2 Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man 3 Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life 4 The gathered Councils of Isidore Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo He hath also written Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium Nisenum Paynellum Written from C. C. C. in Oxon as by their dates it appears Those to Edw. Lee Archb. of York were written in behalf of Erasmus between whom and the said Lee were learned bickerings and are printed in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia Basil 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus In Ciceronis philippicas Sermones ad Clerum Preached mostly at Calais See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two year 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London which Church was translated afterwards to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Sion Coll. Over his Grave tho there be no memory of him by Inscription yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia Trophaea c. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow buried in 1545. JOHN BOURCHIER Lord Berners Son of Humph. Bourchier eldest Son of Sir Joh. Bourchier Knight Lord Berners of Hertfordshire the fourth Son of William Earl of Ewe by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. de Wodestock Duke of Glocester the sixth Son of K. Edw. 3. was instructed in several sorts of learning in this University in the latter end of K. Edw. 4 in whose Reign and before were the Sons of divers of the English Nobility educated in Academical literature in Balliol Coll. wherein as 't is probable this our Author was instructed also After he had left the University he travelled into divers Countries and returned a Master of several Languages and a compleat Gentleman But that which made him first known to the World was his valour shew'd in quelling the fury of the Rebels in Cornwall and Devon under the conduct of Michael Joseph a Blacksmith about 1495 whereby he greatly gained the favor of K. Hen. 7. In the 6. Hen. 8. he was made Chancellor of the Kings Exchecquer for life and about that time attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France in order to her Marriage with K. Lewis 12. Afterwards being made Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches adjoyning in France spent most of his time there and wrot Of the duties of the Inhabitants of Calais Comedie called Ite in vineam meam Usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers He also translated into English 1 The life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight 2 The famous exploits of Hugh of Bordeaux 3 The castle of Love a Romance And besides something of Marc. Aur. Ant. must not be forgotten that noted translation of his which he performed at the command of K. Hen. 8. viz. The Chronicles of France and England composed originally in the French Tongue by Sir Joh. Frossard Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to K. Edw. 3. as also to Queen Philippa These Chronicles have been more than once if I mistake not printed in English in an English Letter in fol. This worthy Lord Sir Joh. Bourchier died at Calais beforemention'd 16 March in Fifteen hundred thirty and two aged 63 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of our Lady there where was if not still a comely Mon. over his Grave JOHN FRYTH Son of Rich. Fryth an Inholder of Sevenoake in Kent was born there some say at Westram in the said County and educated in Kings Coll. in Cambridge till he was Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards being incited to go to Oxon for preferment was for his towardly parts made one of the junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's College and soon after viz. in Dec. 1525. he was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same degree of Bachelaur But before that time falling into the acquaintance of Will. Tyndale a zealous Lutheran they conferred together privately about the abuses in Religion So that in short time after he being by him converted to his opinion Fryth made a publick profession of it Whereupon being seized and examined by the Commissary of the University he was imprisoned within the limits of the said College At length being freed thence in 1528 or thereabouts he went beyond the Seas where improving himself much in his religious opinions returned into England about two Years after leaving his Wife behind But then again finding few Friends there that favoured his opinions he wandred to and fro and in fine was taken for a Vagabond at Reading in Berks. set in the Stocks and endured misery for want of relief At that time his condition being made known to Leonard Cox the Schoolmaster of that Town who presently understood the merits of the Person by his discourse procured his releasment refreshed his hungry stomack and gave him money Afterwards he went to London where endeavouring to gain Proselytes he was by the care of Sir Tho. More Lord Chancellor seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower where he had several disputes with Sir Tho. and others At length being examined by the Bishops sitting in St. Pauls Cath. who persuaded him to recant his opinions but in vain they condemned him to be burnt So that being delivered to the L. Mayor and Sheriffs was committed to Newgate where he remained in the Dungeon till he was conveyed thence to be burnt His works are Treatise of Purgatory Answer to Joh. Rastal's Dialogues of Purgatory This Jo. Rastal was Son in-Law to Sir Tho. More Answer to Sir Tho. More 's Dialogue concerning Heresies Answer to Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester The Subsidie or Bulwark to his first Book against Jo. Rastal His judgment upon Will Tracy of Todington in Glocestershire his Testament an 1531. Letter unto the faithful followers of Christ's Gospell Written from his Prison in the Tower 1532. A Mirror or Glass to know thy self Written in the Tower 1532. Mirror or Looking-glass wherein you may behold the Sacrament of Baptisme Written 1533. An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope Of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ in answer to Sir Thom. More 's letter which he wrot against the first little treatise of Fryth made concerning the Sacrament c. an 1533. Lond. 1548. oct Articles wherefore he dyed Written in Newgate Prison 23. June 1533. All which treatises were reprinted at London in fol. an 1573. He also translated into English Patricks places written by Patr. Hamilton At length after he had remained in the said Prison about a Fortnight or more he was carried thence to Smithfield on the 4.
