to hand which I have not yet seen At length after Sir H. Wotton had spent 72 years in this vain and transitory World did conclude his last day in Eaton coll near to Windsore in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said College When he made his Will he appointed this Epitaph to be put over his grave Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus author Disputandi pruritus Ecclesiarum scabies Nomen alià s quaere In his Provostship of Eaton coll succeeded Rich. Steuart Doctor of the Civil Laws and Clark of the Closet to King Ch. 1. of whom I shall make farther mention under the year 1651. THOMAS HUTTON a Londoner born was elected Scholar of St. Johns coll from Merchant-Taylors School in 1584. aged 19. of which coll he was afterwards made Fellow In 1591. he proceeded in Arts and about that time entring into the Sacred Function he became a frequent Preacher Bac. of Divinity afterwards Rector of North-Lewe in Devonshire Vicar of S. Kewe in Cornwal and Prebendary of Exeter His works are An answer to several reasons for refusal to subscribe to the book of Common-Prayer c. Oxon. 1605. qu. Answer'd by Anonymus in a book intit The removal of certain imputations laid upon the Ministers of Devon and Cornwal by one Mr. T. H. c. Printed 1606. qu. He also published The second and last part of the answer to the reasons for refusal of subscription to the book of Common-Prayer under the hands of certain Ministers of Dev. and Cornw. c. Lond. 1606. qu. An appendix or compendious brief of all other exceptions taken by others against the book of Communion Homilies and Ordination c. Published with the sec and last part before-mentioned Answer to both at several times returned them in publick conference and in divers Sermons in the Cathedral of Exeter Printed also with the said sec and last part After the publication of which came out The second part of the defence of the Ministers reasons for refusal of subscription and conformity to the book of Common Prayer against the several answers of Tho. Hutton Bac. of Div. in his two books against the Ministers of Dev. and Cornw. c. printed 1608. qu. Whether written by the before mention'd Anon. I cannot tell Another answer also was published against it by a nameless author intit A dispute upon the question of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacramental Bread and Wine Printed 1608. qu. This also answer'd the book of Will. Covel D. D. which he wrote against Mr. Jo. Burges called An Apology to the B. of Linc. c. Tho. Spark's book intit Brotherly perswasion to Vnity c. and Fr. Mason's Authority of the Church in making Canons c. At length our author Hutton having lived to the age of 74. years died in his Vicaridge house at St. Kewe in Cornwal before mentioned in the month of Decemb. about Christmas day in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Some years after was a Monument set up in the wall over his grave with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus Vir optima fide moribus 40 annos Ecclesiastes nulli opere evangelico secundus ecclesiae musaei captivus sacris lectione â—precibus assiduus Septuagenarius illaeso visu memoria a cumina literarum sanctae Graec. Lat. Gall. Ital. callentissimus Ad facetias Rhetoricen poeticen praesenti impetu Theologus omni literaturâ instructiss apparatiss us Demum Praedicator nunquam satis praedicandus This Epitaph being set up several years after Mr. Tho. Hutton died the time of his death was by the Executor forgotten for instead of the time of his burial which was according to the Register of St. Kewe on the 27. Dec. 1639. he caused in his Epitaph to be put that he died 20. of Dec. 1640. THOMAS LYTE a Gentleman studious of all good knowledge as the learned Camden his acquaintance tells us was the Son of Hen. Lyte mentioned under the year 1607. by his second Wife Fraunces Daughter of John Tiptoft of London and after he had been partly educated in Grammar learning in his native Country of Sommersetshire did spend several years in Academicals in this University But his Genie being mostly inclined to Genealogies and Histories he left it without a degree and retiring to his Patrimony and ancient Seat called Lytes-cary in the said County did draw up with very great curiosity the Genealogy of James 1. from Bruâ—â— written by him on Vellam with his own hand fairer than any print it was also illuminated with admirable flourishes and painting and had the pictures of the Kings and Queens mentioned therein most neatly performed by the hands of an exact Limner This Genealogy the author did dedicate to his Majesty who after a long and serious perusal of it gave the said author his picture in Gold set with diamonds with gracious thanks Charles Prince of Wales afterwards K. Ch. 1. was so exceedingly taken with it that he gave the author his picture in Gold also Camden before mentioned had the perusal of it and underneath wrote with his own hand about 6 verses in commendation of it and the author About which time it being hang'd up in publick in one of the rooms at Whitehall became by the carelessness of pages and idle people a little soiled wherefore upon the authors desire made to his Majesty it was engraven on copper and printed with this title The most royally ennobled Genealogy of the high and mighty Prince and renowned Monarch James by the Grace of God K. of Great Brittain c. extracted from Brute the most noble Founder of the Brittains as also from the first original of the Scots from them ascending to the Imperial Romans the warlike Picts the Saxons Danes and conquering Normans with his lineal descent from Charlemaine and other the modern Kings of France their several regiments titles honors matches sirnames and descents when they began their Reign how long each Prince ruled and governed the Estate Royal the manner of their death and place of burial Whereunto is added their Regal Ensigns Arms atchievements of Honour Emblems and memorable Epitaphs c. reduced into a Genealogical Table c. Printed at Lond. in forma patenti This Mr. Tho. Lyte died in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 or thereabouts and was buried in or near to the grave of his Father in the north Isle of the Church of Charlton-Makerel in Somersetshire which Isle belongs to the Lytes of Lytes-cary leaving then behind him other matters fit to be printed and the character of an ingenious and learned Gentleman THOMAS COVENTRIE Son of Tho. Coventrie sometimes fellow of Ball. coll was born at or near to Crome D'abitot in Worcestershire became a Gent. Commoner of the said coll in Michaelm -Term an 1592. aged 14 whence
before and so continued to his dying day tho now and then which was rarely he would discourse very rationally Some time before his Death he resign'd up his Deaneries viz. that of St. Paul and that of Exeter in the first of which succeeded if I am not mistaken Dr. Rich. Sampson who was afterwards B. of Lichfield and Coventry and in the other Reginald Pole The Books which this our eminent Author hath written and translated are many some of which not all follow De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur liber Basil 1517. qu. dedicated to Dr. Jo. Colet Dean of Pauls It was written by the Author at Constance while he remained Ambassador in Helvetia But therein inveighing much as 't is observed by some against drunkenness as a great obstacle to the obtaining of knowledge the Drunkards of Constance were so sensible of it that they made a sharp answer to his Book apologizing for themselves and their customs in drinking Oratio de pace nuperrime composita faedore percusso inter Henricum Angliae regem Francorum reg Christianiss in aede Pauli Lond. habita Lond. 1518. qu. Epistolae ad Edw. Leeum Ep. ad Erasmum Rot. Lond. 1520. qu. These Epistles are in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum c. mentioned in Edw. Lee under the Year 1544. Praefatio in Ecclesiasticen recognitum ad Hebraicam veritatem collatum cum translatione lxx Interpretum manifesta explicatione causarum erroris ubicunque incidit where printed or when 't is not expressed In the writing of this piece which is printed in quarto he was assisted by Rob. Wakfeld Exemplum literarum ad Regem Hen. 8. an 1526. See in the said Wakfelds Book entit Syntagma de Hebraeorum codicum incorruptione He also wrot a Book against the unlawfulness of the Kings Marriage with Catherine the Wife of his Brother Prince Arthur in 1527. in which Book he was also assisted by Wakfeld Other things are mention'd by Baleus and Pitseus very tritely and with little satisfaction to the Reader as they do all or most of the titles of Books belonging to the Writers that they set down in their respective works but such I have not yet seen He hath also made several translations among which is that from English into Latin of the Sermon of John Fisher B. of Rochester which he Preached at London on that day when the Writings of Martin Luther were publickly burnt on Joh. 15. 26. Printed at Cambr. in Feb. 1521. qu. Before which is a large Epistle to the Reader written by one Nich. Wilson of the University of Cambridge He also made a translation from Greek into Latin of Plutarch's work De commodo ex inimicis capiendo dedicated to Card. Bainbridge At length this most excellent Person who was admirably well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew Tongues in all kind of polite literature and in civil Affairs retiring to Stepney near London for healths sake concluded his last day there to the great reluctancy of all learned Men year 1532 in Fifteen hundred thirty and two being then scarce 50 Years of Age Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to the great Altar and had soon after an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of 12 Verses which for brevity sake I shall now pass by as also that admirable and just encomium which Jo. Leland his Friend made on his return from Venice I find one John Pace who from Eaton School was elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1539. or thereabouts went away Fellow became Jester to K. Hen. 8. for a time and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk but what relation he had to Rich. Paice our learned Author who if I mistake not was born at or near Winchester I know not THOMAS LUPSET Son of Will. Lupset Citizen and Goldsmith of London by Alice his Wife was born in London particularly in the Parish of St. Mildrid in Breadstreet where the Father lived when Thomas was born but lived in his last days and died in 1522 in the Parish of St. Vedastus in Cheep taken into the care and protection of Dr. Joh. Colet and educated in Grammar learning under Will. Lilye which is the reason why the said Doctor calls him in his last Will his Scholar But whether from W. Lilyes School he went to this University or to that of Cambridge is doubtful Dr. Jo. Cay the Antiquary doth tell you that he was educated in Pembroke Hall there tho Bale and Pits are silent in it but what his Authority is for that report he tells us not Howsoever it is sure I am and shall be till I am convinc'd to the contrary that he took the Degree of Bac. of Arts at Paris and soon after coming into England he fixed in the University of Oxon particularly in Corp. Chr. Coll. about the Year 1519 and soon after he succeeded Jo. Clement in the Rhetorick Lecture of Card. Wolsey To which Cardinal the University having had occasion to write make this mention of our Author Lupset in an Epistle dated 7. Id. May 1521 Nam immortalis beneficii loco accepimus quod benignissima tua beneficentia in communem rei literariae usum dignata sit Lupsetum ad nos remittere quem etsi semper habuimus charissimum nunc tamen quia à tuâ majestate tam amanter commendatum multò arctiùs amplectimur Illud autem supra quam credi potest nos omnes exhileraverit quòd prudentissima tua authoritas ex omnium animis abstulerit scrupulos quibus anxiè alligabimur ordinariis lectionibus quas jam prorsus extraordinarias utinam tua prudentia vel penitus ab omni ordine abigeret vel in meliorem redigeret c. Sir Tho. More also in an Epist to Erasmus doth make honourable mention of him and his reading in both the Tongues at Oxon. But Lupset's desire being bent to proceed in Arts he supplicated the venerable Regents met in Congregation 2. June 1521. that whereas he had spent four Years in Study at Paris and in Oxon it might be sufficient for him that he might be admitted to proceed in the faculty of Arts. Which supplication of his being granted he was licensed to proceed on the 19. of the same Month and on the 9. July following he did really stand in the Act then celebrated Afterwards he became famous in this University and other places of Literature especially after he had performed the Office of Secretary to Rich. Paice when he was Ambassador to the Venetian and by his conversation with eminent Men did make great progress in Sciences He hath written A Treatise of charity An exhortation to young Men persuading them to walk honestly A Treatise teaching how to dye well These three little Books were printed at London 1546. and 1560. in 8vo He hath also translated into English 1 St. Chrysostomes Sermon or Homely teaching that no Man is hurt but by himself
matter after that Pope Sixtus 5. had bestowed on him the title of Cardinal and the Spaniard had gave him an Abbacy in the Kingdom of Naples and nominated him Archbishop of Machlin When the Bull of Excommunication against Q. Elizabeth at that time that the great Navy was provided for England came forth he brought it into the Low Countries and caused it to be printed in English Withal he wrote an Admonition to the Englishmen that they should stick to the Pope and Spaniard but being deceived of all his hopes he returned again back to Rome where being wearied with the discords hatreds and dissentions of the English Run-aways both Scholars and Nobles at last he dyed in the 63 year of his Age c. Another saith That he was so ill deserving to be accounted English as that like another Herostratus he endeavoured to raise a combustion in the Church and State c. But let Writers say what they please certain it is that he was an active Man and of great parts and high prudence that he was Religious and Zealous in his Profession restless till he had performed what he had undertaken that he was very affable gentile and winning and that his personage was handsome and proper which with an innate gravity commanded respect from those that came near or had to do with him His Works as to learning are these A defence of the Doctrine of Catholicks concerning Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead Antw. 1565. in oct Brief Reasons concerning Cath. Faith Treatise made in defence of the lawful Power and Authority of Priesthood to remit Sins Lov. 1567. oct The People's duty for confession of their Sins to God's Ministers Printed with the Treatise made c. The Churches meaning concerning Indulgences commonly called Pope's Pardons Printed also with the Treatise made c. Which three last were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge De Antw. 1576. qu Sacramentis in genere Sacramento Eucharistiae Sacrificio Euch. Apology and true declaration of the institution and endeavours of the two English Colleges the one in Rome the other now resident in Rhemes against certain finiste informations given up against the same Printed at Mounts in Heâ—â—cault 1581. in a large oct This Books is said by one to be a princely grave and flourishing piece of natural and exquisite English Apologia pro sacerdotibus Societatis