a J. Scot his â—ables Author hath affirmed But finding no such place in that b See Speeds maps in the Catalogues of both Countâ—â— County a Wakerly nigh Stanford in Northamptonshire blame me not if willing to restore my native shire to its right and the honor of his nativity This Richard being the last foundation-Fellow and third Provost of Kings-Colledge purchased four Tenements in Millstreet over against the late Carmelites then newly Queens-Colledge and founded an Hall thereon for one Master and three Fellowes dedicating it to St. Katherine the Virgin and Martyr since augmented by the bounty of others 41. This may be termed Aula Bella Properly a prety Hall if not a proper a pretty Hall even by the confession of the Poet so critical in the word Sed qui bellus homo Cotta c Martial lib. 1. Epigra 10 pusillus homo What thing is in it self but small d in his list of Edward the fift folio 62. That Cotta we doe pretty call And the beholding of this House mindeth me of what Sir Thomas More wrteth of a She favourite of King Edward the fourth as to this particular conformity betwixt them otherwise far be it from me to resemble this Virgin Hall to a wanton Woman namely that there was nothing in her Body one could have changed except one would have wished her somewhat higher Lowness of endowment and littlensse of Receit is all can be cavilled at in this foundation otherwise proportionably most compleat in chappell cloisters library Hal c. Indeed this House was long Town-bound which hindered the growth thereof til Dr. Goslin that good Physitian cured it of that disease by giving the Bull-Inn thereunto so that since it hath flourished with buildings and Students lately more numerous than in greater Colledges Masters Benefactors Bishops Learn Writers Col. Livings 1 Robert Roch. 2 John Tarton 3 John Wardoll 4 Rich. Barleston 5 Thomas Green 6 Rain Bainbrig 7 Edwin Sands 8 Edm. Cosin 9 John May. 10 Edm. Hound 11 John Overal 12 John Hills 13 Richard Sibs 14 Ralph Brounrig 15 Willam Spurstow 16 John Lightfoot 1 Isabel Canterbury Sister to the founder 2 William Tayler 3 Katherine Mils 4 Robert Simpton 5 Hugh PembertoÌ„ 6 John Chester 7 Thomas Green 8 The Lady Elizabeth Bernardiston 9 John Leach 10 Rich. Nealson 11 Rob. Shorton 12 D. Thimblebie 13 Dr. Middleton 14 Hugh Garret 15 Rosamond Paster 16 John Colmlex 17. John Duke 18 John Claypoole 19 John Gostlin Knight 20 Thomas Buck. Esquire Bedle. 21 Mr. Christopher Shirland 22 Mrs. Stafford 23 Mr. Tho. Hobbs 24 Mr. Peter Phesant 25 Lady Cocket 26 Mrs. Jurdain 27 Ann. Lady Bernardiston 28 William Gouge 39 Mr. Coulson 30 Mr. Skirne Esquire 31 Mr. Alured 32 Mr. Cradock 33 The worthy company of Mercers of the City of London Edwin Sands Master Archbishop of York John May Mr. Bishop of Carlile John Overal Mr. Bishop of Norwich Ralp Brounrig Mr. Bishop of Exeter Edwin Sands Archbishop of York Richard Sibs a most Pious and profound Divine Thomas Godwin Fellow an eminent Preacher John Lightfoot an excellent Linguist Coaton Rect. in the Diocess of Ely valued at 6l 12s 9d 0b So that lately in this were maintained one Master six Fellowes with all the Students above an hundred Joannes Boynton Can. Thomas Rotheram Can. Thomas Northwood Can. Richardus Badew Can. Tho. Cosine Can. Joannes Blithe The foundation of Jesus Colledge Can. Robertus Fitz-hugh Can. Richard Freyer 1476 17 Ro. Woodroof Proct. Thomas Swayne 1477 18 Gerard Borell Proct. Guil. Stockdale 1478 19 John Laycroft Proct. Robert Wellby 1479 20 Robert Luther Proct. Guil. Tompson 1480 21 Roger Bower Proct. Phil 1481 22 Morgan Thomas Hole Proct. Jo. Green 1482 Edv. 5. Rich. 3. and James Grave Proct. Jo. Smith 1483 2 and Ro. Hacumblen Proct. John Butler 1484 3 and Gilb. Geuge Proct. John Butler and Gilb. Urmsen 1485 Hen. 7. Proct. Gilb. Fitz-John 1486 2 Hen. Babington Proct. Tho. Waters 1487 3 and Guil. Birly Proct. Richard Walle 1488 4 and John Basset Proct. Tho. Medcalfe 1489 5 Roger Layburne Proct. Gual Bedman 1490 6 John Wolfe Proct. Ric. Burton 1491 7 and John Wolfe Proct. John Sickling 1492 8 and John Walle Proct. Jo. Lound 1493 9 and Ric. Huddleston Proct. Ric. Bramton 1494 10 and John Robinson Proct. John Fisher 1495 11 and Thomas Cooke Proct. Jac. Denton 1496 12 and Tho. Gogney Proct. 42. This year a new Colledge was made in Cambridge of an old Nunâ—ery sounded some three hundred years agoe Viz. anno 1133. by Malcolme of the Scots Royall-race Earle of Cambridge and Huntington and dedicated to St. Radegund This Radegund daughter to Berthram Prince of Thuringia was wife to Lotharius King of France Son to Clodoveus the great the first Christian King of that country whose sequestring herself from her husbands company about the year 560 liv'd The incontinence of Saint Radegunds Nuns and died in a small Monasterie in Poicton thereby gaining the reputation of a Saint 43. But it seems the Sisters living in Cambridge Nunnery consecrated to her honor fell as far short in chastity as she over-did therein Indeed one of them left a good memory Anno Regis Henr. 7. 12 Anno Dom. 1443 or at least hath a good Epitaph inscribed on her monument in the Chappell Moribus ornatae jacet hîc bona Berta Rosata But the rest were not so sweet and fragrant in their reputes squandring away the wealth and ornaments of their house which was no wonder for those to doe which were prodigals of their own persons Not able therefore to go away from their shame they went away with their shame and quitting their covent concealed themselves privately in their own countrey Tradition e Godwin in his catalogue of Bishops of Ely in the life John Alcock saith that of the two remaining one was with child the other but a child so that their land seemed lapsed for want of owners or rather for the owners want of honesty 44. John Maiors testimony here of But let us heare what John Maior f De gestis Scotoâ—um fol. 9. the blunt Scotch Historian saith hereof living in Cambridge some years after whilest those matters were yet fresh in most mens memories Quoddam mulierum coenobium in collegium Jesu converterunt consilio eruditissimi pariter et optimi Viri Stubis doctoris Theologi Nolebant mulieres illae includi sed scholasticorum consortium admiserunt Unde graves viros scandalizarunt quocirca eis ejectis allis Coenobiis imposit is earum loco studentes inopes positi sunt quatenus literis virtutibus incumberent folium darent in tempore suo Hanc mulierum ejectionem approbo Si enim proreligione
Court after he had founded his Colledge His Answer to Q. Elizabeth the Queen told him Sir Walter I hear you have erected a Puritan Foundation No Madam saith he farre be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to your established Lawes but I have set an Acorn which when it becomes an Oake God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof Sure I am at this day it hath overshadowed all the University more than a moyety of the present Masters of Colledges being bred therein but let us behold their Benefactours Masters Bishops Benefactours Learned Writers Fell. Learned Writers no Fellows Colledge-Livings 1. Laurence Chaderton 2. John Preston 3. William Sandcroft 4. Rich Oldesworth 5. Anthoney Tuckney 6. William Dillingham 1. Jos Hall Bishop of Norwich 2. Will Beadle Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland Qu. Elizabeth Hen E. of Huntington Sir Fr. Hastings Sir Rob Iermin Sir Fran Walsingham S r He. Killegrew S r Wolstan Dixy Sir Iohn Hart. Sir Sam Leonard S t Tho Skinner Alexan Noel Doctor Leeds Doct Harvey D r Branthwait Rob Tailor Customer Smith Nich Fuller Roger Snegg Fran Chamberlaine Master Ellis Iohn Spenliffe William Neale Edm English Alder Racliffe Iohn Morley Ric Culverwell Rob Iohnson Iohn Bernes Mary Dixy Martha Iermin Alice Owen Ioyce Franckland Eliz Walters D r. Richardson S r. Hen â—ildmay of Graces Rich Knightly Thomas Hobbs Walt Richards Will Iones Wil Beadle Iohn Down Hugh Cholmley Ioseph Hall Ralph Cudworth Samuel Crooke Ioh. Cotton Th. Hooker Iohn Yates Io Stoughton Iames Waidsworth who turned Papist Iohn Gifford of Ministers maintenance Ezekiel Culverwel of Faith Robert Firman of admission to the Sacrament Sam Foster of Mathematicks Ierem Burrowes besides many still surviving Sir Roger Twysden an excellent Antiquary H Laurence of Angels and other Treatises Steph Marshall Tho Shephard Samuel Hudson of the visible Church Nath Ward Thomas Arthur Tho Doughty Ioh Wallis now Geometry Professor in Oxf Auler Rect in the Diocesse of Bath and Wells valued at 39l 14s 10d Cadbury Rect in the Diocess of Bath and Wells valued at 28l 17s 2d ob Pydleton Vic in the Diocesse Bristol valued at 31l 2s 10d Stanground Vic. in the Diocesse of Lincolne valued at 6l 6s 10d Winnsford Vic in the Diocess of Bath and Wells valued at 14l 13s 8d Loughberow Rect in the Diocesse of Lincolne valued at 40l 16s 3d. So that lately Ann. Reg. Eliz. 26. viz Ann. Dom. 1584 5. Anno one thousand six hundred thirty four were maintained one Master fourteen Fellows fifty Schollers ten poor Schollers besides Officers and Servants of the foundation with other Students the whole number being 310. 14. Amongst the Bishops of this House Dâ— Oldesworth refuseth a Bishoprick Richard Oldesworth fourth Master must not be forgotten who might but would not be Bishop of Bristol Not out of covetousnesse from which none more free because so small the Revenuss thereof or lazinesse to decline pains none being more laborious in his calling or scruple of conscience none more Zealous in a certain Episcopacy but for some secret reasons which these troublesome times suggested unto him He was a most excellent Preacher both by his pious life and patient death and one passage which I heard from him some daies before his expiring I shall here insert 15. I admire said he at David's gracious heart A good Meditation of a dying Saint who so often in Scripture but especially in the 119 Psalm extolleth the worth and value of the Word of God and yet quantillum Scripturae how little of the Word of God they had in that Age the Pentateuch the Book of Job and some of the Hagiography how much have we now thereof since the accession of the Prophets but especially of the New Testament and yet alas the more we have of the Word of God the lesse it is generally regarded 16. Amongst the Benefactours of this House I have omitted two Two grand Benefactors not because too small but too great to be inserted with others deserving a Form by themselves namely the Lady Grace Mildmay whom the Schollers of this Colledge account the fourth Grace and more worth than the other three as Poeticall Fictions The other Francis Ash Esquire a rich Merchant of London to whom God hath given a full hand and free heart to be bountifull on all good occasions 17. Amongst the learned Writers of this Colledge The Living omitted I have omitted many still alive as Master Anthony Burges the profitable Expounder of the much mistaken nature of the two Covenants Doctor Benjamin Whichcot now Provost of Kings whose perfect List cannot be given in because daily increasing Humfrey Tindall Vicecan 27. Ioseph Smith Iohn Cowell Proct. John Edmonds Major 1585 6. Doct. The. 01. Leg. 03. Med. 02. Bac. Theol. 16. Mag. Art 165. Bac. Leg. 003. Art 198. Iohn Capcott Vicecan 28. Anth Wingfeild Henry Farr Proct Iohn Edmonds Major 1586-87 Doct. Leg. 1. Med. 2. Bac. Theol. 016. Mag. Art 185. Bac. Art 180. Doctor Capcott when chosen Vice-Chancellour The last Vice-chancellour then but Fellow of the House was onely Fellow of Trinity-Coll within which he gave upper hand to Doctor Still then Master but took it of him when out of the walls of the Colledge but before the year ended he was chosen Master of Bennet-Colledge and an Act made amongst the Doctors That for the time to come none but Heads of Houses should be chosen Vice-Chancellours Tho Legg Vicecan Ann. Dom. 1587-8 Iohn Palmer Iohn Smith Proct. Roger Smith Major Ann. Reg. Eliz. 29. Doct. Theol. 2. Leg. 1. Med. 1. Bac. Theol. 8. Mag Art 121. Bac. Leg. 002. Art 129. Thomas Nevill Vicecan 1588-89 Rob Canesfeild Miles Sandys Proct. Nich Gaunt Major 30. Doct. Theol. 07. Leg. 03. Med. 01. Bac. Theol. 19. Mag. Art 107. Bac. Leg. 003. Art 182. Hitherto we have given in the List of the yearly Commensers An unfaithfull Register but now must break off let Thomas Smith University Register bear the blame who about this year entring into his Office was so negligent that as one saith Cum fuit Academiae à memoriâ omnia tradidit oblivioni I can hardly inhold from inveighing on his memory carelesnesse being dishonesty in publick persons so intrusted Thomas Preston Vicecan 1589-90 Henry Mountlaw Richard Betts Proct. Will Wolfe Major 31. Robert Soame Vicecan 1590-91 John Sledd â—uth Bambrigge Proct. John Clerke Major 32. Robert Soame Vicecan 1591-92 Gilbert Jacob Otho Hill Proct. Tho Goldsborrow Major 33. John Still Tho Legge Vicecan 1592-93 Thomas Grimston Samuel Harsnett Proct. Tho Medcalfe Major 34. John Duport Vicecan 1593-94 Henry Mountlow Thomas Iegon Proct. Christoph 35. Hodson Major John Duport Vicecan 1594-95 Gregory Milner Iohn Meriton Proct. Oliver Greene Major 36. Roger Goad Vicecan Ann. Dom. 1594-95 Lionell Duckett Thomas Cooke Proct. Iohn Norcott Major Ann. Regi Eliz. 37. William Barret
particularities of their own Foundations then the exactest Historian who shall write a generall description thereof Masters Io. Fodering hay Robert Twaits Io. Abdy Io. Wickleffe Rob. Burley Ric. Burningham Will. White Geo. Cootes Will. VVright Fran. Babington Rich. Stubbs Ia. Gloucester Anth. Garnet Rob. Hooper Ia. Brookes Io. Piers Adam Squier Edm. Lilly Rob. Abbots Doct. Parkhurst Doct. Laurence Doct. Savadge Bishops Roger VVhelpdale Fellow Bishop of Carlile Geor. Nevill Chancellour of the University at twenty yeares of Age afterwards Arch-bishop of York and Chancellour of Engl. VVill. Gray Bishop of Ely Io. Bell Bishop of VVorcester Ioh. Piers Archbishop of York Rob. Abbots Bishop of Salisbury Geo. Abbot Fellow Arch-bishop of Canterbury Benefactours Philip Somervile Marg. his wife Ella de Long-Spee Countesse of Salisbury Rich. de Humsnigore L. VVill. Fenton Hugh de Vienna Knight Iohn Bell Bishop of VVorcester VVil. Hammond of Gilford Esq Peter Blundill of Teverton L. Eliz. Periam of the County of Buck. Tho. Tisdale of Glymton Com. Oxon. Esquire Mary Dunch Iohn Brown Learned Writ Io. Duns Scotus first of this then of Merton Colledge Humfrey Duke of Glocester commonly called the good VVill. VValton Fellow Chancellour of the Vniversity Tho. Gascoign Fellow Chancellour of the Vniversity a See more of him in our dedication to the second book Iohn Tiptoft Earle of VVorcester Rob. Abbots That Iohn VVickleffe here mentioned may be the great VVickleffe though others justly suspect him not the same because too ancient if this Catalogue be compleat to be the fourth Master of this House except they were incredibly vivacious Nothing else have I to observe of this Foundation save that at this day therein are maintained one Master twelve Fellows thirteen Scholars four Exhibitioners which with Servants Commoners and other Students lately made up one hundred thirty and six 50. Nor must we forget that besides others two eminent Iudges of our Land were both Contemporaries and Students in this Foundation A paire of Learned Iudges the Lord chief Baron Davenport and the Lord Thomas Coventry Lord Chancellour of England whose Father also a Iudge was a Student herein So that two great Oracles both of Law and Equity had here their Education 51. The other was Vniversity Colledge Vniversity Col. founded whereof I find different Dates and the founding thereof ascribed to severall Persons Founder 1 King Alfred 2 VVilliam de S to Carilefo Bishop of Durham 3 VVilliam Bishop of Durham though none at this time of the name 4 VVilliam Arch-deacon of Durham whom others confidently call VValter Time Anno 882. 1081. the 12. of King VVilliam the Conquerour 1217. in the first of Henry the 3. uncertain Author 1 Vniversall Tradition 2 Stow in his Chronicle Page 1061. to whom Pitz consenteth 3 Iohn Speed in his History pag. 817. 4 Camd. Brit. in Oxfordshire I dare interpose nothing in such great differences onely observe that Master Camden no lesse skilfull a Herald in ordering the antiquity of Houses then martialling the precedency of men makes Vniversity the third in order after Merton Colledge which makes me believe the founding thereof not so ancient as here it is inserted Masters 1 Roger Caldwell 2 Richard Witton 3 M. Rokleborough 4 Ranulph Hamsterley 5 Leonard Hutchinson 6 Iohn Craffurth 7 Richard Salvaine 8 George Ellison 9 Anthony Salvaine 10 Iames Dugdale 11 Thomas Key 12 William Iames 13 Anthony Gates 14 George Abbot 15 Iohn Bancroft 16 VValker 17 Hoile 18 Bishops St. Edmond Archb. of Cant. George Abbot Arch. of Cant. Iohn Bancroft Bishop of Oxford Benefactours VValer Shirlow Archdeacon of Durham 3 Fellowsh Henry Percey Earle of Northumberland 3 Fellowsh R. Dudley Earle of Leicester 2 Exhibitions each 20. pou per Annum Iohn Freistone 2 Exhibitions 20. pounds in all per Annum Gunsley 2 Exhibitions Mistris Payn 1 Exhibition 8 pounds Mr. Aston Sir Simon Bennet who hath bequeathed good lands after the decease of his Lady to encrease the Fellows and Scholars Mr. Charles Greenwood sometimes Fellow of this Colledge and Proctour to the Vniversity gave a thousand pounds to the building thereof Learn Writ Some charitable and able Antiquary fill up this vacuity So that at this present are maintained therein one Master eight Fellows one Bible-Clark which with Servants Commoners and other Students amount to the number of threescore and nine 52. Sure it is Iews damnable extortioners at this time Oxford flourished with multitude of Students King Henry conferring large favours upon them and this amongst the rest That no Iews a Claus 22. of Hen. 3. memb 9. in dorso living at Oxford should receive of Scholars above two-pence a week interest for the loan of twenty shillings that is eight shillings eight-pence for the interest of a pound in the year Hereby we may guesse how miserably poor people in other places were oppressed by the Iews where no restraint did limite their Usury so that the Interest amounted to the half of the Principall 53. Secondly A second priviledge whereas it was complained of That Iustice was obstructed and Malefactours protected by the Citizens of Oxford who being partiall to their own Corporation connived at offenders who had done mischiefs to the Scholars The King ordered that hereafter not onely the Citizens of Oxford but also any Officers in the Vicinage should be imployed in the apprehending of such who offered any wrong to the Students in the University 54. Lastly The third priviledge he enjoyned the Bailiffs of Oxford solemnly to acquaint the Chancellour thereof of those times when Bread and other Victualls were weighed and prized But in case the Chancellour had timely notice thereof refused to be present thereat then the Bailiffs notwithstanding his absence might proceed in the foresaid matters of weight and measure 55. We will conclude this Section with this civil and humble submission of the Dean and Chapter of S t. Asaph The submission of the Dean and Chapter of S. Asaph sent to the King in the vacancy as it seems of their Bishoprick though dislocated and some yeares set back in the date thereof Pat. 33. H. 3. M. 3. Universis Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit De recognitione Decani Capit de Sancto Asapho Decanus Capitulum de Sancto Asapho salutem in Domino Consuetudini antique dignitati quas Dominus Henricus illustris Rex Angl. progenitores sui habuerunt in Ecclesia Anglicana de petenda licentia eligendi vacantibus Episcopatuum Sedibus de requirendo assensu Regio post factam electionem obviare nolentes protestamur recognoscimus nos quotiens Ecclesia nostra Pastore vacaverit ab illustri Domino Rege Angl. Heredibus suis debere reverenter petere licentiam eligendi post electionem factam assensum eorum requirere Et ne super hoc futuris temporibus dubitetur presenti scripto Sigilla nostra fecimus apponi Dat. apud Sanctum Asaph Anno Domini M o.
same purpose to prepare matters fit for their cognizance the Bishop of Lincoln having the Chair in both authorized to call together divers Bishops and Divines to consult together for correction of what was amisse and to settle peace viz. b More were named but these chiefly were present The Archbishop of Armagh The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Exeter Doctor Samuel Ward Doctor John Prideaux Doctor William Twisse Doctor Robert Sanderson Doctor Daniel Featlyâ— Doctor Ralph Brounrigg Doctor Richard Holdsworth Doctor John Hacket Doctor Cornelius Burges Master John White Master Stephen Marshall Master Edmund Calamy Master Thomas Hill Jerusalem-Chamber in the Dean of Westminsters house was the place of their meeting where they had solemn debates six severall dayes alwaies entertained at his Table with such bountifull chear as well became a Bishop But this we behold as the last course of all publick-Episcopall-Treatments whose Guests may now even put up their Knives seeing soon after the Voider was called for which took away all Bishops lands and most of English-Hospitality 47. First they took the Innovations of Doctrine into consideration They consult on Innovations in Doctrin and here some complained that all the tenets of the Councell of Trent had by one or other been preached and printed abating only such points of State-Popery gainst the Kings Supremacy made treason by the Statute Good works co-causes with faith by justification private confession by particular enumeration of sinnes needfull necessitate medii to salvation that the oblation or as others the consumption of the Elements in the Lords-Supper holdeth the nature of a true sacrifice prayers for the dead lawfulnesse of monasticall vowes the grosse substance of Arminianism and some dangerous points of Socintanisme 48. Secondly And in discipline they enquired into preter-canonicall conformity and innovations in discipline Advancing Candlesticks in parochiall Churches in the day time on the Altar so called Making Canopyes over with traverses of Curtains in imitation of the Vaile before the Holy of Holyes on each side and before it Having a credentia or side-Table as a Chappel of ease to the Mother Altar for divers uses in the Lords Supper Forbidding a direct prayer before Sermon and Ministers to expound the Catechism at large to their Parishioners carrying children when baptized to the Altar so called and there offering them up to God pretending for some of these innovations the injunctions and advertisements of Queen Eliz. which are not in force and appertaining to the printed Liturgy secundo tertio Edvardi sexti which is reformed by Parliament 49. Thirdly And concerning the Common-Prayer they consulted about the Common Prayer-Book whether some legendary and some much doubted saints with some superstitious memorialls were not to be expunged the calendar c This I did write out of the private notes of one of the Committe Whether it was not fit that the Lessons should be only out of Canonicall Scripture the Epistles Gospells Psalmes and Hymes to be read in the nâ—w translation c. Whether times prohibited for Marriage are not totally to be taken away Whether it were not fit that hereafter none should have a Licence or have their Banes of Matrimony asked save such who should bring a Certificate from their Minister that they were instructed in their Catechism Whether the Rubick is not to be mended altered and explained in many particulars 50. Lastly And regulation of government they entered on the regulating of Ecclesiasticall government which was not brought in because the Bishop of Lincoln has undertaken the draught thereof but not finished it as imployed at the same time in the managing of many matters of State so easy it is for a great person never to be at leisure to doe what he hath no great minde should be done 51. Some are of opinion that the moderation and mutuall compliance of these Divines Divers opinions what this conference might have produced might have produced much good if not interrupted conceiving such lopping might have saved the felling of Episcopacy Yea they are confident had this expedient been pursued and perfected Troiaque nunc stares Priamique arx alta maneres Troy still had stood in power And King Priams lofty Tower Had remained at this hower it might under God have been a means not only to have checkt but choakt our civill War in the infancy thereof But the Court prelates expected no good from the result of this meeting suspecting the Doctrinal Puritans as they nicknamed them joyned with the Disciplinary Puritans would betray the Church betwixt them Some hot spirits would not have one ace of episcopal power or profit abated and though since confuted by their own hunger preferred no bread before half a loaf These maintained that any giving back of ground was in effect the granting of the day to the opposit party so covetous they be to multiply their cravings on the others concessions But what the issue of this conference concluded would have been is only known to him who knew what * 1 Sam. 23. 12. the Men of Keilah would doe and whose prescience extends not only to things future but futurable having the certain cognisance of contingents which might yet never actually shall come to passe 52. This consultation continued till the middle of May Broken off and the weaving thereof was fairly forward on the Loome when Atropos occat the bringing in the Bill against Deanes and Chapters Root and Branch Anno Dom. 1641 Anno Regis Caroli 16 cut off all the threds putting such a distance betwixt the fore-said Divines that never their Judgements and scarce their Persons met after together 53. In the midst of these troublesome times Aprill 21. John Davenant Bishop of Salâ—sbury ended his life The dâ—ath of Bâ—shâ—p Davenant His Father was a wealthy and religious Citizen of London but born at Davenants-lands in Sible Heningham in Essex Where his Ancestours had continued in a worshipfull degree from Sir John Davenant who lived in the time of King Henry the third He bred his sonne a Fellow Commoner in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge and would not suffer him to accept a Fellowship though offered as conceiving it a bending of these places from the direct intent of the Founders when they are bestowed on such as have plenty Though indeed such preferments are appointed as well for the reward of those that are worthy as the relief of those that want and after his Fathers death he was chosen into that Society In his youthfull exercises he gave such an earnest of his future maturity that Dr. Whitacre hearing him dispute said The he would in time prove the Honour of the University A Prediction that proved not untrue when afterward he was chosen Margaret Professour of Divinity being as yet but a private Fellow of the Colledge Whereof some yeers after he was made Master and at last Bishop of Salisbury Where with what gravity and moderation he behaved
hitherto their great indeavours had small success adding moreover Franciscanórum aedes non modò decus atque ornamentum Academiae sed opportunitates magnas ad Comitia omnia Academiae negotia conficienda habent What accommodations this House could then afford the University at Commencement I understand not Sure I am King Henry the eighth bestowed it on Trinity-Colledge of whom the Executors of the Lady Frances Sidney did afterward purchase it Augustine-Friers on the south-side of Pease-Market lately the dwelling of Mr. Pierce and now of Mr. Thomas Back Esquire-Beadle Their Founder and value unknown Carmelites built by Edward the first to which Sir Guy de Mortimer and Thomas de Hertford were great Benefactors Their House crossed athwart the street now leading to Kings-Colledge as occupying the ground whereon Katherine-Hall and Queens doe stand at this day White-Canons almost over against Peter-house where now a brick wall the back-side is called White-Canons at this day and an Inn with the signe of the Moon As for the Nunnerie of St. Radigunds and Priorie of Barnewell we have formerly spoken of them onely I add that at the dissolution King Henry bestowed the site of the latter on Sir Anthony Brown afterward Viscount Mountague and Dame Elizabeth his wife and their heires at the rent of one pound four shillings penny half penny 26. These Friers living in these Covents were capable of Degrees Frequent contests betwixt Friers and University men and kept their Acts as other University men Yet were they Gremialls and not Gremialls who sometimes would so stand on the tiptoes of their priviledges that they endeavored to be higher than other Students so that oftentimes they and the scholars could not set their horses in one stable or rather their books on one shelf However generally the Chancellors ordered them into tolerable obedience as will appear hereafter 27. Last of all A list of learned Friers Writers it will be enough for the present Anno Dom. 1282 to give in a list of such learned Writers Anno Regis Edw. 1. 11 which were bred in Cambridge in these several Orders as we have collected them out of Bale Pitz and other Authors Augustinians Gulielmus Wels 1421 Joannes Buriensis 1460 Galfride Glandfield 1340 Joannes Godwick 1360 John Langham John Sloley 1477 John Tonney 1490 Ralph Marcham 1380 Richard Chester 1354 Roger Clacton 1340 Dominicans William Encurt 1340 William King sham 1262 John Boltesham 1388 John Bromiard 1390 John Stock 1374 Simon Barnstone 1337 Tho. Langford 1320 Franciscans Will. Folvil 1384 John Wichingham 1362 Reginald Langham 1410 Vin. Coventriensis 1251 Stephen Baron 1520 Carmelites Alan de Lin 1420 Dionys Holcan 1424 Walter Diss 1404 Walter Heston 1350 Will. Beccle 1438 Will. Bintree 1493 Will. Blacvey 1490 Will. Califord Will. Cokisford 1380 Will. de Sancta Fide 1372 Will. Greene 1470 Will. Harsick 1413 Will. Lincoln 1360 Will. Sarslet 1466 Wil. Parcher 1470 Hugh of St. Neots 1340 Joh. Bampto 1341 Jo. Baret 1556 Jo. Beston 1428 Jo. Clipston 1378 Jo. Elin 1379 Jo. Falsham 1348 Jo. Hornby 1374 Jo. Pascal 1361 Jo. Repingal 1350 Jo. Swaffam 1394 Jo. Thorpe 1440 Jo. Tilney 1430 Jo. Wamsleet 1418 Mart. Sculthorp 1430 Nic. Cantilupe 1441 Nic. Kenton 1468 Nic. Swaffam 1449 Pet. de Sancta Fide 145â— Ralph Spalding 1390 Rob. Ivorie 1392 Tho. Hilley 1290 Tho. Maldon 1404 These were bred in the aforesaid Houses in Cambridge belonging to their Orders untill graduated in Divinitie and were afterwards dispersed into their respective Covents all over England 27. The Reader doth remember how above twenty yeares since The first endowing of Peter house viz. anno 1257 Hugh Balsham Subprior of Ely founded a Colledge without Trumpington-gate consisting of two Hostles he had purchased and united The same Hugh now Bishop of Ely removed the Secular Brethren from S t Johns-Hospital in the a Betwixt Round-Church and what is now St. Johns Colledge Jewry where they and the Regulars agreed not very well to this his new foundation At which time he endowed the same with maintenance for one Master fourteen Fellowes two Bible-clerks and eight poore Scholars whose number might be increased or diminished according to the improvement or abatement of their revenues He appointed his successors the Bishops of Ely to be honorary Patrones yea nursing Fathers to this his infant Colledge who have well discharged their trust therein 28. We know what the Historian saith Zoars may grow great in time Omnia ferme principia sunt parva Almost all beginnings are small as here indeed they were Alas Balsham for a long time was little able to endow a Colledge as scarce sufficient to subsist of himself whilst his election to Ely made b Godwin in his catalogue of Bishops without the Kings consent was not yet confirmed But no sooner had he any certainty for himself but his Colledge had a share thereof for he gave them all the rights and Tithes belonging to S t Peters Church adjoyning and by his Will bequeathed them three hundred Markes wherewith was bought and built a faire Hal and Court since much beautified and enlarged Masters Benefactors Bishops Learned Writers Livings in Col. gift 1 Roger de la Goter Anno Regis Edw. 1. 9 of S Botolphs Anno Dom. 1282 Master 1340. 2 Ralph de Holbech resigned his place and resum'd a Fellowship 1349. 3 William de Whitlesey Archd. of Huntington chosen Custos 1349. 4 Richard de wisbich chosen Master 1351. 5 Thomas de Wormthall Canon of SaruÌ„ Chancellor of Ely 1381. He died the same year 6 John de Newton chosen 1381. 7 Thomas de castro Berhard 8 John Holbrook He dyed 1431. 9 Thomas Lane 1457. 10 Thomas Deinman 11 John Warkworth 1474 12 Henry Hornby 1417. 13 Jo. Edwunds 14 Ralph Ainsworth 15 Andrew Pern 16 Robert Soame 17 Jo. Richardson 18 Tho Turner 19 Leonard Maw 20 Math. Wren 21 John Cosâ—ns Dean of Peterborough 22 Lazarus Seaman D. D. Sim. Montagu Sim. Langham Joh. Fordbam Bishops of Ely John Holbrook Thomas Lane Tho. Dryman Joh. Warkworth Will. Burgoin Henrie Hornbye John Edmunds Andrew Perne All Masters of the Colledge Ralph Walpool Bishop of Norwich 1290 gave two Messuages in Cambridge Mr. Thomas Packington Will. Noyon Rector of Haddenbam William Martin Rob. Shorton Edm Hanson Rob. Gilbert Mr. Skelton Mrs. Elizabeth Wolfe John Whitgift Arch. of Cant. Edward Lord. NORTH Robert Smith Henry wilshaw The Lady Mary Ramsey Robert Warden Thomas Warren Mrs Margaret Dean William Herne Mr. Robert Slade Mr. John Blitb late Fellow Mrs. Frances Mathew Dr. John Richardson Dr. Haukings what gave 100 l. 100 l. 100 l. towards the building of a new Court front and Gate towards the street now finished c So Mr. R. Parker proves him out of the Reco ds of Ely though otherwise I consess Bishop Godwin makes him of Oxford WilliaÌ„de whitlesey third Master of this Coll. Archbishop of Canterbury John de Botelsham Bishop of Rotchester Master of