Author saith who adds that he died at London in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 which was the eight and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. FRANCIS BYGOD a Yorkshire Man born spent some time among the Oxonian Muses but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King and wrot A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices The Epistle before which dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed or reprinted at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman's Larger work of Tithes by the care of Jerem. Stephens an 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope his Marriage with Anna Bolein and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth as 't is conjectured by circumstances The Author's purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession as it had been complained of long before his time especially be Dr. Tho. Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English which I have not yet seen At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage an 1536 at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull was thereupon apprehended imprison'd and at length executed at Tyburn near to London with other Knights and Esquires in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. ROBERT WAKFELD a Northern Man born and the greatest Linguist of his time was as he saith ex fidelibus natus fidelis ex Christianis Christianus and afterwards being fitted for the University he was sent to Cambridge where he took one or more degrees in Arts. But his desire being solely bent to improve his natural Genie in the Tongues he went to travel and in short time attained to a very considerable knowledge in the Greek Hebrew Chaldaic and Syriac Tongues About that time he read and taught the said Tongues at Tubing in Germany at Paris and in 1519 I find him to be Hebr. Professor at Lovaine in Brabant in the place of one Matthew Adrian But continuing there only 4 Months he returned into England where being made known to the King by his great friend and admirer Rich. Paice Dean of St. Pauls he was made one of his Chaplams took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity was beloved of many and patroniz'd in his studies by Thom. Bulleyn Earl of Wilts When the unlawfulness of Matrimony between the King and Catherine of Spayne Widow of his Brother Prince Arthur was called into question he began to defend the Queens cause and therefore gained the love of many bâ—t being afterwards courted by fair promises to change his mind and the rather because of his great skill in the Tongues and Divinity and therefore able to say more than another Man he came over to the Kings Party whereby he gained the hatred of many I have seen a Letter written by him to the King dated from Sion in Middlesex 1527. wherein he tells him that he will defend his cause or question in all the Universities in Christendome c. and afterwards tells him that if the People should know that he who began to defend the Queens cause not knowing that she was carnally know of Pr. Arthur his Brother should now write against it surely he should be stoned of them to death or else have such a slander and obloquy raised upon him that he would rather dye a thousand times than suffer it c. Afterwards upon the intreaty of the University of Oxon made to the King Wakfeld was sent thither about 1530. and at his first coming he made a publick Speech in the Hall of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. since called Ch. Church before the University and afterwards read publickly the Hebrew Lecture there as his Brother Tho. Wakfeld did at Cambridge by the Kings Authority beginning to read there in 1540. In 1532 he was made by the King the twelfth or junior Canon of his College at Oxon founded on the site of that of the Cardinal and in the same Year he was incorporated B. of Divinity So that continuing there some Years after and-instructing many in the Tongues I have therefore put him among the Oxford Writers In 1536 when he saw the King make havock of Religious Houses he carefully preserved divers Books of Greek and Hebrew especially those in the Library of Ramsey abbey which were partly composed by Laur. Holbeach a Monk of that place in the Reign of Hen. 4. among which was his Hebrew Dictionary As for the works of Wakfeld they are mostly these that follow Oratio de laudibus utilitate trium Linguarum Arabicae Chaldaicae Hebraicae atque idiomatibus hebraicis quae in utroque testamento inveniuntur Printed by Winand Worde in qu. Paraphrasis in librum Koheleth quem vulgo Ecclesiasten vocant succincta clara atque fidelis Printed in a black char in qu. Kotser codicis quo praeter ecclesiae sacrosanctae decretum probatur conjugium cum fratria carnaliter cognita illicitum omnino inhibitum interdictumque esse tum naturae jure tum jure divino legeque evangelica atque consuetudine catholica ecclesiae orthodoxae Printed at Lond. 1528 in qu. This is the same with his Book entit by Bale and Pits De non ducenda Fratria Syntagma de hebraeorum codicum incorruptione Printed in qu. In which Book are several things against Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester concerning Matrimony and the unlawfulness of the Kings Marrying with his Brothers Wife Oratio Oxonii habita in Coll. Regio Printed with the former in qu. De Laudibus Agriculturae Epistolae ad D. Th. Bulleyn comitem Wilts Joh. Fisherum Ep. Roff. Rich. Paceum c. Besides other things mentioned elsewhere which I have not yet seen He died at London on the eighth day of Octob. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven leaving Thomas his Brother his Heir but where he was buried I cannot yet tell Jo. Leland in one of his Books gives him the name of Polypus noting thereby he way of contumely that he was a crafty man for craftily conveying away the Hebrew Dictionary before-mention'd Rich. Paice Dean of Pauls in a Letter to K. H. 8. dat at Sion 1527. saith that Rob. Wakfeld is a Person of excellent learning as well in Divinity as in wonderful knowledge of many and divers Languages The University of Oxon in an Epistle to the said King doth also say that besides his various accomplishments he gives place to none for his admirable knowledge in the Hebrew Syriac and Arabick Tongues JOHN CLAYMOND who used to write himself Eucharistiae servus because he frequently received the blessed Sacrament and in the latter part of his life took it every day was the Son of Joh. Claymond and Alice his Wife sufficient Inhabitants of
in the Lâ—wcountries for the K. of Spain and William Prince of Aurange or Orange by the former of which tho at first he was lightly esteemed upon the account of his youth yet after some discourse he found himself so strucken with him that the beholders wondred to see what tribute that brave and high minded Prince paid to his worth giving more honour and respect to him in his private capacity than to the Embassadours of mighty Princes In the Year 1579 he tho neither Magistrate or Counsellour did shew himself for several weighty reasons opposite to the Queens matching with the Duke of Anjou which he very pithily expressed by a due address of his humble reasons to her as may be fully seen in a book called Cabola The said address was written at the desire of some great personage his Uncle Robert I suppose Earl of Leycester upon which a great quarrel hapned between him and Edw. Vere Earl of Oxford This as I conceive might occasion his retirement from Court next Summer an 1580 wherein perhaps he wrot that pleasant Romance called Arcadia In 1581 the treatise of marriage was renewed and our Author Sidney with Fulk Grevill were two of the tilters at the entertainment of the French Embassadour and at the departure of the Duke of Anjou from England in Febr. the same year he attended him to Antwerp On the 8. Janu. 1582 he with Peregrine Bertie received the honour of Knighthood from the Queen and in the beginning of 1585 he designed an expedition with Sir Francis Drake into America but being hindred by the Queen in whose opinion he was so highly prized that she thought the Court deficient without him he was in Octob. following made Governour of Flushing about that time delivered to the Queen for one of the cautionary towns and General of the Horse In both which places of great trust his carriage testified to the world wisdom and valour with addition of honour to his country by them and especially the more when in July 1586 he surprised Axil and preserved the lives and honour of the English Army at the enterprise of Gravelin So that whereas through the fame of his high deserts he was then or rather before in election for the Crown of Poland the Queen of England refused to further his advancement not out of emulation but out of fear to lose the jewel of her times What can be said more He was a Statesman Soldier and Scholar a compleat Master of matter and language as his immortal Pen shews His Pen and his Sword have rendred him famous enough He died by the one and by the other he 'll ever live as having been hitherto highly extolled for it by the Pens of Princes This is the happiness of art that although the sword doth archieve the honour yet the arts do record it and no Pen hath made it better known than his own in that book called Arcadia Certain it is he was a noble and matchless Gentleman and it may be justly said without hyperboles of fiction as it was of Cato Uticensis that he seemed to be born to that only which be went about His written works are these The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia Several times printed at London in quarto and fol. Which being the most celebrated Romance that was ever written was consecrated to his noble virtuous and learned Sister Mary the Wife of Henry Earl of Pembroke who having lived to a very fair age dyed in her house in Aldersgate-street in London 25. Sept. 1621. whereupon her body was buried in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury among the graves of the Pembrochian Family This Arcadia tho then and since it was and is taken into the hands of all ingenious Men and said by one living at or near the time when first published to be a book most famous for rich conceipt and splendor of courtly expressions yet the Author was not so fond a B. Heliodorus was of his amorous work for he desired when he died having first consulted with a Minister about it to have had it suppressed One who writes himself G. M. wrot the second and last part of the first book of the said Arcadia making thereby a compleat end of the first History Lond. 1613. qu. And in the eighth edit printed at Lond. 1633. Sir W. A. Knight made a supplement of a defect in the third part of the History and R. B. of Linc. Inn Esq added then a sixth book thereunto In 1662 came out the said Arcadia again in 6 books with several of his other works added to them In 1624 it was printed in French in 3. vol. or parts in oct and hath as I have been informed undergone several impressions in France It hath been also printed once or more in the Dutch language and in others Sir Philip also wrot A dissuasive Letter to Queen Elizab. her marriage with Monsier of France c. 