Jesu Seminariorum alumnis contra Edicta Regia Printed in a Book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct 1594. in qu. part 3. Piissima admonitio consolatio verè Christiana ad afflictos Catholicos Angliae Printed also in the said Book A true sincere and modest defence of the English Catholicks that suffer for their Faith both at home and abroad against a slanderous Libel entit The Execution of Justice in England Not expressed where or when Printed but by the character and some passages therein is shew'd that it was Printed beyond the Seas about 1583. in oct Printed also in Latin at Ingolst 1584. in oct and in a Book entit Concertat Eccles Cath. in Anglia c. 1594. This defence was answered by Dr. Tho. Bilson in the third part of his Book of the Supremacy or in that Book called The true difference between Christian Subjection and Vnchristian Rebellion As for The Execution of Justice which the defence answers was written as it was then and since reported by Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh The second impression of which made at Lond. 1583. in five sheets in oct I have and bears this Title The execution of Justice in England for maintenance of Publick and Christian Peace against certain stirs of sedition and adherents to the Traytors and Enemies of the Realm without any persecution of them for questions of Religion as is falsly reported c. Epistola de Daventriae ditione Cracov 1588. in oct Printed also about that time in English It must be noted that in 1587. Will. Stanley and Rowl York Englishmen did traiterously deliver up a Fort near Zutphen and the strong Garrison of Daventry to the Spaniard whereupon our Author Dr. Allyn did being provoked by the Bull of Pius 5. against Q. Elizabeth not only commend the Treason but excited others in the said Epistle to the like exploit or perfidiousness as if they were neither bound to serve nor obey an excommunicated Queen At which time the said Allyn dispatched away divers Priests to Rowl York whose Regiment of 13 hundred consisted all of English and Irish to be Chaplains and Confessors to them In the year 1588. our author Allyn compiled a Book to be published when the Spaniard should arrive into England to stir up all the English Papists to take up Arms against the Queen The first part of the said Book was intit A declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus 5. Grounded on the said Pope's Crusaido whereby he gave plenary Indulgence and Pardon of all Sins to all that gave their helping hand to deprive Q. Elizabeth of her Kingdom The second part was entit An admonition to the Nobility and People of England Which Book or Books coming straightway to the knowledge of the Queen she dispatched away D. Val. Dale to the Prince of Parma Vice-Roy of the Low Countries for the King of Spain who being introduced into his presence he did mildly expostulate with him about the said Book or Books written by Allyn wherein as Dale said he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to joyn with the Spanish Forces under him the said Prince to invade England c. but he pretended he knew nothing of such a Book and so sent him away unsatisfied However so it was that presently upon the overthrow of the great invincible Armado under their heroical Adlantado certain Roman Catholicks procured the whole impression to be burned saving some few that had been sent abroad beforehand to Friends and such as had otherwise been conveyed away by the Printer and others in secret wise What else our Author Allyn hath written Joh. Pitseus who speaks very honorably of him will tell you who adds that he gave up the ghost on the 6 of Oâ—â—ob according to our accompt in fifteen hundred ninety and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel of the English Colledge at Rome where there is an Epitaph for him which being printed by two several Authors at least I shall now pass it by The Jesuits triumphed openly as one saith at his Death and among other of the calumniations against him they said That God had taken him away in a good time for if he had lived longer he would have disgraced himself and lost the credit which he had got In one or more Books containing the lives or at least characters with the Arms of the Popes and Cardinals of Rome it appears that the Arms of Cardinal Allyn are Argent 3 Connies or Rabbets passant Sable yet the ancient Arms belonging to
one County three such Divines as Jewel Hooker and Rainolds of the second of which hear I pray what the learned Camden saith In this year meaning 1599. which is false dyed too many in that one Rich. Hooker born in Devonshire and bred in C. C. coll in Oxford a Divine very moderate temperate and meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and besides very famous for his learned works as his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy set forth in the English but worthy to speak Latin do testifie of him c. At Boscomb he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy which were entred into the Register in Stationers hall 9. March 1592. and afterwards came out with this Title The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in four books Lond. 1594. fol. To which he added a fifth book which is larger than the first four printed by its self at Lond. 1597. fol. Part of the first four being read by Dr. Tho. Stapleton in Latin to P. Clement 8. who before had heard much in their commendation he the said Pope in conclusion said thus There is no learning that this Man hath not searched into nothing too hard 〈◊〉 his Vnderstanding This man indeed deserves the Name of an Author His books will get reverence by age for there are in them such seeds of Eternity that if the rest bâ— like this they shall last till the last Fire shall consume all learning c. At the same time K. James of Scotland afterwards of England did put an high esteem upon the said books and usually said They were the pictures of a Divine Soul in every page of Truth and Reason King Ch. 1. had read them over several times was well vers'd in and commended them to be read by the Prince afterwards K. Ch. 2. and his other Children next to the Bible The learned Vsher Primate of Ireland Morton B. of Durham Hales of Eaton c. had the same high opinion of the author and his Works and Gauden Bishop of Worcester said he had been highly esteemed of all prudent peaceable and impartial Readers But before the fifth book had been extant two years was published a Pamphlet intit A Christian Letter of certain English Protestants unfeigned Lovers of the present state of Religion authorized and professed in England unto that reverend and learned man Mr. Hooker requiring resolution in certain matters of Doctrine expresly contained in his five books of Ecclesiastical Polity Printed 1599. in qu. which matters of Doctrine as they say seem to overthrow the foundation of Christian Religion and of the Church among us But therein it doth appear that their ignorant malice hath done him great honour who in an argument so distasted by them and coming with a proud confidence to reprehend have only carped sillily at some things neither of moment or importance whereof humility and charity would have craved no answer But these being willing and desirous to find something to oppose have only discovered Mr Hookers great mature and grave judgment and their own small undigested and shallow learning Soon after came out an answer to the said letter entit A just and temperate defence of the 5 books of Ecclesiastical polity c. against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants c. Lond. 1603. qu. written and published by Will. Covel D. D. born in Lancashiâ—e near the place where Dr. Chaderton B. of Lincoln received his first breath bred in Christs and Queens coll in Cambridge and a writer of other books that came out soon after As for the other three books of Ecclesiastical Policy which our author Hooker compleated before his death they with the consent of his unlucky Widdow were seized on in his study soon after his decease by Will. Charke a noted Puritan and another Minister that lived near to Canterbury who making the silly Woman believe that they were writings not fit to be seen did either burn them in the place or convey them away secretly So that the foul copy being only remaining with many interlinings Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll in Oxon. his ancient and entire Friend got it into his hands who using the assistance of Hen. Jackson of the said coll as an Amanâ—ensis and otherwise did compleat it as much as could be and kept it by him till his latter end with an intent that it should be published but upon what account he was hindred I cannot tell Sure it is that when he lay on his death-bed he bequeathed the said copy containing the three last books fairly transcribed by the hand of the said H. Jackson to Dr. Jo. King B. of London After his death the copy rested in the hands of his Son Henry who became B. of Chichester 1641. till Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury commanded them out of his custody authorizing Dr. Joh. Barcham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth which accordingly was done The said Archbishop esteeming them as rarities did put them into the Library there where remaining till the decollation of Archb. Laud were then by the Brethren of the Predominant Faction given with the Library to that most notorious Villain Hugh Peters as a reward for his remarkable service in those sad times of the Churches confusion And though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was to subject the Soveraign Power to the People From the said copy several transcripts were taken not only I presume while it remained in the said Library but while it continued in the hands of Peters differing much in words There was a copy of the sixth and eighth books published at London in 1648. in qu. and said by the Editor of them to be collected and compared with five copies viz. with that in Bodley's Library that at Lambeth that in Bish Andrew's that in Archb. Vsher's Library and in that of the Lord Edw. Conway at Ragley but whether the publisher may be believed I know not Sure I am that the said three last books which are said to be true and genuine but from whence obtained I cannot tell were published by Dr. Joh. Gauden under this title The Works of Mr. Rich. Hooker that learned godly judicious and eloquent Divine vindicating the Church of England as truly Christian and duly reformed in eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity now compleated as with the sixth and eighth so with the seventh c. out of his own MSS. never before published with an account of his holy Life and happy Death Lond. 1662. fol. But whether the said MSS. were of his own hand-writing we have good reason to question as also the greater part of his Life which he the said Gauden hath falsly written who with great confidence hath used divers arguments to satisfie the World that the before-mentioned three books were pen'd by Mr. Hooker
Religion which is set before it and Discourse concerning such Englishmen as have either been or in our histories reputed Cardinals of the Church of Rome which is put at the end of it But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses being very full of faults and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader he put them forthwith into Latine entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius c. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of Bathe Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire who dying near to the Bishops Pallace of and in London 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Pauls Cathedral and he the Son of Alex. Harrington descended from a younger brother of the Harringtons of Brierley in Yorkshire I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eaton Scholar and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry wrote a discourse for his private use intit A brief view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Qu. Elizabeths and King James's raign to the year 1608. c. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times and was written to the said Prince Henry as an additional supply to the before mention'd Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin upon occasion of that Proverb Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells In the said book the author Harrington doth by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth shew himself a great enemy to married Bishops especially to such that had been married twice and many things therein are said of them that were by no means fit to be published being as I have told you before written only for private use But so it was that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind Grandson by a Daughter to the author a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenents did when the Press was open print it at London 1653. in oct And no sooner it was published and came into the hands of many but 't was exceedingly clamour'd at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy condemning him much that published it The truth is that tho it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit The Court and character of K. James which was publish'd three years before yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Diffenters And there is no doubt but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned he would have raked out many things thence and aggravated them to the highest to furnish his Common Place book when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. Our author Godwin wrote also Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh in qu. Râ—rum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII Edwardo VI. Maria regnantibus Annales Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr coll Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty Which English translation hath been several times printed The man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither Lond. 1638. and 57. oct written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the seigned name of Domingo Gozales and published some years after the authors death by E. M. of Ch. Ch. This book which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies men of solid judgments have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity Among which Dr. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester composed by hints thence given as 't is thought a learned piece called A discovery of a new World in the Moon Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct Translated into English by Anon. who intitles it The mysterious Messenger unlocking the secrets of mens hearts Printed with The man in the Moon Lond. 1657. oct in two sheets only At length after our authors many labours wherein he aimed mostly at the publick he was taken with a long lingring disease which bringing him to his desired haven year 1633 in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred thirty and three was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne which with the mannour thereof belongs to the Bishops of Hereford situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City To the said See after his death was elected Dr. William Juxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London as I shall tell you elsewhere That which I have forgot to let the Reader know is that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff A treatise on the blessed Sacrament printed in oct and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin but to his predecessor as I suppose in Landaff called Gerv. Babington Sed de hoc quaere HUGH HOLLAND Son of Rob. Holland by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh Son of Lewys Holland Son of Llewellin Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre by Gwervilla his Wife Daughter of Howell ap Madock ap Jem ap Einion was born at Denbigh bred in Westminster School while Camden taught there elected into Trinity coll in Cambridge an 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow Thence he went to travel into Italy and was at Rome where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher and in his return touch'd at Constantinople where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador for the former freedom of his tongue At his return into England he retired to Oxon spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library and as I have been informed had his Lodging in Ball. coll which is partly the reason why I insert him here He is observed by a Cambridge man to have been no bad English but an excellent Latine Poet and by some thought worthy to be mention'd by Spencer Sidney and others the chiefest of our English Poets His works are these MSS. Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. raign Life of Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Armes A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of
