on him by the Dean and Canons of Ch. Church to the parishioners whereof he always gave the Sacrament in Wafers which with the Rectory of Segrave in Leycestershire given to him some years after by George Lord Berkley he kept with much ado to his dying day He was an exact Mathematician a curious calculator of Nativities a general read Scholar a thro-pac'd Philologist and one that understood the surveying of Lands well As he was by many accounted a severe student a devourer of authors a melancholy and humerous person so by others who knew him well a person of great honesty plain dealing and charity I have heard some of the Antients of Ch. Ch. often say that his company was very merry facete and juvenile and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the Poets or sentences from classical authors Which being then all the fashion in the University made his company more acceptable He hath written The Anatomy of Melancholy First printed in qu. and afterwards several times in sol an 1624. 1632 38 and 1652. c. to the great profit of the Bookseller who got an estate by it 'T is a book so full of variety of reading that Gentlemen who have lost their time and put to a push for invention may furnish themselves with matter for common or scholastical discourse and writing Several authors have unmercifully stolen matter from the said book without any acknowledgment particularly one Will. Greenwood in his book intit A description of the passion of Love c. Lond. 1657. oct Who as others of the like humour do sometimes take his quotations without the least mention of Democritus Junior He the said R. Burton paid his last debt to nature in his Chamber in Ch. Ch. at or very near that time which he had some years before foretold from the calculation of his own nativity which being exact several of the Students did not forbear to whisper among themselves that rather than there should be a mistake in the calculation he sent up his soul to heaven thro a slip about his neck His body was afterwards with due solemnity buried near that of Dr. Rob. Weston in the north isle which joyns next to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church on the 27. of January in sixteen hundred thirty and nine Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument on the upper pillar of the said isle with his bust painted to the life On the right hand of which is the calculation of his nativity and under the bust this inscription made by himself all put up by the care of William Burton his brother Paucis notus paucioribus ignotus hic jacet Democritus junior cui vitam dedit mortem melancholia Obiit viii Id. Jan. A. C. M. DCXXXIX He left behind him a very choice library of books many of which he bequeathed to that of Bodley and a hundred pounds to buy five pounds yearly for the supplying of Ch. Ch. Library with books ROBERT MOOR was born at Holyard in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School
of a learned and pious man and of one who by his daily labours had done eminent service to the private and publick WILLIAM JONES the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire the ancient Seat of his Family educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey whence at 14 years of age he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall an 1570. and continued there 5 years But taking no degree he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn according to the course of those times After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following and a Knight in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland in which place he continued three years and then left it upon his own request In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench He hath written and collected Reports of divers special cases as well in the Court of Kings Bench as of the Common Pleas in England as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James as in the years of K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby This book also coming into the hands after the authors death of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law he made very good notes on it as it appears in the original copy sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones Several Speeches in Parliament He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried under the Chappel standing on pillars of Lincolns-Inn on the fourteenth day of the same month Over whose grave tho no writing or Epitaph appears yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws will make his name live to posterity more especially in these parts where he had his education and when Justice did constantly keep Oxford circuit WILLIAM CHIBALD or Chiball a Surrey man born was entred a Student into Magd. coll 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitour or Clerk I know not Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function became a Preacher in London and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fishstreet there where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching He hath written and published A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear for our friends or own visitation by the Plague Lond. 1625. oct An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof Printed with the former Sum of all namely Gods Service and Mans Salvation and Mans duty to God concerning both by way of dialogue Lond. 1630. oct Several Sermons as 1 The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct with others which I have not yet seen Apology for the trial of Faith Lond. in oct when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it He deceased in Febr. about the 25. day in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named James who became a Student in Magd. coll 1623. afterwards a Minister in London and if I mistake not a sufferer there for the Royal Cause when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians MARTIN WESTCOMBE sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France and Bac. of Arts there left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there was sent to Exeter coll among his Countrymen of Devonshire was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and by the favour of the Chancellour of the University proceeded in Arts the next year as a Member of the said college He hath written Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae Ox. 1639. oct Soon after the author of it went beyond the Seas returned to his former Religion as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll have told me and wrote certain matters there in vindication of himself but what they could not tell me ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash Gent was born there or at least in that County and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq Solicitor General to the Queen had his Poetical Genie so far incouraged by that generous person that he sent him to Exeter coll to compleat it with Academical learning in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years What stay he made there or whether he was honoured with a degree it appears not Sure it is that he having about that time composed several poetical and other things had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house and published under these titles Nocturnal Lucubrations or meditations divine and moral Lond. 1638. in tw To which are added Epigrams and Epitaphs The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball before-mentioned and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir He hath also written The swaggering Damsel a Comedy Lond. 1640. qu. Sicelides a Pastoral When printed I cannot tell for I do not remember I ever saw it In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit Sicelides a piscatory several times acted in Kings coll in Cambr. and therefore I presume 't was made by one of that house This Rob. Chamberlaine lived many years after but when he died I cannot justly tell One Rob. Chamberlaine proceeded Master of Arts as a Member of Pemb. coll but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlaine a Physician must not be taken as some of this University have done to be the same with the Poet before-mentioned Will. Chamberlaine of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida an heroick Poem Lond. 1659. oct but whether he was ever an Oxford Student I am hitherto ignorant ATHENAE OXONIENSES The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640. â—_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh called Middleton educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School
near Winchester became Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation in 1456 was afterwards Doctor of Decrees and Commissary the same now with Vicechancellour of the University an 1468. About that time he was made Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London Archdeacon of Essex Canon of Windsore 1497 Dean of the Kings Chappel and at length upon the refusal of Christoph Vrswyke Dean of Windsore he became Bishop of Norwich in the room of James Goldwell deceased The temporalities of which See after his election thereunto were restored to him 21. Jul. 14. Hen. 7. dom 1499. where sitting little more than an year he concluded his last day in the month of Aug. or thereabouts in the year fiveteen hundred By his Will dated 20. Jul. the same year he bequeathed his body to be buried in his own Cathedral Church if it should happen that he dye in Norwich or within 16 miles of that place He had before his death been a benefactor to New coll as I have told you elsewhere and as it should seem to the building of S. Maries Church in this Univ. of Oxon if his answer was equivalent to an Epistle written in its name to desire his benefaction thereunto In the time of this worthy Bishop Tho. Jane or rather before studied in this University Tho. Scot alias Rotheram Son of Sir Tho. Rotheram Knight by Alice his Wife but going soon after to Cambridge we can hardly lay claim to him In an old book of Epistles written by the University of Ox. to great personages is an Epistle written to the Bishop of Lincoln and he that then sat there must according to time be the said Rotheram In which Epistle are certain circumstances that shew that he had sometimes studied in the said University and besides the members thereof did seldom â—or never write Epistles to any except such who had originally been Students among them He died Archb. of York in 1500 and was succeeded in that See by Tho. Savage See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 243. a. b. JOHN MORETON Son of Rich. Moreton of S. Andrews Milbourn in Dorsetshire Son of Will. Moreton of the said place and he the second Son of Charles Moreton the first being Rob. Moreton of Moreton in Nottinghamsh from whence sprang the Moretons of Bautrey in Yorkshire was born saith Camden at St. Andr. Milb before mention'd others particularly one of Camdens contemporaries at a little Market Town call'd Bere in the said County of Dorset which seems to be most true by those things that I shall anon mention from his last Will and Testament When he was a boy he was educated among the Religious in Cerne Abbey and at ripe years was sent to Balliol coll where making great progress in Academical learning he took the degrees in the Laws without any regard had to those in Arts. In 1446. he being then in his Regency he became one of the Commissaries of the University about which time one Will. Moreton of the same coll was the northern Proctor but whether related to him I cannot tell Afterwards Jo. Moreton was Principal or moderator of the Civil Law School situated in the Great Jewry in Oxon and about 1453. became Principal of Peckwaters Inn at which time he being also an Advocate in the Court of Arches his parts and great learning were so remarkable that Tho. Bouchier Archb. of Canterbury taking cognisance of him sought means to prefer him In 1458. Nov. 8. he became Prebendary of Fordinton and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury void by the death of one Will. Walesby being also about that time Rector of S. Dunstans Church in the West in the Suburbs of London Afterwards having other spiritualities conferr'd upon him he was for his great wisdom and prudence made Master of the Rolls an 1473 and in the year following Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was then void by the death of one Vinc. Clement sometimes a Doctor of Oxon In Feb. 1475 he being then Preb. of Dynre in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in that month and was succeeded therein by Mr. Will. Dudley he was collated to the Prebendship of S. Ducuman in the said Church on the death of one Joh. Pope which Dignity he keeping till Jan. 1478. he then gave it up and Tho. Langton Doctor of Decrees succeeded him as I shall anon tell you In 1476. Nov. 6. he was made Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of John Russell Doctor of the Canon Law not of Div. as one saith who was afterwards Bishop of Lincoln In 1478. Aug. 9. he was elected Bishop of Ely on the death of Will. Grey and about that time was made Privy Councellour to the King In 1484. 2. Rich. 3. he was committed prisoner to the Tower of London for some jealousies that that King had of him as being totally inclined to the Lancastrian family and 't is probable that there he would have continued during all that Kings raign but the reverence of the man or undeservedness of his wrongs moved so the affection of the members of this University that they directed to the King who professed much seeming love to the University as 't is elsewhere told you a petitionary Epistle in Latine no less eloquent and pithy than circumspect and wary wherein they much pleaded for his liberty Whereupon the K. being well pleased with it was content to release him from the Tower and commit him to the custody of Henry Duke of Buckingham to his Castle at Brecknock in Wales Thence after he had spent some time he found liberty to steal to the Isle of Ely and for a round sum of money found a safe passage into France purposely to joyn with the Earl of Richmond to pluck down the said Rich. 3. Soon after the said Earl obtaining the Crown by the name of Hen. 7. called unto his Privy Council the said Moreton Bishop of Ely with Rich. Fox about that time B. of Exeter both vigilant men and discreet and such as kept watch with the King almost upon all men else They were both vers'd in his affairs before he came to the Crown and were partakers of his adverse fortune and therefore the King was resolved to promote them in the Church as high as he could In the beginning of the year 1486. Archbishop Bouchier before mentioned died whereupon the K. making means that the Monks of Canterbury should elect Dr. Moreton for his Successor the Pope did forthwith confirm it So that being translated to the said See he had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the sixth of Decemb. the same year In 1487. he was made Lord Chancellor of England in which high office he acted very beneficial for the King and in 1493. he was declared a Cardinal by Pope Alexand. 6. under the title of S. Anastasius The year after he was elected Chanc. of
Canon of Windsore in 1479. and about that time Rector of Sutton Courtney near Abendon in Berkshire In 1489. he was made Prebendary of Bolun in the Cath. Church of York on the death of Dr. Tho. Chaundler and in the same year in Nov. he was made Preb. of Beamister secunda in the Cath. Church of Sarum upon the promotion of Rich. Hyll to the See of London being then also dignified in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter On the 6. of Nov. 1496. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichf and Coventry and on the 28. of the same month had the temporalities of that See restored to him The author of the Comment of the English Bishops tells that he was translated from that See to Exeter 1501 tho elsewhere I find that the translation was made on the last day saving one of June 1502. and that the temporalities thereof were not given to him till 26. Sept. 19. Hen. 7. Dom. 1503. He surrendred up his last breath in the house belonging to the Bishops of Exeter within the parish of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr year 1503 near to London 15. March in fifteen hundred and three and was buried on the sourth side of the high altar in the Church of St. Clement before mention'd This Joh. Arundell did upon the desire of the chief members of this University promise to them 20l. towards the finishing of S. Maries Church but he dying before 't was given they recovered that sum of his Executors I find another John Arundell of Exeter coll who was one of the Proctors of the University 1426. afterwards Doctor of Physick Physitian to K. Hen. 6. and Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter I take him to be the same John Arundell M. D. who was collated to the Archdeaconâ—y of Richmond in the latter end of Octob. 1457. in the place of Laur. Bothe promoted to the See of Durham and had for his successor in that Dignity John Bothe collated to it in May 1459 and afterwards became Bishop of Exeter JOHN MORGAN alias Yong a Weâ—â— man and Doctor of the Laws of Oxon. was installed Dean â—â—â—sore in the place of Will. Benley an 1484. 2. 