of the convocation of the whole Clergy of the Diocess of Canterbury where in speaking and acting he behaved himself with great commendation The same year being forced to leave the said Deanery to make room for Dr. Joh. Fekenham the former Abbat of Westminster and the Monks had that of Windâ—ore bestowed upon him an 1556. But being taken in adultery as some say was deprived of the said Deanery by Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury in 1557. Whereupon looking on himself as much abused did appeal to an higher Power So that being about to take a journey to Rome to complain to his holiness was seized and clapt up Prisoner within the Tower of London where as I conceive he died Jo. Leland gives him the character of a noted Preacher and Orator of his time and seems to intimate that he had written several Books Jo. Bale who speaks well of few Men saith that he had been sore bytten with a Winchester gose and was not as yet 1554 healed thereof And tells us of his old familiar Mary Huckvale of Oxford and of his provider Goodwife Person and Chrystian Thompson the Widow and I know not what Another equal with Bale in scurrilities saith that Hugh Weston is a drunken burnt tail man a baudy beast a leacherous locust a companion with curtezans of Coleman hedge more meet to be coupled with his old play-fellow and pack-borse Goodwife Hugfaile at Oxon at the tayle of a Cart than to be reverenced and reputed a Mayden Preist in good Queen Maries Court But to let pass this brutish language more fit to be spoken at Billingsgate than by a Person that made Divinity his delight I must tell you that there goes under this Dr. Weston's name Oratio coram patribus clero habita 16. Oct. 1553. The beginning of which is Cum Demosthenes totius Graeciae lumen c. Lond. 1553. oct Disputations with Cranmer Ridley and Latimer in the Divnity School at Oxon. an 1554. At which time he was Moderator in the disputations of several Doctors had with them as you may see at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein are also several conferences and discourses of the said H. Weston had with other Persons At length he giving way to fate within the Tower of London as it seems in the Month of Decemb. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight was buried before the image of the Crucifix in the middle of the Church belonging to the Hospital of the Savoy situated in the Strand near to London In his will dat 26. Nov. 1558 made within the Tower of London he bestowed most of his wealth on pious and publick uses took a great deal of care about the ceremoney to be performed at his burial and for the praying for his Soul by several Persons in several places as moneys for a Dirige and Mass to be performed 1 By the Master and Fellows of Balliol Coll. 2 By the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln Coll. 3 By the Chapl. or Priest of the University of Oxon. 4 By the Priest at Islip near Oxon. of which perhaps he had been Rector 5 By the Priest of Burton Novery in Leycestershire at which place if I mistake not he had received his first breath because his Brethren lived there c. with many other things therein which not only shew'd him to be a zealous Catholick but also a Person of a publick spirit WILLIAM FORREST was related to John Forrest before-mentioned but where born I cannot justly say spent several years in study among the Oxonians and was there a Student when the question was discussed among the Doctors and Masters concerning the divorce of King Hen. 8. from his Royal Consort Qu. Catherine in 1530 as in the life of the said Queen which I shall anon mention appeareth He was a Priest and had preferment in the Church was well skill'd in Musick and Poetry had a collection of the choicest compositions in Musick that were then in use Which coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Heather founder of the Musical Praxis in this University he gave them to the publick School thereof where they yet continue and are kept only as matters of antiquity Among them are the compositions of Joh. Taverner of Boston sometimes Organist of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon of Joh. Merbeck Org. of Windsore Rob. Fairfax a Doctor of Musick of Cambridge Dr. Christ Tye Joh. Sheppard John Norman c. All the Books that our Author Forrest hath composed which have as yet come to my view were written in English Poetry such as was commonly used in the Reigns of Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. The titles of which follow A true and most notable History of a right noble and famous Lady produced in Spayne entituled the second Gresield practised not long out of this tyme in much part tragedous as delectable both to hearers and readers This is a MS. containing the life of Queen Catherine the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. and is by the Author dedicated to Qu. Mary he being then Chaplain to her T is a broad thin Folio written very fairly on Vellam and seems to be the very same it being now my proper Book that the Author presented to the said Queen There be many things in it that are very zealously written against the Hereticks of those times as he calls them which plainly shews him to be entirely devoted to the Church of Rome And tho there be no great streins in it yet the historical part of it is good if not too much partiality therein and I have discovered from the said Book many things relating to the Affairs of Oxon acted during the time of the said divorce which I could never see elsewhere The beginning of the prologue to Qu. Mary is this As nature hath no inclination c. and of the work it self Wryters have many endeavoured their pains c. Throughout the whole History the Author makes use of the name of Grysild the second for Qu. Catherine and the name of Walter for K. Hen. 8. At the end of it contained in 20 Chapters is this written Here endethe the Historye of Grysilde the seconde dulie meanyng Qu. Catharine Mother to our most dread Soveraigne Lady Qu. Mary fynysched the 25. day of June the Yeare of owre Lorde 1558. by the symple and unlearned Syr Wyllyam Forrest Preeiste propria manus At the end of the said Historie is written in verse also An Oration consolatory to Queen Mary 'T is contained in six leaves and hath this beginning Among much inward profound perpending c. This Book richly bound in laced Sattin hath on every brass boss at each corner this sentence embossed in an English Character Ave Maria Gratia plena Our Author Forrest hath also written in old English verse The tragedious Troubles of the most chast and innocent Joseph Son to the holy Patriarch Jacob MS. in two vol. in fol. dedicated to Thom.
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
Armamentario Romano These two last are printed at the end of Historiae Britannicae defensio written by Sir Joh. Prise Lond. 1573. qu. Chronicon Walliae à Rege Cadwalladero usque ad an Dom. 1294. MS. in Cottons Library under Caligula A. 6. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 The judgment of Urines Lond. 1551. oct 2 The Historie of Cambria now called Wales Afterwards corrected augmented finished and continued by David Powell Lond. 1584 qu. 3 The treasure of health containing many profitable Medicines Lond. 1585. oct written by Pet. Hispanus To which translation our Author Lhuyd added the causes and signes of every disease with the Aphorismes of Hypocrates These are all I think that he hath written and translated for among my searches I have seen no more nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that he paid his last debt to nature year 1570 about Fifteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church of Whitchurch near Denbigh before-mention'd Soon after was a Monument of Alabaster set up in the wall over his grave to his memory On which was portraied his Effigies in a praying posture with a desk and a book laying thereon before him a sword by his side but nothing else military in his habit Under his said Effigies is a plain free stone in the said wall whereon are engraven eight barbarous English verses The two first of which run thus The corps and earthly shape doth rest Here tomyd in your sight Of Humfrey Lloid Mr. of Art A famus worthy Wight In the last verse is mention made of an Epitaph annex'd but where that was written unless on the stone lying on his grave wherein probably the day and year of his death were set down I cannot tell Many years before his death he took to Wife Barbara Daughter of George Lumley and Sister to John Lord Lumley by whom he had issue Splendian and John who both died without issue Henry an inhabitant of Cheame in Surrey and Jane the Wife of Rob. Coytmore LAURENCE VAUS Vaux or Vaulx so many ways I find him written was born near to Blackrode in Lancashire received his Academical education in Oxon partly as it seems in Queens Coll. but mostly in that of Corp. Ch. were he was either Clerk or Chorister and much favoured by Jam. Brokes Fellow of that house How long he continued there or whether he took a Degree in Arts it appears not About the Year 1540 he applyed his studies to the Theological faculty and was made a Priest being then esteemed to be Vir eximiae doctrinae pro instruendâ in fide catholicâ juventute Afterwards he became Chaplain to the said Brokes when he was Bishop of Glocâ—ster Warden of Manchester Coll. in his own Country on the death of George Collier of the Family of the Colliers near to Stone in Staffordshire in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Mary and in 1556 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in this University Upon the coming to the Crown of Qu. Eliz. and the reformation of Religion that followed he left his preferment in which Will. Byrch of the Family of Byrch hall in Lanc. succeeded 2. Eliz. and went into Ireland where he was dispoiled of all he had by thieves and narrowly escaped death Thence he went into the Low Countries where at Lovaine he was made a Monk as one saith of the order of St. Dionyse meaning I suppose of the Cenobie of St. Dionyse because there is no such order where he wrot A Catechisme or a christian doctrine necessary for Children and ignorant People Lov. 1567. Antw. 1574. printed again 1583. 1599. c. all in oct and tw An instruction of the laudable customes used in the Cath. Church This is some editions is entit The use and meaning of holy Ceremonies in Gods Church Godly contemplations for the unlearned These two last are printed with one two or more of the editions of the Catechisme Certain brief notes of divers godly matters Printed with the Catechisme in 1583 99 oct At length our Author Vaux making a return into England to propagate his and strengthen others in Religion was apprehended and imprisoned in the Gate-house at Westminster where he dyed in great necessity about the Year as I find it reported year 1570 Fifteen hundred and seventy but where buried I cannot justly say because the register of St. Margarets Church wherein the Prison called the Gate-house before-mentioned is situated makes no mention of him in that Year three years before or three years after as I have been informed by the Letters of Dr. Simon Patrick Prebendary of St. Peters Church in the said City and Dean of Peterborough afterwards Bishop of Chichester RICHARD SHAGENS who is written in one of our registers Schaftnes was born in Ireland became Fellow of Balliol Coll. in 1556 being then Bach. of Arts a noted disputant and an excellent Philosopher In 1560 he took the Degree of Master and four years after resigniag his Fellowship he retired into his native Country where he gained a good report for his noted parts in speaking and penning Rich. Stanyhurst his countryman saith that he was afterwards Schoolmaster in Ireland and a learned and a vertuous Man but telleth us not what he hath written and therefore I suppose that what he did of that nature was after Stanyhurst had given the said character of him Contemporary with this Shaghens or a little before were Students in Oxon these Irish Men following 1 Patrick Cusack a Gentleman born who after he had left Oxon was a Schoolmaster in Dublin where his admirable learning gave great light to his Country but employed his studies rather in instructing of Scholars than in penning of Books He wrot in Lat. Diversa Epigrammata 2 One Dormer a Civilian who was born at Rosse and wrot in Ballad royal The decay of Ross 3 One Sheine who wrot De republica See more among the Bishops under the Year 1582 and in the Fasti 1523. 4 Peter Lombard a most learned Man of his time but did not take any Degree See more of him in Pet. White among the writers under the Year 1590. 5 Elias Sheth who wrote Divers Sonnets 6 One Taylor a Bach. of Arts who proceeded in the University and wrot Epigrammata diversa What his Christian name was I cannot justly say because many of his Sirname and time did proceed Masters in this University as Tho. Taylor in 1539. Will. Taylor 1541. and 1551. and Tho. Taylor of All 's Coll. 1563. Whether this last be the same Th. Taylor who was a Lancashire Man born and chosen Fellow thereof 1557. or another chosen in 1562 I know not Many other Irish Men were also conversant in studies here even till an University was founded at Dublin after which time we had but few JOHN STORIE a most noted Civilian and Canononist of his time was educated in Philosophical learning and in the rudiments of
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
a copy of verses written to Thom. Legh of Adlington Esq must be understood of Bishop Coxe before mention'd NICHOLAS SAUNDERS the most noted defender of the R. Cath. cause in his time was born at Charlewood in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1548 Bach. of the Laws 3 year after and about 1557 Shagling Lecturer or as he himself saith tanquam regius professor juris canonici But Religion putting on another face in the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left England about 1560 and going to Rome was made Priest and D. of D. and soon after went with Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius to the Council of Trent where he shew'd himself to be a Man of great parts by his several disputations and arguings Which Cardinal having an especial respect for made him his individual comparison in his journey into Poland Prussia and Lithuania As for the chief actions of his life that followed his Sisters Son John Pitseus will tell you But that which I must not forget now to let you know is that when he was a Nuntio from P. Gregory 13 into Ireland where he with 3 Ships full of Spaniards landed at Smerwick in Kerrey about the first of July 1579 to encourage the Irish there to take up arms and rebel against Qu. Elizabeth was after they with the said Spaniards had been overcome by the English forced to abscond in caves dens woods c. At length after two years time being not able to hold out longer did miserably perish by hunger and cold at the same time as my Author saith but as it seems false that Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earl of Desmond chief captain of the rebels was taken in a poor cottage and kill'd Of which matter hear what the learned Canmden tells us The principal of whom meaning the priests that persuaded the said Earlto forfeit his allegiance to his Prince was Nich. Saunders an English Man who very near at the same instant of time was miserably famish'd to death when forsaken of all and troubled in mind for the bad success of the rebellion he wandred up and down among woods forests and mountains and found no comfort or relief In his pouch were found several speeches and letters made and written to confirm the rebels stuffed with large promises from the Bishop of Rome and the Spaniard Thus the divine justice if a Man may judge stopped that mouth with hunger which had been always open to encourage rebellions and to belch forth malicious lies and slanders For to omit other things he was the first Man that broached that abominable lye concerning the birth of Qu. Elizabeths Mother which no Man in those days though the hatred and the malice of the Papists was then fresh against her and might remember it ever knew England in full forty years after never heard of the computation of time doth egregiously convince of falshood and vanity and he forgetting himself which a lyar should not do doth himself plainly confute c. The things that he hath written are mostly these The supper of our Lord set forth according to the truth of the Gospel and Cath. Faith with a confutation of such false doctrins as the Apologie of the Church of England Mr. Al. Nowells challenge or Mr. Jewells reply have uttered touching the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament In seven books Lovain 1566 in a thick qu. Answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge A Treatise of the images of Christ and of his Saints and that it is unlawful to break them and lawful to honour them With a confutation of such false doctrine as Mr. Jewell hath uttered in his reply concerning that matter Lov. 1567. oct Brief declaration which is the true Church of Christ This is written by way of preface to the Treatise of the images c. The rock of the Church wherein the primacy of St. Peter and of his Successours the Bishops of Rome is proved our of Gods word Lov. 1567 and St. Omer 1624. in oct Answered by the said W. Fulke Brief treatise of Usurie Lov. 1568. oct De typicâ honorariâ imaginum adoratione lib. 2. Lov. 1569. oct Sacrificii missae ac ejus partium explicatio Lov. 1569. oct Tractatus utilis quod Dominus in sexto capite Johannis de sacramento Eucharistiae propriè sit locutus Antw. 1570. in tw De visibili Monarchiâ Ecclesiae lib. 8. c. Lov. 1571. ' Antw. 1581. Wiceburg 1592. fol. In which book written before the Author went into Ireland he doth avow the Bull of P. Pius 5. against Qu. Elizab. to have been lawful and affirmeth that by virtue thereof one Dr. Nich. Moreton an old English fugitive and conspirator was sent from Rome into the north parts of England to stir up the first rebellion there whereof Charles Nevile Earl of Westmorland was a head captain And thereby it may manifestly appear to all Men how the said Bull was the ground of the rebellions both in England and Ireland De clave David seu regno Christi lib. 6. contra columnias Acleri pro visibili Ecclesiae Monarchiâ Wiceburg 1592. fol. De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani lib. 3. quibus historia continetur maxima ecclesiastica annorum 60 lectu dignissima c. Col. Agrip. 1585. Rom. 1586. Ingolst 1588. Col. Agrip. 1590. c. oct Which book being left in many places imperfect was supplied augmented and corrected by Edw. Rishton Afterwards the book being translated into French and printed 1673-4 gave occasion to Gilbert Burnet D. D. to write his two volumes of The Historie of the reformation of the Church of England In the appendix to the first of which you may read more of Saunders and his work de Schismate as also of Edw. Rishton and his corrections and additions of and to that book De justificatione contra colloquium Altenburgense lib. 6. in quibus c. Aug. Trev. 1585 in a thick oct This sometimes goes under the title of De Lutheranorum dissidiis circa justificationem Col. Ag. 1594. oct De militantis Ecclesiae Rom. potestate Rom. 1603. qu. De martyrio quorundam temp Hen. 8. Elizab. printed 1610. oct with other things which I have not yet seen the titles of which you may see in Joh. Pitseus who tells us that he died in Ireland about 1580. yet Edw. Rishton who was his contemporary and knew him well saith in the preface to the first edition of the book De orig progressu schism printed at Col. Agrip. 1585 that he died in Ireland in the County of Kerrey in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 So that how it comes to pass that Camden should say that he died in 1583 I cannot justly tell unless his information was that he died at that instant of â—â—me as is before said when the E. of Desmond was killed which was 1583 as he saith The reader must now know that whereas
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
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
the citation of Katherine the Q. Dowager to appear at Dunstable six miles distant from Ampthill when she was divorced and the marriage declared to be void and of no effect He also burnt W. Tyndales translation of the Bible was a disputer with Joh. Lambert alias Nicholls and boasted as R. Holinshed tells us that he had burned fifty Hereticks meaning Protestants and as Dr. Humphrey saith that he had sacrificed to the god of hell above three hundred WALTER WELLESLEY commonly called Wesley was bred up a Canon Regular of the Order of S. Austin and among them in Oxon was he educated for a time Afterwards he became Prior of those Canons of his Order living at Conal in the County of Kildare in Ireland and Master of the Rolls in that Kingdom At length upon the desire of K. Hen. 8. made to P. Clem. 7. he became Bishop of Kildare in 1531. and dying in fifteen hundred thirty and nine was buried in the said Monastery of Conal the Priorship of which he kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick WILLIAM MORE had part of his education among the Oxonians but more in another University was afterwards Vicar of Walden in Essex and Suffragan Bishop of Colchester In 1537. he was made Prebendary of Gevendale in the Church of York but resigned it the year after and on 14. Sept. 1539. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester in the room of Edm. Bonner promoted to the See of Hereford He died in the Summer-time in fifteen hundred and forty year 1540 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry in the beginning of March following by Tho. Robertson One Will. More was Lord Prior of Worcester which honourable place he resigned in 1535. but was not the same with him who was Bishop THOMAS SPARKE a Benedictine Monk of Durham spent some time in study in Durham coll in this University took the degree of Bac. of Div. in 1528. being about that time Prior of a certain Cell In 1536. he was nominated and made Suffragan to the Bishop of Durham under the title of the Suffragan Seat of Barwick which is the utmost Town in England towards Scotland See more of him in the Fasti an 1528. THOMAS CHARD or Cherd a Devonian born as it seems was bred a Benedictine Monk and among those was he educated for a time in Oxon but what degrees he took it appears not Afterwards retiring into his own Country he was made Suffragan to Oldham Bishop of Exeter under the title of Bishop of Salubric and by that title do I find him collated to the Vicaridge of Wellyngton in Somersetshire on the resignation of Rich. Gilbert Doct. of Decrees in the month of June 1512. Three years after or thereabouts he had the Priorship of Mountacute of the Benedictine alias Cluniack Order in the said County confer'd upon him on the death as it seems of Joh. Water and in Aug. 1521. he was admitted to the Church of Tyntenhull in the Dioc. of Wells all little enough god-wot to support his honourable dignity By his last Will and Test made 1. Oct. 1541. and proved 4. Nov. 1544. he became a benefactor to the Church of S. Mary Otery in Devon to the Churches of S. Mary Magd. in Taunton at Wellyngton Holberton c. in Somersetshire See another Thom. Chard in the Fasti under the year 1507. EDWARD LEE sometimes of S. Mary Magd. coll was installed Arch. of York on the eleventh of Dec. 1531. year 1544 and died in fifteen hundred forty and four under which year you may see more of him among the Writers In the said See of York succeeded a very worldly person named Rob. Halgate or Holgate D. D. ejected thence when Q. Mary came to the Crown for being as 't is said a married man By his last Will and Test dated 27. Apr. 1555. and proved 4. Dec. 1556. he bequeathed his body to be buried in that Parish wherein he should happen to die but what Parish that is I cannot yet tell ANDREW WHITMAYE a Glocestershire man born as it seems but whether he was of any Order appears not was made Bishop of Crysopolitan and Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester in the time of K. Hen. 8. but the particular year I cannot yet find He gave way to fate in the Dioc. year 1547 of Gloucester in fifteen hundred forty and six or thereabouts leaving then behind him a brother named John Whitmaye Vicar of Minsterworth in Gloucestershire JOHN LONGLAND sometimes Fellow of Magdalen college afterwards Principal of the hall joyning thereunto was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in May 1521. and died in May in fifteen hundred forty and seven year 1547 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Linc. succeeded one Dr. Hen. Holbech alias Rands written sometimes Hen. Randes of Holbech in Lancolnshire educated in Cambridge made the last Lord Prior of Worcester on the resignation of Will. More an 1535. consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Bristow for Latymer B. of Worcester 24. March 1537. constituted the first Dean of Worcester 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1541. translated from Bristow to Rochester in June 1544. and thence to Lincoln before-mentioned in 1547. He concluded his last day after the 2. Aug. in 1551. and was buried as I suppose in his own Church at Linc. leaving then behind him a Son named Thomas WILLIAM KNIGHT was a Londoner born educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation in 1493. but leaving that place two years after he went to the Royal Court where his parts and industry being soon known was made Secretary to King Hen. 7. and 8. The last of which sending him on an Embassie to Maximilian the Emperour found so much favour from him that besides the great gifts received from his Treasury he had by Letters Pat. dated 14. Jul. 1514. a Coat of Arms granted to him as a farther token of reward for his many services done for the English King in exposing his life to danger wearing it out in continual labours for him and ready for the future to do the like if occasion should require c. The Arms granted to him by the name and title of Will. Knyght Prothonatary of the Apostolical Seat and Embassador from K. Hen. 8. to Maximilian the Emp. are these Parted per fess or and gules an Eagle with two heads displayed sable having on its breast a demi-rose and a demi-sun conjoyned into one counterchanged of the Feild Which Arms are at this day remaining in one of the south windows of the common Refectory of New coll In the beginning of the year 1523. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the resignation of Rich Rawlins promoted to the See of S. David and in the beginning of Dec. 1529. he being then or about that time Prebendary of the fifth Prebendship of the Kings Chappel of S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster and newly returned
painfully in the labours of the Camp following the wars in Hungary in France Ireland and the Low Countries where he left many notable proofs of his valour and wisdom being strenuus miles and prudens imperator In Aug. this year he was made L. Deputy of Ireland which place he executed with great valour and wisdom for 3 years Afterwards he was made Lord Russel of Thornhaw in Bucks and dying in Sept. was buried 16. of the same month at Thornhaw an 1613. An. Dom. 1595. An. 37 Elizab. An. 38 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Thom. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. Dr. Liâ—ye again by virtue of the Chancellors former letters Proct. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. Will. Pritchard of Ch. Ch. Apr. ult Bach. of Mus Jul. 11. Franc. Pilkington of Linc. Coll. Some of his compositions I have seen and I think some are extant He was Father or at least near of kin to Tho. Pilkington one of the Musicians belonging sometimes to Qu. Henrietta Maria who being a most excellent Artist his memory was celebrated by many Persons particularly by Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet who hath written his funeral Elegy and his Epitaph The said Tho. Pilkington died at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire aged 35 and was buried there in the times of rebellion or usurpation Feb… Richard Nicholson Organist of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards the first publick professor of the Musical Praxis in this University and was Author of several Madrigales one or more of which you may see in The Triumphs of Oriana mention'd before in Thom. Morley and died in 1639. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Tho. James Tho. Lydyat of New Coll. Jul. 2. Dudley Carleton of Ch. Ch. 5. Joh. Rawlinson of St. Johns Dec. 16. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 22. Hen. Mason of Brasn Coll. afterwards of C. C. Feb. 3. Rob. Fludd or de Fluctibus of St. Johns Coll. Afterwards an eminent Rosacrusian 13. Gabriel Powell of Jesus Coll. 14. Will. Cheek of Magd. hall 16. Joh. Eaton of Trin. Rich. Moket of Brasnose afterwards of Allsouls Will. Chibald or Chiball of Magd. Coll. 19 Edw. Chetwind Rich. Carpenter of Ex. Coll. Mar. 6. Joh. Sprint of Ch. Ch. Theodore Goulson was admitted this year but neglected to be registred As for Lydyat Lloyd Mason and Eaton there will be mention made of them in the 2. vol. Adm. 128. Mast of Arts. May 3. Arthur Lake of New 27. Joh. Sanford of Magd. Coll. Jun. 30. Hen. Savile Rich. Deane of St. Alb. hall Jul. 7. Joh. Ravens of Qu. Coll. In 1607 he became Subdean of Wells and Prebendary of Bishops Compton in that Church 9. Pet. Smart of Ch. Ch. George Ferebe of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Minister of Bishops Cannings in Wilts one of the Chaplains to K. Jam. 1. and Author of Lifes farewell Sermon at St. Johns in the Devises in Wilts 30. Aug. 1614 at the funeral of John Drew Gent. on 2. Sam. ch 14. ver 14. Lond. 1615. qu. This Person who was a Glocestershire Man born and well skill'd in Musick did instruct divers young Men of his Parish in that faculty till they could either play or sing their parts In the year 1613 Qu. Anne the royal Consort of K. Jam. 1. made her abode for some weeks within the City of Bathe purposely for the use of the waters there In which time he composed a song of four parts and instructed his Scholars to sing it very perfectly as also to play a lesson or two which he had composed on their wind-instruments On the eleventh of June the same year the Queen in her return from Bathe did intend to pass over the Downes at Wensdyke within the Parish of Bishops-Cannings Of which Ferebe having timely notice he dressed himself in the habit of an old Bard and caused his Scholars whom he had instructed to be cloathed in Shepherds weeds The Queen having received notice of these People she with her retinue made a stand at Wensdyke whereupon these Musicians drawing up to her played a most admirable lesson on their wind-instruments Which being done they sang their lesson of four parts with double voices the beginning of which was this Shine O thou sacred Shepherds Star On silly Shepherd swaynes c. Which being well performed also the Bard concluded with an Epilogue to the great liking and content of the Queen and her company Afterwards he was sworn Chaplain to his Majesty and was ever after much valued for his ingenuity Oct. 31. Rich. Haydock of New Feb. 5. Thom. Floyd of Jesus Coll. Adm. 51. Bach. of Div. Jan. 20. James Bisse of Magd. Coll. Besides him were only four more admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop c. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Oct. 10. Thom. Ravis of Ch. Ch. Nov. 6. Hen. Caesar alias Athelmare or Adelmare lately of Ball. Coll. where to this day are certain Lodgings called from him Caesars Lodgings now of St. Edm. hall was then admitted or licensed to proceed This worthy Doctor who was the third Son Sir Julius Caesar being the first and Sir Thomas one of the Barons of the Exchecquer the second of Caesar Dalmarius a Doctor of Physick became Preb. of Westminster in the stall of Dr. Rich. Wood in the month of Sept. 1609 and Dean of Ely in the place of Humphrey Tindall deceased an 1614. where dying 27. June 1636. aged 72 was buried on the North side of the Presbytery of the Cath. Church there He gave to Jesus Coll. in Cambridge two Fellowship of 12 l. per an apiece and five Scholarships of 5 l. per. an conditionally that the Fellows and Scholars be elected from the Kings Free-school at Ely c. Nov. 10. Rog. Hacket Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. Jan. 20. James Bisse of Magd. Ralph Ravens of St. Johns Coll. The first of these two accumulated 30. Francis Godwin of Ch. Ch. Joh. Baber of Linc. Feb. 14. Henry Parry of C. C. Coll. Incorporations Jul. 15. Rich. Stock M. A. of Cambr. He was born in the City of York educated in St. Johns Coll. in Cambr. was afterwards Minister of Alhallows in Breadstreet in London for the space of about 32 years a constant judicious and religious Preacher a zealous Puritan and a reformer of profanations on the Lords day He hath written and published several things among which are 1 Doctrin and use of repentance to be practised by all Lond. 1610. oct 2 Sermon at the funeral of John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton c. at Exton in Rutlandsh on the last of March 1614. on Micah 2. ver 1. 2. Lond. 1614. oct 3 Commentary on the Prophesie of Malachy Lond. 1641. fol. Sam. Torshell is esteem'd the half Authour of it 4 Stock of divine knowledge c. Lond. 1641. qu. 5 Truths Champion c. He gave way to fate 20. Apr. 1626 and was buried in the Church of Allhallows before mention'd Hen. Withers D. of D. of Cambr.