his Father-in Law Will. Purefey Esque as also of Vindiciae Sabbathi c. Lond. 1641. qu. as I shall tell you farther in Tho. Broad under the year 1635. And of Brief notes upon the whole book of Psalms c. Lond. in qu. besides other things But whether this George Abbot was ever of Oxford I cannot as yet tell A third George Abbot I find to have been elected Probationer Fellow of Merton coll 1622. and admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1630. but he hath written nothing and nothing else do I know of him only that he was Son of Sir Maurice Abbot sometimes Lord Mayor of London brother to Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury HENRY CARY Son of Sir Edw. Cary of Aldenham and Berchamsted in Hertfordshire Knight Master of the Jewel house to Q. Elizabeth and K. James by Katherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Hen. Knevet Knight was born in that County and at about 16 years of age was sent to obtain Academical learning in this University particularly as it seems to Exeter coll where by the help of a good Tutor and extraordinary parts be became a most accomplished Gentleman 'Ts said that during his stay in the Vniversity of Oxford his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time but how true it is seeing Henry was then a young man and not graduated I cannot in the least perceive Had those things been spoken of Lucius Cary his Son who retired several times to and took commons in Exeter coll while his Brother Lorenzo studied therein 1628. and after I should have rather believed it But let the matter rest as 't is Sure I am that after Hen. Cary had left the University where he had obtained a celebrated name he was introduced into the Royal Court was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold one of his Privy Council Lord Deputy of Ireland an 1622. and about the same time Viscount Falkland in Scotland being then in much esteem by that King for his great abilities and experience in state affairs He wrote several things but not printed and is supposed to be author of The History of the most unfortunate Prince K. Edw. 2. with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites Gaveston and Spencer containing several passages of those times not found in other Historians Lond. 1680. oct Which book being found among the Papers of the said Henry Visc Falkland was published therefore as his when the Press was open for all such books that could make any thing against the then Government with a Preface to the Reader patch'd up from very inconsiderable authors by Sir Ja. H. as is supposed The Reader is to know that in 1628. was published at Lond. in oct an historical Poem intit The deplorable life and death of Edward the Second K. of England together with the downfal c. written by one Rich. Hubert which Poem being printed without the knowledge of the author and so consequently full of faults and not according to his mind a true copy was printed at Lond. in the year following in oct bearing this title The History of Edw. 2. sirnamed Carnarvon one of our English Kings together with the fatal downfal of his two unfortunate Favourites Gaveston and Spencer Published by the authors own copy with the Addition of some other observations both of use and ornament written by his elder Brother Sir Franc. Hubert or Hobert Knight As for Henry Lord Falkland he gave way to fate occasioned by the breaking of his Leg on a stand in Theobald's Park in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 but where he was buried I cannot tell He left behind him a Son named Lucius Cary begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfield L. Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had the Mannor of Great Tew the Priory with the Rectory and Demesnes of Burford in Oxfordshire and other Lands Whether this Lucius was born at Burford as some think he was the publick Register of that place which commences about the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. takes no notice of it However that he was mostly nursed there by a wet and dry Nurse the Ancients of that Town who remember their names have some years since informed me So that the place of his Nativity being yet doubtful to me I must tell you that when his Father became Lord Deputy of Ireland he carried his Son Lucius then a wild Youth with him into that Country where he caused him to be educated in Academical learning in Trinity coll near to Dublin and afterwards sent him to travel under the tutelage and protection of a discreet person who making a very great reformation in him as to life manners and learning Lucius had ever after a great respect and veneration for him Upon his return he retired several times to Oxon to enlarge that learning which he had acquir'd as I shall anon tell you His first years of reason were spent in Poetry and polite learning into the first of which he made divers plausible sallies which caused him therefore to be admired by the Poets of those times particularly first by Ben. Johnson who hath an Epigram on him in his Vnderwood in the second vol. of his works 2. By Edm. Waller of Beconsfield who highly extols his worth and admirable parts and 3. By Sir John Suckling who afterwards brought him into his Poem called The Session of Poets thus He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost forgot his Poetry Though to say the truth and Apollo did know it He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. Much about the time of his Fathers death he became one of the Gent. of his Majesty's Privy Chamber had frequent retirements to Great Tew and sometimes to Oxon as he had done very frequently before his Marriage for the company of and conversation with learned and witty men Among whom were Will. Chillingworth of Trinity coll John Earle and Hugh Cressy of Merton coll George Aglionby of Ch. Ch. Charles Gataker of Pembroke coll Son of Thom. Gataker of Redriff or Ridrith near to London who I think was afterwards his Chaplain Thom. Triplet a very witty man of Ch. Ch. and others He had also intimate acquaintance with George Sandys the Poet who usually lived at Caswell near to Witney in the house of Sir Franc. Wâ—nman who married his Sister whose company was usually frequented when Lucius retired to his house at Burford In 1639. he was put in Commission for his Majesty in the expedition against the Scots and upon his safe return thence Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and a great admirer of him hath an excellent copy of verses wherein are several things honourably mentioned of him and his learning In the
either in Oriel or Lincoln college or successively in both In the former I have reason to suppose so because several of his name and kindred were members thereof soon after if not in his own time and in the other because in the Bursars accompts thereof I find one Mr. Will. Smyth to have been a Commoner of that house before and in the year 1478. being the same without all doubt with this person of whom we now speak Howsoever it is tho I am not ignorant that he was a benefactor to both the said colleges especially the last and that in an Epistle to him concerning his election to the Chancellourship of the Univ. of Oxon the Members thereof do say that he was sometimes Alumnus Academiae Oxon sure I am that he as others being fearful of divers pests hapning in Oxon in their time did receed to Cambridge where this Will. Smyth became Fellow and afterwards Master of Pembroke hall About that time he was made Archdeacon of Surrey D. D. of Cambridge in which degree he was incorporated at Oxon and afterward Clerk of the Hamper if I mistake not for we have an Epistle written to one Mr. Will. Smyth Cler. Hamperii for the expedition of the consummation of the privileges of the University and at length being elected Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry had restitution made of the temporalities of that See 29. Jan. 8. H. 7. dom 1492. After he had sate there about three years he was elected Bishop of Lincoln so that having restitution made of the temporalities thereof on the 6. Feb. 1495. sate there till the time of his death became a great man in the Kings favour Councellour to Prince Arthur President of Wales being the first of all that bore that office Chancellour of the University of Oxford and the prime founder of Brasnose coll there He gave way to fate on the second day of January in fifteen hundred and thirteen year 1513 and was buried in the great middle Isle near to the Sepulchre of Will. Alnwyke sometimes B. of Linc. towards the west end of the Cath. Church at Lincoln Over his grave was a very large marble Tomb-stone soon after laid even with the pavement having thereon engraven on a large brass plate the portraicture of a Bishop mitred and vested for the Altar with a Crosier in his left hand and on the verge of the said stone was this inscription engraven on several narrow plates of brass Sub marmore isto tenet hic tumulus ossa venerabilis in Christo Patris ac Domini Domini Willielmi Smyth quondam Conventriensis Lychfeldensis ac deinde Lincolniensis Presulis qui obiit secundo die mensis Januarii anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo tertio decimo cujus anime propitietur deus qui pius misericors in die tribulationis misericors peccata remittit Ecclesiastiio At the foot of the portraicture are these verses following engraven on a brass plate fastned to the said stone Cestrensis Presul post Lyncolniensis Amator Cleri nam multos cis mare transque aluit Quique utriusque fuit Prefectus Principis aule Fundavitque duas perpetuando Scholas Aulaque sumptu hujus renovatus est Enea Criste Hic situs est anime parte benigne sue You may see more of this worthy Bishop in Hist Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 104. b. 161. b. 212. 415. b. He the said Dr. Smyth gave three hundred pounds to John the Prior and Convent of Laund in Leycestershire to have the Parsonage and Parish Church of Roysthorne in Cheshire bought and appropriated to their house Which accordingly being done the said Prior and Convent did in consideration thereof give and confirm under their Common Seal to the Mayor and Citizens of Chester an annuity of ten pounds to be paid from the Monastery of S. Werburgh within the said City to the end that they pay that annuity to a Master or Bachelaur of Arts or at least to a Master of Grammar that should teach Grammar freely at Farnworth in Lancashire This was done 22. Hen. 7. and soon after was a School settled there He also gave many ornaments and other stuff to Brasnose coll to be used in their Chappel and elsewhere CHRISIOPHER BAINBRIDGE Bambridg or Baynbrigg was born at Hilton near Appleby in Westmoreland educated in Queens coll of which he became Provost before the year 1495. being about that time LL. D. and afterwards a liberal benefactor thereunto In Feb. 1485. he being then Prebendary of South-Grantham in the Cath. Church of Salisbury which he resigned became Prebendary of Chardstock in the said Church and in Apr. 1486. was made Preb. of Horton in that Church on the resignation of R. Morton In 1503. Sept. 28. he was admitted Preb. of Strenshall in the Cath. Ch. of York then void by the consecration of Jeffr. Blyth to the See of Lich. and Coventry and on the 21. Dec. following he was installed Dean of the said Church of York in the place of the said Jeffr. Blyth who had been installed in that Dignity in the place of Dr. Will. Sheffield deceased 24. Mar. 1496. In 1505. he was not only made Dean of Windsore but Master of the Rolls and one of the Kings Councellours in which year he resigned his Rectory of the Ch. of Aller in the Dioc. of B. and Wells In 1507. he being elected Bishop of Durham had restitution made to him of the temporalities of that See 17. Nov. the same year and in the next being elected Archbishop of York on the death of Thom. Savage had the temporalities also of that See restored to him 12. Dec. 24. Hen. 7. In March 1511. he was made Cardinal of S. Praxedis for the service he did in perswading K. Hen. 8. to take part with the Pope in the Wars between him and Lewis 12. King of France and in 1514. being then in Rome was poisoned by one Rinaldo de Modena an Italian Priest who was his Steward upon malice and displeasure conceived for a blow his Master gave him as the said Rinaldo when he was executed for it confessed at his death He ended his days on the 14. July in fifteen hundred and fourteen and was as certain authors say buried in the English hospital now called the English college in Rome year 1514 The author of Cardinal Wolseys life saith that the said Cardinal Bainbridge died at Rohan in France being then and there the Kings Embassador Onuph Panvinius and Joh. Baleus with his authors tells us that Christopher Vrswyke who was Predecessor to the said Cardinal Bainbridge in the Deanry of Windsore was made Cardinal of S. Praxedis but false for it must be understood of Bainbridge As for Christoph Vrswyke he had been Recorder of London in part of the Reign of Edw. 4. in the time of Ric. 3. and in part of Hen. 7. To which last King being Chaplain and afterwards Almoner was by him imployed in several Embassies especially to