intentionis propositum dignis in Domino laudibus commendantes ejusque supplicationibus inclinati Apostolica authoritate statuimus ut in praedicto loco Cantabrigiae sit de caetero studium generale Volentes autoritate praedicta etiam decernentes quòd Collegiam Magistorum Scholorium ejusdem studii Universitas sit censenda omnibus juribus gaudeat quibus gaudere potest debet Universit as quaecunque legitimè ordinata Caeterum omnia privilegia indulta praedicto studio rationabiliter à Pontificiâ—us Regibus praedict is concessa autoritate praedicta confirmamus Nulli igitur omnino liceat hanâ— paginam nostri statuti voluntatis constitutionis confirmationis infringere vel ausu temerario contraire si quis autem hoc attemptare praesumserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei beatoruÌ„ Petri Pauli Apostolorum noverit se incursurum Dat. Avinionae 5 idus Julii Pontificatus nostri anno 2. This year 12 according to the computation of Helvicus 1319 falls out to be the year of out Lord 1317 and the eleventh of the reign of King Edward the second though to gratifie the Oxford Antiquary we havehere followed his account in our marginal Chronologie 37. Now let none conceive Cambridge long since the mother of many children now but new born A necessary caution herself an University from the date of this Papal Instrument A mistake of many alledging for the defence of their Error that otherwise it were ridiculous for our King to request and the Pope to confer on Cambridge what she had already adding moreover that the phrase de caetero for the time to come implyeth that de praeterito for the time past Cambridge was no University But let such know that in this Bull Cambridge is confessed a place for Students time out of mind or to use the Popes Latin ab olim where olim a word of indefinite extent is not made the measure of the antiquity of Cambridge but which is more is onely the terminus à quo whence her duration in her learned capacity is dated This Bull also relateth to ancient priviledges of Popes and Princes bestowed upon her which herein are roborated and confirmed 37. Know also that Studium and Universitas are Synonymaes Studium and Universitas the same in effect though the latter the more fashionable word in this age Nor is it any news for Popes officiously to court Kings for their own ends with cheap curtesies by granting what in effect was given before and varnishing over their Predecessors old Acts with new specious expressions We have plainly proved out of plentifull Records in the Tower Cambridge called an University in the Kings Charters more than seventy years before and so no doubt before the Conquest though that her title in the troublesome times of war had been disturbed and interrupted As therefore the seniority of Scholars who have long discontinued is justly reckoned not from their return to the Colledge but from their first admission therein so the University-ship of Cambridge is to be accounted from her original constitution not this her late confirmation 38. Nor are we much moved with what is alledged in this point out of Robert Remington A facile mistake and take the words as g Ant. Acad. Oxford Apol. lib. 1. pag. 110. Twyn the Oxford Antiquary doth managethem the most for his own advantage Regnante Edwardo primo secundo diceret de Studio Grant-bridge facta est Universitas sicat est Oxonium per curiam Romanam In the reign of Edward the first he should have said Edward the second Cambridge was made an University even as Oxford by the Court of Rome See we here Remington mistakes even by his confession who citeth him in his own behalf Now he who faults in one thing may even fail in another He that mistook Edward the first for Edward the second may by as easie an errour mistake FACTA for REFECTA the Institution for the Restitution of Cambridge Roger de Northburge 1321 Chancellor He obtained Licence from the King 13 that the University might purchase Advouzances h Manuscript M. W. of Spiritual livings to the value of fourty pounds per annum Indeed King Edward was courteous to Cambridge wherein he maintained thirty two Scholars on his own cost intending to build Kings Hall which his Son and Successor did perform 39. Hervens falsly in some copies Henricus de Stanton Michael-house founded by Herveus Stanton Clerk 1324 Canon of Yorke and Wells 17 Rector of East-Deiram and North-Creik in Northfolk Chancellor of the Exchequer to King Edward the second flourished now in great wealth and esteem Let none envy him his pluralities who so well imployed the profits thereof and this year founded a Colledge following the example of Hugh de Balsham but dedicating it to St. Michael the chief of Angels as the other had consecrated his to St. Peter the prime of Apostles Masters Benefactors Bishops Learned Writers Livings in Coll. gift 1 Roger Burton B. D. 2 Mr. Robs alià s Roob 3 Mr. Thomas Kenningham 4 Mr. John Rympham 5 Mr. Richard Langley 6 Mr. William Gotham 7 Mr. William Colvill 8 Mr. Henry Cranby 9 Mr. John Otteringham 10 Mr. William Ascough 11 Edward Story 12 John Yotten 13 John Foothead 14 Tho. Slackhous 15 Nichol. Willian 16 Francis Mallet Chaplain to Queen Mary 1 Alexand. Walsham Knight Heiâ— to Hervey the Founder 2 Walter de Waney 3 John Ilvey Knight a grand Benefactor 4 William Gotham 5 John Turke 6 Henry Craby 1 William Ayscough Bishop of Sarisbury 2 Edward Story Bishop of Chichester 3 John Fisher i See more hereof in our history anno 1630. Bishop of Rotchester John Fisher 1 Barington Vic. in Ely Diocess valued 7 l. 14 s. 4 d. 2 Gronshurge in the Diocess of Norwich valued 3 Orwel Rect. in Ely Dioc. 19 l. 7 s. 7 d. 10 b. At this day Michael-house is included in Trinity Colledge so called not onely because dedicated to God One in three Persons but also because made by King Henry the eighth One of three Colledges whereof God willing largely hereafter Richard Badew Chancellor 40. He bought two Tenements in Miln street of Neile Thornton a Physitian Anno Regis Edw. 1. 19 and on that ground built a small Colledge Anno Dom. 1326 by the name of University Hall University Hal built by R. Badew placing a Principall therein under whom Scholars lived on their own * Scots Tables say at the charges of the University expences This Richard Badew was of a Knightly Family born at great Badew nigh Chelmesford in Essex imployed all his estate to the advancement of learning Sixteen years did Students continue in University Hall on their own changes but a casual fire reduced their House to ashes Here by way whosoever shall consider in both Universities the ill contrivance of many chimnies hollowness of hearths shallowness of tunnels carelesness of coals and
candles catchingness of Papers narrowness of studies late reading and long watching of Scholars cannot but conclude that an especial Providence preserveth those places How small a matter hath sometimes made a partition betwixt the fire and the fuel Thus an haiâ—s breadth fixed by a divine-finger shall prove as effectuall a separation from danger as a miles distance And although both Universities have had sad accidents in this kind yet neither in number or nature since the Reformation so destructive as in other places so that blessed be God they have been rather seare-fires than hurt-fires unto them 41. But to return to Mr. Badew Rebuilt after it was burnt by Eliz. countess of Clare and named Clare-Hall who sadly beholding the ruins of his Hall perceived that the rebuilding thereof was a work too weighty for himself though a Man of worship so that some person of honor must undertake it And here happily a worthy Lady presents her self Elizabeth third sister and coheir of Gilbert Earl of Clare wife of John de Burge Lord of Conaugh and mother to William de Burge last Earl of Ulster who built it again of her own proper cost endowed and called it Clare-Hall Masters Benefactors Bishops Learned Writers Living in Col. gift 1 Walter Thaxted 2 Ralph Kerding toÌ„ 3 John Dunwich 4 John Chatteress 5 Will Radwinter 6 Will. Wimble k Betwixt these two Caiâ—â— placeth William Gull not owned by others 7 Will. Wilfleet 8 Will. Millington 9 Thomas Stoyl 10 Richard Stubs 11 Gabriel Silvester 12 Will. Woodhous 13 Edm. Naturess 14 John Crayford 15 Rowl Swiborn 16 John Madew 17 Thomas Barly 18 Edmund Leeds 19 Thomas Binge 20 William Smith 21 Robert Scot. 22 Thomas Pask 23 D r. Ralph Cudworth 24 Theophilus Dillingham John Thaxto Eaith Green William Ducket Will. Worleigh Will. Marshall Ralph Srivemar Tho. Cave Dr. Stoyl Naturess Leeds Scot Masters of this Hall Thomas Cecil E. of Exeter and his Lady Dorothy who gave 108 l. per annum in very good rent William * See more of him at his death anno 1617. Butler John Freeman Esq who gave 2000 l. George Ruggle Fellow of the Colledge Hee gave in money and Plate above 400 l. Sir Robert Heath Mr. Thom. Binge Humsrey Hide Rob. Johnson Esq M r. Eras Farrar Will. Briden Tho. Croply Nicholas Heath Archbishop of York Augustine Lynsel Bishop of Hereford John Bois Dean of Canterbury writer of the learned Postils Richard Tompson Augustine Lynsel He set forth when Bishop of Peterborough Theophylact in Greek never before in print on all St. Pauls Epistles 1 Lillington Vic. in Ely Diocess valued 5 l. 19 s. 9 d. 2 Everton Vic. in Lincoln Dioc. valued 5 l. 13 s. 8 d. 3 Gransden Vic. Lincoln Diocess valued 3 l. 7 s. 2 d. So that lately Anno Dom 1326 viz. anno 1634. therein were maintained one Master Anno Regis Edw. 2. 19 eighteen Fellowes thirty six Scholars beside Officers and Servants of the Foundation and other Students the whole number being an hundred and six It were presumption in me to disturb this method of Masters agreed on by D r. Caius M r. Parker and others Otherwise I would prepose Millington first Provost afterwards of Kings in the reign of King Henry the sixth before Wilflete Master under King Richard the third I would also set Swinhorn both before and after Madew Swinbornum Madew sequitur Madewque vicissim Swinbornum sortes versat utrinque Deus For it appeareth in M r. Fox * In C. Pools Visitation of Camb. in the reign of Queen Mary that after Madew his expulsion for being maried Swinborn succeeded him 42. I have read how Richard the third pretended himself descended from the Foundress of this Hall Rich. the third a seeming Benefactor to Clare Hall which I account of more truth then his claim and title to the English Crown and on that consideration tyrannidi suae fucatum literarum l Sceletos Cantabrigiensis made by R. Parker patrocinium mendaci fronte obtendens faith my Author He challenged the Patronage of this Hall when William Wilflete was Master to himself But if no better Patrone to this House than Protector to his own Nephews his courtesy might wel have bin spared And because I find him omitted in Scots last Tables drawn up no doubt by the consent of this Colledge amongst the benefactors I suspect this his fact as a flourish at which Art he was excellent rather than any real favour to this foundation 43. Long was it ere this Hal got a Chappel to it self This Hall long Chappelless viz. til the year 1535. al which time possibly they did their publick devotions in that I le of S t. Edwards Church wherein anciently their Masters and Fellowes were interred 44. This CLARE-Hall was also called Solere Hall in the daies of Chaucer Solere the same with Clare-Hall as our Antiquary m Caius Hist Cant. Acad. pag. 57. hath observed And namely there was a great College Men depen it the Solers hall of Cambrege n Chaucer in the Reves tale Some will say And whence termed Solere Hal Was it not from Solarium which in the Latin of that Age signified a fair and light chamber or is it not mistaken in pronouncing and printing for Scoller-Hall as otherwhiles it is writen But the matter is not much and who so seekes a reason of all proper names of places may seek it 45. This aged Hal The Hall lately reedified grown very ruinous was lately taken down and reedified by the bounty of severall benefactors M r. Barnabas Oly late Fellow of this House and Proctor of the University may truly be termed Master of the fabrick so industrious and judicious was he in overseeing the same Nor was he like the foolish builder that could not but the unhappy that might not finish his work being outed the Colledge on the account of the Covenant Had this structure been perfected according to the first designe no fault could have been found therewith except that the brightnes and beauty thereof should make the blear eyes of our envyous Age to smart much grudging at the decency more at the magnificence of the Muses Yet I cannot beleeve what I read * Querela Cantabrigiensts pag. 14. that three or four hundred pounds worth of timber brought hither for the repaire of this Hal was lately taken away Yea had I seen it I would not have beleeved mine own eyes but rather suspected my sight that some requisit to right sensation was wanting in me and the fault either in the organ medium object or undue distance thereof Themas de Foxton Chancellor 1329 Doctor of the Lawes Edw. 3. 4 John de Langley Chancellor Anno Regis Edw. 3 6 Doctor of Divinity Anno Dom 1331 John de Shipeden Proctor Thomas de Bucknam Proctor 46. KING EDWARD THE THIRD 7 understanding it was his Fathers intention to erect a Colledge in Cambridge
fareth the worse for the Towns over-fond Embracing thereof so surrounding it on all sides that it wanteth those Walks other Colledges do enjoy 29. This House was afterwards honoured with Students of the highest Extraction Two noble Students amongst whom of chiefest Remark Humphrey and Edward Sons to Iohn de la Poole Duke of Suffolk whose elder Brother having undone himself and his Family these betook themselves to their Books preferring to claim Learning as their own Right rather then to be called Lords by the Courtesie of others However though both in Orders they attained to considerable Church-preferment Edward onely getting the Arch-deaconry of Richmond not for want of Worth but probably because overlooked by the jealous eie of King Henry the seventh So impossible it was any Plant should grow great under such a malignant Influence 30. We must not forget how William Fishwick Fishwick's Hostle given to this Hall Esq Bedle of the University bestowed his Dwelling-house on this Hall turned afterwards into an Hostle and beautified with fair Buildings not intire in it self but retaining to Gonvil-Hall This Fishwick's Hostle though worse then a Cambridge was better then any Oxford-Hall as partly endowed by the Bounty of William Revell Rectour of Tichwell in Norfolk who in his own Benefice built severall Chambers and Lodgings whither the Fishwickians might retire either for Pleasure in Summer or Safety in Sicknesse Above fourscore Commoners have lived at once in this Hostle Anno Dom. 1348 repairing for Prayers to Gonvil-Chappell Anno Regis Edvardi 3. 23 and ifdying interred therein Since it is assumed into Trinity-Colledge 31. As for Gonvil-Hall Papal Indulgences it flourished by the Bounty of severall Benefactours yea it found some Popes much befriending it As Sixtus the fourth who notwithstanding the Decree of Benedict the eleventh injoyning all Benedictine Monks to study in Vniversity-Hall dispensed with those of Norwich to reside in Gonvil-Hall Also Alexander the sixth gave them leave yearly to send two to preach in any part of England without Controll 32. Masters Benefactours Bishops Learned Writers Livings in Col. gift Iohn Colton VVilliam Rougham Richard Pulham VVilliam Somersham Iohn Rickingpale Thomas Atwood Thomas Bolken Edmond Sheriffe Henry Costesey Iohn Barly Edmond Stubbs William Buckenham Iohn Skippe Iohn Sturmin Thomas Bacon Iohn Cajus Lady Mary Pakenham Anne Scroop Elizabeth Cleere D r. Balie Stephen Smith Rich. VVillison Thomas Atkins Peter Hewit VVilliam Gale Thomas Willows VVilliam Sigo D r. Knight Iohn VVhitacre 1 Iohn Colton Archbishop of Armagh 2 Iohn Rickingpale Bishop of Chichester 3 William Linwood Bishop of S t. Davids 4 Nicolas Shaxton Bishop of Sarum 5 VVilliam Repps Bishop of Norwich 6 Iohn Skippe Bishop of Hereford William Linwood Iohn Cajus vide infra in Cajus Colledge How this Hall came afterward to be improved into a Colledge shall God willing in due time and place be related Richard de Herling 26 Chancellour 1351 William Tynkel 27 Chancellour 1352 Thomas de Sutton 34 Chancellour 1359 Richard de Wetherset 35 aliàs Cambridge 1360 Chancellour He was by way of Eminencie called Richard of Cambridge and had many Contests with the Monks He was well skilled in School-Divinity a Racemation of which Studies was now in Cambridge but not comparable to the Vintage thereof in Oxford 33. Edmond de Langley fifth Son to King Edward the third was by his Father created Earle of Cambridge And now that Title which formerly had travelled beyond the Seas residing for a time with Germane Princes came home and quietly reposed it self in the British Bloud-Royall wherein it continued untill the death of the last Duke of Hamilton Michael de Haynton 36 Chancellour 1361 Michael de Causton 37 Chancellour 1362 34. An Anti-Chancellour was chosen against him by an active Faction in the University A Contest about chusing of Chancellour one Iohn de Donewick wanting nothing for that place save a legal Election However his Party presented him to I. Barnet Bishop of Ely who confirmed him Chancellour Whereupon M r. Iohn Ufford and M r. William Rawby in the name of the University appealed to the Officiall of the Court of Canterbury The Officiall sent Iohn Tinmouth Will. Teofle and Tho. Ely Masters of Arts to the Bishop of Ely inhibiting to intermeddle any more about Donewick Anno Dom. 1362 because chosen against Statute Anno Regis Edv. 3. 37. Thus was this Donewick cast out of the House for the present for coming in by the Window who some years after entred in by the Door of an undoubted Election and excellently discharged his Office therein William de Gotham 1366 Chancellour 41 Thomas de Stukely 1369 Chancellour 44 35. This year a tough Controversie happened betwixt the Dominicans Discords betwixt Dominicans and Carmelites Plaintiffs and the Carmelites Defendants reducible to three principal Heads 1. Which of the two Orders had the best name The Dominicans urging it more Honour to be called from a Man then a Mountain an holy Saint then an high Heap of Earth The others rejoyned that the Mountain of Carmel was more then a Mountain as sanctified by Elijah chief of their Order so conversant thereon 2. Which was most ancient Wherein the Dominicans pleaded seven years Seniority And though this may seem but a small matter yet a Race is as fairly won by an Horses-Head as by a Furlong distance before 3. Who had most and strongest Papal Priviledges Which being a matter of Fact depended on the producing and proving their severall Instruments Mean time the Quarrels of Friers bred the Quiet of Students the Gremials in the University formerly troubled with Friers contesting with them had now Leave and Leisure peaceably to follow their Studies Iohn de Donewick 1371 Chancellour 46 36. Iohn Stokes a Dominican The Dominican chargeth born at Sudbury in Suffolk but studying in Cambridge as Champion of his Order fell foul on the Carmelites chiefly for calling themselves The Brothers of the Blessed Virgin and then by consequence all know whose Uncles they pretend themselves He put them to prove their Pedigree by Scripture how the Kinred came in In brief Bale saith he left red Notes in the white Coates of the Carmelites he so belaboured them with his lashing Language 37. But Iohn Hornbey a Carmelite born at Boston in Lincolnshire undertook him The Carmelite receiveth the charge and conquereth called by Bale Cornutus by others Hornet-bee so stinging his Stile He proved the Brothership of his Order to the Virgin Mary by Visions allowed true by the infallible Popes so that no good Christian durst deny it and prevailed with the Chancellour of Cambridge in a publick Writing to signifie the Superiority of their Order in this doughty Difference wherein not an Hair of any important truth was concerned Adam Lakingheth 1373 Chancellour 48 38. About this time GEFFREY CHAUCER studied in Cambridge Chaucer
great losse of the Vniversity and Learning in generall 30. At this day the Library Or Libraries shall I say Cambridge Library augmented with many pretious books of three successive Archbishops Painfull Parker Pious Grindall Politick Bancroft on the miscarriage of Chelsey Colledge to which first they were bequeathed are bestowed upon Cambridge and are beautifully shelved at the costs as I am informed of Sr. John Woollaston Alderman of London so that our Library will now move the Beam though it cannot weigh it down to even the Scale with Oxford As for the Schools themselves though our Aunt boasteth that it is not worthy to carry the books after Oxford Library for the statefulness of the Edifice yet sure the difference is more in the Case than in the Jewells therein contained Joannes Langton 22 1444 Can. he with the consent of the whole University appoints prayers and Mass for Henry the sixth Nicolans de Kenton 24 1445 Can. A learned Writer Joannes de Langton 25 1446 Can. He obtains letters Patents of the King whereby he forgives the University all offences Robertus de Ascoughe 26 1447 Dr. of Law Can. He gave to the University a Guil. Bingham Proc. Goblet of eight ounces 31. Margaret Q Colledge rounded by Q Margaret Daughter to Reneer tituled King of Sicily and Jerusalem Wife to King Henry the sixth founded a Colledge in Cambridge near if not in a place formerly called Goose-green Anno Dom. 1448 Anno Regis Hen. 6. 27 dedicating the same to her name-sake Saint Margaret and St. Bernard commonly called Queens Colledge Indeed as Miltiades his Trophie in Athens would not suffer Themistocles to sleep so this Queen beholding her husbands bounty in building Kings Colledge was restless in her self with holy emulation until she had produced something of the like nature A strife wherein Wifes without breach of duty may contend with their Husbands which should exceed in pious performances 32. Sir John Wenlock Knight The inscription on the first stone laid the first stone of this Colledge in the East end and South side of the Chappel in the name of Queen Margaret Aprill 15. 1448 who caused this inscription to be engraven thereon Erit Dominae nostrae Reginae Margaretae Dominus in refugium lapis iste in signum The Lord shall be for a refuge to the Lady Margaret and this stone for a signe Indeed poor Queen soon after she needed a Sanctuary to shelter her self when beaten in battel and the aforesaid since Lord Wenlock slain at Teuksbury when no doubt her soul retreated to divine protection the onely succour left unto her but this sad accident obstructed the hopefull proceeding in her intended foundation 33. The Child thus come to the birth Q Eliz finished what Queen Margaret began there was no strength to bring forth had not the skill of the Midwife supplied the want of strength in the Mother I mean Andrew Ducket for fourty years first Master of this House formerly a Fryer Rector of St. Buttolphs in Cambridge Principall of Bernards Hostle who gathered much money from well-disposed people to finish this Colledge and accounted by some though not by his purse by his prayers the Founder thereof A good and discreet man who with no sordid but prudentiall complyance so poised himself in those dangerous times betwixt the successive Kings of Lancaster and York that he procured the favour of both and so prevailed with Queen Elizabeth wife to King Edward the fourth that she perfected what her professed enemy had begun A good natur'd Lady whose estate whilest a widow being sequestred for the Delinquency of her husband things though not words then in fashion made her more merciful to the miseries of others Masters Benefactors Bishops Learned Writers Livings in Col. gift Andrew Ducket Tho. Wilkinson John Fisher Rob. Beakinshawe John Jennings Thomas Fornam Will. Frankland Simon Heynes William May. William Glynn Thomas Peacock William May. John Stokys Wil. Chadderton Humfr. Tyndall John Davenant John Mansel Edw. Martin Herbert Palmer Horton Ladie Margaret Roos Jane Inglethorp Jane Burrough Geor. D. of Clarence Ciciley Duchess of York Rich. D. of Glocester Ladie Anne his wife Edw. Earl of Salisbury Maud Countess of Oxford Marm. Lomley Bishop of Lincoln Andrew Ducket Hugh Trotter D. D. John Drewell William Weld Sir Thomas Smith Henry Willshaw Dr. Stokys John Chetham Hen. Hastings E. of Hunting John Joslin George Mountain John Davenant 1 John Fisher BP of Rochester and Cardinall 2 Will. Glinn Bishop of Bangor 3 Will. Chadderton BP of Lincoln 4 Will. Cotton Bishop of Exeter 5 John Jegon BP of Norwich 6 Rich. Milbourne BP of Carlile 7 George Mountain Bishop of London 8 Rob. Touneson Bishop of Salisbury 9 John Davenant Bishop of Salisbury 10 Wil. Roberts Bishop of Bangor 11 John Towers Bishop of Peterborough 1 Joh. Fisher Bishop Rotchester 2 Desid Erasmus 3 Hen. Bullock friend to Erasmus calling him Bovillum 4 * Mr. Fox Acts and Mon. Dr. Foreman saving is as good as making of books He conceald and preserved Luthers Works sought for to be burnt 5 Sir Tho. Smith 6 Tho. Brightman 7 John Davenant 8 Stephen Nettles in his defence of Tythes 9 Joh. Weever author of the Funerall Monuments 10 Dr. John Preston St. Buttolph Cant. Vic. Elien Dioc. valued 2 li. 14 s. 4 d. Eversden Rect. Elien Dioc. valued 5 li. 2 s. 4 d. ob Hogginton Vic. Elien Dioc. valued 4 li. 13 s. St. Andrew R. Cant. Dioc. valued 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. So that at this present therein are maintained Anno Regis Henr 6. Anno Dom. one President nineteen Fellowes three and twenty Scholars eight Bible Clerks three Lecturers of hebrew Arithmetick and Geometry besides Officers and Servants of the Foundation with other Students amounting unto one hundred and ninety 34. Amongst the later Masters of this Colledge Dr. Humphrey Tyndall Dean of Ely must not be forgotten Some truth in much talk of whom there passeth an improbable tradition That in the reign of Queen Elizabeth he was proffered by a Protestant Party in Bohemia to be made King thereof Which he refused aâ—leadging That he had rather be Queen Elizabeths subject then a forain Prince I know full well that Crown is Elective I know also that for some hundreds of yeers it has been fixed to the German Empire However because no smoak without some fire or heat at least there is something in it more then appears to every eye True it is that he was Sonne to Sir Thomas Tyndall of Hockwold in Norfolk and how Bohemian blood came into his veins I know not Sure I am he gave the Armes of Bohemia viz. Mars a Lyon with a forked Tayle Luna crowned Sol with a Plume of Estrich-feathers for a Crest 35. The Catalogue of Benefactours to this Colledge presents only the principal Give what is thine owne not all in that kind who in the daies of Dr. Caius writing
prostibula nutriant earum loco bonae ponenda sunt 45. Their viciousness thus generally complained of The character of Bishop Alcock their house with all the land thereof was with King Henry the 7 th and Pope Julius the second bestowed on John Alcock Bishop of Ely to convert it into a Colledge dedicated to Jesus the Virgin Mary and St. Radegund A whole Volume may be written of this Bishop born at Beverly in York shire though his parents lie buried at Kingstone on Hull where he built a Chantery for them and a free School for the benefit of others John Bale though very sparing of praysing persons of that age charactereth him given from his Child-hood to learning and religion so growing from vertue to vertue that no one in England was more reputed for his holines He is reported to have fared very sparingly all his life long and to have conquered the baits of his wanton flesh by his fasting studying watching and such like christian discipline 46. This good Bishop established in the house Jesus Colledge the Bishop of Ely his house one Master six Fellowes and six Scholars commending them to the perpetuall tutelage of the Bishops of Ely Hence it is that when those Bishops lodge in this Colledge as they did anno 1556. 1557 their Register reporteth them lying in their own house And though Peter-house as founded by Balsham Bishop of Ely might claime the same title yet it seems those Bishops had a more particular affection to Jesus Colledge King James in his coming from New-market hither commended it for the situation thereof as most collegiate retired from the town and in a meditating posture alone by it self Masters Benefactors Bishops Learned Writers Col. Livings Anno Dom. Anno Regis Henr. 6. 1 Will. Chubbs 2 John Eccleston 3 Thomas Alcock 4 William Capon 5 John Royston 6 Edw. Pierpoint 7 John Fuller 8 Tho. Redman 9 Tho. Gascoigne 10 John Lakin 11 Thomas Ithell 12 John Bell. 13 John Duport 24 Rog. Aâ—drews 15 William Beale 16 Rich. Sterne 17 Worthington The Lady Willoughby The Lady Bray James Stanley Bishop of Ely Thomas Thirlbie Bishop of Ely who gave the Advouzinces of six Vicarages to this Colledge John Beauchampe Knight Sir Robert Read Knight John Andrews Doctor Royston Doctor Fuller John Batemanson Thomas Roberts Roger Thorney Richard Pigot Godfrey Fuliam William Marshal Jane Woods Thomas Sutton Esquire Thomas Crammer Archbishop of Cant. John Bale Bish of Ossery in Ireland Rich. Bancrost Archbishop of Cant. John Owen Bishop of St. Asaffe William Chubbs He wrote a Logick and a Comment on Scotus Geffrey Dounes Tutor to J. Bale Thomas Crammer Martyr John Bale Confessor John Dod Fellow of this house Sr. William Boswell Lieger in Holland CHRISTOPHER LORD HATTON All Saints Cant. Vic. in Elien Dioc. valued at 5 l. 6 s. 3 d. ob St. Sep. Cant. Vic. Elien Dioc. valued at 6 li. 11 s. Comberton Vic. Elien Dioc. valued 6 l. 18 s. 10 d. ob Harleton Rect. Elien Dioc. valued at 14 l. 19 s. 5 d. ob Graveley R. Elien Dioc. valued 13 l. 2 s. 6 d. Gildenmordon Vic. Elien Dioc. valued 3 l. 5 s. 6d St. Clem. Cant. V. Elien Dioc. valued So that lately viz. anno 1635. the foundation consisted of one Master sixteen Fellows twenty four Scholars besides officers and other Students in all 110. Guil. Milner 1497 13 and Guil. Tape Proctors Ric. Wyat 1498 14 and Jo. White Proctors Ric. Hutton 1499 15 and Brian Kidday Proctors Henceforward having gained more certainty from our Registers we will enlarge our selves to a greater proportion both of the names of University-Officers and numbers of the annual Commencers adding also the Maiors of the Town not as a foyle to the Diamond but because it may conduce something to the certaintie of Chronologie Rich. Fox 1500 B P. 16 of Winc. Can. Jo. Sickling Proc. Drs. Theol. 6. Hen. Babington Procan Tho. Patison Drs. Jur. Can. 1. Jur. Civ 1. Bac. Theol. 10. Mag. Art 23. Hen. Kele Maior of the Town Leg. 13. Art 29. Gram. 4. John Fisher 1501 17 Can. Rich. Balderton Proc. Drs. Theol. 7. John Fisher Procan Rich. Wyat Ju. Civ 2. Bacc. Theol. 14. Mag. Art 27. Bac. Leg. 18. John Bell Maior of the Town Gram. 3. Art 23. George Fitzhugh 1502 18 Can. Tho. Edman Proc. Drs. Theol. 2. Jur. Can. 4. Hum. Fitz-William Procan Jo. Huchinson Ju. Civ 2. Medic. 1. Bacc. Theol. 8. Bacâ— Leg. 29. Rob. Morehouse Maior of the Town Mag. Art 22. Gram. 1. Med. 1. Art 34. Tho. Routhold Anno Regis Hen. 7. Anno Dom. Can. John Gennings Proc. Drs. Theol. 3. Galfr. Knight 19 1503 Procan Guil. Woodroof Ju. Civ 1. Mus 1. Bac. Theol. 18. Bac. Leg. 18. Rob. Morehouse Maior of the Town Mag. Art 19. Bac. Art 26. John Fisher 20 1504 Bishop Roch. Can. Rob. Cutler Proc. Drs. Theol. 6. John Smith Procan John Watson Drs. Ju. Can. 2. Bacc. Theol. 11. Bac. Leg. 25. John Bell Maior of the Town Mag. Art 17. Bac. Art 24. 47. The University perceived it was troublesome every year to choose a new Chancellor First Chancellor for life Wherefore having now pitched on a person of much merit for the place so that they could not change but to loss this year they concluded his continuance therein for terme of life which act of the University was anno 1514. more solemnly confirmed Hereafter it will be superfluous to charge every year with the repeated name of the Chancellour as alwaies the same til another on his death be elected 48. Erasmus studieth in Queens Colledge About this time ERASMUS came first to Cambridge coming and going for seven years together having his abode in Queen a Vide the date of his first Epistle libro 8. Colledge where a Study on the top of the South-west Tower in the old Court stil retaineth his name Here his labour in mounting so many stairs done perchance on purpose to exercise his body and prevent corpulency was recompensed with a pleasant prospect round about him He often complained of the Colledge Ale Cervìsià hujus loci mihi nullo mode b Epistolae 16. libri 8. placet as raw smal and windy whereby it appears 1. Ale in that age was the constant beverage of all Colledges before the Innovation of beere the child of Hops was brought into England 2. Queens Colledge Cervisia was not vit Cereris but Ceres vitiata In my time when when I was a Member of that House scholars continued Erasmus his complaint whilest the Brewers having it seems prescription on their side for long time little amended it The best was Erasmus had his Lagena or flagon of Wine recruited weekly from his friends at London which he drank sometimes singly by it selfe and sometimes incouraged his faint Ale with the mixture thereof 49. He was publique Greek Professor Was first Greek then Divinity