Chappel Oxon where is a large Epitaph over his grave Edw. Ratcliff Doct. of Phys of Cambr. was incorporated the same day 15. Rob. Williamson Richard Neile D. D. of the same University The last of these two Doctors of Div. was one who passed through all Degrees and Orders in the Church of England and thereby made acquainted with the conveniences and distresses incident to all conditions He served the Church as Schoolmaster Curate Vicar Parson Master of the Savoy Dean of Westminster in the place of Lanc. Andrews promoted to the See of Chichester in which Dignity he was install'd 5. Nov. 1605. Clerk of the Closet to both Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. successively Bishop of Rochester 1608 with which he kept his Deanery in Commendam Lichfield and Cov. two years after Lincolne 1613 Durham 1617. Winchester 1628 and lastly in 1631 Archbishop of York in which honor he died 31. Oct. 1640 being but three days before the Long Parliament began and was buried in St. Peters Church in Westminsteâ— He was born of honest Parents in Kingstreet in the City of Westminster his Father being a Tallow Chandler and educated in the College School there whence being elected into St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge made great proficiency in Academical learning Afterwards entring into Orders he became after some petite employments Chaplain to Sir Will. Cecill L. Burghley and to Rob. his Son afterwards Earl of Salisbury who put him into the road of prefement Many good offices he had done to the Church and Church-men in his attendance at the Court crossing the Scots in most of their suites for Ecclesiastical preferments which greedily and ambitiously they hunted after whereby he drew on himself the general hatred not only of the Scots but scotizing English He died as full of years as he was of honours an affectionate Subject to his Prince an indulgent Father to his Clergy a bountiful Patron to his Chaplains and a true friend to all who râ—lâ—ed upon him These things tho generally known yet inveterate Prynne spares not to call him a Popish and Armiâ—ian Prelate a persecutor of all Orthodox and Godly Ministers a preferrer of popish Arminian Clergy men with a great deal of such stuff not here to be mentioned He is supposed to be Author of a book intit Spalato's shiftings in Religion written against Marc. Ant. de Dominis Archb. of Spalato and of other matters Quâ—re Jul. 16. Randolph Baâ—low M. of A. of Cambridge I take him to be the same with Ranulph Barlow Master of Arts of Pembroke hall in that University afterwards Doct. of Divinity Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Mich. Renniger deceased 1609. and Archb. of Tuam in Ireland 1629. Rich. Senhouse M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day He was the Son of Rich. Senhouse of Alnborough hall in Cumberland was Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in the said University installed Dean of Glocester in the place of Dr. Laud promoted to the See of St. David 13. Dec. 1621 and shortly after became Bishop of Carlile He died in the beginning of the year 1626. 2. Car. 1 leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Preacher Theophilus Field M. A. of the same University was also incorporated with Senhouse He was Son of John Field mentioned among the Writers under the year 1587 was educated in Pemb. hall consecrated Bishop of Landaff 10. Oct. 1619 and thence was translated to Hereford and soon after died He hath written A Christian preparation to the Lords Supper printed 1624. in oct besides several Sermons and other things Rob. Newell M. A. of the same Univers was also then incorporated with Senhouse This Person who was half Brother to Dr. Rich. Neile beforemention'd became Archd. of Buckingham in the beginning of the year 1614 Prebendary of the ninth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter at Westminster in the place of one Cuthb Bellot an 1620 and was afterwards or about the same time Treasurer of Chichester Canon of Lichfield Subdean of Linc. and Preb. of Durham He died at Winchester I think in 1643 and was succeeded in his Prebendship of Westminster by Gilb. Wimberley D. D. and in his Archdeaconry by Giles Thorne D. D. but who in his other Dignitaries I cannot yet tell At the same time was incorporated M. of A. one John Owen whom I take to be the same with John Owen who was bred in Jesus Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph Besides the said four Masters of Arts who were incorporated 16. July were incorporated one and twenty more This year also was incorporated Joh. Hone Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge but the month or day when appears not neither for John Cowell Dr. of the same faculty for whom there was a supplicate made which being granted simpliciter there 's no doubt but that he was incorporated Of him I desire the reader to know that he was a Devonian born was elected from Eaton School to be Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1570. and was made Proctor of the said University an 1586. Afterwards he became Master of Trinity hall there the Kings Professor of the Civil Law Vicechancellour Doctor as 't is said of the Arches and Vicar-general to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury His writings are 1 Institutiones juris Anglicani ad methodum institutionum Justiniani compositae Cantab. 1605. oct c. 2 The Interpreter or book containing the signification of words c. Cambr. 1607. qu. c. afterwards printed in fol. But several passages therein relating to the Kings Prerogative giving offence because in some cases he saith it is limited the said book was called in and on the 26. March 1610. there was published an edict against it This being the reason as most Scholars think I cannot be of the same opinion with one no friend to the memory of King Jam. 1. who tells us that in the said Interpreter 't is said that that King took not the usual Oath all Kings are bound unto at their coronation c. One John Cowell or Covell LL. D. became Prebendary of Timbrescombe in the Church of Wells upon the deprivation of Joh. Faber an 1554. temp Mariae 1. but what relation there was between him and the former I know not An. Dom. 1601. An. 43 Elizab. An. 44 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Thom. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. George Râ—ves D. D. Warden of New Coll. Jul. 17. Proct. George Benson of Qu. Coll. Gerard Massey of Brasn Coll. Apr. 22. The junior was afterwards nominated Bishop of Chester 〈◊〉 died before consecration Bach. of Arts. Jul. 1. Dudley Digges of Vnivers Coll. He was afterwards Master of the Rolls 6. John Ferebe or Ferriby of Magd. hall See among the Masters 1606. 10. Dan. Price of Exet. Coll. Oct. 23. Nathan Canon of St. Maries hall Nov. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Jan. 26. Francis Windebank of St. Johns Coll. He was the eldest Son of
antient copies particularly with a MS. in Vniversity Coll. Library entit Octoteuchus two Greek MSS. translated into Arabick in the Bodlcian Library and an antient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton but lost in the hands of a French Man to whom it was lent the said Pat. Young did promise to publish with notes added thereto and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers and no farther if Dr. Br. Walton saith right The effect of this undertaking being much expected and desired by learned Men especially beyond the Seas certain Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to have the business encouraged Whereupon in the latter end of the year 1645 they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it but what hindred them in going on with the work I find not In 1649 P. Young who had sided with the Presbyterians left his place of Library keeper to the King the books there being mostly embezell'd whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in Essex where I think he died an 1652 for in Sept. that year his next relation administer'd Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed Youngs notes and annotations with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from Youngs edition and Latine translation with some short running notes added thereunto Oxon. 1669. in tw In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum in qu. written by Gilb. 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
other things as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you See more of him in Tho. Wilcocks among the writers an 1599. George Stanhop John Partenton D. D. As for the other Persons of Cambridge who were incorporated on the said day July 10 I know no great matter of them and therefore I shall proceed to speak of others who were afterwards incorporated July 11. John Thorie Thorius or Thoris Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Dublin He was Son of Ralph Thorius a Physician and had formerly been Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. Rich. Hawley Doct. of Phys of Leyden in Holland was incorporated the same day He was now or lately Fellow of Merton College Octob. 25. Francis Glisson M. of A. of Gâ—nvil and Caies Coll. in Cambridge This learned Gentleman who was second Son of William Glisson of Rampisham in Dorsetshire and he the second Son of Walt. Glisson of the City of Bristow was afterwards Doct. of Physick the Kings publick Professor of that faculty in the said University Candidate of the Coll. of Physicians at London an 1634 Fellow the year after Anatomy reader in the said Coll. 1639 practised Physick at Colchester during the time of the rebellion where he was present when the generous Royalists of Kent were besieged 1648. and after In 1655 he was chosen one of the Elects of the said College and afterwards was President thereof for several years He hath written 1 Prolegomena Anatomica 2 Anatomia Hepatis 3 Do Lymphae-ductibas All which were several times printed and once at Amsterdam 1659. in tw 4 De natura substantiae energetica sewde via vitae c. Lond 1672. qu. 5 Deventriculo intestinis c. Lond. 1677. qu. and was one of the three Geo Bate and 〈◊〉 Regemâ—rter being the other two who wrot De Rachitide sive morbo puerili qui vulgo the Rickets dicitur Lond. 1650. oct The discovery also of the Capsula communis or Vagina Portae is owing to him who hath likewise given us certain notes for the more easie distinguishing of the Vena cava Porta and Vasa fellea in excarnating the Liver Further also he hath given such an excellent account of Sanguification discharging the Liver from that office and proved it by so good arguments and clear experiments that few have since doubted the truth thereof This worthy Doctor to whose learned Lucubrations and deep disquisitions in Physick not only Great Britain but remoter Kingdoms owe a particular respect and veneration died much lamented in the Parish of S. Bride alias S. Bridget in London in Oct. or Nov. 1677. Dec. 15. Edward Lake lately Bach. of Arts of Catherine Hall in Cambridge was incorporated in the same degree On the 24 Jan. following he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law as a Member of S. Albans Hall This year was a supplicate made for one Hen. Jacie M. of A. to be incorporated but whether he was so or not I cannot find I take him to be the same with Henry Jessie alias Jacie a Preachers Son who was born at West Rowton in the north Riding of Yorkshire 3 Sept. 1601 and who in 1618 became Pensioner of S. Joh. Coll. in the said University Whence after he had taken one degree in Arts he was invited to live in the house of Brampton Gourdon of Assington in Suffolk Gent. Father to Joh. Gourdon a Burgess in the Long Parliament that began 1640 nominated one of the Judges to sit on K. Ch. 1. but was not present when Sentence was passed and to two others of that name who were Recruiters in that Parliament In which house being setled he studied Physick as well as Divinity After he had commenced M. of A. which was in 1626 he preached privately in the Neighbourhood and distributed practical Books among the Brethren Afterwards he removed to several places but was not permitted to tarry long in any because he was zealously averse to Conformity At length in 1645 he repaired to London where he joyned himself to the Congregation of which Mr. Hen. Jacob and Mr. Joh. Lathorp had been Pastors where he continued 25 years not without several disturbances especially before the grand Rebellion broke out He hath written 1 A catechism for Children The Answers in which were wholly in the words of the Scripture 2 The Scripture-Kalendar in use by the Prophets and Apostles and by our Lord Jesus Christ explaining the Accounts Measures c. This was first printed in 1645 and afterwards came out with several Additions to the time of his Majesties Restauration 1660 and perhaps after 3 The exceeding riches of grace advanced in the conversion of Mrs. Sarah Wight Lond. 1647. oct 4 Store-house of provision for resolving cases of conscience c. Lond. 1650 in tw 5 Description and explanation of 268 places in Jerusalem and the suburbs thereof with a large map printed 1653 qu. 6 The lords loud call to England being a true relation of some late various and wonderful Judgments or handy-works of God by Earthquake Lightning c. Lond. 1660. in six sheets in qu. This Book begins with certain matters relating to Oxon which being very false the Reader cannot otherwise but judge the rest so to be In 1661 came out an imposture of a most damnable design called Mirabilis annus or the year of prodigies and wonders c. and in 1662 the first and second part of Annus mirabilis secundus and probably other parts but such I have not yet seen When these came out which were advanced by several hands it was verily supposed that Henry Jessie had a principal share in them 7 Miscellanea sacra divers necessary truths seasonably published c. printed 1665 in oct 8 A looking-glass for children being a narrative of Gods gracious dealings with some little children Lond. 1674 oct He hath also written a Pref. or commendatory Epistle before Joh. Grayles Modest vindication of the doctrine of conditions in the covenant of Grace c. and other little things besides his own Experiences which I have not yet seen At length paying his last debt to nature 4 Sept. 1663 being then accounted the Oracle and Idol of the faction was on the 7 of the same month laid to sleep with his Fathers in a hole made in the Yard joyning to Old Bedlam near Morefields in the Suburbs of London attended with a strange medley of Fanaticks mostly Anabaptists that met upon the very point of time all at the same instant to do honour to their departed Brother Some years after came out a short account of his life and death c. but full of ridiculous and absurd Cantings to which is annex'd An Elegy on Mr. Will. Bridge Which Bridge had been sometimes Fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards a Presbyterian one of the Ass of Divines and the independent Minister of Yarmouth in Norfolk He died a Nonconformist in 1670. See more of Hen. Jessie in Jos Caryl in the other Vol. of this work Creations May 25. Robert Lord Dormer
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.
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Generalissimo of the Imperial Armies render'd into English from the Copy lately printed at Vienna written by a Person of Quality and a great Officer in the Imperial Army The Morals of Confucius a Chinese Philosopher who flourished above Five hundred years before the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being one of the most choicest pieces of learning remaining of that Nation The art of practical measuring easily performed by a two foot Rule which slides to a foot on which is the best measure of round Timber the common way also the true measure of round square or other Timber or Stone Boards Glass paving Painting Wainscot c. Gauging of Casks and Gauging and Inching of Tuns containing brief instructions in Decimal Arithmetick the best way of using the Logarithms according to Mr. Townley the use of a new Diagonal Scale of a 100 parts in a quarter of an Inch applyed to Gunters Chain and lastly some useful directions in Dialling not hitherto published by Henry Coggeshall Gent. An account of the proceedings of the Right Reverend Father in God Jonathan Lord Bishop of Exeter in his late Visitation of Exeter College in Oxford the Second Edition to which is added the censure of the University of Oxford upon the Naked Gospel A defence of the proceedings of the Right Reverend the Visitor and Fellows of Exeter College in Oxford with an answer to 1. the Case of Exeter College related and vindicated 2. The account examined The reason of Mr. Bayes changing his Religion considered in a Dialogue in three parts The second part of Mr. Wallers Poems containing his alteration of the Maids Tragedy and whatever of his is yet unprinted together with some other Poems Speeches c. that were printed severally and never put into the first Collection of his Poems A Vindication of Mr. James Colmer Bachelor of Physick and Fellow of Exeter College in Oxford from the calumnies of three late Pamphlets 1st A Paper published by Dr. Bury 1689. 2. The account examined 3. The Case of Exeter College related and vindicated to which are annex'd the Authentick Copies of the Affidavits relating to that affair A discourse sent to the late King James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion by Dr. Sam. Parker late Lord Bishop of Oxford to which are prefix'd 2 Letters the first from Sir Leolin Jenkins on the same subject the 2. from the said Bishop with the discourse all printed from the original Manuscript Papers TABLE or INDEX TO Athenae and Fasti Oxonienses A. ABbot Edw. pag. 792. 901. George 333. 500. 511.629 Maurice 527. Rob. 365. 366. 415. 499. 621. 800. 801. Abel Tho. 47 Abington or Habington Edw. Tho. 735. 88 Abâ—e Franc. 691 Abulines Jo. 702. 706 Ackworth Geo 726 Aâ—â—osd Rog. 835 Adams Bern. 625 Aglionby or Eglionby Jo. 303. Edw. 726 Airay Hen. 341. 481. See Ayray Akers Jo 678 Alabaster Will. 233. 768 Alan see Allen. Alaskie or Laskie Alb. 244. 313. 492 Alberti Geo. 872 Alcock Tho. 654 Alexander Franc. 809 Aldem Mardoc 734. 821 Alderne Edw. 893 Aldridge or Aldrich Rob. 22. 79. 80. 583. 679. 680. Tho. 725 Algre Gasp 849 Allen Jo. 31 Allen Tho. 86. 397. 514. 413. 420. 420. 459. 466. 492. 493. 572. Will. 169. 234. 235. 236. 237. 616 Alley Will. 127. 598. Rog. 127 Allibond Pet. 448. 900. Rich. 448 Allyn see Allen. Allysbury Will. 685 Alâ—wyck Will. 556 Alsop Bern. 34 Alston Edw. 853 Alâ—on Andr. 685 Alvey Rich. 262. 725 Amama Sext. 449 Ambrose Luke 338 Ammonius Andr. 14. 137. 641. 563 Amner Joh. 815 Anderson Edm. 281. 369 Anderton Laur. 498. 480 Andrews Jo. 470. Lanc. 476. 538. 751. 765. 783. Nich. 853. Rich. 802 Angelus Chr. 526 Anthony Franc. 428. Jo. ib. Char. ib. Antoninus and his Itin. 87 Antonius Nich. 56 Anwykyll Jo. 16 Anyan Th. 810 Apsland Will. 720 Aquepontanus Jo. See Bridgwater Arche Rich. 138. 682. 690 Archer Sim. 504. Rich. 690 Arden Will. 662 Aretius Jac. 817 Argall Jo. 284. Rich. ibid. Aris Jo. 867 Arnold Will. 659 Arthur Malac. 657 Arundell Jo. 75. 76. 552 Ascham Rog. 695 Ash Sim. 543 Ashbrook 729 Ashdowne Jo. 643. 644 Ashley Ant. 769 Ashmole 16. 114 Ashton Hugh 673. 645 Ashworth Hen. 795 Aâ—kew Aeg. 282 Asser Men. 356. 412 Astley Rich. 369 Aston Hug. 645. Rog. 796 Ascough Will. 638 Atey Arth. 721 Athequa Geo. 560 Atherto Jo. 632 Atkyns Th. 709. Jo. 827 Atkinson Rich. 710. Tho. 758. b. alias 760. 867. 868 Atslow Edw. 727 Atwater Will. 58. 562 Aubertus Ant. 894 Audley Edm. 566. Rob. 636. 700 Aukland Jo. 651 Austin Sam. 472 Awbrey Will. 702. 710. 777 Awood or à Wood Rich. 433. Tho. 793 Aylesbury Th. 853 Aylisbury Th. 390. 391. 493. 792 Aylmer or Elmer Jo. 681. 690. 726. 736. 756. b. alias 758. Theoph. 223 Aylworth Ant. 752 Ayray Mart. 267 B. BAber Franc. 860 Babington Brute 745. Franc. 717. 719. Gerv. 498. 745. 602. Zach. 780 Babthorpe Rob. 658 Bachler or Bachiler Joh. 900 Bacon Fr. 452. 534. Nich. 139. 769 Baconthorp Jo. 295 Bailye Rich. 537 Baggard Tho. 677. 705 Bagnall Rob. 767 Bagnold Rob. 767 Bagshaw Edw. 480. 804. Christ 426 Bagwell Hen. 679 Bainbridge Chr. 556. 557. 564. 568 Baker Aug. 515. Geo. 632. Joh. 36. 77. Rich. 531. Sam. 845 Balborow Will. 650 Baldwin Franc. 174. Will. 113 Bale Jo. 60. 61. 67. 68. 70. 94. 99. 125. 174. 493. 345 Bale Rob. 4 Bâ—les Pet. 249 Baley Walt. 224. 225 Balgay Nich. 262. 758. b. alias 760 Ball Hen. 772. Joh. 542. 543. 655. Tho. 861 Ballard Phil. 638. 691 Balsam Scip. 775 Bancroft Rich. 632. 723. 751. 801 Joh. 632. 633 Banger Rich. 660 Banks Jo. 507. Tho. 737. Hen. 814 Banister
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
continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
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
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
sent forth for his welfare and blessed proceedings in the Reformation then in hand This great Person who was also Duke of Somerset died on Tower-hill near London by the stroke of the ax 22. January in Fifteen hundred fifty and two which was the sixth Year of K. Ed. 6. but where he was buried I cannot yet tell NICHOLAS UDALL whom Leland stiles Odovallus was born in Hampshire and descended from those of his name living sometimes at Wykeham in the said County was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in June 1520. aged 15 or more Probationer Fellow in Sept. 1524. being then Bach. of Arts and two Years after supplicated for the Degree of Master but took it not at that time being as 't is probable denied because he was much addicted to the opinions of Luther Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of Eaton School near Windsor and proceeded in Arts 1534 but in 1540-41 had like to have lost that place as being suspected to be conscious to a robbery committed by two Scholars of his School who having stole images plate and other matters belonging to the College of Eaton were with Udall examined by His Majesties Council in the beginning of March that Year What became of the matter I know not sure 't is that our Author Udall was made Canon of Windsor in the beginning of Edw. 6. and is stiled by a certain Author to be Elegantissimus omnium bonarum literarum magister earum felicissimus interpres He hath written Flowers for Latin speaking selected and gathered out of Terence and the same translated into English together with the exposition c. newly corrected When this was first Printed I cannot tell That Edit which I have seen was Printed at Lond. 1568. in oct Which Book being esteemed good in its time and very useful for young Scholars Joh. Leland and Tho. Newton wrot Verses in commendation of it not only set before the Book but Printed in their respective Encomia's c. Commentary on the Apothegms of Erasmus Epistolae Carmina ad Gul. Hormannum Joh. Lelandum Comedies Epistles and divers Verses He also translated into English at the request of Qu. Cather Parr 1 Paraphrase on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles Lond. 1551. fol. written by Erasmus 2 Pet. Martyrs Treatise wherein he openly in the Univ. of Oxon. declared his whole and determinate judgment concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. in qu. and 3ly The Tragedy of Popery and other things as Bale will tell you When this our Author Udall died I know not nor any thing else of him only that his Memory is celebrated by polite Verses written by Joh. Leland Joh. Parkhurst and Tho. Newton of Chestire to which I refer to the Reader I have seen the Copy of a commission granted in the beginning of the Year 1572 to one Catherine Yerbury otherwise Udall Daugh. of Nich. Udall of Fenne in Somersetshire giving her power to administer the goods debts and chattels of him the said Nich. Udall lately deceased Whether this Nic. Udall be the same with him that was the Writer the Reader is to judge RALPH RADCLIFF was born of and descended from an ancient Family of his name in Cheshire received part of his Academical Education in this University particularly as I conceive in Brasenose Coll. about the time of its first foundation but whether he took a Degree it appears not The genie of this Person being strangely addicted to the instruction of Youth he obtained part of the Carme's House at Huchin or Hitchin in Hertfordshire an 1538. being about that time dissolved wherein he not only opened a School but framed out a lower room into a Stage for his Scholars to act Latin and English Comedies to the end that they might be emboldened for speaking and pronuntiation Which practice being used by them several Years his School was in great renown he grew rich and was had in much veneration in the neighbourhood He had many Tragedies Comedies Epistles Orations c. laying by him in the time of K. Ed. 6. which as he would often tell his Friends he would never publish till they had remained by him 9 Years And whether they were ever published I cannot yet learn The titles of some of his labours were these Dives and Lazarus a Comedy Patient Greseld Com. Friendship of Titus and Gisippus Com. Chaucers Melibie Com. Job's afflictions Trag. Delivery of Susanna from the Elders The burning of Sodom Pugna nominis verbi De pueroum institutione Epistolae ad Tyrones Epigrammata c. With other things which may be seen in Baleus who further tells us that he was in great renown at Huchin in Fifteen hundred fifty and three He lived several Years after died and was buried there but when I cannot yet learn One or more of his descendants for he was married and had issue were Knights particularly Sir Edw. Radcliff of Hitchin living in the time of K. James 1. JOHN RHESE or ap Rise or Prise or Priseus so many ways I find him written by Authors was born of a gentile and ancient Family in Wales but in what County is yet uncertain or in what House in Oxon educated unless in the ancient hostle called Broadgates now Pembroke Coll. wherein several of both his names and time have studied Among them was John Prise Bac. of the Civil Law who in the Year 1530. supplicated for the Degree of Bac. of Can. Law and two Years after John ap Rice a secular Chaplain was admitted to the same Degree which probably may be the same with Joh. Price Bach. of the Civil Law Farther also I find that in 1523. one John Prise of Allsouls Coll. was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law and that he died 1554 And in 1534. occurs another Joh. Price of Broadgates Hall I think who was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law without any title added to it which perhaps may be the Author that I am further to mention who being encouraged in his studies by William Earl of Pembroke made great advances therein especially as to the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country In 1546. March 2. he with many others received the honor of Knighthood from the hands of Edward Lord Protector of England About which time our Author observing the great and manifold errors which were made by Pol. Virgil in his Historiae Anglicae Libri 27 wherein many things redounded to the dishonor of the British Nation he thereupon published Fides Historiae Britannicae Defensio Regis Arthuri And wrot about the Year 1553. 1. Mar. a Book intit Historiae Britannicae defensio But the Author dying before he could have it published was at length in the Year 1573. put out in qu. under the name of Joh. Priseus by his Son Rich. Prise D. D. He the said Sir John did also write A description of Cambria now called Wales Augmented and made perfect by Humph. Lloyd and
Articles according to the order of the Creed of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct 1584. qu. Annexed to John Baker's Lectures on the Creed These 100 Articles were before Printed viz. an 1550. in oct Declaration of the 10 holy Commandments of Almighty God Lond. 1550. and 88. oct With other things which I have not yet seen the trite or slender titles of which you may see in Baleus He also translated from Lat. into English Turtullians second Book to his Wife concerning the choice of a Husband or Wife Lond. 1550. oct and perhaps other things At length he suffered death in the flames near to the College of Priests in the City of Glocester on Saturday the ninth of Febr. in Fifteen hundred fifty and four 1. and 2. of Philip and Mary being then near sixty Years of Age and much lamented by those that pretended to Reformation EDWARD WOTTON Son of Rich. Wotton superior Beadle of Divinity of this University of Oxon by Margaret his Wife was born within the City of Oxon. particularly as I conceive in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin wherein his Father lived and had Houses in Cat-street After he had been educated in the Grammar School joining to Magd. Coll. he was first made Semicommoner or Demie of that House and after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was 1513. he was as I conceive made Fellow At length upon the desire of John Claymond and Rob. Morwent who knew the singular virtues and learning of the Person he left that Coll. and by the favour of that most worthy Person Bishop Fox Founder of that of Corp. Christi was made socius compar thereof with leave to travel into Italy for three Years an 1520. So that after he had read the Greek Lecture there for some time he journied into Italy studied Physick and took the Degree of Doctor in that faculty at Padöua After his return he was settled Greek Reader of his Coll. was incorporated in the same Degree in the latter end of 1525 was made Physician to K. Hen. 8. and not only became famous for his happy practice in that faculty in these parts and afterwards in London for he was one of the College of Physicians there but also for his great knowledge in Philosophy and things natural He hath transmitted to posterity De differentiis Animalium lib. 10. Par. 1552. fol. By the publishing of which he obtained a famous name among learned Men especially with Mich. Neander who saith that no Author hath written of Animals more learned and elegant than Wottonus See more in Thom Mouffet under the Year 1590. What other things the said Wotton hath published I know not nor anything else of him or his only 1 That he dying 5. Octob. year 1555 in Fifteen hundred fifty and five in the climacterical Year of his Age 63 was buried in St. Albans Church in Woodstreet in the City of London 2 That Catherine his Widow dying 4 Dec. 1558. was buried by him and both had a stone with an inscription thereon laid over their Graves But that part of it which remained an 100 Years after was totally consumed in the grand conflagration of London an 1666. 3 That he is much celebrated by the Antiquarian Poet John Leland under the name of Eadverdus Ododunus 4 That among the Children he left behind him for he had a numerous issue Brian Wotton LL. Bach. and Fellow of New Coll. was one who bequeathed his Body to be buried in the yard belonging to St. Albans Church before-mention'd Another was called Hen. Wotton first a Student of Ch. Ch. and afterwards Proctor of the University Greek Reader and Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. who proceeding in the faculty of Physick an 1567. became afterwards famous for the practice thereof NICHOLAS RYDLEY was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Willymondswyke in Northumberland educated in Grammatical Learning at Newcastle upon Tyne in Academical at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he was elected into one of Walt. Skyrlaw's Fellowship of University Coll. 13. Apr. 1521. Which place he keeping but a little while and therefore the Members of that House can hardly lay claim to him he returned to Cambridge where he became D. of D. and Master of Pembroke Hall Afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Ed. 6. and at length through Rochester the temporalities of which See were restored to him 27. Sept. 1547. became Bishop of London 1549. He was a Person small in stature but great in learning and profoundly read in Divinity quo viro as one who knew him saith nihil integrius omnibus egregiis dotibus ornatius Anglia nostra multis hisce retro saeculis habuit c. Among several things that he wrot were these Treatise concerning images not to be set up nor worshipped in Churches Written in the time of K. Ed. 6. Brief declaration of the Lords Supper Printed 1555. and 1586. oct Written by him while he was a Prisoner in Oxon. It was translated into Lat. by Will. Whittyngham bearing this title Assertio de coena Dominica Genev. 1556. Answered by another Book entit Confutatio Catholica Nich. Rydley de Eucharistia Par. 1556. qu. Written by Alban Langdale D. D. of St. John's College in Cambridge Certain godly and comfortable conferences between him and Mr. Hugh Latymer during the time of their imprisonment Lond. 1555. 56. and 74 in oct A friendly farewell written during his imprisonment at Oxford unto all his true Lovers a little before his death Lond. 1559. oct A piteous lamentation of the miserable state of the Church of England in the time of the late revolt from the Gospel Lond. in oct A comparison between the comfortable Doctrine of the Gospel and the traditions of Popish Religion Print with the former An account of a disputation at Oxford an 1554 Oxon. 1688. qu. Written in Latin and published from the Original MS by Gilb. Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Col. and then Vicehanc of the Univ. of Oxon. Treatise of the blessed Sacrament The beginning of which is Many things confound the real memory c. published with the former by the aforesaid Person from an original MS. to which he added A Letter written by Mr. Jo. Bradford the Martyr never before Printed Letter of reconciliation written to Bishop Hooper Lond. 1689. qu. published by Sam. Johnson Author of the Short account of the life of Julian the Apostate Lond. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Rydley had a hand also in the compiling of the Common Prayer-Book now in use among us has also disputations arguings communications and conferences about matters of Religion in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church written by John Fox In which Book under the Years 1554. and 55. you may see a full account of his sufferings and afterwards of his burning near to Balliol College in Oxon. year 1555 on the 16. of Oct in Fifteen hundred fifty and
find another Tho. Talbot to have been born in the said County of Lancaster and entred into the Society of Jesus an 1598. aged 26. who after he had wrot several Books died in 1652 but this Person was not as I can yet learn originally bred among us HENRY Lord STAFFORD the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks attained and executed for treason in 1521. was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time and tho not the inheritor of his Fathers honours yet he was a Man of great virtue learning and piety In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge to which his Father had been a benefactor where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue and in that language he wrot several things as 't is said as well in verse as prose but such I have not yet seen He translated into English a Book intit De vera differentia regiae potestatis ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque c. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford This translation was printed in oct but when it appears not in the Book He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans c. Lond. 1553. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This noble Lord gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell nor in what County born unless in Staffordshire wherein he was possessor of many Lands ROBERT BROKE or Brook Son of Thom. Broke of Claverley in Shropshire year 5121 by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Hugh Grosvenor of Farmot in the said County was born as I conceive at Claverley laid a foundation of Literature at Oxon which was a great advantage to him when he studied the municipal Laws in the Middle Temple where he became the compleatest Lawyer of his time In 1542 he was elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that House and in the latter end of the Year in Lent 1550 he was elected Double-Reader In 1552 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1553 being the first Year of Qu. Mary he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas and not of the Common-bench as some say and about that time received the honor of Knighthood from that Queen In whose Reign and after he was held in high value for his profound knowledge in the Law and for his just and upright dealing in all matters relating to the profession thereof He hath written An abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Bookes till the time of Qu. Marie Lond. 1573. fol. 76 86 c. qu. Certain cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marie from 6. Hen. 8. to the 4. of Qu. Marie Lond. 1578. 1604. 25. c. in oct The original title of this Book is in French Ascuns novel cases c. Reading on the Statute of limitations 32. H. 8. c. 2. Lond. 1647. oct Printed I think before that time This Sir Rob. Broke who was a zealous Cathol died as it seems in Aug. or Sept. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell In his Will proved 12. Oct. the same Year he several times remembers the Church and Poor of Putney near London I find another of both his names who is written Esquire Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London under whose name was published Reading upon the statute of Magna Charta chap. 16. Lond. 1641. qu. before which time the Author was dead Whether the same with Rob. Brook of Brasenose who was admitted Master of Arts 1584. I think not As for Sir Rob. Broke the Judge he obtained a fair estate by his endeavours which he left to his posterity remaining at Madeley in Shropshire and at one or two places in Suffolk PAUL BUSH was born of honest and sufficient Parents became a Student in this University about the Year 1513 and five years after took the Degree of Bach. of Arts being then numbred among the celebrated Poets of the University Afterwards he applied his mind to the supreme faculty entred into the Order of the Bonhom's studied among the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin now Wadham Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and at length became Provincial of his Order that is of Bonhoms This Person being noted in his time for his great learning in Divinity and Physicks was by K. Hen. 8. made the first Bishop of Bristow after he had placed an Episcopal See there an 1542 and by the name and title of Paulus Bush 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