see more among the Doctors of Div. 1630 and of the last among the Masters of A. 1621. Jan. 27. John Geree of Magd. Hall Feb. 3. Mathew Griffith of Gloc. Hall lately of Brasn Coll. 4. Thom. Swadlin of S. Joh. Coll. All these Bachelaurs except Bedingfield and Townly are to come into the second Vol. of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 223. Mast of Arts. Apr. 20. Cornel. Burges May 20. Tho. Lushington of Linc. Coll. The last of these two who was originally of Broadgates Hall but had not taken the degree of Bach. of Arts will be mention'd in the second Vol. Jun. 9. Will. Pemble of Magd. Hall 10. Christop Tesdale of New Coll. He was afterwards Minister of Husborne-Tarrant in Hampshire one of the Assembly of Divines and a Preacher before the Long Parliament He hath published Hierusalem or a vision of peace Fast-sermon 28 Aug. 1644 before the House of Commons on Psal 122. 6. Lond. 1644 qu. and perhaps other things which is all I know of him only that he was an Abendon man born 10. Charles Herle of Exeter 12. Thom. Twittie of Oriel Coll. 27. Franc. Gouge of S. Edm. Hall This year Francis Little of Ch. Ch. was admitted but the day or month when appears not He afterwards published some of the posthumous Works of Dr. Tho. Sutton as I have elsewhere told you and was himself a learned man He was the Son of Franc. Little sometimes Mayor of Abendon in Berks. who in the year 1627 wrot a leiger book containing a short account of the Monastery of Abendon an account of the Hospital of the brotherhood of the Holy Cross there and of several matters relating to Abendon Adm. 131 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Jun. 8. Will. Loe of Mert. Coll. sometimes of S. Alb. Hall Jul. 6. Tho. Marler of Trin. Coll. In 1625. Jun. 27 he was made Archdeacon of Salisbury and dying in 1643 was succeeded in that Dignity by Will. Buckner 7 Aug. the same year Nov. 3. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. 24. Joh. Wall of Ch. Ch. Feb. 5. Nathaniel Canon of S. Maries Hall Adm. 19. Doct. of Law June 25. Charles Twysden of All 's Coll. He was soon after Principal of New Inn and at length Chancellour of Lichfield and Coventry Doct. of Phys Jun. 25. Andr. Byrd of Merton Coll. George Raleigh of New Inn. The first of these practised his faculty at Reading in Berks where dying in 1636 was interr'd in St. Laurence ch there The other in Oxford where he was much in repute till the time of his death an 1623 or thereabouts Doct. of Div. June 8. Will. Loe of Mert. Coll. a Compounder and Accumulator 25. Simon Jux Rich. Etkins of Ch. Ch. The first of these two who was a Compounder was about this time Rector of St. Olaves in Southwark where he died about the beginning of the year 1631. Edmund Jackson of St. Johns Coll. He was now beneficed in Kent by the favour of Dr. Buckridge Bishop of Rochester to whom he was Chaplain July 10. Thom. Oates of Magd. Coll. This learned Doctor who was at this time domestick Chaplain to Will Earl of Pembroke Chancellour of the University became Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Rob. Chaloner deceased being at that time one of the Kings Chaplains and soon after if not then Prebendary of S. Pauls Cathedral in London He died and was buried at Windsore an 1623. 14. Evan Vaughan of Jesus Coll. 16. Roger Bates of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was at this time Chaplain in Ordinary to K. James 1. as he was afterwards to K. Ch. 1. and much in esteem for his excellent preaching On the 20. of May 1630 he was collated to the Prebendship of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Sarum upon the translation of Dr. Walt. Curle from the See of Rochester to Bathe and Weils and in the year following in the Month of Decemb. he was made Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Theodore Price deceased being about that time a Justice of the Peace of Middlesex and the liberties of Westminster He died at his House in Milford-Lane without Temple-bar on the 15 of March 1633 and was buried in the Chancel of St. Clements Danes in the Strand near London March… Rich. Astley Warden of All 's Coll. Incorporations June 18. James Wats M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Cambridge He was afterwards Minister of Wodnesborough in Kent and published The controversie debated about the reverend gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the holy communion Lond. 1621. qu. and perhaps other things Quâ—re July 1. Sam. Balcanqual M. A. of Edenburgh in Scotland On the 14. of the said month being the next day after the conclusion of the Act these Cantabrigians following were incorporated Will. Wats M. A. of Cains Coll. This admirable Critick and Divine who was born near to Lyon in Norfolke did afterwards travel into several Countries and became Master of divers Languages At his return he was made Chaplain to King Ch. the first Doct. of Divinity Minister of St. Albans in Woodstreet within the City of London afterwards Chaplain under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the Scotch expedition an 1639 and Prebendary of Weils But being sequestred from his Benefice in London plundred and his Wife and Children turn'd out of doors and himself forced to fly when that City was in the heighth of its rebellion 1642. he retired to His Majesty served under Prince Rupert when his Majesty raised Forces in his own defence and was present with him in all the battels that he fought with the Parliamenteers and many times when that Prince made his desperate attempts on that Party Upon the declining of the Kings cause a little before which time he was made Archdeacon and Residentiary of Wells as I have been informed he stuck to the said Prince when he served his Majesty on the Seas upon the revolt of certain English Ships from the Parliament and was with him when he was blocked up in the harbour at Kingsale in Ireland where being overtaken with a distemper which no Physick could cure surrended up his Soul to the Almighty and was buried there in the latter end of the year 1649 as I was many years since informed by his Widow the Daughter of Mr… Vaughan Minister of Ashted in Surrey Brother to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London This Dr. Wats who is several times honorably mention'd by Vossius by the title of doctissimus and clarissimus Watsius and qui optime de Historia meruit c. had an especial hand in Sir Hen. Speâ—â—â—ans Glossary corrected added considerable notes to and published Matthew Paris his Historia Major an 1640. He wrot also 1 The History of Gustavus Adolphus 2 Mortification Apostolical c. Lond. 1637. wherein justifying the use of canonical hours gave great offence to the Puritan 3 Treatise of the passions 4 Treatise of the surplice not extant besides several Sermons He also translated
into English St. Augustines confessions Lond. 1631. in a thick oct illustrated by him with certain marginal notes and from French into English The Catholick Moderator which I have not yet seen He also published the several numbers of News-books in the English tongue more than 40 containing the occurrences done in the Wars between the King of Sweden and the German All published before the Civil Wars of England began John Lynch M. A. He was afterwards Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury Parson of Herietsham in Kent and the writer and publisher of The Christian Passover Serm. at St. Pauls on Wednesday in Easter Week 1637. on 1. Cor. 5. 7. S. Lond. 1637. qu. and perhaps of other things Quaere Walter Balcanqual Bach. of Div. of Pembroke hall This learned Scot who was now Chaplain to His Majesty became Master of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near London on the 16. Dec. 1617 which place he giving up soon after it was conferr'd on Marc. Ant. de Dominis Archb. of Spalato who came into England upon account of Religion 16. Dec. 1616. on the 23. of April 1618. in which year the said Balcanqual was sent to the Synod of Dort to represent the Church of Scotland and with him went Th. Goad of Cambridge in the place of Dr. Joseph Halâ— Dean of Worcester indisposed In Feb. 1621. the said Marc. Ant. being weary of the Kings favour and benevolence extended to him left England whereupon Balcanâ—ual was restored to the Savoy again and on the 12. March 1624. he was installed Dean of Rochester being then D of D. in the place of Godfrey Goâ—dman promoted to the See of Glocester In 1639 May 14 he was installed Dean of Durham in the place of Dr. Rich. Hunt who had succeeded in that rich Dignity Sir Adam Newton Knight and Baronet a Lay-man Soon after the grand rebellion breaking out Balcanqual was forced from his Mastership of the Savoy plundred sequesrred and forced to fly by the impetuous Presbyterians an 1642. so that retiring to His Majesty at Oxon did afterwards shift from place to place for security At length flying for the safety of his life to Chirk Castle in Denbighshâ—e died there in a very cold season on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour an 1645. The next day his body was buried in the Parish Church of Chirk and some years after had a noble monument set over his grave the inscription on which was made by Dr. John Pearson by a most worthy Royalist named Sir Tho. Middâ—eton of Chirk Castle who dying in 1660 aged 79 was also buried in the said Church In Jan. following 1645 Dr. Christoph Potter Provost of Qu. Coll. in Oxon obtained of his Majesty the grant of the said Deanery of Durham but he dying in the beginning of March following without installation his Maj. confer'd it upon Will. Fuller D. D. of Cambridge who dying in 1659 Dr. John Barwick of Camb. was installed in that Dignity 1. Nov. 1660. Dr. Balcanjual hath written and published 1 The honor of Christian Churches Serm. at Whitehall before the King on Matth. 21. 13. Lond. 1633. qu. 2 Serm. preached at St. Maâ—ies Spittle on Munday in Easter wâ—ek 14. Apr. 1623 on Psal 126. 5. Lond. 1634. qu. and also drew up The Declaration of K. Ch. 1. concerning the late tumults in Scotland with a particular deduction of the seditious practices of the Covenanteers out of their own foul Acts and Writtings Lond. 1639. fol. John Whiting D. D. He was at this time a Minister in London where he died about 1624. David Owen D. D. See among the Incorporations an 1603. Martin Day D. D. See among the Incorp 1602. Which Cambridge Men I say viz. W. Wats I. Lynch W. Balcanqual John Whiting D. Owen M. Day and at least 20 more were incorporated on the 14. Jul. Will. Spicer a Devonian born and Doctor of the Laws of the Univ. of Lâ—yden was incorporated the same day Oct. 12. Lionel Sharp D. D. lately of Kings Coll. in Cambridge He had before been Chaplain to the Earl of Essex in whose treasons he was engag'd and afterwards to Henry Prince of Wales and was now or lately Rector of Malpas in Cheshire Minister of Tiverton in Devon and Archdeacon of Berks which Dignity was conferr'd upon him 9. Nov. 1605 upon the death as I suppose of Dr. Martin Colepeper He hath published 1 Oratio funebris in honorem Henrici Walliae Principis propriam atque intimam ejus effigiem prâ—ferens c. Lond. 1612. in 3 sh in qu. 2 Novum fidei symbolum sive de novis c. Lond. 1612. qu. 3 Speculum papae i.e. viva expressa Antichristi effigies c. Printed there the same year These two last were translated into English under this title A looking glass for the Pope wherein he may see his own face the express image of Antichrist Together with the Popes nâ—w Creed c. in two Dialogues Lond. 1623. qu. He hath also published Certain Sermons of which one is on 1. Kings 10. ver 9 printed in oct 1603. He died in 1630 and was succeeded in the Archdeaconry of Berkshire by Edward Davenant 26. January the same year You may see more of this Dr. L. Sharp in Joh. Hoskins among the Writers an 1638. and in Cabala Mysteries of State printed 1654. p. 255 and 257. An. Dom. 1619. An. 17. Jac. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. John Prideaux D. D. Rector of Exeter College July 17. Proct. Christoph Wrenn of St. Johns Coll. Brian Duppa of All 's Coll. Apr. 7. Bach. of Musick Richard Emot of Brasn Coll. who had been a Student in the faculty of Musick for 20 years supplicated for the Degree of Bachelaur in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not perhaps upon neglect in the register This Person who was Son or near related to Will. Emot sometimes Fellow of Brasn Coll. and afterwards Vicar of Einsham near Oxon where he died and was buried in Feb. 1584 lived mostly in the City of Wells and had as I conceive some place in the Cathedral there He hath made several compositions in Musick for voices and instruments but whether any of them were ever made publick I cannot tell One Richard Browne was admitted Vicar Choral and Organist of Weâ—ls an 1614. which place he keeping till 1619. one John Okever succeeded and therefore I presume the said Emot was never Organist of Wells in his own right Bach. of Arts. Apr. 24. Philip Nye of Magd. hall May 12. Tho. Atkinson of St. John Coll. See more among the Bach. of Div. 1630. June 9. Will. Pinke of Magd. hall 20. Will. Strode of Ex. Quaere July S. John Earl of Mert. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Bishop successively of Worcestâ—r and Salisbury Oct. 19. Rich Heyrick of St. Jo. Rich. Byfield of Qu. Coll. 21. George Stinton of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters 1622. Nov. 3. Will. Evans of St. Maries Hall See
Athenae Oxonienses An Exact HISTORY OF ALL THE Writers and Bishops Who have had their EDUCATION in The most ancient and famous University OF OXFORD FROM The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh Dom. 1500 to the End of the Year 1690. REPRESENTING The Birth Fortune Preferment and Death of all those AUTHORS and PRELATES the great Accidents of their LIVES and the Fate and Character of their WRITINGS To which are added The FASTI or Annals of the said University For the same time The First VOLUME Extending to the 16 th Year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640. Antiquam exquirite Matrem Virgil. LONDON Printed for THO. BENNET at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard MDCXCI TO THE Most High Mighty and Illustrious PRINCE JAMES Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Brecknock and Ossory c. Gentleman of the Bedchamber to His Majesty Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and Chancellour of the Famous University of OXFORD TO THE Right Worshipful JONATHAN EDWARDS Doctor of Divinity and Principal of Jesus College his Worthy Vice-chancellour AND To the Worshipful The Doctors the Proctors and Masters Members of the venerable Convocation of the said University The Author doth humbly dedicate these his ATHENAE and FASTI OXONIENSES The PREFACE IT is well known that the Author of this Work hath through the whole course of his life declin'd the pursuit of any private interest or advantage and hath only according to his abilities endeavour'd to promote the honour and glory of that Nation where he had been born and more especially of that Vniversity wherein he was educated His early application or as some call it his natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities made him more fit to serve his Country in that than in any other Stâ—â—y and that part of Antiquity which was most useful in its self and which yet lay most neglected became the immediate object of his care as that which not only deserv'd but requir'd and wanted the greatest industry The Vniversity of Oxford had now flourish'd for many Centuries its Members had been great and famous their works wanted neither value nor number and therefore nothing seem'd more necessary for the increase of its glory and for the true knowledge of its strength than a Register of its Heroes and an exact survey of its powers It was requisite then not only that the Writers of this Vniversity and the Characters of their works shou'd be perpetuated to posterity but that a History of all Cardinals Archbishops and Bishops as well in this Nation as beyond the Seas all of them formerly Members of this Vniversity should at the same time and by the same hand be attempted and carried on and that lastly the account of any remarkable Persons that would not fall under those heads might be reserv'd to and digested under the Fasti or Annals of the Vniversity So that upon the whole not only the lives of the Authors and the fate of their Writings but