〈…〉 and being elected Bish of S. Davids on the death of 〈…〉 sometimes B. thereof an Oxford Scholar and a â—enefactor to the building of S. Maries Church had restitution made to him of temporalitie belonging to that See 23. Nov. 12. Hen. 7. Dâ—m 1496. He gave way to fate in the latter end of Apr. or beginning of May in fifteen hundred and four whereupon his body was buried between the pillars on the sourth side of the body of the Cath. Church of S. David By his Will which I have seen dated 25. Apr. 15â—4 and proved the 15. of May following it appears that his desire was to have a Chappel made over his grave in the best manner that might be according to the disposition of his Executors but whether ever performed I know not THOMAS PYGOT a Denbighshire man born as it seems was consecrated Bishop of Bangor in the year of our Lord 1500 year 1504 and paying his last debt to nature on the fifteenth day of Aug. in fifteen hundred and four was as I suppose buried in his own Church This Tho. Pygot I take to be the same who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University in order to to the taking of the degree of Bachelaur of the Civil Law an 1458. One of both his names was confirmed Abbat of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at York on the death of Thom. Stayngreve 24. May 1398. and died in 1405. but what relation the former had to this I cannot tell WILLIAM BARONS Doctor as it seems of the Law Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and afterwards Master of the Rolls in the room of Dr. Will. Warham 1502 and one of the Kings Council was upon the translation of the said Dr. Warham to Canterbury elected to the See of London which being consented to by the King the temporalities thereof were restored to him 13. Nov. 20. Hen. 7. Dom. 1504. He died in Oct. or Nov. in fifteen hundred and five and was buried in his own Church of S. Paul He had studied the Laws in Oxon. and had presided the Chair but in what hall or School it doth not appear In his Bishoprick succeeded Richard Fitz James as I shall hereafter tell you WILLIAM SEVER or Siveyer was born at Shinkley in the County Pal. of Durham educated in this University but whether in Merton coll I am as yet uncertain However as to that which the author of the Commentary of the English Bishops saith that he was Warden of Merton coll and Provost of that of Eaton near Windsore is false for 't was not William but Henry Sever who lived before this mans time that enjoyed those places After Will. Sever had left Oxon wherein I presume he had studied either in Glouc. or Durham college nurseries for those of the Order of St. Benedict he himself being a Benedictine he retired to his Monastery of S. Mary at York succeeded Thom. Bothe in the Abbatship of that place and in 1495. being elected B. of Carlile on the death of Rich. Bell who had been formerly Prior of Durham had the temporalities thereof delivered to him on the eleventh of Decemb. the same year and liberty then given to him to keep his Abbatship in Commendam In 1502. he being elected to the See of Durham had the temporalities thereof surrendred into his hands by the King on the 15. of Octob. the same year where setting but three years payed his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred and five and was buried in the Cath. Church there In his Abbatship succeeded Rob. Wanhop in Dec. 1502. Sever being then Bish of Durham and in his Chaire at Durham Christop Bainbridge whom I shall hereafter mention The book or Hist of the Ch. of Durham calls this Bish Will. Sinewes or Senwse and Leland Senose which book tells us that he was translated from Carlile to Durham by vertue of a Bull sent from the Pope and so by the Breve of K. Hen. 7. dat 15. Oct. in the 18. year of his raign he was consecrated Bishop of Durham 1502. and stood three years c. so that according to time this Sinews must be the same with Sever. THOMAS CLERKE and English man became Archdeacon of the Isle of Man after he had left the University and and at length by provision from the Pope became Bishop of Killala in Ireland 1498. which office he keeping till fifteen hundred and five then resigned it I take this Thomas Clerke to be the same with Thomas written and stiled Thomas Aladensis Episcopus that is Tho. Bish of Killala who by that name and title was admitted Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Joh. Fynne 12. Janu. 1505. and dying
year 1534 of the same month in fifteen hundred thirty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers His death which was no more than a down-right murder is attibuted by some precise writers as a judgment on him for his unworthy and base dealing in the dissolution of Daventry Priory in Northamptonshire being one of those many which were dissolved for the erection of the Cardinals coll in Oxon. On the 25. of July early in the morning Tho. Fitz-Gerald eldest Son of the Earl of Kildare caused him the said rev Prelate to be brought before him at Tartaine being then feeble by a late sickness who kneeling at his feet in his shirt and mantle bequeathing his Soul to God and his body to the Traytors mercy the wretched young man Tho. Fitz-Gerald before-mentioned commanded him there to be brain'd like an Ox. The place where this fact was done was afterwards hedged in overgrown and unfrequented in detestation of the fact The people have observed that all the accessaries thereof being after pardon'd for Rebellion ended their lives miserably HENRY STANDISH Doctor of Div. an eminent and learned man and a Grey Frier of the Order of S. Francis was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in July 1519. You may see more of him among the writers under the year fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 in which year he died In the said See succeeded William Barlow in the latter end of the year 1535. who a little before in the same year was sent into Scotland with one Holcroft about points of Religion against the Pope at which time he the said Barlow was stiled Prior of Bisham He was also sent soon after with William Lord Howard into the same Country at which time he went by the title of the Bishop of St. Asaph Their business then was about the interview with the Scotch King induced thereunto by his Council especially those of the Clergy See G. Buchanan in Rerum Scotic hist RICHARD RAWLINS was admitted Fellow of Merton coll in the year 1480. and afterwards proceeding in Arts he entred into the sacred Function On the 19. Feb. 1491. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences left the coll soon after being then beneficed and in 1495. proceeded in Divinity In 1504. Oct. 1. he was admitted Subdean of York on the death of Edw. Cressacre in which Dignity he was succeeded by Dr. James Harryngton in Jul. 1507. and in 1505. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Rob. Sherebourne promoted to the See of S. David In 1506. he was made Canon of Windsore and in the middle of June 1507. he was admitted Archdeacon of Clievland on the death of Joh. Raynolds LL. B. who died on the vigil of the Nativity going before In Dec. 1508. he was admitted Warden of Mert. coll being then also Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral and in great repute for his learning In 1512. he went with the King into France and was present at the Siege of Turwin and Tournay and in 1514. he was made Almoner to the said King in the place of Tho. Wolsey and Archd. of Huntingdon In 1521. he was deprived of his Wardenship of Mert. coll by the Archb. of Canterbury for many unworthy misdemeaners the particulars of which are too large to be here set down and soon after because he should not be a looser had the Bishoprick of S. David confer'd upon him about the beginning of the year 1523. To which See being consecrated on the 26. Apr. the same year sate there to the time of his death which hapned about the beginning of fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 His immediate Predecessor in the said See was Edw. Vaughan of the University of Cambridge who dying in Nov. or Dec. in 1522. was buried in the Chappel of the holy Trinity within the Cath. Ch. of S. David Which Chappel he a little before his death had built at his own charge RICHARD NIKKE or Nix a Somersetshire man born as it seems but in what house in Oxon where he had spent some years in study he was educated it appears not In the beginning of the year 1473. he by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk was collated to the Church of Ashbury in the Dioc. of Sarum and in Sept. 1489. he by the title of Doctor of the Laws became Rector of Chedsey in Somesetshire being then Preb. of Yotton in the Church of Wells In 1492. he was constituted Vicar General to Rich. Fox Bishop of B. and Wells and in Jul. 1494. he was made Archdeacon of Wells with the Prebend of Huish annexed on the resignation of Will. Nikke LL. D. In 1496. he was made Canon of Winasore and about the same time Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards he had one or more benefices confer'd on him in the Diocess of Wells and in that of Durham besides the Archdeaconry of Exeter and at length on the death of Dr. Tho. Jane being elected to the Episcopal See of Norwich had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk Dean of the Kings Chappel on the 24. of Apr. 1501. where sitting about 35 years died blind in fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 He was buried between two pillars on the south side of the body of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych next to those two pillars between which Miles Spencer Dr. of Law and Chanc. of Norwych was buried Over the said Nikkes grave was a low Tomb erected whereon were the Arms of the See of Norwych impaling a Chevron between 3 Leopards heads being the same that are on the roof of the north cross Isle Which roof is supposed to have been either repaired or built by him as also part of if not all the said Isle In the See of Norwych succeeded one Will. Rugg alias Repps a Doctor of Div. of Cambridge and Abbat of the Monastery of S. Benedict in Hulmo Son of Will. Rugg of North-Repps in Nofolk who resigning the said Bishoprick in January 1549. died 21. of Sept. 1550. and was buried in the middle of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych As for Will. Nikke before-mentioned he was as I conceive brother to the Bishop aed being Preb. of Ilton in the Church of Wells became Archd. of Wells on the resignation of Tho. Bridlington in the month of Apr. 1473. ROBERT SHEREBOURNE a Hampshire man born was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester became true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1474. afterwards M. of A. and in Orders Canon of Lincoln Preb. of Whitechurch and Beneger in the Church of Wells which he resigned in Octob. 1493. Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Milverton annex'd upon the resignation of Will. Worsley LL. D. in the month of Dec. 1496. Archdeacon of Huntingdon about the same time and in 1499. Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London on the
a secular or of any religious Order I cannot tell nor whether justly he took a degree in this University Certain it is that being made Suffragan Bishop of Hull under the Archbishop of York was made Prebendary of Langtoft and VVistow in the Church of York 1541. and in 1549. January 31. was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham on the death of Cuthbert Marshall D. D. who had succeeded Will. Fell D. D. in that dignity in Jan. 1527. He either died in the beginning of Q. Maries reign 1553. or was deprived because then or soon after I find one Rob. Pursglove to occur by the title of Bishop of Hull as I shall at large tell you under the year 1579. JOHN STANYWELL or Stonywell was born in the Parish of Longdon in Staffordshire within which Parish is a small Hamlet called Stonywell from a Well wherein is at the bottom a large stone which seems to be no more than a little Rock whence springs the water that supplies that Well This person being much addicted to learning and religion when a Youth was taken into a certain Monastery that at Pershore in Worcestershire as it seems and was bred a Benedictine Monk Thence he was sent to Glocester College in Oxon where the Monks of Pershore had an apartment for their Novices to be trained up in Academical learning of which College he was when in his elder years Prior for a time and was then noted among those of his profession for his learning and strict course of life Afterwards being Doctor of divinity he became Lord Abbat of the said Monastery of Pershore and at length a Bishop suffragan only as it seems under the title of Episcopus Poletensis He paid his last debt to nature after he had arrived to a great age in the beginning of fifteen hundred fifty and three year 1553 and was burled according to his Will in a new chappel built by him within the Parish Church of S. James in Longdon he bequeathed all his books his two Chalices his Crewetts holy water stock Vestmens Albes Altar-clothes with other things belonging to his private chappel in Longdon JOHN HOPER or Hooper sometimes either of Merton coll or S. Albans hall or of both successively was consecrated Bishop of Glocester in the latter end of the year 1550. and about two years after had the Bishoprick of Worcester given to him to keep in Commendam with the former He yielded up his last breath in the flames in the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Glocester succeeded him James Brokes and in Worcester Rich. Pate Of the former you may read more among the writers under the year 1559. and of the other among the Bishops following an 1560. GEORGE BROWNE an Austin Frier of the convent of that order in London was educated in Academicals among those of his order in Oxon. Afterwards growing eminent among them was made Provincial of the said order in England and about the same time supplicated the Regents of this University that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1523 but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards taking the degree of Doctor of divinity in an University beyond the Seas as it seems was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon 1534. and soon after at Cambridge On the 19. of March 1535. he was consecrated in England Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland and in 1551. he obtained leave from K. Ed. 6. that he and his successors for ever in that See may be Primates of all Ireland but recalled soon after by Queen Mary who in 1554. caused him to be deprived of his Archbishoprick for being married What became of him afterwards I know not nor when he died EDWARD STAPLE received his first breathings in this World in Lincolnshire studied Logic and Philosophy for a time in this University and went afterwards to Cambridge where he took the degree of Master of Arts. Thence returning to Oxon was incorporated in that degree and in the latter end of 1525. supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences being then one of the canons of Card. Wolseys college but whether he was really admitted it dot not appear In 1530. he by provision from P. Clem. 7. became Bishop of Meath in Ireland being at that time Warden or Master of S. Bartholomews Hospital in London which for some time he kept in commendam with his Bishoprick At length Qu. Mary coming to the Crown he was deprived of the said Bishoprick for being married as I suppose in the year 1554. and soon after died In the said See succeeded one Will. Walsh D. D. of whom I shall speak more under the year 1576. ROBERT FERRAR was born within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire within four miles of which place he gave Lands to his near relations and when a young man was made a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin but in what Priory or Abbey I know not Sure I am that he having partly received his Academical education in Cambridge did when he had entred into the same order retire to a nursery for the Canons thereof in Oxon named S. Maries college situated in the Parish of S. Michael and S. Peter in the Bayly where I find him in 1526. in which year Tho. Garret Curate of Honey lane in London and a forward and busie Lutheran did supply him with prohibited books or books which were written against the R. Cath. Ch. and the members thereof he being then esteemed one of that party that then opposed the established Church and Doctrine In 1533. he as a member of the said coll of S. Mary was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity and about that time became chaplain to Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury by whose example as one saith he learned to get himself a woman also under the name of a wife and by his endeavours had some preserment in the Church In 1547. he being then in great favour with Edward Duke of Somerset he was by him appointed Bishop of S. Davids upon the removal of W. Barlow to the See of B. and Wells and accordingly was consecrated thereunto the same year But upon the fall of the said Duke in 1549. who was an upholder of him and his unworthy doings were 56. Articles drawn up against him by some of his neighbours viz. Hugh Rawlins Clerk and one Tho. Lee accusing him as an abuser of his authority a maintainer of superstition to be covetous wilfully negligent foolish c. All which he being not able to answer was committed to safe custody in London during the remaining part of the reign of K. Ed. 6. After Qu. Mary came to the Crown it being fully understood that he was a Lutheran Heretick as the men of those times stiled him