mention them in their respective places THOMAS PAYNELL or Paganell descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Lincolnshire was from his youth always exercised in virtue and good letters While he was in his juvenile years he was made a Canon Regular of Merton Priory in Surrey the Monasticks of which place having had interest in the College of St. Mary the Virgin situated in the Parish of St. Michael and St. Peter in the Baylie built purposely for the training up of young Can. Reg. in Philosophical or Theological learning or both he was sent thither where improving himself much in Divine learning returned to his Monastery and a little before the dissolution of that and others became Prior of a certain Monastery of Canon Regulars near to London as Baleus saith tho the name of the place he tells us not But being soon after ejected when his Monastery was to be imployed for a laical use had a pension allowed him during his life Whereupon retiring to London and sometimes to Oxon had the more leisure to write and translate Books the titles of which follow Pandicts of the Evangelical Law Lond. 1553. oct The pithy and most notable sayings of all the Scripture after the manner of common places c. newly augmented and corrected Lond. 1560. oct A Table of many matters contained in the english works of Sir Tho. More This is set before the said works that were published by Will. Rastell an 1557. A fruitful Book of the common places of all St. Pauls Epistles right necessary for all sorts of People c. Lond. 1562. oct Preface to the Book of measuring of Land as well of Woodland as Plowland Printed at Lond. in the time of Hen. 8. in oct The Book it self was written by Sir Rich. de Benese sometimes Canon of Merton Priory but corrected and made fit for the press by Paynell In the Year 1519. one Rich. de Benese a secular Chaplain supplicated the Ven. congregation for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether the same with the writer I cannot justly say because he is written secular Chaplain Neither can I say that Rich. Benese Clerk Parson of Long Ditton in Surrey in the time of H. 8. be the same also who in his last Will and Test dated 3. Nov. 1546. and proved 20. Oct. 1547. doth bequeath his body to be buried in the yard belonging to the Church there Our Author Thom. Paynell did also translate from Lat. into English 1 Of the contempt of the world Lond. 1533. oct written by Erasmus 2 Of the Medicine Guacum and of the French disease c. Lond. 1536. and 1539. oct written by Ulrich Hutten a Knight of Almaine It treateth of the wood called Guacum which healeth the French Pox the Gout Stone Palsey c. 3 Of the comparison of a Virgin and a Martyr Lond. 1537. oct written by Erasmus This translation is dedicated to John Ramsey Lord Prior of Merton 4 Sermon on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1539. oct written by St. Cyprian 5 A faithful and true story of the destruction of Troy Lond. 1553. oct written by Danus Phrigius 6 A devout prayer expedient for those that prepare themselves to say Mass c. Lond. 1555. oct written by St. Ambrose 7 Brief Chronycle of all the Earls of Holland Lond. 1557. oct written by Hadrianus Barlandus 8. Salerni sanit regim The Regiment of health teaching all People how to govern them in health Lond. 1558 oct 9 Of the examples of virtue and vice Lond. 1561. oct written by Nich. Hannape 10 Fruitful treatise of well living containing the whole summ and effect of all virtue Printed at Lond in oct written by St. Bernard 11 The Precepts teaching a Prince or a noble estate his duty print in oct written originally in Greek by Agapetus He also translated from French into English 1 The civility of Chidhood with the discipline and institution of Children Lond. 1560. oct 2 The assault of Heaven Lond. in qu. besides other translations which you may see elsewhere In my searches I once saw a Will without date made for Thom. Paynell Priest born at or near to Bothby-Paynell in Lincolnshire afterwards-Parson as it seems of Cotyngam lying between Hull and Beverley in Yorkshire to which place he was a Benefactor and left considerable Legacies to 20 poor Maidens born and dwelling there He gave to St. Johns Coll. in Oxon wherein as it seems he had studied in his elderly years in the latter end of H. 8. and in the time of Ed. 6. at which time it was called St. Bernards Coll. all his Books in his Chamber at London and desired that at his Funeral a Sermon be Preached by a Catholick Doctor or a Bach. of Divinity c. This will which seems to have been made at London was proved in the Praerogative Court of Conterbury on the 22 of March according to the English accompt in Fifteen hundred sixty and three year 1563 I do and always did take it to be made for Thom. Paynell the writer and conclude thence that he died in the Winter time 1563. but where buried I cannot tell EDWARD FERRERS a most ingenious Man of his time was of the same Family with those of Baldesley-Clenton in Warwickshire but the name of the particular place where he was born or the name of the House in Oxon wherein educated I cannot justly say Sure it is that he continued there several years being then in much esteem for his Poetry and about the time that he left the Univ. wrot Several Tragedies Com. or Interludes All which being written with much skill and magnificence in his meeter gave the King so much good recreation as the Author of the Art of English Poesie saith as he had thereby many good rewards and adds farther that for such things as he hath seen of his writing and of the writing of Tho. Sackvile they deserve the price c. Our Author Ferrers hath also written these two Poems following viz. The fall of Rob. Tresilian Cheif Justice of England and The unlawful murder of Tho. of Woodstok Duke of Glocester with several other things which I have not yet seen and was Author as one or more writers say of a Book intit A mirroure for Magistrates Lond. 1559 Published by Will. Baldwin whom I shall anon mention In which Mirrour are involved the two Poems before-mentioned and other things of the composition of the said E. Ferrers who was in great renown in Fifteen hundred sixty and four being if I mistake not the same Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley Clinton who died and was buried there in that year leaving behind him a Son named Henry whom I shall mention under the Year 1633. WILLIAM BALDEWYN who seems to have been a Western Man born spent several years in Logic and Philosophie in this University being the same Will. Baldwyn as 't is probable who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might take a Degree
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
at this day maintain against the Church of England and upon any good proof of any such one allegation to yield up the bucklers and reconcile himself to Rome Now tho Thom. Hardyng and some others undertook him about the controverted articles yet as those of the reformed party say they came off so poorly and Jewell on the contrary so amaz'd them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question that no one thing in that age gave the papacy so deadly a wound as the said challenge at Pauls cross so confidently made and bravely maintain'd This say the Protestant writers but let us hear what a grand zealot for the Romish cause saith concerning the said matter After this Man meaning B. Nich. Rydley stepped to Pauls cross in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days about the Year 1559 and 1560 Mr. Joh. Jewell otherwise called Bishop of Salisbury and he proceeded yet farther in this brag and fiction meaning that what the Fathers said made for the Protestants for he protested there even with feigned tears that if any one authority place sentence or asseveration of any one Father Doctor Council or authentical History within the first 600 years after Christ could be brought forth by any man living for any one of those points of Catholick Religion which he there recited to be in controversie that then plainly and sincerely he would subscribe Against which vain and shameless bragg when Dr. Hardyng and divers other learned men of our side began to write from Lovayne and to bring forth authorities of all Fathers Doctors Councils and Histories in great abundance the first effect of this challenge that appeared to the world was a severe proclamation that no such book written in English by the Catholick party should be received or read in England under great punishments By which Provision Mr. Jewell thinking meetly well defenced he plyed the pulpit often and renewed his challenges many times and perceiving notwithstanding that Dr. Hardyngs confutation was come into England he answered the same with a long volume of Rhetorical words and stuffed the Margent thereof with the shew of infinite Authors as tho the whole world had been for him and none for the other side And with this he deceived the People then and doth to this day such I mean that have not commodity or learning or other means to examine those places and to find out the manifold lyes and falsifications therein contained And this was the gain by all likelyhood that Mr. Jewell pretended to his cause by that work knowing full well that this sort of Men is far the greater which would be gained and settled in his doctrine before the learneder sort who are but few in comparison of the other could have time books and commodity to discover and refute him and when they should do it they should hardly be believed c. How many learned Men lightly of our Nation have taken upon them seriously to go over that book of Mr. Jewells and to examine it by the Authors themselves with any indifferency of mind have for the most part been thereby converted to Catholick Religion though never so great Protestants before Of which sort I have heard relation of many but of some I can testifie my self for that I have heard it from their own mouths who of earnest Protestants were made most zealous Catholicks by that means principally of which number I think it not inconvenient to name here some two or three omitting others which for just respects may not be named The first of them is Sir Tho. Copley made Lord afterwards in his banishment by the King of France who oftentimes hath related unto one with much comfort of his soul how that being a zealous Protestant and very familiar to Robert the late Earl of Leycester in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days when Mr. Jewells book was newly come forth he being also learned himself in the Latin tongue took pains to examine certain leaves thereof and finding many falshoods therein which were inexcusable as they seemed to him he conferred the same with the said Earl who willed him that the next time Mr. Jewell dined at his table he should take occasion after dinner to propose the same which he did soon after And receiving certain trifling answers from Mr. Jewell he waxed more hot and urged the matter more earnestly which Jewell perceiving told him in effect That Papists were Papists and so they were to be dealt withal and other answer he could not get Which thing made the good Gentleman to make a new resolution with himself and to take that happy course which he did to leave his Country and many great commodities which he enjoyed therein to enjoy the liberty of conscience and so both lived and died in voluntary banishment c. The second example which I remember of mine own knowledge is Mr. Doctor Stevens a learned Man yet alive who being Secretary or Chaplain to Mr. Jewell and a forward Man in the Protestant Religion at that time espyed certain false allegations in his Masters book whilst it was under the print in London whereof advertising him by Letters for that he supposed it might be by oversight the other commanded notwithstanding the print to go forward and passed it over as it was Which this Man seeing that had a conscience and sought the truth indeed resolved to take another way of finding it out And having found it in the Cath. Church where only it was to be found he resolved also to follow it and so he did and went voluntarily into banishment for the same where yet he liveth to this day in France c. As for the third example which is Will. Rainolds I shall remember from my before quoted Author when I come to speak of him and in the mean time proceed to speak of Jewell In the beginning therefore of the Year 1565 he tho absent was actually created Doctor of Div. and the year following when the Queen was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses he shew'd himself a profound Theologist in moderating at Divinity disputations in St. Maries Church The learned Camden saith that he was a wonderful great and deep Divine a most stout and earnest maintainer of our reformed Religion against the adversaries by his learned books That he was a Man of a singular ingenie of exquisite erudition in Theologicals and of great piety As for Jewells writings the titles of them follow Exhortatio ad Oxonienses See in his life written by Laurence Humphrey printed in 1573. p. 35. Exhortatio in Coll. Corp. Ch. sive concio in fundatoris Foxi Commemorationem See there again p. 45. 46. c. Concio in templo B. Mariae Virg. Oxon an 1550 in 1. Pet. 4. 11. preached for his Degree of Bach. of Div. A Copy of which is printed in his life written by L. H. before-mention'd p. 49. Translated into English by R. V. Lond. 1586. oct Oratio in Aula C. C. Chr. spoken to
in the Church there in 1582 leaving behind him a Son named John who in 1600 publish'd a little treatise concerning The making of ponds breeding and feeding of fish and planting of fruits c. printed several times Which John succeeded his Father in the surveyourship before-mention'd and dying in 1606 was as I conceive buried by his Father leaving then behind him a Son named Roger living 1636. HENRY BULL a Warwickshire Man born became Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1535 or thereabouts perpetual Fellow in 1540. being then Bach of Arts and afterwards a zealous Man for reformation in K. Edw. days an exile in the time of Qu. Marie and a double if not a treble beneficed Man in the Reign of Qu. Eliz. He hath transmitted to posterity Christian prayers and holy meditations as well for private as publick exercise gathered out of the most godly learned of our time Printed at Lond. several times one edit bears date 1584 another 92. a third in 1605. and all either in oct or 16o. Lydlies prayers with certaine godly additions He also translated from Lat. into English A commentary upon the 15 Psalmes called Psalmi Graduum that is Psalmes of degrees from Psal 120 to Psal 133 faithfully copied out of the Lectures of Dr. Mart. Luther Lond. 1577. qu. c. Published with an Epistle before it by Joh. Fox the Martyrologist at which time the translator had been dead about two or three years for if I mistake not he gave way to fate about Fifteen hundred seventy and five year 1575 One of both his names who was a rich Physician of London died there in June or thereabouts in 1577 but of what kin to the former I know not NICHOLAS WHITHALK a Theologist of Losanne studied several years in Merton Coll. for the sake of the Warden thereof Dr. Bickley with whom he had contracted an acquaintance while he was an Exile in the time of Qu. Mary but whether he took a degree tho supplicate he did for one it appears not He hath written Christianae fidei ac verae religionis compendium in locos communes digestum nunc primum in vulgus emissum Lond. 1575 oct Dedic to Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh No doubt there is but he hath published other things but such I have not yet seen LAURENCE NOWELL the third Son of John Nowell of Great Meerley in Lancashire where his ancestors had lived several generations before him by Dowsabell his Wife Daughter of Thomas Hesketh of Rufford in the said County Esq was born as I conceive at Great Meerley before-mentioned or at least in the said County sent to Brasnose Coll. to obtain Academical learning about 1536 where applying his Muse to the study of Logick for a little while went to Cambridge where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts return'd to Oxon. and was incorporated in the said Degree in July 1542. In the year following he was licensed to proceed in Arts and about that time being in sacred orders became Master of the Free-school at Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire where he continued for some years In the Reign of Qu. Mary he absconded for a time in the house of Sir Joh. Perrot called Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire where besides that Knight he found two of his perswasion viz. Mr. Perrot Sir Johns Unkle who had been reader of the Greek tongue in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. and another Gent. called Banister But before that Queen died he went into Garmany where finding out his Brother Alexander Nowell sorted himself among the English Exiles there After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was made Archdeacon of Derby and Dean of Lichfield which he kept with one or more benefices besides that Prebendship of Ampleford in the Ch. of York which he obtained upon the relignation of Will. Day Bach. of Div. 27. May 1566. to his dying day He was a most diligent searcher into venerable antiquity a right learned Clerk also in the Saxon Language and was one of the first that recalled the study thereof When he abode in Lincolns Inn in the lodgings of one of his brethren who was a Counsellour of note there he was a tutor in those studies to Will. Lambard the Antiquary of Kent who was esteemed the second best in them and made use of his assistance and notes when he compiled his book De priscis Anglorum legibus Our famous Antiquary Will. Camden tells us that he Laur. Nowell was a Man of good note for his singular learning and was the first in our age that brought into ure againe and revived the Language of our Ancestours the Saxons which through disuse lay forlet and buried in oblivion He hath written Vocabularium Saxonium or a Saxon English Dictionary Written in 1567. 'T is a MS. in qu. and was sometimes in the hands of the learned Selden but now in Bodlies Library Franc. Junius who maketh honourable mention of the Author had a Copy of it and Will. Somner the Antiquary of Canterbury made use of the original when he compiled his Saxon Dictionary He also L. Nowell made several collections from antique historical MSS. which as rarities are kept to this day in the Cottonian Library One of them is thus entituled Collectanea ex Chronicis Gregorii Caerquent Monachi Coenobii Glocestrensis ab an 681. ad an 1290. 'T is under Vespasians head A. 5. with other collections out of the Registers of Worcester and Glocester This eminent Antiquary died as it seems year 1576 in Fifteen hundred seventy and six his will being dated 7. Oct. the same year aged 60 or more but where buried unless in the Cath. Ch. at Lichfield I cannot tell He left behind him a Son of both his names who was a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 1590. aged 18 and had if I mistake not for his successor in his Deanery one George Bulleyn D. D. who dying in Januar. 1602 was succeeded by Dr. Will. Tooker One Hen. Boleyne D. D. was sometimes Chauntor and Residentiary of Lincolne Archdeacon of Chichester and Rector of Borneford who dyed 1491. but what relation George had to this Henry I know not GERARD LEGH Son of Hen. Legh or Leigh of London natural or base Son of Randal Legh by his Concubine one Woodroffs Widow of Derby second Son of Sir Edm. Legh of Baguly in Cheshire Knight living 39. H. 6. was born in London where being trained up for a time in Grammaticals was sent to Oxon to compleat them and to obtain so much of the Logicals that he might the better conquer the rudiments of the municipal Law for if I am not mistaken he studied for some time in one of the Inns of Court But such was the vigour of his natural genius to Heraldry Genealogies and History that he postpon'd those beneficial studies and totally gave himself up to those of honor and less benefit All that he hath published is that fruitful and worthy treatise entit The Accedence of Armorie Lond. 1568. and 1612. in
Historical description of the Island of Britain with a brief rehearsal of the nature and qualities of the People of England and such commodities as are to be found in the same In 3. books They were first published in the first and second volume of Chronicles that go under the name of Raphael Holinshed printed at Lond. 1577. in fol. and there again in 1587 with augmentations by Jo. Hooker alias Vowell The collection is made from divers choice Authors many of which were then in MS. A Chronologie Gathered and compiled with most exquisite diligence after the example of Gerardus Mercator and other late Chronoligers So saith Raph. Holinshed in his Preface to the third volume of Chronicles What he hath written besides I know not nor any thing else but that he was living in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven I find one Will. Harrison born in the Dioc. of London elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1557 admitted M. of Arts in 1560 being then beneficed near to Northampton but he dying 1564 cannot be understood to be the same with the writer Another Will. Harrison I find to be installed Canon of Windsore 1586. being about that time Rector of Radwynter in Essex who dying 1593 was buried at Windsore leaving behind him several Children which he had by his Wife Marian Daughter of Will. Isebrand of Anderne near to Guisnes in Picardie Whether this Will. Harrison be the same with the writer I cannot tell WILLIAM WATKINSON was educated in Ch. Ch. became Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts afterwards he was one of the Proctors and Bach. of Divinity of this University He hath translated into English 1 Of the happiness of this our age and the ingratitude of Men to God for his benefits Lond. 1578. qu. Written by Joh. Rivius 2 Meditations on the 32. Psalm Lond. 1579. oct and other things which I have not yet seen How long he lived beyond Fifteen hundred eighty and seven 29. Elizab. in which year he took the Degree of Bach. of Div. I know not ULPIAN FULWELL a Somersethire Man born and a Gentlemans Son became a Commoner of St. Maries Hall in the Year 1578 aged 32 but whether he took any Degree among us it appears not While he continued in the said House where he was esteemed a Person of ingenuity by his contemporaries he partly wrot The eighth liberal science called Ars adulandi or the Art of flattery Printed 1579. qu. Afterwards having learned the art of Poetry among the Academians he wrot and published A pleasant enterlude intit Like will to like quoth the Devil to the Collier Wherein is declared what punishment follows those that will rather live licentiously that esteem and follow good counsel Lond. 1587. qu. Written in time and printed in an English Character The name of Ulp. Fulwell stands quoted by Jo. Speed in his life of K. Ed. 6. in his Chronicle and therefore I suppose he hath other things printed for I cannot conceive that Joh. Speed should quote him for any thing out of the two former books ROBERT CROWLEY or Croleus as he writes himself a very forward Man for reformation in the time of K. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizab. was born in Glocestershire became a Student in the University about 1534 and was soon after made Demie of Magd. Coll. â—â— 1542 he being then Bach. of Arts was made Probationer-fellow of the said House by the name of Rob. Crule but whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts it appears not for likely it is that he left the University when K. Hen. 8. began to settle a mongrel Religion in the Nation When K. Ed. 6. began to Reign he exercised the profession of Printing in Ely rents in Holbourn near to London sold books and at leisure times exercised the gift of Preaching in the great City and elsewhere But upon the succession of Queen Mary he among several English Protestants lest the Kingdom went to Frankfort in Germany and setled there purposely to enjoy the Religion which had been practised in England in the days of K. Ed. 6. After her decease he returned and had several benefices bestowed on him among which was the Vicaridge of St. Giles by Criplegate in London of which Church he wrot himself Vicar 1566. where continuing his pretended gifts in preaching was followed and respected by the neighbourhood of those parts and by others for his skill in rimes and poetry He hath written The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the sixth of John and the XI of the 1 Epist to the Corinthians c. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Mr. Tho. More against Joh. Frith Printed 5. Apr. 1533 in a small oct Confutation of Nich. Shaxton Bishop of Sarum his recantation of 13 Articles at the burning of Mistris Anne Askew Lond. 1546. oct Explicatio petitoria ad Parliamentum adversus expilatores plebis Printed in the Engl. tongue 1548 in oct Translated into Lat. by John Heron. Confutation of Miles Hoggard's wicked ballad made in defence of transubstantation of the Sacrament Lond. 1548. oct The voice of the last Trumpet blown by the seventh Angell c containing 12 several lessons Lond. 1549. oct Written in meter Pleasure and pain heaven and hell Remember these four and all shall be well Lond. 1550 51. in oct Written in meter Way to wealth wherein is plainly taught a most present remedy for sedition Lond. 1550. oct One and thirty Epigrams wherein are briefly touched so many abuses that may and ought to be put away Lond. 1550. in tw This was printed by the Author Crowley in his house in Ely rents before-mention'd An apologie of those English Preachers and Writers which Cerberus the three-headed dog of hell chargeth with false doctrine under the name of Predestination Lond. 1566. qu. Of which book you may see more in Canterburies doome written by Will. Prynne p. 169. Of the signes and tokens of the latter day Lond. 1567. oct A setting open of the subtile sophistry of Tho. Watson D. D. which he used in his two Sermons preached before Qu. May in Lent 1553 concerning the real presence in the Sacrament Lond. 1569. qu. Sermon in the Chappell at Gilde hall in London 29. Sept. 1574. before the Lord Mayor and the whole state of the Citie on Psalme 139. ver 21. 22. 23. 24. c. Lond. 1575. oct Answer to Tho. Pound his six reasons wherein he sheweth that the Scriptures must be judged by the Church Lond. 1581. qu. Brief discourse concerning those four usual notes whereby Christs Catholick Church is known c. Lond. 1581. qu. Replication to that lewd answer which Frier Joh. Francis of the Minimies order in Nigeon near Paris hath made to a letter that his Mother caused to be sent to him out of England Lond. 1586. qu. Deliberate aunsweare to a Papist proving that Papists are Antichristian Schismaticks
matter after that Pope Sixtus 5. had bestowed on him the title of Cardinal and the Spaniard had gave him an Abbacy in the Kingdom of Naples and nominated him Archbishop of Machlin When the Bull of Excommunication against Q. Elizabeth at that time that the great Navy was provided for England came forth he brought it into the Low Countries and caused it to be printed in English Withal he wrote an Admonition to the Englishmen that they should stick to the Pope and Spaniard but being deceived of all his hopes he returned again back to Rome where being wearied with the discords hatreds and dissentions of the English Run-aways both Scholars and Nobles at last he dyed in the 63 year of his Age c. Another saith That he was so ill deserving to be accounted English as that like another Herostratus he endeavoured to raise a combustion in the Church and State c. But let Writers say what they please certain it is that he was an active Man and of great parts and high prudence that he was Religious and Zealous in his Profession restless till he had performed what he had undertaken that he was very affable gentile and winning and that his personage was handsome and proper which with an innate gravity commanded respect from those that came near or had to do with him His Works as to learning are these A defence of the Doctrine of Catholicks concerning Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead Antw. 1565. in oct Brief Reasons concerning Cath. Faith Treatise made in defence of the lawful Power and Authority of Priesthood to remit Sins Lov. 1567. oct The People's duty for confession of their Sins to God's Ministers Printed with the Treatise made c. The Churches meaning concerning Indulgences commonly called Pope's Pardons Printed also with the Treatise made c. Which three last were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge De Antw. 1576. qu Sacramentis in genere Sacramento Eucharistiae Sacrificio Euch. Apology and true declaration of the institution and endeavours of the two English Colleges the one in Rome the other now resident in Rhemes against certain finiste informations given up against the same Printed at Mounts in Heâ—â—cault 1581. in a large oct This Books is said by one to be a princely grave and flourishing piece of natural and exquisite English Apologia pro sacerdotibus Societatis Jesu Seminariorum alumnis contra Edicta Regia Printed in a Book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct 1594. in qu. part 3. Piissima admonitio consolatio verè Christiana ad afflictos Catholicos Angliae Printed also in the said Book A true sincere and modest defence of the English Catholicks that suffer for their Faith both at home and abroad against a slanderous Libel entit The Execution of Justice in England Not expressed where or when Printed but by the character and some passages therein is shew'd that it was Printed beyond the Seas about 1583. in oct Printed also in Latin at Ingolst 1584. in oct and in a Book entit Concertat Eccles Cath. in Anglia c. 1594. This defence was answered by Dr. Tho. Bilson in the third part of his Book of the Supremacy or in that Book called The true difference between Christian Subjection and Vnchristian Rebellion As for The Execution of Justice which the defence answers was written as it was then and since reported by Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh The second impression of which made at Lond. 1583. in five sheets in oct I have and bears this Title The execution of Justice in England for maintenance of Publick and Christian Peace against certain stirs of sedition and adherents to the Traytors and Enemies of the Realm without any persecution of them for questions of Religion as is falsly reported c. Epistola de Daventriae ditione Cracov 1588. in oct Printed also about that time in English It must be noted that in 1587. Will. Stanley and Rowl York Englishmen did traiterously deliver up a Fort near Zutphen and the strong Garrison of Daventry to the Spaniard whereupon our Author Dr. Allyn did being provoked by the Bull of Pius 5. against Q. Elizabeth not only commend the Treason but excited others in the said Epistle to the like exploit or perfidiousness as if they were neither bound to serve nor obey an excommunicated Queen At which time the said Allyn dispatched away divers Priests to Rowl York whose Regiment of 13 hundred consisted all of English and Irish to be Chaplains and Confessors to them In the year 1588. our author Allyn compiled a Book to be published when the Spaniard should arrive into England to stir up all the English Papists to take up Arms against the Queen The first part of the said Book was intit A declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus 5. Grounded on the said Pope's Crusaido whereby he gave plenary Indulgence and Pardon of all Sins to all that gave their helping hand to deprive Q. Elizabeth of her Kingdom The second part was entit An admonition to the Nobility and People of England Which Book or Books coming straightway to the knowledge of the Queen she dispatched away D. Val. Dale to the Prince of Parma Vice-Roy of the Low Countries for the King of Spain who being introduced into his presence he did mildly expostulate with him about the said Book or Books written by Allyn wherein as Dale said he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to joyn with the Spanish Forces under him the said Prince to invade England c. but he pretended he knew nothing of such a Book and so sent him away unsatisfied However so it was that presently upon the overthrow of the great invincible Armado under their heroical Adlantado certain Roman Catholicks procured the whole impression to be burned saving some few that had been sent abroad beforehand to Friends and such as had otherwise been conveyed away by the Printer and others in secret wise What else our Author Allyn hath written Joh. Pitseus who speaks very honorably of him will tell you who adds that he gave up the ghost on the 6 of Oâ—â—ob according to our accompt in fifteen hundred ninety and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel of the English Colledge at Rome where there is an Epitaph for him which being printed by two several Authors at least I shall now pass it by The Jesuits triumphed openly as one saith at his Death and among other of the calumniations against him they said That God had taken him away in a good time for if he had lived longer he would have disgraced himself and lost the credit which he had got In one or more Books containing the lives or at least characters with the Arms of the Popes and Cardinals of Rome it appears that the Arms of Cardinal Allyn are Argent 3 Connies or Rabbets passant Sable yet the ancient Arms belonging to
notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the Regal Power which are to be found in them Now altho this is generally confessed that the said three books are not genuine yet some Nonconformists and among these chiefly Mr. Rich. Baxter do urge seemingly probable reasons to induce a belief that these posthumous books as published by Dr. Gauden are to be accounted the true and authentick Writings of Mr. Hooker yet this must be known that the reason why the said Mr. Baxter contends so eagerly for their genuineness is because the said three books but more especially the eighth do contain certain popular and false Principles concerning the true Nature of the Legislative Power the Original of Government and the Office of Kings it self as derived from the People And on this account it is that he seems to take a more than ordinary delight in so often telling the World that the Abettors of these seditious positions have so great a Chruch-man as our author was justly esteemed on their side It was these and such like Prelatist's principles as he saith meaning I guess Bish Jewell but chiefly Bish Bilson in his book of Christian Subjection c. which he frequently cites as defending the resistance of Superiours in some cases and such like pernicious tenets and whom he usually joyns with Mr. Hooker in quotations of this kind that led him to what he did and wrote in the book of Holy Commonwealth which he hath retracted And that he may charge these destructive Assertions home on our author he saith if any do causlesly question whether the eighth imperfect book be in those dangerous passages above-mentioned his own let them remember that the summ of them is in his first book which is old and highly honoured by the Prelatists And after all this to shew himself an Enemy to the above-named Principles he examines and confutes the first and eighth books so far as they make for popularity with some strictures intermixed on Bishop Bilson's false Notes of subjection whereby he makes but a scanty satisfaction for the malignant influence those many traiterous opinions with which his Political Aphorismes are fraught have had on the minds of many giddy People towards the withdrawing them from yielding cheerful obedience to their lawful Superiours and this notwithstanding he hath sometime since called this piece in The eighth book is commonly supposed to have been first published together with the sixth and seventh by Bish Gauden yet Mr. Baxter affirms that the said eighth book was in print long before that time which is true for the sixth and eighth were printed at Lond. 1648. in qu. nay all the eight books with certain Tractates and Sermons together with the author's Life were published in two vol. in fol. 1617. As for the other Books and Sermons that our author Hooker hath written are these following Answer to a supplication preferred by Mr. Walt. Travers to the H. H. Lords of the Privy Council Oxon. 1612. qu. Causes of contention concerning Church-Government Oxon. 1641. qu. As for his Sermons they are these 1 Discourse of Justification Works and how the foundation of Faith is overthrown on Abak 1. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. 2 Of the Nature of Pride on Abak 2. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. 3 Remedy against Sorrow and Fear Fun. Sermon on Joh. 14. 27. Ox. 1612. qu. 4 Of the certainty and perpetuity of Faith in the Elect on Abak 1. 4. 5 Two Sermons upon part of St. Jude's Epistle viz. ver 17 18 19 20 21. Oxon. 1614. qu. All which Sermons with Wickliffs Wicket were published by Henry Jackson Fellow of C. C. coll reprinted at London the Wicket excepted an 1622. fol. at the end of the five books of Ecclesiastical Policy c. and again at the end of the eight books Lond. 1682. fol. 6 Serm. on Matth. 7. 7. Found in the study of Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester and published by Isaac Walton at the end of Dr. Saunderson's Life Lond. 1678. oct What other things our most renowned author Hooker hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that paying his last debt to Nature on the second of Nov. year 1600 in sixteen hundred leaving then behind him the character of Schismaticorum Malleus was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bishops-Bourne in Kent before-mentioned Over his Grave was 35 years after a Monument erected by Will. Cowper Esq with the Statua of Bust of the Defunct to the middle part of his Bodyâ— From which Statua was taken the picture of him set before his Life written by the said Isaac Walton of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know that he was born in the ancient Borough of Stafford in Aug. 1593. that he was by Trade a Sempster in Chancery-lane in London where continuing till about 1643. at which time he found it dangerous for honest men to be there he left that City and lived sometimes at Stafford and elsewhere but mostly in the Families of the eminent Clergy-men of England of whom he was much beloved He hath written the lives of Dr. Joh. Donne Sir Hen. Wotton Mr. Rich. Hooker Mr. George Herbert and of Dr. Rob. Sanderson sometimes B. of Lincoln All which are well done considering the education of the author as also The compleat Angler or the contemplative Man's recreation c. He ended his days in the great Frost at Winchester in the house of Dr. Will. Hawkins Preâ—endary of the Church there who had married his Daughter on the 15. Dec. 1683. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at that place GEORGE CRANMER a Gent. sometimes of singular hopes eldest Son of Tho. Cranmer Son of Edm. Cranmer Archdeacon of Canterbury who died in the beginning of 1571. Brother to Tho. Archb. of that place was born in Kent admitted Scholar of C. Ch. Coll. 10. Jan. 1577. aged 13. or thereabouts and was then or soon after put under the tuition of the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who found him afterwards very useful to him when he was compiling the books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1583. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that house and six years after was licensed to proceed in Arts. About which time he betook himself to the service of Will. Davison Esq one of the Secretaries of State After whose removal he went in place of Secretary with Sir Hen. Killegrew in his Embassage into France and after his death he accompanied that worthy and learned Gent. Sir Edwyn Sandys in his travels into France Germany Italy and other parts for the space of three years After his return he was sought out by the most Noble Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy with whom he went into Ireland in the quality of Secretary where he remained until his unfortunate Death He hath written Letter to Mr. Richard Hooker concerning the new Church discipline Feb. 1598. Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Remitted into the Life of R. Hooker written by Is Walton Lond. 1670. p. 123. Our author Cranmer hath
returned and was made the first Canon of the seventh Stall in the collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster an 1560. and soon after about the beginning of the year 1561. he was made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in the place of Will. May L. L. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambr. the same who in 1549. had a hand in compiling the first Edition of the Common Prayer and in correcting the the third Edit in 1559. So that Nowell being settled in the Deanry of Pauls resigned Westminster and afterwards became a frequent and painful Preacher and a zealous writer against certain English Catholicks that had fled their Country upon account of Religion For 30 years together he Preached the first and last Sermons in the time of Lent before the Queen wherein he dealt plainly and faithfully with her without dislike In 1594. Apr. 28. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Rich. Reve Bach. of Div. deceased in the year after Sept. 6. he was elected Principal of Brasnose coll and in oct following he was actually created D. of Divinity with allowance of Seniority over all the Doctors then in the University not only in regard had to his age but Dignity in the Church He was in the time he lived a learned Man charitable to the poor especially if they had any thing of a Scholar in them and a great comforter of afflicted Consciences His Works are A reproof of a book intit A proof of certain Articles in Religion denied by Master Jewel set forth by Tho. Dorman Bach. of Div. Lond. 1565. qu. Reproof of Mr. Dormans proof continued with a defence of the chief authority of Princes as well in causes Ecclesiastical as Civil within their Dominions by Mr. Dorman maliciously impugned Lond. 1566. qu. Confutation as well of Mr. Dormons last book intit A defence c. as also of Dr. Saunder's Causes of Transubstantiation Lond. 1567. qu. Catechismus sive prima institutio disciplinaque pietatis Chistianae Latinè explicata Lond. 1570 71 74 76. qu. There again 1590. 1603. c. oct Translated into English by Tho. Norten Lond. 1571. and into Greek by Will. Whittaker an 1575. c. Catechismus parvus pueris primum qui ediscatur proponendus in Scholis Lond. 1574. 78. oct c. Written in Lat. and Greek Translated also into English by another person Lond. 1587. oct c. and into Hebrew by Anon but this last I have not yet seen Conference had with Edm. Campian Jesuit in the Tower of London ult Aug. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. See more in Joh. Redman under the year 1551. This reverend Dr. Nowell died in a good old age on the 13. Feb. in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Cathedral of St. Paul Soon after was a comely Monument set over his Grave with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a copy of which you may see in Jo. Stow's Survey of London and elsewhere And of his benefaction to Brasnose coll and other matters you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 214. b. 225. b. In his Deanty of St. Paul succeeded Joh. Overhall the King's Professor of Div. in Cambridge a general learned Scholar preferred to it by the commendations to the Queen of Sir Fulk Grevill his Patron HARBERT WESTPHALING Son of Harbert Westphaling Son of Harbert a Native of Westphalia in Germany from whom by a popular Errour the Son who lived mostly in London and this his Grandson were called Westphaling At 15 years of age in 1547. which was the year after K. Hen. 8. had put his last hand to the foundation of Ch. Church he was made one of the Students thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1555. applied his studies to the Supreme Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in Dec. 1561. and in the beginning of March following he was installed Canon of the said Church being about that time Rector of Brightwell near Watlington in the County of Oxon. In 1565. he was licensed to proceed in his Faculty in the year following he learnedly disputed before Q. Elizabeth in S. Maries Church and in the beginning of 1577. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Ant. Rush deceased In 1585. Dec. 12. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford in which County he had several Lands and Inheritances where as throughout the Nation he was esteemed a person of great gravity integrity and most worthy of his Function He hath written Treatise of Reformation in Religion divided in seven Sermons Preached in Oxford on Matth. 21. 12 13. Lond. 1582. qu. Two Sermons touching the Supper of the Lord on 1 Cor. 11. 28 29. and on Matth. 26. v. 26 27 28. Lond. 1582. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to Nature on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the North transcept of the Cath. at Hereford In his Will he bequeathed the Mannour of Batche in Herefordshire to Jesus coll for the maintenance of two Fellows and two Scholars conditionally that his kindred be preferred to the said places before all others His picture is painted on the Wall in the School-Gallery at Oxon. next to that of Dr. Eâ—des as having in his time been a famous Theologist CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN was born in Cheshire particularly as I conceive within the City of Chester became a Student in Brasnose coll 1536. aged seventeen or thereabouts took one degree in Arts but was never as I can yet find Fellow of that House In 1544. he proceeded in that faculty and three years after was constituted one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church being then newly founded by K. Hen. 8. In the year 1551. or thereabouts he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time he was as 't is said Reader of the Divinity Lesson in the Vniversity but whether of that founded by the Lady Margaret or by K. H. 8. seems as yet doubtful In the beginning of Q. Mary he left the University and went with several Academians beyond the Sea for Religion sake but dissenting from the chief body of them assembled at Frankfort he did with Whittyngham Knox Gilby c. retire to Geneva as may be farther seen in a book intit A brief discourse of the troubles began at Frankfort c. printed 1575. qu. wherein as in other places the turbulent spirit of this person may be discern'd A noted author tells us that he was a most pernicious fellow for that he not only practiced against the life of Q. Mary but wrote also that most seditious known Libel against the regiment of Women c. This Goodman I say being a furious hot spirit and guilty in conscience of wicked attempts but especially as was thought of the conspiracy with Will. Thomas that would have killed Q. Mary ran out
was admitted it appears not in any of the registers of that time In 1601. he being then fam'd for his learning he was made canon of Windsore in the place of Rog. Browne B. D. sometimes of Kings coll in Cambridge deceased which with Eaton he held to his dying day He hath written Scholia ad Barlaami Monachi Logisticam Astronomiam Par. 1600. qu. Which book he also translated from Greek into Latin Treatise against Judicial Astrology Lond. 1601. qu. In which book having done no less than a christian learned man ought to have done he had reason to look for another reward of his labours than he found For instead of thanks and commendation for his labours so well placed he was roughly entertain'd by Sir Christop Heyden Knight sometimes of Cambridge University afterwards High-Steward of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych in his Defence of judicial Astrology Cambr. 1603. qu. a work full of no common reading and carried on with no mean arguments But our author not living to see his reply published he was some years after defended by his friend George Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1628. As for Sir Cristop Heyden who was a man of parts and had been Knighted at the sacking of Cadiz by Rob. Earl of Essex in 1596. was of Baconsthorp in Norfolk and died in the winter time as it seems in 1623. The reply which our author wrote but could not live to put it in the press hath this title A confutation of Astrological Daemonology or the Devils School in defence of a treatise intit Against judiciary Astrology and oppugned in the name of Sir Ch. Heyden Knight This is a MS. very fairly written in fol. richly bound and gilt dedicated by the author to K. James with an Epistle dated from Windsor Chappel 2. Feb. 1603. The beginning of which is In the midst of all my pains and labours most puissant and renowned Prince c. and the beginning of the work it self is In the setting down and delivery of Arts Galen in his book intit Ars Medicinalis c. 'T was the very same book as it seems that was given to the King which coming into the hands of Sir Hen. Savile he gave it to his Mathematical Library in Oxon. Astronomiae encomium ante annos 27. peroratum quo tempore Prolomei Almagestum in Vniversitate Oxon enarravit Lond. 1601. in Lat. and Engl. These I think are all the things that our author Jo. Chamber hath either written or published and therefore I have nothing more to say only that he yielding up his last breath at Windsore on the first of August in sixteen hundred and four year 1604 was buried on the north side of the entrance into the Choire of S. Georges Chappel there Over his grave was soon after a plain marble laid whereon is insculp'd the figure of a man in a mantle bearing an Escutcheon of S. Georges arms with this inscription under him Johanni Chamber Socio primum collegii Mertonensis an 1569. dein Etonensis an 1582. postremum canonico hujus Ecclesia an 1601. Theologo Medico Mathematico insigni Henricus Nevill Henricus Savile Milites posuere Natus apud Swillington in Com. Ebor. an 1546. Mense Maio obiit Etonae an 1604. ineunte Augusto corpus hoc marmore humatum jacit Praeter alia Legavit moriens collegio Mertonensi Mille Libras The said thousand pounds were by him given to Merton coll to purchase Lands in Yorkshire on this condition that two Scholarships of the said college should be supplied out of Eaton School by the nomination and election of the provost of Kings coll in Cambridge and the provost of Eaton This gift was soon after settled and the two Scholars were successively added to the number of the 12 Postmasters of the said house of Merton MEREDITH HANMER Son of Tho. Hanmer commonly called Ginta Hanmer of Porkington in Shropshire was born in that county but descended from the Hanmers of Hanmer in Flintshire became chaplain of C. C. coll in Apr. 1567. took the degrees in Arts and after some yeas spent in that house was made Vicar of S. Leonards Shoreditch in London Among the inhabitants of which place he left an ill name for that he converted the brass of several ancient monuments there into coine for his own use as an observing author tells us In 1581. and 82. he took the degrees of Divinity about which time he went into Ireland and at length became Treasurer of the Church of the Holy Trinity now called Ch. Church in Dublin which he kept to his dying day He was esteemed an exact Disputant a good Preacher Grecian and excellent for Ecclesiastical and Civil Histories He hath written Confutation and answer of the great braggs and challenge of Mr. Campion the Jesuit containing 9 articles by him directed to the Lords of the Privy Council Lond. 1581. oct The Jesuits banner displaying their original and success their vow and other their hypocrisie and superstition their doctrine and positions Lond. 1581. qu. A confutation of a brief censure upon two books written in answer to Mr. Campions offer of disputation-Printed with The Jesuits banner c. soon after came out A defence of the Censure c. See more in Rob. Persons under the year 1610. The Chronicle of Ireland in two parts The second of which was printed at Dublin in 1633. fol. Sermon at the baptizing of a Turk on Math. 5. 15. Lond. 1586. oct An Ephemeris of the Saints of Ireland A Chronography with a supputation of the years from the beginning of the World unto the birth of Christ and continued from the birth of Christ where Eusebius chiefly Socrates Evagrius and Dorotheus after him do write unto the twelfth year of the reign of Mauritius the Emperour being the full time of 600 years wanting five after Christ All chiefly collected out of Eusebius Socrates and Evangrius Lond. 1585. c. fol. Besides these he hath translated from Greek into English 1 The ancient Ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred years after Christ originally written by Eusebius Socrates and Evagrius Lond. 1577. 85. c. fol. 2 The lives ends and Martyrdoms of the Prophets Apostles and 70 disciples of Christ originally written by Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus Printed with the former translation This Dr. Hanmer as it appears had translated all the Church Historians except Eusebius his four books concerning the life of Emperour Constantine and the two orations subjoined thereunto which were afterwards done by Wye Saltonstal and printed in a fifth edition of Hanmers translation London 1650. fol. At length Dr. Hanmer being suddenly berest of his life by the plague raging in Dublin before he attained to the sixtieth year of his age year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four was as I presume buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity there Joh. Weevon whom I have here quoted tells us that he ended his days in Ireland ignominiously but what his meaning is to
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
which was discovered two years after in England was then there known and Prayers sent up to God Almighty for a prosperous success thereof from certain passages therein drawn as 't is said in the title out of the holy Scripture which he then publickly read before them some i' not all of which are these Psal. 2. p. 25 confirm their hearts in hope for the redemption is not far off The year of visitation draweth to an end and jubulation is at hand Psal. 2. p. 32. But the memory of novelties shall perish with a crack as a ruinous house falling to the ground Ibid. p. 33. He will come as a flame that burneth out beyond the Furnace c. His fury shall fly forth as Thunder Psal. 4. p. 54. The crack was heard into all Lands and made Nations quake for fear Ibid. p. 66. In a moment canst thou crush her bones c. All which passages delivered from the Pulpit by that learned and godly Archbishop being then generally believed I must make bold to tell the Reader being an eager pursuer of Truth that by the several Copies of the said Books which I have seen it doth not appear at all that they were printed at Rome or elsewhere and if it may really be guessed by the make or mould of the Letter wherewith they were printed I should rather take them as one or more Doctors of this University do the like to have been printed either at Rheimes or Doway or not unlikely at Antwerp for at Rome there were seldome before that time then or since such sine or clear letters used as by multitudes of Books which I have seen that were printed at that place appears nor indeed ever were or are any English Books printed there Our author Buckland hath also written An Embassage from Heaven wherein our Lord Christ giveth to understand his indignation against all such as being catholickly minded dare yeild their presence to the rites and publick prayers of the Malignant Church Printed in octavo but where or when it appears not either in the beginning or end of the said Book He also translated from Lat. into English a Book entit De persecutione Vandelica lib. 3. Written by Victor Bishop of Biserte or Benserte in Africa Which Bishop was in great renown according to Bellarmine an Ch. 490. Also the six Tomes of Laur. Surius entit De vitis Sanctorum Which translation I have seen often quoted under the name of Robert instead of Ralph Buckland What else our zealous Author hath written and translated I find not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he dying in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 was buried I presume in his own Country near to the Graves of his Ancestors who were all zealous R. Catholicks but since not He left behind him among the Brethren the character of a most pious and seraphical person a person who went beyond all of his time for fervent devotion FRANCIS THYNNE was lineally descended from Thom. at the Inne otherwise Thynne of Stretton in Shropshire Son of Ralph Botevill of the same place descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living elsewhere was educated in Grammaticals in Tunbridge School in Kent in which County as it seems he was born where being fitted for higher learning by Jo. Proctor Master thereof whom I have mentioned elsewhere was thence sent to this University at which time several of his Sirname of Wilts studied there and one of both his names and a Knight's Son of the same County was a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. Whether our author Franc. Thynne went afterwards to Cambridge or was originally a Student there before he came to Oxon I cannot justly say it Sure it is that his Genie tempting him to leave the crabbedness of Logick and Philosophy and to embrace those delightful studies of Histories and Genealogies he became at length one of the Officers of Arms by the title of Blanch-Lyon and afterwards Herald by that of Lancaster which he kept to his dying day His works are The Annals of Scotland in some part continued from the time in which Ra. Holinshed left being an 1571. unto the year 1586. Lond. 1586. fol. There are also the catalogues of the Protectors Governours or Regents of Scotland during the King's Minority or the Minority of several Kings or their insufficiency of Government There are also the catalogues of all Dukes of Scotland by creation or descent of the Chancellours of Scotland Archbishops of St. Andrews and divers writers of Scotland Catalogue of English Cardinals Set down in R. Holinsheds Chron. at the end of Q. Mary Used and followed in many things by Francis Bishop of Landaff in his Cat. or Hist of them at the end of his book De Praesubibus Angliae Com. Cat. of the Lord Chancellours of England MS. From which as also from the endeavours made that way by Rob. Glover sometimes Somerset Herald and of Tho. Talbot formerly Clerk of the Records in the Tower of London John Philpot Som. Herald did frame his Cat. of the Chanc. of England c. Lond. 1636. qu. The perfect Embassador treating of the antiquity privileges and behaviour of men belonging to that function c. This was published in 12o. in the times of the late Usurpation and therefore is supposed to be very imperfect A discourse of Arms wherein is shewed the blazon and cause of divers English Forreign and devised Coats together with certain Ensigns Banners Devises and Supporters of the Kings of England MS. sometimes in the Library of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq now by his gift 1684. among the books of the College of Arms near St. Pauls Cath. in London The beginning of this MS. written to Sir Will. Cecyll Lord Burghley is this I present unto your rare judgment right honourable and my singular good Lord no vulgar conceit of Armory c. The discourse is dated from Clarkenwell-Green 5. Jan. 1593. Several collections of Antiquities notes concerning Arms monumental Inscriptions c. MS. in Cottons Lib. under Cleopatra C. 3. p. 62. Miscellanies of the Treasury MS. written to Tho. Lord Buckhurst an 1599. Epitaphia sive monumenta Sepulchrorum Anglicè Latinè quam Gallicè MS. in a thin fol. in the hands of Sir Henry St. George Clarenceaux K. of Arms. The said Inscriptions with Arms and Epitaphs were collected in his travels through several parts of England and through some of France and have been ever acceptable to such curious men and Antiquaries that have had the happiness to see them Several of his collections were transferred to obscure hands which without doubt would be useful if they might be perused but 't is feared by some that they are turned to waste paper I have seen divers collections of Monuments made by him from Peterborough Cath. in 1592. several of which Mon. were lost and defaced before Sir Will. Dugdale or Sim. Gunton made their respective surveys of that ancient Edifice an 1640. 41.
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
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
à Jesu printed at S. Omer in 1613. quarto Curry-comb for a Coxcombe Or Purgatories Knell In answer to a Libel by Jebal Rachel against Sir Edw. Hobies Counter-snarle intituled Purgatories Triumph over hell Lond. 1615. qu. Several motions speeches and arguments in the four last Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth Published in the Historical collections of Hayw. Townsend Esq He translated from French into English Politique discourses upon truth and lying An instruction to Princes to keep their faith and promises Lond. 1586. qu. Composed by Sir Mart. Cognet Knight one of the Privy-Councel to the most Christian King master of the Requests to his Houshold and lately Embassador to the Cantons of Zwitzers and Grisons And also from Spanish into English The Origine and practice of War Lond. 1597. oct Written by Don Bernard de Mendoza At length he giving way to fate in Queenburgh Castle on the first day of March St. David's day in sixteen hundred and sixteen his body was conveyed to Bysham before mentioned and buried there in a Chappel called Hoby's Chappel on the south side of the Chancel of the Church there near to the body of his Father Sir Thomas The said Sir Edward left behind him a natural Son named Peregrin Hoby born of the body of one Katherin Pinkney an 1602. From which Peregrin are the Hobyes now of Bysham descended THOMAS EGERTON the natural Son of Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire was born in that County applyed his Muse to learning in this University about 1556. particularly as 't is said in Brasnose coll of which he was a Commoner in the year of his age 17 or thereabouts where continuing about 3 years laid a foundation whereon to build profounder learning Afterwards going to Lincolns-Inn he made a most happy progress in the municipal laws and at length was a Counsellour of note In 1581. June 28. he was constituted by the Queen her Solicitor General and soon after he became Lent-reader of the said Inn. In 1592. June 2. the said Queen made him her Attorney General in 1594. he being then a Knight he was made Master of the Rolls and two years after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal In which emiment office he continued during the whole remainder of Qu. Elizabeths happy Reign On 21. of Jul. 1603. he was raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of L. Ellesmere and upon the 24. of the said Month he was made Lord Chancellour of England In the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was unanimously elected Chanc. of the University of Oxon. and in 14. Jac. 1. dom 1616. he was advanced to the dignity of Vicount Brackley He was a most grave and prudent man a good Lawyer just and honest of so quick an apprehension also and profound judgment that none of the Bench in his time went beyond him He hath written Speech in the Exchequer Chamber touching the Post-nati Lond. 1609. in qu. in 16. sheets Certain observations concerning the office of Lord Chancellour Lond. 1651. oct and left behind him at his death four MSS. of choice collections fit to be Printed concerning 1 The prerogative Royal. 2 Priviledges of Parliament 3 Proceedings in Chancery 4 The power of the Starr-chamber He resigned up his last breath in York-house in the Strand near London 15. March in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church of Dodleston in Cheshire His memory was much celebrated by Epigrams while he was living and after his death all of the long Robe lamented his loss We have his Picture drawn to the life in the habit of Lord Chancellour setting in a Chair hanging in the Gallery belonging to the Bodleian Library called the School-gallery WILLIAM MARTYN Son of Nich. Martyn of the City of Exeter by his first Wife Mary Daughter of Leonard Yeo of Hatherley in Devon Son of Rich. Martyn of the said City and he the second Son of William Martyn of Athelhampton in Dorsetshire Knight was born and educated in Grammar learning within the said City of Exeter where making early advances towards Academical learning was sent to Broadgates hall now Pomb coll an 1579. aged 17. In which place falling under the tuition of a noted Master laid an excellent foundation in Logick and Philosophy Afterwards going to the Inns of Court he became a Barester and in 1605. was elected Recorder of Exeter in the place of John Hele Serjeant at Law But his delight being much conversant in the reading of English Histories he composed a book of the Kings of England as I shall tell you anon Upon the publication of which K. James as 't is said taking some exceptions at a passage therein either to the derogation of his family or of the Realm of Scotland he was thereupon brought into some trouble which shortned his days He hath written Youths instruction Lond. 1612. qu. dedicated to his Son Nich. Martyn then a Student in Oxon. In the said book is shewed a great deal of reading and consequently that the author was no loser of his time The History and Lives of the Kings of England from William the Conquerour to K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1616. and 28. fol. usher'd into the world with the copies of Verses of Nicholas William and Edw. Martyn the Sons of the author and by Pet. Bevis his Son-in-Law To this History was afterwards added the History of K. Edw. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth by B. R. Master of Arts Lond. 1638. fol. At the end of all the impressions was Printed The succession of the Dukes and Earls of this Kingdom of England from the Conquerour to the 12. of James 1. with the then Viscounts Barons Baronets c. which was drawn up by the author and continued after his death by R. B. before-mention'd What other books the said Will. Martyn hath either written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of S. Petrock in the City of Exeter 12. year 1617 Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen The inscription which was on the Stone supposed to be laid for him is worn out and a new inscription cut thereon for one of the same family buried there The next who must follow according to time was a severe Puritan as Martyn was FRANCIS BUNNRY Younger brother to Edmund whom I shall anon mention was born in an antient House called the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks on the 8. of May 1543. became a Student in the University in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Mary an 1558. and perpetual Fellow of Madg. coll in 1562. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders and began to preach Gods word on the first of Nov. 1567. Whose Sermons being noted among many he became soon after Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford but continuing with him not long he left his Fellowship in 1571. and retiring into the north parts of
is the more quaint the other the Indostan is the vulgar Language spoken in East India In both these he suddenly got such a knowledge and mastery that it did exceedingly afterwards advantage him in his travels up and down the Moguls Territories he wearing always the habit of that Nation and speaking their Language In the first of these the Persian Tongue he made afterwards an Oration to the Great Mogul as I shall tell you anon and in the Indostan he had so great a command that he undertook a Landry-woman belonging to the English Embassador in that Country who had such a liberty and freedom of speech that she would sometimes scould braul and rail from Sun-rising to Sun-set I say that Tom Coryate undertaking her in her own Language he did so silence her by eight of the clock in the morning that she had not one word more to speak to the great wonder and mirth of those present After he had visited several places in that Country and had been courteously received by Sir Tho. Roe Embassador there for the K. of England he went at length to Surat lying on the banks of Swally Road which is in E. India under the Empire of the Gr. Mogul where he ended his days as I shall tell you anon He was a man of a very coveting Eye that could never be satisfied with seeing tho he had seen very much and yet he took as much content in seeing as many others in the enjoying of great and rare things He had got besides the Latine and Greek the mastery of many hard Languages in which if he had obtained wisdom to husband and manage them as he had skill to speak them he had deserved more same in his generation But his knowledge and high attainments in several Languages made him not a little ignorant of himself he being so covetous and ambitious of praise that he would hear and endure more of it than he could in any measure deserve being like a Ship that hath too much sail and too little ballast However had he not fallen into the smart hands of the Wits of those times wherein he lived he might have passed better That itch of fame which engaged this man to the undertaking of those very hard long and dangerous travels hath put thousands more and therefore he was not alone in this into strange attempts only to be talked of 'T was fame without doubt that stirred up this man unto these voluntary but hard undertakings and the hope of that glory which he should reap after he had finished his long travels made him not at all to take notice of the hardship he found in them That hope of name and repute for the time to come did even feed and feast him for the time present And therefore any thing that did in any measure ecclips him in those high conceivings of his own worth did too too much trouble him which you may collect from these following instances Upon a time one Mr. Rich. Steel a Merchant and servant to the East-India company came to Sir Tho. Roe the Embassador at Mandoa the place then of the Moguls residence at which time our author Tho. Coryate was there This Merchant had not long before travelled over land from E. India through Persia and so for Constantinople and so for England who in his travels homeward had met with T. Coryate as he was journying towards E. India Mr. Steel then told him that when he was in England K. James then living enquired after him and when he had certified the King of his meeting him on the way the K. replied is that fool living which when our Pilgrim Coryate heard it seemed to trouble him very much because the K. spake no more nor no better of him saying that Kings would speak of poor men what they pleased At another time when he was ready to depart from Mandoa Sir Th. Roe the Embassador gave him a Letter and in that a Bill to receive ten pounds at Aleppo when he should return thither The Letter was directed to Mr. Libbeus Chapman there Consul at that time in which that which concern'd our traveller was thus Mr. Chapman when you shall hand these Letters I desire you to receive the bearer of them Mr. Tho. Coâ—yate with courtesie for you shall find him a very honest poor wretch and further I must intreat you to furnish him with ten pounds which shall be repayed c. Our Pilgrim liked the gift well but the language by which he should have received it did not at all content him telling his Chamber-fellow Mr. Terry that my Lord Embassador had even spoyled his courtesie in the carriage thereof so that if he had been a very fool indeed he could have said very little less of him than he did honest poor wretch and to say no more of him was to say as much as nothing Furthermore also he told him that when he was formerly undertaking his journey to Venice a person of honour wrote thus in his behalf to Sir Hen. Wotton then and there Embassador My Lord good wine needs no Bush neither a worthy mans Letter commendatory because whethersoever he comes he is his own Epistle c. This did so much please the Pilgrim that there said he was some language in my behalf but now for my Lord to write nothing of me by way of commendation but honest poor wretch is rather to trouble me than to please me with his favour And therefore afterwards his letter was phras'd up to his mind but he never lived to receive the money By which his old acquaintance might see how tender the poor man was to be touched in any thing that might in the least measure disparage him O what pains he took to make himself a subject for present and after discouse being troubled at nothing for the present unless with the fear of not living to reap that fruit he was so ambitious of in all his undertakings And certainly he was surprized with some such thoughts and fears as he afterwards told the company when upon a time he being at Mandoa with the English and there standing in a room against a stone-pillar where the Embassador was upon a sudden he fell into such a swoon that they had very much ado to recover him out of it but at last he came to himself and told them that some sad thoughts had immediately before presented themselves to his fancy which as he conceived put him into that distemper like Fannius Ne moriere mori For he told them that there was great expectation in England of the large accounts he should give of his travels after his return home and that he was now shortly to leave them and he being at present not very well if he should dye in his way towards Surat whether he was then intending to go which place he had not yet seen he might be buried in obscurity and none of his friends ever know what became of him travelling then