seaven hundred ninety five pounds two shillings and a penny all bestowed by charitable people for that purpose Amongst whom Thomas Barow Dr. of Civil law Arch-deacon of Colchester formerly Fellow of Kings hall and Chancellor of his house to King Richard the third gave for his part two hundred and fourty pounds 55. One may probably conjecture The foundation of Christs-Colledge that a main motive which drew King Henry this year to Cambridge was with his presence to grace his mothers foundation of Christs-Colledge now newly laid without Barnwell-gate over against St. Andrews-Church in a place where Gods house formerly stood founded by King Henry the sixth This King had an intention had not deprivation a civil death prevented him to advance the Scholars of this foundation to the full number of sixty though a great fall never more than foure lived there for lack of maintenance Now the Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond and Darby acounting her self as of the Lancaster-line heir to all King Henries godly intentions onely altered the name from Gods-house to Christs-Colledge and made up the number viz. One Master twelve Fellows fourty seaven Scholars in all sixty 56. Great and good were the lands The fair endowments thereof which this Lady by her last Will bestowed on this Colledge in severall Counties In Cambridge-shire the Manors of Malton Meldred and Beach with divers lands and rents elsewhere in that County Leicester-shire Aliàs Disworth the Manor of Ditesworth with lands and tenements in Ditesworth Kegworth Hathern and Wolton Northfolk All these I have transcribed out of her last Will. the Abbey of Creyke which was in the Kings hands as dissolved and extinct settled by the Popes authority and the Kings licence Essex the Manor of Royden Wales Manibire an Impropriation This Lady being of Welsh affinity a Teuther by marriage and having long lived in Wales where her Sonne King Henry the seaventh was born in Pembroke thought fitting in commemoration thereof to leave some Welsh land to this her foundation 5. Once the Lady Margaret came to Christs-Colledge A Lady of pity to be hold it when partly built This I heard in a Clerum from Dr. Collings and looking out of a window saw the Deane cal a faulty Scholar to correction to whom she said Lentè lentè gently gently as accounting it better to mitigate his punishment than procure his pardon mercy and justice making the best medley to offenders 6. John Maior a Scotishman John Maior a Student in Christs Colledge and a Scotish Historian of good account was onely for the terme of three moneths a Student in this Colledge as himself acknowledgeth He reporteth that the Scholars of Cambridge in his time Lib. de gest Scotorum c. 5. usually went armed with bowes and swords which our learne * Cain Hist Ac. Can. p. 74 Antiquary is very loth to beleeve except it was John Maior his chance to come to Cambridge in that very juncture of time when the Scholars in fend with the Townsmen stood on their posture of defence Thus Pallas her self may sometimes be put to it to secure her wit by her weapons But had Maior lived as many years as he did but moneths in this University he would have given a better account of their peaceable demeanour 7. John Leland John Leyland Fellow therein that learned Antiquary was a Fellow of this Foundation as he gratefully professeth Anno Regis Hen. 7. 21 I account it therefore in my self an excusable envie Anno Dom. 1505 if repining that the rare Manuscripts of his collections were since his death bestowed on Oxford Library In vita Regis Seberti fol. 70 and not here where he had his education But I remember a Maxime in our Common Law wherein the Lands such are Books to Scholars of a Sonne deceasing without heirs fall rather to his Uncle or Aunt than Father or Mother 7. Many yeers after the founding of this Colledge Reformation of augmentation complaint was made to King Edward the sixth of superstition therein the Master and twelve Fellowes of this Christ-Colledge superstitiously alluding to Christ and his twelve Apostles Probably the peevish informers would have added that the Discipuli or Scholars in this House were in imitation of Christs seventy Disciples save the number corresponds not as being but fourty seven by the originall foundation Hereupon King Edward altered this number of twelve not by Subtraction the most easie and profitable way of reformation but Addition founding a thirteenth Fellowship and three Scholarships out of the impropriation of Bourn which he bestowed on the Colledge and so real charity discomposed suspected superstition This good King also gave the Colledge in lieu of the Mannor of Royden which he took from it the entire revenues of Bromwell Abbey such was his bountifull disposition Nor can it be proved that in his own person he ever did to any an injurious action though too many under him if those may be termed under him who did what they pleased themselves were too free of their favours in that nature 9. It may without flattery be said of this house The worthies of this Colledge Many daughters have done vertuously but thou excellest them all if we consider the many Divines who in so short a time have here had their education Prov. 31. 29. Let Papists tell you of Richard Reignalds Doctor of Divinity a Monk of Zion of William Eximew a Carthusian both bred here and martyred say they for the Catholique cause Anno 1535. of Richard Hall who ran beyond the Seas Pitzeut in Cent. ult became Canon of Cambray and wrote the manuscript-life of Bishop Fisher we chiefly take notice of the Divines bred here since the Reformation Masters Bishops Benefactors 1 John Sickling Fellow of Gods-House first Master 2 Richard Wiat Dr. of Divinity 3 Thomas Tompson D. D. a good Benefactor 4 John Watsonne D. D. 5 Henry Lockwood D. D. 6 Richard Wilks D. D. chosen 1549. 7 Cuthbert Scot D. D. chosen 1553. 8 William Taylor D. D. chosen 1557. 9 Edward Hawford D. D. chosen 1559. he was a good Benefactor 10 Edmond Barwell D. D. chosen 1581. 11 Valentine Carey D. D. chosen 1610. 12 Thomas Bainbrigg D. D. chosen 1620. 13 Samuel Bolton 14 Ralph Cudworth 1 Hugh Latimer Bishop of Worcester 1535. and Martyr 2 Nicholas Heth * So saith Dr. Willet in his dedication of his Comment on Samuel to this Colledge Indeed I finde one Heth but not his Christian name fellow of this Colledge 1520 Archbishop of York 1553. 3 Cuthbert Scot Bishop of Chester 1556. 4 William Hughs Bishop of St Asaph 1573. 5 Anthonie Watson Bishop of Chichester 1596. 6 Valentine Carey Bishop of Exeter 1620. D. Johnson Arch-bishop of Dublin Brute Babington Bishop of Derrie in Ireland George Dounham Bishop of Derrie in Ireland William Chappel Bishop of in Ireland William Chappel Bishop of in Ireland 1 John Fisher Bishop of
neer Kinsman 7. Henry Hornby Master of Peter-house her Chancellor 8. Sir Hugh Aston Controuler of her houshold This Sir Hugh whom I conceive rather Sir Priest than Sir Knight was a good Benefactor to the Colledge and lieth buried on the North-side in the outward Chappell thereof in a Tombe with a double portraicture one presenting him as alive the other as a sceleton be-rebussed according to the ingenuity of that age with an Ash growing out of a Tunn 31. The ground whereon this Colledge is scited The scite of St. Johns Colledge was long agoe consigned to pious uses though three times the property thereof was altered 1. When Nigellus or Neal second Bishop of Ely founded here an Hospitall for Canons regular an 1134. On which K. Edward the first bestowed the goods of Forestallers * Cains Hist Cant. Ac. p. 75. or Regraters legally forfeited 2. When Hugh de Balsham teâ—th Bishop of Ely translated it to a * Scot his Tables Priory and dedicated it to Saint John the Evangelist 3. When the Lady Margarets executors converting it to a Colledge continued it to the honor of St. John These according to her last Will first paied all the debts of the old house duely proved Justice must precede Charity then with the issues and profits of her Land in Somersetshire Devonshire and Northumptonshire erected this new foundation 14. So filled Crouded with Students or rather crowded was this Colledge with Scholars it was hard for one to get a Study severall to himself and in the dayes of our Fathers the Students when writing private letters were used to cover them with their other hand to prevent over-inspection Since God hath made them Rehoboth or Roome by the addition of another Court not inferiour to the former in beauty and bigness which made King James once merrily say that there was no more difference betwixt Trinity consisting chiefly in one great Quadrangle and St. John Colledge than betwixt a Shilling and two Six pences 15. The infancy of this Colledge met with a malady A rape offered on the Muses which much hindred the growth almost ended the life thereof A generation of proling progging projecting Promoters such vermine like Pharaohs * Exod. 83. Frogs will sometimes creep even into Kings Bedchambers questioning the Title of the land of the Colledge took from it at once four hundred pounds of yearely revenew If the reporter being a great Rhetorician doth not a little Hyperbolize therein who thus complaineth to the Duke of Somerset Lord Protector Ascham commendatitiarum Epist lib. 1. p. 377. Certi quidem homines Regii Ministri qui divitias Regis in acervis pectiniarum ponunt cùm benevolentia populi salus Reipublicae vera Religio optima doctrina optimi Regis certissimae divitiae extant beneficium fundatricis magnam partem nobis abstulerunt Quadringentae enim minae annuae ex nostris praediolis amputatae sunt This wrong was done in the beginning of the reign of King Henry the 8. and never after redressed Strange that the Lady Margaret's Executors men too virtuous to offer stolen goods for a Sacrifice and too wise to be cousened with crackt titles should endow this Colledge with so much land to which they had no true right which makes some suspect violence and injustice in the Kings officers Nothing so high or so holy but some hungry Harpyes will prey upon it Masters Benefactors Bishops Learned Writers Livings in the Col. gift 1 Alan Piercy Son to Henry Earl of Northumberland 2 Robert Shirton 3 Nicolas Medcalf 4 George Day 5 John Tailer 6 William Bill 7 Thomas Leaver 8 Thomas Watson 9 George Bullock 10 Jams Pilkington 11 Leonard Pilkington 12 Richard Longworth 13 Nic. Sheppard 14 John Stil 15 Rich. Houland 16 William Whicaker 17 Rich. Clayton 18 Owen Gwin 19 William Beal 20 Doctor Arrowsmith 21 Doctor Tuckney 1 John Morton Archb. of Cant. 2 Lady Anne Rooksby 3 Doctor Fell. 4 Doctor Kyton 5 Hugh Ashton 6 Dr. Luptom 7 Dr. Thimbleby 8 Dr. Dounham 9 John Constable 10 Robert Simpson 11 Rober Ducket 12 Thomas Lane 13 John Grigson 14 James Berisford 15 Robert Holytrechlm 16 John Repingham 17 Doct. Lanacre 18 John Bayâ—ye 19 Doctor Tompson 20 Walter Saukings 21 Katherine Dutchess of Suffâ—â—â— 22 John Thurlston 23 Stephen Cardinall 24 Sir Ambrose Caves 25 Thomas Cony 26 Dr. Goodman 27 William Cecil Lord Burgeley 28 Lady Mildred Cecil 29 Sir Henry Billingsley 30 Dr. Gwin 31 The Lady Jermin 32 Henry Hebletwait 33 William Spalding and 34 William Spallding Brother 35 Robert Booth 36 Henry Alby 37 John Walton 38 John Waller 39 Mary Countess of Shrewsbury 40 George Palm 41 William Lord Mainard 42 Robert Lewes 43 John Knewstubs 44 Mrs. Cuttler 45 John Hooper 46 JOHN WILLIAMS Lord Keeper who built a most beautifull Library 47 Sr. Ralph Hare 48 Robert Johnson 1 John Taylor Bishop of Lincoln 2 Ralph Baines Bishop of Covent and Lich 3 George Day Bishop of Chichster 4 Thomas Watson Bishop of Lincoln 5 James Pilkington Bishop of Durham 6 Rob. Horn Bishop of Winchester 7 Richard Curteise Bishop of Chichestr 8 Tho. Dante 's Bishop of St. Asâ—ph 9 Richard Howland Bishop of Peterb 10 John Stil Bishop of B. and Wels. 11 John Coldwel Bishop of Sarum 12 William Morgan Bishop of St. Asaph 13 Hugh Billet Bishop of Chester 14 Rich. Vaughan Bishop of London 15 Rich. Neile Archbishop of York 16 THOMAS MORTON Bishop of Durham 17 JOHN WILLIAMS ArchBishop of York 17 Rich. Senhouse Bishop of Carlile 18 David Dalbin Bishop of Bangor 1 Roger Hutchinson 2 John Seaton 3 Ralph Bains Professor of Hebrew in Paris 4 George Bullock the Author of Bullocks Concordance 5 Roger Ascham 6 William Cecil Lord Treasurer 7 William Morgan who first translated the Bible into Welch 8 John Knewstubs 9 WILLIAM WHITAKER 10 THOMAS MORTON 1 Fresh water R. Win. Dioc. valued at 19l 8s 4d 2 Ospring Vic. Cant. Dioc. valued at 10l 3 Higham Vic. Cant. Dioc. valued at 8l 10s 4 Thornington R. London Dioc. valued at 16s 5 Sunninghil Vic. Sarum Dioc. valued at 6 Aldworth Vic. Sarum Dioc. 8l 15s 8d ob So that lately viz. anno 1634 there were in this Colledge one Master 54 Fellows fourscore and eight Scholars beside Officers and Servants of the foundation with other Students in all one hundred eighty two 16. Great was the opposition against the election of Dr. Whitakers An Infant rebellion the 16. Master of this house fetched from Trinity Colledge He was appointed by the Queens Mandamus and Dr. Cap-coâ—t Vicechancellor and Fellow of Trinity Colledge went along with him magna comitante caterva solemnly to induct him to his place when he met with an unexpected obstruction Non datur penetratio corporum The gates were shut and partly Man'd partly boy'd against him 17. The Vicechancellor retreated to Trinity Colledge Seasonably crushed and consulting with Lawyers what was to be done in the Case Anno Regis
Henrici 8. 1 according to their Advise created D r. Whitakers Master of S t. Iohns in his own Chamber by vertue of the Queens Mandate This done he re-advanceth to S t. Iohns and with as I may say a POSSE ACADEMIAE demands Admission The Iohnians having Intelligence by their Emissaries that the property of the Person was altered and D r. Whitakers invested in their Mastership and knowing the Queen would maintain her power from her Crown to her Foot took VVit in their Anger and peaceably received him However great the Heart-burnings in this House for many years after and I will run the Hazard of the Readers Displeasure in transmitting the following Story to Posterity 18. A Senior Fellow of S t. Iohns of the opposite Faction to the Master in the presence of D r. VVhitakers A Rake-hell to be chosen before a Dunce falling on this Subject proper enough to his Text what Requisites should qualifie a Scholar for a Fellowship concluded that Religion and Learning were of the Quorum for that Purpose Hence he proceeded to put the Case if one of these Qualities alone did appeare whether a religious Dunce were to be chosen before a learned Rake-hell and resolved it in Favour of the later 19. This he endeavoured to prove with two Arguments The first reason whereof this the first Because Religion may but Learning cannot be counterfeited God onely can discover the gracious Heart but men may descry an able Head He that chuseth a learned Rake-hell is sure of something but whoso electeth a religious Dunce may have nothing worthy his Choise seeing the same may prove both Dunce and Hypocrite 20. His second Reason was Second Reason because there was more probability of a Rake-hells Improvement unto Temperance then of a Dunces Conversion into a Learned man seeing such an one radicated and habituated is unchangeable without Miracle 21. Common-place ended An ingenuous master well met D r. VVhitakers desired the company of this Fellow and in his Closet thus accosted him Sir I hope I may say without Offence as once Isaac to Abraham here is VVood and a Knife but where is the Lambe for the Burnt-offering You have discovered much Keeneness of Language and Fervency of Affection but who is the Person you aime at who hath offered Abuse to this Society 22. The other answered with an ingenuous fellow If I may presume to follow your Metaphor know Sir though I am a true Admirer of your most eminent VVorth you are the Sacrifice I reflected at in my Discourse For whilst you follow your Studies and remit matters to be managed by others a Company is chosen into the Colledge of more Zeal then Knowledge whose Iudgements we certainly know to be bad though others charitably believe the Goodness of their Affections And hence of late a generall Decay of Learning in the Colledge 23. The Doctour turned his Anger into Thankfulnesse Well spoken well taken and expressed the same both in loving his Person and practising his Advise promising his own Presence hereafter in all Elections and that none should be admitted without his own Examination which quickly recovered the Credit of this House replenished with hopefull Plants before his Death 24. And thus I take my Farewell of S t. Iohns Colledge Confess and be forgiven having first confessed a Mistake formerly committed in my Holy State a In the life of Dr. Medcalfe in making D r. VValter Haddon Master of the Requests to Queen Elisabeth a Member of this Colledge being originally of Kings Colledge afterward of Trinity Hall The Errour arose because Roger b In his Epistles Askham of this House commonly calleth him nostrum Haddonum where I mistook their Familiarity for Membership in the same Society Thomas Tompson Anno Dom. 1509-10 Vice-Chan Iohn Samson Iohn Scot Proctours Anno Regis Henrici 1. 2 Iohn Bury Major Doct. of Physick 2 Bac. of Divin 5 Mast of Arts 29 Gram. 1 Bac. of Law 16 Arts 42 Seeing the Vice-Chancellours are chosen in November so that in their Office they partake of two yeres of the Lord though otherwise but one annuall Imployment I thought fit henceforward to divide them in our Chronologie into two years Thomas Tompson 1510-11 Vice-Chan 3 George Tomson Chris Ducket Proctours Iohn Erlich Major Doct. of Divin 5 Incorp 1 Doct. of Can. Law 7 Civ Law 2 Bac. of Divin 11 Mast of Arts 26 Bac. of Law 22 Arts 44 Iohn Fawne 1511-12 Vice-Chan 4 Richard Standbank William Chaundler Proctours Iohn Bell Major Doct. of Divin 3 Civ Law 1 Bac. of Divin 5 Mast of Arts 21 Bac. of Law 16 Arts 32 Iohn Fawne 1512-13 Vice-Chan 5 Roger Collinwood Richard Master Proctours Wil. Barber Major Doct. of Divin 2 Civ Law 1 Bac. of Divin 5 Mast of Arts 21 Bac. of Law 7 Arts 52 Iohn Eccleston 1513-14 Vice-Chan 6 Richard Norris Thomas Marten Proct. Hugh Chapman Major Doct. of Divin 3 Civ Law 1 Bac. of Divin 10 Mast of Arts 25 Bac. of Law 10 Arts 24 Gram. 1 Iohn Eccleston 1514-15 Vice-Chanc 7 Iohn Cotting Tho. Goodrick Proct. Hugh Chapman Major Doct. of Divinity 1 Can. Law 3 Bac. of Divin 5 Mast of Arts 14 Bac. of Law 13 Mus 1 Arts 30 Gram. 2 Robert Dussin 1515-16 Vice-Chanc 8 Rowland Bodron Reinald Bainbrigg Proct. Hugh Raukin Major Doct. of Divin 10 Can. Law 2 Civ Law 2 Bac. of Divin 18 Mast of Arts 42 Gram. 3 Bac. of Law Mus Arts Edmond Nateres 1516-17 Vice-Chan 9 Iohn Copinger Gilbert Latham Proctours Iohn Bury Major Doct. of Divin 5 Civ Law 2 Phys 1 Bac. of Divin 13 Mast of Arts 29 Bac. of Law 14. Arts 43 Edmond Nateres Anno Regis Henrici 8. 10 Vice-Chan William Cocks Roger Ashe Proctours VVil. Barber Anno Dom. 1517-18 Major Doct. of Divin 3 Can. Law 2 Civ Law 1 Bac. of Divin 4 Mast of Arts 13 Bac. of Law 11 Arts 41 25. About this time one Peter de Valence a Norman was a Student in Cambridge Peter de Valence excommunicated when the Papist Indulgences were solemnly set upon the School-gates over which he wrote these Words Beatus vir cujus est Nomen Domini Spesejus non respexit Vanitates Insanias falsas istas Inquiry was made about the Party but no Discovery could be made Whereupon Bishop Fisher Chancellour of the University solemnly proceeded to his Excommunication which he is said to perform with Teares and great Gravity 26. This Peter afterward applyed himself to D r. Goodrich Bishop of Ely Many yeares after he confesseth his fault and became his Servant but as the Papists report could never be quiet in his Mind untill many years after he had publickly confessed his Folly therein and upon the same place of the School-gates a See the life of Bishop Fisher lately printed p. 23. fixed a Paper with these words Delicta Iuventutis
meae Ignorantias ne memineris Domine Remember not Lord my sins nor the Ignorances of my Youth But may the Reader take notice this Story is related by Richard Hall a zealous Papist in his life of Bishop Fisher A Book which when lately in Manuscript I then more prized for the Rarity then since it is now printed I trust for the Verity thereof Iohn VVatson 11 Vice-Chan 1518-19 VVilliam Smith Iohn Cheswrigh Proctours VVil. Barber Major Doct. of Divinity 10 Can. Law 3 Bac. of Divin 11 Mast of Arts 26 Bac. of Law 26 Arts 38 27. Monks Colledge this year had it's name altered Monks turned into Buckingham Coll. and condition improved Formerly it was a place where many Monks lived on the Charge of their respective Convents being very fit for solitary Persons by the Situation thereof For it stood on the trans-Cantine side an Anchoret in it self severed by the River from the rest of the University Here the Monks some seven years since had once and again lodged and feasted Edward Stafford the last Duke of Buckingham of that Family Great men best may good men alwayes will be gratefull Guests to such as entertain them Both Qualifications met in this Duke and then no wonder if he largely requited his VVelcome He changed the Name of the House into Buckingham Colledge began to build and purposed to endow the same no doubt in some proportion to his own high and rich estate Edm. Nateres 12 Vice-Chan 1519-20 Iohn Denny VVil. Meddow Proct. Richard Clark Major Doct. Theol. 5 Iu. Can. 1 Civ 1 Bac. Theol. 20 Mag. Art 23 Bac. Leg. 19 Art 31 28. Two eminent men are assigned by a good Authour at this time to flourish in Cambridge A pair of learned Writers The one VVilliam Gonel a friend to Erasmus and here publick Professour saith b In Appendice illustrium Angliae Scriptorum Pitz but would he had told us of what Faculty But probably Publick Professour in the laxe acception of that Title importeth no more then an ordinary Doctour We need not question his Sufficiency when we find Sir Tho. More an Oxford man and able Judge of Merit select him for Tutour to his Children The other Stephen Baron Provinciall of the Franciscans and Confessour faith one c Idem p. 696 in anno 1520. to King Henry the eighth Some will scarce believe this Anno Dom. 1519-20 onely because about this time they find Longland Bishop of Lincoln performing that place Anno Regis Henrici 8. 12 except King Henry as he had many Faults had many Confessours at once But this Baron might have this office some years since Let me here without offence remember that the Seniour Vicar as I take it of the Kings Chappel is called the Confessour of the Kings Houshold which perchance hath caused some Mistakes herein Tho. Stackhouse 1520-21 Vice-Chan 13 Rich. Frank lo. Crayford Proctours Rich Clark Major Doct. Theol. 9 Ju. Can. 3 Civ 1 Bac. Theol. 5 Mag. Art 21 Bac. Leg. 7 Art 26 29. Edward Stafford D. of Buckingham The untimely death of the Duke of Buckingham a Gentleman rather vain then Wicked guilty more of Indiscretion then Disloialty by the practise of Cardinall VVoolsey lost his Life and was beheaded Charles the fifth Emperour being informed of his death a Godwin in Henry the eighth May 17 said that a Butchers Dog such VVoolsey's extraction had kill'd the fairest BUCK in England Let Oxford then commend the Memory of this Cardinall for founding a fair Colledge therein Cambridge hath more cause to complain of him who hindred her of an hopefull Foundation For this Duke surprized with death built but little and endowed nothing considerably in this Buckingham Colledge No wonder to such who consider that prevented with an unexpected End he finished not his own House but onely brought the sumptuous and stately Foundation thereof above ground at Thornbury in b Camden's Brit. ibidem Glocestershire Afterwards in Commiseration of this Orphan Colledge severall Convents built Chambers therein But more of it hereafter in Magdalen Colledge Iohn Edmunds Vice-Chan Nich. Rowley Iohn Stafford 1521-22 14 Proct. Robert Smith Major Doct. Theol. 6 Ju. Can. 1 Civ 1 Bac. Theol. 19 Mag. Art 22 Bac. Leg. 6 Art 40 30. Richard Crook was the first Crook his Character who now brought Greek into request in the University He was born in London bred in Kings Colledge where Anno c Manuscript Hatcher 1506. he was admitted Scholar Then travailing beyond the Seas he became publick Reader of Greek at Lipzick in Germany After his return by the perswasion of Bishop Fisher Chancellour of Cambridge he professed therein the Greek Language All Students equally contributed to his Lectures whether they heard d Epist Tho. Mori ad Aca. Oxon. or heard them not as in Dutch Ordinaries all Guests pay alike for the Wine e Erasmi Colloqu in Diversorio though they drink it not because they were or should be present thereat Crook dedicated his first publick Speech made in praise of the Greek tongue to Nich. VVest Bishop of Ely because Cambridge understand him of all the Parish Churches therein is of his Jurisdiction A passage impertinently pressed by f Brian Twine Oxford Antiquary to prove this University under his Episcopall Power as being in not of Elic Diocese exempted from it though surrounded with it Crook was also chosen the first publick Oratour a place of more Honour then Profit whose originall Salary g Cajus Hist. Cant. Aâ— l. 2 pag. 129. was but 40â— per ann Tho. Green Vice-Chan 1522-23 Robert Dent Io. Briganden Proct. Geo. h MS. Coll. Corp. Christi Hoyster Major He was excommunicated for his obstinacy towards the Deputy of the Vice-Ch 15 Doct. Theol. 5 In. Can. 2 Mag. Art 22 Bac. Art 46 31. It will not be amisse here to present the Reader with a List of the University Oratours Anno Regis Henrici 8. 15 Anno Dom. 1522-23 A Catalogue of Cambridge Oratours Oratours chosen 1 Richard Crook 1522 2 George Day fellow of Kings Col. 1528 3 Iohn Redman of Kings Hall 1537 4 Thomas Smith fellow of Queens Col. 1538 5 Roger Ascham fellow of S t. Iohns Col. 1547 6 Tho. Gardiner fellow of Kings Col. 1554 7 Iohn Stokes of the same 1557 8 George Ackworth 1560 9 Anthony Girlington fellow of Pembrook Hall 1561 10 Andrew Oxenbridge fellow of Trin. Col. 1562 11 VVil. Masters fellow of Kings Col. 1564 12 Thomas Bing fellow of Peter House 1564 13 VVilliam Lewin fellow of Christs Col. 1570 14 Iohn Beacon fellow of S t Iohns Col. 1571 15 Rich. Bridgewater fellow of Kings Col. 1573 16 Anthony VVing field fellow of Trin. Col. 1580 and re-admitted 1586 17 Henry Moutlow fellow of Kings Col. 1589 18 Rob. Naunton fellow of Trin. Col. 1595 19 Francis Nethersole fellow of Trin. Col. 1611 20 George
to be accounted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as of great performances for the generall Good expended 3000. pound of his own in altering and enlarging the old and adding a new Court thereunto being at this day the Stateliest and most uniform Colledge in Christendom out of which may be carved three Dutch Vniversities Masters Bishops Benefactours Livings in the Coll. gifts 1 Iohn Redman 2 VVilliam Bill 3 Iohn Christopherson 4 VVilliam Bill restored by Q. Elizab. 5 Rob. Beamont 6 Io. Whitgift 7 Iohn Still 8 Tho. Nevyle 9 Iohn Richardson 10 Leonard Maw 11 Sam. Brooks 12 Tho. Cumber 13 Tho. Hill 14 Iohn Arrowsmith 1 Io. Christopherson B p. of Chichester 2 Iohn VVhitgift Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 3 Iohn Still Bishop of Bath and Wels. 4 Gervase Babington B p. of VVorcester 5 VVilliam Redman Bishop of Norwich 6 Anthony Rud Bishop of S t. Davids 7 Godfrey Gosborrough Bishop of Glocester 8 Robert Bennet Bishop of Hereford 9 Martin Fotherby Bishop of Sarisbury 10 Godfrey Goodman Bish of Glocester 11 Leonard Maw Bishop of Bath and VVells 11 Iohn Bowle Bishop of Rotchester 12 Adam Lofius Arch-bishop of Dublin 12 Doct. Hampton Arch-bishop of Dublin in Ireland 1 Tho. Allen Clark 2 S r. Edward Stanhop who gave 900. l. to the Library 3 The Lady Bromley 4 George Palin Girdler 5 The Lady Anne VVeald 6 Roger Iesson Haberdasher 7 M rs Elizbeth Elwis 8 Doct. Bill 9 D r. Beaumont 10 D r. Whitgift Masters of this House 11 D r. Cosins 12 D r. Barrow 13 D r. Skevington 14 Wil. Cooper Es 15 Peter Shaw 16 S r. VVilliā Sidley Knight Baronet 17 S r. Thomas Lake 18 S r. Iohn Sucklin Knights 19 D r. Robert Bankworth Fellow 20 S r. Ralph Hare Knight 21 M r. Silvius Elwis still in the Coll. S t. Maries the great in Cambridge S t Michaels in Cambridge Chesterton Vic. Eely val 10. 12. 03. Orwell Rect. Eely val 10. 07. 07 1 2. Kendal Vic. Carlile val Barington Vic. Eely val 7. 14. 04. Blythe Vic. York Dioc. val 14. 09. 04. Gryndon Vic. Peterb val 8. 00. 00. Felmersham Vic. Lincoln val 13. 13. 04. Ware Vic. London val 20. 08. 11. Thunridge Vic. London val 6. Swinsted Vic. Lincoln val 14. 00. 09. Chedull R. Cove Lich. val 12. 09. 00. See the Livings in Michael-House and Kings-Hall So that at this day there are therein maintained Anno Regis Henrici 8. 38 one master Anno Dom. 154 5 6 sixty Fellows sixty seven Scholars four Conducts three publick Professours thirteen Poor-Scholars twenty Almes-men besides lately a Master of the Choristers six Clerks and ten Choristers with the Officers Servants of the Foundation and other Students in all four hundred and fourty 20. It is not much above an hundred years since the first sounding of this House and see how marvellously God hath blessed it with eminent men in all Professions besides the Bishops afore-mentioned States-men Divines Criticks Poets 1 S r. Francis Bacon Lord Chancellour of England 2. S r. Edw. Coke Lord-Chief Justice 3 S r. Edward Stanhop Vicar-Generall 4. Richard Cosin D r. L. Deane of the Arches 5. S r. Robert Naunton 6 Sir Iohn Cooke Principle-Seeretaries of State both 7. M. Iohn Facker Secretary to the Duke of Buckingham 8. S r. Francis Nethersole Secretary to the Q. of Bohemia 1 Thomas Cartwright 2 Walter Travers 3 VVilliam Whitaker 4 Matth. Sutcliffe Founder of Chels Coll. D. of Exeter 5 Io. Layfield 6 Tho. Harison 7 Will. Dakings All three Translatours of the Bible 1 Edward Lively one of the best Linguists in the World 2 Philemon Holland an industrious Translatour 3 William Alabaster most skilfull in Cabalisticall learning 4 Edward Simson who hath wrote a large History the Mythologicall part whereof is most excellent 6 Robert Creiton 1 Walter Hawksworth an excellent Comedian 2 Giles Fletcher of Christs Victory 3 George Herbert whose Piety Poëtry cannot be sufficiently commended 4 Tho. Randolph D r. Comber the twelfth Master of this House must not be forgotten of whom the most learned a In Animad in Censuram Exercitationum Ecclesiasticarum Pentateucum Samaritanum pag. 419. Morinus makes this honourable mention Alius praeterea codex Samaritanus celebratur dicitur esse Archiepiscopi Armachani ab eo è Palaestina in Hiberniam exportatus qui Leydensibus Academicis nonnullo tempore fuit commodatus Istum codicem vir clarissimus Thomas Comberus Anglus quem honoris officii reddendi causa nomino cum textu Judaico verbum è verbo imo literam cum liter a maxima a diligentia indefesso labore comparavit differentiasque omnes juxta capitum versuum or dinem digestas ad me misit humanissime officiosissime 21. Besides many worthies still alive With many moe living Iohn Hacket Doctour of Divinity whose forwardnesse in farthering these my Studies I can onely deserve with my prayers Doctour Henry Ferne whose pen hath published his own worth Master Herbert Thornedyke so judicious and indistrious in setting forth the many Languaged-Bible M r. Iames Duport so much the more priced by others for his modest undervaluing his own worth with many moe whose number God daily encrease 22. King Henry the eighth with Trinity Colledge Kings Professours founded founded also publick Professours For formerly the Vniversity had but two one of Divinity founded by the Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond allowing him Salary of twenty Marks and another for Phisick at the Cost of Thomas Linacre that exellent Critick Tutour to Prince Arthur and afterwards Doctor of Physick But now King Henry added to these a Regius Professour in Divinity Law Hebrew and Greek allowing them 40. pounds per annum and increasing the stipend of Physick Professour now acknowledged as onely of the Kings foundation But see the Catologue Lady-Margarets-Professours Kings Professours in Divinity Kings Law-Professours Iohn Fisher President of Queens Col. Bishop of Rochester Erasmus Roterodamus Thomas Cosin D. D. Master of Corpus-Christi Coll. Iohn Fawn D. D. President of the Vniversity Thomas Ashley D. D. Fellow of Kings Coll. William Sket D. D. Fellow of Kings Coll. Robert Beaumont D. D. Master of Trini Coll. Matthew Hutton D. D. M r. of Pembroke Hall Iohn Whitgift D. D. Master of Trin. Coll. William Chaderton D. D. President of Queens Coll. Thomas Carwright Master of Arts Fellow of Trinity Coll. Iohn Hanson Master of Arts Fel. of Trin. Col. Iohn Still D. D. Master of Trinity Coll. Peter Baro a Frenchman D. D. of Trinity Col. Thomas Playford D. D. Fell. of S t. Iohn ' s Col. Iohn Davenant D. D. President of Q. Coll. Samuel Ward D. D. Master of Sidney Suffex Coll. Rich Holdsworth D. D. M r. of Emanuel Coll. Rich. Love D. D. M r. of Corpus-Christi Coll. Doctor Wiggin Martin Bucer D. D. D r. Sedgwick Leonard Pilkington D. D. Master of Saint Iohn ' s Coll. Matthew Hutton D. D. Fellow of Trinity Col. Iohn Whitgift D. D. fellow of S t.