the succession of all eminent Men in Oxford the decay and growth the rise and progress of learning might at one view in due order of time distinctly appear It is a wonder indeed that among all the members of that Body who have signaliz'd their learning and industry in all professions and almost upon all subjects the intire glory of this Work should be left to this Author and that no part of literature should be left wholly uncultivated in that famous Society but the Memoires of the Vniversity it self and the History of Learning therein Somewhat indeed in defence of the antiquity of the place had before by Mr. Twyne and others been successfully undertaken and performed but it was a far more easie and less useful enquiry to look into the Original of this Society than to record the Acts of its Members to discover the head of this Fountain than to trace all its Channels Since therefore this Work seem'd for the most part new and as yet untouch'd it was once the Authors design to Commence with the time of K. Alfred and from thence to have brought down the concurrent History of the Vniversity and Learning together But afterwards when he had consider'd not only that the famous Antiquary Jo. Leland and his followers Bale Pits and Dr. Fran. Godwin had in a great measure anticipated the former part of his design but that the Records and Registers themselves upon which his Relations are chiefly founded were in those times either wholly lost or at least dark and imperfect He thought fit to begin with the 15th Century and to ascend no higher than his Records would lead him However since a great and noble part of the History of Learning would upon so late a date of this Work be wholly omitted it was esteemed requisite that a short and full relation of all Authors and Works which before that time had been publish'd in this Island should supply that loss and render the work it self more perfect and entire This Introduction the Reader may expect before the 2d Vol. At present nothing more remains for the subject of this Preface than to give a short account of the design of this work of the management and language of it and to add somewhat concerning the Author As to the design it must be own'd that since an intire Collection of all passages relating to eminent Authors was intended some circumstances have a place here which at first view may seem trivial and immaterial It ought therefore to be consider'd that those little accidents however mean in themselves yet in respect of the Persons and of the works which they attend oftentimes become considerable In a common repertâ—ry any redundance or superfluity of matter however too severely blamâ—d by nice palats is such a fault as is not far remov'd from an excellence The work is fitted for all Men in all faculties and therefore those of one profession should not be displeased if somewhat be inserted which however useless to them may be chosen and admir'd by others In all Commentaries and Journals which afford Materials for History there ought not only to be somewhat rude and naked which may afterwards be polish'd somewhat rough and plain that may be beautify'd and improv'd but somewhat at least little and seemingly immaterial than may upon occasion judiciously be chosen or sometimes perhaps with no less prudence rejected Such general collections are read by most Men with different designs and therefore however easie it may be for any Man to discover an omission it is very hard for any one Reader to pronounce one single passage in them wholly superfluous 'T is true indeed that Men who after a great search and enquiry into Records have found but somewhat that might as well have been spared naturally choose rather to trespass on the Reader than to pass sentence on their own discâ—veries and this if any blemish is so common to this Author with all other famous Antiquaries from Plutarch and Athenaeus
his said Widow Dorothy whose Daughter Mary hath Verses before in commendation of them This Dr. Peter Lilye gave way to fate in the latter end of 1614 12. Jac. 1. and was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy beforementioned Will. Lilye the Grammarian had a Daughter named Dionysia who was married to his Usher John Ritwise or Rightwyse afterwards Master of St. Paul's School on the Death of his Father-in Law and a most eminent Grammarian in his Generation This Person by the way I must tell you was born at Sawl in Norfolk educated in Eaton School near Windsor elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1507. made the Tragedy of Dido out of Virgil and acted the same with the Scholars of his School before Cardinal Wolsey with great applause One Rich. Jones Succeeded him in the Government of St. Paul's School 1532. 24. Hen. 8. in which Year Ritwise perhaps died Afterwards his Widow Dionysia took to her second Husband James Jacob who was one of the Masters of the said School by whom he had a Son called Polydore Jacob. In the next Centery after the Death of our Famous Will. Lilye appeared as a Comet to the Vulgar from Leicestershire one of both his Names a great pretender to Astrology and Physick and in â—uch considering his Education which was without the help of an Academy he was eminent He began to write much about the time when the grand Rebellion commenc'd wrot in favour of the Long Parliament and their proceedings and many notorious matters against the Royal Family which being highly resented by the generous Loyalist he was aimed at upon His Majesties Restauration in 1660. to be brought to condign punishment But upon the Intercession of George Wharton to whom Lilye had been civil in the times of Usurpation and others he escaped and continued in writing his Ephemerides to the time of his Death This Person who pretended much to Prophecy of which he hath published several Pamphlets especially in his said Ephemerides and had exercised the trade of Conjuration among ignorant People died at Walton upon Thames in Surrey where he had purchased a fair Estate with the Moneys he had got by imposing on the Vulgar with his Juggles on the 9th day of June an 1681. Aged near 80 Years and was buried in the middle of the Church there towards the North Wall Soon after was a black Marble Stone with an Inscription thereon laid over his Grave by his Friend Elias Ashmole Esq A little before his Death he did adopt for his Son by the Name of Merlin Junior one Will. Coley a Taylor by Trade and a Native of Magd. Parish in the North Suburb of Oxon and at the same time gave him the Impression of his Ephemeris after it had been Printed for 36 Years which Coley continues to this day The Writings of this Lilly being too many to be here inserted I shall only give you the canting and amusing Titles of some as 1 Englands Prophetical Merlin 2 English Merlin revived c. 3 Storry Messenger or an interpretation of the strange Apparition of three Suns 4 A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophecies c. 5 Astrological Prediction of the occurrences in England 6 The Worlds Catastrophy 7 Monarchy and no Monarchy c. 8 Annus tenebrosus or the dark Year c. 9 Christian Astrology c. JOHN STANBRIDGE another noted Grammarian of his time was born at Heyford in Northamptonshire educated in Trivials in Whykehams School near Winchester admitted after two Years of probation true and perpetual Fellow of New College in the Year 1481 left it Five Years after and being naturally delighted in the faculty of Grammar tho then Bac. of Arts he was made first Usher of the Free-School joyning to Magd. Coll. for so he occurs in the Year 1488. and after the Death of Job Anwykyll chief Master thereof in which employment he continued if I mistake not to the time of his Death and became so happy in the practice of his profession that many Persons who proved afterwards eminent acknowledged to have received instruction from him Among such Rob. Whittington was one by whose endeavours as also those of Stanbridge Will. Horman and Will. Lilye all Oxford Students the Latin tongue was much refin'd and amended This Jo. Stanbridge was a right worthy Lover of his faculty and an indefatigable Man in teaching and writing as it may appear by those things that he hath published very grateful to the Muses and publick concerns The last of which he consulted more than his own private interest and when in his old Age he should have withdrawn himself from his profession which is esteem'd by the generality a drudgery and have lived upon what he had gotten in his younger Years he refused it lived poor and bare to his last yet with a juvenile and cheerful Spirit He hath written Embryon relimatum sive Vocabularium Metricum This I have seen Printed in an old English Character about 1522. in qu. In the title of which is the Authors Picture Printed from a Wooden Cut sitting in a Chair with his Gown on and a Hood on his Shoulders but no Cap on his Head only a close one like to a Curlot This Book was view'd and corrected in Qu. Elizabeth's time by Thomas Newton of Cheshire who hath an Encomium upon it Afterwards enlarged and made to run in compleat Verse by that noted Grammarian John Brinsley sometimes a Schoolmaster and Minister in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk an 1636. I mean the same Brinsley who married the Sister of Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Norwich and wrot and published several Books of Divinity and Grammar besides translations Stanbridge also wrot Parvulorum Institutiones De ordine constructionum Vulgaria With other things which I have not yet seen He lived beyond the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and two but when he died or where he was buried unless in Magd. Coll. Chap. or Yard belonging thereunto I know not One Thomas Stanbridge his Kinsman I think took the Degree of Master of Arts in this University an 1518. being then a noted Schoolmaster of Benbury in Oxfordshire who dying 1522 left several Books to the Coll. of which he had been Fellow which if I mistake not was Magd. College NICHOLAS VAUX Son of Sir Will. Vaux of Harwedon in Northamptonshire by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Gregory Penystone of Curtesels in Piemont a Province of Italy was born in that County Northamptonshire and in his juvenile Years was sent to Oxon where by reading Humane and Romantick rather than Philosophical Authors advanced his Genie very much in Poetry and History In his riper Years he followed the Camp did King Hen. 7. noted service in the Battel of Stoke near Newark in the second Year of his Reign and thereupon he received the Honor of Knighthood In the 17th Year of that Kings Reign he appeared like a Star at the Marriage of Prince Arthur for the Gown of Purple Velvet which he
of the like opinion were many of his time yet the generality said that his witty discourses were biting his laughter opprobrious and scornful and his jokes commonly sharp and reflecting He hath written besides translations 50 several things upon various Subjects as well in Prose as Verse among which are these A Comedy of Virtue A Comedy of good Order Meditation on St. Anne On the Virgin of Kent Sonners on Dame Anne Elynor Rummin or Elynour of Rummyng the famous Ale-Wife of England This was several times Printed and one Impression which was the last I think was made at London 1624. in 2 Sheets and an half in 4to In the Title Page is the Picture of an old ill-favour'd Woman holding in her hand a black Pot of Ale and underneath her these Verses are written When Skelton wore the Lawrel Crown My Ale put all the Ale-Wives down This Book is the same I conceive which some Authors call The tunning of Elynor Rumpkin He hath also written The Peregrination of humane Life Solitary Sonnets The art of Dying well The art of Speaking eloquently Manners and fashions of the Court. Reasons why he goeth not to the Court. Invective against Will Lilye the Grammarian This being written in Verse and very carping was returned in its kind by the Grammarian Epitaphs on several Kings Princes and Nobles Two or more of which you may see in a Book intit Reges Reginae Nobiles alii in Eccl. collegiata B. Petri Westmonast sepulti usque ad an 1600. published by Will. Camden Lond. 1600. qu. See more in Will. Baldewyn among these Writers under the Year 1564. I have seen another Book of Skelton bearing this title Here after followeth a little Boke called Colyn-Clout compiled by Master Skelton Poet Laureate Printed in an old Engl. Char. at London in 8vo without date by Abraham Veale much about the time as I conceive of the Authors death The beginning of it is What can it avayle To drive forth a snayle Or to make a Sayle c. Poetical Fancies and Satyrs Lond. 1512. oct Verses on the creation of Arthur Pr. of Wales and other things which are slightly and unsatisfactorily set down by Baleus and his follower Pitseus At length our Poet dying in his Sanctuary was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Margaret within the City of Westminster in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine year 1529 21. Hen. 8. Over his Grave was this Inscription soon after put Johannes Skeltonus Vates pierius hic situs est Animam egit ejicit XXI Junii an Dom. MDXXIX Near to his Body was afterwards buried an old Court-Poet called Tho. Churchyard and not in the Church Porch as certain old Rhimes tell you beginning thus Come Alecto and lend me thy torch To find a Church-yard in a Church-porch I find another Joh. Skelton who lived in the time of King Hen. 4 but he was a D. of D. and a Dominican as I have elsewhere told you and therefore I conceive it the reason why Baleus stileth this Poet Dr. of Divinity which no other Author beside himself doth Another Job Skelton I find who was confirmed Abbat of Whitby in Yorkshire upon the Death of Tho. Bolton by the Archb. of York 6. Nov. 1413. THOMAS SPENSER Son of Leonard Spenser of the City of Norwich having from his Youth been much addicted to learning and piety especially the last became afterwards a Carthusian in the Monastery of that Order at Henton in Somersetshire whence for a time he receeded to Oxon as several of his Order did to improve himself or to pass a course in Theology After his return he obtained so much leisure from his divine exercise as to write several matters relating to his faculty among which were Comment in Epist D. Pauli ad Galatas Trialogue between Tho. Bilney Hugh Latimer and W. Repps Which Book was written partly to shew the great complaints of Bilney and Latimer two Protestants had against the said Repps a Roman Catholick the same Person I presume who became Bishop of Norwich in 1536. As for our Author Spenser he gave up the ghost after he had spent most of his time in the severities belonging to his Order year 1529 in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried in his Monastery of Henton before-mention'd leaving behind him a most rare example of Piety ROBERT WHITYNTON or Whittington was born in the City of Lichfield educated partly in Grammaticals under John Stanbridge in the School joining to the common gate of Magd. Coll. and afterwards made a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals but in what Coll. or Hall it appears not However his delight being much in the teaching of Youth he became so excellent in that way that it was thought especially by those that favour'd him that he surpassed W. Lilye In the beginning of the Year 1513. 5. Hen. 8. he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents under the name and title of Rob. Whytingdon a secular Chaplain and a Scholar of the Art of Rhetorick that whereas he had spent 14 Years in the study of the said Art and 12 Years in the informing of Boys it might be sufficient for him that he might be laureated This supplicat being granted he was after he had composed 100 Verses which were stuck up in publick places especially on the door or doors of St. Maries Church very solemnly crowned or his temples adornd with a wreath of Lawrel that is doctorated in the Arts of Grammar and Rhetorick 4 July the same Year At the same time also he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the degree of Bach. of Arts which was then esteemed equal with the degree of Doctor of Grammar or Rhetorick From that time he always wrot himself in several of his works Protovates Angliae which was much stomach'd by Will. Horman and W. Lilye and scorn'd by others of his profession who knew him to be conceited and to set an high value upon himself more than he should have done He was then notwithstanding esteemed by many for his great skill he had in the Greek and Latin tongues for his lepid and jocular discourse also but much blamed by Scholars for the biting and sharp reflections used in it and in his Books against several noted Persons of his Age. His writings were many of which some were against W. Lilye Rob. Aldridge and Will. Horman who esteemed him a Man of great vanities a Catalogue of some of which follow De difficultate justitiae servandae in reipublicae administratione MS. in 4to written in verse to and in praise of Cardinal Tho. Wolsey The beginning of which is Quae res in terris c. Before it is an Epigram and an Epistle in Prose written on and to the said Cardinal by our Author Whitynton De quatuor virtutibus Cardineis MS. written to the said Cardinal in prose The beginning is Cum tuas multifarias virtutes