month of Decemb. or thereabouts an 1666. leaving Issue behind him a Daughter RICHARD MARTIN Son of Will. Martin by Anne his Wife Daughter of Rich. Parker of Sussex fourth Son of Rich. Martin of the City of Exeter second Son of Will. Martin of Athelhampton in the Parish of Puddle-towne in Dorsetshire Knight was born at Ottertâ—n in Devonshire became a Commoner of Broadgates hall now Pembroke coll in Michaelmas Term 1585. aged 15. and not in Trinity coll as I have formerly by a mistake told you where by natural parts and some industry he proved in short time a noted disputant But he leaving the said honse before he was honoured with a degree went to the Middle Temple where after he had continued in the state of Inner Barrester for some years was elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament 1601. was constituted Lent-Reader of the said Temple 13. Jac. 1. and upon the death of Sir Anth. Benn was made Recorder of the City of London in Sept. 1618. Which place he enjoying but little more than a month was succeeded therein by Sir Rob. Heath There was no person in his time more celebrated for ingenuity than R. Martin none more admired by Selden Serjeant Hoskins Ben. Johnson c. than he the last of which dedicated his Comedy to him called The Poetaster K. James was much delighted with his facetiousness and had so great respect for him that he commended him to the Citizens of London to be their Recorder He was worthily characterized by the vertuous and learned Men of his time to be Princeps amorum Principum amor legum lingua lexque dicendi Anglorum alumnus Praeco Virginiae ac Parens c. Magnae orbis os orbis minoris corculum Bono suorum natus extinctus suo c. He was a plausible Linguist and eminent for several Speeches spoken in Parliaments for his Poems also and witty discourses All that I have seen of his are Speech and Discourses in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Q. Elizab. Speeches delivered to the King in the name of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex Lond. 1603. 1643. qu. Various Poems He died to the great grief of all learned and good men on the last day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 and was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples Over his grave was soon after a neat Alabaster Monument erected with the Effigies of the Defunct kneeling in his Gown with 4 verses engraven thereon under him made by his dear Friend Serjeant Hoskins before-mentioned a copy of which you may see elsewhere This Monument was repaired in 1683. when the Choire and Isles adjoyning belonging to the Temple Church were new-wainscoted and furnished with seats He gave by Will to the Church of Otterton where he received his first breath 5 l. and to the Church of Culliton-Raleigh in Devon where his House and Seat was 5 l. ROBERT MANDEVILL a Cumberland Man born was entred either a Batler or Servitour of Queens coll in the beginning of the year 1595. aged 17. where remaining a severe Student till he was Bach. of Arts he retired to St. Edmunds hall and as a Member of it proceeded in that Faculty In July 1607. he was elected Vicar of Abby-Holme commonly called Holm-Cultram in his own County by the Chancellour and Scholars of this University Where being setled he exercised with great zeal his parts in propagating the Gospel against its Oppugners not only by Communication and Preaching but by his exemplary course of Life and great Piety He shewed himself also a zealous Enemy against Popery and the breaking of the Lords day by prophaning it with merchandizing and sports and endeavoured as much as in him lay for he was a zealous Puritan to perswade his Parishioners and Neighbours to do those things on Saturday which they used to do on the Lords day The truth is he was in the opinion of those of his Perswasion a great Man in his profession for he solely bent himself to his studies and discourses for the promotion of Religion and the word of God He hath written Timothy's Task two Sermons Preached in two Synodal Assemblies at Carlile on 1 Tim. 4. 16. and on Acts 20. 28. Oxon. 1619. qu. published by Tho. Vicars Fellow of Qu. coll Theological Discourses He died in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 and was buried at Holm-Cultram before-mentioned Here you see I have given you a character of a zealous and religious Puritan The next in order who is to follow is one who was a most zealous R. Catholick but far more learned than the former and not to be named or compared with him RICHARD STANYHURST Son of James Stanyhurst Esq was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland of which City his Father was then Recorder educated in Grammar learning under Peter Whyte mentioned under the year 1590. became a Commoner of Vniversity coll in 1563. where improving those rare natural parts that he was endowed with wrote Comment arises on Porphyry at two years standing being then 18 years of age to the great admiration of learned men and others After he had taken one degree in Arts he left the College retired to London became first a Student in Furnivals Inn and afterwards in that of Lincoln where spending some time in the study of the Common Law he afterwards went into the Country of his Nativity for a time But his mind there changing as to his Religion he went beyond the Seas being then a Married Man and in the Low Countries France and other Nations he became famous for his learning noted to Princes and more especially to the Archduke of Austria who made him his Chaplain his Wife being then dead and allowed him a plentiful Salary He was accounted by many especially by those of his Perswasion an excellent Theologist Grecian Philosopher Historian and Orator Camden stiles him Eruditissimus ille Nobilis Rich. Stanihurstus and others of his time say that he was so rare a Poet that he and Gabr. Harvey were the best for Iambicks in their age He hath written and transmitted to Posterity Harmonia sive catena Dialectica in Porphyrianas constitutiones Lond. 1570. fol. Which book being communicated to Eam Campian of St. Johns coll before it went to the Press he gave this character of the author Mirificè laetatus sum esse adolescentem in Acad. nostra tali familia eruditione probitate cujus extrema pueritia cum multis laudabili maturitate viris certare possit De rebus in Hibernia gestis lib. 4. Antw. 1584. qu. Dedicated to his Brother P. Plunket Baron of Dunsany Rerum Hibernicarum appendix ex Silvestro Giraldo Cambrensi collecta cum annotationibus adjectis Printed with De rebus in Hib. c. Descriptio Hiberniae Translated into English and put into the first vol. of Raphael Holinsheds books of Chronicles Lond. 1586. fol. De vita S. Patricii Hyberniae
righteousness of Christ Treatise of the providence of God The book of Ecclesiastes briefly explained Printed 1628. qu. The period of the Persian Monarchy wherein sundry places of Ezra Nehemiah and Daniel are cleared Lond. 1631. qu. Exposition on the first nine chapters of Zacharie Lond. 1629. qu. Five godly and profitable Sermons Lond. 1628. 29. qu. Fruitful Sermons upon the 1 Cor. 15. 18 19. Lond. 1629. qu. Introduction to the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1628. 29. Lond. 1639. oct De formarum origine Ibid. 1629. in tw dedic to Dr. Accepted Frewen Printed also at Camb. in tw De sensibus internis Lond. 1629. Ox. 1647. in tw Enchiridion oratorium Ox. 1633. qu. c. A summ of moral Philosophy Oxon. 1630. qu. All which books or Treatises those only that were written in English were remitted into one volume and printed several times The third impression was at Lond. 1635. and the fourth impression at Ox. 1659. both in fol. Introduction to Geography Ox. 1685. qu. At length our author a zealous Calvinist retiring to the house of the before-mention'd Rich. Capell minister of Eastington alias Easton near to the City of Gloucester to make some continuance there for the sake of study and health died of a burning Feaver in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in the yard under the great Yew-Tree year 1623 on the north side of Eastington Church Over his Grave was a stone soon after laid with these words engrav'd thereon Here lyeth the body of William Pemble master of Arts and preacher who died 14 Apr. an 1623. JOHN SPRINT Son of Dr. Joh. Sprint descended from those of his name living in the City of Bristow was born as I conceive there or in Glocestershire near to it elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592. took the degrees in Arts and some time after became Vicar of Thornbury in the said county Thence he removed to London was cried up by the Citizens for a godly and frequent preacher and by them much followed but was cut off in the prime of his years when great matters were expected from him He was a grave and pious Divine yet for the most part disaffected to the ceremonies of the Church of England while he continued at Thornbury At length upon the gentle perswasions of Mr. Sam. Burton Archdeacon of Glouc. he did not only conform but was a great instrument in perswading others to do the like by a book that he wrote and published call'd Cassander Anglicus which I shall anon mention His works are these Propositions tending to prove the necessary use of the Christian Sabbath or Lords day c. Lond. 1607. qu. and in 1635. in tw or oct The practice of that sacred day framed after the rules of Gods word printed with the former The summ of Christian religion by way of question and answer Lond. 1613. oct Cassander Anglicus shewing the necessity of conforming to the prescribed ceremonies of our Church in case of deprivation Lond. 1618. qu. dedic to Sam. Burton Archd. of Glouc. Whereupon came out a brief and plain answer to the first reason of it which was replied upon by Sprint but I have not yet seen it The Christians sword and buckler or a letter sent to a man seven years greviously afflicted in conscience and fearfully troubled in mind c. Lond. 1638. oct These are all the pieces I think that he hath written which are published and therefore I shall only let the reader know that he was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Anne situated in the place called the Blackfriers in London of which he seems to have been Minister or Lecturer on the seventh of May in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 See more of him in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 309. b. His Father Dr. Sprint who was Dean of Bristow and a frequent preacher but a Calvinist I shall mention more at large in the Fasti under the year 1574. not as a Writer but as a D. of D. and rich Dignitary PHILIP CLUVER Cluverius the Son of a maker or coyner of money was born at Dantzick the chief town of the province of Prussia in Poland but descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living in the Dutchie of Bremen in Lower Saxony instructed in his puerile years at home in his youthful in the royal Court of Poland where he learned among the Courtiers the exact speaking of the Polish tongue and their manners Thence his Father sent him into Germany where he received a command from him to apply his mind solely to the study of the Civil Law Whereupon he journeyed to Leyden in Holland and did endeavour to follow it but his Genie being naturally enclined to Geography he followed for altogether that study especially upon the perswasions of Joseph Scaliger who had perused his Table of Italy which he had composed while he was a youth in Poland Thence partly to see the world but more for the conversation of Just Lipsius he took a journey into Brabant but missing him was dispoiled by thieves who left him in a manner naked Thence he returned to Leyden and afterwards went into Bohemia and Hungarie where coming to the knowledge of one Popel a Baron who had been closely confined by the Emperor for some misdemeanours did translate his Apologie written in his own defence into the Latine tongue Which coming to the ear of the Emperour Cluver was thereupon imprisoned Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Scotland England France Germany and Italy In England his chief place of residence was in this University particularly in Exter coll of which he became a sojournour for the sake of Holland and Prideaux in 1609. age 29 where being setled he wrote his book De tribus Rheni alveis as I shall tell you anon In Italy he became acquainted with some of the Cardinals who held him in great esteem for his curious and exact knowledge in Geography the Greek and Latine tongues and for his marvellous knowledge in the Dutch German French Italian Bohemian Hungarian Polonian and British Language Afterwards he returned to Oxon again being then highly valued by Mr. Prideaux for one or more of his things then published and had offers of promotion tender'd unto him But Leyden being the place of his delight he retired thither and tho he could get no place of benefit there yet the curators of that University gave him an yearly stipend for the encouragement of his studies as being a person repleated with all humane literature antient Histories and Geography He is stiled by a certain author vir stupendae lectionis curae and by another princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus and magnum Germaniae ornamentum His works are De tribus Rheni alveis ostiis item de quinque populis quondam accolis c. Lugd. Bat. 1611. qu. This book was written in Oxon with the helps of the
our author Gifford whom he stiles Scriptor mendicissimus ut omnibus constat iracundus Ex Anglis ad Hispanos transfuga hostium mancipium hostis patriae turpissimum popularium suorum propudium comptus calmistratus apud mulieres Belgicas gratiosus c. He also wrote a book at the instance of the D. of Guise which I have not yet seen and translated from French in Engl. The Inventory of erroùrs contradictions and false citations of Philip Morney Lord of Plessis written by Fronto Ducens a Jesuit Besides which he hath written and translated other matters but they having been printed beyond the Seas we seldom or never see them here and so consequently I cannot give you a Cat. of them in this place This great Archb. and Duke Dr. Gifford gave way to fate on the eleventh of April in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 according to the accompt follow'd in France and was buried with great solemnity in the Church of the Blessed Virgin at Rheimes behind the great Altar near to the grave of Lewis Card. Guise In his Archbishoprick succeeded Hen. de Loraine Son of Charles Duke of Guise born at Paris 4. Apr. 1614. so that he was but 15 years of age when he was made Archbishop which was per accessum but being not consecrated he renounc'd it in 1641. about which time he succeeded his Father in the Dukedom of Guise and took to him a Wise CHRISTOPHER SUTTON a Hampshire man born was entred a Batler or Commoner of Hart hall in 1582. aged 17. translated soon after to Linc. coll and as a Memb. thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into Orders he became successively Vicar of Roneham in Essex Parson of Caston in his own Country Parson of Woodrising in Norfolk Parson of Murley-Bromley in Essex and at length of Cranworth in Norfolk Which two last he kept to his dying day with his Prebendship of Westminster that had been bestowed on him by K. Jam. 1. for his excellent and florid preaching His works are Disce vivere Learn to live Lond. 1608. in tw and several times after Disce Mori Learn to die Lond. 1609. in tw and several times after In both which is shewed in what manner every well disposed Christian may learn first how to live the life of the righteous and how to die the death of the righteous Godly meditations upon the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1622. c. in tw the thirteenth edition of which came out in 1677. Append. touching the controversie about the holy Eucharist Printed with the Godly meditationâ— c. Godly meditations concerning the divine presence Printed also with the former Meditat. He â—eparted this mortal life in May or June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried as I have been informed in the Abby Church of S. Peter at Westminster before the Vestry dore where the choir-men keep their Supplices to whom he gave five pounds In his Prebendship given to him much about the time of the death of Dr. Joh. Yong B. of Rochester who kept that Prebendship in Commendam with his See succeeded Lambert Osbaldeston M. A. as I shall else where tell you ROBERT HEGGE a prodigy of his time for forward and good natural parts was born within the City of Durham an 1599. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 7. Nov. 1614. Prob. Fellow thereof 27. Dec. 1624. being then M. of A. and accounted considering his age the best in the University for the Mathematical faculty History and Antiquities and therefore much beloved by Tho. Allen of Gloucester hall as afterward he was for his excellent knowledge in the Sacred Scripture as may be seen in certain books he wrote the titles of which follow Teatise of Dials and dialling MS. in C. C. coll Library In which book is the picture of the Dial in the said college Garden made by Nich. Kratzer whom I have mention'd under the year 1550. with a short discourse upon it In like manner there is the picture of that fair Cylinder standing on a Pedestal in the middle of the said coll quadrangle made by Charles Turnball 1605. with a short discourse on it which he intitles Horologium Sciotericum in gratiam speciosissimi Horoscopii in area quadrata C. C. C. c. The Legend of S. Cuthbert with the antiquities of the Church of Durham written 1626. and left in MS. behind him at his death so exactly and neatly written that many have taken it to be printed Afterwards a Copy of it under the authors hand coming into the possession of Thomas Lord Fairfax was by him reposed as a precious Monument in his Library of MSS. At length one who writes himself R. B. Esq sometimes of the retinue of the said Lord as I have been informed published it at Lond. 1663. in oct in a very bad letter and worse Paper not without some derogation to the memory of the author by concealing his name and putting the two first letters of his own with the writing a Prologue to it The truest Copy under the authors hand is now in the possession of Dr. Edw. Pocock Can. of Ch. Ch. and the Kings Hebr. Professor of this University having an Epistle to the Reader before it under the authors own hand dated 1. Jul. 1626. which the printed hath not Betwixt this MS. and the printed Copy I find much difference there being in the latter many omissions some additions besides literal mistakes especially in names of men and places and several passages transpos'd In aliquot Sacrae paginae loca lectiones Lond. 1647. in 4. sh or more in qu. published by John Hall of Greys Inn whom I shall anon mention who in his Preface to the said Lections tells us that if they took and were approv'd by Scholars he had more laying by him to publish but whether he did so or not I cannot tell Our author Hegge also left behind him 4. or 5. Sermons fit for the Press learned suppositions in C. C. C. Chappel verses Cat. of Schol. and Fell. of C. C. coll c. All which or at least some of them are at this day in the Libr. of the said college He died suddenly of an apoplexy to the great reluctancy of those who were acquainted with his admirable parts year 1629 on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine having scarce attained to the thirtieth year of his age and was buried in the Chappel of the said coll As for John Hall before mentioned who had a great respect for his memory and his works and was well acquainted with if not allied to his relations was born also in the said City of Durham of gentile Parents in Aug. 1627. and being fitted for the University was hindred from going to it by the eruption of the Civil War Whereupon giving himself solely up to studies at home especially in the Library at Durham improved himself to a miracle After Oxon was reduced by
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
beginning of the year 1640. he was chosen a Member of the House of Commons for Newport in the Isle of Wight to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster on the 13. of Apr. the same year and again for the same place for that Parliament that began there also 3. Nov. following In which last he shewed himself a great reformer of divers abuses and a stickler for the Commons against the Kings Prerogative and Bishops But being taken off from those proceedings by being made one of the Secretaries of State he ever after adher'd to his Majesty was with him at York in 1642. and had a hand in most of those Declarations published by his Majesty's special command in all places in England to shew the reason of his intentions and proceedings Afterwards he was a constant follower of his Majesty was with him at Edghill fight and afterwards at Oxon where he discharged his office with a great deal of prudence While he lived and especially after his death he was esteemed by many a Socinian having been as 't is said strengthned in that opinion by Chillingworth and I know not what but one that knew him very well doth tho a zealous Papist clear him from being guilty of any such matter and tells us withal that he was the greatest ornament to our Nation that the last age produced Another also who had been intimate with him saith that he was the envy of this age and will be the wonder of the next that he honoured and served his Creator in the days of his youth that he was not a Candidate of Atheism c. The truth is all that knew the said Lucius L. Falkland were fully possessed with opinions to the contrary and have usually said that he was a sincere Christian that he always led a virtuous life and despised all worldly things in comparison of necessary divine truth that he was a lover of veracity and sincerity and what not for the accomplishment of a religious man As for his parts which speak him better than any Elogy they were incomparable and needed no supplies of industry His answers were quick and sudden and tho he had a great deal of true worth treasured up in him yet he had much of modesty withal So that all these things put together to which more might be added his memory ought to be precious especially with such who have any esteem for virtue heroical fidelity to their Prince or to incomparable learning Among several things of his that are printed are 1 A speech in Parliament concerning Vniformity 2 Sp. concerning ill Counsellours both spoken in 1640. 3 Sp. about Ship-money 5. Dec. 1640. 4 Sp. concerning John Lord Finch lately L. Keeper and the Judges 5 Sp. to the Lords of the upper House after the reading of the Articles against John L. Finch 14. Jan. 1640. 6 Sp. concerning Episcopacy 9. Feb. 1640 the beginning of which is Mr. Speaker he is a great stranger in Israel c. Which Sp. is said by Dr. P. Heylyn to be a bitter Speech against the Bishops upon which account it is much used and quoted by the Presbyterians I have seen another Speech also intit A draught of a Speech concerning Episcopacy found among the L. Falklands papers since his death written with his own hand Oxon. 1644. in 1 sh in qu. The beginning of which is Mr. Speaker whosoever desires this total change c. Also another thing of his intit A discourse concerning Episcopacy Lond. 1660. qu. Published then I presume by one who was not a Friend to Bishops being the same I think that was by Dr. Heylyn taken to be a bitter Speech against them He hath also written A dscourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome several times printed in qu. Whereupon an answer to it being made the Lord came out with a reply All published together by Tho. Triplet sometimes Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards D. of D. and Prebendary of Westminster printed at London 1651. qu. with a dedicatory epistle before them See more in Dr. Hen. Hammond under the year 1660. But before Triplets edition another was put out by Anon. to which J. P. put a Preface to it which is omitted in that of Triplet See more in Hugh Cressy under the year 1674. By this Discourse of infallibility it is apparent that the L. Falkland had framed a judgment touching the R. Cath. Church out of certain Cath. writers who represented it too disadvantagiously and not with such qualifications as the Ch. her self has done He also wrote An answer to a letter of Mr. Walt. Mountague who justifies his change of Religion an 1635. printed at the end of his Discourse of Infalibility an 1651. and A Letter to Mr. Fr. M. an 1636. printed at the end of Five captious questions propounded by a Factor for the Papacy Lond. 1673. qu. As also a Comedy called The marriage night Lond. 1664. qu. At length this learned author being with his Majesty King Ch. 1. at Newbury in Berks. when he was about to fight the Rebels he called for a clean shirt in the morning before the encounter began and being asked the reason for it he answered that if he was slain in the Battle they should not find his body in foul linnen Whereupon his friends endeavouring to disswade him from going into the fight as having no call to it or that he was a military Officer he said he was weary of the times and foresaw much misery to his own Country and did believe he should be out of it before night Into the Battle therefore he did go notwithstanding all perswasions to the contrary and was there slain 20 Sept. 1643. much lamented as a great Parliamentarian saith of all that knew him being a Gentleman of great parts ingenuity and honour courteous and just to all and a passionate promoter of all endeavours of Peace betwixt the King and Parliament Whether the Church of England lost a friend by his death some have doubted Sure it is learning it self had a loss and one of the greatest as many Clergymen have said that ever hapned in that or in the age before His body was conveyed to Oxon and afterwards to Great Tow before mention'd where it was buried in the Church without being carried into his house there Over his grave tho there be not yet any memory extant yet Sir Franc. Wortley of Wortley in Yorkshire Knight and Baronet an admirer of his virtues and learning who stiles him Musarum militumque patronus hath bestowed an Epitaph and an Elegy on him in his book intit Characters and Elegies printed 1646. in qu. His person was little and of no great strength his hair blackish and somewhat flaggy and his eye black and quick He left behind him a most disconsolate Widdow named Letice the Daughter of Sir Rich. Morison of Tooley-Park in Leicestershire Knight the most devout pious and virtuous woman of the time she lived in who dying about
he left the coll tho then Fellow and Bach. of Lawes standing his friends relations and Country went into Spain and being made a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict at Compostella changed his name to Leander de Sancto Martino and at length became D. of D. Thence he went to Doway where he executed the office of publick professor of his faculty and of the Hebrew tongue in the coll or cenobie of S. Vedastus for several years He was Prior of the Benedictine coll of S. Gregory there and the design'd Abbat of Cismar in Germany Vicar General also to the English Benedictines of the Spanish congregation living out of Spain twice President or chief Superior of the Benedictines in England and titular Prior of the Catholick Ch. of Canterbury He was a person of extraordinary eloquence generally knowing in all arts and sciences beloved of all that knew him and his worth and hated by none but by the Puritans and Jesuits Towards his latter end he was invited into England by Doctor Laud Archb. of Canterbury to consult with him about certain important points of Controversie in Religion as those of our authors profession say but W. Prynne who was always an inveterate enemy to Laud tells us that he sent for him into England to reconcile us to Rome or to make a reconciliation between the Church of Rome and England But how true those matters were let such that have read that Archbishops trial judge while I tell you that our author hath written Sacra ars memoriae ad Scripturas divinas in promptu habendas memoriterque ediscendas accommodata Duac 1623. oct At the end of which is this book following Conciliatio Locorum communium totius Scripturae Besides the said two he hath other things which I have not yet seen He also set forth the Bible with glosses in six large volumes the works also as 't is said of Ludov. Blosius and had a hand in that elaborate work intit Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia c. published by Clem. Reyner 1626. But a greater hand I have heard had Aug. Baker of whom more hereafter As for our author Leander he paid his last debt to nature on the seventeenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 having been much vexed in his time by the Jesuits and was buried in the Chappel of the Capuchins situate and being in Somerset-house in the Strand near to London He had been Ordinary of the Dames or Nunns of our Lady of Comfort of Cambray of the Order of S. Benedict and spiritual father to them for many years CHRISTOPHER WHITE a Worcestershire man born as it seems was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. about 1606 took one degree in Arts and became a preacher In 1620. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he was Rector of Letley in Hampshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at Ch. Ch. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1622. qu. 2 Of Oathes their Object form and bond c. in three Sermons in Oxon. on Joshua 9. 19. Lond. 1627. qu. and others which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in winter time before the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Letley before-mentioned leaving behind him the character of a good and edifying preacher a charitable man and a loving neighbour JAMES PERROT natural son of Sir John Perrot sometimes L. Deputy of the Kingdom of Ireland was born in Pembrokshire became a Gent. Com. of Jesus coll in 1586 aged 15 left it without a degree retired to the Inns of Court for a time and afterwards travelling return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman lived on his estate at Haroldston in Pembrokshire was dub'd a Knight and elected a Burgess for several Parliaments in the raign of King James 1. in which shewing himself a frequent and bold if not a passionate speaker especially in that dissolved 6. January 19. Jac. 1. Dom. 1621. and therefore numbred among the ill temper'd spirits therein as the King usually call'd them he was not imprison'd in London or Southwark as some of them were but was sent with Sir Dudley Digges and others into Ireland for their punishment joyned in commission with certain persons under the Great Seal of England for the inquiry after certain matters concerning his Majesties service as well in the government Ecclesiastical and Civil as in point of revenue and otherwise within that Kingdom He hath written The first part of the consideration of humane conditions wherein is contained the moral consideration of a mans self as what who and what manner of man he is Oxon. 1600. qu. Dedic to Tho. Lord Buckhurst Chancellour of the Univer of Oxon Whether any other parts followed I know not Meditations and Prayers on the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandements Printed 1630. in tw besides other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days at Haroldston before mention'd on the fourth day of Feb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six and was buried in the parish Church of S. Mary in the Town and County of Haverford-west to which place Haroldstone adjoyns This Sir James Perrot intermarried with Mary Daughter of Rob. Ashfield of the parish of Chesham in Bucks Esq but died without issue by her CHARLES FITZ-GEFFRY or Fitz-Geoffry Son of Alex. Fitz-Geoffry was born of a gentile family in the County of Cornwall became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1592. aged 17 took the degrees in Arts entred into the Theological function and at length became Rector of S. Dominick in his own Country where he was esteemed a grave and learned Divine as before he was while resident in the University an excellent Latine Poet. His works are The life and death of Sir Francis Drake Which being written in lofty verse when he was Bachelaur of Arts he was by those of his time called The high towering Falcon. Affaniae sive Epigrammata lib. 3. Cenotaphia lib. 1. Oxon. 1601. in oct Divers Sermons as 1 Deaths Sermon unto the living delivered at the funerals of Philippa late Wife of Sir Anth. Rous of Halton in Cornwall on Eccles. 7. 2. Lond. 1620. qu. dedicated to Jo. Pym Esq 2 Elisha his lamentation c. Sermon at the funeral of Sir Ant. Rous late of Halton in Cornwall Knight on 2 Kings 2. 12. Lond. 1622. qu. 3 The curse of Corn-horders with a blessing of seasonable selling in three Sermons on Prov. 11. 26. Lond. 1631. qu. 4 The blessed birth day celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angels anthem Luke 2. 14. Oxon. 1634. and 36. qu. second edition To which are added Holy Transportations in contemplating some of the most observable adjuncts about our Saviours nativity 5 Compassion towards captives chiefly towards our brethren and countrymen who are in miserable bondage in Barbary urged and published in three Sermons on Heb. 13. 3. at Plymouth in Octob. 1636. Oxon. 1637.