May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal daugh of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire After him followed in the said See of Carlile Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire but born in London his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester and from thence was sent to Qu. coll in Camb. where he continued several years Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. Davids cath ch and Dean of Rochester as I shall elsewhere tell you At length he being made B. of S. David was after he had sate there about 6. years translated to Carlile where he continued till 1624. In which year dying he left monies as 't is said for the endowing of a School and monies for the building of an Hospital He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands preached while he was Minister of Sevenoke at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct To him succeeded in the said See of Carlile Rich. Senhouse Dean of Glocester who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. Johns of which he was made Fellow and continuing there many years took the degree of D. of div as a Member thereof about 1622. He was first chaplain as 't is said in the Earl of Bedfords family afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlile for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms which are not as I conceive made yet publick HENRY PARRY or ap Harry sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll was consecrated B. of Gloucester 12. Jul. 1607. translated thence to Worcester in the latter end of Sept. 1610. the temporalities of which See were restored to him 23. Oct. the same year He yielded to nature in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 under which year you may see more of him among the writers He was succeeded in Gloucester by Dr. Giles Tomson and in Worcester by Dr. Joh. Thornborough Of the first I have made mention already among the Bishops and of the other I shall speak in the second volume of this work under the year 1641. WILLIAM JAMES sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. became Bishop of Durham in 1606. and died in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death Rich. Neile Bishop of Lincoln was translated to Durham and thence to Winchester as I shall elsewhere tell you WILLIAM LYON a Cheshire man born was partly educated in this University but whether in Oriel or S. Johns coll where several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell Afterwards he went into Ireland became Vicar of Naas and Chaplain to Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton L. Lievtenant of that Country who promoting him to the Episcopal See of Ross was consecrated thereunto in the year 1582. and the year following was constituted commendatory of Cork and Cloyne by the favour of Qu. Eliz. He bestowed a thousand pound in building the Bishops house at Cork and other monies in repairing the Bishops house at Ross which three years after was burnt by the Rebel O-Donow This W. Lyon died in a good old age on the 4. Oct. year 1617 in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Cork leaving then behind him a Son of both his names who in the 17 year of his age 1610. became a Com. or else Gent. Com. of S. Johns coll in this Univ. In the said Sees of Ross Cork and Cloyne succeeded Dr. Joh. Boyle whom I shall anon mention ROBERT ABBOT Master of Balliol college was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherby Son of Maurice Fotherby of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge was after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendred up his last breath on the eleventh day of March an 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave with a large inscription thereon but destroyed by the great Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons besides his Atheomastix which being put into the press before his death was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson or Tonson Dean of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Queens coll in Cambridge who was consecrated thereunto on the 9. July 1620. See more in the Fasti among the incorporations under the year 1599. JOHN BOYLE a Kentish man born and brother to Rich. Boyle the first Earl of Cork in Ireland received some education with us but whether D. of div of this Univ. as one reports it appears not in the publick Registers He was consecrated B. of Cork before-mentioned in 1618. at which time liberty was allowed him to keep the See of Ross in Commendam He died in sixteen hundred and twenty year 1620 and was buried at Youghall of which place his brother before-mentioned was Baron In the said See of Cork and Ross succeeded Rich. Boyle Dean of Waterford and Archd. of Limerick brother to Michael Boyle B. of Waterford and Lismore which Richard kept the See also of Cloyne in Commendam with the two former JOHN KING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Dean of that house was consecrated Bishop of London in 1611. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers To him succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne Bishop Almoner sometimes Dean of Westminster who was translated from Loncoln to London 20. July 1621. ROWLAND SEARCHFIELD a Londoner born was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School admitted Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1582. aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house Proctor of the University Doct. of div and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire Vicar of Cherlbury in and Justice of
Dignitaries in the Church as Deans Archdeacons Chancellours of Churches and Dioceses Chauntors c. as also of Heads of Colleges and Halls Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 5. Abbats Priors Gardians c Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 6. Monks and Friers supposed to be eminent for Place Learning or published Writings c. Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 7. Martyrs either for the Rom. Catholic or Protestant Cause Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 8. Many learned Men. who have not been Writers and Men of Note in the way they profess'd with their Characters Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 9. Writers and Translators of inconsiderable Account such I mean that have published but one Sermon or a little Pamphlet or have Translated but one or two Books with the Titles of such Sermons and Books or Pamphlets that they have written or translated Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 10. All Doctors of what Faculty soever whether Writers or not Writers Bishops then or afterwards or 〈◊〉 Bishops eminent or not eminent c. with the Day and Year when they were admitted or licensed to proceed in their respective Faculties 11. Those that have been incorporated or embodied or taken into the bosom of the said University as such who have been of any Note in the Univ. of Cambridge or of any Univ. in the learned World with their Characters and Titles of Books 〈…〉 they have written and published The Incorporations also of Princes Dakes Marquesâ—es Earls c. Archbishops Bishops Abbaâ—s Priors c. Deans Archdeacons c. with their Characters c. 12. Those that have been actually created or inveâ—ted with Degrees or have had Degrees confer'd upon then without any or but little Scholastical Exercise performed for them I mean the Names of such only who have been Princes Dukes Marqueâ—ses c. Archbishops Bishops Temporal Lords Baronets Knights eminent Common Lawyers c. The Names also of certain Writers who have been created and of such who have been supposed to have had something of Eminence in them or have 〈…〉 in Church or State with their Char. c. 13. 〈◊〉 Scholars and Writers with their Characters and sometimes an Account of their Works who have 〈◊〉 in Oxon purposely to advance themselves in Learning or for the sake of Libraries An. Dom. 1500. An. 15-16 Hen 7. The Chancellour of the University this year was Dr. John Moreton Archb. of Canterbury and Cardinal of S. Anastasius But he dying in the Month of Sept. Dr Will. Atwater became Câ—ncellarius 〈◊〉 and in his Absence W. Herward D. D. and others At length in the beginning of Nov. following the Members of the University elected for their Chancellour Dr. Will. Smith Bishop of 〈◊〉 Which honorable Office he upon notice by Letters accepting the said Members delegated Mr. John Reede Chaplain to the Prince afterwards Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester and Mr. John Dunham Bâ—ch of Div. to give him his Oath which being taken he was admitted to his Office The 〈◊〉 or Vicechancellour of the University was this year Mr Will. 〈◊〉 D. D 〈◊〉 S. Mary Magdâ—â—â—â— Coll. Proctors 〈…〉 〈…〉 The Senior Proctor who was Fellow of Line Coll. was afterwards Archdeacon of Stow in the place as I conceive of Hugh Hanworth who dying the 7th of March 1518 was buried in the Cath. Church of Lincoln He the said Darby also was Canon resident of Line and Prebendary of Ketton in the said Church and dying in 1542 was buried in Chanter Isle joyning to the Cath. Ch. of Line before mentioned See more of him and his Benefaction to Learning in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxom lib. 2. p. 161. Masters of Art Or such who were licensed to proceed in Arts or admitted among the number of Masters of the Faculty of Arts in order to their proceeding or being compleated in that Degree in the Act or Comitia following Will Gray or Grey The same as I have just reason to conceive who was some years after this time Archdeacon of Berkshire in the place of Christop Twinkley as also Prebendary of Horton in the Church of Sarton He died in the Year 1521 at which time he bequeathed twenty Marks to the University Chest four Marks for the Reparation of S. Mary's Church and four Pounds to buy a new pair of Organs to be plaid upon in the said Church For which and other his good Deeds was yearly a Dirige and Mass said for the health of his Soul In his Archdeaconry succeeded Rob. Audley nearly related to Edm. Audley B. of Sarum 14 Feb. 1521. Opponents in Divinity Or such who opposed in Divinity disputations in the School belonging to that Faculty in order to their Admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity Tho. Browne He was about this time Prior of the Cell at Dunster in Somersetshire The said Cell or Priory was for Benedictines or Black Monks and stood as Jo. Leland tells us in the roots of the North-west side of the Castle at Durster and was a Cell to the Priory at Bathe Bachelaurs of Divinity Or such who were admitted to the reading of the Master of the Sentences or to the Sentences of Pet. Lombard John Storke or Sterke Prior of the House or Coll. of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit This Coll. was situated in the North Suburb of Oxon. On the scite of which place Wadham Coll. was afterwards built John Hakebourne Prior of the Coll. of S. Mary the Virgin a Nursery for 〈◊〉 Regulars of the Order of S. Austin within the University of Oxon The great Gate of this Coll. which is now standing is almost opposite to that of New Inn in a Lane commonly called New Inn Lane This John Hâ—keboâ—n I take to be the same with him who is sometimes written John Haukebourn who was after this time Doctor of Divinity and Lord Abbat of the Monastery of our Lady at Cirencester a place for Black Canons in Glocestersâ—re John Holwel of Exeter Coll. In the year 1505 he occurs Principal of Black Hall near to that of Hart about which time he was Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter Doctors of the Civil Law Or such who were 〈◊〉 to proceed in the Civil Law or admitted Doctors of the Civil Law in order to proceed or to be compleated Doctors in the Act following Henry Wilcocks now or about this time Principal or chief Moderator of the Civil Law School in the Parish of S. Edward being Deputy for Dr. Will. Warham Master of the Rolls and afterwards Archb of Canterbury This Civil Law School and the Church of S Edward both which joyned together have been time out of mind demolished They stood in or near that Lane which we now call Blew-â—oar Lane near to the Back-gate of the 〈◊〉 Inn. This Dr. Wilcocks was Archdeacon of 〈◊〉 in which Dignity he was succeeded by Ric. Mawdly or
Grammarian He was afterwards Prebendary of Wells Jan. 28. Thomas Nightinghall Vir lepidus poeta as Baleus saith See among the Writers under the year 1524. Besides these two five were admitted and about 16 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Bach. of Can. Law Thirteen were admitted and eleven there were that supplicated who were not admitted this year Many of which were without doubt afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Mast of Arts. June…John Constable of Byham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. See among the Writers an 1520. March 5. John Clark of Magd. Coll. Quaere Besides these two were about 25 admitted and eleven or more that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. April 29. Thomas Knolles of Magd. Coll. In the year 1507 he became Subdean of York upon the promotion of Dr. James Harrington to the Deanery of that Church and resigning in 1529 being then Prebendary of Aplethorpe in the said Church Will. Clifton LL. D. succeeded See more among the D. of D. an 1518. May 9. John Essex a Benedictin He was afterwards Lord Abbat of S. Austins at Canterbury Nine besides were admitted among whom was Roger Stanford a Benedictin Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there and about eighteen that supplicated Doct. of Law Not one admitted either in the Canon or Civil Law and but three that supplicated viz. William Barow John Blount and William Middleton Doct. of Physick Not one admitted only Malachias Arthur sometimes a Graduat of Oxon. and afterwards Doctor of Physick of Bononia supplicated to be admitted to practise in the said Faculty Oct. 23. which was accordingly granted Doct. of Div. June 10. Nich. Myles or Mylys of Queens Coll. He was a Benefactor to Learning See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 115. b. Dec. 13. Fr. Will. Wetherall Prior of the College of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit in Oxon. In the year 1531 I find that he was Provincial of the Austin Fryers of England and whether he was the last that bore that Office I know not He is sometimes written but falsely Wodiall See among the Incorporations this year Jan… Edmund Smythesby a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin In another place in the Register he is said among the Bach. of Div. to be a Fryer of the Order of S. Austin Besides these who were admitted Doctors of Divinity supplicated for the said dagree about 20 among whom were 1 Will. Malvern Lord Abbat of S. Peters in Glocester as the publick Register stiles him whom I take to be the same that Jo. Leland calls Malvern alias Parker late Abbat of Glocester who made a Chappel joyning to the Church of Glocester to be buried in 2 Rob. Showldham or Shuldeâ—m mentioned under the year 1511. He was a Benedictin or Black Monk and now or soon after Lord Abbat of S. Saviour or S. Mary Overie in Southwark Also Tho. Marshall a Benedictin Will. Hoddeson a Dominican John a Pantry Bac. Div. and Provost of Queens Coll. John Holder and John Hoper Masters of Arts of Mert. Coll. Tho. Barton and Tho. Sellyng Bachelaurs of Div. and Benedictines c. did supplicate Incorporations Apr… Tho. Martyr M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge Oct. 26. Fr. Will. Wetheral Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He soon after was admitted Doctor of that Faculty in this University as 't is before told you Mar… Will. Clerke M. A. of Cambridge c. An. Dom. 1516. An. 8 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Laurence Stubbes D. D. and others Proct. Richard Walker of Merton Coll. Edmund Grey of New Coll. April 2. Bach. of Musick Not one appears admitted by the negligence of the Scribe On the 13 of Apr. Hen. Peter or Petre a secular Chaplain who had spent 30 years in Practical and Theoretical Musick supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Musick which being granted he was without doubt admitted One John Draper also a Student in the said Faculty supplicated also which was granted with one or more conditions Bach. of Arts. June 17. James Timbervyle of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter December 16. Thomas Wylson See in 1546 and 53. Besides these were about 38 admitted and about 21 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Law Six in the Canon and nine in the Civil Law were admitted Thirteen in the Canon Law supplicated who were mostly secular Chaplains among whom was Richard Newman a Canon regular of the Order of Premonstratenses as the public Regist saith and about twelve in the Civil Mast of Arts. June 27. Thomas Abell or Able See among the Writers an 1540. John Clerk of Magd. Coll. Besides these were about 34 admitted and about 9 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. May 5. James Fitzjames of S. Albans Hall This person who was Son of John Fitzjames Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England was now Chancellor of the Church of Wells and had several Benefices in that Diocess whereof the Rectorship of the Collegiate Church of North-Cadbury was one In 1534 he was made Prebendary of Warmystre in the Church of Wells and in the same year by the death of Thomas Lovell Decr. Dr. he was made Subdean of Wells and Vicar General to the Bishop thereof He had other Preferments in the Cath. Church of S. Paul in London given to him by his Uncle Dr. Richard Fitzjames Bishop thereof was soon after a Doct. of Div. but whether of this University it appears not and died in the beginning of the year 1541. Besides him were about four admitted and about fifteen that supplicated who were not admitted among whom William York a Canon and Bac. of Arts was one Doct. of Can. Law June 21. William Burghyll a secular Chaplain John Morrice or Morres Peter Lygham or Lyngham February 7. William Clyfton In 1522 he became Succentor of the Church of York on the death of William Cooke and in May 1529 he was made Subdean of the said Church on the Resignation of Dr. Thomas Knolles In the former Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Nooke 1529 in which year Clyfton resigned and in the other by Rob. Babthorp D. D. in September 1548 in which year Clifton died Bapthorp dying in 1570 Edmund Buney succeeded him whom I have elsewhere mention'd Doct. of Div. Not one admitted only three or more supplicated viz. William Wall and William Germyn Minorites and Richard Doke all Bach. of Divinity whom I shall anon mention An. Dom. 1517. An. 9 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Mr. Rich. Doke or Duck of Exeter College now Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey Proct. Thomas Irish of Exon Thomas Musgrave of Mert. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Thomas Garret was this year admitted but the Month or Day when appears not because the Register is imperfect however in the year following he occurs by the Title of Bach. of Arts. He