Peter Coll. Wil. Chaderton D. D. Fellow of Christs Col. Will. Whitacre D. D. Master of S t. Iohn ' s Coll. Iohn Overhall D. D. Master of S t. Katharin ' s Hall Iohn Richardson D. D. Fellow of Emanuel Master of Trinity Samuel Collins D. D. Provost of Kings Col. Iohn Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S t. Iohn ' s and after of Trinity a Sir Thomas Smith Alkam lib. 2. Ep. ad Bran disbaeam Walter Haddon D. L. Fellow of Kings Master of Trinity Hall Thomas Bing D. L. Fellow of S t. Peters Coll. Master of Clare Hall Thomas Legg D. L. Fellow of Iesus Trinity Coll. Master of Gonvil Cajus Col. Iohn Cowell D. L. Fellow of Kings Col. Master of Trinity Hall Thomas Morysonne D. L. Fellow of Kings Coll. George Porter D. L. Fellow of Queens Col. Thomas Goad D. L. Fellow of Kings Coll. Kings Physick Professours Kings Hebrew Professours Kings Greek Professours Iohn Blyth Doctor of Physick Fellow of Kings Coll. Iohn Hatcher Doctor of Physick Fellow of Kings Thomas Larkin Doctor of Physick of S t. Peters Coll. William Ward Doctor of Physick Fellow of Kings Coll. William Burton Doctor of Physick Fellow of Kings Coll. Iohn Gostlin Doctor of Physick Master of Gonvil and Cajus Coll. Iohn Collins Doctor of Physick Fellow of S t. John ' s Coll. Ralph Winterton Doct. of Physick Fellow of Kings Coll. Francis Glisson Doctor of Physick Fellow of Gonvil and Cajus Coll. Mr. Robert Wakefield Fellow Antony Rodolphus Cevallerius Mr. Bignon a Frenchman of Corpus Christi Coll. Edward Liveley Fellow of Trinity Coll. Robert Spalding D. D. Fellow of S t. John ' s Coll. Jeffery King D. D. Fellow of Kings Coll. Andrew Bing D. D. Fellow of S t. Peter Coll. Robert Metcalfe D. D. Fellow of S t. Iohn ' s Coll. Ralph Cudworth Felof Emanuel Col. Erasmus Roterodamus Richard Crooke Fellow of Kings Coll. Sir Thomas Smith Knight Fellow of Queens Coll. S r. Iohn Cheek Knight Tutour to King Edward the sixth of S t. Iohn ' s Coll. Nicolas Carr Fellow of Pembroke Hall after of Trinity Coll. Bartholomew Doddington Fellow of Trinity Coll. Francis Wilkinson Fellow of Trinity Coll. Andrew Downes Fellow of S t. Iohn ' s Coll. Robert Creiton Fellow of Trinity Coll. Iames Duport Fellow of Trinity Coll. Ralph Widdrington Fellow of Christ ' s Col. 23. These Catalogues though the best not to say onely extant are very imperfect One instance I will give William Zoone here omitted was Regius a Pitieus de Scripto Angl. pag. 766. Professour of Law in the Reign of Queen Mary But I dare not altar what so long hath been received Iohn Madew 1 Vice-Chanc 154 6 7 Tho. Burman Tho. Carlyle Proctours Iohn Fann Major Doct. Bac. Theol. 1 Medic. 1 Theol. 7 Mag. Art 15 Bac. Art 29 24. Great was the alteration which followed in Cambridge The Lord Protectour made Chancellour upon King Edward his coming to the Crown Steven Gardiner Chancellour of the University was put out of his office and into the Tower Edward Seymor Lord Protectour and Duke of Somerset was chosen in his room 25. The Townsmen of Cambridge began now to hope their time come The Insolencies of the Townsmen to cast off the yoke as they counted it of the University as if on the alteration of Religion the ancient priviledges of Scholars should be abolished under the notion of superstition Ungratefully therefore they began their pranks I say ungratfully Anno Dom. 154 6 7 For Anno Regis Edvardi 6 38 although particular Scholars might owe money to particular Townsmen yet the whole Town owes it 's well being to the University Amongst their many insolencies two were most remarkable First One a Compare Mr. Askams letter to the Bishop of Winchester with his to the Lord Wriothesly Maxwell by profession once a Iayle-keeper then a Beare-ward promoted at last Purveyor to provide cariages for the Kings fish which commonly came from Cambridge seised on an ambling Nag of the Master of Peter-House which the old and infirme Doctour kept for his health meerly that his man might thereon ride after the Kings cariages This Horse I may say had a long-reach The injury seeming small and personall concerned the whole University both in present and posterity Secondly when the Proctours at Sturbridge-Faire had according to their Office and ancient custome fetched out many dissolute persons out of vicious places at unseasonable hours the Major refused to give them the keys of the Toll-booth or Town-prison to secure such offenders therein yea when they had carried such malefactours to the Castle within an hour or two comes the Majors Son sets open the Iayle and le ts loose those lewd persons to the great injurie of the University and encouragement of all viciousnesse 26. It was now high time for Doctor Madew Askham his letters procure friends to the University the Vice-Chancellour and Master Roger Askham the University Oratour to bestir themselves The later belettered all the Lords of the Privy Councill and amongst the rest Sir Thomas VVriothesly the Lord Chancellour of England whom saith he the Vniversity partly commandeth us once a member partly requesteth as now a Patrone thereof with some Gentlemen of the Kings Bed-Camber and by then procured the confirmation of the University priviledges in the following Parliament However these oppidane animosities in some degree continued all this Kings Reign Matthew Parker 154 7 8 Vice-Chan 2 Edmond Grindall Edward Gascoyne Proct. Iohn Rust Major Doct. Theol. 2 lu Civ 1 Bac. Theol. 14 Mag. Art 26. Bac. Leg. 1 Art 30 The Lord Protectour by letters which I have seen sollicited Stephen Gardiner who still kept his Mastership of Trinity Hall to resigne his place and the whole Hall into the Kings disposall 27. That so of that A profer of the Protectours to Unite Clare and Trinity Hall and it's Neigbour Clare Hall whose Master Doctor Madew may be presumed compliable with the Protectours pleasure one Eminent and Entire Colledge might be advanced on the Kings cost in Imitation of Trinity Colledge 〈…〉 the late Royall Result of three smaller Foundations 1 Wherein the Civil and Canon-Law the skill whereof his Grace found necessary for the present welbeing of the Kingdome should be countenanced and encouraged 28. Most politick Gardiner not without cause suspecting some design Blasted by Bishop Gardiner or Casaulty might surprize the Intervall betwixt the dissolution of the old and erection of this new Foundation civilly declined his consent to the Motion He informed his grace that the way to advance the Study of the Laws was by promoting the present Professours of that Faculty now so generally discouraged and not by founding a new Colledge for the future students thereof seeing Trinity Hall could alone breed moe Civillians then all England did prefer according to their deserts 29. Thus was the design blasted and never more mentioned But Gardiner for
Benefaction 49. Fourthly A new Name he gave it a new name to be called Gonvil and Cajus Colledge But as in the Conjunction of two Roman Consuls Bibulus and Cajus Iulins Caesar the former was eclipsed by the Lustre of the Later so this his Name-sake Cajus hath in some sort obscured his partner carrying away the name of the Colledge in common discourse 50. Lastly And Hierogliphycall arms he procured a Coat of Armes for the Colledge to bear it impaled with that of Gonvil Indeed they are better Hierogliphicks then Heraldry fitter to be reported then Blazoned and betwixt both we dare adventure on them Namely in the Field Or bescatered with purple ears of Amarinth two Serpents erected azure with their tails nowed or knotted together upon a Pedastall of Marble a no Naturall colour Vert having a branch of semper vivum proper betwixt their heads and a Book Sable with golden Buttons betwixt their bodies wherein not to descend to particulars b Scelius Cantabrigâ—ae MS. wisdome is designed in a stable posture by the embracing of Learning to attain to uncorrupted immortality or to take the VVords of the Patent exprudentia literis Virtutis petra firmatis immortalitas He lyeth buried in the chapel under a plain Tombe and plainer Epitaph as without words having one word fewer FVI CAIVS 51. Some since have sought to blast his memory No violent Papist by reporting him a Papist no great crime to such who consider the time when he was born and forreign places wherein he was bred however this I dare say in his just defence he never mentioneth Protestants but with due respect and sometimes occasionally doth condemn the superstitious c Hist Camb. lib. 1. p. 8. quanquam illius aevicaecitas admirationem c. Credulity of Popish Miracles Besides after he had resigned his Mastership to Doctor Legg he lived Fellow-Commoner in the Colledge and having built himself a little Seat in the Chapel was constantly present at Protestant prayers If any say all this amounts but to a Lukewarm Religion we leave the Heat of his Faith to God his sole Iudgement and the light of his good works to Mens Imitation Masters Bishops Benefactours Learned Writ Colledge Liv. 1 Iohn Cajus 2 Tho. Legge 3 Wil. Branthwaite 4 Iohn Gostlin 5 Tho. Bachcroft 6 Dell. Francis White Bishop of Ely Mathew Parker Arch-bishop of Canterbury Robert Traps and Ione his VVife Ioyce Franklin their Daughter D r. Wendie D r. Bishbie D r. Harvey S r. VVill. Paston Knight VVill. Cutting D r. Legg D r. Branthwaite D r. Gostlin late Master of this House D r. Perse D r. Wells late Fellows Iohn VVhite Francis White Fletcher famous for his book de Vrinis VVill. VVatts D. D. he set forth Mathew Paris Ieremie Taylor D. D. Bincomb rect in the Diocesse of Bristoll 1 â— d 9 1 5 So that lately viz. Anno 1634 there were one Master 25 Fellowes one Chaplain 69. Scholars besides Officers and Servants of the foundation with other Students the whole number being 209. 52. Doctor Cajus A numerous nursery of eminent Physitians may seem to have bequeathed a Medicinall Genius unto this foundation as may appear by this Catalogue 1 Stephen Perse 2 VVill. Rant Sen. 3 VVilliam Harvy 4 Thomas Grimston 5 Iohn Gostlin 6 Robert VVells 7 Oliver Green 8 Nicholas Brown 9 Ioseph Micklewaite 10 Francis Prujean 11 VVill. Rant jun. 12 Edmund Smith 13 Richard Curtis 14 Francis Glisson 15 Richard London 16 Henry Glisson 17 Robert Eade 18 Ioseph Dey 19 Th. Buckenham 20 VVill. Ringall 21 Charl. Scarborough 22 Thomas Prujean 23 Robert VValler 24 Abner Coo 25 Will. French 26 Christopher Ludkin 27 William Bagge All bred in this House Doctours of Physick and extant in my memory such a little Montpelier is this Colledge alone for eminent Physitians and now we take our leave thereof acknowledging my self much beholden to Master More late Fellow an Industrious and Iudicious Antiquary for many rarities imparted unto me 53. Upon the death of Stephen Gardner Cardinal Poole Chancellour both of Cambridge and Oxford â— Reginall Poole Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury was chosen Chancellour of Cambridge I admire therefore at Master Brian Twine his peremptorinesse when affirming a De Antiq. Oxon. p. 383 Reginaldus Polus non Cantabrigiensis quod Londinensis falso affirmat sed Oxoniensis fuit Cancellarius if he was to be believed before our Records Indeed Poole was Chancellour of both Universities at the same time and as now Cambridge chose an Oxford-man for their Chancellour Oxford afterward made election of one of Cambridge viz. Richard Bancroft Arch-bishop of Canterbury 54. The Cardinal kept a visitation in Cambridge by his power Legatine His visitation of Cambridge wherein the bones of Bucer and Phagius were burned to ashes and many Superstitions established so largely related by M r. Fox our industry can add nothing thereunto The best is the effects of this visitation lasted not long resinded in the next year by the comming in of Queen Elizabeth Edmund Cousin Elizabeth 1 155 1 9 Iohn Pory Vice-Chanc Rich. Smith Iohn Bell Proct. Iohn Line Milo Prance Maj. Doct. Theol. 2 Leg. 1 Medic. 2 Bac. Theol. 1 Mag. Art 22 Bac. Art 28 55. On the death of Cardinal Poole Cambridge visited by Queen Elizabeths Commissioners Sir William Cecil afterward Lord Burgly was made Chancellour of Cambridge being so great a Friend thereunto nothing can be said enough in his commendation Then followed a visitation of Cambridge Iure Regio wherein with the foresaid Chancellour were adjoyned Anthony Cook Knight Matthew Parker William Bill Richard Horn Iames Pilkinton Doctours of Divinity William May Walter Haddon Doctours of Law and Thomas Wendie Doctor of Physick and Physitian to her Majesty What Alteration this produced the insuing Catalogue will inform Masters put out Colledges Masters put in 1 Dr. Rowland Swinburn 2. Dr. Iohn Young 3. Dr. William Mouse 4. Dr. Robert Brassey 5. Thomas Peacock B. D. 6. Dr. Edmund Cosius 7. Dr. Iohn Fuller 8. Dr. William Taylor 9. Dr. George Bullock 10. Dr. Richard Car fed quaere 11. Dr. Iohn Christopherson Bishop of Chichestor 1 Clare Hall 2 Pembrook Hall 3 Trinity Hall 4 Kings Colledge 5 Queens Colledge 6 Katharine Hall 7 Iesus Colledge 8 Christ Colledge 9 St. Iohns Colledge 10 Magdalen Colledge 11 Trinitie Colledge 1 Dr. Iohn Madeu thrice Vice-Chancellour 2 Dr. Edmund Crindal 3 Dr. Henry Harvey 4 Dr. Philip Baker 5 Dr. VVilliam May restored 6 Dr. Iohn May 7 Dr. Thomas Redman 8 Dr. Edmund Hawford 9 Dr. Iames Pilkinton 10 Dr. Roger Kelke 11 Dr. William Bill restored Doctor Cajus Master of his own Colledge and very good reason still continued therein Anno Dom. 1558 9 so did Doctor Andrew Perne in Peter-House Anno Regin Elizabetha 1 Hence the Scholars in merryment made and for some years kept the Latine word unknown in that sence to Varro or Priscian perno to turn
instrument in any such matter Sir I may be under mistakes through forget fulnesse but I hope there is a principle within me which will not suffer me to suggest an untruth willingly London July the 10th 1654. Your loving Friend Simon Ash Here we see what he writes and what others print If there was any such Oath it seems it had the happinesse of a short Part and sensible of its own ill acting therein it sneaked down so quickly into the Tireing house that it hopes not to be remembred ever to have come upon the Stage But if Mr. Ash was active herein I see stripes are not so soon forgotten by those that bear them as by those that lay them on For my own part I am satisfied no such Oath was tendred by him charitably believing that he would not crosse his own doctrine when preaching to the Parliament 1640 on Psal 9. 9. The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed he complained of the strictnesse of University Oathes 37. Not long after warning was given The Covenant generally tended that all Students should come in within b Quâ—rela Cant. pag. twelve daies and take the Covenant This seemed a strange summons and the two Chaplains to whom the Earle of Manchester most milde in his selfe chiefly remitted the managing of these matters were challenged for injustice herein For though Divines they were presumed to have so much of Civil Law yea of the Law of Nature as to know Nemo tenetur ad impossibilia No man is tied to impossibilities whereas many Schollers being absent more scores of miles than they had daies allowed them besides the danger of Armies interposed could not if receiving warning repair at the time appointed but because many of them were suspected to be in the Kings Army twelve daies were conceived for them as much as c M. Ash informed me that afterward a longer time was given them and refused twelve moneths no time being too short for those who were willing and none long enough for such who were unwilling to take the Covenant 38. This Covenant being offered was generally refused whereupon the Recusants were ordered without any delay to pack out of the University three dayes after their ejection 39. Doctor Brownrigg Bishop of Exceter and Master of Katharine Hall Offence taken at Bp. Brownrigg Sermon was now Vice Chancellour of Cambridge succeeding Dr. Holdesworth as I take it for know Reader I begin now to be incurious in Chronologie not so much because weary with a long observing thereof as because such the noise of the present disturbance I cannot hear what the Clock of Time doth strike This sure I am that the Vice Chancellour though eminent for his piety gravity and learning could so little prevail for others endeavouring all the good offices he could that the next year he was banished the University for preaching the Inauguration Sermon of the KING wherein many passages were distasted by the Parliament-party And now they vigoronsly proceeded having learned the Maxime in Hippocrates that Licet in extremis ad lipothymiam vacuare In desperate cures one may let blood even till the patient swounds on confidence that though the soule dissembleth a departure yet it will stay still in the body especially when finding it amended in the temper thereof And it seems the blood appeared so corrupt to these Physicians that so great a quantity was taken away some Colledges lay as it were languishing for the losse thereof 40 In Queens Coll there was made a thorow Reformation neither Master Fellow nor Scholler being left of the Foundation so that according to the Laws of the Admiralty it might seem a true Wreck and forfeited in this Land tempest for lack of a live thing therein to preserve the propriety thereof However some conceived this a great severity contrary to the eternall Morall of the Jewish Law provided against the depopulation of Birds nests that the Old and Young Ones should be destroyed together But to prevent a vacuity the detestation of nature a new Plantation was soon substituted in their room who short of the former in learning and abilities went beyond them in good affections to the Parliament 41. However What became of so many ejected Fellows on the account of Humanity some pity may seem due to such Fellows outed house and home merely for refusing the Covenant being otherwise well-deserving in the judgements of those who ejected them And it is strange to conceive how many of them got any subsistence or livelyhood to maintain themselves This mindeth me of the occasion of the Greek * Zenodotus the Author thereof Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He is either dead or teacheth Schoole For when Nicias the General of Athens Anno Dom. 1643. having many Schollers in his Army had fought unfortunately against the Sicilians and when such few as returned home were interrogated what became of their Companions this was all they could return They were either dead or taught Schoole a poor and wofull imployment it seems in those daies as weighed in the other scale against Death so indifferent was the odds betwixt them The same we conceive the hard hap of such Fellows that survived the grief of their Ejection many betook themselves to the painfull profession of School-Master no calling which is honest being disgracefull especially to such who for their conscience sake have deserted a better condition 42. I know what the Chaplains of the Earle have pleaded The Chaplains plea for themselves in excuse of their rigorous proceedings against the Scholars at this time viz That authority was much exasperated by Academicks deserting their places and refusing upon summons given to come in with Petitions for favour in relation to such particulars wherein they were dissatisfied that as if the times were their Text whatever the subject of their Sermons they were invective against the present Authority that Querela Cantabrigiensis is but Querela relating all things to the worst and plaints are no proofs That for their own parts they onely answered the spur and scarcely that being quickned on both sides both from above and beneath and daily complained of That their over remisness would obstruct Reformation both in Church and University How sarre this will prevail on the belief of posterity is unto me unknown 43. Some perchance may be so curious hereafter to know what Removals and Substitutions were made at this time amongst the Heads of Houses Great alteration in Heads of Houses Now although a man may hold a candle to lighten posterity so near as to burn his own fingers therewith I will run the hazard rather than be wanting to any reasonable desire Masters put out 1. Dr. Iohn Cosens Dean of Peterborough and Prebendary of Durham 2. Dr. Thomas Pask Archdeacon of London 3. Dr. Benjamin Laney Dean of Rochester 4. Dr. Thomas Badgcroft 5. Dr. Samuel Collins the Kings Professour 6. Dr. Edward Martine Chaplain to Archbishop Land 7. Ralph
not onely to Visit Christs Sepulchre but also to behold Simon Stilita a pious man and Melanta a devout Woman both residing in Syria and at this time eminent for Sanctity Perchance Discontentment mingled with Devotion moved the Britans to so long a Journey conceiving themselves because of their present Troubles at home more safe any where else then in their own Country As for those Britans who in this Age were zealous Asserters of the Purity of Religion against the Poison of Arrianisme amongst them we find S t. Keby a principal Champion Son to Sâ—lomon Duke of Cornwall Scholar to St. Hilary Bishop of Poictiers in France with whom he lived 50 yeares and by whom being made Bishop he returned first to S t. Davids afterwards into Ireland and at last fixed himself in the Isle of Anglesey So pious a man that he might seem to have communicated Sanctity to the Place being a Promontory into the Sea called from him Holy-head but in Welsh Caer-guibyâ— as in the same Island the memory of his Master is preserved in Hilary point where both shall be remembred as long as there be either Waves to assault the Shore or Rocks to resist them THE FIFTH CENTURY Anno Dom. To Thomas Bide of London Esquire AMongst your many good Qualities I have particularly observed your judicious Delight in the Mathematicks Seeing therefore this Century hath so much of the Survey or therein being employed in the exact Dividing of the English Shires betvvixt the seven Saxon Kingdomes the Proportions herein are by me submitted to your Censure and Approbation 1. NOw the Arrian Heresy 401 by Gods Providence and good mens Diligence Pelagius a Britan by birth was in some measure suppressed when the unwearied Malice of Satan who never leaveth off though often changeth his wayes to seduce Souls brought in a worse because more plausible Heresy of Pelagianisme For every man is born a Pelagian naturally proud of his Power and needeth little Art to teach him to think well of himself This Pelagius was a Britan by Birth as we take no delight to confesse it so wee 'l tell no Lye to deny it as some say called a a Jacobus Usserius de Brit. Ecc. Prim. p. 207. Dominus Hen. Spelman in Conciliis pag. 46. Morgan that is in Welsh near the Sea and well had it been for the Christian world if he had been nearer the Sea and served therein as the Aegyptians served the Hebrew Males being to the same sense called in Latine Pelagius Let no Foreiner insult on the infelicity of our Land in bearing this Monster But consider first if his excellent natural Parts and eminent acquired Learning might be separated from his dangerous Doctrine no Nation need be ashamed to acknowledge him Secondly Britain did but breed Pelagius Pelagius himself bred his Heresy and in forein Parts where he travelled France Syria Aegypt Rome itself if not first invented much improved his pestilent Opinions Lastly as our Island is to be pittied for breeding the Person so she is to be praised for opposing the Errours of Pelagius Thus the best Father cannot forbid the worst Sonne from being his Child but may debarre him from being his Heire affording no favour to countenance his Badnesse 2. It is memorable what b Dempster Hist Scot. l. 15. num 1012. one relates Pelagius no Doctor of Cambridge but a Monk of Banchor that the same day whereon Pelagius was born in Britain S t. Augustine was also born in Africk Divine Providence so disposing it that the Poison and the Antidote should be Twins in a manner in respect of the same time To passe from the Birth to the Breeding of Pelagius c Hist Cantab. Academ lib. â— pag. 28. Iohn Cajus who observes eight solemn Destructions of Cambridge before the Conquest imputeth that which was the third in order to Pelagius who being a Student there and having his Doctrine opposed by the Orthodox Divines cruelly caused the overthrow and desolation of all the Vniversity But we hope it will be accounted no point of Pelagianisme for us thus farre to improve our Free-VVill as to refuse to give Credit hereunto till better Authority be produced And yet this sounds much to the Commendation of Cambridge that like a pure Crystall-Glass it would preferre rather to flie a pieces and be dissolved then to endure Poison put into it according to the Character Anno Dom. 401 which Iohn a In his Poem of Cambridge Lidgate a VVit of those Times gave of this University Cambrege of Heresy ne're bore the blame More true it is that Pelagius was bred in the Monastery of Banchor in that part of Flintshire which at this day is a Separatist from the rest where he lived with two thousand Monks industrious in their Callings whose Hands were the only Benefactors for their Bellies Abbey-labourers not Abbey-lubbers like their Successours in after-Ages who living in Lazinesse abused the Bounty of their Patrons to Riot and Excesse 3. Infinite are the Deductions The principal Errors of Pelagius and derived Consequences of Pelagius his Errours These are the maine 1. That a man might be saved without Gods Grace by his own Merits and Free-will 2. That Infants were born without Original Sinne and were as innocent as Adam before his Fall 3. That they were Baptized not to be freed from Sin but thereby to be adopted into the Kingdome of God 4. That Adam died not by reason of his Sinne but by the condition of Nature and that he should have died albeit he had not sinned Here to recount the learned Works of Fathers written their pious Sermons preach't passionate Epistles sent private Conferences entertained publick Disputations held Provincial Synods summoned General Councils called wholesome Canons made to confute and condemn these Opinions under the name of Pelagius or his Scholar Caelestius would amount to a Volume fitter for a Porters back to beare then a Scholars Brains to peruse I decline the Employment both as over-painfull and nothing proper to our Businesse in hand fearing to cut my Fingers if I put my Sickle into other mens Corn these things being transacted beyond the Seas and not belonging to the British History The rather because it cannot be proved that Pelag us in person ever dispersed his Poison in this Island but ranging abroad perchance because this False Prophet counted himself without honour in his own Country had his Emissaries here and principally b Beda lib. 1. cap. 17. Agricola the Sonne of Severian a Bishop 4. It is incredible French Bishops sent for to suppresse Pelagianisme in Britain how speedily and generally the Infection spread by his preaching 420 advantaged no doubt by the Ignorance and Lazinesse of the British Bishops in those dayes none of the deepest Divines or most learned Clerks as having little care and lesse comfort to study living in a distracted State and those that feel practical Discords will have little joy to
or measure No author need to be alledged for the avouching thereof the thing being author for it self being so notoriously known and generally believed Others make him to quit his title by Conquest and hold the Crown partly by Bequest from King Edward the Confessor whose good laws he is said to confirm Leges boni Regis Edvardi quas Gulielmus bastardus postea e See Mr Selden ut suprd confirmavit and partly by compact with his people Yea the Chronicles of Lichfield make him to call a Parliament in effect I mean a Meeting of his Clergie and Nobility in a great Councel where as if he had turn'd perfect English-man he conformed his practice to their ancient constitutions 14. Should I interpose between these opposite parties to reconcile them Our endeavours to compass the difference probably the blows from both sides would fall heavy on my charitable indiscretion Yet thus far I will be bold to say such confirmation of King Edward's law if made by King William probably was rather oral and verbal then real and effectual But if real certainly it was not general but limited to some particular place as the Province of Kent the English land of Goshen which alone enjoyed the light of liberty though rather gotten by them then given unto them But if any will contend that this confirmation was general they must confess it done in the later end of his Reign King William when yong lov'd honor when old ease when yong to conquer when old to enjoy Age will make all to stoop as here it bowed him to a better compliance with his people However this his confirmation of King Edward's Laws was not such as either gave general content to or begat assured confidence in the English perchance because but a personal act and but partially done and no whit obligatory of his posterity This made the English press so importunately though in vain to William Rufus the King's son and successor for a re-confirmation of King Edward's Laws which had been needless as being the same with actum agere or rather dacum petere had the former grant from King William his father been conceived sufficient for their security 15. As for King William's particular bounty to Battle-Abby in Sussex King William his bounty to Battle-Abby which he founded it bare better proportion to the dignity of the giver 15. then to the deserts of the receivers 1081. For besides those priviledges formerly a In the first paragr of this book mentioned he gave it all the land within a league of the site thereof He ordered that no forreiner should be obtruded on their Abbey but in every vacancy one of their own Covent should be elected Abbot thereof except which heavens forbid no fit person should be found therein for that preferment Nor should the Abbot be forced to appear at any Synod or meeting except pleased of himself so to do These and many moe immunities he confirmed to that foundation in such an imperious stile as if therewith he meant to bluster all future Princes and King Henry the eighth among the rest into a perfect obedience unto his commands Especially with that clause in his Charter Nullus Successorum meorum violare praesumat But dead King's Charters though they have tongues to threaten yet have no teeth to bite especially when meeting with an equal after-power to rescind them 16. The more the pitty His hard dealing with the Students at Oxford that such drones lazy Abby-lubbers went away with the honey whilest the industrious Bees were almost starved I mean the Scholars of Oxford For at the coming in of the Conqueror the Students in Vniversity-Colledg formerly founded by King Alfred were maintained by pensions yearly paid them out of the King's Exchequer which provision was then conceived both most honourable as immediately depending on the Crown and less troublesome issuing out in ready coine free from vexatious suits casualties of Tenants and other incumbrances But now King William who loved that the tide of wealth should flow into but not ebb out of his coffers detained and denied their b Ex monumentis Gollegii Vniversitatis exhibitions Yea the King pick'd a quarrel with them because they sought to preserve and propagate the English tongue which the King designed to suppress and to reduce all to the French Language And yet the French speech was so far from final prevailing in this Kingdom that it was fain at last to come to a composition with the English tongue mixed together as they remain at this day Save that in termes of Law Venarie and Blazon the French seemeth foly to command The Scholars thus deprived of their pensions liv'd on the charity of c Br. Twine in Antiq Academ Oxon. pag. 215. such as lov'd the continuance of their native tongue Their Latin was then maintained by their English though surely it was no small disturbance to their studies meerly to depend for their subsistence on the arbitrary alms of others 17. Pass we now from King William unto Lanckfranck Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Lanckfranck most kindley treated by the Pope next the King then the most considerable person in our Ecclesiastical History To Rome he went with Thomas elect of York and Remigius of Lincoln all three for confirmation from the Pope in their preferment Pope Alexander treated Lanckfranck so civilly that a stranger if beholding the passages betwixt them haply might have mistook Lanckfranck for the Pope and the Pope for the Petitioner His Highness honoured him as his Master cujus studio sumus in illis quae scimus imbuti by whose care said he we have been instructed in those things whereof we have knowledg 18. Then Lanckfranck charged Thomas in the presence of the Pope His charge against Thomas elect of York as canonically uncapable of that Arch-Bishoprick because the son of a Priest And yet by Lanckfrancks leave no Canon can be produced then in force to debar Priests sons from preferment though some few years after in the Councel of Clermont such a prohibition was made And therefore a Novorum lib. 1. pag. 7. Eadmerus speaking of Lanckfranck calumniatus est Thomam coram Papâ in the proper acception of his words speaks more truth then he was aware of or probably did intend But Lanckfranck being a Privado to the Popes projects and as well to the intentions as the actions of the Church of Rome might by a Prolepsis antedate this objection against Thomas using it for the present as a rub to retard him which some years after was constituted a legal obstacle to exclude any Priests son from promotion But even when that Canon some years after was made the Pope was not so cruel as thereby fully and finally to exclude all Priests sons from Church dignity but onely to shut them out for a time that they might stand at the door and knock I mean with the chink of their money and at