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
of Sir Will. Finch of the Mote in St. Martins Parish in the County of Kent but the Widdow of one Morton of the same County Esq was born at Bocton hall in Kent 30. March 1568. educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and thence in the beginning of 1584 he was transplanted to New coll where living in the condition of a Gent. Com. had his Chamber in Hart hall adjoyning and to his Chamber-Fellow there Rich. Baker his Countryman afterwards a Knight and a noted writer But continuing there not long he went to Queens coll where by the benefit of a good Tutor and severe discipline there practiced he became well vers'd in Logick and Philosophy and for a diversion now and then he wrote a Tragedy for the private use of that house called Tancredo On the 8. June 1588. he as a Member of Qu. coll did supplicate the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of the Logick of Aristotle that is to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should determine in the Lent following but whether he was admitted or did determine or took any other degree it doth not appear in any of the University Registers which I have exactly searched and the more for this reason because the author of his life saith that at 19 years of age he proceeded Master of Arts and at that time did read three Lat. Lectures De Ocello which being learned caused a friendship between him and Alberic Gentilis who thereupon ever after called him Henrice mi Ocelle The said author also saith that the University Treasury was rob'd by Townsmen and poor Scholars of which such light was given by a Letter written to Hen. Wotton from his Father in Kent occasioned by a dream relating to that matter that the Felons were thereupon discovered and apprehended c. But upon my search into the University Registers Records Accompts c. from 1584. to 1589. in which time our author Wotton was resident in Oxon I find no such robbery committed To pass by other mistakes in the said life especially as to time which are not proper to set down in this place I shall go forward After our author had left Oxon he betook himself to travel into France Germany and Italy and having spent about 9 years in those places he returned into England and became Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex with whom continuing till towards his fall he left England once more and retiring to Florence became so noted to the Great Duke of Tuscany that he was by him privately dispatched away with letters to James 6. K. of Scots under the name of Octavio Baldi to advise him of a design to take away his life Which message being welcome to that K. he was by him when made K. of England honoured with the degree of Knighthood sent thrice Embassador to the Reipub. of Venice once to the States of the Vnited Provinces twice to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy once to the united Princes of Vpper Germany in the Convention at Heylbrune also to the Archduke Leopald to the Duke of Wittenbergh to the Imperial Cities of Strasburgh and Vlme as also to the Emperor Ferdinando the second On the 15. July 1619. he returned from his Embassie at Venice with a vain hope of obtaining the office of Secretary of State but missing his design I cannot yet tell to the contrary but that he was sent to Venice again Sure 't is that about 1623. he had the Provostship of Eaton coll confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day being all the reward he had for the great services he had done the Crown of England He hath written these things following Epistola de Casparo Scioppio Amberg 1613. oct This Scioppius was a man of a restless spirit and a malicous pen who in books against K. Jam. 1. took occasion from a sentence written by Sir Hen. Wotton in a Germans Album viz. Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causâ to twit him in the teeth what principles in Religion were professed by him and his Embassador Wotton then at Venice where the said sentence was also written in several glass windows Epist ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir Augustae Vindelicae an 1612. The elements of Architecture Lond. 1624. qu. in two parts Reprinted in Reliquiae Wottonianae an 1651. 54. and 1672. c. oct Translated into Latin and printed with the Great Vitruvius and a great Elogy concerning Wotton put before it Amstel 1649. fol. Plausus vota ad Regem è Scotiâ reducem Lond. 1633. in a large qu. or rather in a little fol. Reprinted by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in a book intit by him Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct 'T is in English also in Reliquiae Wotton Parallel between Rob. late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Bucks Lond. 1641. in four sh in qu. Short view of the life and death of George Duke of Bucks Lond. 1642. in four sheets and an half in qu. Difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Bucks and Robert Earl of Essex Characters of and Observations on some Kings of England The election of the new Duke of Venice after the death of Giovanno Bembo Philosophical survey of education or moral Architecture Aphorisms of education The great action between Pompey and Caesar extracted out of the Rom. and Greek writers Meditations on 22 Chap. of Gen. Christmas day Letters to and characters of certain personages Various Poems All or most of which books or treatises are reprinted in a book intit Reliquiae Wottonian◠before-mentioned Lond. 1651. 54. 1672. and 1685. in oct published by Is Walton at the end of Sir H. Wottons life Letters to the Lord Zouch Printed at the latter end of Reliq Wottom in the edition of 1685. The state of Christendom or a more exact and curious discovery of many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the times Lond. 1657. fol. Letters to Sir Edm. Bacon Lond. 1661. oct He hath also several Letters extant to George Duke of Bucks in a book called Cabala Mysteries of State Lond. 1654. qu. and others in Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Journal of his Embassies to Venice -MS fairly written in the Library of Edw. Lord Conway Three propositions to the Count d'Angosciola in matter of duel comprehending as it seems the latitude of that subject MS. sometimes in the Library of my most worthy Friend Ralph Sheldon Esq now among the books in the Coll. of Arms. The first proposition is Quale sia stato c. The said Count was a Gentleman of Parma from whence he was banished and afterwards lived in the Court of Savoy where he was esteemed a very punctual Duelist and there managed many differences between Gentlemen Other MSS. also of his composition do go from hand
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
same with him who was a Native of Maidstone in Kent and Fellow of Kings College in Cambridge where he was esteemed an excellent Philosopher and the same who was afterwards Bac. of Div. and Parson of Adlington in Kent and much concern'd in the matter of Eliz. Barton the holy Maide of Kent An. Dom. 1514. An. 6 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Commiss John Thornden or Thornton written this year in the public Reg. Episcopus Syrymensis Lawrence Stubbes D. D. of Magd. Coll. Edward Wylsford D. D. Hugh Whytehead D. D. c. Proct. Leon. Huchenson of Ball. Coll. Bor. Tho. Ware of Oriel Coll. Aur. Apr. 27. The senior was afterwards Master of Vnivers Coll. and the other Provost of Oriel Grammarians Jul. 3. Tho. Thompson a secular Chaplain Octob. 12. Thom. Bond. adm to inform One John Ball a Scholar of Grammar who had spent twelve years in Logic and Grammar supplicated that he might be admitted to inform c. Granted conditionally that he compose an hundred Versus in praise of the University against the Act following and that in the time of the Act he fasten them on S. Maries Ch. door besides other Exercise then imposed on him Also one Thomas Hatton a Scholar of Gram. supplicated to inform c. whether granted I know not Bach. of Arts. Jan. 16. William Tresham of Merton Coll. Besides him were 20 more admitted at least and about thirty supplicated that were not admitted this year among whom was Reginald Pole of Magd. Coll. who was admitted in the year following Bach. of Canon Law Jul. … John Holyman of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bristol Besides him were 30 at least who were admitted and eight at least who supplicated among whom were 1 Dermitius de Meara an Irish man who had studied the Canon Law in this University in Paris and in Cambridge 16 years 2 Dermit Rian another Irish man who had studied the said Law in the said Universities 12 years Both these Irish men were afterwards well dignified in their own Country Mast of Arts. About 24 were admitted and about 12 that supplicated who were not admitted this year yet not one was either a Bishop or a Writer as I can yet find Bach. of Div. Dec. 10. Fr. John de Castro Banoniensi Jan. 20. Fr. John Harvey a Minorite He was now Prior or Gardian of the Coll. of Minorites or Franciscans in the S. Suburb of Oxon. In which Office he succeeded Dr. Goodfield Besides these two were six more admitted that had before opposed in Divinity and twelve who supplicated among whom were 1 Thomas Rowland sometimes written and called Rowland Penticost a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict and now or soon after Lord Abbat of Abendon in Berks. 2 Thomas Wells or Wellys a Monk of the same Order and afterwards if I mistake not Prior pro tempore of Gloc. College near Oxon. See another Thomas Wells among the Incorporations an 1510. Doct. of Law Not one admitted in the Canon or Civil Law and but one named Giles Hackluyt LL. B. who supplicated to be D. of Can. Law and but one named Thomas Colfox who supplicated to be D. of Civ Law Doct. of Phys Not one admitted only Hen. Marsh Bac. of Arts and Phys supplicated for that degree May 18. Doct. of Div. June… Thomas Ryngstede Monk of S. Edmunds Bury now a Student in Glocester Coll. Two of both his Names have been eminent Authors one was a Dominican living in the Reign of K. Edw. 4. the other LL. D. and in great esteem during the Reign of K. Hen. 6. In my searches also I find one Richard Ringsted a Benedictin who was Prior of the Novices living in Gloc. College in this University 30 Hen. 6. Dom. 1452 and Author of Commentaria super 29 Capitula parabolorum Salomonis MS. in Bodl. libr. in t lib. med 121. The beginning is In absconditis parabolorum conversabitur c. These Commentaries are no more than ordinary Lectures which he read in the Schools at Oxon. Oct. 16. Robert Cleyton of Lincoln Coll. Mar. 20. Thomas Beel a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin See more of him among the Bishops under the year 1528. Besides these were three that supplicated that were not admitted this year of whom Rob. Schowldham before mention'd was one and Rowl Philipps M. A. an eminent Preacher of his time afterwards Warden of Mert. College another An. Dom. 1515. An. 7 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Edmund Wylsford D. of D. and others Proct. John Cottysford of Lincoln William Fossey of Allsoules Coll. Both which were elected together on the first day of Easter Term. Grammarians Edward Pole and Henry Harchar Secular Chaplains did supplicate to inform but whether they were admitted it appears not Bach. of Arts. June 27. Reginald Pole of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury Octob. 10. Rich. Tracy See among the Writers under the year 1557. Jan. 14. John Holway One of both his Names became Prior of Bathe an 1525. as I have told you under the year 1503. Qu. … 9. James Blythe c. Besides these were about 56 admitted and about 25 who supplicated that were not admitted this year On the 18. of December died Will. Gilberd Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. who in his Epitaph in the Chappel of the said Coll. is stiled Archidiaconus Salopiae but the day and year when he was admitted Bach. of Arts appears not in the public Registers In a certain Writing dated 24 March 1515 which is a quarter of an year after W. Gilberd died I find one Mr. Henry Marten to occur Archdeacon of Salop together with Mr. William Webbe Archdeacon of Hereford and William Porter Chaunter thereof so that I suppose that the said Marton succeeded in that Dignity William Gilberd Doct. of Musick Robert Perrot Bach. of Musick and about this time Organist of Magd. College supplicated that he might be licensed to proceed in the said Faculty His request was granted conditionally that he compose a Mass and one Song before he really proceed or stand in the Comitia but whether he was admitted or licensed to proceed it doth not appear in the Register This Robert Perrot who was the second Son of George Perrot of Haroldston near Haverford West in Pembrokeshire of an ancient and knightly Family living there was an eminent Musitian of his time and did compose several Church Services and other Matters which have been since antiquated He was a Benefactor to the said College as his Widow and his eldest Son Simon afterwards were and is Ancestor to the Perrots of North-Ley in Oxfordshire I mean to that Family of the Perrots for there are two that live there who are called Gentlemen Perrots He gave way to Fare 20 April 1550 and was buried in the North Isle or Alley joyning to the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. Bach. of Civ Law Jul. 2. Maurice Byrchensaw the eminent
Principal or Supreme Moderator of Civ Law School in St. Edwards Parish Oxon. Feb. 26. Thom. Barret of New Inn He was soon after Principal of the said Inn and in 1540 became Canon of Kings Coll. or the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. on the site of that of Card. Wolsey One John Hewys LL. Bac. who had practised the said faculty in the Court of the Lord Cardinal Wolsey supplicated to be Doctor of the Civ Law but occurs not admitted I take this Person to be the same with Dr. Hewes who was a forward Man in examining Protestants that were to suffer upon account of Religion in Queen Maries Reign Doct. of Can. Law Feb. 17. John Southwode Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester and Canon residentiary of Wells He died and was buried at Wells 26. John Rede sometimes of New Coll. now Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. beforemention'd I have spoken of another John Rede in the year 1507. One Robert Woodward Warden of All 's Coll. occurs Doctor of Decrees this year but when he was admitted it appears not Will. Cleyton also mention'd in 1527 who had practised the Canon Law several years in the Court of the Lord Cardinal Wolsey supplicated to be admitted Doctor of that faculty but occurs not admitted Doct. of Div. Jun. 28. Fa. Reb Basyng a 〈…〉 He was about this time an Abbat or Prior There also supplicated for the said Degree Fa. William Thryske Abbat of Fountaines in Yorkshire Fa. Rich. Gloucester a Benedictine and as I think an Abbat Tho. Marshall c. ☞ Not one incorporation this year only that of Rich. Porte M. A. of Cambridge Apr. 2. which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1529. An. 21. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Cottysford Proct. John Warner of All 's Coll. Tho. Duke of New Coll. Ap. 7. The Senior of which Proctors was after he had been 7 weeks in his office admitted to the reading of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Bach. of Arts. Dec. 3. John Shepreve or Shepry of C. C. Coll. now in great esteem for his sufficiencies in the Greek and Hebrew tongues 13. John Whyte of New Coll. He was afterwards successively B. of Linc. and Winchester Forty eight more or thereabout were admitted and but six that supplicated for the said Degree who were not this year admitted Bach. of Civil Law March 3. Henry Cole of New Coll. I have spoken largely of him among the Writers Besides him were but ten Bachelers of the Civil Law admitted and but one that supplicated for that Degree Bach. of Can. Law Apr. 2. John Salysbury I take him to be the same who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Qu. Dec. 2. Will. Thomas See among the Writers under the year 1554. Fifteen in all were admitted this year and about nine there were that supplicated who were not admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 13. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Carlile Jun. 21. John Akers a Can. of Card. Coll. He was somtimes of the University of Cambridge where he was esteemed a learned Man c. Besides these two were about 25 admitted and but six that supplicated for the said Degree among whom were Robert Talbot of New Coll. afterwards a learned and judicious Antiquary Thom. Goldwell afterwards B. of St. Asaph and Leonard Cox the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks. Bach. of Physick Jun. ult John Warner M. A. Fellow of All 's Coll. and one of the Proctors of the University was admitted Bach. of Physick and at the same time was licensed to practise the same faculty He was a learned Man of his time but hath published nothing and a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Benefices and Dignities as I shall tell you elsewhere Opponents in Div. May 7. Father John ap Rice a Cistercian and Abbat of Stratmarkell in the Dioc. of St. Asaph He was now resident in St. Bernards Coll. where he obtained his knowledge in Divinity but whether he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences which usually follows opposition in Divinity it appears not The other two Fathers that opposed with him were admitted as I am now about to tell you Bach. of Div. Jun. 28. Fath. Rich. Horte or Hart Dec. 17. Fat Thom. Bylond Can. Regulars Both which were about this time either Abbats or Priors For the said Degree to which but 4 in all were admitted supplicated at least nine among whom were Fath. John Hayward a Can. regular the same if I mistake not that fitted for the University Father Rob. Persons the Jesuit as I have before told you Fath. Thomas Richmond a Cistercian Monk Fa. Jo. Wygge an Austin Fryer c. Doct. of Law Not one in the Canon or Civ Law was admitted or did proceed this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 16. John Moreman of Exeter Coll. This Person who was very learned in his time and hath as 't is thought written several matters of his faculty but lost was born at Southole in Devon and after he had left his Coll. became Vicar of Mayhanet in Cornwall where with much labour he taught the Parishioners to say the Lords Prayer Belief and 10 Commandments in the English tongue about the latter end of the Reign of K. Hen. 8. being the first of all that did so in that Country He was afterwards as 't is said Dean of Exeter and being 〈◊〉 to the B. thereof was as John Fox saith made Bishop of that place after his decease This Coadjutorship was in Oct. 1554 as he saith but how he could succeed the then Bishop who was Dr. Voysey I cannot yet perceive Voysey died in 1555 and Dr. Moreman died at Mayhanet before Oct. 1554. Feb. 1. Fath. Edm. Brycot a Minorite or Franciscan One Brycot was a famous Philosopher of Oxon as his Books shew but his Christian name I think was Thomas This Brycot was the same if I mistake not with Dr. Biycot Parson of Hadham in Hertfordshire in the Reign of Qu. Mary 17. Fr. Tho. Charnocke a Dominican or Black Fryer 24. Rich. Mawdley or Mawdlen Archdeacon of Leicester This person who was a zealous and frequent Preacher against the Lutherans died in 1530 whereupon Steph. Gardiner Dr. of the Civ Law of Cambridge succeeded him in that Archdeaconry in the latter end of March 1531 but he keeping it but till Sept. following was then succeeded in that Dignity by Edw. Fox who was afterwards Bishop of Hereford 24. Will. Mortymer He was soon after Margaret Professor of this University Mar. 15 Rob. Cooke He with Mortymer Moreman and Mawdlen before mention'd were zealous Enemies against the Kings Divorce from Qu. Catherine this year Incorporations Nov. 17. John Hopton a Dominican or Black Fryer D. of D. of the University of Bononia was incorporated by these words spoken by the Commissary from the Chancellour's Chair Pater Johan nos admittimus te incorporamus ad standum in eodem gradu statu quo stetisti Bononiae ac concedimus facultatem legendi disputandi
a Northamptonshire Man born I here set down least some unwary reader hereafter might take him to be the same Barthelem Clerke who became Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1554 afterwards Proctor of that University Dean of the Arches and a wise and eloquent Man He hath written De Curialâ— sive Aulico printed at Lond. about 1571. in oct being about that time favoured by Thom. Sackvill Lord Buckhurst and another book intit Fidelis servi subdito infideli responsio una cum errorum calumniarum quarundam examine quae continentur in septimo libro de visibili Ecclesiae Monarchia à Nicholao Sandero conscripta Lond. 1573. qu. He was living in 1593. Admitted 112. Mast of Arts. May 18. Joh. Philippus de alto saxo Franc. Puccius Florentinus June…Tho Spark of Magd. Coll. Jul. 2. Ralph Sherwyn of Exeter Coll. 24. Tho. Banks He is the same I suppose who published A Sermon against bad Spirits of malignity malice and unmercifulness on Luke 6. 37. 38. Lond. 1586. oct I find another Tho. Banks who writes himself metaphorically Piscator sed vere Theologus mere Praeco Evangelicus who published Concio ad clerum jamdudum Cantabrigiae habita in Luc. cap. 5. ver 10. Lond. 1611. qu. Admitted 49. Bach. of Phys Mar. 31. Thom. Cogan of Oriel Coll. He was the only Bach. who was admitted besides whom only one occurs that supplicated namely Thom. Twyne of C. C. Coll. Bach. of Div. May 27. Lewis Sweit of All 's Coll. He was about this time Archdeacon of Totness in the place as I conceive of Oliver Whiddon Two more besides him were admitted and nine there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom some were not at all admitted in this University as John Wâ—olton a Student in Divinity afterwards Bishop of Exeter Tho. Cole and Tho. Brasbridge of Magd. Coll. and Nich. Marston of Ch. Ch. now Residentiary of Exeter Brother to Will. Marston of the same house LL. D. and Chantor of the said Church of Exeter who died in Nov. 1599. Doct. of Civ Law Jun. 28. Will. Jones Vicar General to the Bishop of Bathe and Wellâ— and double or treble beneficed in the Diocess thereof Felix Lewys sometimes of Hart Hall afterwards made Bach. of the LL. at Doway now Principal of New Inn was admitted the same day He afterwards lived in the City of Bristow and died beyond the Seas in 1591. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 22. Will. James Master of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop May 27. Tob. Mathew President of St. Johns Coll. Afterwards an Archbishop Geffry or Griffith Lewys now Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Tho. Wilson promoted to the Deanery of that Church was admitted the same day In 1577 he was installed Canon of the sixth stall in the Collegiat Ch. of St. Peter in Westminster in the place of one Walt. Jones M. A. who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Matthew Hutton after he was made Dean of York an 1568. In 1594 he became Dean of Glocester in the place of Anth. Rudd promoted to the See of St. David and dying in 1607 Tho. Morton succeeded him in that dignity being the same most worthy Person who was afterwards Bishop of Durham I have seen a Copy of the will of this Dr. Lewys made 5. Feb. 1606 and proved 16. July 1607 wherein he desires that his body might be buried either in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester Worcester Hereford or in Westminster in all which Churches he had Dignities July 23. John Sprint of Ch. Ch. originally of C. C. Coll. was then admitted He was now Prebendary of Winchester Residentiary of Salisbury and a Person famed for an excellent Preacher In Feb. 1577 he succeeded Giles Lawrence in the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire who I suppose resign'd in 1580 he succeeded George Carew in the Deanery of Bristow in which City or near it he was born being the Son of John Sprint an Apothecary of the said place and in the beginning of Feb. 1583 he was made Treasures of Salisbury He died in the latter end in Feb. of 1589 and was succeeded in the said Deanery by Dr. Anth. Watson the same who was afterwards Bishop of Chichester Incorporations May 17. Griffith Toy Bac. of Arts of Cambridge He was now a Member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. and soon after made M. of Arts of this University and Prebendary of Norwych Jun… Hector Viellius Bach. of Arts of the Univ. of Caen in Normandy Feb. 6. George Savage Bach. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine in Brabant He was originally a member of Ch. Church and was now Archdeacon of Glocester in the place of Guy Eaton but was not I presume the same G. Savage who was half Brother to Dr. Bonner B. of London and Chancellour of Chester Thom. Willoughby Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated but the day or month when I cannot yet find This year June 23 he was installed the third Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Edm. Freke and was succeeded in that dignity by John Coldwell M. D. of St. John Coll. in Cambridge installed therein 7. Januar. 1585. He was afterwards the first married Bishop that sate in the Cath. Chair of Salisbury In Apr. this year one Rich. Wills a Mast of A. of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated for incorporation but was not admitted See among the writers under the year 1574. An. Dom. 1575. An. 17 Elizab. An. 18 Elizab. Chancellour the same Vicechanc. the same without any nomination or election Proct. John Vnderhill of New Coll. Hen. Savile of Mert. Coll. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. May 17. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall He was Son of Caesar Dalmarius of the City of Trevignie in Italy Doctor of Physick and Physician to Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth Son of Pet. Maria Dalmarius of the said City Doctor of Laws but descended from those of his name living at Frejus or Cividad del Friuli in the confines of Italy See more in 1583. Jul. 5. Giles Tomson of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards of All 's Coll. and Bishop of Glocester Jan. 27. Rich. Lewes See among the Bach. of Div. in 1584. Feb. 19. Edw. Hobie of Trin. Coll. 29. Edw. Transham or Stransham of St. Johns Coll. This Person who was born in Magd. Parish in the Suburbs of Oxon left all he had and went to Doway in 1577. Where after he had spent some time in the study of Philosophy and Divinity in the English Coll. he was made a Priest Afterwards he went into the mission of England and for a time continued in Oxfordshire At length being taken imprison'd and condemned suffered death at London with one Nich. Woodfen another Priest 21. Januar. 1585 aged 30 or thereabouts Admitted 109. Bach. of Civ Law Jun. 30. Thom. Emerford or Hemerford He afterwards left the Church of England and went to the English Coll. at Rome where being made a Priest returned into his own Country but being
their zealous profession of the Gospel and also that the Count had been trained up in good Arts as well as in Divinity June 24. Thomas Bilson of New John Rainolds of C. C. Coll. Besides these three were but three more admitted Doct. of Law Jul… John Daye of Magd. Coll. He became Vicar Gen. to the B. of Bathe and Wells an 1587. He was the only person who was admitted Doctor of his Faculty this year ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was adm this year Doct. of Div. March 27. Ralph Tomson of Brasn Coll. He was now one of the Chaplains to the Queen and dying 18 Aug. 1591 was buried in the Church of Settrington of which he was Rector in Yorkshire Apr… Robert Dorset Canon of Ch. Ch. In the beginning of this year 1579 he became Dean of Chester in the place of Rich. Langworth or Longworth D. D. of Cambridge deceased who before had succeeded Dr. Jo. Piers but the year when I cannot tell This Dr. Dorset who was also Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire died 29 May 1580 and was buried in the Church there whereupon one Tho. Madesley or Modesley succeeded him in his Deanery July 3. John Langworth of New Coll. This person who was Son of Lancelot Langworth of Kertlebury in Worcestershire was installed Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Richard Longworth before mention'd an 1579 was afterwards Prebendary of Canterbury and in 1588 Feb. 4. was admitted Archdeacon of Wells but in whose place I cannot tell because from the death of John Rugg Archdeacon of Wells which hapned in 1581 to the year 1587 the Register of that Church is wanting or defective In the said Archdeaconry of Wells succeeded him one Steph. Nelson but when unless in the year 1610 I cannot tell and in his Prebendary of Worcester John Hanmer an 1614. John Woolton who became Bishop of Exeter this year did in the month of May supplicate for the degree of D. of D. but whether admitted or diplomated I find not Incorporations May…Edward Graunt or Grant Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and chief Master of Westminster School June…John Langworth Bach. of Div. of the same University In the month following he was admitted Doct. of his Faculty as before I have told you and proceeded as a Member of New Coll. in the Act that followed July 14. Eubuâ—e Thelwall Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in the said University He was afterwards Master of Arts of this University Counsellour at Law Master of the Alienation Office one of the Masters of the Chancery a Knight and at length Principal of and an especial Benefactor to Jesus College in Oxon. He died 8 Oct. 1630 aged 68 years and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that Coll. Godfrey Goldsborough Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated the same day This person who had been Fellow of Trin. Coll. in that University was installed Archdeacon of Worcester in the place of Dr. Thomas Powell resigning 15 July 1579 he being then Prebendary of Caddington in the Cath. Church of S. Paul and on the 12 August 1581 was installed Prebendary of the Church there in the place of John Bullyngham promoted to the See of Glocester At length upon the death to the said Bullyngham he became Bishop of Glocester an 1598 at which time he had license to keep his Preb. of Worcester in commendam and dying 26 May 1604 was buried in a little Chappel on the North side of a fair large Chappel at the East end of the Choire of the Cath. Church at Glocester Over his Grave was soon after a raised or Altar-Monument erected with the proportion of a Bish in his Pontifie 〈◊〉 lying thereon with this Inscription Aureus Fulvo nomen sortitus ab auro Hâc Goldisburgus nunc requiescit humo Scilicet orta solo pretiosa metalla parente In matrem redeunt inveterata suam He left behind him two Sons John and Godfrey and other Children as I conceive besides a Brother named John Richard Wood Bach. of Div. of the same University was incorporated the same day July 14. He was afterwards Doctor of his Faculty and became Can. or Preb. of Westminster in the place of John Read deceased in the month of May 1587. John Keltride M. A. of the same Univ. was also then July 14. incorporated in the same degree Whether he be the same with John Keltridge who wrot Exposition or Readings on the Lords Prayer on Luke 11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. as also A Sermon at the making of Ministers on 1 Tim. 3. 1 2 3. printed at Lond. 1578 as also of a Sermon against the Jesuits on Deut. 6. 4. Lond. 1581. qu. I cannot tell Quaere Creations Feb. 12. Richard Barnes M. of A. of this University and Bach. of Div. of Cambridge now Bishop of Durham was actually created Doctor of Divinity by certain persons appointed by the Members of the University but whether at London or elsewhere it appears not An. Dom. 1580. An. 22 Elizab. An. 23 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Arthur Yeldard D. D. President of Trin. Coll. July 13. Proct. Rob. Crayne of Ball. Coll. Tho. Stone of Ch. Ch. Elected in Congregation 13 Apr. The junior was afterwards Parson of Warkton in Northamptonshire and a great promoter of Presbytery He died there 1617. Bach. of Arts. June 13. Rob. Wright of Trin. Coll. Sabin Chambers of Broadgates Hall Hen. Cuffe of Trin. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield the other a Jesuâ— and the last an eminent Grecian Jan. 13. Francis Godwin of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards successively B. of Landaff and Hereford Feb. 3. John Rider of Jesus Coll. He was also afterwards a B. in Ireland 17. Will. Hubbocke lately of Magd. Hall now of C. C. Coll. Admitted 103. Mast of Arts. June 15. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. March 10. Thomas Gibson of Queens Coll. originally as it seems of that of Mert. One of both his names hath published A fruitful Sermon preached at Okeham in Rutlandshire on 1 Cor. 9. 16. Lond. 1584 in oct Whether the same with him who was Master of Arts I cannot tell Another Tho. Gibson also I find who published The blessing of a good King in eight Sermons c. Lond. 1614 oct whether he was of Oxon I know not Mar. 16. Chacles Turnbull John Spenser of C. C. Coll. Adm. 49. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was this year admitted only three supplicated for that degree Five Bach. of Div. were admitted yet not one of them can I mention according to the method that I follow Doct. of Law July 20. Daniel Donne of All 's Coll. now Principal of New Inn. He was afterwards Dean of the Arches Master of the Requests one of the Commissioners appointed by Q. Elizabeth to treat with the Danes at Bremen an 1602 a Knight and one of the two first Burgesses elected by the Univ. of Oxon after the Members thereof were impowr'd to send Burgesses to Parliament an 1603. He died 15