being a zealous Rom. Catholick suffered much in his Person and Estate for Religion sake and therefore numbred by those of his Profession among the Confessors for the Cause in the time of Qu. Elizabeth Dec. 17. Rich. Mulcaster of Ch. Ch. March 10. Rich. Barnes of Bras Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Durham Admitted 27. Bach. of Physick This year Tho. Cooper M. A. and Master of the Free-School joyning to Magd. Coll. great Gate did supplicate the ven Congregation that whereas he had studied Philosophy 12 years and Physick five he might be admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Which being as it seems granted in Oct did practise Physick in Qu. Maries Reign But when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his Divinity and at length became Bishop of Winchester Bach. of Div. July 23. Tho. Neale of New Coll. 29. Laurence Vaus Vaux or Vaulx sometimes of C. C. Coll. now Warden of the Coll. at Manchester Six Masters of Arts did supplicate this year to be admitted to the same Degree but were not Among them Edmund Daniel lately Fellow of Merton Coll. was one who was now Prebendary of Worcester and Dean of Hereford in the first of which he succeeded Gilb. Bourne and in the other Dr. Hugh Coren or Curwyn In 1559 he was depriv'd of the said Dignities whereupon his Prebendship was bestowed on Rob. Avise M. A. and his Deanery on Joh. Ellis as it seems who in Nov. 1570 became Preb. of Worcester Another who supplicated for that Degree was Nich. Smyth of New Coll. now Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. near Winton and afterwards Fellow of that at Eaton near Windsore Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 8. Reb. Westen of All 's Coll. He had formerly been Principal of Broadgates Hall and Deputy Professor of the Civ Law while he was Bach. of that Faculty for Dr. John Storie but now Dean of the Arches and Chancellour of Exeter Afterwards he became as it seems Dean of Wells and at length one of the Lords Justices of Ireland and for six years Lord Chancellour of that Realm He was so learned judicious and upright in the Court of Judicature all the time that he was Lord Chancellour I speak this from his Epitaph that no Order or Decree that he made was ever questioned or reversed He paid his last debt to Nature 20 May 1573 and was buried in S. Patricks Church at Dublin Over his Grave is a noble Monument yet remaining This Dr. Weston was the only Doctor of his Fac. that was licensed to proceed this year at which time was such a scarcity of Doctors of the Civil Law in the University that there was a dispensation pass'd the House that Tho. Darbyshire an Inceptor in that Faculty might undergo the place of Doctor in the Depositions of the said Dr. Weston ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick or Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year Will. Wryght Bac. of Div. and Master of Ball. Coll. did supplicate to proceed but was denied Incorporations June 5. Rich. Mulcaster B. of A. of Cambridge Soon after he took the Degree of Master as I have before told you and at length became a noted Writer of his time Jul. 21. Nicholas Ormanet Doctor of the Civ Law of Padua now one of the prime Visitors appointed by Cardinal Pole Legate à latere to visit this University was then incorporated John Fox in his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the year 1557 tells us that he was the Pope's Datary but false for at this time I find him thus written Nich. Ormanettus Patavinus Archipresbyter plebis Bodolesini Viennensis dioc He had been recommended to the Service of the said Cardinal by Pope Julius 3. who had an especial esteem for him and being a Visitor and an haughty person as the Protestants esteem'd him he thought it not fit to be presented and stand bare before the Commissary or Vicechanc for Incorporation and therefore it was agreed upon by the Members of the House that he should be diplomated by vertue of which he was also made Doctor of the Canon Law By some of the reformed Party now 1556 remaining in the University he was esteemed a supercilious man and intolerably arrogant but by the Rom. Cath. severe pious and prudent He afterwards sate in the Council at Trent was made Bish of Padua by Pope Pius 5. an 1570 in which See sitting 7 years died full of praise and in a good old Age. Nov. 12. Arthur Yeldard M. A. of Cambr. He was afterwards made the second President of Trin. Coll. Creations May… John Fekenham sometimes of Glocester Coll. now either Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral or Abbat of Westminster had the Degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him without any Exercise performed for the same At the same time he being absent it was granted by the venerable Regents and Non-Regents that either Dr. Will. Cheadsey Dr. John Harpesfield or Dr. Rich. Smyth might carry to and give him the Ensigns or Badges of his Doctorship An. Dom. 1557. An. 4 Mariae An. 5 Mariae Chanc. Card. Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. or Commiss Dr. Tho. Raynolds before mention'd who holding his Office till about 16 Decemb. Tho. Whyte LL. D. and Warden of New Coll. succeeded by vertue of the Chancellours Letters dated 10 of the same month which Office he was to keep no longer than it pleased the Chancellour Proct. Fran. Babyngton of All 's Coll. Will. Allyn again elected 18 Apr. Of the senior Proctor I shall speak among the Doct. of Div. an 1559 of the other I have spoken already among the Writers Bach. of Arts. Oct. 30. Will. Pomerell of New Coll. He was afterwards numbred by his Countrymen of Ireland among the learned men of that Country See more of him in Rich. White among the Writers under the year 1612. pag. 324. Dec. 14. Tho. Gressop of All 's Coll. See among the Masters under the year 1561. John Neale of Exeter Coll. was adm the same day He was elected Rector of his Coll. while he was Bach. of Arts an 1560 such then was the scarcity of Masters in that and other Houses Admit 31. Mast of Arts. July 1. Rob. Newton of Exeter Coll. He was elected Rector of the said house on 17 Oct. following and afterwards became the second perpetual Rector John Wolley of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was a Shropshire man born was elected probat Fell. of that House in 1553 and about the time of his proceeding in Arts studied the Civ and Can. Law but took no Degree in either in this University In Nov. or Dec. this year he travelled beyond the Seas where he improved himself much as to Learning knowledge of Men and Manners After the death of Roger Ascham which hapned in 1568 he became Latin Secretary to the Queen and in 1569 he was made Prebendary of Compton-Dundo in the Church of Wells In 1578 he was made Dean
following 12. Rich. Creke of Magd. Coll. Jan. 19. John Barefoot of C. C. Coll. Chaplain to Ambrose Earl of Warwick In 1581 he became Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of Dr. John Robinson mention'd among the Incorporations an 1566 and dying in 1595 was succeeded in that Dignity by Rich. Cleyton D. D. collated thereunto 29 August the same year After Cleyton followed John Hills D. D. Master of S. Catherins Coll. or Hall in Cambridge who was collated to it 21 Sept. 1612. He died in 1626 about the month of Sept. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Horsheath in Cambridgeshire where there was if not still a Monument in the Wall over his grave Jan. 19. Barthelmew Chamberlayne of Trin. Coll. Edmund Bunney of Mert. Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree in February but was not admitted Incorporations July 7. Edward Chapman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was soon after admitted Doctor as I have before told you 14. William Whitaker or Whittaker Bach. of Divinity of the said University This famous Divine for Learning and Life was born at Holme in the Parish of Burndâ—ey in Lancashire initiated there in Grammar learning taken thence by his Uncle Alexander Nowell Dean of Pauls and by him maintained in his house and put to the Free School there At eighteen years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge took the Degrees in Arts and the first thing that made him known for his excellency in the Gr. Tongue was the turning his Uncles Catechism into that Language Afterwards being famous for Theology he was made the Kings Professor in that Faculty and stood up in defence of the Protestant Religion and Church of England against Edmund Campian Nicholas Saunders William Rainolds Robert Bellarmine Thomas Stapleton c. At length having much impoverished his weak Body by continual study even at that time when the Question was so rise among the Divines Whether a true and justifying faith may be lost he was freed from this Body of flesh and lost his life having left behind him the desire and love of the present times and the envy of Posterity that cannot bring forth his parallel He gave way to Fate 4 December an 1595 aged 47 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge of which Coll. he had several years before been Master His Works are printed in Latin in two folio's at Genev. 1610. July 15. Gâ—vase Babington M. of A. of the same University of Cambridge He was a Nottinghamshire man born was Fellow of Trinity Coll afterwards Chaplain to Henry Earl of Pembroke Treasurer of Landaff and successively Bishop of Landaff Exeter and Worcester He published several Books of Div. which were all printed in one Volume in fol Lond. 1615 and go under the name of his Works He died in the year 1610 at which time he enriched the Library belonging to the Church at Worcester with many choice Books Brute Babington B. of A. of this University was incorporated the same day so also was William Cotton M. A. This person who was Son of John Cotton Citizen of Londâ—n third Son of Richard eight Son of John Cotton or Coton of Humpstable Ridware in Staffordshire was partly educated in Guildford School in Surrey afterwards in Queens Coll. in Cambridge and took the usual Degrees Some years after he became Archdeacon of Lewis Canon residentiary of S. Pauls Cath. Church and at length Bishop of Exeter He died at Silverton in Devon 26 August 1621 and was buried on the south side of the Choire or Presbytery of the Cath. Church at Exeter One William Cotton Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Oxon was admitted M. of A. in June 1577 but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell This year also Sept. 1. Edward Stanhope Doct. of the Civ Law of Trinity Coll. in the said University did supplicate in a Convention called simile primum that he might be incorporated in the said Degree which tho granted simpliciter yet it appears not that he was incorporated He was afterwards a Knight Chancellour to the Bishop of London and Vicar General to the Archb. of Canterbury He paid his last debt to Nature on the sixteenth day of March an 1608 and was buried near to the great north door within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London He was Brother to John Lord Stanhope of Harrington An. Dom. 1579. An. 22 Elizab. An. 22 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leicester Vicechanc. Tobie Mathew D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. July 14. Proct. Will. Zouch of Ch. Ch. Isaac Vpton of Magd. Coll. Elected in Congregation 29 April Bach. of Arts. May 16. Robert Abbot of Ball. Coll. Afterwards a deep Divine and Bishop of Salisbury 19. John Philipps The same I think who was afterwards B. of the Isle of Man June 3. Robert Sackvile of Hart Hall See among the Masters following Oct. 16. Edwyn Sandys of C. C. William Tooker Roger Hacket of New Coll. 22. Edward Philipps of Broadgates Jan. 14. Henry Perry of Glocester Hall 26. John King of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of London Feb. 12. Thomas Hariot of S. Maries George Carleton of S. Edm. Hall The first of which two was afterwards an eminent Mathematician and the other a Divine and B. of Chichester 17. Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall March 9. Lawr. Hyde of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a Knight and Attorney to Queen Anno the Consort of King Jam. 1. Thomas Savile was admitted the same day See among the Masters an 1584. Admitted 128 or thereabouts Bach. of Law Eight were admitted of whom Gervase Carrington was one who in 1576 had been installed Prebendary of Worcester on the resignation of Arth. Dudley M. of A. Mast of Arts. June 3. Robert Sackvile of Hart. Hall He was now three years standing in the University and was in honour to his noble Race admitted Bach. and Master of Arts in one and the same Congregation On the 13 of July following he was Senior of the Act then celebrated and in 1608 succeeded his Father in the Earldom of Dorset July 6. George Peele of Ch. Ch. 9. Hen. Smith of Hart Hall See among the Masters in 1583. 10. John Bond of New Coll. Thomas Hethe or Heath of All 's Coll. was adm the same day Adm. 75. Bach. of Div. May 4. Hieronim Schlick Count of Passan or Passaun Lord in Weiskirden and Slackenward who had studied two years in the University of Prague and five in Lips where he professed Divinity and twice in one year elected Rector of the Univ. of Marpurg was then admitted to the reading of the Sentences or as 't was now call'd to the reading of any book of S. Pauls Epistles that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity This the Members of the University did readily grant not only because he was an honorable person but also for that his Parents and Relations had suffered much in the Smalcaldic War for
Creations Apr… Marmaduke Middleton Bishop of St. David and much deserving of the Church of Ireland was actually created Doct. of Div. of Dr. Humphrey and both the Proctors Jul. 12. Thom. Thornton Vicechanc. of this University Canon of Ch. Church in Oxon. of Worcester and Hereford of which last place he was also Chauntor and about this time Master of Ledbury Hospital in Herefordshire was actually created D. of D. He surrendred up his last breath on the 15. April an 1629. aged 88. and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Ledbury Over his grave was a handsome monument set up for him in the North wall of the Chancel with a large inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was born at Harrew on the Hill in Middlesex that he was purioris Latini Sermonis Author primarius that he was a benefactor to the poor People of Ledbury Hospital that he adorned and repaired the Library at Hereford and enriched it with books that he was a common refuge for young poor Scholars of great hopes and parts and tutor to Sir Philip Sidney when he was of Ch. Ch. c. To which I add that he was also Tutor to the Learned Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Arms. An. Dom. 1584. An. 26 Elizab. An. 27 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. John Vnderhyll D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch. Rich. Mercer of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Nov. 12. Francis Bradshaw of Magd. Coll See among the Doctors of Div. 1607. 28. Richard Latewar of St. John Coll. Feb. 1. Hen. Salesbury of St. Alb. Hall Since the life or character of this Person was printed which you may see in p. 226. num 265. I find that he was of the Family of the Salesburies of Dolbelider in Denbighshire and that after Joh. David Rhese whom he stiles Vir ingenio felix literarum ac linguarum cognitione insignis had published his Cambro Brytannicae institutiones rudimenta he wrot and published Grammatica Britannica in usum linguae studiosorum Juccinctâ methodo perspicuitate facili conscriptae Lond. 1593. oct dedic to Henry Earl of Pembroke which is all I know of him yet only that he was living at Denbigh in that year 9. John Randall of Trinity afterwards of Lincolne Coll. Mar. 15. Sim. Wastell of Qu. Coll. Admitted 93 or thereabouts Bach. of Law Apr. 31. John Favour of New Coll. Jul. 10. Pet. Vâ—erheile sometimes written Varahiâ—ius Burgensis Belga which is all I know of him Rich. Meredith of New Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree Jul. 1. but was not admitted See among the Bach. of Divinity 1606. Admitted 4. Mast of Arts. May 25. John Philipps of St. Maries Hall He was the same who took the Degree of Bach. of A. 1579 and the same as it seems who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man 30. Will. Fulbeck of Glocester Hall lately of C. C. Coll. June 2. Rich. Field of Magd. Hall 3. Jerem. Corderoy lately of St. Alb. Hall Jun. 22. John Milward of Broadgates Hall lately of Ch. Ch. One John Milward D. D. Chapl. to K. Jam. 1. was among other things Author of Jacobs great day of trouble and deliverance Serm. at Pauls cross 5. Aug. 1607 upon his Maj. deliverance from Gowries treasons on Jerem. 30. 7. Lond. 1610. qu. Whether he be the same with John Milward M. of A. who was a Derbysh Man born I know not He that was D. D. and an Author died on the Kal. of Aug. 1609 and the next year the Sermon was published by his Brother Matthew Milward Jul. 6. Owen Wood of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards made Dean of Armagh in Ireland by the favour as I suppose of Rob. E. of Essex while he was a Lieutenant of that Kingdom in whose treasons he was engaged 1600 and an especial benefactor to his College One of both his names was a practitioner in Physick and wrot An alphabetical book of Physical secrets as also A small treatise of the judgment of Vrines Both printed at Lond. 1632. and 39. oct Jul. 7. Rob. Wright of Trin. Coll. Jan. 18. Tho. Savile of Merton Coll. This Person who was younger Brother to Sir Hen. Savile did afterwards travel into various Countries beyond the Seas whereby he improved himself much in several sorts of learning After his return he was by his Brothers endeavours made Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore where being noted for his excellencies caused Rich. Mountague Fellow of that house to number him among the great Philologers of this nation and to be equal with the learned Camden unfortunate Hen. Cuffe Rich. Thompson old Andr. Downes c. to all whom he was well known especially to the first as by many learned Letters written between them appears This Tho. Savile died in his Proctorship of the University 12. Jan. 1592 and was buried in the choire of the Church or Chappel of Merton College where I find this character of him Fuit Sidus lucidissimum qui apud suos exteros literarum virtutis fama ac morum urbanitate perceâ—ebris c. I find another I cannot say the same Thom. Savâ—le whom Camden calls his right learned friend an 1582. and a third who writes himself Gentleman Author of 1 The Prisoners conference handled by way of dialogue between a Knight and a Gentleman being abridged of their liberty Lond. 1605. oct 2 The raising of them that are fallen c. Lond. 1606. qu. Jan. 20. John Lloyd of New Coll. Feb. 20. Will. Suttâ—n of Ch. Ch. Admitted 87. Bach. of Div. May 10. Richard Lewes He was Author of a Sermon preached at Pauls Cross intit Isaac his testament c. on Gen. 21. ver 1. to the 10th Oxon. 1594. oct dedicated to Sir Hen. Vnton of Wadley in Berks. Knight and no doubt of others but such I have not yet seen Jun. 22. John Prime of New Coll. Jul. 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. 15. Rob. Cooke of Brasn Coll. Feb. 1. Miles Smith of Ch. Ch. Admitted 13. Doct. of Law Mar. 17. John Drewry of Linc. Coll. In 1592 he succeeded Dr. John Kennall in the Archdeaconry of Oxford and dying in the Cathedral close at Chichester where he had a Dignity 9. June 1614 was succeeded by William Bridges Son of Dr. Bridges Bishop of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you This Dr. John Drewry was near of kin if not Son to Will. Drewry Doct. of the Civil Law and Commissary or Master of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury who died in the latter end of 1589 and to Sir Will. Drewry of Westâ—n in Oxfordshire Knight sometimes Lord Justice of Ireland who died 1579. ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. John Walsall of Ch. Ch. 15. Rob. Chaloner of the same house a compounder In 1589 he was installed Canon of Windsore being then double beneficed at least and tho not eminently