future success and evidence of his former innocence 13. The calamitous Reign of King Edward the Second Anno Regis Ed. 2. 1. afforded little history of the Church Anno Dom. 1307. though too much of the Common-wealth except it had been better The character of K Edward the second A debauched Prince this Edward was His beauty being the best not to say onely commendable thing about him He had an handsome man-case and better it had been empty with weakness then as it was ill fill'd with vitiousness Pierce Gaveston first corrupted him maugre all the good counsel that Robert Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and all his good friends 5. could give him 1312 And when Gaveston was kill'd and taken away the Kings badness was rather doubled then diminished exchanging one pandor to vice for two the two Spencers In a word the Court was turn'd Taverne Stews Stage Play-house wherein as many vain and wanton Comedies were acted before the King in his life time so a sad and sorrowful Tragedy was acted by him a◠his death 14. Robert Bruce King of Scotland The satal defeat of the English in Scotland encouraged by the laziness of King Edward thought this a sit time to recover his Country and which the English detained from him Wereupon he regained Berwick inroaded England invaded Ireland King Edward in wrath advanceth against him with an Army rather dancing then marching fitter for a Masque 7. then a Battel 1314 their horses rather trapped then armed In all points it appeared a triumphant Army save that no field as yet was fought by them Thus excluding all influence of Divine Providence and concluding 't was Fortunes duty to favour them at Sterling they bid the Scots battel wherein ten thousand of our men are by our own Authors confessed to be slain There fell the flowere of the English Nobility the King with a few hardly saving himself by flight Thus as Malleus Scotorum the Hammer or mauler of the Scots is written on the Tomb of King Edward the first in Westminster Incus Scotorum the Anvile of the Scots might as properly be written on the Monument had he any of Edward the second 15. But leaving these fights 7. we proceed to other Polemical Digladiations 1314 more proper for our Pen Nine Eminent Schoolmen of the English Nation namely the disputes of SCHOOL-MEN which in this Kings Reign were heightened to perfection Formerly those were termed Scholastici who in the Schools were Rethoricians making therein Declamatory Orations Such Exercises ceasing in this Age the Terme was Translated to signifie those who bused themselves in Controversial Divinity though some will have them so called from Scolion a Commentary their studies being generally nothing else then illustrations of the text of Peter Lombard the Master of the Sentences Take them here together at one view intending to resume them again in their several Characters Name Anno Dom. 1314. Hourished Anno Regis Ed. 2. 7. Title Order 1. Alexander Hales 1240. Henry the third D r Irrefragabilis or D r Doctorum Franciscan 2. Roger Bacon 1280. Edward the first D r Mirabilis Franciscan 3. Richard Middleton or De Media Villa 1290. Edward the first D r Fundatissimus Franciscan 4. John Duns Scotus 1308. Edward the second D r Subtilis Franciscan 5. Gualter Burley 1337. Edward the third D r Approbatus Secular Priest 6. John Baconthorpe 1346. Edward the third D r Resolutus Carmelite 7. William Ocham 1347. Edward the third D r Singularis or Pater Nominalium Franciscan 8. Robert Holcot 1349. Edward the third D r Dominican 9. Thomas Bradwardine 1350. Edward the third D r Profundus Secular Priest Born at Bred in Buried in Or night Hales in Glocester-shire Hales ibidem The Franciscan Church in Paris  Oxford in Merton Col. Oxford Uncertain whether at Middleton-Stony in Oxford shire or Middleton Cheny in Northampton shire Oxford or Paris Paris Dunstan contracted Duns in Emildon Parish in Northumb. Merton Colledg in Oxford Colen  Merton Colledg in Oxford Paris Baconthorpe in Norfolk Blackney Abbey in Norfolke The Church of his Order in London Ocham in Surrey Merton Colledg Munchin in Bavaria Holcot in Northampton-shire Oxford Northampton where he died of the Plague Bradwardine in Hereford-shire Merton Colledg in Oxford S t Anselme's Chappel in Canterbury Besides many other School-men of inferiour note which we pass by in silence Now we may safely dare all Christendome besides to shew so many Eminent School-Divines bred within the compass of so few years insomuch that it is a truth what a forrein a Alexander Minutianus in Epistola writer saith Scholastica Theologia ab Anglis in Anglia sumpsit exordium fecit incrementum pervenit ad perfectionem And although Italy falsly boasteth that Britain had her Christianity first from Rome England may truly maintain that from her immediately by France Italy first received her School-Divinity 16. Of these School-men Alex. Hales their Father and Founder Alexander Hales goeth the first Master to Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure whose livery in some sort the rest of the School-men may be said to wear insisting in his foot-steps At the command of Pope Innocent the fourth he wrote the body of all School-Divinity in four Volumes He was the first Franciscan who ever took the degree of Doctor in the University who formerly counted the height of a degree inconsistent with the humility of their order as appeareth by the close of his Epitaph Egenorum fit primus Doctor eorum So great an honorer of the Virgin Mary that he never * Pits descript Ang. denied such who sued to him in her name As since our M r Fox is said never to have denied any who begged of him for Jesus Christ 17. Roger Bacon succeeds Bacon accused for a Conjurer O what a sin is it to be more learned then ones Neighbours in a barbarous age being excellently skilled in the Mathematicks a wonder-working Art especially to ignorant eyes he is accused for a Conjurer by Hieronymus de Esculo Minister general of his Order and afterwards Pope by the name of Nicholas the fourth The best is this Hieronymus before he was a Pope was not Infallible and therefore our Bacon might be scandalized by him however he was committed to Prison at Rome by Pope Clement the fourth and remained in durance a considerable time before his own innocence with his friends endeavours could procure his enlargement 18. For mine own part Many Bacons in one make a confusion I behold the name of Bacon in Oxford not as of an Individual man but Corporation of men No single Cord but a twisted Cable of many together And as all the Acts of Strong men of that nature are attributed to an Hercules All the predictions of Prophecying women to a Sibyll So I conceive all the atchievements of the Oxonian Bacons in their liberal studies are ascribed to ONE as chief of the
Oxonford I mean Wickliff by Name afterwards chewed the Cud and was sufficiently reconciled to the Roman faith as appears by his Recantation Living and Dying conformable to the holy Catholick Church 58. It is strange that this Popish Priest alone should light on his Recantation which I believe no other eyes before or since did behold Besides if as he saith Wickliff was sufficiently reconciled to the Roman Faith why was not Rome sufficiently reconciled to him using such crueltie unto him so many years after his death Cold incouragement for any to become Romist's Converts if notwithstanding their reconciliation the bodies must be burnt so many years after their death 59. But though Wickliff had no Tombe A Monk's charity to Wickliffe he had an Epitaph such as it was which a Monk afforded him and that it was no worse thank his want not of malice but invention not finding out worse expressions The k Walsing Ypodig Neust p. 3â—2 Divels Instrument Churches Enemie Peoples confusion Hereticks Idol Hypocrites Mirror Schisms Broacher hatreds sower Anno Dom. 1430. lyes forger flatteries sinke who at his death despaired like Cain Anno Regis Hen. 6. 8. and stricken by the horrible Judgements of God breathed forth his wicked Soul to the dark mansion of the black Divell Surely He with whose Name this Epitaph beginneth and endeth was with the maker clean thorow the contrivance thereof 59. Henry Beaufort Bishop of Winchester A conditional privy Council Cardinal Sancti Eusebij but commonly called Cardinal of England was by consent of Parliament made one of the Kings Council with this condition that he should make a * Ex Archivis tur London Protestation to absent himself from the Council when any matters were to be treated betwixt the King and Pope being jealous belike that his Papal would prevaile over his Royall interest The Cardinal took the Protestation and promised to perform it 60. The Clergy complained in Parliament to the King Priviledge of Convocation that their Servants which came with them to Convocations were often arrested to their great damage and they prayed that they might have the same Priviledge which the Peeres and Commons of the Kingdom have which are called to Parliament which was granted accordingly 61. Great at this time was the want of Grammar Schools and the abuse of them that were even in London it self Want of Grammar Schools complained of for they were no better then Monopolize it being penall for any to prevent the growth of Wicklivism to put their Children to private Teachers hence was it that some hundreds were compelled to go to the same School where to use the words of the Records the Masters waxen rich in money and learners poor in cunning Whereupon this grievance was complained on in Parliament by four eminent Ministers in London viz. M r. William Lichfield Parson of All-Hallow's the More Gilbert Parson of St. Andrews Holbern John Cote Parson of St. Peter's Cornhill John Neele Master of the House of St. Thomas Acre 's and Parson of Colchrich To these it was granted by the Advice of the Ordinary or Archbishop of Canterbury to erect five Schools Neele the last named having a double licence for two places in their respective Parishes which are fitly called the five vowels of London which Mute in a manner before began now to speak and pronounce the Latine Tongue Know that the house St. Thomas Acres was where Mercers Chappel standeth at this day About this time the Lady Eleanor Cobham Elianour Dutchess of Glocester commended by M r. Fox for a Confessor so called from the Lord Cobham her Father 1433 otherwise Elianour Plantagenet by her Husband was married unto Humphrey the Kings Uncle Duke of Glocester 11. She was it seems a great Savourer and Favourer of VVickliffe his Opinions and for such Mr. Fox hath ever a Good word in store Insomuch that he maketh this Lady a Confessor Sr. Roger Only alias Bolignbroke her Chaplain a Martyr assigning in his Kalender the eleventh and twelfth of February for the dayes of their commemoration But Alanus Copus namely Harpsfield under his name falls foul on Mr. Fox for making Sr. Roger a Martyr Made Traitor by A. C. who was a Traitor and Elianour this Dutchess a Confessor who by the consent of our Croniclers Robert Fabian Edward Hall c. was condemned after solemn penance and carrying a Taper barefoot at Pauls Crosse to perpetuall banishment for plotting with Only his Chaplain an abominable Necromancer and three others by witchcraft to destroy the King Anno Regis Hen. sixt 11. so to derive the Crown to her Husband Anno Dom. 1433. as the next heir in the Line of Lancaster But Cope-Harpsfield pincheth the Fox the hardest for making Margaret Jourdman the witch of Eye a Martyr who was justly burnt for her witchcraft Other small errors we omit where of he accuseth him In answer hereunto Mr. Fox makes a threefold return ingeniously confessing part of the charge Mr. Fox His ingenious confession flatly denying part and fairly excusing the rest He confesseth and take it in his own words that the former Edition of his Acts and Monuments was a First Volum pag. 920. HASTILY RASHED up at the present in such shortnesse of time fourteen moneths as I remember too small a term for so great a Task that it betraied him to many mistakes as when he calleth Sir Roger Only a Knight who was a Priest by his profession Adding moreover that had he thought no b Pag. 921. imperfections had passed his former Edition he would have taken in hand a second recognition thereof He flatly denyeth that his Martyr-making of Margaret Jourdman the Witch of Eye His flat deniall I here saith professe confesse and ascertain both you Cope-Harpsfield He meaneth and all English men both present and all posterity hereafter to come that Margaret Jourdman I never spake of never thought of never dreamed of nor did ever hear of before you named her in your Book your self So farre it is off that I either with my will or against my will made any Martyr of Her He excuseth the aforesaid Dutchess Elianour His ten Coniectures in behalf of the Dutchess alledging ten Conjectures as he calleth them in her vindication 1. Sir Roger Only took it upon his death that He and the Lady were innocent of those things for which they were condemned 2. It was usuall for the Clergie in that Age to load those who were of Wickliffe his perswasion such this Dutchess with no lesse false then feule aspersions 3. Sir Roger Only wrote two Books mentioned by c As in his 8th Cent. cap. 4. Bale the one of his own innocency the other Contra Vulgi Superstitiones It is not therefore probable he should be so silly a Necromancer who had professedly confuted Popular Superstitions 4. The Accusation of this Dutches beganne not untill after the Grudges betwixt the
though perchance wisely for the State not warily for himself Indeed it is impossible for such Officers managing not onely multitudes but multiplicity of matters but that in some things they must mistake As in c Prov. 10. 19. many words there wanteth not iniquity so in the Actours of many affairs faults are soon found out He was also accused to set at liberty certain persons not capable of it for granting Licenses and Commissions destructive to the King's authority for being guilty of Heresie himself and favouring it in others Trayterous speeches were also charged upon him spoken two years before in the Church of S. Peter's in the Poor in Broad street the avouchers thereof pretending that as hitherto they had concealed them for love of themselves fearing Cromwel's greatnesse so now for the love of the King they revealed the same Indeed on the first manifesting of the King's displeasure against him the foes of Cromwel had all their mouthes open and his friends their mouthes shut up 24. The mention of S. Peter's in Broad-street An injurious Act to many poor people charged on the Lord Cromwell mindeth me of a passage not unworthy to be recited of an injury offered by this Lord Cromwell to many poor men in the same Parish And because every one is best able to tell his own tale take it in the words of John d Survey of London p. 187. Stow being himself deeply concerned therein The Lord Cromwell having finished his house in Throgmorton-street in London and having some reasonable plot of ground left for a garden caused the pales of the gardens adjoyning to the North part thereof on a sudden to be taken down two and twenty foot to be measured forth-right into the North of every man's ground a line there to be drawn a trench to be cast a foundation laid and an high brick-wall to be builded My father had a garden there and there was an house standing close to his South-pale this house they loosed from the ground and bare upon rowlers into my father's garden two and twenty foot ere my father heard thereof no warning was given him nor other answer when he spake to the Surveyors of that work but that their Master Sir Thomas commanded them so to doe no man durst goe to argue the matter but each man lost his land and my father paid his whole rent which was six sâ—illings eight pence the year for that half which was left Thus much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note that the sudden rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves I am moved the rather to believe our Authour herein because elsewhere he alloweth this Lord his deserved praise for his virtues and especially his Hospitality affirming e Survey of London p. 74. he had often seen at the Lord Cromwell's gate above two hundred persons served twice every day with meat and drink sufficient Nor can I see what may be said in excuse of this oppression except any will plead that Abimelech's servants violently f Gen. 21. 26. took away the wells from Abraham and yet Abimelech himself never knew more or lesse thereof 25. As for the passionate expressions of Cromwell The worst passionate Speech objected against him a g Sir I. Strode of Parubam in Dorcet-shire Knight aged well-nigh eighty whose Mother was Daughter to the Lord Cromwell's Son hath informed me That the principall passage whereon the Lord's enemies most insisted was this It being told the L. Cromwell that one accused him for want of fidelity to the King Cromwell returned in passion Were he here now I would strike my dagger into his heart meaning into the heart of the false Accuser and therein guilty of want of charity to his fellow-subject not of loyaltie to his Sovereign But seeing the words were a measuring cast as uttered though not as intended to whom they should relate the pick-thank Repeater avowed them uttered against the King Himself So dangerous are dubious words and ambiguous expressions when prevalent power is to construe and interpret the meaning thereof 26. Ten daies after his Arrest His Speech on be scaffold he was attainted of high Treason in Parliament and brought on the Scaffold the next week to execution Here he spake the following words unto the people which the Reader is requested the more seriously to peruse July 19. that thereby he may be enabled to passe if concerned therein his verdict in what Religion this Lord died I Am come hither to die 29. and not to purge my selfe as some think peradventure that I will For if I should so doe I were a very wretch and miser I am by the law condemned to die and thank my Lord God that hath appointed me this death for mine offence For since the time that I have had years of discretion I have lived a sinner and offended my Lord God for the which I aske him heartily forgivenesse And it is not unknown to many of you that I have been a great traveller in this world and being but of base degree I was called to high estate and since the time I came thereunto I have offended my Prince for the which I aske Him heartily forgivenesse and beseech you all to pray to God with me that he will forgive me And now I pray you that be here to bear me record I die in the Catholick Faith not doubting in any Article of my faith no nor doubting in any Sacrament of the Church Many have slandered me and reported that I have been a bearer of such as have maintained evil opinions which is untrue But I confesse that like as God by his Holy Spirit doth instruct us in the truth so the Devil is ready to seduce us and I have been seduced but bear me witnesse that I die in the Catholick Faith of the Holy Church And I heartily desire you to pray for the King's Grace that He may long live with you in health and prosperity and that after Him His son Prince Edward that goodly impe may long reign over you And once again I desire you to pray for me that so long as life remaineth in this flesh I waver nothing in my faith And so making his Prayer c. The generall terms wherein this his Speech is couched hath given occasion for wise men to give contrary censures thereof Fox in his Marginall Note on this Speech pag. 515. A true Christian Confession of the Lord Cromwell at his death Lord Herbert in the Index of his History under C. Cromwell died a Roman-Catholick notwithstanding he had been such a destroyer of the Church True it is so warie were Cromwell's expressions that Luther and Bellarmine might in their own persons have said the same without any prejudice to their own principles and many conceive that the most which these his words amount to will but make him an six-Articles Protestant 27. But let Cromwell's politick Speech be in part expounded by
Erambrook Richard Tovey John Hasting Thomas Bayll John Austine In Canterbury Richard Gomershan Nicholas Clement Thomas Farley Sodomites William Liechfield William Cawston Thomas Morton John Goldingston John Ambrose Christoph James Kept 3 married Whores In St. Augustine Thomas Barham a Whoremonger and a Sodomite In Chichester John Champion and Roger Barham both of them natural Sodomites In Cathedrall Church John Hill had no lesse than thirteen Whores In Windsor-Castle Nicholas Whyden had 4 George Whitethorn kept 5 Nicholas Spoter Kept 5 Robert Hunne had 5 Robert Danyson kept 6 Whores In Shulbred Monastery George Walden Prior of shulbred had 7 John Standney had at this command 7 Nich Duke to supply his Venery had 5 Whores In Bristow William Abbot of Bristow kept 4 Whores In Mayden Bradley Richard Prior of Mayden-Bradley kept 5 Whores In Bath Monastery Richard Lincombe had 7 Whores and was also a Sodomite In Abingdon Monastery Thomas Abbot of Abingdon kept 3 whores and had 2 children by his own Sister In Bermondsey Abbey John White Prior or rather Bull of Bermondsey had 20 Whores I finde this Catalogue only in the third Edition of Speed proving it a posthumeaddition after the Authors death attested in the margine with the authority of n Cap. 21. sol 183. Henry Steven his Apologie for Herodotus who took the same out of an English Book containing the Vilenesse discovered at the Visitation of Monasteries Thus this being but the report of a forrainer and the Original at home not appearing many justly abate in their belief of the full latitude of this report Indeed tradition is the onely Author of many stories in this nature amongst which the insuing story intituleth it felt to as much probability as any other 3. One Sir Henry Colt of Neither-Hall in Essex A coltish trick served much in favour with K Henry the eighth for his merry conceits suddenly took his leave of Him late at night promising to wait on His Grace early the next morning Hence he hastned to Waltham-Abbey being informed by his setter's that the Monks thereof would return in the night from Cheshunt-Nunnery where they had secretly quartered themselves Sir Henry pitcht a Buckstall wherewith he used to take Deer in the Forest in the narrowest place of the Marsh where they were to passe over leaving some of his Confederates to manage the same 4. The Monks upon the Monks of Waltham coming out of the Nunnery hearing a great noise made behind them and suspecting to be discovered put out the light they had with them whose feet without eyes could finde the way home in so used a pathe Making more hast than good speed they ran themselves all into the Net The next morning Sir H. Colt brought and presented them to King Henry who had often seen sweeter but never fatter Venison 5. Here I cannot believe what is commonly told of under-ground Vaults leading from Fryeries to Nunneries More talk than truth of under-ground Vaults confuted by the scituation of the place through Rocks improbably and under Rivers impossible to be conveyed Surely had Wal tham Monks had any such subterranean contrivances they would never have made use of so open a passage and such Vaults extant at this day in many Abbeys extend but a few paces generally used for the conveyance of water or sewers to carry away the filth of the Covent 6. More improbable it is Provision made for their lust what is generally reported that Abbots made provision for their lusts on their Leases enjoyning their Tenents to furnish them as with wood and coles so with fewel for their wantonness A o Mr. Steven Marshall Reverend Divine hath informed me that he hath seen such a passage on a Lease of the Abbey of Essex where the Lessee was enjoyned yearly to provide Unam claram lepidam puellam ad purgandos renes Domini Abbatis 7. It was never my hap to behold any Instrument with such a lustfull clause Charity best in doubtfull evidence or wanton reservation therein and shall hardly be induced to believe it First because such turpis conditio was null in the very making thereof Secondly because it was contrary to the Charta magna as I may call it of Monasticall practise Sinon cassè tamen cautè wherefore what private compact soever was by word of mouâ—h made betwixt them upon their Leases parole sure all Abbots were if not so honest so discreet that no act in scriptis should remain which on occasion might publickly be produced against them 8. As for the instances of their private incontinence A Solome in Sion Nunnery they are innumerable I will insist but in one hapning just at this juncture of time and which may be presumed very operative to the ruine of such Religious Houses A Lettore certefying the incontynensye of the Nuns of Syon with the Friores and astore the acte done the Friores reconsile them to God Endoised To the Right Honourable Master Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary to the Kings Highnesse IT maye please your goodnesse to understand that p He was one of Fryers who according to the constitution of your Order lived here with the Brigitian Nuns Bushope this day preched and declared the Kynges tytelle very well and hade a grete Audyense the Chorche full of people one of the * I conceive this two proper names Focaces in his said declaration only called him false knave with other foolish words it was the foolish fellow with the corled head that kneeled in your waye when you came forth of the Confessores Chamber I can no lesse doe but set him in prisone ut poena ejus sit metus aliorum yesterday I learned many enormous thinges against Bushope in the examination of the lay Brederen first that Bushope perswaded towe of the Brederene to have gone theire wayes by night and he himselfe with them and to the accomplishment of that they lacked but money to buy them seculere apparell Further that Bushope would have perswaded one of his lay-Brederen a Smithe to have made a keay for the doare to have in the night time received in Wenches for him and his fellows and especially a Wiffe of Uxebridge now dwelling not farre from the old Lady Derby nigh Uxebridge which Wiffe his old customer hath byne many times here at the grates communing with the said and he was desirous to have her convoyed into him The said Bushope also perswaded a Nunne to whom he was Cenfessour ad libidinem corporis perimplendam And thus he perswaded her in Confession making her believe that whensover and as ofte as they shold medle together if she were immediately after confessed by him and tooke of him absolution she shold be cleere forgeven of God and it shold be none offence unto her before God And she writte diveres and sundrye Lettores unto him of such their foolishnesse and unthriftynesse and wold have had his Broden the Smithe to have polled out
Orders have spauned much since our late Civil Warres Protestant confusions multiplying Popish foundations 2. Yet I cannot believe what * Mr. Prin. one reports of two Covents in London Two Covents reported in London set up about the year 1640. One at the Lord Gages neer Queens-street the other at Westminster For finding no person who is properly tearmed the Lord Gage I suspect all the rest And though I confesse Catholicks then arrived at such boldnesse as rather to dare than dread any discovery yet it seemeth improbable any should abide there save onely to wait conveniencie of transportation And so much for English Covents beyond the Seas which discourse let none censure as alien and not pertaining to the History of England For I would willingly be condemned for a needlesse excursion on the condition that they belonged not at all unto us who daily fetch over too much money hence and doe mutually bring back too much mischief hither To whom the Sites of Mitred Abbeys were granted and by whom they are possessed at this day IT were a work almost impossible for our pen to pursue the Lands of each Religious house from the time that they parted from the Crown to the present Owners thereof A possible designe preferred impossible declined Yea such a task when ended were endlesse of no other use than the satisfaction of curiosity As therefore the best Anatomists cannot hunt out the deviations of every petty vein embracing severall courses in sundry bodies but abundantly acquit their skill and industry if truly discovering the trunkveins observing the same chanels in all people Kephalicall Basilicall c. So we conceive our duty discharged to any rationall expectation if instancing onely out of the Originall Records in the Sites of the Mitred Abbeys marking their fluctuation since passed from the Crown into the possession of severall subjects 2. Here I intended to present the Reader with the particulars of all those Owners through whose hands these Mitred Abbeys have passed from those to whom King Henry granted them to those who at this day are possessed thereof A thing with very much difficulty such the frequencies of the exchange collectible out of the severall fines payd at their alienation but having tyred out mine own modesty though not my good friend Mr. John Witt 's officious industry in being beholden to him above my possibility of requitall for perusing so many Records I desisted from so difficult a design Abbey Granted by Unto In consideration Tenure and rent After alien'd to Present owner Tavestock in Devon K. a 1 parte rotulo 29. formerly Osboâ—ns Remembrancers Office Henry the 8 in the 31 of his Reign July 4. Iohn Lord Russel Anne his Wife and their Heires c. of his faithfull service and counsell in Capite by Knights service of cum aliis one Knights see paying 36 li. none but still possessed by their Heirs William Russell Earle of Bedford Middleton in Dorsetshire K. b 1 par rot 95. Henry the 8 in the 31 of his Reign 23 of Febr. Iohn Tregonwell Kn t Doctor of Law of a PensioÌ„ of 40 l. per ann surrendred 1000 l. paid down his good service in Capite by Knights service of the tenth part of a Knights fee paying 12 l. 4s none but still possessed by his Heirs Iohn Tregonwell Esquire Malmesbury in Wilt-sh K. c 7 par râ—t 147. Henry the 8 in the 31 of his Reign William Stampe Gentleman of the payment of 1516 l. 15s 2d ob in Capite by the tenth part of a Knights fee paying 8l 8s ob  Thomas Ioy Esquire Ramsey in Huntingtonshire K. d 2 par rot 293. Henry the 8 in the 31 of his Reign 4 of March. Richard Williams alià s Cromwell Esq of his good service and the payment of 4663l 4s 2d in Capite by the tenth part of a Knights fee paying 29l 16s none possessed by his Heir Sir Oliver Cromwell the most aged Gent. and Knight in England Selby in Yorkshire K. e 1 part rot 140. Henry the 8 in the 32 of his Reign 28 of August Ralph Sadleir of Hackney Knight of 736l paid in Capite by the tenth part of a Knights fee paying 3l 10s 8d  Charles Walmesley Esquire Teuxburie in Glocester shire K. f 2 part rot 26. Henry the 8 in the 36 of his Reign Tho Stroud Wal Earle and Iam Paget of 2283 li. 19s 3d. in capite by the 20th part of a Knights fee paying 1l 18s 0 3 4   Hyde juxta Winton K. g 7 part rot 44 Henry the 8 in the 37 of his Reign 11 of Janu. Rich Bethel Gent. after a Lease of the Lord Wriothesly was expired of 110 li. 17 s. 1d in free Soccage of the King's Manour of Rumsey paying 6l 13s 4d to the Vic. of St. Barthol Wint   S. Johns juxta Colchester K. h 4 part rot 13. Edward the sixt in the first of his Reign June 22. Iohn Dudley Earle of Warwick of his service in Scotland and France whereby he had much impair'd his own estate in Capite cum aliis by service of one Knights fee paying 16s 11. d. ob  Sir Iohn Lucas L d Lucas Cirencester in Glocester shire K. i 1 part rot Edward the sixt in the first of his Reign 19 of August Thomas Lord Seymer high Admiral of his service and kindred being the Kings Uncle in Capite with land in 15 Shires by the service of one Knights fee paying 1l 1s 8d  Sir William Masters Bardney in Lincoln-shire K. k 3 part rot 95. Edw 6. in the second of his Reign Thomas Heneage Katherine his Wife and their Heirs of an exchange for the Manour of overton in Knights service  Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham Glaston in Somerset K. l 3 part rot 17. and againe 4 pars rot 77. Edward the sixt in the 4 th year of his Reign 4 of June Ed Seymer Duke of Somerset of his Petition and the advise of the Counsel to support his dignity in Capite by the 40 th part of a Knights fee sine reditu   Reading in Berkshire K. m Ibidem Edw. the sixt in the 4 th year of his Reign 4 of June Ed Seymer Duke of Somerset of his Petition and the advise of the Counsel to support his dignity in Capite by the 40 th part of a Knights fee sine reditu  Francis Knolles Esquire Crowland in Lincolnshire K. Edward the sixt in the 4 th year of his Reign Decemb. 1. Edw. Fines Knight L d. Clinton and Say high Admiral of England of the exchange of other lands with the Crown to be held in Soccage as of the Kings Manour of Louth by fealty only  till lately in the Crown Winchcomb in Glocestershire K. Edward the sixt in the fift year of his Reign June 24. William Par Marquesse of Northhampton of his faithfulness and valour against the Rebels in Northfolk in