Sept. 1617. One of both his names was M. of Arts and a Minister Author of A subpoena from the Star Chamber of Heaven Serm. at Pauls Cross 4 Aug. 1622 on Luke 3. 9. Lond. 1623. oct and perhaps of other things ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. June…Steph Townsend of Ch. Ch. July 8. Philip Bisse of Magd. Coll. He was now Archdeacon of Taunton in the place of Justin Lancaster and Subdean of Wells in which first Dignity he was succeeded by Mathew Sutcliff LL. D. in January 1585. This Dr. Bisse who was Son of Rich. Bisse of Stokeland in Somersetshire was an especial Benefactor to Wadham Coll. by giving thereunto 2000 Books valued at 700 l. John Brownyng of Cambridge was admitted the same day July 15. Edmund Lilly lately of Magd. Coll. and about this time Master of that of Balliol He was an excellent Divine universally read in the Fathers all whose Opinions he would reckon up upon any question at Divinity disputations in Ball. College and that with such volubility of language and rivers of eloquence as made all covet to hear him and his very enemies to admire him On the last of Nov. 1591 he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire but whether in the place of Dr. John Sprint who died in the latter end of 1589 I know not He the said Dr. Lilly was buried in the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon 12 Feb. 1609. Nich. Bond of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was now Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen became Canon of the fifth Stall in S. Peters Church at Westminster on the death of John Rugge an 1582 and in the beginning of 1590 was elected President of the said Coll. he being then Rector of Alresford in Hampshire In the said Prebendship he was succeeded by Will. Robinson D. D. Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire Brother by the Mothers side to Dr. Will. Laud who was installed therein 5 of March an 1607 and in his Presidentship succeeded John Harding D. of D. Jan. 24. Thomas Bilson of New Coll. He was afterwards successively B. of Worcester and Winchester Incorporations July 12 being the next day after the Act were fifteen Cambr. Masters incorporated among whom Rich. Clayton and Will. Smyth were two but whether either of them were afterwards a Bishop Writer or man of note I cannot ye find Jan. 26. Alexander Hume M. of A. of S. Andrews in Scotland See more of him in Adam Hyll among the Writers an 1594. nu 275. March 6. John Hottoman a French man Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Valence One John Hotman was Preb. of Sarum See in Will. Camden among the Writers an 1623. Albericus Gentilis an Italian Doct. of the Civ Law of the Univ. of Perugia was incorporated the same day On the 8 July supplicated to be incorporated one John Keeper Mast of Arts of the University of Lovaine but being a suspected Papist he was put aside An. Dom. 1581. An. 23 Elizab. An. 24 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Master of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 13. In his absence Oliver Wythyngton Doct. of Phys and Dean of Battel in Sussex supplied his place Proct. Rob. Crayne again Rich. Maddock of All 's Coll. Apr. 5. The junior of which Proctors renouncing his Office because he was about to travel into remote parts in order to which he supplicated the Convocation that he might have a faculty granted to him to preach the Word of God throughout the whole World Mr. Hen. Beaumont of All 's Coll. became his Deputy Bach. of Arts. Apr. 6. John Lloyd of New Coll. an excellent Grecian June 29. Oxen Wood. See among the Masters of Arts an 1584. July 7. Jeremy Corderoy of S. Alb. Hall Oct. 25. Henry Parry Will. Fulbeck of C. C. Coll. The first of which two last was afterwards B. of Worcester Nov. 18. John Smith of S. John's Coll. Both his names being common I must therefore tell you that he was the same who afterwards wrot on the Lords Prayer and the Creed Rich. Field of Magd. Hall was adm on the same day Dec. 16. Will. Pilsworth of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland Jan. 19. John Milâ—ard See among the Masters 1584. Jan. 30. Richard Fowns William Sutton of Ch. Ch. Feb. 8. Anthony Shirley of Hart Hall He was afterwards of All 's Coll. and a famous Traveller 21. Peter Allibond of Magd. Hall Admitted 117. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Charles Pinner of New Coll. Not one besides him was this year admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 12. Ralph Stanford of Oriel Coll. In the year after upon pretence of being weary of the Heresie as he call'd it practised in the University he left his Fellowship of the said house went to the English Seminary at Rheimes in France where he was made a Priest May. 29. Emanuel Barnes of Magd. Coll. He was Son of Dr. Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham was afterwards D. of D. of the University of Basil in Germany and eminent for his learning July 4. John Davies of Glocester Hall 8. Edward Hutchins of Brasn Coll. Dec. 1. Thomas Pett of Mert. Coll. He was expelled that house for not taking the Oath of Supremacy and afterwards going into Ireland became a Judge there Jan. 3. Leonard Hutten Thomas Ravys John Howson of Ch. Ch. Admitted 89. Bach. of Phys Jan. 15. Fabianus Niphus or Fabiand à Nipho an Italian Not one besides him was this year admitted Bach. of Div. July 1. Rob. Hoveden Warden of All 's 5. Meredith Hanmer of C. C. 7. John Vnderhyll Rector of Linc. Nov. 15. John Chardon of Exeter Coll. Dec. 11. Thom. White of Magd. Hall March 22. John Thornborough of Magd. Coll. Adm. 11. Doct. of Law June… Will. Prytherd or Prichard of Jesus Coll. For the degree of Doct. of Law supplicated Hen. Dithick Bach. of Law Archdeacon of Carlile and now or lately Chancellour of the Diocess belonging thereunto but whether he was admitted I cannot yet find In his Chancellourship of Carlile succeeded him George Dethick M. A. and in his Archdeaconry George Warewyck but the time when I cannot yet find nor could my Friend Mr. Hugh Todd Canon of Carlile tell me tho no man more than he is conversant among the Registers and Records of that Church Doct. of Phys July 11. John Barefoot of New Coll. Thomas Hall of Broadgates Hall Will. Donne M. A. and Bach. of Phys supplicated to be Doctor of the said Faculty in Feb. but was not admitted See in the next year Doct. of Div. July 1. Rob. Hoveden of All 's Coll. He accumulated Thomas Sparke of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day 7. John Vnderhyll of Linc. Coll. He accumulated March 13. James Cottingtom of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards if not at this time Archdeacon of Surrey and Chauntor of the Church at Wells He died in the latter end of 1605 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Dr. Arth. Lake
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
large and learned Pref. of about 16 leaves in oct written by the said Josselin and reprinted by L'isle 2 The words of Aeilfric Abbot of St. Albons and also of Maâ—â—sbury taken out of his Epistle written to Wulfine Bishop of Sâ—yrburne c. 3 The Lords Prayer the â—reed and ten Commandments in the Saxon and English tongue This W. L'isle died in 1637 and was buried as I presume at Wilburgham beforemention'd Creations Jul. 17. Matthew Gwinne M. A. of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon who had studied Physick ten years was then actually created Doct. of Physick by virtue of two Letters of the Chancellour of the University for that purpose Sept. 24. The most illustrious heroe Pre-Johannes de la Fri Eques Charnotensis so he is written in the publick Reg. Embassadour from the King of France to the Queens Majesty of England Nichol. Ruffus Dominus St. Aubin Ludovic Baro D'Orbee created the same day Which three Nobles were actually created Masters of Arts and were with great civility treated by the Heads of the University An. Dom. 1594. An. 36 Elizab. An. 37 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Lillye to continue in the said office till the Chancellour otherwise please Proct. Hen. Foster of Brasn Coll. Hen. Cuffe of Mert. Coll. Apr. 10. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 5. Tobias Matthew of Ch. Ch. He was Son of Tob. Matthew who was afterwards Archb. of York and after he had taken the Degree of M. A. he became a Jesuit and at length a Knight as I shall tell you at large in the 2d vol. 22. Will. Burton of Brasn Coll. He is to be remembred also in the 2. vol. Jul. 1. Will. Laud of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Archib of Canterbury Dec. 11. Edm. Deane of Merton Jan. 27. Tho. Thomson of Qu. Feb. 22. Hayward Townshend of St. Maries hall Coll. Thom Ireland of Linc. Coll. was admitted the same day See among the Doct. of Div. an 1611. 28. Alexander Spicer of Exeter Mar. 1. Will. Vaughan of Jes Coll. 7. Thom. Cheast of Oriel Coll. See among the Masters an 1598. Adm. 195. Bach. of Law Jul. 1. James Whitlock of St. Johns Coll. Jul. 12. Franc. Clerke or Clarke Besides these two were 4 more admitted and two that supplicated who were not admitted this year Mast of Arts. Apr. 16. Tho. Fryth of All 's Coll. May 13. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Qu. Coll. 3. Walt Wylshman of Broadgates lately of Exeter Coll. Dec. 12. Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. Jan. 15. Rob. Moor of New Coll. Adm. 7â— Bach. of Div. May 16. George Carleton of Mert. Jun. 27. Joh. Williams of All 's Jul. 2. Rich. Latewarr of St. Joh. Coll. 4. Will. Tooker of New Dec. 16. Hen. Ayray of Qu. Coll. Adm. â—1 Doct. of Law Jul. 9. Christopher Helme of Merton Coll. In 1618 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Barnabas Goch or Gough Doct. of Law being about that time Rector of Bredon in the said Diocess in which office he was succeeded by Jam. Littleton Bach. of Law an 1628. The said Goch or Gough did succeed Tho. Wood LL. D. an 1610. and Wood Rich. Cosin the eminent Civilian an 1598. but whom Cosin succeeded in 1578 or thereabouts I cannot tell Dec. 10. Rob. Masters of All 's Coll. He was about this time Principal of St. Albans hall and afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Rochester and of the Dioc. of Lichfield and Coventry He died 10. Jul. 1625. aged 63 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield Jan. 25. Edward Spurroway of All 's Coll. On the sixth of July Ralph Winwood M. of A. and Bach. of the Civ Law of Magd. Coll. supplicated to be admitted Doct. of the faculty but whether admitted it appears not Doct. of Phys Jul. 1. Barthelmew Warner of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of Physick and superior reader of Lynacre's Lecture He was buried in the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of Oxford 26. January 1618 as I have else where told you Doct. of Div. Jun. 25. Rich. Lewys of Exeter Coll. July 4. Francis Cox Will. Tooker of New Coll. Henry Ball of New Coll. also was admitted the same day being about this time Archdeacon of Chichester 〈◊〉 He died in the beginning of the year 1603. Jul. 4. Miles Smith of Brasn Coll. The same who was afterwards Bishop of Glocester Incorporations Jul. 9. Hen. Nevill M. A. of Cambridge Son and Heir of Edward Nevill Lord Abergavenny Rich. Milbourne M. of A. of Qu. Coll. in the same University was incorporated the same day On the eleventh of Decemb. 1611 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Blague deceased and in July 1615 he being promoted to the See of St. David Rob. Scot D. D. was installed Dean 13. of the same month of whom by the way I desire the reader to know that he was born at Banston in Essex was originally a Fellow of Trin. Coll. in the said University and afterwards Master of Clare hall and esteemed by those that knew him a learned Man He died in Winter time in December I think an 1620. and was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Godf. Goodman Jul. 9. Joh Racster M. A. of Cambridge He was Author of a certain book entit The seven planets or wandring motives of Will Alabasters wit retrograded and removed Lond. 1598. qu. and perhaps of other things Joh. Hull M. of A. of Cambr. was incorp the same day He was of Gonvill and Caius Coll. in that University was afterwards Bach. of Div. and a Preacher of Gods word at Cork in Ireland He hath written and published 1 St. Peters Prephecy of these last days printed 1610. qu. 2 Christs proclamation to Salvation Lond. 1613. oct 3 Exposition on a part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah c. Lond. 1618. qu. c. Jul. 9. Richard Kilby M. A. of the said University The number of Cambridge Masters who were incorporated on that day comes to 30. Creations On the ninth of July being the day after the Act had been finished these following Persons were actually created Mast of Arts. Sir Joh. Hungerford Knight Anthony Hungerford Esquire Rich. Baker Esq He was afterwards a Knight and Author of that Chronicle that goes under his name Joh. Aske Will. Monson Esquire A proposal was made in the ven house of Convocation this year that the Degree of M. of A. should be bestowed on the honorable Sir Will. Russel Knight the design'd Lord Deputy of Ireland but whether it was accordingly confer'd upon him it appears not because it standeth not in the register He was the fourth Son of Francis Earl of Bedford and was with his brethren brought up in Magd. Coll. Oxon at the feet of Dr. Lawr. Humphrey Afterwards he travelled through France Germany Italy Hungary and other Countries and upon his return he spent not his time idely in the Court but
Sir Tho. Windebank of Haines hill in the Parish of Hurst in Berks. Knight sometimes one of the Clerks of the Signet and became intimately acquainted with Dr. Will. Laud while he studied in the said Coll. of St. John by whose endeavours when Bish of London he obtained for him of his gracious Master K. Ch. 1. the secretaryship of State in the place of Sir Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester deceased to which office he was sworn 15. June 1632 and about that time received the honour of Knighthood Afterwards he became ungrateful to his promoter and much hated by the Puritan for his high acting in his office Which being by that Party made notorious several articles were drawn up against him and presented to that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. Whereupon flying beyond the Seas wrot a Letter to the Lord Chamberlain in his own defence dat at Calais XI Jan. 1640 which was soon after printed When K. Ch. 1. retired to Oxon after Edghill battel Sir Francis returned înto England went to and endeavoured to speak with his Majesty but his Maj refusing to have any communication with him he went beyond the Seas again and died at Paris 1 11 Sept. 1646. Among the Sons he had Sir Thomas Windebank the eldest was one who was of the Privy Chamber to His Majesty and another called Colonel Franc. Windebanke Governor of Blechingdon house in Oxfordshire who for surrendring it to Col. Oliver Cromwell upon first summons about the 24. Apr. 1645 was shot to death in Broken hayes near Oxon whereupon his body was buried in one of the Chancels of the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of that City on the third of May following Feb. 11. Sam. Turner of St. Maries hall See among the Masters 1604. 13. Daniel Fairclough Joh. Bery or Bury George Webbe of C. C. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Canon Fairclough Bury and Webbe will be mention'd in the second vol. Admitted 177 Mast of Arts. May 17. Thom. Winniff of Exeter Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch. He published a Sermon entit A Summons to judgment on Job 31. 14. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps others which is all I know of him only that he was a Cheshire Man born and that in seeking after the Rectory of the Church of St. Sepulcher in London found a sepulcher therein being buried there on which his pleasant friend Tho. Freeman the Poet hath an ingenious Epigram 25. Mich. Boyle Joh. Sandsbury of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 1. Henry Tilson of Vniv. 10. Robert Johnson of Magd. Jan. 21. Robert Pink of New Coll. Adm. 86. Bach. of Physick Not one was admitted to the said Degree only some to practise Physick among whom were Nov. 28. Henr. Savile M. A. Edm. Deane B. A. Both originally of Merton Coll. now of St. Albans hall Bach. of Div. Dec. 17. Joh. Howson of Ch. Ch. Besides him were but 4 admitted among whom Ralph Ironside of Vniversity Coll. was one Father to Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow an 1660. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Sampson Hussee of New Coll. He was Brother to Jam. Hussee mention'd in the year before ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. John King John Howson of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated and both were afterwards Bishops Feb. 15. Charles Ryves of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 6. Rob. Dallyngton M. of A. of Cambridge He was born in Northamptonshire educated in Pembroke hall of which he was Greek-Scholar and after became a Schoolmaster in Norfolk where having gained some money he travelled all over France and Italy was exact in his observations and after his return became first Secretary to the Earl of Rutland then one of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles Master of the Charter-house into the School at which place he brought the custome of Chapter verses or versifying on passages of Holy Scripture and at length a Knight He hath written 1 A survey of the great Dukes state in Tuscany an 1596. Lond. 1605. qu. 2 A method for travel shewed by taking view of France as it stood in the year 1598. printed at Lond. in qu. 3 Aphorismes Civil and Military amplified with authorities and exemplified with history out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine Lond. 1615. fol. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died in the latter end of the year 1637 and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the Charter house By his will dated 25. Apr. 1636 and proved 1. March 1637 he gave to the poor People of Geddington in Northamptonshire the place of his nativity 300 l. for the buying of an annual pension of 15 l. per an for their relief At which place in his life time he built a Free-school and was a benefactor in other respects July 16. Walt. Curle M. of A. of Cambridge This Person who was born at Hatfield in Hertfordshire was now Fellow of Peter house in the said University was promoted first in the Church by the Cecillian Family afterwards he became Chaplain to His Majesty Doctor of Divinity Dean of Lichfield in June 1621 upon the death of Dr. Will. Tooker Bishop of Rochester in 1627. upon the translation of Buckridge to Ely translated thence to B. and Wells in 1629 upon the death of Dr. Maw and thence to Winchester upon the removal of his Patron Dr. Neile to York being about that time made Lord Almoner Afterwards he suffered much for the Kings and his own cause was among the Royalists when they were besieged in Winchester whence marching in safety after its surrender for the use of the Parliament lived retiredly at Subberton in Hampshire till the time of his death which hapned in the Spring or Summer time an 1647 leaving then behind him a Widow named Elizabeth and certain Children All that I have yet seen which goes under his name is A Sermon preached at Whitehall 28. Apr. 1622 on Heb. 12. 14. printed in qu. Rich. Boyle M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland Richard Parker another M. of A. of that University was also then incorporated Whether he be the same R. Parker who was bred in and became Fellow of Caius College and Author of Sceletos Cantabrigiensis MS. I cannot justly say or the same Richard Parker who was second Son of John Parker first Son of Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury which Richard was born at Cambridge 20. May 1577 I cannot also tell Quaere On the same day also were 13 more Masters of that University incorporated among whom Miles Spencer was one and Andrew Perne another the same I suppose who was Proctor of Cambridge 1616. See before in these Fasti an 1553. Aug. 7. Will. Barlow Doct. of Div. of the said University was also then incorporated in the
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
very uncouth Language to a Princes ears the particulars of which you may see elsewhere For the Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 he was elected again for the same place but being soon after fully satisfied what desperate courses the Members thereof took he left them and retiring to his Majesty at Oxon sate in the Parliament there 1643 and so consequently was a shater of Sufferings then incident to Royalists I have seen divers of his Speeches in MS. but whether made publick I cannot tell He died in 1647 or thereabouts leaving then behind a natural Son of both his names and the character of a man of very loose principles Adm. 65. Bach. of Div. Jul. 6. Will. Laud of S. Johns Coll. Jan. 18. John Burbadge of Linc. Coll. a rich Dignitary in the Church He was nearly related to Rich. Burbadge of the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch near London which Richard who is stiled by the learned Camden to have been alter Roscius died 9 March 1618. Feb. 22. Robert Wakeman of Balliol Coll. On the second day of March this year Gabriel Powell Bach. of Arts of S. Maries Hall who had studied Divinity nine years supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. but whether his desire was granted it appears not I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1607. Adm. 12. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law Phys or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations July 10. Rob. Hill Bach. of Div. of Christs Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time Parson of S. Barthelmew near to the Exchange in London was afterwards D. of D. and always esteemed a learned man and a good and painful Preacher He hath written 1 Life everlasting or the true knowledge of one Jehovah Cambr. 1601. oct 2 The path way to prayer and piety c. Lond. 1613. oct 3 A Communicant instructed c. printed 1617. oct with an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and other things which I have not yet seen See more among the Incorporations an 1598. This Dr. Hill died in 1623 and was buried near to the Body of his Wife in the Chancel of the Church of S. Barthelmew before mention'd One Rob. Hill was Parson of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester an 1604 but him I take to be different from the former I find only five Masters of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated this year and two Bach. of Div. of whom Rob. Hill the Writer before mention'd was one Daniel Plancius a Belgian born was this year a Sojourner in the Univ. for the sake of the publ Library and did soon after publish several Books which shew'd him a learned man one of which was answer'd and animadverted upon by Heribert Ross-weidus and Rob. Swertius Joh. Drusius also was a Sojourner not in a private House but in Gloc. Hall who being admirably well skill'd in the Hebrew Chalday and Syriack Tongue was recommended to the chief Heads of the University to read those Tongues either privately or publickly He soon after removed to Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took a degree in Arts as I shall tell you in the year following An. Dom. 1605. An. 3 Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again July 16. Proct. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. Joh. Hanmer of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. June 11. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. Many year after his death were published by Dr. Sim. Patrick Dean of Peterborough his Works entit Reliquiae Raleighanae 20. Hen. Jackâ—on of C. C. Coll. 27. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Pet. Turner Oct. 21. Hen. Rogers of Jes Coll. 23. Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Dec. 17. Joh. Andrews of Trin. Coll. Feb. 26. Franc. Stewart of Ch. Ch. Son of the Earl of Murray and of kin to his Maj. James 1. See more in the year 1616 among the Creations Joh. Drusius of Ch. Ch. Son of the learned Critick Joh. Drusius was admitted the same day 28. Sampson Price of Hart Hall lately of Exet. Coll. Of Raleigh Jackson Fell Turner Rogers and Ley will be large mention made in the second Vol. Adm. 190. Mast of Arts. Apr. 17. Daniel Fairclough commonly called Featley of C. C. Coll. 24. Benj. Culme of Linc. Coll. lately of S. Albans Hall He was the Son of Hugh Culme of Molland in Devonshire and going afterwards into Ireland became at length D. of D. and Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin where he was accounted a learned man and an excellent Preacher and Theologist But he being forced thence by the Rebellion that broke out in 1641 went into England lived several years in a retired condition at Mudghill near to Lidiard St. Johns in Wiltshire where dying in October an 1657 aged 76 was buried in the Church-yard of Lidiard before mention'd Over his Grave was soon after an Altar-tomb erected with a large Inscription thereon wherein 't is said he died 21 Octob. May 16. Joh. Bery or Bury of Balliol lately of Corp. Christ Coll. Jun. 16. James Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. 9. Thom. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. This Gentleman who was a Londoner born was second Son of Will. Aylesbury by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Poole Esquire and from Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. 1598. After he had left the University he became Secretary to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and to George Duke of Bucks his Successor in that great Office By the endeavours of which last he was made one of the Masters of the Requests and Master of the Mint being about that time a Baronet which places he keeping till the grand Rebellion broke out in 1642 he adher'd to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and in 1649 when all things were in a Confusion as to the Royal Party he retired with his Family to Antwerp in Brabant where continuing till 1652 he removed to Breda and dying in 1657 aged 81 was buried in the great Chnrch there leaving behind him a Son named William of whom I shall speak elsewhere and a Daughter named Frances the Wife of Edw. Hyde of Pirtâ—n in Wilts since made Earl of Clarendon These things I mention because the said Sir Tho. Aylesbury was a learned man and as great a Lover and Encourager of Learning and learned men especially of Mathematicians he being one himself as any man in his time June 9. Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. 12. Joh. Warner of Magd. 23. George Webb of C. C. Jul. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Dec. 16. Edw. Abbot of Vniversity Coll. In the year 1616 Jan. 13. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of Wells in the place of Rich. Boughton sometimes of Magd. Coll. in this University and dying in 1634 Sebastian Smith M. A. of Ch. Ch. was admitted to that dignity on the 9 of March the same year Will. Boswell of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was afterwards Chaplain to John
to have pharisaical Leaven in him His works are 1 A sermon of apparel before the King and Pr. at Theobalds 22 Feb. 1619 on Math. 11. 8. Lond. 1620. qu. 2 Serm. before the Lords Lond 1623. qu. 3 Serm. at the funeral of K. James on 1 Kings 11. 41 42 43. Lond. 1625. qu. 4 Perseverantia sanctorum c. on Job 42. 12. pr. 1628. qu. 5 Letter to the Vicar of Grantham c. pr. 1636. qu. answered by Dr. Pet. Heylyn in his Coal from the Altar c. 6 Holy table name and thing more antiently used under the New Testam than that of an Altar pr. 1637 which is a reply to the Coal from the Altar c. Whereupon Heylyn came out with a rejoynder called Antidotum Lincolniense c. as I shall tell you more at large when I come to him in the 2 Vol. of this Work 7 Annotationes in vet Testam in Ephesios Cantab. 1653 oct published under the name of Johan Eboracensis by which I presume is meant John Williams He hath also published one or more Sermons which I have not seen and hath also extant Parliamentary Speeches and Letters of State In 1671 was printed at London in octavo A manual or three small and plain Treatises viz. 1. of Prayer or active 2. of Principles or passive 3. of Resolution or opposite Divinity Translated and collected out of antient Writers for the private use of a most noble Lady to preserve her from the danger of Popery In the Title page 't is said to have been written by John Archbishop of York yet certain Authors who lived and wrot after his death are therein quoted which are unadvisedly done by another hand At length this Archb. dying in the house of the Lady Mostyn at Glodedd near Aberconway on the 25 of Mar. 1649 was buried I presume at Aberconway There is extant a Latin Apology for this Dr. Williams Archb. of York written in good Latin by Joh Harmer M. A. sometimes of Magd. Coll. in Oxon to Lambert Osbaldeston a great Creature of the said Archb. in which are many things that are true inserted But the Reader is to know that the said Harmer who sometimes taught in the College School at Westminster had often participated of the generosity of Archb. Williams and when afterwards he became Greek Professor of the Univ. of Oxford he was esteemed a Parasite and one that would do any thing below him to gain a little money or a meals-meat Jul. 12. Math. Wren M. of A. of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge was then incorporated in the same degree I have spoken largely of him elsewhere Will. Boswell M. A. of Jesus Coll. in the said University was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Proctor of that University Secretary to Sir Dudl Carleton while ordinary Embassador to the States of the Vnited Provinces aud afterwards Resident or Leiger Embassador there himself in which capacity he was knighted by the Lord Hor. Vere of Tilbury and other Commissioners named in his Majesty's Letters Patents in the Army of the said States at Bockstal near Balduck in Brabant 25 July 1633. He was a learned man a great encourager of Learning zealous for the Church of England faithful in the execution of his Embassy and highly valued by eminent persons He died much lamented in 1647. Joh. Squire M. A. of Jesus Coll. in the same University was also then incorporated He was afterwards Vicar of S. Leonards Shoreditch in Middlesex a zealous and orthodox Preacher and therefore respected by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury But when the Puritan or Presbyterian brake into an open Rebellion he was one of those many godly Ministers that suffered by Imprisonment Sequestration Plundering and I know not what He hath written Lectures being an Exposition of the first part of the second Chapter to the Thessalonians proving the Pope to be Antichrist Lond. 1630 qu. and also published several Sermons the Titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue Pray be pleased to see more of him in that vile Pamphlet called A century of scandalous malignant Priests c. printed 1643 qu. pag. 25. Joh Preston M. A. of Queens Coll. in Camb. was also then incorporated He was afterwards Doct. of Div. Master of Emanuel Coll. in the said University a perfect Polititian and the Patriarch of the Presbyterian Party The Titles of most of the Sermons and Treatises which he hath written and published you may see in the said Catalogue and the actions of his life written and published by one that was his Pupil named Tho. Ball of Northampton who tells you that he died 20 Jul. 1628 and that he was buried in the Church at Fawsley in Northamptonshire An. Dom. 1609. An. 7 Jac. 1. Chanc. Rich. Bancroft D. D. Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. J. King July 14. Proct. Charles Greenwood of Vniv. Coll. Joh. Flemmyng of Exet. Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 28. Edw. Littleton of Ch. Ch. May 2. Joh. Heath of New Coll. the Epigrammatist 6. Brian Duppa Edw. Boughen of Ch. Ch. The former of which two was afterwards B. of Winton June 22. Tho. Dugard of Ch. Ch. Quaere 26. Christop Wren of S. Joh. Coll. See more among the Bach. of Div. 1620. Jul. 7. Nathan Grenfield of S. Edmunds lately of Gloc. Hall See among the Masters 1612. Oct. 14. Edward Cotton Percival Burrel of Ch. Ch. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1612. Dec. 7. Mich. Oldsworth of Magd. Hall afterwards of Magd. Coll. See also among the Masters 1614. Feb. 10. Anth. Whyte of Ch. Ch. You may see more of him among the Masters an 1612. 13. Ralph Robinson of Linc. Coll. This person I set down here not that he was a Writer but to prevent an unwary Reader hereafter to take him to be the same Ralph Robinson who was born at Heswall in Wirrall in Cheshire an 1614 bred in Catherine Hall in Cambridge where he continued till 1642 at which time he sided with the Presbyterians and afterwards became Minister of S. Mary de Wolnoth in London and a Publisher of several theological matters favouring of Presbytery He died 15 June 1655 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church before mention'd on the north side of the Communion Table under the stone called Mr. Buckminsters stone E. Littleton Br. Duppa and Edw. Boughen before mention'd will be spoken of at large in the 2 Vol. of this Work Adm. 181. Bach. of Law I find but five were admitted among whom Jo. Boys of All 's Coll. was one and one that supplicated named Jam. Mabbe of Magd. Coll. of whom will be large mention made in the second Volume Mast of Art June 20. Joh. Hales of Merton 21. Tho. Willis of S. Johns Jul. 6. Tho. Sutton of Queens Oct. 11. Tho. Godwin of Magd. Coll. 27. Josias Bird Chaplain of All 's Coll. He was lately incorporated Bach. of Arts as in the Incorporations following you
were Dr. Neile and Dr. Laud his continual attendants About that time he being made Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London his Sermons which he preached there some of which he afterwards published savouring of nothing else but of schisme sedition and altogether against His Majesties Declaration he was for so doing and especially for publishing two-virulent Pamphlets not only brought before the Council-board but several times into the High Commission Court for what he had said and done and afterwards imprison'd fin'd degraded deprived of his benefice pillorized with Prynne and Bastwicke lost his ears condemn'd to perpetual imprisonment in Lancaster Goal first and afterwards in the Castle in the Isle of Guernsey From which last place being released by the members of that Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640 was with Prynne and Bastwick brought home in triumph to the great contempt of justice was restored to his benefice and well rewarded for his losses The titles of several of his books you may see in the Oxford Catalogue and some that are not there I shall here set down viz. 1 The Law and the Gospel reconciled against the Antinomians printed 1631. qu. 2 The sounding of the two last Trumpets or Meditations on the ninth tenth and eleventh Chapters of the Revelations Lond. 1641. qu. 3 Relation of Mr. Chillingworth This I have not yet seen 4 A Narration of his life viz. of H. Burton c. Lond. 1643. qu. 5 Parliaments power for Laws in Religion printed 1645. oct 6 Conformities deformity c. pr. 1646. the Author being then 67 years of age Afterwards seeing what strange courses the great Men at Westminster took he grew more moderate notwithstanding he was an Independent and lived as I conceive till they took off his old Masters Head Rich. Franklin M. of A. I take this Person to be the same with R. Franklin who was Bach. of Divinity Minister of Elsworth in Cambridgshire and Author of Tractatus de tonis in Lingua Graecamca c. Lond. 1630. oct Thomas Walkington Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that faculty Minister of Fulham near London and the writer and publisher of Rabboni Mary Magd. tears of sorrow and solace preached at Pauls cross on Joh. 20. 16. Lond. 1620. oct and of another Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12. 10. c. John Gostlyn or Goslyn Doct. of Physick He was born in the City of Norwych educated in Caius Coll. was afterwards Proctor of Cambridge Master of the said Coll. and twice Vicechancellour of that University He had the repute of a general Scholar an eloquent Artist and one that was admirably well skill'd in Physick of which faculty he was the Kings Professor in the said University He died in Oct. or Nov. 1626 and was buried near to the body of his worthy Friend and Patron Dr. Legg in the Chappel of the said Coll. of Caius to which he was a very considerable benefactor One of his Sirname was Author of Aurifodina Linguae Galliae Alexander Bound D. of D. He was sometimes of Kings Coll. was afterwards Vice-provost of Eaton and Rector of the rich Church of Petworth in Sussex where as also in Cambridge he was esteemed a godly learned and religious Man Andrew Bing D. of D. On the 12 May 1606 he was collated to the subdeanery of York upon the resignation of one Hen. Wright who when he was M. of A. succeeded Edmund Bunny in that Dignity an 1575. and on the 13 Apr. 1618 he was installed Archbdeacon of Norwych in the place of Tho. Jegon D. D. who died in the latter end of 1617 being then Master of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge and Patron of the Parsonage of Sibell Henningham in Essex where if I mistake not he the said Jegon was buried Which Cantabrigians I say viz. H. Burton R Franklin T. Walkington J. Gostlym A. Bound and A. Bing were incorporated in their respective degrees on the 14 July before mention'd Will. Conway Doct. of Phys of Caen in Normandy was incorporated the same day Jan. 14. John Balcanquall M. A. of Edinburgh He was a Scotch man born was now Fellow of Exeter Coll. and afterwards Rector of Tatinhills in Staffordshire where he died about the latter end of 1646 which is all I know of him only that he was after this year Bach. of Div. March 18. Philibert Vernatti Doctor of both the Laws of the University of Leyden One of both his names was afterwards a Baronet in Scotland and another who was a Knight hath a Relation of making Ceruss in the Philosophical Transactions numb 137. an 1677. Creations Oct. 30. Francis More Esq sometimes of S. Joh. Coll. in this University now an eminent Professor of the municipal Laws was actually created Mast of Arts in the house of Convocation He is mention'd at large among the Writers an 1621. In the latter end of this year Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhyne Prince Elector of the Empire and afterwards King of Bohemia who had lately married Princess Elizabeth the only Daughter of K. Jam. 1. came to visit the University where being sumptuously entertained was pleased with his own hand writing to matriculate himself a member of the University sub tit Aed Chr. with this Symbole Rege me Domine secundum verbum tuum An. Dom. 1613. An. 11 Jac. 1. Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton Vicechanc. Dr. Singleton again Jul. 24. Proct. Anth. Richardson of Qu. Coll. Vincent Goddard of Magd. Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Musick Jul. 8. Martin Pearson He was afterwards Master of the Choristers of S. Pauls Cathedral while Joh. Tomkins was Organist and a composer of certain Church Services and Anthems He died about the latter end of Dec. 1650 being then an Inhabitant of the Parish of S. Gregory near to the said Cathedral and was buried in S. Faiths Church adjoyning Whereas most Musitians dye obscurely and in a mean condition this died so rich as to leave to the poor of Marsh in the Parish of Dunnington in the Isle of Ely an hundred pounds to be laid out for a purchase for their yearly use May…John Amner Organist of the Cath. Church of Ely and Master of the Choristers there He hath composed and published Sacred Hymns of three four five and six parts for Voices and Viols Lond. 1615. qu. as also certain Anthems the words of one of which are in James Clifford's Collection mention'd before in the year 1548. Bach. of Arts. May 13. Joh. Sâ—ull of Mert. Coll. See among the Masters 1616. Jun. 17. Tho Goffe Benj. Cox Rich. Parre of Brasn Coll. of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Jul. 8. Owen Morgan or Morgan Owen of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Landaff Jul. 8. Will. Foster of S. Johns Franc. Potter of Tâ—in Coll. Oct. 21. George Singe of Ball. Coll. He became Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland 1638. 26. Tho. Randol of Brasn Nov. 15. Tho. Stafford of Exet. Coll. Of the first of these