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. ☞ 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
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 Nâ—w 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
Man born and an ingenious Poet was afterwards Secretary to Sir Edw. Philipps Master of the Rolls and a Burgess in several Parliaments particularly in that which began 3. Nov. 1640. being then a Burgess for Okehampton in Devonshire He died 15. Apâ— 1654 aged 76 and was buried in the Church of St. Giles in the fields near to London He was much admired by Tho. Coryat the traveller in the dishing out of whose Odcombian banquet he had a considerable hand an 1611. being numbred among the Poets of that age Jul. 12. Will. Knight M. A. of the same University I take him to be the same with 〈◊〉 Knight of Arâ—ington in Sussex a Divine who wrot A concordance Axiomatical containing a survey of Theological propositions with their reasons and uses in holy Scripture Lond. 1610. fol. and the same perhaps who published Mundus alter idem sive terra australis c. written by Joseph Hall who was afterwards Bishop of Norwych Francis Dee M. A. and Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in Cambr. was incorporated the same day He was the Son of David d ee of Shropshire who is said to be Rector of Great St. Bartholomews Church in London and he the great Grandson of the Great Bede Dee of an antient Family in those parts Afterwards he took the Degree of D. of D. being then Minister of Allhallows in Lumbard-street in London was Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury and in 1630 was made Dean of Chichester In 1634 Apr. 9. he was elected Bishop of Peterborough and on the 28. May following he was installed by proxy being then esteemed a Person of a pious life and conversation and of very affable behavior He died after he had been twice married on the eighth day of Octob. 1638 and was buried at the upper end of the choire belonging to the Cathedral Church at Peterborough near to the Episcopal seat A little before his death he gave to the Master and Seniors of St. Johns Coll. beforemention'd the impropriat Parsonage of Pagham in Sussex held by lease of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury for the maintaining of two Fellows and two Scholars therein for ever the Scholars to be elected out of Peterborough School John Pocklington M. A. and Fellow of Pembr hall in Cambr. was also then Jul. 12. incorporated He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of Yeldon alias Yevelden in Bedfordshire Vicar of Waresley in Huntingdonshire Prebendary of Peterborough and in 1639 Canon of Windsore in the place of Tho. Sheafe deceased being also about that time Chaplain to His Maj. Ch. 1. This is the Person who among other books published Altare Christianum c. Lond. 1636. and Sunday no Sabbath c. Lond. 1637. Which last being no other than a Sermon preached at Ampthill in Bedfordshire at the B. of Lincolns Visitation 17. Aug. 1635 was much brought up by and taken into the hands of young Students who usually read it at their common fires and according to their dispositions it was liked or disliked But both being in an high manner disgusted by the Puritans they who had the chief sway in the long Parliament that began 3. Nov. 1640 ordered them both on the tenth of March following to be publickly burnt by the common executioner in both the Universities and in the City of London About that time they deprived the Author of all his spiritualities beforemention'd and would have proceeded father as to other punishment but he being in a manner heart-broken prevented their fury by death which hapned at Peterborough I think in the Winter time 1642. Josephus Barbatus a Native of Memphis in Aegypt was conversant about this time with the Oxonian Muses He could speak French and Ital. very readily but most of all the Arabian tongue which was natural to him and therefore recommended by the Archb. of Canterbury to the Vicechanc. to read a lecture of it to the Academians He hath written one or more things in that language which were acceptable to the learners of it An. Dom. 1604. An. 2. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Buckhurst created this year Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Joh. Williams D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll. and reader of the Margaret Lecture July 14. Proct. Will. Ballow of Ch. Ch. George Darrell of All 's Coll. Apr. 18. Bach. of Musick Jul. 14. John Daniel of Ch. Ch. Some of his instrumental compositions we have remaining in the publick School of that faculty Bach. of Arts. May 8. Hen. Whistler of Trinity Jun. 10. Franc Kinaston of Oriel Jul. 20. Gabr. Richardson of Brasn Coll. Oct. 23. Nathaniel Pownoll of Ch. Ch. 26. Sim. Birckbek of Queens Dec. 12. Tho. Baylie of Magd. Coll. Jan. 23. Rob. Sanderson Thom. Hayne of Linc. Coll. The first of these two last was afterwards the learned and religious Bishop of Lincolne Feb. 4. Rich. Capell of Magd. Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Pownoll are to be mention'd at large as Authors in the next volume Adm. 180. Mast of Arts. March 27. John Dunster of Magd. Coll. May 1. Isaac Singleton of All 's Coll. This Person who was nearly related to Dr. Thom. Singleton Principal of Brasn Coll. of which house he was originally a Commoner but now Fellow of the said Coll. of All 's hath published The downfall of Shelna together with an application to the bloody Gowry of Scotland in two Sermons at St. Maries in Oxon on Isay 22. 15. Lond. 1615. qu. and perhaps other things In 1622 I find him Chancellour of the Dioc. of Carlile and some years after to be collated to the Archdeaconry of that place in the room of Robert Wrigt who had been collated thereunto in 1621. he being then only Bach. of Arts. In 1640 Isaac Singleton occurs by the title of Archdeacon of Brecknock but afterwards was deprived of that and other spiritualities which is all I know of him only that he was a Londoner born May 22. Dan. Price of Exet. Jun. 12. Will. Twysse of New Coll. 26. Will. Wheatlie of St. Edm. hall Oct. 22. Sam Turner of S. Albans Hall This person who was the Son of Dr. Pet. Turner mention'd before among the Incorporations under the year 1599 by Pascha his Wife Sister of Hen. Parry Bishop of Worcester was originally of S. Maries Hall afterwards for a time of C. C. Coll. but now of S. Albans Hall before mention'd and as a Member thereof did compleat his degree of Master in an Act celebrated 8 Jul. 1605. Afterwards he travelled and became Doct. of Phys of an University beyond the Seas and whether after his Return he practised that Faculty in Dorsetshire I am not certain Sure it is that he was several times chosen by the men of Shaftsbury in that County to serve as a Burgess for them in several Parliaments particularly in that called 1625 wherein he shew'd himself what he was of a bold Spirit and able Elocution in assaulting the Kings great Minion George Duke of Bucks as the main cause of divers infirmities in the State being
antient copies particularly with a MS. in Vniversity Coll. Library entit Octoteuchus two Greek MSS. translated into Arabick in the Bodlcian Library and an antient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton but lost in the hands of a French Man to whom it was lent the said Pat. Young did promise to publish with notes added thereto and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers and no farther if Dr. Br. Walton saith right The effect of this undertaking being much expected and desired by learned Men especially beyond the Seas certain Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to have the business encouraged Whereupon in the latter end of the year 1645 they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it but what hindred them in going on with the work I find not In 1649 P. Young who had sided with the Presbyterians left his place of Library keeper to the King the books there being mostly embezell'd whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in Essex where I think he died an 1652 for in Sept. that year his next relation administer'd Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed Youngs notes and annotations with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from Youngs edition and Latine translation with some short running notes added thereunto Oxon. 1669. in tw In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum in qu. written by Gilb. Foâ—iot Bishop of London in the time of Hen. 2. and was one of the three Gottefridus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius being the other two who interpreted S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians Lond. 1687. oct After his death all or most of his Greek and Latine MSS. collected and written with his own hand came into the possession of Dr. John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Oct. 21. Daniel Calendar M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland These Persons following were incorporated while K. James 1. was entertain'd at Oxon. Aug. 30. Alexander Serle LL. Bach. of Cambridge To whose name is this added in the publick register ad causas negotia ecclesiastica civilia maritima forinseca Procurator regius generalis Thom. Howard Earl of Suffolk Rob. Cecill Earl of Salisbury M. A. of Cambr. The first of these two Counts was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Kings houshold L. Treasurer of England after Cecill Knight of the Garter and founder of the stately house called Aâ—dley Inne near to Walden in Suffolk He died in 1626 and was buried at Walden The other Ro. Cecill who was Son of Will Lord Burleigh was now Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge afterwards Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter He died in 1612 and was buried at Hatfield in Hertfordshire George Thomson M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland He was born in that City and afterwards became Pastor of the reformed Church at Chastegneraye in France He hath written several books among which are 1 De pompa in Jac. 1. introitâ— in Londinum Sylva Lond. 1604. oct 2 Vindex veritatis adversus Lipsium lib. 2. Lond. 1606. oct 3 Quatre harmonies sur la Revelation print 1607. oct 4 La Chasse de la Beste Romaine etc. Rochel 1611. oct c. Tho. Dempster in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam hath two George Thomsons that were Writers viz. George Thomson a Priest an 1595 and George Thomson a Heretick as he calls him an 1599 which last I presume is our Author who was incorporated at Oxon and the same whom Joh. Dunbar a Scot doth celebrate for his learning in his book of Epigrams George Ruggle M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge One Ruggle of the said hall was Author of that celebrated Comedy called Ignoramus acted before K. Jam. 1. at Camb. 8. Mar. 1614. Whether the same with George I cannot yet affirm … Craig a Scot Doctor of Phys of the University of Basil This is all that appears of him in the publick register So that whether he be the same with Dr… Craig the Kings Physician who died in Apr. 1620 I know not or whether he be Joh. Cragg Dr. of Phys Author of a MS. intit Capnuraniae seu Comet in 〈◊〉 subâ—mationis refutatio written in qu. to Tycho Brahe a Dane I am altogether ignorant One Dr. Joh. Cragg was buried in the Church of St. Martins in the Fields near London about 1653. Barnab Gouge Goch or Gooche Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr He was about this time Master of Magd. Coll. in that University afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Worcester and died at Exeter where he had an office or dignity in the latter end of 1625. One of both his names translated into English The pâ—pish Kingdom or Reign of Antichrist Lond. 1570. qu. written in Latine verse by Tho. Naogeorgius and Four books of husbandry Lond. 1586. qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius and something of Palengenius But this translator if I mistake not was Barnab Gooche of Albin 〈◊〉 or Alvingham in Lincolnshire Grandfather to Barnab Gooche living there in 1634 and after John Hammond Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was now Physician to Prince Henry and Father to Henr. Hammond afterwards the learned and celebrated Theologist Creations Jun. 28. Henry Rowlands Bach. of Div. and Bishop of Bangor was actually created Doctor of that faculty Aug. 13. Hen. Ashworth of Oriel John Cheynell of C. C. Coll. These two who were eminent and learned Physicians were then actually created Doctors of Physick because they were designed by the Delegates appointed by Convocation to be Opponents in the disputations to be had before the King at his entertainment by the Muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug. John Gourden Gordonius of Balliol Coll. was created D. of D. the same day Aug. 13. because he was to dispute before the King his kinsman After his disputation was ended he had his Degree compleated by the Kings Professor of Divinity purposely not that there was a necessity of it to shew unto His Majesty the form of that Ceremony This noble Person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley was instructed in his youth in the Schools and Colleges as well in Scotland as in France in liberal Arts and Sciences and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages and other Orientals Afterwards he was Gentleman of three Kings Chambers in France viz. Charles 9. Hen. 3. and 4 and while he was in the flower of his age he was there assailed with many corruptions as well spiritual