'T is in a book called Scrinia Ceciliana Lond. 1663. qu. Astrophel and Stella wherein the excellencie of sweet poesie is concluded Lond. 1591. qu. Said to be written for the sake of one whom he entirely loved viz. the Lady Rich by whom was understood Philoclea in the Arcadia An Apologie for poetry Lond. 1595. qu. in prose There is a book in being called The Art of English Poesie not written by Sidney as some have thought but rather by one Puttenham sometimes a Gentleman Pensioner to Qu. Elizab. Sonnetts Remedie for love At the end of the 11th edit of Arcadia Lond. 1662. fol. Ourania a Poem Lond. 1606. published by N. B. An Essay upon valour so I find it mention'd in Cottoni posthuma yet others say it was written by Sir Thom. Overbury Quaere Almonzor and Almanzaida a Novel Lond. 1678. oct This book coming out so late it is to be enquired whether Sir Philip Sidneys name is not set to it for sale-sake being a usual thing in these days to set a great name to a book and to enhance the price of it by the esteem of the supposed Author Englands Helicon or a collection of Songs Sir Philip Sidneys name is also put to it as being the Author of most of the said Songs 'T was printed at Lond. in qu. Instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all nations states and countries This book which is printed in 12 o hath the names of Robert Earl of Essex and Sir Philip Sidney put to it but may be question'd whether either had a hand in it He also translated from French into English A work containing the trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists c. written originally by Philip Morney But the said translation being left imperfect by Sidney Arthur Golding finish'd it Lond. 1587. qu. He also Sidney turn'd the Psalmes of David into English verse which are in MS. in the Library of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton curiously bound in a crimson velvet cover left thereunto by his Sister Mary
great Discretion and Prudence as well as of Learning he was Elected by them their Provincial Minister that is the chief Governor or Master of them and their Order in England which laudable Office he executed for some Years with great approbation He hath written according to Anton. Senensis Comment sup 4. libros sententiarum Tract de unitate formarum Lecturae Scholasticae and other things which I have not yet seen This William Beeth was in great renown among Learned Men especially among those of his Order in the Reign of K. H. 7. of England but when he died it appears not JOHN PERCEVALL discovered even in his Childhood an early affection to Learning and when at the Age of about Twenty he diligently applied his Muse to Philosophical Learning in the Universities of England especially in this of Oxon wherein he obtained a considerable competency in humane and Divine Learning At riper Years he upon mature consideration entred into the most Holy Order of the Carthusians and soon after by a severe and strict life among them mostly by fasting and a continual and religious contemplation his divine Soul was at length totally refin'd and fitted for the Society of the Saints in Heaven He hath transmitted to Posterity Compendium divini amoris Par. 1530. in Oct. This Book was Printed elsewhere before that time Epistolae ad solitarios besides other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen Theodor. Petreius in his Bibliotheca Cartusiana tells us that this John Percevall was Prior of the Carthusians at Paris in the Year 1550 but my Author Jo. Baleus before quoted mentions no such matter only that he was a bare Carthusian and that he was in great esteem among Men for his Piety and Learning Fifty Years before that time The Reader is now to know that contemporary with the former lived another John Percevall Doctor of Divinity of Oxon and by order a Franciscan or Grey Frier who being a Person of great note among his Brethren or among those of his Society was elected the Seven and Fortieth Provincial Minister of them but what relation there was between this and the former it appears not This John Percevall the Franciscan died at London and was buried in the Church of the Franciscans now commonly called Christ-Church within Newgate whereupon Hen. Standish D. D. whom I shall mention elsewhere succeeded him in the Provincialship It is also farther to be noted that whereas a Learned Author tells us that this John Percevall succeeded in that honourable Office one Will. Goddard a Doctor of Divinity of Oxon it is a great mistake for that Will. Goddard whom he sets down to have been Provincial Minister was only Warden or Guardian of the House or College of Franciscans at London before-mention'd to which he was a Benefactor who dying 26. Sept. 1485. was Buried in the Chappel of the Apostles joyning to the Church of the said House As for the famous Dr. Will. Goddard who was the Provincial Minister of the Franciscans he died 30 Octob. 