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
Author saith who adds that he died at London in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 which was the eight and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. FRANCIS BYGOD a Yorkshire Man born spent some time among the Oxonian Muses but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King and wrot A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices The Epistle before which dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed or reprinted at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman's Larger work of Tithes by the care of Jerem. Stephens an 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope his Marriage with Anna Bolein and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth as 't is conjectured by circumstances The Author's purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession as it had been complained of long before his time especially be Dr. Tho. Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English which I have not yet seen At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage an 1536 at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull was thereupon apprehended imprison'd and at length executed at Tyburn near to London with other Knights and Esquires in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. ROBERT WAKFELD a Northern Man born and the greatest Linguist of his time was as he saith ex fidelibus natus fidelis ex Christianis Christianus and afterwards being fitted for the University he was sent to Cambridge where he took one or more degrees in Arts. But his desire being solely bent to improve his natural Genie in the Tongues he went to travel and in short time attained to a very considerable knowledge in the Greek Hebrew Chaldaic and Syriac Tongues About that time he read and taught the said Tongues at Tubing in Germany at Paris and in 1519 I find him to be Hebr. Professor at Lovaine in Brabant in the place of one Matthew Adrian But continuing there only 4 Months he returned into England where being made known to the King by his great friend and admirer Rich. Paice Dean of St. Pauls he was made one of his Chaplams took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity was beloved of many and patroniz'd in his studies by Thom. Bulleyn Earl of Wilts When the unlawfulness of Matrimony between the King and Catherine of Spayne Widow of his Brother Prince Arthur was called into question he began to defend the Queens cause and therefore gained the love of many bâ—t being afterwards courted by fair promises to change his mind and the rather because of his great skill in the Tongues and Divinity and therefore able to say more than another Man he came over to the Kings Party whereby he gained the hatred of many I have seen a Letter written by him to the King dated from Sion in Middlesex 1527. wherein he tells him that he will defend his cause or question in all the Universities in Christendome c. and afterwards tells him that if the People should know that he who began to defend the Queens cause not knowing that she was carnally know of Pr. Arthur his Brother should now write against it surely he should be stoned of them to death or else have such a slander and obloquy raised upon him that he would rather dye a thousand times than suffer it c. Afterwards upon the intreaty of the University of Oxon made to the King Wakfeld was sent thither about 1530. and at his first coming he made a publick Speech in the Hall of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. since called Ch. Church before the University and afterwards read publickly the Hebrew Lecture there as his Brother Tho. Wakfeld did at Cambridge by the Kings Authority beginning to read there in 1540. In 1532 he was made by the King the twelfth or junior Canon of his College at Oxon founded on the site of that of the Cardinal and in the same Year he was incorporated B. of Divinity So that continuing there some Years after and-instructing many in the Tongues I have therefore put him among the Oxford Writers In 1536 when he saw the King make havock of Religious Houses he carefully preserved divers Books of Greek and Hebrew especially those in the Library of Ramsey abbey which were partly composed by Laur. Holbeach a Monk of that place in the Reign of Hen. 4. among which was his Hebrew Dictionary As for the works of Wakfeld they are mostly these that follow Oratio de laudibus utilitate trium Linguarum Arabicae Chaldaicae Hebraicae atque idiomatibus hebraicis quae in utroque testamento inveniuntur Printed by Winand Worde in qu. Paraphrasis in librum Koheleth quem vulgo Ecclesiasten vocant succincta clara atque fidelis Printed in a black char in qu. Kotser codicis quo praeter ecclesiae sacrosanctae decretum probatur conjugium cum fratria carnaliter cognita illicitum omnino inhibitum interdictumque esse tum naturae jure tum jure divino legeque evangelica atque consuetudine catholica ecclesiae orthodoxae Printed at Lond. 1528 in qu. This is the same with his Book entit by Bale and Pits De non ducenda Fratria Syntagma de hebraeorum codicum incorruptione Printed in qu. In which Book are several things against Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester concerning Matrimony and the unlawfulness of the Kings Marrying with his Brothers Wife Oratio Oxonii habita in Coll. Regio Printed with the former in qu. De Laudibus Agriculturae Epistolae ad D. Th. Bulleyn comitem Wilts Joh. Fisherum Ep. Roff. Rich. Paceum c. Besides other things mentioned elsewhere which I have not yet seen He died at London on the eighth day of Octob. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven leaving Thomas his Brother his Heir but where he was buried I cannot yet tell Jo. Leland in one of his Books gives him the name of Polypus noting thereby he way of contumely that he was a crafty man for craftily conveying away the Hebrew Dictionary before-mention'd Rich. Paice Dean of Pauls in a Letter to K. H. 8. dat at Sion 1527. saith that Rob. Wakfeld is a Person of excellent learning as well in Divinity as in wonderful knowledge of many and divers Languages The University of Oxon in an Epistle to the said King doth also say that besides his various accomplishments he gives place to none for his admirable knowledge in the Hebrew Syriac and Arabick Tongues JOHN CLAYMOND who used to write himself Eucharistiae servus because he frequently received the blessed Sacrament and in the latter part of his life took it every day was the Son of Joh. Claymond and Alice his Wife sufficient Inhabitants of
qu. Which being the first book of that nature that was ever printed in the English tongue was a pattern or platform to those that came after viz. to Will. Wyrley in his True use of Armory Printed 1592. qu. to Joh. Boswell when he wrot his Works of Armory in 3 books Lond. 1597. qu. and to others In the beginning of Apr. 1577. there was some dispute made among the relations of the said Ger. Legh who should administer his goods debts chattels c. So that I presume he died in Fifteen hundred seventy and six year 1576 18. Elizab. which is all that I yet know of him or his works WILLIAM BLANDIE was born at Newbury in Berkshire educated in Wykâ—hams School near to Winchester elected Probatione-Fellow of New Coll. in 1563 took one Degree in Arts three years after and the same year was removed thence by the Bishop of Winton in his visitation of that Coll. but for what reason unless for Popery I cannot tell About the same time he went to London became Fellow of the Middle Temple and afterwards translated from Lat. into English The five Books of Hicronimus Osâ—rius containing a discourse of Civil and Christian Nobility Lond. 1576. qu. What other things he hath translated or whether he hath written of any Subject I cannot tell ANTHONY RUSSHE a florid and frequent Preacher of his time was born in the Diocess of Norwych admitted Probationer-Fellow of Magd. Coll. in July 1554 did compleat the Degree of Master of Arts 1558 and soon after quitting his Fellowship became Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Dean of Chichester in the place perhaps of Barth Traheron Doctor of Divinity and in the Year 1567 Canon of Windsore He hath written A President for a Prince wherein is to be seen by the testimonie of antient writers the duty of Kings Princes and Governours Lond. 1566. in qu. and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature on the first day of April year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 or more and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Over his grave is an Epitaph containing a great Elogie of him which for brevity sake I shall now omit and in the mean time proceed to the next writer in order to be mentioned RALPH GUALTER Son of the famous Ralph Gualter was born at Zurich in Helvetia spent several years in this University mostly in Merton Coll. took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1573 and then returning to Zurich became Minister of St. Peters Church there where he was held in great admiration for his quick and forward parts He hath written Elegia de militia Christianorum in his terris adversus satanem carnem mundum militantium Epitaphium in Hen. Bullengeri obitum written in Greek Epicedium in obitum Joh. Parkhursti Episcopi Nordovicensis Tigur 1576. qu. Argos Helvetia Sive carmen de Tigurinorum navigatione Tiguro Argentoratum usque uno die confecta Carmina in imagines Doctorum nostri seculi virorum Varia Epigrammata Epitaphia At length having spent his short life in learning and virtuous industry surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 25 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried as 't is said in St. Peters Church before-mention'd at which time the chief Scholars there did much bewail his loss by their Poetry A certain Author tells us that this Ralph Gualter the Son hath written Homilies on the lesser Prophets but such I have not yet seen The Father hath and therefore I suppose there is a mistake in the matter MORGAN PHILIPPS or Philip Morgan a Monmouthshire Man born in the Dioc. of Landaff became a student in the University in 1533 or thereabouts made so great a progress in Logick and Philosophy and became so quick and undermining a Disputant that when he was Bach. of Arts he was commonly called Morgan the Sophister In the Year 1538 he was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. being then an year standing in the Degree of Bachelaur and taking that of Master of Arts he entred into the sacred function In 1546 he was made Principal of St. Maries Hall and three years after was one of the Triumviri that undertook a publick disputation in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr In 1550 he resign'd his Principality being then Bach. of Div. and in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign he became Chauntor of St. Davids Cathedral Whereupon and because of his absence from Oriel Coll. for more time than was allowed he was denounced non socitis in 1554. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he left his preferment friends and country for Religion sake spent most of his time at Lovaine and Doway and wrot several books as 't is said but I have seen only these following which go under his name viz. Defence of the honour of Mary Queen of Scotland with a declaration of her right title and interest to the Crowne of England Leig 1571. in 2 books in oct A treatise shewing that the regiment of Women is conformable to the Law of God and nature in one book Ib. 1571. oct These two treatises containing three books were published under his name but written as a noted Author tells us by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse in Scotland upon occasion of sundry Pamphlets that came out against the marriage of Mary Qu. of Scots to be had with the Duke of Norfolk and the right by which she claimed to become heir unto England Which Bishop as 't is farther added did afterwards ingeniously acknowledge in his Commentaries that he had his arguments for her right of succession secretly from Sir Anth. Browne Chief Justice of the Common-pleas and from Serjeant Joh. Carryll an excellent common Lawyer of the Inner Temple So that if Morg. Philipps was not the Author of the said treatises I cannot justly say that he wrot any thing else only his Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Univ. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem 31. Maii an 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. c. See more in Pet. Martyr an 1562. and in Will. Tresham 1569 c. But let our Author Camden and his follower here quoted say what of Leslie's being the Author of those books and other judge of the matter as he and they please while I tell you that a writer before Camden in time and equal with him in learning as to the studies he professed reports that the said Morgan Philipps a Man of good account for learning among those that knew him was thought to have written the said treatises divided into three books by the advice and assistance of Sir Anth. Browne which thing is made the more credible by the many authorities of our common Law which there are alledged The first book doth endeavour to clear Mary Q. of Scots for the murther of the Lord Darley her Husband which by many was laid