may see afterwards he became Chaplain to Alice Countess Dowager of Derby Wife of Tho. Lord Ellesmere and the publisher of Loves peereless paragon or the attributes and progress of the Church Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon and at Harfield in Middlesex on Cant. 2. 10. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps of other things Nov. 9. Will. Sparke of Magd. 17. Will. Jewell of Exet. Coll. The last of these two did translate from French into English The golden Cabinet of true Treasure containing the summ of moral Philosophy Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him beside only that he was a Gentleman's Son of Devonshire and that he became a Sojournour of Exet. Coll. an 1603. aged 17. Adm. 97. Bach. of Div. Dec. 14. Rob. Bolton of Brasn Feb. 22. Tho. Thompson of Qu. Coll. Will. Loe of S. Alb. Hall did supplicate for the same degree but whether he was admitted it appears not Adm. 11. Doct. of Law June 28. Alexander Sheppard of Jesus Coll. He was a learned Civilian but what he hath published I know not Doct. of Physick Jun. 26. Thom. Johnson of Oriel Coll. He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 16 Nov. 1621 but whether he was Author of a Book which goes under the name of Dr. Johnson entit Practica medicinae de aegritudinibus capitis Lond. 1602. qu. I cannot justly say See another Thom. Johnson M. D. in these Fasti in the 2 Vol. an 1643. Doct. of Div. June… Rich. Mocket of All 's Coll. July… Walt. Bennet of New Coll. In Sept. 1608 he became Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch and on the 7 of March 1609 Archdeacon of Wilts on the death of Dr. Edm. Lilly In his Chauntorship succeeded Hen. Cotton as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1610 and in his Archdeaconry one Tho. Leach 15 Nov. 1614. 19. Rob. Clay of Mert. Coll. He afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Favour in the Vicaridge of Halyfax and dying in 1628 left by will to the said Coll. 100 l. for two Sermons yearly to be preached to the University as Dr. Bickley had formerly given to them to be preached by a Yorkshire Man if any such be Fellow or Chaplain of that College who in his Prayer is to mention Dr. Clay sometimes Vicar of Halifax as the founder of those Sermons Jan. 24. John Bancroft of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was soon after Master of Vniversity Coll. Incorporations Apr. 29. Thom. Wharton eldest Son of Philip Lord Wharton was incorporated M. of Arts. as he had stood at Cambridge He was Father to Philip Lord Wharton who openly appeared in armes against K. Ch. 1. an 1642. And many years after he was made one of the Privy Council to K. Will. 3. May 4. Josias Bird Bach. of Arts of Cambridge He was now of All 's Coll. under the inspection of his kinsman or uncle Dr. Will. Bird. Jun. 12. Hipocrates D'othon or Othen Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Montpellier He died 13. Nov. 1611 and was buried in the Church of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr within the liberty of Westm Jul. 11. Will. Gonge M. A. of Cambridge He was a Native of Stratford bow in Middlesex was educated in Kings Coll. of which he was Fellow afterwards he was Doct. of Div. and the pious and learned Preacher of the Church in the Blackfriers in London where in his time he was accounted the Father of the London Ministers that is of such who were put in by the Authority of the rebellious Parliament in 1641 42. c. He was one of the Assembly of Divines was a good Text-man as his Whole armour of God Exposition of the Hebrews Exposition of the Lords Prayer and other learned works the titles of some of which you may see in Oxf. Cat. shew He is often honorably mention'd by Voetius Streso and other outlandish Divines and was always accounted by the Puritan eminent for his humility patience and faith He died 12. of Dec. 1653 and was buried in the said Church of the Black-fryers on the 16 of the said month aged 79 or thereabouts John Richardson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day One Joh. Richardson was educated in Eman Coll. was afterwards D. D. Master first of Peter house then of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and Vicechancellour of that University This Person who had a hand in the translation of the Bible appointed by King Jam. 1. died about the beginning of 1625 and was buried in Trin. Coll. Chappel Another John Richardson who was D. D. succeeded Dr. Walt. Balcanquall in the Deanery of Rochester and died in Apr. 1636 and a third John Richardson I find who from being D. of D. of Dublin was made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland Which Bishoprick he being forced to leave upon the rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom an 1641 retired to London where he died in 1654. Whether any of these three were the same with John Richardson the incorporated Master of Arts I cannot now justly tell Jul. 11. Abrah Dickonson D. D. of Cambr. was also then incorporated in that faculty An. Dom. 1610. An. 8. Jac. 1. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterburry but he dying 2. Nov. Thom. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere Lord Chancellour of England and one of the Kings Privy Council was chosen into his place the next day and on the tenth was installed in the Bishop of Durhams house at London Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. King again Jul. 14. at which time the Chancellours letters being read for his election 't was order'd that the Heads of Colleges and Halls should at all times be ready and diligent to assist the Vicechanc. in his government of the University especially in matters of Religion for the suppressing of Popery and Faction c. The said Dr. King was soon after Bishop of London Proct. Râ—b Pink of New Coll. Sam. Radcliffe of Bras Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Musick July 11. Thomas Bartlet of Magd. Coll. He hath several compositions in Musick in MS. but whether extant I cannot tell On the 26. of Apr. Richard Deering did as a member of Christ Church supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick and had his desire as it seems granted tho not registred because in matters of his composition which were soon after by him made extant he entitles himself Bach. of Musick This Person who was born of and descended from a right antient Family of his name living in Kent was bred up in Italy where he obtained the name of a most admirable Musician After his return he practised his faculty for some time in England where his name being highly cried up became after many intreaties Organist to the English Nuns living in the Monastery of the blessed Virgin Mary at Bruxells At length after the Marriage of K. Ch. 1. he was made Organist to his Royal Comfort Henrietta Maria with
in 4. volumes or parts each volume containing 5 books Lond. 1625. fol. 3 Purchas his Pilgrim Microcosmus or the history of Man c. Lond. 1619. oct 4 The Kings tower and triumphant arch of London pr. 1623. oct By the publishing of which books he brought himself into debt but died not in prison as some have said but in his own house a little while after the King had promised him a Deanery about 1628. aged 51. What other things he hath published besides a Funeral Sermon on Psal 39. 5. printed 1619 in oct I know not and therefore be pleased to take this character given of him by a learned Person which may serve instead of an Epitaph Samuel Purchas Anglus linguarum artium divinarum atque humanarum egregie peritus Philosophus Historicus Theologus maximus patriae ecclesiae antistes fidelis multis egregiis scriptis in primis orientalis occident alisque Indiae vastis voluminibus patria lingua conscripta celeberrimus One Samuel Purchas A. M. hath published A theatre of political flying Insects c. Lond. 1657. qu. July 11. John Wood Rob. King John Bowles D. D. Cant. The first of these three died in the Parish of St. Dionise Backchurch in London being Minister as it seems of that place an 1624. and the last who was a Native of Lancashire and Fellow of Trinity Coll. in the said University became Dean of Salisbury in the latter end of July an 1620 upon Dr. John Williams his being made Dean of Westminster At length upon Dr. Walt. Curle's translation to the See of D. and Wells he became Bishop of Rochester in 1630 and dying in an house situated on the Bank side in Westminster 9. Octob. 1637 was buried in St. Pauls Cathedral He hath extant Concio ad clerum in Act. cap. 15. 4. printed 1631. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 2. Eleazer Hodson Doct. of Phys of Padua He was afterwards eminent for his practice in the City of London where he died in the Parish of St. Stephen in Colemanstreet about the latter end of 1638. His Brother Phineas Hodson I have mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1602 Joh. Radolphus Stuckius and Jo. Waserus both of Zurich were this year Students in the University Afterwards they became learned Men and Writers as I shall tell you in the second Vol. in my discourse of Dr. John Prideaux An. Dom. 1616. An. 14. Jac. 1. Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton created this year Viscount Brackley but he voluntary resigning his office of Chancellour of this University on the 24. Jan. William Earl of Pembroke Knight of the Garter Chamberlaine of the Kings Houshold c. was unanimously elected into his place 29 of the same month Vicechanc. Arth. Lake D. D. Warden of New Coll. July 17. Proct. Robert Sanderson of Linc. Coll. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. Apr. 10. Bach. of Musick July 4. John Vauter of Linc. Coll. John Lake of New Coll. had his grace granted for the Degree of Bach. of Mus but whether he was admitted it appears not Or that he or Vauter have made any publick compostions in their faculty Bach. of Arts. Apr. 19. Nich. Hunt of Exet. June 19. John Speed of St. Joh. Coll. One Nich. Hunt hath several things extant who being I presume the same with the former is hereafter to be mention'd at large 26. Anth. Faringdon of Trin. Jul. 3. Jo. Allibond of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the created Doctors of Div. an 1643. 5. John Langley of Magd. hall Oct. 24. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1629. 26. Bruno Ryves of New afterwards of Magd. Coll. Will. Price of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1619. Nov. 4. John Doughtie Dec. 14. Rob. Grebby of New Coll. See more among the Masters of Art 1619. Jan. 29. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1627. Feb. 28. John Gee of Exet. John Thorie of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Incorporations an 1627. As for Faringdon Langley Ryves and Doughtie you are to expect large mention of them hereafter Admitted 223. Mast of Arts. April 19. Rich. Parre of Brasn Coll. June 4. Morgan Owen of Hart Hall 12. Immanuel Bourne of Ch. Ch. George Singe of Ball. Coll. 20. Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch. 21. John Scull of Lincoln lately of Mert. Coll. He hath published Two Sermons on Math. 10. 16. printed 1624. qu. being the same person as it seems who was afterwards Rector of Shinfold in Sussex where he died in 1641. 26. Franc. Potter of Trin. Coll. July 5. John Angell of Magd. Hall Deâ— 17. Alex. Huish of Wadham Coll. Feb. 25. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Hall lately of Magd. Coll. Adm. 117. Bach. of Phys … Francis Anthony Olevian of Glocester Hall was admitted but the day or month when appears not He was a German of the Palatine of the Rhine and had studied ten years in the faculty of Physick in the Universities of Heidelberg Mountpelier Paris and Oxon. He afterwards practised his Faculty being licensed by the University at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire where he died in 1642 but whether he hath written or published any thing let the Physitians seek Bach. of Div. May 15. Sim. Birckbek Thom. Sutton of Qu. Coll. June 4. Tho. Godwin of Magd. July 10. George Wall of Brasn Coll. The last was about this time beneficed in his native Country of Worcestershire and afterwards published A sermon at the Archbishop of Canterbury his Visitation metropolitical held at Allsaints in Worcester by Dr. Bâ—ent his Grace's Vicar General 3 June 1635. on 2 Cor. 5. 20. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things Quâ—ere Dec. 13. Henr. Rogers of Jes. Coll. Besides these were 13 more admitted of whom Joh Flavel of Broadgates Hall was one and Evan Morgan of Linc. Coll. another both Compounders ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 18. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. May 11. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. 15. Tho. Holloway of Ball. Coll. June 13. Sam. Clark of Magd. Hall a Compounder He had a son of both his names of Vniversity Coll. an 1635 but neither of them as I can yet find were Writers which I thought fit to let the Reader know because there have been several Samuel Clarks that have been Authors as 1 Sam. Clark of Merton Coll. whom I shall mention in the second Volume of this Work 2 Sam. Clark sometimes Minister of S. Bennet-Fink in London born at Wolstan in Warwickshire 10 Oct. 1599 being of the same Family with those of Willoughby in that County as Sam. Clark the Compounder before mention'd was afterwards a severe Calvinist and a scribling Plagiary as his Works mostly the lives of Presbyterian Divines shew a Catalogue of which you may see in one of his books entit The lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age In
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ— 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâ—th right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
for the same who was M. of A. because if I mistake not the Bach. of Div. died 1624. aged 45. Thom. Edwards M. of A. He was afterwards a Minister of Gods word a zealous Puritan and in the beginning of that rebellion raised by the Presbyterians an 1642 did with his Wife Children Estate and all that was dear to him imbark in the same Ship with them shew'd himself most zealous for the cause by preaching praying and stirring up the People to stand for them Also by going out in Person and lending money to carry on the War He hath written 1 Reasons against the Independent Government of particular congregations c. Lond. 1641. qu. Answer'd the same year by a Woman called Catherine Chidley 2 Antipologia or an answer to an Apologetical narration of Mr. Goodwin Nye Sympson Burroughs and Bridge members of the Ass of Divines Lond. 1644. qu. c. 3 Gangraena or a catalogue and discovery of many of the errors heresies blasphemies c. acted in England in these four last years As also a particular narration of divers stories remarkable passages letters c. Lond. 1645. qu. there again the second time 1646. qu. The second and third parts of the same book came out in 1646. qu. 4 Treatise against Toleration Lond. 1647. qu. the first part The other parts if any I have not yet seen He hath also written if I mistaken not Of the particular visibility of the Church Also A Treatise of the Civil power in Ecclesiasticals and of suspension from the Lords Supper which three were published in qu. an 1642. 44. Will. Fairfax who had been incorporated M. A. in 1622 was incorporated again this year in the same Degree He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of the Parish Church of St. Peter in Cornhill within the City of London and Vicar of East-Ham in Middlesex Of both which he was deprived by a Committee of Parliament after he had been plundred imprison'd in Ely-house and the Ships and his Wife and Children turn'd out of doors an 1642-3 You may read more of him in that most scandalous Libell entit The first century of scandalous and malignant Priests c. printed 1643. qu. p. 7. Sam. Hildersham Bach. Anthony Shert Doct. of Div. All which with many others were incorporated on the 14. July as 't is before said Aug. 4. Ferdinando Texeda Bach. of Div. of the University of Salamanca in Spain He had been a Monk in the said Country but left it and his Religion came over to the Church of England and at length receeding to Oxon was not only incorporated but found relief among the Scholars thereof He hath written Texeda retextus or the Spanish Monk his bill of divorce against the Church of Rome Lond. 1623. qu. It contains the chief motives of his conversion and 't is probable it was an Usher to other of his labours Oct. 14. Nich. Vignier M. of A. of Saumaur in France He afterwards took the Degree of Bach. of Div. in the year following Creations July 18. George Berkly Baron of Berkles Moubray Segrave and Bruce Knight also of the Bath was actually created Master of Arts. This most noble Person who had been sometimes of Ch. Ch. died in 1658 leaving then behind him a Son named George created Earl of Berkley by K. Ch. 2. Anthony Stafford sometimes a member of Oriel Coll. was created M. of A. the same day I shall mention this Person among the writers under the year 1641. or elshewhere Sam. Thomas of Brasn Coll. was created Bach. of Arts on the same day also which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1624. An. 22. Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Prideaux again July 26. Proct. Daniel Escote of Wadh. Coll. Rich. Hill of Brasnose Coll. Ap. 7. In the election of which Proctors was the greatest canvas as 't was thought in the memory of Man There were four Candidates for the two places viz. Henry Warner of St. Johns Coll. who had 229 voices Philip Parsons of the said house 247. Hill before-mention'd 253 and Esâ—â—te 255. For the taking of the Suffrages given partly by Country Parsons Carats Schoolmasters c. who were Masters of Arts of the University and had been invited thereunto for a time the scrutiny continued till after 9 of the clock at night In the year 1626 was a greater Canvas than this there being then 1078 voices given on all Sides Bach. of Arts. May 11. Joh. Dawson of Ch. Ch. June 5. Will. Denton of Magd. hall 10. Rich. Allen of Balliol afterwards Fellow of Pembr Coll. Will. Berkley of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day Nov. 6. John Davis of St. Edmunds afterwards of Magd hall See among the Masters 1628. Dec. 2. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. 15. Hen. Beesley Steph. Goffe of Mert. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Creations an 1636. Jan. 22. Roger Turner Feb. 17. Joseph Caryl of Ex. Coll. Of the first of these two last you may see more among the Masters an 1627. 19. Sam. Kem of Magd. Rich. Owen of Oriel Coll. 22. Christop Elderfield of St. Mar. Thomas Ford of Magdal Hall 25. Isaac Ambrose of Brasn Will. White of Wadh. Joh. Fairclough of All 's Coll. 26. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. Hall Franc. Davies of Jes Coll. The first of these two last was afterwards Bishop of Peterborough the other of Landaff All these Bachelaurs except Jo. Davis will be mention'd in the 2. vol. of this work or elsewhere Admitted 268. Doct. of Musick July 2. John Mundy Bach. of Musick and Organist of his Majesties Chappel within the Castle of Windsore was then licensed to proceed in that faculty On the 12 of the same month he solemnly proceeded as a Member of Ch. Ch. in the Act then celebrated being in high esteem for his great knowledge in the Theoretical and Practical part of Musick He hath published Songs and Psalmes composed into three 4. and 5. parts Lond. 1594. in large quartoes hath composed several Church Services and Anthems the words of some of which you may see in James Cliffords Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. and hath Madrigales in The triumphs of Oriana He gave way to fate in 1630 and was buried in the Cloister joyning to St. Georges Chappel at Windsore beforemention'd Bach. of Law Nine this year were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Some of them were afterwards Doctors and dignified as I shall tell you elsewhere Mast of Arts. Ap. 16. Will. Haywood of St. Joh. Coll. Joh. Tombes of Magd. Hall May. 8. Thom Paybody of Merton Coll. He hath written An Apologie for kneeling in the Act of receiving the blessed Sacrament printed 1629. qu. which is all I yet know of him June 2. Joh. Arnway of St. Edm. hall 10. William Streat of Exet. Jam. Cranford of Ball. Coll. 17. Will. Strode Joh. Trapp of Ch. Ch. 23. George Newton of Exeter July 5. Shakerley Marmion of Wadh.