1437. and was buried in the said Church on the right side of the Tomb of Sir John Hastyngs So that I believe two three or more were Provincials between this last Dr. Goddards death and the time when Dr. John Percevall took the Provincialship upon him ROBERT BALE called by some Robert Bale Junior because there was another of both his Names a Lawyer of London and before him in time was born in the County of Norfolk entred when Young among the Carmes or Carmelites commonly called White-Friers in the City of Norwych spent some time for the sake of Study among those of his Order living in the North Suburb of Oxon where he improv'd himself much in the faculty of Theology as I presume he did partly at Cambridge among those of his Society there Afterwards he became Prior of the Carmes at Burnham in his own Country where he was had in veneration by them and others for his great love towards Learning and Learned Men. All the time that he could procure he greedily spent in his beloved Study of Divinity and Histories both Divine and Profane and having to his great expence obtained a considerable Library of Books they at length came after his Death to that of the Carmes at Burnham He hath written Annales perbreves Ordinis Carmelitarum The beginning of which is Anno Mundi 3042. Helias Thesb c. Historia Heliae Prophetae The beginning of which is Ecce ego mitto c. Officium Simonis Angli The beginning of which is Simon pater inclytus c. This famous Simon was Simon Stock the most noted and religious Brother of the Carmes that ever was the first of all his Order that took a degree in this University as I have told you elsewhere and the same who many Years after his death was Canoniz'd Besides the said Books he the said Rob. Bale composed Several Sermons which went from hand to hand as one of his Order will farther tell you who addeth year 1503 that he giving way to fate in Fifteen hundred and three which was about the 18th Year of K. Hen. 7. was buried in his Monastery of Burnham before-mentioned RICHARD BARDNEY was born at or near to Bardney in Lincolnshire became when Young a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict in his own Country received his Learning in the supreme faculty among those of his Society in Oxon and afterwards retiring to his Monastery wrot in Verse Vita Roberti Grostest quondam Episcopi Lincolniensis 'T is as yet in Manuscript and was finished by the Author in 1503. he being then Bachelaur of Divinity and by him dedicated to Will. Smythe Bishop of Lincoln The beginning of this Book is Lincolniensis apex presul sacrate Wilelme c. Many fabulous things are inserted therein not at all agreeable to so profound and subtile a Philosopher as Grostest was who in his Life and Actions did very humbly imitate or at least endeavoured so to do St. Austin Archbishop of Canterbury The said Author Bardney tells us that Grestest was Born at Stow in Lincolnshire which no Author besides himself hath in the least mentioned and other matters of him which are false tho some are true and fit to be mention'd in History What else our Author Bardney hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he was in good esteem for some parts of Learning especially by those of his Society during the time that King Henry 7. lived but when he died it appears not DONALD O-FIHELY a Person much valued among his Country-men for his unwearied industry in matters relating to History and Antiquity was Born of an Antient Family in the County of Cork in Ireland whence in his Youthful Years being sent to Oxon improved himself much in Academical Learning but whether he took a Degree we have no Register that testifies it Afterwards receeding to
Frampton in Lincolnshire in which Town this our Author Joh. Claymond received his first breath From thence when he was a Boy he was sent to Oxon where after he had compleated his Grammar learning in the School near to Magd. Coll. great Gate being then within and not without the said Gate he was made Demie first and in 1488 perpetual Fellow of that College About that time entring into holy Orders and becoming famous for his great learning piety and gravity was constituted President of the said College about 1504 took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity three Years after and within three more after that time supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be licensed to proceed in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not About that time several Dignities and Ecclesiastical Benefices were bestowed on him among which were the Rectory of West-mongton in Somersetshire which he obtained by the resignation of the Honourable Rich. Grey from Richard the Abbat and the Convent of Glastenbury in the Month of July 1506. the Prebendship of Whitchurch in the Cathedral Church of Wells to which belongs the Church of Beningar in Somersetshire and the vicaridge of the Collegiate Church of Norton in the Dioc. of Durham which he resign'd in 1518 reserving to himself any yearly pension from it of 20 Marks to be paid by the Abbat and Convent of Selby of the Order of St. Bennet in Yorkshire At length upon the desire of Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester he left his Presidentship of Magd. Coll. and was by him made President of that of C. C. when founded by him an 1516. Which place being of less value than the former the said Bishop did in recompence give him the rich Rectory of Clyve called by some Bishops Clyve in Glocestershire which he kept to his dying day He was a Person of great gravity of most exact example in his life and conversation very charitable and devout and had nothing wanting in him to compleat a Theologist And as he was esteemed a learned Divine by some so a better Philosopher by others as it appears by his Book intit Notae observationes in Plinii naturalem historiam In 4. Volumes in MS. in C. C. Coll. Library Of which Book and its Author hear what Mich. Neander saith de quo nobis retulit aliquando Operinus noster quòd in totum Plinii opus eruditos commentarios scripserit ad se excudendos jam pridem miserit cur autem non fuerint excusi ab Operino puto sumptus ad tantum optis imprimendum defuisse c. Dr. Jo. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge doth speak something to the same purpose who stiles them Scholia eruditiss viri Johan Claymondi in omnes Caii Plinii Naturalis Historiae libros c. but adds that the Scholia on the two first Books were lost after his death He Claymond also wrot In MS. and not as I conceive printed Comment in Aulii Gellii Noctes Atticas Com. in Plautum Epistolae ad Simon Grinaeum A Treatise of repentance This is in MS. written with his own hand in 4 sheets in fol. which I have in my Library of MSS. The beginning of it is It is the property and condition of every wise Man c. At length arriving to a good old Age paid his last debt to nature 19. Nov. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried in the choire of C. C. Coll. under that very place where the Rectors of the choire sing the Psalm intit Venite exultemus Over his Grave was soon after a Marble stone laid with an Inscription thereon provided and made by himself with void spaces left for the day and year when he died to be filled up by his Executor or Overseer of his Will but were never performed The Copy of the Inscription you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. his Character and Encomium in Jo. Leland and his benefactions to Magdalen Corp. Christi and Brasenose Colleges in the aforesaid Hist Antiq. JOHN HELYAR a Hampshire Man born was admitted Probationer Fellow of Corpus Ch. Coll. 1. June 1522. and Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1524. But instead of having that degree compleated by Determination in the Lent following in the publick Schools he had the Degree of M. of A. conferr'd upon him being then taken into the patronage of the magnificent and generous Cardinal Tho. Wolsey who held him in high value for his extraordinary sufficiencies in the Lat. Greek and Hebrew Tongues In all which especially in Poetry and Humanity he was so well vers'd that he exceeded most if not all Persons of his time Whether the said Cardinal did afterwards promote him to a Canonry or Readers place in his new Coll. at Oxon I know not Sure I am that after his fall our Author supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences and about the same time wrot Comment in Ciceronem pro M. Marcello Scholia in Sophoclem Com. in Epistolas Ovidii Epitaphium D. Erasmi Roterodami Written in Gr. and Lat. with other things besides his translation from Greek into Lat. St. Chrysostom's Tract De providentia fato c. This our Author Helyar who had acquaintance with the said Erasmus was held in admiration by all the Vertuosi in the 29. Hen. 8. JOHN FOREST or Forest whose sirname had several Years before he was born lived within the City of Oxon but whether of his Family I cannot yet tell was from his Childhood educated in Piety and Learning Afterwards when he attained to the 17th Year of his Age he took upon him the habit of St. Francis at Greenwich in Kent as it seems and at about 26 Years of Age was instructed in Theological Studies for a time among the Brethren of that Order living without Watergate in the South Suburb of Oxon. What Degrees he took here it appears not yet sure I am that in order for the taking of the Degree of Bach. Div. he supplicated the Ven. Regents that he might be admitted to oppose in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not and so consequently that he was not Bachelaur much less Doctor as some report unless in another University beyond the Seas for at Cambridge he had not that Degree conferr'd upon him if the Tables at the end of Antiquitates Britannicae are right Afterwards he was taken into the Service of Queen Catherine the Consort of King Hen. 8. whose love being great towards virtue and learning she made him her Confessor About that time he was constituted the one and fortieth Provincial Minister of his Order as an eminent Brother thereof doth really suppose from certain Writings relating to the quarrels between the Order and Card. Wolsey Which Provincialship had before been enjoyed by Steph. Baron Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and sometimes a frequent Preacher in the University of Cambridge Soon after when that good Queen
the Parliament forces in the year 1646. at which time the Wars were ceased he was sent to S. Johns coll in Cambridge where he had not been there many months e're came forth the first issue of his prodigious wit entit Horae vacivae or Essayes with some occasional considerations Lond. 1646. oct with his Picture before them aged 19. The sudden breaking forth of which amazed not only the University as I am instructed by one of his Fellow Collegiats but the more serious part of men in the three Nations where they were spread The same year about New-years time came out his Poems Lond. 1646. and with them The second book of divine Poems Pr. in oct Both which books were much admired After he had continued more than an year at Cambridge in the condition of a Commoner and Gent. Com. he was translated to Greys Inn where he added to the Structure of a most admirable Romance intit Lucenia which he had began in Cambridge but by the lending it forth to a friend it was smother'd In 1648. his mind being sufficiently known to encline towards a Commonwealth he sided with the Independent and wrote A Satyr against Presbytery and in 1649. he published An humble motion to the Parliament of England concerning the advancement of Learning and Reformation of the Vniversities Printed at Lond. in 6. sh in qu. In which taking occasion to court the then Rulers got him a present sum of Money and a Pension of 100. l. per an from the Councel About the same time he wrote Four Paradoxes to which he added two more in 1653. Published at Lond. 1653. in tw under the name of Joh. de la Salle by Joh. Davies of Kidwelly And in 1650. being commanded by the Councel of State into Scotland to attend Oliver Cromwell to make such observations on affairs there as might conduce to the setling of the interests of the