London his Paraenesis ad Scotos Genevensis disciplinae Zelotas He settled in Oxon for a time for the sake of the publick Library but whether he was incorporated in any Degree or created which some have avouched it appears not in the publick register An. Dom. 1621. An. 19. Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Will. Piers D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. and Dean of Chester July 20. Proct. Matthew Style of Exeâ— Coll. Nichol. Baylie of C. C. Coll. Apr. 11 The last of which was the first of his Coll. that even bore the office of Proctor Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. Sam. Fancet of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters of Arts 1624. 25. John Maynard of Exet. June 8. Pet. Wentworth of Ball. Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity 1633. 12. Joh. Tombes of Magd. Hall 14. George Newton of Exet. Hen. Glemham of Trin. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph Morgan Godwin of Ch. Ch. afterwards of Pembr Coll. was adm the same day See among the Incorporations an 1642. Jul. 6. Joh. Angell of Magd. Hall Joh. Greaves the Linguist Oct. 17. James Cranford of Ball. Coll. Nov. 20. Joh. Gumbleden Dec. 6. Will. Strode of Ch. Ch. Jan. 31. Will. Streat of Exet. Feb. 22. Jam. Eglesfield of Qu. Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1625. 27. Joh Ellis of Hart Joh. Arnway of S. Edm. Hall 28. Joh. Leycester of Brasn Oliv. Whitby of Trin. Joh. Trapp of Ch. Ch. Coll. Of Whitby you may see more among the Masters an 1624. Mar. 1. Shackerlie Marmion of Wadh. Coll. As for Maynard who was afterwards Serjeant at Law Tombes Godwin Newton Glemham Angell Greaves Granford Gumbleden Strode Streat Ellis Arnway and Trapp will be mention at large made in the second Vol. of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 280. Bach. of Law Apr. 18. Will. Merick of New Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative as I shall hereafter tell you Besides him were only three more admitted Mast of Arts. May 16. Tho. Laurence June 1. Will. Paul of All 's 11. Joh. Atherton of Linc. Coll. 12. Joh. Geree of Magd. Hall 14. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. June 14. Meric Casaubon Zouch Tewnley George Morley Rob. Gomershal of Ch. Ch. As for Townley he was a Lancashire man born or at least extracted from an ancient Family of his name in that Country and now 1621 esteemed a noted Orator and Philosopher He hath written and published Oratio in memoriam clariss viri Gul. Camdeni Lecturae Historicae apud Oxonienses fundatoris c. Oxon. 1624. qu. set before a book of Lat. Verses intit Camdeni Insignia What else he hath published I know not nor any thing besides that is memorable of him only that he was several times Deputy-Orator of this University Jun. 21. Tho. Tyro of S. Edm. Hall One of both his names was a boon and jolly Blade in the time of Qu. Elizab. as it appears by his Roaring Megg planted against the walls of melancholy Lond. 1598. qu. and his Epistolae which shews him to have been a Scholar but whether of this University I know not as yet Jul. 6. Humph Chambers of Vniv. Coll. Thom. Colman of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Joh. Gee of Ex. Coll. Adm. 123. Bach. of Physick Tho not one was admitted this year yet three were admitted to practise viz. Rich. Gardiner of Broadgates Hall Edw. Dawson of Lincon Coll. and Sam. Bave a German of Ch. Church Which last was commonly called Dr. Bavey of Bathe where he was in great practice to the time of his death Bach. of Div. Apr. 19. Rob. Skinner of Trin. 25. Aleâ—and Harry of Ex. Coll. Of the last you may see more in what I shall say of Will. Hicks among the Writers in the second Vol. an 1659. May 11. Tho Baylie of Magd. 12. Will. Page of All 's Coll. Mar. 8. Tho. Wilson of Mert. Coll. a Compounder See more among the Incorporations an 1645. Adm. 20. Doct. of Law Nov. 27. Will. Steed Mart. Aylworth of All 's Coll. The former of which was about this time Official of Canterbury Dec. 12. Will. Juxon President of S. Joh. Coll. ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was this year admitted Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Paul Godwin Rob. Robotham Tho. Godwin of Ch. Ch. Joh. Hughes of C. C. Coll. Of Magd. Coll. Compounders Paul and Tho. Godwin were the Sons of Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford and Robotham and Hughes were his Sons in law having married two of his Daughters The last of which was benificed in Herefordshire where he died about 1648. Mar. 21. Joh. Tolson Provost of Oriel Coll. Incorporations Jun. 16. George Snell D. of D. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland These Cambridge men following were incorporated on the 10 of July being the next day after the conclusion of the Act. Michael Honywood M. of A. He was afterwards D. of D. and in 1660 was made Dean of Lincoln in the place of Anthony Topham who died in the rebellious times This Dr. Honyword died about 12 Sept. 1681 and was as I suppose buried in the Cathedral there Whereupon Dr. Dan Brevint suâ—ceeded him in his Dignity Will. Brough M. A. of Christs Coll. I shall speak at large of him among the Incorporations of Doctors of Div. an 1645. Christopher Dow M. of A. He was afterwards Bach. and Doct. of Div. much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury whose Creature and Champion he was and by him promoted to several ecclesiastical Benefices He hath written 1 A discourse of the Sabbath and Lords day wherein c. Lond. 1636. qu. second Edit 2 Innovations unjustly charged upon the present Church and State or an answer to the most material passages made by Mr. Hen. Burton in his book entit An Apology of an Appeal c. Lond. 1637. qu. with other things very offensive to the Puritan who held the Author to be a rank Arminian George Walker Bach. of Div. This learned person was born at Hawkeshead in Fournifalls in Lancashire educated in S. Joh. Coll. in the said Univ. of Cambr. where he was esteemed an excellent Logician Orientalian and Divine He was about this time Chaplain to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely and Minister of S. John the Evangelist in Watlingstreet in London where he was ready upon all occasions to encounter with any learned Cath. Priest On the last of May 1623 was a set and solemn disputation between him and one that went by the name of Smith at which being present a great Auditory it was published for the satisfaction of both parties with this Title The sum of a disputation between Mr. Walker Pastor of S. Joh. the Evang. c. and a popish priest calling himself Mr. Smith but indeed Norris printed 1623. qu. Which Norris was a D. of D. and a publisher of several little popish Pamphlets about the same time In the year following he the said Walker had
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.
Chaplain of All 's Coll. 14. Anth. Clopton of C. C. Coll. June 25. Gilb. Sheldon of All 's Coll. Compounders 26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. C. He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity July 1. Thom. Leigh Rich. Parr of Bras Coll. The first of these two was a Compounder the other was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man 5. Will. Page of All 's Coll. 10. Edw. Willimot of Magd. Hall 26. George Eglionby of Ch. Ch. This Person who was sometimes Master of Westminster School and afterwards Tutor to Geor. the young Duke of Buckingham was made Canon or Preb. of the twelfth stall in St. Peters Church in Westminster on the death of his Uncle Dr. John King an 1638 Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Isaac Bargrave deceased an 1642 and dying in the beginning of Nov. 1643 was buried on the eleventh of the same month in the Isle joyning on the South side of the Choire of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Nov. 4. Geor. Griffith of Ch. Ch. Incorporations May 4. Robert Bostock D. of D. of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland This Robert Bostock who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Oxon was installed Archdeacon of Suffolk in the place of Dr. Rob. Pearson deceased on the fourth day of Feb. an 1639 and dying soon after Richard Mileson M. of A. succeeded Dr. Bostock also was Canon residentiary of Chichester where dying in Nov. 1640 was there buried July… Roger Goodiere Will. Goddard John Hodge Doct. of Phys of Leyden Padua Mountpelier in Holland Italy France In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. lived in London one Will. Goddard a fantastical Poet among the Templers a sit seems Author of 1 A mastiff whelp with other ruff-Island-like curs from among the Antipedes alias London in 85 Satyrs 2 Dogs from the Antipedes in 41. Satyrs Both printed at London in qu. in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. But these I cannot say were made by Will. Goddard who was afterwards Doct. of Phys Oct. 21. John Ellis D. D. of the University of S. Andrew lately of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. Jan. 29. Joh. Spencer Doct. of Phys of Leyden One Rich. Lloyd M. of A. of Cambridge was incorporated this year but the day or month when I know not nor any thing else of him An. Dom. 1635. An. 11 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Pinke of New Coll. again Jul. 22. Proct. Joh. Edwards of S. Joh Coll. Guy Carleton of Qu. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 23. Will. Creed of S. Joh. Jan. 4. Anth. Hodges of New Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1638. 16. Rich. Whitlock of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. July 4. Franc. Bampfield of Wadh. Obadiah Walker of Vniv. 11. Thomas Smith of Queens Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Carlile Oct. 15. Joh. Godolphin of Gloc. 20. Nath. Hardy of Magd. Rich. Hooke of New Inn Hall One Rich. Hooke M. of A. and Minister of Lowdham in Nottinghamshire hath written The laver of regeneration and the cup of salvation in two treatises concerning Baptism and the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1653. Whether this Rich. Hooke who hath also one or more Sermons extant besides the said book be the same with Rich. Hooke of New Inn who was a Northamptonshire man born but not M. of A. of this University I cannot yet tell One Rich. Hook Vicar of Halyfax in Yorkshire is Author of The Nonconformists Champion c. pr. 1682. oct Oct. 23. Obadiah How Nov. 28. Hen. Wilkinson jun. of Magd. Hall Dec. 3. Rob. Cary Jun. 19. Rich. Burney of C. C. Coll. All these except Hodges and Hook will be mention'd elsewhere Adm. 234. Bach. of Law Nine were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or a Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 15. Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Joh. Bishop of Ball. Coll. One John Bishop was Author of The survey of Man on Job 14. 10. printed 1652. qu. and perhaps of other things Whether this Joh. Bishop be the same with Joh. Bishop of Ball. Coll. M. of A. before mention'd or the same with another Jo. Bishop who was Bach. of Arts of Hart Hall and a Wiltshire man born I cannot tell unless I could see The survey of man which I have not yet done May 12. Humph. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 4. Will. Eyre of Magd. Hall 16. Joh. Michel of Qu. Coll. Esquire a Compounder which is all I know of him 27. George Ashwell of Wadh. John Owen of Queens Coll. Oct. 15. Dudley Digges of Allsoules lately of Vniv. Coll. Jan. 19. Edward Gamage of S. Edm. Hall I take him to be the same Gamage who was afterwards Archdeacon of Landâ—ff in which dignity he was succeeded by Dr. George Bull an 1686. Adm. 128. Bach. of Physick Seven were admitted of whom Steph. Bridges of C. C. Coll. was the senior and Leonard Traherne of Pemb. Coll. was the junior but not one of them can I yet find that was then or afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. June 6. Will. Evans of S. Maries Hall He had before this time published The translation of the book of nature into the use of grace Sermon on Rom. 12. 4 5. Oxon 1633. qu. Which is all I know of him only that he was living in 1660. 8. Edw. Stanley of New Jul. 22. Joh. Gauden of Ward Coll. Dec. 12. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. Hall Adm. 7. Doct. of Law Jun. 13. George Riddell or Riddle of Qu. Coll. Dec. 8. James Littleton of All 's Coll. When he was Bach. of Law he succeeded Dr. Christop Helme in the Chancellourship of the Diocess of Worcester and dying in the times of Usurpation was succeeded in that office by Tim. Baldwin LL. D. Oliver Lloyd of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jun. 8. Edward Stanley of New Dec. 8. John Littleton of Jes Coll. The first of these two accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations Jun. 16. John Bugges a Londoner born and Doctor of Phys of Leyden Jun… Mathew Thoris M. of A. of Franaker in Westfriezen This person who was formerly of Pemb. Coll. was also a Londoner born and Son of Mich. Thoris which is all I know of him Jul. 10. Joh. Silvius Kentigern Moravius These were both Scots and Masters of Arts of the University of S. Andrew July… Will. Day M. A. of Cambridge He was a Native of Windsore in Berks and being educated in Eaton School was thence transplanted to Kings Coll. in the said University Afterwards he became Minister of Mapledurham near Henley in Oxfordshire and Author of An exposition of the book of the Prophet Isaiah Lond. 1654 fol. and of other things Oct. 20. Jeremiah Taylor M. A. of Cambr. soon after Fellow of All 's Coll. He will be at large mention'd in the other Volume 30. Joh. Munlossius M of A. of Bordeaux in France This year was incorporated Master of
Ignorance Treachery and Hypocrisie 33 Brief History of Muscâ—via and of other less known Countries lying eastward of Russia as far as Cathay c. Lond. 1682. oct 34 The right of the People over Tyrants printed lately in qu. These I think are all the things that he hath yet extant those that are not are The body of Divinity which my friend calls Idâ—a Theologiae now or at least lately in the hands of the Authors Acquaintance called Cyr. Skinner living in Mark lane London and the Latin Thesaurus in those of Edw. Philipps his Nephew At length this great Scholar and frequent Writer dying in his house at Bunhill near London in a fit of the Gout but with so little pain that the time of his expiring was not perceived by those in the room on the ninth or tenth day of Novemb. 1674 was buried in the grave of his Father who died very aged about 1647 in the Chancel of the Church of S. Giles near Cripplegate London See more of him in Sir Walter Raleigh among the Writers numb 458. He was of a moderate Stature and well proportion'd of a ruddy Complexion light brown hair and had handsome features yet his eyes were none of the quickest When he was a Student in Cambridge he was so fair and clear that many called him the Lady of Christs Coll. His deportment was affable and his gate erect and manly bespeaking courage and undauntedness On which account he wore a sword while he had his sight and was skill'd in using it He had a delicate tuneable voice an excellent ear could play on the Organ and bear a part in vocal and instrumental Musick The Estate which his Father left him was but indifferent yet by his frugality he made it serve him and his Out of his Secretaries Salary he saved 2000 l. which being lodg'd in the Excise and that bank failing upon his Majesties Restauration he utterly lost that sum By the great Fire which hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 he had a house in Breadstreet burnt which was all the real Estate that he had then left To conclude he was more admired abroad and by Foreigners than at home and was much visited by them when he liv'd in Petty France some of whom have out of pure devotion gone to Breadstreet to see the House and Chamber where he was born c. Creations Jun. 16. Henry Bridgman of Brasnose lately of Oriel Coll. was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Jul. 30. David Smart of Hart Hall was actually created Master of Arts which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1636. An. 12 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Rich. Baylie D. D. President of S. Johns Coll. and Dean of Salisbury Jul. 22. Proct. Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. John Good of New Coll. April 27. Bach. of Arts. May 3. John Good Will. Walwyn of S. Joh. Coll. Of the last you may more among the Bach. of Div. 1647. Rich. West of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the created Doctors of Divinity in Dec. 1660. 5. Edm. Gregory of Trin. 24. Christop Bennet of Linc. Coll. June 30. Rob. Wickins of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. George Laurence of New Inn. 5. Tho. Holyoake of Qu. Coll. Oct. 15. Benj. Wells of S. Albans afterwards of S. Maries Hall and at length of All 's Coll. 20. Jerem. Turner of S. Edm. Hall Nov. 14. Edmund Ludlow of Trin. Coll. This person who was born at Mayden Bradley in Wilts did upon the breaking out of the Rebellion side with the Presbyterians became a Colonel Governour of Wardour Castle in his own Country one of the prime Officers in the Parliament Army and at length sate as one of the Judges when K. Ch. 1. was condemn'd to dye Afterwards he went into Ireland where he was Lieutenant General of the Army appointed by the Parliament and Lord Deputy for a time upon the death of Ireton In the time of Oliver he was a Major General a grand fanatick and a zealous favourer of all such who were anti-monarchical but upon a foresight of the Kings Restauration he fled into a strange land to avoid the halter was at Losanne with Goff Whaley Fare when Lisle was kill'd there in Aug. 1664 and soon after as 't was then said he with his Wife retired to Zurich He was the Son of Sir Hen. Ludlow of Mayden Bradley before mentioned Knight elected a Knight for his Country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 where he shewed himself an enemy to the King and his party and dying at Mayden Bradley 1660 or thereabouts was there buried By Letters dated at London 19 of Sept. 1689 I was informed that the said Edm. Ludlow who had lived several years in Switzerlandt was daily expected at Westminster with four Deputies from the Cantons to make an Offer to his Majesty K. Will. 3. to raise men in that Country for his service How true this is I know not yet sure I am that the said Ludlow was then in London and that his being there being notoriously known an Address was presented to his Majesty from the House of Commons on the 7 of Nov. following or thereabouts by the hands of Sir Edward Seymour a Member of Parliament that he would be pleased to put out a Proclamation for the apprehending of Col. Ludlow attainted for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. c. Whereupon Ludlow hastning away as soon as he heard of the motion of an Address to the sea side lay almost a Fortnight before he could be accommodated with a good Wind and then returned to Switzerlandt in the year of his age 74 at least In the beginning of March 1690 was published a pernicious Pamphlet entit A Letter from Major Gen. Ludlow to Sir E. S. Seymour comparing the Tyranny of the first four years of K Charles the Martyr with the Tyranny of the four years reign of the late abdicated King James 2. occasion'd by reading Dr Pelang's leud Harangues upon the 30 of January being the Anniversary or general madding day Amsterd alias Lond. 1691 in 4 sheets in qu. Written as a Preface to a larger work to come to Justifie the Murder of King Charles 1. not by the said Ludlow but by some malevolent person in England Much about which time was published under Joh. Milton's name The right of the people over Tyrants such is the liberty since the late Mutation allowed to the Press Jan. 15. John Birkenhead of Oriel afterwards Febr. 11. Henry Birkhead of Trin. afterwards of All 's Coll. March 9. Joseph Brookbank of Brasn 17. Hen. Vaughan of Jesus lately of Oriel Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Ludlow will be mentioned elsewhere Adm. 233. Bach. of Law Jun. 18. Hen. Janson of Ball. Coll. Jul. 3. John Godolphin of Gloc. Hall Besides these were sixteen more admitted and two created but not one of them can I yet find was afterwards a Writer or
time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine He was a Person of a strict life and conversation as those of his Perswasion say of great gravity of severity and a lover of vertue and vertuous men He hath written A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks Lov. in oct and other things as I have been told but such I have not yet seen which if printed few or no copies come into England He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman on the 9. year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there near to the horn of the Gospel leaving then behind him this character that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON a most excellent Latin Poet Philosopher and Physician of his time was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. 2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar. left it after he was M. of Arts and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School in the place of Tho. Hyde where by his industry and admirable way of teaching were many good Scholars sent to the Universities All the time that he could get at vacant hours he spent upon his beloved study of Physick which he practiced in the City of Winchester but not to the neglect of his School At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty did shortly after resign his School and repairing to London practiced with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West where being accounted eminent was admitted as it seems a Member of the Coll. of Physicians He hath written and published Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi Written in 140 long and short Verses 14. Dec. 1564. Printed 1 on the broadside of a sheet of Paper with Wykehams Arms encompassed with the Garter before them 2 At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius Lond. 1573. And 3 in a Book intit A brief view of the State of the Church of England as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 37 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight an 1608. and made publick by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son then no Friend to the Church of England Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton Series Written in Verse also and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus In Verse also at the end of the said Poems Counsel against the Plague or any other infectious Disease Lond. 1577. oct Question Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no Printed with the Counsel c. Ranarum murium pugna Latino versu donata ex Homero Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh in qu. with other things as it is probable but such I have not yet seen See more of him in Rich. White under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there as it seems situated and being in Fleetstreet He dyed wealthy left several Sons and Daughters behind him and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law a Student in Physick his Executor who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books and succeeded him in his Practice JASPER HEYWOOD a quaint Poet in his younger days Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigramatist of his time was born in London sent to the University at about 12 years of age an 1547. educated in Grammar as well as in Logic there took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll where remaining about 5 years in all which time he bare away the Bell in disputations at home and in the publick Schools did upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanors for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild to the great grief of their Father resign his Fellowship to prevent expulsion on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master and in Nov. ensuing he was elected Fellow of All 's coll where abiding for a little while left the University and soon after England and entred himself into the Society of Jesus But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following Various Poems and Devises Some of which are Printed in a Book intit The Paradise of dainty Devises Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer an 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse 1 Thiestes the second Tragedy of Seneca Lond. 1560. oct Published again with other Tragedies of that author by Thom. Newton Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him in an 1607. 2 Hercules furens another Trag. of Seneca And 3 Troas a third published also by the said Newton 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion and in 1562. being then at Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus 21. May in the then professed house of the Jesuits there After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them he was sent to Diling in Switzerland where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Hereticks in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity and of the four Vows At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him with others the same year into the mission of England and the rather because the Brethren there told his Holiness That the Harvest was great and the Labourers few Being setled then in the Metropolis of his own Country and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England it was noted by all that knew him That he kept many Men Horses and Coaches that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priest-like c. At length going into France about publick matters relating to the Order was when ready to land in Normandy drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore where being taken and examined was with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship and set on shore in France in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity he made a copy of verses mentioned by a noted Poet of his time concluding with these two Thanks to that Lord that will me good For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the City of Dole where he was troubled much with Witches thence to Rome and at length fixed in the City of Naples where as at Rome he became familiarly
known to that zealous R. Catholick Joh. Pitseus who speaks by the by very honourably of him What he wrote or published after he became a Jesuit I know not Sure it is if one says true that this our author was most critical in the Hebrew Language and that he did make and digest an easie and short method reduced into Tables for Novices to learn that Language which I suppose was a Compendium of a Hebrew Grammar He paid his last debt to Nature at Naples on the 9. of Jan. according to the accompt there followed in fifteen hundred ninety and eight which is 97 with us and was buried as I have been informed in the college of the Jesuits there He left behind him several of his Labours in writing some of which are preserved as rarities but whether any of them have been since printed I cannot justly tell His elder Brother Ellis Heywood I have mentioned before under the year 1272. num 180. HENRY PERRY a Welsh-man born was educated in Gloucester hall took the degrees in Arts was beneficed in his own Country and as a Member of Jesus coll took the degree of Bach. of Div. 1597. He hath written A Brittish Dictionary MS. Involved in Dictionarium Britannico-Latinum published by Dr. Joh. Davies who saith in the Preface to that Book that this our author Perry was Vir Languarum cognitione insignis which is all I know of him CHARLES PINNER an eminent Preacher in the time of Q. Elizabeth received his first breath in the ancient Borough of Southampton in Hampshire educated in Wykeham's School made perpetual Fellow of New coll 1575. took one degree in the Civil Law and soon after became Minister of Wooten-Basset in Wiltshire where being much resorted to for his edifying way of Preaching especially by the Puritan did for the satisfaction of the neighbourhood and others publish Several Sermons as 1 Sermon upon the Words of St. Paul the Apost unto Tim. Ep. 1. 4. 8. Oxon 1597. oct 2 Honour all Men love brotherly Fellowship on 1 Pet. 2. 17. Oxon 1597. in oct 3 Serm. at Marlborough in Wilts on 1 Tim. 4. 16. Printed in oct about the same time Besides these it is said he hath published more but such I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of the author only that he was much in esteem in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth PHILIP FERDINANDUS a Polonian born originally as it seems a Jew afterwards a R. Catholick and at length a Protestant entred into this University in a poor and obscure condition initiated in Academical learning by the exhibition of certain Doctors of whom Dr. Ayray and Dr. Rainolds were of the number who perceiving that his excellency lay in the Hebrew Language put upon him the Office of teaching it privately in several colleges and halls At length being registred among the Students of the University after he had taken the Oath of Supremacy and the usual Oath to the University did translate into Latin Haec sunt verba dei c. praecepta in Monte Sinai data Judaeis sunt 613 quorum 365 negativa 248 affirmativa collecta per Pharisaeum Magistrum Abrahamum filium Kattani impressa in bibliis Bombergiensibus anno à Mundo creato 5288. Venetiis ab authore Vox Dei appellata Afterwards Ferdinandus went to Cambridge where the said translation was printed in qu. 1597. he being then about 42 years of age and an instructor as I suppose of the Hebrew Language which is all that I know of him and his Works WILLIAM SHEPREVE or Shepery who writes himself in Latin Scepraeus Nephew to John Shepreve mentioned under the year 1542. num 68. was born near Abendon in Berkshire admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Feb. 1554. aged 14. or thereabouts Probationer in Nov. 1558. and Bach. of Arts the year following which was the highest degree he took in this University For being a zealous Catholick he left it before he was Master went beyond the Seas and at length settling in Rome was exhibited to by Cardinal Gabr. Palaeot Archb. of Bononia in whose Family he lived several years He had the degree of D. of Div. conferred upon him at Rome as it seems where he was accounted the most skilful person in divers Tongues of his time and the worthy ornament of the English Exiles He hath written Miscellanea celebrium sententiarum Sacrae Scripturae vol. 1. MS. Commentarii in Epist D. Pauli ad Rom. ex Latino Graeco Syriaco Aethiopico vol. 1. MS. Notae in omnes Epistolas D. Pauli canonicas de differentiis textûs Latini à Graeco Syriaco vol. 1. MS. Expositio locorum difficilium in officio B. Mariae vol. 1. MS. Connexio literalis Psalmorum in officio B. Mar. Virg. eorum corroboratio ex variis linguis Graec. Hebr. Syriac Chald. Arab. Aethiop c. Rom. 1596. qu. What else this curious most critical and learned person hath written I know not nor any thing more of him only that dyed at Rome in aedibus S. Severiani to the very great reluctancy of those that knew him year 1598 in fifteen hundred ninety and eight and was buried as I presume either in the Church of that Parish wherein the said house was situated or in the Chappel of the English coll there The Reader is now to know that one Will. Shepreve or Shepery who was elected Probationer of Exeter coll 17. Octob. 1559. was admitted perpetual Fellow thereof 16. Nov. the next year And being admitted Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Dec. 1561. took no higher degree but left his Fellowship in 1568. This William Shepreve I take to be quite different from the former and tho of kin to him and a good Scholar yet I know nothing that he hath published THOMAS STAPLETON the most learned R. Catholick of all his time Son of Will. Stapleton was born of a gentile Family at Henfield in Sussex obtained the first rudiments of Grammar at Canterbury under John Twyne a noted Master there compleated them at Wykâ—ham's School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1554. made Prebendary or Canon of Chichester a little before Q. Mary dyed being then but Bach. of Arts. But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and Religion thereupon began to put on another Face our author not only but his Father and Family left the Nation and went to Lovain where being settled our author the Son applyed himself with great zeal to the study of Theology and in short time making great proficiency therein he went to Paris to compleat his knowledge in the sacred Tongues Afterwards for devotion sake he journeyed to Rome and in short time after returning to Lovain he settled himself there for a time to answer Bishop Jewel and to translate Bede's Ch. History into English to the end that Q. Elizabeth to whom he dedicated it might see and understand the ancient Faith and Religion of our Ancestors with