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 Schlâ—de 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.
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 bâ—nique tenacissimus Philippus Warwick c. His â—on 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
of March 1682. The before mention'd Tho. Warwick Father to Sir Philip was also one of the Organists of the Royal Chappel belonging to K Ch. 1. and was so admirably well skil'd in the theory part of musick that he composed a Song of forty parts for forty several persons each of them to have his part entire from the other This Song was performed before his Majesty about the year 1635 by forty Musitians mostly belonging to his Majesty and by some to certain Churches among whom Ben. Rogers of Windsore was one Apr. 17. Joh. Maplet of Ch. Ch. was then actually created Master of Arts being about to take a journey to his Uncle in Holland He is hereafter to be remembred as a Writer July 4. Hen. Killigrew of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts. He is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers of this University Theodorus Vchtmannus of Groning was this year in July entred a Student in the publick Library where he studied the supream Faculty He was afterwards Professor of the Hebrew Tongue at Leyden and a publisher of several books An. Dom. 1639. An. 15 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Frewen again Jul. 13. Proct. Edw. Fulham of Ch. Ch. Rob. Heywood of Brasn Coll. Apr. 24. Bach. of Musick Jul. 5. Will. Ellis lately Organist of Eaton Coll. near to Windsore now of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon. He hath some small things of his faculty extant as Rounds Catches sacred Hymns and Canons for Voices which you may partly see in a book entit A choice Collection of Catches Rounds and Canons for three or four Voices Lond. 1652 c. oct collected and published by John Hilton Bach. of Musick sometimes Organist of S. Margarets Church in Westminster and Clerk of the Parish belonging thereunto This Mr. Ellis died in Magd. Parish in the north Suburb of Oxon and was buried in the Churchyard there in the latter end of the year 1680. Bach. of Arts. May 2. Christop Love of New Inn. 16. Joh. Jackson of Gloc. Hall This person who was a Cornish man born is not to be understood to be the same with that Jo. Jackson M. of A. of Cambridge as it seems born at or near Hathornewait in the Forest of Over-Wiersdale in Lancashire beneficed in Essex and Author of several tracts of practical Divinity as of 1 A taste of the truth as it is in Jesus consisting of ten questions and answers c. Lond. 1648. oct 2 Directions for private Worship of God c. printed there the same year besides divers Sermons published in 1641 and 42 c. Jun. 13. Rich. Parr of Exet. Coll. Gilb. Coles Will. Bew of New Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Landaff 15. Thom. Manton of Hart Hall lately of Wadh. Coll. Joh. Nelme of Magd. Hall was admitted the same day See among the Masters an 1642. 19. Hen. Bennet Tho. Willis of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the created Doctors of Law an 1663. The other was afterwards an eminent Physitian Jul. 4. Tho. Lamplugh Tho. Tullie John Dale of Qu. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Archb. of York the other two Writers and the last afterwards of Magd. Coll. 5. Joh. Corbet of Magd. Hall 12. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. See among the Masters 1642. 24. Will. Russell of Lincoln Nov. 19. Sam. Aneley of Queens Dec. 10. Walt. Blandford of Wadh. Coll. The last of which three was afterwards Bishop of Worcester Jan. 18. Thankful Owen of Exeter afterwards of Lincoln Coll. See among the Masters in 1646. 23. Will. Scroggs of Pemb. Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Jackson are to be mention'd among the Writers and in the Fasti in the 2 Vol. of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 217. Bach. of Law Six were admitted this year of whom Joh. Nicholson of Magd. College lately Proctor of the University was one and John Wainwright of All 's Coll. another Both which were Chancellours after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll. May 2. George Lawrence of New Inn. 13. Benj. Wells of S. Maries Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. 16. Tho. Holyoake of Qu. Coll. Rob. Wickens of Ch. Ch. July 4. Hen. Vaughan of Jes 5. Thom. Gawen of New Feb. 5. Joh. Riland of Magd. 22. Ralph Button Joh. Priaulx of Mert. Coll. The last saving one was made afterwards by the Parliamentarian Visitors Orator of the University and Canon of Ch. Church Adm. 135. Bach. of Phys But three were admitted this year of whom Edw. Lenton of Magd Hall was one and John Edwards of S. Johns Coll. Reader of the Nat. Philosophy Lecture another Bach. of Div. Jul. 4. Nich. Gibbon of S. Edm. Hall Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll. Dec. 17. Tho. Good of Ball. Feb. 6. Noel Spark of C. C. Coll. The last was a most excellent Latinist and Grecian a most curious Critick in all kind of Learning and admirably well vers'd in the Fathers yet never published any thing His Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. Coll. was admitted the same day Adm. 18. Doct. of Law Jun. 13. Tho. Lloyd of S. Joh. 25. Herbert Pelham Jul. 5. Joh. Nicolson of Magd. Coll. The last who accumulated was after his Majesties Restauration made Chancellour of the Dioc. of Glcc. Doct. of Physick Jun. 14. Joh. Edwards of S. Johns Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Physick being at this time as I have before told you Natural Philosophy Professor 19. Thom. Clayton of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of Physick Warden of Merton College and a Knight Jul. 5. Joh. Aubrey of Magd. Nov. 24. Bridstock Harford of Linc. Coll. Doct. of Div. Apr. 29. John Oliver of Magd. Coll. This person who was a Kentish man born and originally of Mert. Coll. was afterwards successively Demy and Fellow of that of Magd. where his eminence in Learning and orthodox Principles in Religion being conspicuous he was taken into the Service of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and by him made his domestick Chaplain and promoted in the Church but losing all in the time of the Rebellion he was elected President of his Coll. in Apr. 1644 upon the advancement of Dr. Frewen to the See of Lichfield In the latter end of 1647 he was turn'd out of his Presidentship by the Committee of Lords and Commons for the reformation of the University of Oxon and in the beginning of the next year by the Visitors themselves in their own proper persons So that afterwards living obscurely and in great hardship wanted the charities which he before bestowed on the poor and the publick being in a manner the object of charity himself On the 18 of May 1660 which was about a fortnight before his Majesties Return he was by the Authority of Parl. restored to his Presidentship and on the 22 of the said month he took
continuator in the 〈…〉 year 1553. a In Vita Joh. 〈◊〉 edit 1573. p. 2â—â— c. b 〈…〉 1536. * See Card. Will. Alans book called A sincere or modest defence c. or An answer to the libel of English justice c. p. 11. * See in Roâ— Persons brief 〈◊〉 in desence of Ecclesastical Sâ—bordination in England 〈…〉 * Math. Parker in the first Edit of Antiq. Britan. Eccles. in 〈◊〉 a Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. an 1574. * In 1 part tom 5. Historiarum l. 117. †Godwin in lib 〈…〉 est De 〈◊〉 Angliae in London b The continuator of Tâ—o Hatchers Cat. of Prov. Fell. and Scholars of Kings Coll. in Cambridge MS. sub an 1565. * Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1616. * 〈…〉 †〈…〉 a See more of this matter in 〈…〉 â—ook intit Observations on the History of 〈…〉 Esq Lond. 1656 p. 73. b Idem in 〈…〉 c. printed 1650. p. 〈◊〉 * 〈…〉 in his 〈…〉 c. lib. 9. 〈…〉 1595. * 〈…〉 in Epist 〈◊〉 ad 〈…〉 an 1575. †〈◊〉 in Ann. 1. Reg. 〈…〉 an 15â—5 * Balliosergus c. per Hen. Savage p. 116. a In his preface to his Diatribe upon the first part of the Hist of Tithes b Reg. second Act. Coll. Mert. p. 129. c In his preliminary discourse to the Brigantâ—s alias Yorkshire a 〈…〉 b In Britan. in Leâ—s c Tho. Fuller in 〈◊〉 of English in Câ—â—shire d See in a book intit 〈…〉 Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedra's and 〈…〉 in the 〈…〉 England Collected by Jâ—â— Coffâ—rd Lond. 1663. p. 56. 137. 〈◊〉 c a 〈…〉 1. written by Arth. Wilson Lond. 1653. a In James Châ—fford Collection of Divine Services and Anthems usually sâ—â—g in 〈◊〉 c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 45. 125. 185. b 〈…〉 in The Court and character of K. James Lond. 1650 in 〈◊〉 p. 106 107. a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 Lond. 1670. p. 96. * MS. sometimes in the hands of 〈…〉 a His Wife was named Mary eldest Daughter of Sir Will. Ryther L. May or of Lond. b Aul. 〈◊〉 or an answer to the Court and Char. of K. James printed at Lond. 1650. p. 100. * In a book intit Divine Services and 〈…〉 c. Lond. 1663. 〈◊〉 a In his 〈…〉 c. Lond. 1â—58 oct p. 113. num 43. etc. * 〈…〉 a 〈…〉 in Hist 〈◊〉 c. Lond. 1674. p. â—01 b 〈…〉 in his 〈…〉 c. Lond. 1630. qu. at the end 〈…〉 c Rich. Montague in his Pref. to his 〈◊〉 on the first part of the Hist 〈◊〉 c. Lond. 〈◊〉 1. d 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 16â—1 a See in the 〈…〉 written by 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 1646. p. 531. a The continuator of Tho. Hatchers Cat. of Provosts Fellows and 〈◊〉 of Kings Coll. in 〈◊〉 MS. b 〈◊〉 in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. an 1610. c 〈…〉 in his Court and 〈…〉 James printed 1650. in oct p. 191. d See the 〈◊〉 of the life of Will Lâ—nd printed 164â— p. 19. a In his Poems called Run and a great cast being the second part of his Epigramâ— printed 〈◊〉 Epigr. 97. b 〈◊〉 Fulâ—r in his 〈◊〉 of England in Northamptonshire c In the 〈◊〉 Office near St. Pauls Cathedral in reg Lâ—e Qu. 24. * One Miles Spencer was Doctor of the Laws and Chancellour of 〈◊〉 who dying about the ninetieth year of his age was buried in the Cath. Ch. there d Ibid in reg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * See in the book entit The divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals and Collâ—giate 〈◊〉 in the Church of England collected and published by 〈…〉 Lond. 1663. oct * In the 〈…〉 c. written by 〈◊〉 L'estrange printed 〈…〉 an 1656 second 〈◊〉 p. 24 25. 〈◊〉 an 16â—5 †In 〈◊〉 Jac. Reg. I. MS. 〈◊〉 an 16â—9 a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 to his edit of St. 〈…〉 c Dr. Br. Walâ—â—â— in 〈…〉 note before his edition of 〈…〉 on part of this 〈◊〉 d lord * Edit in octâ—â—o 1616. cent 6. 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 in his 〈◊〉 of the Reign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1630. a 〈…〉 Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291. b Sir Anth. 〈◊〉 in his Court and 〈…〉 printed 1650. p. â— * Camden in Anna. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1618. * In 〈◊〉 Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib 1. p. 317. b. * Camb. in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1619. a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 †〈…〉 a 〈…〉 in his 〈◊〉 of England in Cambridgshire * 〈…〉 in his Wâ—rthies of England in Norwich * 〈…〉 old cause 〈◊〉 unfolded c. Lond. 1660. oct p. 〈◊〉 a â—wofdâ— Prynne in his Canterburies Doome c. printed 1646. p. 355. b Here you 〈◊〉 out as to time for 〈…〉 was not made Bishop of Landâ—ff till 16â—9 which was eight years after Dr. Price his death c Too â—â—â—er in his Church History c. lib. 11. Sect. 17. d Idem in the Worthies of England in Essex * 〈…〉 Antiq. Vâ—iv Oxon 〈…〉 * In biblioâ—hâ—ca Joh. Bossâ—rdi * 〈…〉 … Oxon. 16â—4 †See The full view of the 〈◊〉 and actions of Oâ— Cromwell printed 1600. in 〈◊〉 pag. 31â— * 〈…〉 c. lib. 2. cap. 16. 〈…〉 a 〈…〉 b 〈◊〉 an 1618. c 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 †〈…〉 d 〈…〉 e 〈…〉 f 〈…〉 g 〈…〉 x 〈…〉 * In 〈…〉 lib. 〈◊〉 p. â—07 * Printed at Lond. 1646. p 167. * Carissâ—â— de Imputat primi peccatâ— cap. 17. †In Hist Antiq. Vâ—iv Oxon. l. 2. p. 44. b. †Reg. Univ. Oxon. N. fol. 145. â— * See Hist Antiq. Vniv. lib. 2. p. 102. b. †〈…〉 He was nephew 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 d Reg. Convocat N. fol. 199. b. †Canterburies Doom printed 1646. p. 539. * Teid p. 541. e Vide Balâ—â—fergum or a Comment on the Foundation and Founders of Ballioâ— Coll. p. 118. f Ibid. p. * See in the Epist dedic to Dr. Charles 〈◊〉 book entit The Royal Coll. of 〈…〉 established by Law c. Lond. 16â—6 qu. †See Lew. du Moulin his Patronut bona fidei in causa Puritanâ—rum contra Hierarchos Angâ—ae c. Lond. 1672 in specun contra Dâ—râ—llum p. 61. See also in Canterburies Deom in the Index for Lewâ—s and elsewhere * So I have been informed by Dr. Mâ—ch Roberts sometimes Principal of Jesus Coll. his contemporary * To this Rich. Murray was near of kin a certain Gent. of quality named Mungo Murray Servant to King 〈◊〉 2. in his Exile who dying at Antwerp in the times of Uâ—â—â—â—ation was buried aâ— midnight in a poor Cloyster there by Dr. George Morley an Exile for his Loyalty at which Ceremony the Earl of Dysart his Kinsman was present * See in Canterburies Dâ—â—me p. 362. 363. * 〈◊〉 Lugd. Baâ— 16. â— q◠†〈…〉 ‡ 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 341. â— * In Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 312. * The Arms thaâ— Jâ—h Milton did use and seal his Letters with were Argent a spread Eagle with two heads gules legg'd and break'd sable †See in Jo. Milton's book 〈…〉 Edit Hag. Câ—m 1654. p. 61. c. * Will. Sanderson in his Hist 〈…〉 the year 1641. * The same as 〈…〉 with Tâ—o Rosâ— who was Library Keeper to his Majesty 〈◊〉 * The Author of 〈…〉 c. printed 1677. p. 1◠†Sober sadness or Historical Observations upon the proceedings pretences 〈◊〉 of a prevaâ—ing 〈◊〉 in both 〈…〉 c. 〈◊〉 1643. qu. pag. 3. * 〈…〉 1646. pag. 9.