Queen to more severity and make Her gird Her government closer to their sides who thought to shake it off This was apparent by the wofull experience of the excommunication denounced against King Henry the eighth Yea Watson Bishop of Lincolne if his b Watsons Quodlibets pag. 260. namesake may be credited was exceedingly grieved at the Popes proceedings herein foreseeing the inconvenience would thence arise This same Watson was he who in the first of Queen Elizabeth would in all hast by his own bare Episcopal power have excommunicated Her but now older and wiser mollified with ten years durance he altered his opinion 6. Others were unsatisfied in the Authenticalness of the instrument who never did or durst see the original and were unresolved whether the copies were sufficiently attested 7. Others were perplexed in point of conscience how far they were bound to obey herein seeing the law of nature obligeth the wife in duty to her husband excommunicated and the same reason is of the servant to the Master Subject to the Prince 8. Lastly Others were troubled in point of policy having their persons and estates in the Queens power and Bannes the Schoolman pleadeth that Subjects are not bound to desert or resist their Prince when such actions necessarily inferr danger of death and loss of goods But leaving them to have their scruples satisfied by their Confessours this causelesse curse to Queen Elizabeth was turn'd into a blessing and as the Barbarians looked when S t. Paul having the viper upon a Acts 28. 6. his hand should have swoln and falne down dead whil'st he shooke it off into the fire without any hurt or harme so Papists expected when the Queen should have miserably expired stung to the heart with this excommunication when She nothing frighted thereat in silence slighted and neglected it without the least dammage to Her power or person and no whit the less loy'd of Her subjects or fear'd of Her enemies And most false it is which Sanders b De Schism Anglicano pag. 372. reports that She by the mediation of some great men secretly laboured in vain in the Court of Rome to procure a Revocation of the Popes sentence against Her as what another * An Italian in the life of Pius Quintus relateth how She was wont to say that the thing it self grieved Her not so much as because done by P. Pius whose Election and life she helâ— for miraculous 26. This year two eminent Bishops The death of Bp. Barlow and Bourn once of the same Cathedral but different Religions ended their lives William Barlow D r. of Divinity Canon of S t. Osith then Prior of Bisham successively Bishop of S t. Asaph S t. Davids and Bath and Wells in the dayes of King Edward the sixth Afterwards an exile in the reign of Queen Mary in Germany where he lived in great want and poverty and by Queen Elizabeth he was made Bishop of Chichester where he was buried The other Gilbert Bourne Bishop of Bath and Wells though a zealous Papist yet of a good nature well deserving of his Cathedral and who found also fair usage in his restraint living in free custody with the Dean of Exeter and lies buried in the Parish-Church of Silverton 27. Now was the twelfth year of the Queen fully past with her safety and Honour Popish expectation defeated In which the Credulous Papists trusting the predictions of Southsayers 1570 July 13. had promised to themselves a Golden c Camdens Eliz. in Anno 1570. day as they called it Instead whereof they are likely to finde many Leaden years hereafter And henceforward the seventeenth of November the day of the Queens Inauguration was celebrated with far greater Solemnity then ever before Saint Hugh being for fourty four years left out of our Calenders to make Room for Her Majesty And John Felton who fastned the Popes Bull to the Palace of London Aug. 8. being taken and refusing to fly was hanged on a Gibbet before the Popes Palace 28. Hugh Price D r. of the Civill Law The foundation of Jesus Col. in Oxford procured the foundation of a Colledge in Oxford on a Ground where White-hall had been formerly situated which with Edifices and Gardens thereto belonging being then in the Crown Queen Elizabeth gave to so pious a use and therefore is stiled the Foundress in this Mortmain However the said Doctor inscribed these following verses over the Gate when the Building of the Colledge was but begun Struxit Hugo Pricius tibi clara Palatia Jesu Vt Doctor Legum Pectora Docta daret Hugh Price this Palace did to Jesus Build That a Laws Doctor Learned men might yield But an Oxford a Pitz. de Ang. Ox. pag. 37. Author telleth us that a Satyrical Pen did under-write with Wit and Wagary enough these following verses Anno Dom. 1570 Nondum struxit Hugo vix fundamenta Locavit Det Deus ut possit dicere struxit Hugo Hugh hath not Built it yet may it be said He Built it who hath scarce the Ground-work Laid But no doubt the Scholars therein at their first admission know how to justifie their reputed Founders words by the Figure of Prolepsis and can tell you that what is well begun is half finished Principalls D r. David Lewis * This Coll. hath had ten Principals whereas Trin. Coll. in the same University founded 14. years before hath had but five Presidents D r. of Laws 1. D r. Lloyd D r. of Law and Dean of the Arches 2. D r. Griffin Lloyd Chanc. of Oxon 3. D r. Fra Bevans 4. D r. Jo. Williams Marg. Prof. 5. Griffith Powell Bac. of Law 6. Francis Mansell D. D. Fellow of All-Souls 7. He resigned his place to S r. Eubule Thelwel one of the Masters of the Chancery conceiving he might be more serviceable to the Colledge S r. Eubule Thelwel K. 8. D r. Francis Mansel rechosen 9. Michael Roberts D. D. 10. Bishops Morgan Owen Bishop of Landaffe Thomas Howel Bishop of Bristoll A most excellent Preacher Benefactors Herbert Westfalling BP of Hereford Hen. Rowland BP of Bangor Griffith Lloyd D r. of Law Griffith Powell John Williams D r. of Divinity S r Eubule Thelwell K. who made a Court in a manner four-square builded and wainscotted the Hall perfected the Chappel with a curious and costly Roof c. Mistres Jane Wood widdow of Owen Wood Dean of Armagh Learned-writers James Howel an elegant writer So that in the year 1634. It had one Principall sixteen Fellows sixteen Scholers most of the ancient British Nation besides officers and servants of the Foundation and other Students All which made up the Number of one hundred and nine 29. Hitherto Papists generally without regret The first beginning of Recusancie repaired to the publike places of Divine Service and were present at our Prayers Sermons and Sacraments What they thought in their hearts He knew who knoweth hearts but in outward conformity
But a Vagari took the Lord Ross to go to Rome His sad Dilemmâ— though some conceive this motion had its root in more mischievous brains In vain doth Mr. Molle disswade him grown now so wilfull he would in some sort govern his Governour What should this good man doe To leave him were to desert his trust to goe along with him was to endanger his own life At last his affections to his charge so prevailed against his judgment that unwillingly willing he went with him Now at what rate soever they rode to Rome the fame of their coming came thither before them so that no sooner had they entred their Inne but Officers asked for Mr. Molle took and carried him to the Inquisition-House where he remained a prisoner whilest the Lord Ross was daily feasted favoured entertained so that some will not stick to say That here he changed no Religion for a bad one 9. However His constancy in the 〈…〉 such Mr. Molle's glorious constancy that whilest he look'd forward on his cause and upwards to his crown neither frights nor flattery could make any impression on him It is questionable whether his friends did more pity his misery or admire his patience The pretence and allegation of his so long and strict imprisonment was because he had translated Du Plessis his Book of The Visibility of the Church out of French into English but besides there were other contrivances therein not so fit for a publick relation In vain did his friends in England though great and many endeavour his enlargement by exchange for one or moe Jesuits or Priests who were prisoners here Papists beholding this Molle as a man of a thousand who if discharged the Inquisition might give an account of Romish cruelty to their great disadvantage 10. In all the time of his durance His death in durance he never heard from any * So am I informed by a Letter from Mr. Hâ—n Molle his Son friend nor any from him by word or letter no English-man being ever permitted to see him save onely one viz Mr. Walter Strickland of Botnton-house in York shire With very much desire and industry he procured leave to visit him an Irish Frier being appointed to stand by and be a witnesse of their discourse Here he remained thirty years in restraint and in the eighty first year of his age died a Prisoner and constant Confessour of Christ his cause God be magnified in and for the sufferings of his Saints 11. In this year Richard Vaughan The death of Bishop Vaughan Doctor of Divinity bred in S. John's Colledge in Cambridge successively Bishop of Bangor Chester and London ended his life A corpulent man but spiritually minded such his integrity not to be bowed though force was not wanting to any base connivance to wrong the Church he was placed in His many virtues made his losse to be much bemoaned 12. Greater was the grief Mr. Brightmans birth and breeding which the death of Master Thomas Brightman caused to the disaffectors of the Church-discipline of England He was born in the Town of Nottingham bred in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge where a constant opposition in point of judgment about Ceremonies was maintained between him and Doctor Meryton afterwards Dean of Yorke Here he filled himselfe with abilities for the Ministerie waiting a call to vent himselfe in the Countrey 13. It happened this very time A Patron paramount that Sir John Son to Mr. Peter Osborne both lovers of learned and godly men not onely bought and restored the Rectorie of Haunes in Bedford shire formerly alienated to the Church but also built thereon from the ground a fair House which he furnished with fitting utenfils for the future Incumbent thereof This done at his desire of an able Minister Doctor Whitakers recommended Master Brightman unto him on whom Sir John not onely freely conferred the Living but also the profits of two-former years which the Knight inned at his own cost and kept in his possession 14. Here Mr. Brightman employed himself both by preaching Exceptions against Master Brightman's Book and writing to advance Gods glory and the good of the Church witnesse his learned Comments in most pure Latine on the Canticles and Revelation though for the latter greatly grudged at on severall accounts 1. For the Title thereof conceived too insolent for any creature to affix A Revelation of The Revelation except immediate Inspiration which made the lock had given the key unto it 2. For being over-positive in his interpretations The rather because the Reverend Mr. Calvin himself being demanded his opinion of some passages in the Revelation as a learned * Bodin in his Method of History cap. 7. man reporteth answered ingenuously That he knew not at all what so obscure a writer meant 3. For over-particularizing in personal expositions applying severall Angels mentioned therein Chap. 14. v. 18 He maketh Arch-bp Cranmer the Angel to have power over the fire and Ch. 16. v. 5. He makes Hillâ— Cecil Ld Treas of England the Angel of the waters if Lord Admirall it had been more proper justifying the pouring out of the third viall to the Lord Cromwell Archbishop Cranmer Cecill Lord Burley c. Such restrictiveness being unsuitable with the large concernment of Scripture as if England half an Island in the Western corner were more considerable than all the world besides and the theater whereon so much should be performed 4. In resembling the Church of England to luke-warm Laodicea praising and preferring the purity of forrain Protestant-Churches Indeed his daily discourse was against Episcopal Government which he declared would shortly be pulled down He spake also of great troubles which would come upon the Land of the destruction of Rome and the Universall calling of the Jewes affirming That some then alive should see all these things effected 15. However His angelical life his life was most angelicall by the confession of such who in judgment dissented from him His manner was alwaies to carry about him a Greek Testament which he read over every fortnight reading the Gospels and the Acts the first the Epistles and the Apocalyps the second week He was little of stature and though such commonly cholerick yet never known to be moved with anger and therefore when his pen falls foul on Romish superstition his friends account it zeal and no passion 16. His desire was to die a sudden death His sudden death if God so pleased surely not out of opposition to the English Liturgie praying against the same but for some reasons best known to himself God granted him his desire a death sudden in respect of the shortnesse of the time though premeditated on and prepared for by him who waited for his change and being a watchfull souldier might be assaulted not surprized For riding in a Coach with Sir Iohn Osborne and reading of a Book for he would lose no time he fainted and though instantly taken out
ullus est profectò sub coelo locus aequè coeli aemulus in quo tentorium mihi figi maluerim cujusque adeo gestiet mihi animus meminisse Beatos verò vos quibus hoc frui datum non dignus cram ego ut fidelissimi Romani querimoniam imitari liceat qui Christi Ecclesiae suae nomine sanctam hanc provinciam diutius sustinerem Illud vero 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nempe audito quod res erat non aliâ me quà m adversissimâ hic usum valetudine Serenissimus Rex meus misertus miselli famuli sui revocat me domum quippe quoòd cineres meos aut sandapilam vobis nihil quicquam prodesse posse nôrit succenturiavitque mihi virum è suis selectissimum quantum Theologum De me profectò mero jam silicernio quicquid fiat viderit ille Deus meus cujus ego totus sum Vobis quidem ita feliciter prospectum est ut sit cur infirmitati meae haud parùm gratulemini quum hujusmodi instructissimo succedaneo coetum hunc vestrum beaverit Neque tamen committam si Deus mihi vitam Ann. Dom. 1619 vires indulserit ut corpore simul Ann. Reg. Jac. 17 animo abesse videar Intereà sanè huic Synodo ubicunque terrarum sum vobis consiliis conatibusque meis quibuscunque res vestras me pro virili sedulò ac seriò promoturum sanctè voveo Interim vobis omnibus ac singulis Honoratissimi Domini Delegati Reverendissime Praeses Gravissimi Assessores Scribae doctissimi Symmystae colendissimi Tibique Venerandissima Synodus universa aegro animo ac corpore aeternùm valedico Rogo vos omnes obnixiùs ut precibus vestris imbecillem reducem facere comitari prosequi velitis Thus returned Dr. Hall into his own Country Since so recovered not to say revived therein that he hath gone over the graves of all his English Collegues there and what cannot God and good aire doe surviving in health at this day three and thirty years after may well with n 1 Sam. 17. 12. Jesse go amongst men for an old man in these daies And living privately having passed thorough the Bishop rickes of Exeter and Norwich hath now the opportunity in these troublesome times effectually to practice those his precepts of patience and contentment which his pen hath so eloquently recommended to others 71. On the seventh of January Doctor Goad in the room of Dr. Hall Thomas Goad Doctor of Divinity Ann. Reg. Jan. 7. Chaplain to George Archbishop of Canterbury came into the Synod sent thither by His MAJESTY of Great Britain The President entertained him with a soleman Oration highly commending King JAMES's care not recalling one Divine till he had substituted another The Doctor requited him with a pithie Oration promising the utmost of his assistance to the general good A promise by him well performed giving afterwards ample testimony of his general learning and solid judgement in Divinity nothing being wanting in him but that he came hither so late to this imployment SECTION V. TO Master PETER MOROLOYS AND Master THOMAS ROWSE OF LONDON Merchants THE NETHERLANDS are the Scene whereon the beginning of this Section was transacted They were also the Native Countreys of your Ancestors flying hither from persecution Since as your Fathers then found Safety amongst the ENGLISH some of the ENGLISH to my knowledge have felt Bounty from their Children God increase your Store and make you like the good Merchant in the Gospel * * Mat. 13. 46. who to purchase the GREAT PEARL sold all that the had that is undervalued all Worldly wealth coming in competition with God or Grace or Glory BEfore the end of the hundred fourty fifth Session The Belgick Confession presented in the Synod April the 20th in the forenoon the Belgick Confession was brought into the Synod containing matter both of Doctrine and Discipline and the publick consent thereunto was required Here the Bishop of Landaffe in the name of all the rest approved all the points of Doctrine But as for matter of Discipline that his Mother Church and his own order might not suffer therein and he seem by silence to betray the cause thereof a Protest was entred by him as Mouth for the rest to preserve the same as by the perusing the following passage will appear Interca tamen de Disciplina pancis monet Nunquam in Ecclesia obtinuisse Ministrorum paritatem non tempore Christi ipsius tanc enim duodecim Apostolos fuisse Discipulis superiores non Apostolorum aetate non subsecutis secuâ—lis Nec valere rationem in hac Confessione usurpatam Nempè quia omnes funt aequè Ministri Christi Nam septuaginta Discipuli erant Ministri Christi aequè ac Apostoli non tamen inde Apostolis aequales omnes omnino homines sunt aequè homines non inde tamen homo homini non debet subesse Haec non ad harum Ecclesiarum â—ssensionem sed ad nostrae Anglicanae defensionem sese monuisse professus est Br tannorum interpellationi responsum ne gru quidem Not withstanding in the mean time he briefly gave his advice concerning Discipline That the parity of Ministers never prevailed in the Church no not in the time of Christ himself for then the twelve Apostles were superiour to the Disciples not in the time of the Apostles nor in the ages after them Nor is that reason of any force alledged in their Confession namely Because all are equally the Ministers of Christ For even the seventy Disciples were equally Ministers of Christ with the Apostles and yet it follows not thence they were equal with the Apostles and all men altogether are equally men yet thence it cannot be inferred that one man ought not to be subject to another There things he professed himself to have hinted not to offend these Churches therewith but to defend their own Church of England To this interpellation of the British Divines nothing at all was answered Hereby the equal Reader may judge how candidly Master Montague in his Appeal dealeth with our English Divines charging o Appeal p. 70. them That the Discipline of the Church of England is in this Synod held unlawfull And again p Appeal p. 108. The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth upon the by even the Discipline of the Church of England But let such as desire farther satisfaction herein peruse the joynt Attestation which those English Divines set forth Anno 1626. to justifie their proceedings herein 2. On the 29 of April the Synod ended The states to expresse their gratitude April 29. bestowed on the English Divines at their departure Two hundred pounds The States bounty to the British Divines to bear their charges in their return besides a golden Medall of good value was given to every one of them wherein the sitting of the Synod was artificially represented And now these Divines who for many moneth
pained Him not no not when He was troubled with the gout this cunning Don being able to please Him in His greatest passion And although the Match was never effected yet Gondomar whilst negotiating the same in favour to the Catholick cause procured of His MAJESTY the enlargement of all Priests and Jesuits through the English Dominions 23. The actions of Princes are subject to be censured A malicious Comment on a mercifull Text. even of such people who reap the greatest benefit thereby as here it came to passe These Jesuits when at liberty did not gratefully ascribe their freedome to His MAJETIE's mercy but onely to His willingnesse to rid and clear His gaoles over-pestered with prisoners As if His Majestie if so minded could not have made the gallows the besome to sweep the gaole and as easily have sent these prisoners from Newgate up westward by land as over Southward by Sea What moved King JAMES to this lenity at this time I neither doe know nor will enquire Surely such as sit at the stern and hold the helm can render a reason why they steer to this or that point of the compasse though they give not to every mariner much lesse passenger in the ship an account thereof I being onely by my place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a rower or minister in the vessel content my self in silence with the will of the Master thereof But let us exemplifie the Lord Keeper's Letter to this purpose To the Judges AFter my hearty commendations to you His Majesty having resolved out of deep Reasons of State and in expectation of the like correspondence from forraign Princes to the profession of our Religion to grant some grace and connivency to the imprisoned Papists of this Kingdome hath commanded me to passe some Writs under the Broad Seal to this purpose Requiring the Judges of every Circuit to enlarge the said Prisoners according to the tenour and effect of the same I am to give you to understand from His Majesty how His Majesties Royal pleasure is that upon receipt of these Writs you shall make no nicenesse or difficulty to extend that His Princely favour to all such Papists as you shall finde Prisoners in the Gaols of your Circuits for any Church Recusancy whatsoever or refusing the Oath of Supremacy or dispersing Popish Books or hearing saying of Masse or any other point of Recusancie which doth touch or concern Religion only and not matters of State And so I bid you farewell Westminster-Colledge August 2. 1622. Your loving friend John Lincolne Now although one will easily believe many Priests and Jesuits were set at liberty Yet surely that p Mr. Prâ—â— in loc Gentleman is no true accomptant if affirming to fewer than four thousand to be set free at this time Especially considering that q Jo Gee in his Foot out of the snare one who undertakes to give in a perfect list of all the Jesuits in England and is since conceived rather to asperse some Protestants than conceal any Papists cannot mount their number higher than two hundred twenty and five To which if such whom he detects for Popish Physicians with all those whom he accuses for Popish Books be cast in they will not make up the tithe of four thousand 24. However Bitter Complements betwixt Gondomar and the Earl of Oxford most distastful was Gondomar ' s greatnesse to the English antient Nobility who manifested the same as occasion was offered as by this one instance may appear Henry Vere Earle of Oxford chanced to meet with Count Gondomar at a great entertainment The Don accosted him with high Complements vowing That amongst all the Nobility of England there was none he had tendred his service with more sincerity than to his Lordship though hitherto such his unhappiness that his affections were not accepted according to his integrity who tendred them It seems replied the Earle of Oxford that your Lordship had good leisure when stooping in your thoughts to one so inconsiderable as my self whose whole life hath afforded but two things memorable therein It is your Lordships modesty returned Gondomar to undervalue your self whilst we the spectators of your Honours deserts make a true and unpartiall estimate therof Hundreds of Memorables have met in your Lordships life But good my Lord what are those Two signall things more conspicuous than all the rest They are these two said the Earl I was Born in the Eighty Eight and Christned on the Fift of November 25. Henry Copinger Dec. 21. The death of Master Henry Câ—pinger formerly Fellow of S. John's Coll in Cambridge Prebendary of Yorke once Chaplain to Ambrose Earl of Warwick whose funeral Sermon he preached made Master of Magdalene Colledge in Cambridge by Her MAJESTIES Mandate though afterwards Resigning his Right at the Queens shall I call it request to prevent trouble ended his religious life He was the sixth Son of Henry Copinger of Bucks-Hall in Suffolke Esquire by Agnes Daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn His Father on his death-bed asking him what course of life be would embrace He answered he intended to be a Divine I like it well said the old Gentleman otherwise what shall I say to Martin Luther when I shall see him in heaven and he knows that GOD gave me eleven Sons and I made not one of them a Minister An expression proportionable enough to Luther's judgement who r Pantalcon de Illustribus Germaniae in Vitae Lutheri p. 82. maintained some houres before his death That the Saints in heaven shall knowingly converse one with another 26. Laneham Living fell void A free Patrone and faithfull Incumbent well met which both deserved a good Minister being a rich Parsonage and needed one it being more than suspicious that Dr. Reinolds late Incumbent who ran away to Rome had left some superstitious leaven behinde him The Earl of Oxford being Patrone presents Mr. Copinger to it but adding withall That he would pay no Tithes of his Park being almost half the land of the Parish Copinger desired to resigne it again to his Lordship rather than by such sinfull gratitude to betray the Rights of the Church Well! if you be of that minde then take the Tithes saith the Earl I scorn that my Estate should swell with Church-goods However it afterwards cost Master Copinger Sixteen hundred pounds in keeping his questioned and recovering his detained rights in suit with the Agent for the next minor E. of Oxford and others all which he left to his Churches quiet possession being zealous in Gods cause but remisse in his own 27. He lived forty and five years the painfull Parson of Laneham His long and good life in which Market-Town there were about nine hundred Communicants amongst whom all his time no difference did arise which he did not compound He had a bountiful hand plentiful purse his paternal inheritance by death of elder Brothers and others transactions descending upon him bequeathing Twenty pounds
he presented a list of all the Prebendaries of that Church referring the election to his Majesty himself who made choise of Dr. Laud Bishop of Saint Davids for that attendance 18. Dr. Senhouse Feb 2. The Coronation Sermon Bishop of Carlile Chaplain to the King when Prince preached at the Coronation his text And I will give unto thee a Crown of life In some sort it may be said that he preached his own funerall dying shortly after and even then the black Jaundice had so possessed him a disease which hangs the face with mourning as against its buriall that all despaired of his recovery Now seeing this Coronation cometh within if not the pales and Park the purlews of Ecclesiastical Historie we will present so much thereof as was acted in the Church of Westminster Let Heraulds marshall the solemnitie of their advance from Westminster-Hall to this Church The solemn advance to the Church Anno Dom. 1625-2â— Anno Regis Car. 1. 1 where our pen takes the first possession of this subject 19. But first we will premise the equipage according to which they advanced from Westminster-Hall to the Abbey-Church in order as followeth 1. The Aldermen of London two by two ushered by an Herauld 2. Eightie Knights of the Bath in their Robes each having an Esquire to support and Page to attend him 3. The Kings Serjeants at Law Solicitour Atturney Masters of Request and Judges 4. Privie-Counsellors that were Knights and chief Officers of the Kings Houshold 5. Barons of the Kingdome all bare-headed in their Parliament-Robes with swords by their sides 6. The Bishops with Scarlet-gowns and Lawn-sleeves bare-headed 7. The Vice-Counts and Earles not in their Parliament but in their Coronation-Robes with Coronetted-Caps on their Heads 8. The Officers of State for the day whereof these are the principall Sr. Richard Winn. Sr. George Goreing The Lord Privie-Seal The Archbishop of Canterbury The Earl of Dorset carrying The first Sword naked The Earl of Essex The second The Earl of Kent The third The Earl of Montgomerie The Spurs The Earl of Sussex The Globe and Crosse upon it The Bishop of London The Golden Cup for the Communion The Bishop of Winchester The Golden Plate The Earl of Rutland The Scepter The Marquesse Hammilton The Sword of State naked The Earl of Pembroke The Crown The Lord Maior in a crimson Velvet gown carried a short Scepter before the King amongst the Serjeants But I am not satisfied in the criticalness of his place The Earl of Arundel as Earl-Marshall of England and the Duke of Buckingham as Lord High-Constable of England for that day went before his Majestity in this great solemnity 20. The King entred at the West-gate of the Church The manner of the Kings Coronation under a rich Canopy carried by the Barons of the Cinque-Ports his own person being supported by Dr. Neyle Bishop of Durham on the one hand and Dr. Lake Bishop of Bath and Wells on the other His train being six yards long of purple Velvet was held up by the Lord Compton as belonging to the Robes and the Lord Viscount Dorcester Here he was met by the Prebends of Westminster Bishop Laud supplying the Dean his place in their rich Copes who delivered into his Majesties hand the Staff of King Edward the Confessor with which he walked upto the Scaffold 21. This was made of wood at the upper end of the Church The fashion of the Scaffold from the Quire to the Altar His Majesty mounted it none under the degree of a Baron standing thereon save only the Prebends of Westminster who attended on the Altar three Chaires were appointed for him in severall places one of Repose the second the ancient Chair of Coronation and the third placed on an high square of five Staires ascent being the Chair of State 22. All being settled and reposed The King presented and accepted by the People the Lord Archbishop did present his Majesty to the Lords and Commons East West North South asking their minds four severall times if they did consent to the Coronation of King Charles their lawfull Soveraign The King mean time presented himself bare-headed Anno Regis Car. 1. 1. Anno Dom. 1623-26 the consent being given four times with great acclamation the King took his Chaire of repose 23. After the Sermon whereof before the L. Archbishop Sworn and annointed invested in a rich Coape tendered to the King kneeling down on cushions at the Communion-Table a large Oath then were his Majesties Robes taken off him and were offered on the Altar He stood for a while stripped to his Doublet and Hose which were of white Satten with Ribbons on the Armes and Shoulders to open them and he appeared a proper Person to all that beheld him Then was he led by the L. Archbishop and the Bishop of St. Davids and placed in the Chaire of Coronation a close Canopie being spread over him the L. Archbishop anointing his head shoulders armes and hands with a costly ointment the Quire singing an Antheme of these words Zadok the Priest anointed King Solomon 24. Hence the King was led up in his Doublet and Hose with a white Coyfe on his head to the Communion Table Solemnly Crowned where Bishop Laud Deputy for the Dean of Westminster brought forth the ancient Habiliments of King Edward the Confessour and put them upon him Then was his Majestie brought back to the Chaire of Coronation and received the Crown of King Edward presented by Bishop Laud and put on his head by the Archbishop of Canterburie The Quire singing an Antheme Thou shalt put a Crown of pure Gold upon his head Whereupon the Earles and Viscounts put on their Crimson Velvet Caps with Coronets about them the Barons and Bishops alwayes standing bare headed Then every Bishop came severally to his Majesty to bring his benediction upon him and he in King Edwards Robes with the Crown upon his head rose from his Chaire and did bow severally to every Bishop apart 25. Then was King Edwards Sword girt about him And giâ—t with several Swords which he took off again and offered up at the Communion Table with two Swords more surely not in relation to Scotland and Ireland but to some ancient Principalities his Predecessors enjoyed in France Then the Duke of Buckingam as Master of the Horse put on his Spurres and thus completely crowned his Majesty offered first Gold then Silver at the Altar and afterwards Bread and Wine which were to be used at the holy Communion 26. Then was his Majesty conducted by the Nobility to the Throne upon that square Bâ—fs of five ascents Homage done by the Nobility to his Majestys the Quire singing Te deum Here his Majesty took an Oath of homage from the Duke of Buckingam as Lord high Constable for that day and the Duke did sweare all the Nobilitie besides to be Homagers to his Majestie at his Majesties knees 27. Then as