Commonwealth he wrote a book intit The grounds and reasons of Monarchy with an Appendix of An Epitomy of the Scotish affairs Both printed at Edenburgh in qu. and afterwards at London About that time he was called to the Barr and sometimes pleaded and in 1651. he published A Gag to Loves Advocates c. wherein he justified the Parliaments proceedings in the execution of Christop Love a forward and busie Presbyterian What other things he either wrote or published are briefly these 1 A Preface before with remarks upon a book intit A true relation of the unjust cruell and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the E. Indies by the Netherlandish Government and Councell there Which book tho it had been published in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and the third time at Lond. 1632. in qu. Joh. Hall thought it necessary to revive it at that time 1651. because of the then differences between the Dutch and the English This book he dedicated to the General O. Cromwell and was much bought up Whereupon the Dutch Embassador residing then in Westminster made a complaint of that book and demanded punishment on the reviver of it but the Parliament thinking it a seasonable service done to the publick took no notice of it 2 He rendred into English from the Original The height of Eloquence written by Dionis Longinus Lond. 1652. oct Dedicated to Balstrade Whitlock one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 3 He wrote A Letter from a Gent. in the Country concerning c. an 1653. just after the Long Parliament was dissolv'd tending to settle the humours of the people in that great emergency 4 Answer to the grand politick Informer Printed 1653. fol. which Politick Informer being a virulent Pamphlet writen upon the Assembly of Barbone's Parliament and therefore censured and suppressed it was thought expedient that Hall should answer it and he was well rewarded for it from the Exchequer He put out Lusus Serius in 1654. written in Lat. by Mich. Majerus Half of which almost was done in one afternoon over a glass of Wine in a Tavern 6 He made a translation of Hicrocles upon the golden verses of Pythagoras teaching a vertuous and worthy life Published after his death by his friend John Davies of Kidwelly Lond. 1657. oct with other things as Poems Translations Treatises which were never published At length being overtaken with a disease which he could not thoroughly shake off he left London in Jul. 1655. and retiring to Durham died there on the first of Aug. 1656. having not fully arrived to the 29th year of his age and was buried there near to the grave of his Father who died about an year before just after his Sons arrival there To conclude had not his debauches and intemperance diverted him from the more serious studies he had make an extraordinary person for no man had ever done so great things at his age So was the opinion of the great Philosopher of Malmsbury Besides this John Hall of Durham were others of both his names and writers as Joh. Hall of Richmond author Of Government and Obedience in four books Lond. 1654. fol. and of other things and another John Hall author of The true Cavalier examined by his principles and found not guilty either of Schism or Sedition Lond. 1656. besides other matters A third also who was Bach. of Div. now or lately living was author of Jacobs Ladder or the 〈◊〉 souls ascension to heaven in Prayers c. WILLIAM HINDE was born at 〈◊〉 in Westmorland became a poor serving Child of 〈◊〉 in Mich. Term 1586. aged 17. afterwards 〈…〉 M of A. and perpetual Fellow of the said house wherein having been alwaies a close and severe 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 and beloved by the famous Jo. Rainolds a Commoner of the said Coll. during his time Whose doctrine making impressions on the Juniors there our author Hinde became an admirer of him At length being full ripe for a removal he left the Society about 1603. being then much in esteem among them for his excellent Theological Disputations and Preachments and became Minister of Gods word at Bunbury in Cheshire where he was much noted among the puritanical party for his piety and so much followed by them for his frequent preaching that he was esteemed the Ring-leader of the Nonconformists in that County during the time that Dr. Tho. Morton sate Bishop of Chester with whom our author had several contests about Conformity He hath written The office and use of the Moral Law of God in the days of the Gospel justified and explained at large by Scriptures Fathers and other Orthodox Divines c. Lond. 1623. qu. Path to Piety a Catechism A faithful remonstrance or the holy life and happy death of John Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford in the County of Chester Esq exhibiting variety of many memorable and exemplary passages of his life and at his death c. Lond. 1641. oct Published by Sam. Hinde a Minister Son of William the author The said John Bruen who was a noted Calvinist and