with too great confidence transcribed the former narratives So that we yet want an exact and faithful History of the greatest most noble and most disinteress'd Clergy-man of that age His publick imployments gave him little leisure for the publication of any works of learning and if any were published they are dead with him excep perhaps those which I have seen which are the Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes in Ipswich School set before the Grammar of W. Lilye and printed in 1528. THOMAS DILLON was born in the County of Meath in Ireland studied here in Oxon several years but whether he took a degree it appears not At length retiring to his own Country became thro several preferments Bishop of Kildare where sitting about eight years year 1531 gave way to fate in fifteen hundred thirty and one In the said See succeeded one Walter Wellesley as I shall anon tell you WILLIAM WARHAM Son of Rob. Warham was born of a gentile Family at Okely in Hampshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1475. took the degrees in the Laws left the coll 1488. and about that time became an Advocate in the Court of Arches and soon after Principal or chief Moderator of Civil Law School then situated in S. Edwards Parish in Oxon. On the 2. Nov. 1493. he was collated to the Chantorship of Wells upon the death of Tho. Overey sometimes Fellow of All 's coll and on the 13. of Feb. following he was constituted Master of the Rolls Afterwards being elected to the See of London he had the Great Seal of England delivered unto him on the 11. of Aug. 1502 So that in few days after being consecrated Bishop of that See had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the first of Octob. following In the beginning of January in the same year he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and in Nov. as one saith in 1504. he was translated to the See of Canterbury whose inthronization there appointed to be on the 9. March following was performed then with great and wonderful solemnity and magnificence as it may be partly elsewhere seen In 1506. May 28. he was unanimously elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon being then and ever after an especial friend to it and its members as may be discerned in several Epistles that passed between them In some the said members stile him Sanctissimus in Christo Paeter and in others they proclaim in an high manner his prudence profound understanding c. All which I presume was done because he had been a benefactor to the finishing of S. Maries Church and the Divinity School It must be now known that there was a young Knight called William Warham Godson and Nephew to the Archbishop as being Son to his Brother Hugh Warham that waited upon him in his chamber With him the Archb. being always ready to discourse did more than once seriously tell him that if ever after his death any should succeed him in the See of Canterbury called Thomas he should in no wise serve him or seek his favour and acquaintance for there shall said he one of that name shortly enjoy this See that shall as much by his vicious living and wicked heresies dishonour wast and destroy the same and the whole Church of England as ever the blessed Bishop and Martyr St. Thomas did before benefit bless adorn and honour the same c. This is reported by Nich. Harpessfield from the mouth of the said Sir Will. Warham being prophetically spoken by the said Archb. concerning the Thomas that succeeded him meaning Thom. Cranmer After Dr. Warham had sate in Canterbury in great prosperity about 28 years he concluded this life at S. Stephens near to the said City on the 22. of Aug. between the hours of 3 and 4 in the morning year 1532 in fifteen hundred thirty and two Whereupon his body was laid in a little Chappel built by himself for the place of his burial on the north side of the Martyrdom of S. Thomas of Canterbury and had there a reasonable fair Tomb erected over his body but defaced in the beginning of the grand Rebellion began and carried on by the Presbyterians Erasmus of Rotterdam having been a great acquaintance of the said Archbishop had the honour to have his picture sent to him by the owner Which being with great devotion received Erasmus sent him his and between them passed several Epistles In one of which or else in another place Erasmus who had the Parsonage of Aldington in Kent bestowed on him so commends him for humanity learning integrity and piety that in the conclusion he saith nullan absoluti Praesulis dotem in eo desideres The said Archb. left all his Theological books to All 's coll Library his Civil and Can. Law books with the prick-song books belonging to his Chappel to New coll and his Ledgers Grayles and Antiphonals to Wykehams coll near to Winchester See more of him in a book intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae c. Lond. 1572-3 p. 348. 349. c. THOMAS SKEVYNGTON was descended from a right ancient Family of his name living in Leicestershire but whether born in that County I cannot justly tell became when young professed in the Monastery of Cistercians at Merevale or Myrdvale in Warwickshire instructed in Theological and other learning in S. Bernards coll originally built for Cistercians in the north Suburb of Oxon being now S. Johns coll to which place he bequeathed on his death-bed twenty pounds towards its reparation Afterwards he was made Abbat of Waverley a house of the said Order in Surrey and on the 17. of June 1509. was consecrated Bishop of Bangor Where after he had sate several years much commended for the austere course of his life and great charity he submitted to the stroke of death in the month of June or thereabouts in fifteen hundred thirty and there year 1533 Whereupon his heart was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor before the picture of S. Daniel whereon a stone was soon after laid with an inscription thereon shewing that it was the heart of Thomas late Bishop of Bangor and his body in the Choire of Monastery of Beaulieu under a Tomb which he had erected nigh unto the place where the Gospel used to be read In the See of Bangor succeeded John Salcot alias Capon Doct. of divinity of Cambridge translated thence to Salisbury in 1529 where dying in the summer time in August as it seems an 1557. was buried in the Cath. Church there under a Tomb which he in his life-time had provided and erected on the south side of the Choire JOHN ALLEN Doctor of the Laws of this University was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in the place of Dr. Hugh Inge deceased in the year of our Lord 1528. and died on the 25. of July saith one and another the 28.
that no other Church hath any salvation in it but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins Item I give 20 s. for the painting or otherwise of the said Font. It. I give my tenement in Yale and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire Cordmaur and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born c. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel and that he together with good security should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany two months in Italy two months in France and two months in Spain and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose c. The books that he designed for Chelsey college he gave to Trin. coll in Cambridge but with this condition that if Chelsey coll be ever restored the books should be restored thereunto He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestred Ministers of the Loyal Party and a 100 l. to poor distressed Church-men Rom. Catholicks according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar and if any thing should be found worthy of printing that they be published c. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism he did in his younger years examine all the mysteries in Religion and all the miracles in Scripture how far they agreed with natural reason and wherein they transcended and thereupon did publish a book intit The fall of man or the corruption of nature proved by natural reason Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time and so he ended with the Church of England as seâ—led by Laws little regarding the opinion of particular men but Statutes Acts of State Proclamations Injunctions c. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library But these with the rest of his goods were lost and whether they were ever recovered before his death I know not He hath also written Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit An apology or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World c. written by Dr. George Hakewill Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills answere involved in the sixth book of the said Apology printed at Oxon the third time 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers an 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed 'T is a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library and hath this beginning I cannot say that I was an eye and ear-witness but truly I have been an observer of the times and what I shall relate of my own knowledge God knows is most true My conjecturals I conceive c. The conclusion which is imperfect is this Yet notwithstanding I have given him Sir A. W. the name of a Knight because he hath pleased so to stile himself and that I might not offend him This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit The court and character of King James Lond. 1650. oct written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel especially by the Loyalists and Court-party was also answered in print by Anonymus intit Anlicus Coquinariae or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet intituled The Court and Character of K. James c. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue Sir Anthony went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practiced there to libel that Nation Which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed from his place as unworthy to eat his bread whose birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyal during his life tho as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier who earnestly disswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal which as it seems in Conscience he so declined I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles accounted a very sober and prudent Woman who after perusal did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door that he was resolved never to make it publick Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author should say that with some regret of what he had maliciously written did intend it for the fire and died repentant tho since stolen to the Press out of a Ladies closet And if this be true our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel who by his additions may abuse us with a false story which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable passages and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony who was dead some time before the said libel was published The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct an 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley and hath added to it 1 The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. 2 Observations instead of a character upon this King from his Childhood 3 Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeths death But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq or B. Goodman because they came out after they had written their respective answers The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated c. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist to Oliver Cromwell L. General and by another to the Master Fellows Scholars and Students of Trin coll in Cambridge Also An Account of his sufferings which is only a little pamphlet printed 1650. BERNARD ADAMS was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London admitted Scholar of Trinity coll in 1583. aged 17 years fellow five years after and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland where by the favour of the Lord
Lieutenant he was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in Apr. 1604. In the year 1606. he by a dispensation kept the See of Kilfenore with it to the year 1617. at which time he voluntarily resign'd it He bestowed much money in repairing the Church of Limerick and in the adorning it with Organs and several Ornaments as also in repairing the house belonging to his See besides other moneys for pious use He died on the 22. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and five and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Limerick where was a monument soon after erected to his memory In the said See succeeded Francis Gough commonly called Goffe whom I shall anon at large mention ARTHUR LAKE sometimes Fellow of New coll was consecrated B. of Bathe and Wells in the month of Dec. 1616. and concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and six year 1626 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Dr. Will Laud of whom I shall make mention at large among the writers in the second volume of this work TOBIE MATHEW Son of John Mathew a native of Roos in Herefordshire by his Wife Elianor Croston of Ludlow was born in the city of Bristow in that part of it which is in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning in the City of Wells became a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1559. aged 13. years but in what house unless in Vniv. coll the antient members of which have claim'd him as theirs I know not Sure it is that being a Student of Ch. Ch. soon after his first coming he did as a member of that house take the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1563. and three years after that of master and holy orders at which time he was much respected for his great learning eloquence sweet conversation friendly disposition and for the sharpness of his wit In 1569. he was unanimously elected the publick Orator of the University which office he executed with great applause and with no little honour to the University In 1570. he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and on the 28. Nov. the same year he was admitted Archdeacon of Bathe In 1572. May 15. he became Prebendary of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the Church of Salisbury and in July the same year he was elected President of S. Johns coll At which time being much famed for his admirable way of Preaching he was made one of the Queens chaplains in Ordinary and soon after proceeding in Divinity was made Dean of Ch. Ch. 1576. So that then his name sounding high among scholars he deservedly obtain'd the name of Theologus praestantissimus for so he is stiled by the learned Camden who adds that in him doctrina cum pietate ars cum natura certant Eam Campian the Jesuit in his book of Ten Reasons which the R. Catholicks count an Epitomy of all their doctrine labouring to prove that the Fathers were all Papists and to give the uttermost he could to his assertion saith that Thoby Mathew confest to him so much 〈◊〉 saith he c. We did once in a familiar sort sound Th. Mathews opinion he that now domineers in your Pulpits whom for his good learning and seeds oâ— vertue we esteemed c. Which character coming from a Jesuits pen makes it the truer because he was in some manner his Adversary In 1579. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in 1583. he was not only made Chantor of the Church of 〈◊〉 on the resignation of George Carew in the month of June but also Dean of Durham void by the decease of Dr. 〈…〉 In which dignity being installed 31. Aug. he gâ—ve up his Chantorship in Febr. following wherein he was succeeded by Dr. Will. Zouch and in the beginning of the year following his Deanery of Ch. Ch. In 1595. he was to the great joy of many especially those of the Clergy made Bishop of Durham upon the translation of Dr. Math. Hutton to York which was made 24. of March 1594. to which See being consecrated soon after sate there till August an 1606. and then being translated on the 18. of the said month and installed on the 11. of Sept. following in the person of his Proctor sate there in great honour and repute till the time of his death He gave way to sate in a good old age on the 29. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight year 1628 and was buried in a chappel behind or beyond the east end of the choire of the Cath. Ch. of York Soon after was a noble monument of black and white marble set up under the great east window of that chappel with his Effigies in his Archiepiscopal robes and an inscription thereon A copy of which containing his just character you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 255. b. 256. a. He hath extant a latin Serm. intit Concio Apologetica contra Edm. Campianum in Deut 32. 7. Oxon. 1638. oct As also a letter to K. Jam 1. which is printed in the Cabala I have been informed that he had several things lying by him worthy of the Press but what became of them after his death I know not nor any thing to the contrary but that they came into the hands of his Son Sir Tobie In the said See of York succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne of Queens coll in Cambridge sometimes a Lecturer in Gresham coll afterwards Master of the Savoy Dean of Westminster in the place of Dr. Neile promoted to the See of Lichf and Cov. in which dignity he was install'd in Dec. 1610. Bishop of Lincolne to which he was consecrated 14. Dec. 1617. and then of London being translated to that place 20. July 1621. In the latter end of 1627. he was translated to Durham whence after he had sate three months he was translated to York in the place of Mathew as I have before told you to which See being elected 16. June was inthronized therein 24. Oct. 1628. But he expiring soon after in the year of his age 59. six months and two days was buried in the chancel belonging to the Church of Cawood in Yorksh in which parish he was born and had soon after a comely monument set up to his memory at the charge of Isaac his brother Curator of his last Will and Test in the north wall of the said chancel containing his bust in his lawn sleeves with a large inscription under it All which especially the verses were made by Hugh Holland the Poet. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Sam. Harsnet Bishop of Norwych sometimes Master of Pembr hall in Cambridge who being elected thereunto on the 26. of Novemb. 1628 was inthronized 23. April following He died on the 12. of March 1630. being then Privy Counsellour to his Majesty at Moreton in Marsh in Glocestershire in his return from Bathe to his Mannour of Southwell in Nottinghamshire Whereupon
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 Theeâ—â—s 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