The Bishop of Lincoln fell now through the Dukes The Bishop of Lincoln loseth his Keepers place into the Kings displeasure and such who will read the late letters in the Cabala may conjecture the cause thereof but the certainty we leave to be reported by the Historians of the State belonging in his Episcopall capacity to my pen but as Lord Keeper properly to theirs 38. The Bishop finding his own tottering condition The Duke incensed against him addressed himself to all who had intimacie with the Duke to reingratiate himself But such After-games at Court seldome succeed All would not doe for as Amicus omnium optimus was part of the Dukes Epitaph * On his Tomb in Westminster Chappell so no fiercer foe when displeased and nothing under the Bishops removall from his office would give him satisfaction 39. Sir John Suckling was sent unto him from the King The Bishops wariness in resigning the Seale to demand the broad Seale of him which the cautious Bishop refused to surrender into his hands to prevent such uses as might be made thereof by him or others in the intervall betwixt this resigning it and the Kings conferring it on another but he charily locked it up in a Box and sent the Box by the Knight and Key thereof inclosed in a letter to his Majesty 40. However his bruise was the less But keeps his Bishoprick because he fell but from the first Loft and saved himself on the second Floere Outed his Lord Keepership but keeping his Bishoprick of Lincoln and Deanarie of Westminster though forced to part with the Kings Purse he held his owne and that well replenished And now he is retired to Bugden-great where whither greater his anger at his enemies for what he had lost or gratitude to God for what he had left though others may conjecture his owne Conscience only could decide Here we leave him at his hospitable Table where sometimes he talked so loud that his discourse at the second hand was heard to London by those who bare no good will unto him 41. An old Hall turned into a new Colledge A new Colledge of an old Hall in Oxford was this yeare finished at Oxford This formerly was called Broadegates Hall and had many Students therein amongst whom Edmund Bonner afterwards Bishop of London Scholar enough and Tyrant too much had his education But this place was not endowed with any Revenues till about this time for Thomas Tisdale of Glimpton in the County of Oxford Esquire bequeathed five thousand Pounds wherewith Lands were purchased to the value of two hundred and fiftie pounds per annum Anno Dom 16â—â— Anno Regis Caroli 1 for the maintenance of seven Fellowes and six Scholars Afterwards Richard Wightwick Bachelor of Divinity Rector of East-Isle in Barkshire gave Lands to the yearly value of one hundred pounds for the maintenance of three Fellowes and four Scholars whereupon petition being made to King James this new Colledge was erected and a Charter of Mortmain of seven hundred pounds per annum granted thereunto 42. It was called Pembrook Colledge Called Pembrook Colledge partly in respect to William Earle of Pembrook then Chancellor of the University partly in expectation to receive some favour from him And probably had not that noble Lord died suddenly soon after this Colledge might have received more than a bare Name from him The best where a Child hath rich parents it needeth the less any gifts from the Godfather Masters Benefactors Bishops Learned Writers 1 Dr. Clayton 2 Dr. Langley King Charles who gave the Patronage of St. Aldates the Church adjoyning   So that this Colledge consisteth of a Master ten Fellowes and ten Scholars with other Students and Officers to the number of one hundred sixty nine 43. The Doctor and the Duke were both of them unwilling to an openbreach loved for to temporise and wait upon events Surely Temperise here is taken in the Apostle sense according to some * Dr. Prestons Life p 505. * Rom. 12. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ambiosius copies serving the Times And henceforwards the Duke resolved to shake off the Doctor who would not stick close unto him betaking himself to the opposite Interest Nor was the other surprized herein as expecting the alteration long before 44. By the late conferences at York-house it appeared Dr. Preston declines in the Dukes favour that by the Dukes cold carriage towards him and smiling on his Opponents Dr. Preston was now entring into the Autumn of the Dukes favour Indeed they were well met each observing neither trusting other as I read in the Doctors Life written by his judicious Pupil 45. This year concluded the life of Arthur Lakes The death of godly Bishop Lakes Warden of New-Colledge in Oxford Master of St. Crosses Dean of Worcester and at last promoted Bishop of Bath and Wells not so much by the power of his Brother Sir Thomas Secretarie to King James as his own desert as one whose piety may be justly exemplary to all of his Order He seldom if at all is said to have dreamt justly imputed not to the dulness of his fancie in which faculty he had no defect but to the staidness of his judgment wherein he did much excell as by his learned Sermons doth appear 46. About the sametime Lancelot Andrews ended his religious life The death and character of Bishop Andrews born at Alhollows-Barking in London Scholar Fellow and Master of Pembrook-Hall in Cambridge Then Deane of Westminster Bishop of Chicester Ely and at last of Winchester The world wanted learning to know how learned this Man was so skil'd in all especially oriental Languages that some conceive he might if then living almost have served as an INTERPRETER GENERALL at the confusion of Tongues Nor are the Fathers more faithfully cited in his books than lively copied out in his countenance and carriage his gravity in a manner awing King James who refrained from that mirth and liberty in the presence of this Prelate which otherwise he assumed to himself He lyeth buried in the Chappell of St. Mary Overees having on his Monument a large elegant a Stows Survay of London pag. and TRUE Epitaph 47. Since his death some have unjustly snarld at his memory accusing him for covetousness Anno Regis Car. 1. 2. Anno Dom 1626 Unjustly accused for Covetousness who was neither rapax to get by unjust courses as a profest enemy to usury simony and bribery nor tenax to hold money when just occasion called for it for in his life time he repaired all places he lived in and at his death left the main of his Estate to pious uses Indeed he was wont to say that Good Husbandry was good Divinity the truth whereof no wise man will deny 48. Another falls foully upon him for the ornaments of his Chappel as Popish and superstitious And Superstition in the b
this Col. John Whitgift Arch. of Canterbury Fellow Walter Curle Bishop of Winchester Fellow Matth. Wren Master of this Coll. Bishop of Ely Roger Marshal well skild in Mathematicks whereof saith Pitz in his Appendix he wrote many Books and collected more which he gave to the Library d Bale Cent. nonae p. 721. George Joye who flourished annò 1547 translated part of the Bible Edw. Simmons who wrote many good Treatises 1547 1 Cherry-Hinton Vicaridge in Ely Diocess valued in the Kings Books at 9 l. 14 s. 6 d. 2 Ellington in the Diocess of Lincoln a Vicatidge valued at 6 l. 9 s. 3 Triplow Vic. in Ely Diocess valued 9 l. 4s 2d 4 St. Maries the less in Cambridge valued 0l 0s 0d 5 Statberne Rec. in Lincoln Dioc. valued 16l 3s The Reader wil pardon the shortness of this out catalogue of Masters not touching the top of the foundation by fifty yeers which looks like the blunt Tower of a Steeple whose spire or shaft hath been burnt down with lightning or broken with thunder as indeed some such casualty hath caused this imperfection For in the year 1420 a sad fire consumed the muniments of this Colledge which caused Caius to begin his list of Masters but at Thomas de castro Bernardi and the six Seniors before him are recovered by the care of Mr. R. e In his Scelatos Cantabrigiensis M S. Parker out of Ely-Records Yet this catalogue stil remaineth incomplete O that it were as easy to rectify as reprove faults guilty I am afraid not onely of transposition in the order but omission in the number thereof For I have * Maâ—â—script in 10. read that John Botsham was admitted Master 14 yet he appears not in Caius or any other printed Author 29. Amongst the Benefactors many who onely gave plate smal summs A generall rule about our catalogue of Benefactors and books are for Brevity sake omitted and not any slighting of their bounty for the smalness thereof For if our Saviour beheld the Widow as the best benefactor to the Corban who endowed it only with two mites and if a cup of cold water warm comfort to a thirsty Soul shall receive its reward surely such as give the cup also deserve their due commendation and shall have a requiral thereof Anno Dom. 1282 I have ordered some blank lines at the end of that Catalogue Anno Regis Edw 1. 11 as a reserve to register the bounty of posterity which shall not complain that they are paper bound in my book where room on purpose is left to enter their names who shall be charitably disposed I hope also that those void intervals and spaces in the List of Learned Writers which as so many open mouths invoke the industry of the Reader wil have their emptiness filled by several mens observations whose pens may at their leasure supply what the Press hath left unperfect 30. Know also I could have more particularly specified the value and place of Founders and Benefactors bounty what land they gave Cautela non nocet how much worth where lying but thought better to forbear as ignorant in these dangerous dayes what ill use might be made of my well intended endeavours 31. Condemn not our Tautology if the same Bishop often recur in several Colledges Repetition of Bishops why necessary perchance Scholar of one Fellow of another Master of a third because rather than I would wrong any House with the omission I would right them all with the repetition of the same person Such Bishops as passed through many Seas successively are for shortness entitled only from the last and highest dignity 32. To return to Peter-house A commendable custome of this Colledge I cannot but commend one peculiar practise of this Colledge which in their Parlour preserveth the Pictures of all their principall Benefactors For although the bounty of the Judicious is grounded on more solid motives than to be flattered thereinto by the fancy that their Effigies shall be kept yet such an ingenuous Memoriall may be an encouragement to a Patrons Liberality Besides under such Pictures a Distich commonly is written and I will instance in one of the latest date Haeredem voluit SLADUS conscribere PETRUM Clauderet extremum ne sine prole diem SLADE PETER chose and for his Heir assign'd him Lest he should die and leave no Child behinde him At this day the Colledge maintaineth one Master nineteen Fellowes twenty nine Bible-clerks eight poor Scholars besides other officers and Students amounting lately viz. anno 1634 to an hundred and six 33. We Cambridge men behold this Colledge as the first foundation endowed in England The eldest English endowed Colledge which our corrivals at Oxford wil not allow For I finde it inscribed in Rotchester Church on the monument of Walter de Merton that the Colledge by him founded and named is the example of all in that kinde t Britannia page 381. M r Gamden in his description of Oxford affirmeth that Ballol and Merton Colledges therein are the two first endowed for Students in Christendome And some alledge that Merton Colledge must needs be the Mother and Peter house but the Daughter because Spâ—on de Montagu Bishop of Ely did prescribe the Statutes of Merton to be observed by the Students of Peter-house 34. All this scarce moveth Exception to the contrary answered nothing removeth us from our former Opinion being almost as confident of the Seniority of Peter-house before all other Colledges as Romanists are of the Priority of St. Peter before the rest of the Apostles And first as for the inscription in Rotchester both it and Mertons Monument are modern as set up by S t Henery Savil anno 1598. That passage of the great Antiquary is only extant in the English translation not Latin Britannia and so may justly seem to have more of Philemon Holland than William Caâ—den therein It is confest that Simon Montagu the 17 Bishop of Ely more then sixty yeares after Balshaâ—s death Anno Regis Edw. 1. enjoyned our Petreans the observation of Merton Colledge Statutes Anno Dom. finding them more convenient than such which their Founder had left them But this makes nothing to the matter of most antiquity the point in controversy In requitall of this eurresie if Cambridge hath ought the imitation whereof may be acceptable to Oxford she is right glad for the welcome occasion as lately Oxford in choise of her Procters hath conformed herself to Cambridge custome by way of a Circular Combination of Colledges as a Course most quiet and freest from faction 35. The Crisis of the Controversie depends p The truth unpartially slated if I mistake not on the clearing of the different dates of Peter-house its foundation and comparing it with others Peter-house first founded 1257. the 41 of Hen. the third by Sub prior Hugh Balsham Peter house first endowed 1282 the 11 of Edw. the first by Hughâ—â— Balsham
born at Calis was a great Critick in the Latin and Greek Tongue very familiar with Drusius who wrote a Letter to him subscribed Manibus Johannis Copcot to the Ghost of John Capcot so much was the Doctor macerated with his constant studying 14. We must not forget how in the beginning of the reformation some took exceptions at the ancient Armes of this Colledge as Superstitious The Colledge Armes why altered and therefore at the desire of Matthew Parker the Heraulds did alter them and assigned new ones viz. azure a Pelican on her nest over her young ones Argent * I aime more at plainness than Terms of Heraldry pecking out her own blood Guttee proper Gules three Lilies argent and thus a Poet commented on them Signat Avis Christum qui sanguine pascit alumnos Lilia virgo parens intemerata refert So that still they innocently relate to the ancient Guildes of Corpus Christi and the Virgin Mary united in this foundation 15. So much of this Colledge 22 the ancient history out of the archives whereof 1347 my good friend M r. Crofts Fellow of the same Where I had my Instructions of this Colledge lately gone to God communicated unto me with the courteous consent of D r. Rich. Love the worthy Master of this Colledge Yea I must thankfully confesse my self once a Member at large of this House when they were pleased above twenty years since freely without my thoughts thereof to choose me Minister of S t. Benedicts Church the Parish adjoyning in their Patronage 16. Two years after was Trinitie Hall begun A Bank and a Lank of Charitie I confesse building of Colledges goeth not by Planets but by Providence yet it is observable that now we had FOUR founded within the compasse of SEVEN years Pembroke Hall Bennet Colledge already past Trinitie Hall Gonvill immediately following Thus as the Zeale of Achaia provoked many 2 Cor. 9. 2. so here when one once brake the Ice many followed the same beaten track of Charity Whereas on the other side when mens hands begin to be out of giving it is a long time before they recover the right stroke again After this feast followed a famine for it was almost a hundred yeers betwixt the founding of Gonvill Hall and the next which was Kings Colledge Though Charity in the interval may be presumed not to stand still but to move not in the generation of New but augmentation of Old foundations 17. Now Trinity Hall was built by WILLIAM BATEMAN William Bateman foundeth Trinitie Hall born in the City of Norwich and became to be Episcopus in patria afterwards Bishop in the place of his nativitie He was one of a very stout spirit and very well skilled in Civill and Canon Law and we may presume the Common Law too because a Norfolke man therefore imployed by the King to the Pope in which embassie he died in Avenion The place whereon he built this his Hall belonged formerly to the Monks of Ely John de Crawden their Prior purchasing and other Benefactors inlarging the same So that it was a house for Students before Bishop Bateman and by the exchange for the advowfances of certain Rectories procured it into his own possession He appointed by his foundation only one Master two Fellowes and three Scholars all of them to be Students of the Canon and Civill Law Allowing one Divine to be amongst them Whose number and maintenance have since been much increased by other Benefactors Anno Dom. 1347 Anno Regis Edw. 3. 20 Masters Benefactors Bishops Learn Writers Coll. Livings 1 Adam de Wichmere 2 Robert Braunch 3 Simon Dallinge 4 Simon Thornton 5 Will. Dallinge 6 Edw. Shuldham 7 John Wright 8 Walter Huke 9 Robert Larke 10 Steph. Gardiner 11 Willi. Mouse 12 Hen. Harvey 13 John Preston 14 John Cowell 15 Clemens Corbet 16 Tho. Eden 17 D r. Bonde 1 M r. Simon Dallinge 2 Walter Huke 3 Robert Goodnap 4 John Maptid 5 Gabriel Dun. 6 Richard Nix Bishop of Norwich 7 Steph. Gardiner 8 Mat. Parker 9 D r. Mouse 10. D r. Harvey 11 M r. Busbie 12 Mr. Hare Esquire 13 Dr. Cowell 14 Sr. George Newman Knight 1 Marmaduke Lumley Bish of Lincoln 2 Steph. Gardiner Bish of Winchester 3 Rich. Sampson Bish of Coventry and Leich 4 Willi. Barlow Bish of Lincoln 1 Steph. Gardiner Lord Chancellor of England 2 Walter Haddon Master of requests to Q. Eliz. 3 John Cowell famous for his Interpreter other Learned works Fenstanton V. in Linc. Dioc. valued at 11. l. 11 s. 4 d. q. Stoukley V. in Linc. Dioc. valued at 6 l. 14 s. 2 d. Hemingford V. in Lin. Dioc. valued at 9 l. 16 s. 10 d. Wetchetsfield V. in Lon. Dioc. valued at 12 l. Swanington R. in Nor. valued at 6 l 11 s. 5 d. ob Gaysley V. in Norvic Dioc. valued at 7 l. 3 s. 4 d. St. Ed. Cant. Elien Woodalling V. in Nor. Dioc. valued at 8 l. 8 s. 3 d. So there are at this present viz. anno 1634. one Master twelve Fellowes fourteen Scholars besides Officers and Servants of the foundation with other Students the whole number being threescore 18. I am loath to discompose the Catalogue of Masters warranted both by D r. Caius The Masters Catalogue might be amended and M r. Parker Otherwise might I insert my own observations After Robert Branch I would nominate Henry Wells M r. of Arts and next to him Marmaduke Lumley I would also after Stephen Gardiner place Walter Haddon for one year in the reign of King Edward the sixth and after him D r. Mouse in the same Kings reign then Gardiner again in the first of Queen Mary and Mouse again after Gardiners death submitting all to the censure of those in that foundation as best read in their own Records 19. Henry Harvey the twelvth Master of this Hall was he who out of a pious intent as we are bound to believe A pious designe because profitable to others with great expence did make a Cawsed-way on the South and other sides of Cambridge for the more convenience of passengers in those Dirty-wayes So that his bounty have made Summer unto them in the depth of Winter allowing a large annuall revenue for the maintenance thereof 20. Here I cannot forbear one passage which I may call a serious jest which happened on this occasion A noble Person but great Anti-Academick met D r. Harvey one morning overseeing his workmen A bitter retort and bitterly reflecting on his causlesly suspected inclinations to Popery Doctour said he you think that this Cawsed way is the high way to Heaven To whom the other as tartly replied Not so Sir For then I should not have met you in this place 21. We must not forget that when Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury made his metropoliticall visitation at Cambridge A dispensation for increase of Commons about sixty years after the first founding of the house on
At praeter hanc communem cum aliis Felicitatem mihi peculiaris Honor obtigit quem idem Cubiculum tibi sociavit Notissimum enim illud Noscitur è Socio unde spero futurum ut Obscuritas mea inter Collegas beneficio Contubernii tui tanquam notabili Indice apud Posteros illustrabitur Richard Rilling field Chancellour 1. OVer into England about this time first came the Mystery of Printing 1400 Henrici 4. 2 but when first brought to Cambridge The large Priviledge of Cambridge for printing it is uncertain Onely I hope I may without Offence report what I have read in the Oracle of our a Sir Edward Coke 4. part of his Instit. of the Iurisdict of Courts pag. 228. much improved the rein English Law This Vniversity of Cambridge hath power to print within the same omnes and omnimodos Libros which the Vniversity of Oxford hath not 2. True it is it was a great while before Cambridge could find out the right knack of Printing and therefore they preferred to employ Londoners therein Thus I find a book of Robert Alyntons called Sophistica principia printed at London by VVynand de VVord Anno Regis Henrici 4. 2 Anno Dom. 1400 ad usum Cantabrigiensem Anno 1510. But some seven yeares after one Sibert Vniversity-Printer improved that Mystery to good Perfection fairly a 〈◊〉 Hist Cant. Acad. lib. 2. p. 127. setting forth the Book of Erasmus deconscribendis Epistolis the Authour then living in Cambridge who may be presumed curious in the Impression of his Works In the next Age Thomas Thomatius Fellow of Kings and Cambridge-Printer known by the Dictionary of his name heightened Printing to higher degree since exactly compleated by his Successours in that Office witnesse the Cambridge Bible of which none exacter or truer Edition in England 3. This yeare the Vniversity was visited Thomas Arundel 3 Augu. 18 1401 Arch-bishop of Canterbury The University visited by the Archbishop of Canterburie the first and last of his place personally appearing in that Imployment We are therefore concerned to be the more punctuall in relating all Passages and begin with his letter of Citation sent to the Chancellour being Richard de Billingford Master of Corpus Christi Colledge though none particularly named b b Prima pars Thom. Arundell fol. 492. THomas permissione c. dilecto Filio Cancellario Universitatis Cantabrigiae The Archbishop his Mandate to the Chancellour Eliensis Dioeceseos nostraeque Provinciae Cantuariensis Salutem c. Quia nos in progressu Visitationis nostrae Metropoliticae in dicta Dioecesi exercendae Vos dictam Universitatem annuente Domino proponimus visitare Vos tenore praesentium peremptorie citamus per vos omnes singulos Doctores Magistros Regentes alias Personas quascunque praedictae Universitatis qui nostrae Visitationi hujusmodi interesse tenentur de consuetudine vel de jure citari volumus mandamus quod compareatis vel compareant coram nobis in domo Congregationis Universitatis praedictae decimo septimo die mensis Septembris proximi futuri cum continuatione prorogatione dierum tunc sequentium Visitationem nostram hujusmodi juxta juris exigentiam subituri facturique ulterius recepturi quod Canonicis convenit Institutis Et quid seceritis in praemissis nos dictis die loco debite certificetis per literas vestras patentes hunc tenorem una cum nominibus cognominibus omnium singulorum per vos in hac parte citatorum in Schedula eisdem literis vestris annectenda descriptis habentes sigillo vestro consignatas Datum in Manerio nostro de Lambeth decimo octavo die Mensis Augusti Anno Dom. 1401. nostrae translationis Anno quinto Concordat cum Originali ROBERT BLEWET Notarius Publicus 4. The same day severall letters were sent Another to every Colledge one to every particular Colledge as appeareth by the following Copy directed to Trinity Hall singled out it seemeth by it self whose Master a Canonist was presumed most knowing in such legall proceedings which onely remaineth in the Register THomas c. Anno Dom. 1401 Anno Regis Henrici 4. 3 Aug. 18 in Christo Filio Gardiano sive Custodi Collegii Sanctae Trinitatis Cantabrigiae Eliensis Dioeceseos nostrae Cantâ—ariensis Provinciae Salutem c. Quia nos in progressu Visitationis nostrae Metropoliticae praedictae Dioeceseos Vos Collegium vestrum in personis rebus annuente Domino visitare intendimus tenore praesentium peremptorie vos citamus per vos omnes singulos Consocios Scholares praedicti Collegii citare volumus mandamus quod compareatis compareant coram nobis aut Commissariis nostris in Capella sive domo Capitulari praedicti Collegii decimo septimo die mensis Septembris proxime futuri cum continuatione prorogatione dierum tunc sequentium Visitationem hanc juxta juris exigentiam subituri ulteriusque facturi recepturi quod Canonicis convenit institutis Et quid feceritis in praemissis nos aut Commissarios hujusmodi dictis die loco debite certificetis per vestras literas patentes hunc tenorem una cum nominibus cognominibus omnium singulorum Sociorum Scholarium per vos in hac parte citatorum in Schedula eisdem literis annectenda descriptis habentes Datum in Manerio nostro de Lambeth decimo octavo die Mensis Augusti Anno Domini 1401. nostrae translationis Anno quinto Concordat cum Originali ROBERT BLEWET Notarius Publicus 5. It plainly appears A mistake in the printed date this Visitation was kept 1401. by the expressed Date thereof If this may not be believed Figures being subject to mistake of it self it is confirmed with the Coincidence of Arundel's fifth year therein This maketh me to believe my own Eyes and a Notary's Hand with the consent of Chronology before the forrein Edition of a Printed at Hanaw 1605. British Antiquities setting this Visitation later by four years viz. 1409. 6. A word of the Occasion of this Visitation The occasion of this visitation VVilliam Courtney Arundel's Predecessour some years since had visited the Vniversity of Oxford tam in b Ant. Brit. sed in vita Tho. Arundel pag. 271. Capite quam in Membris Now that Cambridge should neither be elated that it was above the Arch-bishops Power nor dejected that it was beneath his Care but preserved in the same moderate temper with her Sister Oxford Arundel now resolved to visit the same The rather because suspecting some VVicklivists his professed Adversaries to lurk therein 7. At the time appointed The Archbishop comes in Pomp to Cambridge the Arch-bishop comes to Cambridge Sept. 16 in so stately an Equipage that he almost daunted the Beholders till the Students in Cambridge recovered themselves with a chearfull Consideration that none of them were excluded
Domini nostri Regis Anno vicesimo septimo 56. These Injunctions relate as Additionalls to former Injunctions of the Kings King Henry his injunctions to the University of Cambridge too tedious here to exemplifie But take the substance thereof 1. He beginneth with bemoaning the Barbarisme and Ignorance which so lately spread in the University protesting his desire to promote Piety and extirpate Heresy Superstition Idolatry c. 2. He exhorteth all the Members in the University to the embracing of Christs Doctrine in Spirit and Truth recommending M r. Cromwell their Chancellour to be their Visitour therein 3. He requires their renouncing all Obedience to the Pope of Rome and that his Royall Authority be received as supreme under God 4. He inciteth them to the studie of Tongues because sensum alicujus rei non potest ille assequi qui rudis est Idiomatis quo traditur 5. He enjoyneth them to found on the joynt Cost of all the Colledges two Lectures the one of Latine the other of Greek to be daily read and by consequence heard on great Penalties 6. That no Authours hereafter be publickly read who have written on the Master of the Sentences but that all Lectures be made on some part of the Scripture 7. That it should be permitted to all freely to read Gods Word in their private Studies repair to any publick place where the same is preached 8. That hereafter none in the University take any Degree in the Canon-Law 9. He did make void and abolish all Ceremonies and Observances which any wayes did hinder the Studie of Scholars or bonam valetudinem studio amicam 10. He ordered that the Youth to be educated in the Arts should read Aristotle Rodulphus Agricola Philip Melancthon Trapezuntius c. 11. He forbad the reading of the frivolous Questions and obscure Glosses of Scotus Burleus Anthony Trombet Bricot Bruliferius c. 12. He pronounceth all Statutes of the University or private Colledges void if repugnant to the Premises 13. That all Masters of Colledges be bound by their solemn Oath to the effectuall observation of these his Injunctions 14. Reserving alwayes to the aforesaid Thomas Cromwell their Chancellour and his Vicar-general or to his lawfull Surrogate in that kind full power to examine adde and alter any thing according to his Discretion confident of his care herein for the good of the Vniversity Observe by the way that at this instant the Vniversity of Cambridge was very full of Students as may appear by that Passage in the Kings Injunctions For he reckoneth up the severall Colledges ubi confluunt diversantur frequentant Scholares Studiosi ex omni Dioecesi qualibet parte hujus Regni nostri Angliae tam ex Wallia quam ex Hibernia So that it seemeth here was then an universall Confluence of Scholars from all parts of the Kings Dominions 57. Three dayes after Doctour Legh had set forth his Injunctions The submission of the Master and Fellows of Gonvil Hall to the Kings Injunctions the Colledges made their respective Submissions thereunto solemnly subscribing the same We assure our selves they used the same form for the Essentialls one Copy whereof we have here inserted that the rest may be measured thereby Invictissimo ac pientissimo in Christo Principi Domino nostro HENRICO OCTAVO Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Regi fidei Defensori Domino Hiberniae ac in terris supremo Ecclesiae Anglicanae sub Christo Capiti Vestri humiles Subditi devotissimi Oratores WILLIELMUS BUCKENHAM M r. sive custos Collegii dicti Gonvil Hall CANTABRIG ejusdem Loci socii reverentiam obedientiam tam excellenti prepotenti principi debitas condignas cum omni subjectione honore NOverit Majestas vestra regia quod nos Magister socii predicti non viaut metu coacti dolove aut aliqua alia sinistra machinatione ad hec inducti sive seducti sed ex nostris certis scientiis animis deliberatis merisque spontaneis Voluntatibus pure sponte absolute in verbo Sacerdotii profitemur spondemus ac ad sancta Dei Evangelia per nos corporaliter tacta juramus vestrae illustrissimae Regiae Majestati singulari ac summo Domino nostro patrono Henrico Octavo Deigratia Angliae Franciae Regi fidei Defensori Domino Hiberniae ac in terris Ecclesiae Anglicanae Supremo immediate sub Christo Capiti quod posthac nulli externo Imperatori Regi Principi ant Prelato nec Romano Pontifici quem Papam vocant fidelitatem aut obedientiam verbo vel scripto simpliciter vel sub juramento promittemus aut dabimus vel dari curabimus sed omni tempore casu conditione partes vestrae Regiae Majestatis ac successorum vestrorum sequemur observabimus pro virili defendemus contra omnem hominem quem vestrae Majestati aut successoribus Vestris adversarium cognoscemus suspicabimur Solique vestrae Regiae Majestati velut supremo nostro principi Ecclesiae Anglicanae capiti ac successoribus vestris fidelitatem obedientiam sincere ex animo prestabinus Papatum Romanum non esse adeo in sacris Literis ordinatum profitemur sed humanitus traditum constanter assirmamus palam declaramus ac declarabimus ut alii sic publicent diligenter curabimus Nec tractatum cum quoqunque mortalium privatim aut publice inibimus aut Consentiemus quod Pontifex Romanus aliquam authoritatem jurisdictionem amplius hic habeat aut exerceat aut ad ullam posthac restituatur Episcopumque Romanum Episcopum modernum aut ejus in illo Episcopatu successorem quemcunque non Papam non summum Pontificem non universalem Episcopum nec sanctissimum Dominum sed solum Romanum Episcopum vel Pontificē ut priscis mos erat scienter publice asseremus Juraque statuta hujus regni pro extirpatione sublatione Papatus auctoritatis ac Jurisdictionis dicti Romani Episcopi quandocunque edita sive fancita edendaque sive sancienda pro viribus scientia ingeniolis nostris ipsi firmiter observabimus ab aliis sic observari quantum in nobis fuerit curabimus atque efficiemus nec posthac dictum Romanum Episcopum appellabimus aut appellanti consentiemus nec in ejus curia pro jure aut justitia agemus aut agenti respondebimus nec ibidem Accusatoris vel Rei personam sustinebimus si quid dictus Episcopus per nuncium vel per literas nobis significaverit qualecunque id fuerit illud quam citissime commode poterimus aut vestrae Regiae Majestati aut vestris à secretis Consiliariis significabimus aut significari faciemus nosque literas aut nuncium aut eundem Romanum Episcopum vel ejus Curiam nec mittemus nec mitti faciemus nisi vestra Majestate conscia consentiente aut vestro Successore quod dictae literae vel nuncius ad eum deferatur Bullas brevia