diocess of which place being then pretty well stock'd with such people that could scant brook the name of a Bishop yet by his Episcopal way of living among them he obtained their love and were content to give him a good report In 1607. June 2. he was translated to London where sitting but for a short time paid his last debt to nature to the great reluctancy of all good men especially such who knew the piety of the Bishop and how he had for many years with much vigilancy served his Church King and Country on the fourteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 Whereupon his body was buried in the upper end of the north Isle joyning to S. Pauls Cath. Ch. and soon after had put over it a monument with an inscription thereon a copy of which being already printed at least twice I shall now omit it and pass to the next In his Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Hugh Goodman M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. installed therein 10. May 1607. in his Deanery Dr. Joh. King and in his Bishoprick Dr. Geo. Abbot JOHN LINCH Son of James Linch was born at Galloway in Ireland and educated in New Inn as it seems with Will. Laly his Countryman afterwards Archb. of Tuam took the degree of Bach. of Decrees in Apr. 1555. and soon after going into his own Country had several beneces bestowed on him At length by the favour of Q. Eliz. he was promoted to the Bishoprick of Elphine an 1584 which place he keeping about 27. years resigned it 19. Aug. 1611. and dying soon after was buried in the Ch. of S. Nicholas in Galloway In the said See succeeded one Edw. King a Huntingdonshire man born Doct. of div of the University of Dublin who was consecrated thereunto in Dec. 1611. See another Joh. Linch in the Fasti 1618. among the Incorporations GILES TOMSON a Londoner born was entred an Exhibitioner of Vniversity coll in 1571. took the degrees in Arts and in 1580. was elected fellow of Allsouls coll In 1586. he was one of the Proctors of the University and about that time Divinity reader of Magd. coll When he was a Junior he gave a great hope and good presage of his future excellency having a rare gift ex tempore in all his School Exercises and such a happy wit to make use of all occurrences to his purpose as if he had not taken the occasions as they fell out by accident but rather bespoken such pretty accidents to fall out to give him the occasions Afterwards he was chaplain to the Qu. Residentiary of Hereford Rector of Pembridge in Herefordshire was installed Dean of Windsore 2. March 1602. being then Doct. of div Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter and a most eminent Preacher At length being nominated and elected B. of Glocester had restitution of the temporalities belonging to it made to him on 27. June 1611. and was in the next month consecrated thereunto with liberty then allowed to him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for one year and no longer He departed this mortal life to the great grief of all that knew the piety and learning of the man after he had taken a great deal of pains at the command of K. Jam. 1. in translating the four Gospels Acts of the Apostles and Apocalyps on the 14. June in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 Whereupon his body was buried in Brays chappel on the south side of that of S. George at Windsore and had soon after a monument put over him with his Bust to the middle and this inscription under it Individua Trinitati per omnia saecula sit gloria per quam sui sum ero Hic situs est Aegidius Tomson hujus Capcllae quondam Decanus cujus mens sincera lingua docta manus munda fuit Londini natus educatus Oxoniae in collegio Omnium Animarum Bonorum Indigentium Eruditorum amantissimus semper vixit cujus corpus quamvis mortalitas terrae subjecit illius tamen animam pietas caelis inseruit Hunc virum moribus gravem prudentia insignem pietate summum haec Regia Capella per annos decem Decanum habuit Inde a serenissimo Rege Jacobo in Episcopatum Glouc. Commendatum mors intempestiva anno decurso praesulem rapuit Obiit 14. Junii An. Dom. 1612. aetat 59. RICHARD DEANE Son of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire by Elizabeth his Wife daughter of Edm. Jennings of Syelsden in Craven was born at Saltonstall and after he had been educated in Grammaticals in his own Country became a Student in Merton coll 1587. aged 17. years where continuing about 5. years in the quality as it seems of a Portionist retired to S. Albans hall and as a member of that house took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Octob. 1592. and that of Master three years after which was the highest degree he took in this University Afterwards he taught school at Caermerthen in Wales as a note that came thence which I have seen reports tho I hardly believe it was made Dean of Kilkenny in Ireland and at length Bishop of Ossory there about the latter end of the year 1609. He yielded up his last breath on the 20. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried near to the Bishops chair in the Church at Kilkenny year 1612 In the said See of Ossory succeeded Jonas Wheeler another Oxford Student whom I shall at large mention among these Bishops under the year 1640. HENRY USHER a Dublin man born was educated in the University of Cambridge till he was Bach of Arts and some time after In the beginning of the year 1572. he went to Oxon setled in Vniversity coll was incorporated in the same degree in the beginning of July the same year and in few days after was licensed to proceed in Arts. Which degree being compleated by standing in the Act he made some continuance here studied the Theological faculty and laid a sure foundation therein by the helps of divers noted men then in the University among whom Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Holland were two Afterwards he retired to his native Country became Archdeacon of Dublin and at length Archb. of Armagh and so consequently Primate of all Ireland To which See being consecrated in Aug. 1595. sate there till the time of his death in great honour and repute among all Protestants in that country He died at Termon-Fechan on the second day of April in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 and was buried in S. Peters Church at Drogheda commonly called Tredagh In the See of Armagh succeeded Dr. Christopher Hampton and him Dr. James Vsher nephew to Henry before mention'd whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1626. HENRY COTTON a younger Son of Sir Ric. Cotton Kt. one of the Privy Council to K. Ed. 6. was born in Hampshire educated in the Free school at Guildford became a commoner