or change often avouched by noe other Authour then this Doctors Vnconstancy However let us not be over cruel to his memory for not suffering for his own who was so kind and carefull to keep other from suffering for their conscience Andrew Pern 1559 6◠Vice-Chan Barth Dodington George Fuller Proct. Tho. Ventris 2 Major Doct. Leg. 3 Medic. 1 Bac. Theol. 6 Mag. Art 25 Bac. Art 60 Henry Harvy Vice-Chanc Anthony Gilblington Iohn Cowell Proct. Roger Slegg 156 ◠◠Maj. 3 Doct. Leg. 1 Bac. Theol. 9 Mag. Art 31 Bac. Leg. 1 Mus 2 Art 53 Philip Baker 156 1 2 Vice-Chan VVilliam Master Georg Blithe Proct. Tho. Kymbold 4 Major Doct. Theol. 1 Leg. 2 Medic. 1 Bac. Theol. 8 Mag. Art 20 Bac. Leg. 3 Art 51 Francis Newton 156 2 3 Vice-Chan Andrew Oxenbridg Iohn Igulden Proct. Hen. Serle 5 Major Doct. Theol. 3 Leg. 1 Medic. 1 Bac. Theol. 4 Mag. Art 44 Bac. Leg. 7 Art 80 Edward Hauford 156 1 4 Vice-Cha Richard Curtesse Henry Woorley Proct. Rob. Cano 6 Major Doct. Theol. 12 Medic. 2 Bac. Theol. 4 Mag. Art 39 Bac. Leg. 2 Art 71 Robert Beaumont 156 4 5 Vice-Chanc Tho. Bing Barth Clark Proct. William Munsey 7 Maj. Doct. Theol. 1 Bac. Theol. 7 Mag. Art 27 Bac. Art 85 Now began a great difference in Trinity Colledge betwixt Doctor Beaumont Master thereof and some in that Society which hath its Influence at this day on the Church of England whereof hereafter SECT VII TO FRANCIS ASH OF LONDON Ann. Dom. 156 3 4. Esquire Ann. Reg. Eliz. 6. IT is the life of a Gift to be done in the life of the Giver farre better than funeral Legacies which like Benjamin are born by the losse of a Parent For it is not so kindly charity for men to give what they can keep no longer besides such donations are most subject to abuses Silver in the living Is Gold in the giving Gold in the dying Is but Silver a flying Gold and Silver in the dead Turn too often into Lead But you have made your own hands Executors and eyes Overseers so bountifull to a flourishing foundation in Cambridge that you are above the standard of a Benefactour Longer may you live for the glory of God and good of his servants QUeen Elizabeth Aug. 5. partly to ease Her self Queen Elizabeth comes to Cambridge with some recreation partly to honour and encourage Learning and Religion came to Cambridge where she remained five whole daies in the Lodgings of the Provost of Kings Colledge She was entertained with Comedies Tragedies Orations whereof one most eloquent made by William Masters the Publique Oratour disputations and other Academical Exercises She severally visited every House And at Her departure She took Her leave of Cambridge with this following Oration ET si foeminilis iste meus Pudor subditi fidelissimi Academia charissima in tanta doctorum turba illaboratum hunc Sermonem Orationem me narrare apud vos impediat Her Oration to the University tamen Nobilium meorum intercessus Ann. Dom. 1563-64 erga Academiam benevolentia me aliqua proferre invitat Ann. Regi Eliz. 6. Duobus ad hanc rem stimulis moveor Aug. 10. Primus est bonarum literarum Propagatio Alter est vestra omnium expectatio Quod ad propagationem spectat unum illud apud Demosthenem memini Superiorum verba apud inferiores Librorum locum habent Principum dicta legum Authoritatem apud subditos retinent Hoc igitur vos omnes in memoria tenere velim quod semita nulla praestantior est sive ad bona fortunae acquirenda sive ad Principum gratiam conciliandam quam graviter ut coepistis studiis vestris exhibeatis operam quod ut faciatis vos omnes oro obsecróque De secundo stimulo vestra nimirum expectatione hoc unum dico me nihil libenter praetermissuram esse quod vestrae de me animae benevolae concipiunt cogitationes Jam ad Academiam venio Tempore ante meridiano vidi ego aedificia vestra sumptuosa à meis majoribus clarissimis Principibus literarum causa extructa inter videndum dolor Artus meos occupavit atque ea mentis suspiria quae Alexandrum quondam tenuisse feruntur qui cum legisset multa à Principibus monumenta conversus ad familiarem seu potius ad Consiliarium multum doluit se nihil tale fecisse Haec tamen vulgaris sententia me aliquantum recreavit quae etsi non auferre tamen minuere potest dolorem Quae quidem sententia haec est Romam non uno aedificatam fuisse die tamen non est ita senilis mea aetas nec tam diu fui ex quo regnare coepi quin ante redditionem debiti naturae si non nimis cito Atropos lineam vitae meae amputaverit aliquod opus faciam quamdiu vita hos regit artus nunquam à proposito deflectam Et si contingat quam citò futurum sit nescio me mori opportere priusquam hoc ipsum quod polliceor complere possim aliquod tamen egregium opus post mortem relinquam quo memoria mea in posterum celebris fiat alios excitem exemplo meo vos omnes alacriores faciam ad studia vestra Sed jam videtis quantum inter sit inter doctrinam Lectam disciplinam animo non retentam Quorum alterius sunt complures satis sufficientes testes alterius autem vos omnes nimis quidem inconsideratè testes hoc tempore effeci quae meo barbaro Orationis genere tam diu doctas vestras aures detinuerim DIXI At that time the Degree of Master of Art Noble-men made Masters of Art was conceived to take a Degree and it self commenced in honour when the following Peers and Noble Persons were in the Regent House created Masters of Art a Caius Hist Cant. Acad. Pag 88. Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke Edward Veere Earl of Oxford Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwicke Edward Manners Earl of Rutland Thomas Ratclyf Earl of Sussex Robert Dudley Earl of Leicestre Edw Clinton high Adm. of England William Howard Lord Chamberlain Henry Carew Lord Hunsden Sir William Cecil Secretary Sir Francis Knolls Vice-chamb Tho Heneage John Ashley Richard Bartue William Cooke Edmond Cooke Esquires Thus Acts being ended Degrees conferred University Officers well rewarded and all persons pleased Her Majesty went on in Her Progresse and the Schollers returned to their Studies 2. And yet we finde one great Scholler much discontented if my * Sir Geo. Paul in the Life of Archbishop Whitigist p. 7 Author may be believed namely The first cause of Mr. Cartwrights discontentment Mr. Thomas Cartwright He and Thomas Preston then Fellow of Kings Colledge afterwards Master of Trinity Hall were appointed two of the four Disputants in the Philosophy Act before the Queen Cartwright had dealt most with the
magnificence 36. But it was the banquet Where the Doctors of Cambridge wait on His Majesty which made the feast so compleat Hither came the Heads of the University of Cambridge in their scarlet Gowns and corner Caps where Mr. Rob Naunton the Orator made a learned Latin Oration wherewith His Majesty was highly affected The very variety of Latin was welcome to His ears formerly almost surfeited with so many long English Speeches made to Him as He passed every Corporation The Heads in generall requested a Confirmation of their Priviledges otherwise uncourtlike at this present to petition for particulars which His Highnesse most willingly granted Here one might have seen the King passing over all other Doctors for His Seniours apply Himselfe much in His discourse to Dr. Montague Master of Sidney Colledge This was much observed by the Courtiers who can see the Beams of Royall favour shining in at a small cranny interpreting it a token of his great and speedy preferment as indeed it came to passe 37. Within the compasse of this last year The death of Mr. Perkins but in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth died that worthy and painfull servant of Jesus Christ Mr. William Perkins whose life I have f in my Holy State formerly written and therefore forbear any repetition He was buried in his own Parish-Church of S. Andrews in Cambridge Only I will adde it sadded me lately to see that Church wherein this Saint was interred ready to fall to the ground Iacob said of Bethel the house of God g Gen 28. 17. How dreadful is this place I am sorry it may in a farre different sense be said of this S. Andrews filling such as approach to it with fear of the ruins thereof I say no more but as David was glad to go up into the house of the Lord all good men may be sorrowfull to behold Gods ruinous House comming down to them Iohn Cowell Vicecan 1603-4 Iohn Andrews Major 2. Richard Claton Vicecan 1604-5 John Edmonds Robert Wallis Major It was enacted in Parliament Recusants Presentations given to the Universities That the Chancellour Anno. Reg. Jac. 3. and Scholars of the University of Cambridge shall have the Presentation Ann. Dom. 1604-05 Nomination Collation and Donation of and to every such Benefice Prebend or Ecclesiaticall Living School Hospital and Donative as shall happen to be void during such time as the Patrone thereof shall be and remain a Recusant convict in the Counties Of Essex Hartford Bedford Cambridge Huntington Suffolke Norfolke Rutland Leiceister Lincolne Derbie Nottingham Shrop shire Chesshire Lancaster Yorke Bish of Duresme Northumberland Cumberland Westmorland Radnor Denbigh Flint Carnarvon Merianith Glamorgan Anglesey The other moyety of Counties was bestowed on Oxford In this division the greater half of the Land fell to the share of Cambridge whether we reckon the number of Shires being more or measure the extent of Ground being greater or consider the main matter herein that Recusant-Patrones were most numerous in the Northern parts of the Kingdome 38. However The Statute how frequently frustrated by Recusants I have heard it oft complained of That this Statute took not effect according to the true intent thereof either because many Bishops were very backward in giving Institutions on the Presentations of the University wherein we are willing to believe the fault not in them but their Officers Or because it is so hard a thing to prove or convict the legal conviction of a Papist Or Recusant-Patrons before their conviction had such sleights by pre-conveyances to make over their Advowsances to others Hence it was that many Clerks presented by the University were wearned ou◠with vexatious suits overpoised with the weight of Popish-Patrons purses and forced at last either totally to relinquish their title or to make an hard not to say sometimes an unworthy composition 39. About this time also it was Burgesses granted the Universities that the two Universities were honoured by the King to have their respective Burgesses to represent them in Parliament Samuel Harsnet Vicecan 4 Mil Raven Edward Sent Proct. 1605-06 John Edmonds Major Roger Goad Vicecan 5. Will Barton Sam Tindall Proct. 1606-07 William Arthur Major 40. Thomas Playfer The death and high Epitaph of Dr. Playfer D. D. Fellow of S. Johns Coll and Margaret Professour died this year and was buried in the Chancell of S. Buttolfs Church where this is part of his Epitaph Minister ille Triados enthei logii Oraculum patronus artium parens Sciarum concionum Rex sacrae Cathedrae Imperator fulmen tonitru scholae Suadae maritus ac gemellus Ingenî Ardor eorum exterae gentis stupor c. Should this Epiteph come under the hands of those Grecian Officers deputed to proportion mens Monuments to their merits it is suspitious they would make bold to pare part therof though indeed the Doctor was one of excellent parts and a great commander of the Latine Tongue Ann. Dom. 1606-07 Doctor John Davenant succeeded in the Professours place Ann. Reg. Jac. 5. Robert Soame Thomas Iegon Vicecan George Dearing Thomas Cecill Proct. 1606-08 Jeremy Chase Major 6. John Duport Vicecan 1608-09 Richard Bridges Anth Disborough Proct. 7. Thomas French Major Fogg Newton Vicecan 1609-10 Abraham Bidle Leonard Mawe Proct. 8. Thomas French Major Barnab Gouge Vicecan 1610-11 John Aungier Will Adison Proct. 9. Thomas French Major 41. About this time William Amese Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge Master Amese troubled about his Sermon in S. Maryes on S. Thomas his day had to use his own * in a Letter I have of his to his friend expression the place of a Watch-man for an hour in the Towre of the University and took occasion to inveigh against the liberty taken at that time especially in such Colledges who had Lords of misrule a Pagan relique which he said as * Lib. 5. cap. 2. Polidore Virgil obserueth remaineth onely in England 42. Hence he proceeded to condemn all playing at Cards and Dice Against all playing at Cards and Dice affirming that the later in all Ages was accounted the device of the Devil that as God invented the one and twenty letters whereof he made the Bible the Devil saith an * Antonius Author found out the one and twenty pricks of the Die that Canon Law forbad the use thereof seeing * Langecruchius inspeculo Inventio Diaboli nullâ consuetudine potest validari 43. His Sermon gave much offence to many of his Auditors He leaveth the Colledge the rather because in him there was a concurrence of much non-conformity insomuch that to prevent an expulsion from Doctor Cary the Master he fairly forsook the Colledge which proved unto him neither losse nor disgrace being not long after by the States of Freezland chosen Professour in their University Valentine Cary Vicecan 1611-12
Thomas Miriall John Williams Proct. 10. Thomas Smart Major Clemens Corbet Vicecan 1612-13 Richard Tompson Stephen Paget Henry Bird Proct. 11. Edward Cropley Major Samuel Harsenett Vicecan 1613-14 Arthur Iohnson Richard Anguish Proct. 12. Iohn Wicksted Major Owen Gwin Vicecan 1614-15 Tho Kitchin Iohn Dod Proct. Thomas French Major 13. Iohn Hill Vicecan Ann. Reg. Jac. 15. Andrew Pern Thomas Smith Proct. Robert Lukin Major 44. Edward Sympson a very good scholar Fellow of Trinity Coll Mr. Sympson his Sermon and Recantation preached a Sermon before King Iames at Royston taking for his Text Iohn 3. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh Hence he endevoured to prove that the commission of any great sin doth extinguish grace and Gods Spirit for the time in the man He added also that S. Paul in the 7 th Chapter to the Romans spake not of himself as an Apostle and Regenerate but sub statu Legis Hereat His Majesty took and publickly expressed great distaste because Arminius had lately been blamed for extracting the like exposition out of the works of Faustus Socinus Whereupon He sent to the two Professours in Cambridge for their judgment herein who proved and subscribed the place ad Romanos 7 mo to be understood of a Regenerate man according to S. Augustine his later opinion in his Retractations and the Preacher was injoyned a publick Recantation before the King which accordingly was performed Nor doth such a Palinodie sound any thing to his disgrace having S. Augustine himself for his precedent modestly retracting what formerly he had erroneously written therein John Richardson Vicecan 16. John Browne George Ramsey Proct. 1617-18 Henry King Major Will Branthwait John Goslin Vicecan 17. Iohn Smithson Alex 1618-19 Read Proct. Sir Edw Hinde Knight Major 45. The neighbouring Gentry of Cambridge The first and last Knight Major of Cambridge being very pleasant at a merry-meeting resolved in a frolick to be made Free-men and so successively to take their turns in being Major thereof The Towns men promised themselves great matters hereby betwixt whom and the University some petty animosities at present when persons of such state and quality should Head their Corporation Sir Edward Hinde of Madingley Knight lead the dance and kept His Majestie in Cambridge expecting others in order to follow him who considering the expensivenesse of the place with some others no lesse politick than thrifty considerations receded from the resolution and let the good Knight alone to possesse that honour by himself Towns-men as formerly succeeded him therein SECT VIII Anno Dom. THOMAE PLAYER Armigero Anno Regis Jacob. Camerarii LONDINENSIS primogenito TAndem aliquando DEO Duce post varios anfractus vias in vias ad Historiae finem perventum est Nec diffiteor me non fessum modò sed lassum cùm mihi ita deficiant vires ut nunc cùm pes sit figendus vix possim me continere ne pronus corruam Opus mihi igitur jam concludenti PATRONO non forti minùs qui possit quà m miti qui velit me nutantem sustentare vel fortè labascentem erigere Hîc Tu mihi Occurris exoptatissimus qui tam mentis quà m corporis dotibus es spectabilis Spero igitur Finem Opus meum certus scio Nomen Tuum finem Operis Coronaturum HEre we have omitted to confesse and amend a fault Henry Howard Chancellour of Cambridge is pardonable how after the decease of Robert Cecil Earle of Salisbury one no lesse willing than able on all occasions to befriend the University dying Anno 1612. Henry Howard Earl of Northhampton was chosen Chancellour of Cambridge He was Son to Henry Earle of Surrey beheaded 1546. for a meer State-nicety and succeeded as to his name to his excellent parts and industry being bred in Kings Colledge where he attained to a great degree of eminency for learning 2. He told his intimate * Mr. George Penny Secretary who related it to me that his Nativity at his Fathers desire was calculated by a skilfull Italian Astrologer Sometimes it hiâ—s who told him That this his infant-son should tast of much trouble in the midst of his life even to the want of a Meals meat but his old age should make amends for all with a plentifull estate which came to passe accordingly For his Father dying in his Infancy no plentifull provision was made for him and when his eldest Brother Thomas Duke of Northfolke was executed his condition was much impaired insomuch that once being in London not overstockt with money when his Noble Nephews the Earle of Arundle and the Lord Thomas Howard were out of the City and loath to pin himself on any Table univited he was sain to dinâ— with the chaire of Duke Humphrey Anno Dom. 1616-17 but other not to say better company viz Anno Regis Jacob. 15. reading of Books in a Stationers shop in Pauls Church-yard But K JAMES coming to the Crown and beholding the Howards as His Mothers Martyrs revived them with His favours and this Lord attained under Him to great wealth honour and command 3. However this Lord gave little credit to His Learned Book and placed lesse confidence in such Predictions as appeared by a Learned Worke he hath written of that subject He died Anno 1614. and his Nephew Thomas Howard Earle of Suffolke succeeded him in the Chancellours place of the University John Richardson Vicecan 1617-18 John Smithson Alexander Read Proct. 16. John Durant Major 4. On the 29 of January died Mr. William Butler The death of Dr. Butler the Aesculapius of our Age as by the Inscription on his Marble Tombe in the Chancel of St. Maries will appear Nil proh marmor agis Butlerum dum tegis illum Si splendore tuo nomen habere putas Ille tibi monumentum iudigner is ab illo Butleri vivis munere marmor iners Sic homines vivus sic mirâ mortuus arte Phoebo chare Senex vivere saxa facis But the Prose is higher than the Verse and might have served for Joseph of Arimathea to have inscribed on the Monument of our Saviour whereof this is a part Abi Viator ad tuos reversus dic te vidisse Locum in quo salus jacet He gave to Clare Hall whereof he was Fellow a Chalice with a cover of beaten-gold weighing and worth three hundred pounds besides other Plate and Books to the value of five hundred pounds Will 1618-19 Branthwait John Goslin Vicecan 17. Henry Goch Tho Horseman Proct. Richard Foxton Major 5. The Title of the Earledome of Cambridge which as we have formerly observed The Marquesse of Hamilton made Earle of Cambridge was onely conferred on Forreigne Princes or those of the English blood-Royall had now lyen dormant since the death of Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke and eighth Earle of Cambridge It was now
the Kings pleasure in imitation of His Ancestors reserving that Honour for some Prime person to conferre the same on his near Kinsman James Marquis Hamilton who dying some six years after left his Title to James his Son the last Earle during the extent of our History Robert Scot Vicecan 1619-20 Will 18. Roberts Robert Mason Proct. Richard Foxton Major 6. Master John Preston Mr Preston prosecuted by the Commissary and how escaping Fellow of Queens suspected for inclination to Non-conformity intended to preach in the Afternoon S. Maryes Sermon being ended in Botolphs-Church But Doctor Newcomb Commissary to the Chancelour of Elie Anno Dom. 1619-20 offended with the pressing of the people Anno Regis Jacob. 18. enjoyned that Service should be said without Sermon In opposition whereunto a Sermon was made without Service where large complaints to Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Elie and in fine to the King himself Hereupon Mr. Preston was enjoyned to make what his fees called a Recantation his friends a Declaration Sermon therein so warily expressing his allowance of the Liturgie and set formes of Prayer that he neither displeased his own party nor gave his enemies any great advantage Samuel Ward Vicecan 1620-21 Gabriel More Phil 19. Powlet Proct. Richard Foxton Major 7 William Lord Mainard The Ld. Mainaâ—d foundeth a Logick Professour first of Wicloe in Ireland then of Estaines in England brought up when a young Scholar in S. Johns Colledge where Dr. Playfere thus versed it on his name Inter menses Maius inter aromata nardus Founded a Place for a Logick Professour assigning him a salarie of Forty pounds per annum and one Mr. Thornton Fellow of the same Colledge made first Professour of that faculty Leonard Maw Vicecan 1621-22 Thomas Scamp Tho 20. Parkinson Charles Mordant Proct. Edward Potto Major 8. An exact survey was taken of the number of Students in the University The Scholars number whose totall summe amounted unto Two * Tables of John Scot. thousand nine hundred ninety and eight Hierome Beale Vicecan 1622-23 Thomas Adam Nathanael Flick Proct. 21. Thomas Atkinson Major Thomas Paske Vicecan 1623-24 John Smith Amias Ridding Proct. 22. Thomas Purchas Major 9. The Town-Lecture at Trinity-Church being void two appeared Competitours for the same namely Doctor John Preston now Master of Emmanuel Preacher at Lincolns-Inne and Chaplain to Prince Charles generally desired by the Towns men Contributours to the Lecture Paul Micklethwait Fellow of Sidney-Colledge an eminent Preacher favoured by the Diocesan Bishop of Elie and all the Heads of Houses to have the place The contest grew high and hard A tough câ—nvase for Trinity-Lecture in somuch as the Court was ingaged therein Many admired that Doctor Preston would stickle so much for so small a matter as an annuall stipend of Eighty pounds issuing out of moe than thrice eighty purses But his partie pleaded his zeale not to get gold by but to doe good in the place where such the confluence of Scholars to the Church that he might generare Patres beget begerrers which made him to wave the Bishoprick of Glocester now void and offered unto him in comparison of this Lecture 10. At Doctor Preston his importunity Dr. Preston caues it clear the Duke of Buckingham interposing his power Anno Dom. 1623 24. secured it unto him Anno Regis Jacob. 22. Thus was he at the same time Preacher to two places though neither had Cure of Soules legally annexed Lincolns-Inne and Trinity-Church in Cambridge As Elisha cured the waters of Iericho by going forth to the spring head and casting in salt there so was it the designe of this Doctour for the better propagation of his principles to infuse them into these two Fountains the one of Law the other of Divinity And some conceive that those Doctrines by him then delivered have since had their Use and Application Iohn Mansell Vicecan 1624-25 William Boswell Thomas Bowles Proct. Thomas Purchas Major 11. King Iames came to Cambridge King James's last coming to Cambridge lodged in Trinity-Colledge was entertained with a Philosophy-Act and other Academical performances Here in an extraordinary Commencement many but ordinary persons were graduated Doctours in Divinity and other Faculties 12. Andrew Downs The death of Mr. Andrew Dewnes Fellow of S. Iohns Anno Regis Car. 1. 1. one composed of Greek and industry dyeth whose pains are so inlaid with Sir Henry Savil his Edition of Chrysostome that both will be preserved together Five were Candidates for the Greek-Professours place void by his death viz Edward Palmer Esquire Fellow of Trinity-Colledge Abraham Whelocke Fellow of Clare Hall Robert Creighton of Trinity Ralph Winterton of Kings and Iames White Master of Arts of Sidney-Colledge How much was there now of Athens in Cambridge when besides many modestly concealing themselves five able Competitours appeared for the place 13. All these read solemn Lectures in the Schools on a subject appointed them by the Electours Mr. Chreighton chosen his successour viz the first Verses of the three and twentieth Book of Homers Iliads chiefly insisting on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. But the Place was conferred on Mr. Robert Chreighton who during Mr. Downes his aged infirmities had as Hercules relieved weary Atlas supplied the same possessed by the former full forty years Iohn Goslin Henry Smith Vicecan Iohn Norton Robert Ward Proct. 1625-26 Robert Lukin Major 2. 14. Thomas Howard Earle of Suffolke The Duke of Buckingham elected Chancellour Chancellour of the University departed this life an hearty old Gentleman who was a good friend to Cambridge and would have proved a better if occasion had been offered It argued the Universities affection to his Memory that a grand party therein unsought unsent unsued to gave their suffrages for his second Son Thomas Earle of Bark shire though the Duke of Buckingham by very few voices carried the place of the Chancellour This Duke gave the Beadles their old silver Staves and bestowed better and bigger on the University with the Kings and his own Arms insculped thereon Henry Smith Vicecan 1626-27 Samuel Hixton Thomas Wake Proct. 3. Martin Peirse Major Thomas Bambrigg Vicecan Anno Dom. 1627-28 Thomas Love Edward Lloyd Proct. Iohn Shirwood Major Anno. Regis Car. 1. 4. 15. Henry Earle of Holland The Earle of Holland made Chancellour The Lâ— Bâ—ooke founded an History-Professour recommended by His Majesty to the University is chosen Chancellour thereof in the Place of the Duke of Buckingham deceased 16. Sir Fulk Grevil Lord Brooke bred long since in Trinity Colledge founded a Place for an History-Professour in the University of Cambridge allowing him an annual Stipend of an Hundred pound Isaac Dorislavs Doctour of the Civil Law an Hollander was first placed therein Say not this implyed want of worthy men in Cambridge for that faculty it being
Brownrigge Bishop of Exeter 8. Dr. Richard Sterne Chaplain to Archbishop Land 9. Dr. William Beale Chaplain to the King 10. Dr. Thomas Cumber Dean of Carlisle 11. Dr. Rich Holesworth Archdeacon of Huntington 12. Dr. Samuel Ward in effect but a Prisoner dy'd a naturall death Colledges 1. Peter House 2. Clare Hall 3. Pembr Hall 4. Caius-College 5. Kings-College 6. Queens-College 7. Katharine Hall 8. Jesus-College 9. S. Iohns College 10. Trinity College 11. Emmanuel-Coll 12. Sidney -College Masters put in 1. Lazarus Seaman Minister in London bred in Emman Coll since D. D. 2. Ralph Cudworth Fellow of Emmanuel-Coll since D. D. 3. Rich Vines bred in Mag Coll afterward outed for refusing the Engagement 4. Dell admitted first into Emmanuel College 5. Benjamin Witchcoat Fellow of Emmanuel since D. D. 6. Herbert Palmer formerly Fellow of the same College 7. Will Spurston Fell and outed for refusing the Engagement 8. Timothy Young bred in Scotland Outed for refusing the Engagem 9. Iohn Arrowsmith Fellow of Katharine Hall since D. D. 10. Thomas Hill Fell of Emman Coll since D. D. 11. Anth Tuckney formerly Fell since D. D. 12. Richard Minshall Fellow since D. D. chosen by the Society into the void place Four Masters by the sspeciall favours of their friends and their own wary compliance continued in their places viz Dr. Thomas Bainbrigg and Dr. Thomas Eden of Trinity-Hall but died soon after Dr. Richard Love Master of Bennet College afterwards Margaret Professour and Dr. Edward Rainebow of Magdalen College who not long after lost his Mastership for the refusall of the Engagement 44. Passe we now from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The sad effects of Warâ—e the living consisting of Students to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dead University as composed of lands Libraries and buildings where we meet with many moanes in this kinde How Souldiers were now quartered in their Colledges Chappels abused Common-Prayer books yet legally in force torn in St. Maryes their Bridges broken down Materials for building Colleges taken away Iesus-College Grove no idolatrous one cut down to the ground antient Coines of S. Iohns Colledge taken away valued at twenty two pound according to weight though an hundred times worth more then they were worth wherein every piece was a volume and all together a Library of Roman Antiquities 45. But chiesly it vexed them that their Lands Tâ—wnsmen tax Scholars hitherto exempted from payments and like his Fathers house who should conquer Goliah free in * I Sam. 17. 25. Israel were now subjected to Taxes wherein the Raters were heavier than the Rates being taxed by the Townsmen And how Odious is a Handmaid that is Heire * Prov. 30. â— 23. to her Mistresse of her but much more when Mistresse as here the Town in some fort was over the University where such who set the lowest price on learning put the highest valuation on the Professours thereof 46. However there are University men not altogether so passionate for Moderate mens judgment but every whit as affectionate to their Mother who as they condole Cam-bridge for faring so ill congratulate her also for faring no worse in such tumultuous times When all the Body is distempered with what hope can either Eye promise ease unto it selfe Was their glasse broken it was well their windows were left Was the floore of some of their Chappels digged up Well that the walls of them were not digged down Were one or two of their Bridges broken it was well that any was spared from whence Cambridge might still retain her denomination 47. Now that my sun may not set in a cloud amidst many bemoanings of Cambridge I must rejoice that the ruins of one antient Church Saint Andrews Church repaired St. Andrewes by name are repaired by the joynt benefaction of many and particularly of Richard Rose Esq late Major of Cambridge and Sheriffe of Cambridge shire Let him who hath the building of Gods house whilst living for his Monument have the Praise of Posterity for his never-dying Epitaph 48. Here some may expect according to my promise an History of the University of OXFORD but finding my Informations thence The Authours just Apologie affisted with my own industry to fall short of filling a Just Treatise I thought fit to insert their Colledges in the Body of my History according to the dates of their respective Foundations submitting the censure of my faire dealing therein to the ingenuous in that famous University 49. To draw to conclusion lately a Colledge in Cambridge A witty homonymous Answer much beautified with additionall Buildings sent a Messenger to a Doctour no lesse ingenious than bountifull who had been a great and promised to be a greater Benefactour unto them requesting him to remember them or else Their COLLEDGE Must Even Stand Still meaning they must desist from going farther in their intended fabrick To whom the Doctour answered May your Colledge and all the Colledges in both Universities STAND STILL In the charitable meaning whereof all good men will concurre and joyne with us in our following devotions A Prayer O GOD who in the creating of the lower World didst first make * Gen. 1. 3. light confusedly diffused as yet through the imperfect Universe and * Gen 1. 16â— afterwards didst collect the same into two great Lights to illuminate all creatures therein O Lord who art a God of knowledge and doest * John 1. 9. lighten every man that commeth into the world O Lord who in our Nation hast moved the hearts of Founders and Benefactors to erect and indow two famous Luminaries of Learning and Religion blesse them with the assistance of thy holy Spirit Let neither of them contest as once thy Disciples on earth * Luke 22. 24. which should be the greatest but both contend which shall approve themselves the best in thy presence Oh though for their sinnes thou permittest them to be eclipsed for thy mercy doe not suffer them to be extinguished And as thou didst appoint those two great Lights in the Firmament to last * Rev. 21. 23. till thy Servants shall have no need of the Sun nor of the Moone to shine therein for thy Glory doth lighten them So grant these Old Lights may continue till all acquired and infused knowledge be swallowed up with the vision and fruition of thy blessed-making Majestie Amen The end of the History of the University of Cambridge THE HISTORY OF Waltham-Abby in Essex Founded by KING HAROLD Patria est ubicunque est bene Bene vixit qui bene latuit By THOMAS FULLER the CURATE thereof SIC OMNI TEMPORE VERDO LONDON Printed in the Year M.DC.LV. To the Right Honourable Anno Rigis JAMES HAY Anno Dom. EARL of CARLILE VISCOUNT Doncaster BARON of Sauley and Waltham I Have formerly in this History presumed to trouble your Honour and now adventure the second time Indeed this Treatise containeth the description of your