Clemency could not be drawn into a Persuasion that in case of Religion Men should be burnt hang'd or quartered And therefore it was that one reporteth that he always was in animo Catholicus and another that he was of such credit and favour in Rome as if he was the greatest Papist in England He wrote as it is said several things pertaining to the Law but none of them are extant only this if I may say it is his and not his Name set to it for sale sake A Treatise concerning Statutes or Acts of Parliament and the Exposition thereof Lond. 1677. oct Whether ever before printed I know not Speeches spoken during the time of his Chancelorship MS. This great and worthy Person dyed on the 20th of November in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 51. and was buried in the upper part of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on the 16th of December following Soon after came out a little Book of Verses made on his Death by several Hands intit Musarum plangores Christopher Lord Hatton Son of John Hatton the nearest Knsman of the Male Line to the aforesaid Sir Christopher was not of St. Mary's Hall but of Jesus College in Cambridge and afterwards a Doctor of the Civil Law of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you He published the Psalms of David with Titles and Collects according to the matter of each Psalm Printed at Oxon 1644. in oct and afterwards enlarged and published several times These Collects or Prayers at the end of every Psalm were compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor and so were the Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian People which are at the end of every impression of the aforesaid Book yet notwithstanding they go all under the Name of the aforesaid Christop L. Hatton having his Arms in the Title of them who dying 4 July 1670. being then or lately a Member of the Privy Council to his Majesty was buried in a private Chappel of the Collegiate Church at Westminster dedicated to St. Peter opposite to the Capella Regum on the North side See more in Jer. Taylor under the year 1667. BARTHELMEW CHAMBERLAINE was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family in Oxfordshire admitted Scholar of Trinity Col. 7. June 1563. aged 17 years Probationer in 67 and Fellow the year after About that time entring into Holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts took both the Degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated 579. before which time he was beneficed and dignified in the Church but where I cannot justly say He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Passion of Christ and benefits thereby on Heb. 9. 28. Lond. 1581. and 1613. oct 2 Concio ad Academicos Oxomienses in Comitiis An. 1576. Lond. 1584. qu. 3 Sermon at Pauls on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1589. oct 4 Sermon at Farington in Berks on Lond. 1571. oct with others which I have not yet seen Between the time of the first coming of the said Barth Chamberlain to Trinity College to the year 1578. I find seven of his Sirname to be Students in the said College and some after but cannot in all my searches find out George Chamberlaine who was afterwards Bishop of Ypre and whether he ever abode in this University in the condition of a Student I cannot justly say it The said George Chamberlaine was the eldest Son of George Chamberlaine Esque by his Wife the Daughter of Moses Pring of Gaunt in Flanders and he the second Son of Sir Leonard Chamberlaine of Oxfordshire Knight Governor of the Isle of Guernsey who dyed there 2. Eliz. From which Sir Leonard are the Chamberlains of Sherburn in the said County desended the Heiress general of which Family named Elizabeth was married to John Nevile Baron of Abergavenny The said George Chamberlatine who was Bishop of Ypre was born at Gaunt before-mentioned An. 1576. and being bred up ro Learning and Religion became successively Canon Archdeacon and Dean of St. Bavon in Gaunt and at length in 1626. was made Bishop of Ypre within the Province of Machlin in Brabant on the Death of Antonius de Hennin where being settled he became much admired as he was partly before for his great Piety for his voluble Preaching in five Languages at least and beloved of Kings and Princes c. Had I time and room allowed I would give you a Copy of an Epitaph made on by one that knew and much admired him wherein no doubt but that high character of his Piety Learning and Worth is justly said but I must hasten and tell you that he dying to the reluctancy of all that knew him on the 19. Dec. according to the account followed at Ypre in 1634. aged 58 years one month and 19 days was buried in his own Cathedral Some years before his Death he came into England purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn before-mentioned and elsewhere which belonged to the noble Family of the Chamberlains sometimes Barons of Tanquervil in Normandy he being the first and true Heir And this he did for Religion sake and purposely to avoid the incumbrances of earthly things See more of him in Athenae Belgicae c. written by Franc. Sweertius printed at Antwerp 1628. where you will find several things that he had written and published ROBERT GWINN a Welsh Man born took one degree in Arts 1568. and in 1571. leaving the University went with Thom. Crowther another Batchelaur to Doway where being admitted into the English College made very great progress in Divinity Afterwards Gwinn returning into England and settling in Wales in the condition of a Secular Priest did write several Pious Works in the Welsh Tongue as Anton. Possivinus tells us but the Titles of them he omits and also translated from the English into the Welsh Language A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding Men to Eternal Salvation commonly called the Resolution Written by Rob. Persons the Jesuit which Translation was much used and valued and so consequently did a great deal of good among the Welsh People See more in Jo. Davies under the year 1634. WALTER BALEY or Bailey Son of Henry Baley of Warnwell in Dorsetshire was born at Portsham in that County educated in Wykchams School 〈◊〉 Win chester admitted perpetual fellow of New Colledge after he had served two years of probation an 1550 tok the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line was admitied to practice that faculty while he was Proctor of the University in the year 1558 and about that time was made Prebendary of Dultingcote alias Dulcot c. in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in 1579. In 1561 he was made the Queens Professor of Physick in this University proceeded in that faculty two years after and at length became Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much resorted to for his practice He hath written A discourse of three kinds of Pepper in
say so I cannot tell unless the plague came upon him as a judgment for the sacrilege he committed while he was Vicar of S. Leonards Church before mentioned Qu. RICHARD EDES whose name and brothers posterity did lately if not still live at Sewell in Bedfordshire was born perhaps in that county and being made full ripe for the University in Westminster School was elected Student of Ch. Church in 1571. where going thro the usual Classes of Logick and Philosophy proceeded in Arts in 1578. being then Junior in comitiis or of the Act that year About the same time taking the sacred function on him he became a most noted and celebrated preacher was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1584. being that year installed Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Church of Sarum made chaplain to Q. Elizabeth Canon of Ch. Ch. in the lâ—tter end of 1586. and in 89. Doct. of Divinity In the latter end of 1596. he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Franc. Willys deceased being then and ever after to his death for he â—as also chapl to K. James 1. held in great admiration at Court not only for his preaching but most excellent and polite discourse His younger years he spent in poetical fancies and composing of plays mostly Tragedies but at riper he became a pious and grave Divine an ornament to his profession and a grace to the pulpit No two men were ever more intimate than he and Tob. Mathews Dean of Ch. Ch. for they intirely loved each other for vertue and ingenuity sake and when Mathews was to remove to the Deanery of Durham in 1584. our author Eedes intended to have him on his way thither for ones days journey but so betrayed were they by the sweetness of each others company and their own friendship that he not only brought him to Durham but for a pleasant pennace wrote their whole journey in latin verse intit Iter boreale several copies of which did afterwards fly abroad Then also and before in their youthful acquaintance passed so many pretty apothegms between that if a collection had been made of them they would have fill'd a manual His works are Iter boreale MS. The beginning of which is Quid mihi cum Musis quid cum borealibus oris A copy of this written by an unknown hand I have in my little Library Various Poems MS. in Lat. and Engl. Six learned and godly Sermons preached some of them before K. James and some before Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1604. oct The two first are called The duty of a King on Micah 6. 8. 3 A fruitful Meditation upon the sickness on Micah 6. 13. 4 The principal care of Princes to be nurses of the Church on Isay 49. 23. 5 Of the difference of good and evil on Isay 5. 20. 6 Of heavenly conversations on Phil. 3. 20 21. Three Sermons Lond. 1627. qu. One of which is on Ephes 2. ver 19. to 33. Another on Eph. 5. 15 c. This learned Doctor dyed at Worcester on the nineteenth of Nov. year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four and was buried in the chappel at the east end of the choir leaving behind him a Widdow named Margaret daughter of Dr. Harb Westphaling Bishop of Hereford who soon after was at the charge of putting a monument over his Grave with an inscription thereon containing a dialogue in verse between the Passenger and the Monument a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 266. b. In this Deanery of Worcester succeeded James Mountague D. D. of Cambridge who being made Bishop of B. and Wells was succeeded in the said Deanery by Arth. Lake D. D. 23. Apr. 1608. who succeeded him also in B. and W. as I shall tell you elsewhere THOMAS STORER Son of John Storer a Londoner was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1587. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1594. at which time he was had in great renown for his most excellent vein in poesie not only expressed in verses printed in several books made occasionally by the members of the University but for that writ in English verse intit The life and death of Tho. Wolsey Cardinal Divided into 3 parts his aspiring triumph and death Lond. 1599. in ten sheets in qu. Which book being perused by the learned Dr. Alberic Gentilis he doth occasionally make this mention of Wolsey and our author Atque o utinem c. quod Wolsaeo aedificatori magnificentissimi collegii Christi praestitum ab ingenioso poeta est c. The truth is Storer obtained from the then Academians great credit for that work particularly from his friend Ch. Fitzgeoffry the poet of Broadgates hall but more among others for his Pastoral Aires and Madrigalls which were afterwards remitted into a book called Englands Holâ—con What other things this ingenious person hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in the parish of St. Michael Basinghaugh within the City of London in November year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four and was as I conceive buried in the Church there Divers copies of verses were made on his death by his acquaintance in this University and elsewhere but are not as I conceive printed RICHARD TURNBULL was born in Lincolnshire admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 9. Nov. 1566. aged 16. or thereabouts and was afterwards made Fellow M. of Arts and a Priest At length being beneficed in London where he was much followed for his edifying way of preaching wrote and published An exposition on the canonical Epistle of St. James Lond. 1591. oct in 28 Sermons Exposition on the Canon Epist of St. Jude In 10 Sermons Printed there the same year in oct Four Sermons on Psal 15. Which Sermons with the former Expositions were printed in quarto at Lond. 1606. the author being then dead I find that one Will. Turnfull L. L. Bac. was installed Preb. of Worcester 1557. which he resigned in 1558. being then Parson of Fladbury in Worcestershire and that he died in Jul. or Aug. 1573. Whether this William was a writer or had any relation to Richard before-mentioned it doth not yet appear to me WILLIAM HUBBOCKE was born in the County Palatine of Durham elected from Magd. hall to be Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in the Month of Octob. 1581. aged 21 years took the degrees in Arts and was afterwards beneficed and in great repute for his learning He hath written and published An Oration gratulatory to K. James 12. of Febr. when his Majesty entred the Tower of London in order to his Coronation c. Oxon. 1604. qu. The Title is in English but the Oration is in good Latin Several Sermons One of which is on 1 Pet. 3. 21 22. What other things he hath published I know not nor the time or place when and where he died EDMOND ANDERSON a Cadet of a gentile Family living in the Parish
taken into the hands of all Juniors and have undergone several impressions Grammat Graec. Enchyridion in oct This goes under the name of Joh. Flavell but whether written by the former I know not for I have not yet seen it He died in the flower of his youth on the 10. year 1617 Nov. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in Wadham coll Chappel I find another Joh. Flavell after the former in time author of a little thing intit A Prayer or Treatise of God's mighty power and protection of his Church and People c. Lond. 1642. and another if not the same author of Husbandry spiritualized c. Lond. 1669. qu. of A Saint indeed c. Lond. 1670. oct and of several other things but whether he was ever of this University I know not He occurrs Minister of Dartmouth in Devon 1672. and several years after THOMAS CORYATE Son of George Coryate mentioned under the year 1606. was born in the Parsonage house at Odcombe in Somersetshire became a Commoner of Gloucester hall in the beginning of the year 1596. aged 19. where continuing about three years he attained by the help of a great memory to some competency in Logick but more by far in the Greek tongue and in humane learning Afterwards he was taken home for a time then went to London and was received into the Family of Henry Prince of Wales At which time falling into the company of the Wits who found him little better than a Fool in many respects made him their Whetstone and so became notus nimis omnibus In the beginning of the year 1608. he took a Voyage into France Italy Germany c. and at his return published his travels under this title Crudities hastily gobled up in five Months travels in France Savoy Italy Rhetia Helvetia some parts of High Germany and the Netherlands Lond. 1611. qu. Which book was then usher'd into the world by an Odcombian banquet consisting of near 60 copies of excellent verses made by the Poets of that time which did very much advantage the Sale of the book Among them were Ben. Johnson Sir Jo. Harrington of Kelston near Bathe Dudl Digges afterwards Master of the Rolls Rich. Martin Recorder of London Laur. Whittaker Hugh Holland the traveller Jo. Hoskyns Sen. Inigo Jones the surveyour Christop Brook Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. Joh. Chapman Thom. Campian Dr. of Phys. Jo. Owen the Epigrammatist Sam. Page of C. C. C. Tho. Bastard of New coll Tho. Farnaby sometimes of Mert. coll Jo. Donne Mich. Drayton Joh. Davys of Hereford Hen. Peacham c. In the year following 1612 after he had taken leave of his Countrymen by an oration spoken at the Cross in Odcombe he took a long and large journey with intentions not to return to his native Country till he had spent 10 years in travelling to and fro The first place he went to was Constantinople where he took special notice of all things there observable In which place he found very great respect and encouragement from Sir Paul Pindar then and there Embassadour Being there for some time he took his opportunities to view divers parts in Greece and in the Helespont he took special notice of those two Castles directly opposed each to other called Sestos and Abydot which stand on the several banks that bound that very narrow Sea Which places Musâ—â—u makes famous in his very antient Poem of Hero and Leander He saw Smyrna famous at that time for trade but not religion and what then remain'd of the ruins of sometimes great Troy but the very ruins of that place were almost all gone to ruine From Smyrna he found a passage to Alexandria in Egypt and there near Grand Catro antiently called Memphis he observed what remain'd of the once famous Pyramids Returning thence back to Alexandria he found a passage by Sea to Joppa and travelling thence 20 English miles he arrived at Jerusalem but found it a very solitary rocky and uncomfortable way full of danger by reason of the wild Arabs who keep about those passages to make poor travellers their prey and spoil In Jerusalem he saw Mount Calvery where our Saviour suffered then enclosed within the Walls Bethlem where he was born about 5 English miles from Jerusalem and Mount Olivet whence he ascended From Jerusalem he took his way to make a view of the Dead Sea the place where Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim once stood Thence he went to have a sight of the River Jordan which dischargeth it self into that most uncomfortable Lake and from thence he journied north-east through the Ten Tribes till he came to Mount Libanus Thence back to Sidon where he got a passage by Sea unto Alexandretta now called Scanderoon which is one of the most unwholesome places in the world Thence he took his way to Aleppo in Syria about 70. miles distant from Scanderoon where he was kindly received by the English Consul and tarried with him till he could get the benefit of a Caravan which consists of a great multitude of people from divers parts which get and keep together travelling in those parts for fear of the incursions and violences by Thieves and Murderers which they would undoubtedly meet withal if they travelled single or but few together With these he after set forward towards and to that City anciently called Nineveh in Assyria which we find in the Prophecy of Jonah was sometimes a great and excellent City of three days journey but then so exceedingly lessen'd and lodg'd in obscurity that passengers could not say this was Nineveh From thence he journied to Babylon in Chaldea situated upon the River Euphrates once likewise so great that Aristotle called it a Country not a City but now very much contracted From this place he proceeded through both the Armeniaâ—s and either did or else he was made to believe that he saw the very mountain Ararat whereon the ark of Noah tested after the flood From thence he went forward towards the Kingdom of Persia and there to Vspahan the usual place of residence for the great King Thence to Seras antiently called Shushan where the great King Ahasuerus kept his Royal and most Magnificent Court Afterwards to Candahor the first Province north-east under the subjection of the Great Mogul and so to Lahore the chiefest City but one belonging to that great Empire of very great trade wealth and delight From Lahore he went to Agra which is 400 English miles planted with great Trees on both sides which are all the year cloathed with leaves exceeding beneficial unto travellers for the shade they afford them in those hot climes At Agra he made an halt being there lovingly received in the English Factory where he staid till he had gotten to the Turkish and Morisco or Arabian Languages some good knowledge in the Persian and Indostan Tongues in which study he was always very apt and in little time shewed much proficiency The first of those two the Persian
the civil Wars of death and fortune c. London 1609. A Poem in oct The triumph of death or the picture of the plague according to the life as it was in an 1603. Printed with Humours heaven and earth c. Wits pilgrimage by poetical essayes through a world of amorous Sonnets soul-passions and other passages divine philosophical and poetical Lond. in a pretty thick qu. but not expressed when printed 'T is dedicated to Philp Earl of Mountgomery Muses sacrifice or divine meditations Lond. 1612. in tw The muses tears for the loss of their hope heroick and never too much praised Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. Times sobs for his Pr. Hen. untimely loss with Epitaphs Printed with The Muses tears Consolatory strains to wrest nature from her vent in immoderate weeping Printed with that also Ecclogues Lond. 1614. oct They are at the end of The Sheapards Pipe written by Will. Brown of the Inner Temple A select second husband for Sir Tho. Overburies wise now a matchless widdow Lond. 1616. oct Dedic to Will E. of Pembroke Elegies on the death of Sir Tho. Overbury Speculum Proditori Printed with the former book 1616. oct Several copies of verses of his are also published in other books as a large copy before Ph. Hollands translation of Camdens Britannia another in the Odcombian banquet c. He dyed about the year sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried year 1618 as one tells us within the precincts of S. Giles ch in the Feilds near Lond. I find one Joh. Davies Gent. to have lived in the parish of S. Martin in the Feilds who dying in the beginning of July or thereabouts in 1618. was buried near to the body of Mary his sometimes wife in the church of St. Dunstan in the West Whether the same with the Poet I cannot justly tell because may author here quoted Tho. Fuller saith but upon what authority I know not that he was buried at S. Giles in the Feilds One John Dunbar a Latine Poet of Scotland hath an Epigram on J. Davies the Poet which may serve for an Epitaph wherein he tells us that he was another Martiall and that he out-stript in Poetry Sam. Daniel Josh Silvester the Merchant adventurer c. THOMAS THOMPSON a very noted preacher in the time he lived was born in the County of Cumberland wedded to the Muses in Queens coll in Mich. Term 1589. aged 15 made a poor serving child of that house in the year following afterwards Tabarder and in 99. Fellow being then Master of Arts. About that time addicting his mind severely to the studies of the superiour faculty became a noted Disputant Schoolman and very familiar with the Fathers At length leaving the coll about the time he was adwitted Bach. of Div. which was 1609. he became one of the publick preachers in the City of Bristow and Minister of S. Thomas Church there where he was much followed and admired for his edifying and orthodox doctrine Afterwards leaving that City in 1612. upon what account I know not he became Minister in the town and liberties of Montgomery in Wales where if I mistake not he continued till the time of his death He hath written and published Concio ad clerum de clavibus regni coelorum habita pro forma Oxon. intemplo B. Mariae 16. Feb. an 1609. in Matth. 16. ver 19. Lond. 1612. oct De votis monasticis Theses disputatae sub prâ—sidio Tho. Holland Reg. prof Printed with the former 〈◊〉 Serm. Besides these two things he hath Several Sermons in English as 1 A diet for a Drunkard in two Sermons in the Church of S. Nich. in Bristow on Ester 1. 8. Lond. 1612. qu. 2 Friendly farewell to a faithful â—lock taken in a Sermon preached in S. Thomas Church in Bristow on Easter Tuseday 6. Apr. 1612. on 2 Cor. 13. ver 14. Lond. 1616. qu. 3 Antichrist arraigned Sermon at Pauls Cross on 1 Joh. 2. 18 19 20. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 The trial of Guides by the touchstone of Teachers c. Serm. on Luke 6. 39 40. Lond. 1618. qu. dedicated to Richard Bishop of St. Asaph his Patron These are all that I have seen going under his name and all that I yet know of the author SAMUEL DANIEL the most noted Poet and Historian of his time was born of a wealthy Family in Somersetshire and at 17 years of age in 1579. became a Commoner of Magd. hall where he continued about three years and improved himself much in Academical learning by the benefit of an excellent Tutor But his Genie being more prone to easier and smoother studies than in pecking and hewing at Logick he left the University without the honour of a degree and exercised it much in English History and Poetry of which he then gave several ingenious Specimens After his departure I find nothing memorable of him for several years only that at about 23 years of age he translated into English the worthy tract of Paulus Jovius containing a Discourse of rare inventions both military and amorous called Imprese Lond. 1585. oct To which he hath put an ingenious Preface of his own writing He was afterwards for his merits made Gentleman Extraordinary and afterwards one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber to Anne the Queen Consort of King James 1. who being for the most part a favourer and encourager of his Muse as she was of Jo. Florio who married Sam. Daniel's Sister and many times delighted with his conversation not only in private but in publick was partly for those reasons held in esteem by the men of that age for his excellencies in Poetry and History and partly in this respect that in writing the History of English affairs whether in Prose or Poetry he had the happiness to reconcile brevity with clearness qualities of great distance in other authors This is the opinion of a late author but one who lived in Samuel Daniel's time tells us that his works contain somewhat a flat but yet withal a very pure and copious English and words as warrantable as any mans and fitter perhaps for Prose than Measure Our author Daniel had also a good faculty in setting out a Mask or a Play and was wanting in nothing that might render him acceptable to the great and ingenious men of his time as to Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Camden the learned Sir Rob. Cotton Sir H. Spelman Edm. Spencer Ben. Johnson John Stradling little Owen the Epigrammatist c. He hath written The complaint of Rosamond Lond. 1594. 98. 1611. and 23. qu. Various Sonnets to Delia. Wherein as Parthenius Nicaeus did excellently sing the praises of Arete so our author in this piece hath divinely sonneted the matchless beauty of his Delia. Tragedy of Cleopatra Lond. 1594. 98. qu. Of the Civil Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York Lond. 1604. 09. oct and 1623. qu. Written in eight books in verse with his picture before them The
Brayntrey in Essex which was the best preferment I think he had He was a person esteemed by most men to have been replenished with all kind of vertue and learning to have been profound in Philosophical and Theological learning a great Canonist and so familiar and exact in the Fathers Councels and Schoolmen that none in his time scarce went beyond him Also that none have written with greater diligence I cannot say with a meekermind because some have reported that he was as foul-mâ—â—ched against the Papists particularly M. Ant. de 〈…〉 was afterwards against them and the Prelatists or with better truth or faith than he as by those things of his extant do appear the titles of which are these Sermons As 1 Serm. of Sanctification preached on Act Sunday 12. Jul. 1607. on 1 Thes. 5. 23. Lond. 1608. qu. 2 Inaugurat Serm. of K. Jam. at Pauls Cross 24. Mar. 1608. on 2 Chron. 9. 5 6 7 8 9. Ibid. 1609. qu. 3 Serm. of Predestination on 2 Pet. 1. 10. Lond. 1620. 23. qu. Justinian the Emperour defended against Card. Baronius Lond. 1616. in 7 sh in qu. Introductio in Metaphysicam lib. 4. Oxon. 1619. in a little oct Defence of Constantine with a treatise of the Popes Temporal Monarchy Lond. 1621. qu. Logicae libriquinque de praedicalibus praedicamentis c. Lond. 1622. c. Ox. 1677. in a large qu. Appendix de Sillogismo Sophistico Tractatus de providentia Dei Cantab. 1622. c. qu. Defensio Eccl. Anglicanae contra M. Anton. de Dominis Archiep Spalatensis injurias Lond. 1625. qu. Published by Dr. Joh. Barcham Which book was held to be the most exactest piece for controversie since the time of the Reformation Virgilius dormitans Or a treatise of the first General Councel held at Constantinople an 553. under Justinian the Emperour in the time of Pope Vigilius Lond. 1631. fol. Popish falsifications Or an answer to a treatise of a Popish Recusant intit The first part of Protestants proofs for Catholicks Religion and Recusancy taken only from the writings of such Protestant Doctors and Divines of England as have been published in the Reign of K. James an 1607. MS. This book I saw at Oxon in the hands of Mr. Edw. Benlowes the Poet who in his younger days was a Papist or at least very Popishly affected and in his elder years a bitter Enemy to that Party Whether the said book was ever printed I cannot tell Animadversions on Cardinal Baronius his Annals MS. Either lost or embezil'd after the authors death MSS. The copies of which were formerly if not still in the Tabarders Library in Qu. coll De caelo Physica In Aristotelis Organon I have seen also several of his Epistles written to Dr. Hen. Airay Provost of Qu. coll stitch'd up with Dr. Joh. Rainolds his Declamations and other things among the MSS. in the Library of Dr. Thom. Barlow afterwards B. of Lincoln What else he hath written I find not nor any thing more of him only that he dying at Blacknotly before-mentioned for want of a Bishoprick as K. Jam. 1. used to say was buried in the Chancel of the Church there 25. year 1624 Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and four At which time Dr. Joh. Barchem Dean of Rockyng in Essex did Preach his Funeral Sermon before several Gentlemen and Ministers of the neighbourhood shewing to them in the conclusion the great piety and learning of him who then lay as a spectacle of mortality before them Had that Sermon been printed I might have thence said more of this worthy author but it being quite lost I presume after that Doctors death we must be content with those things that are already said of him PETER BOWNE or Bounâ—â—u as he is sometimes written was a Bedfordshire man born admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Apr. 1590. aged 15. of which he was afterwards Fellow and M. of Arts. This person having a great Genie to the Faculty of Medicine entred on the Physick line practiced in these parts and at length became Dr. of his Faculty Afterwards he wrote Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia Lond. 1624. qu. At which time he practiced Physick in the great City and was much in esteem for it in the latter end of King Jam. 1. and beginning of King Ch. 1. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing of his last days GEORGE MORE Son of Sir Will. More beloved of Q. Elizabeth for his many services done in the Common-wealth was extracted from the Mores of Devonshire but whether born there or in Surrey in truth I cannot tell After he had spent some time in Oxon particularly as it seems in Exeter coll he went to the Inns of Court but took no degree there or here In 1597. he had the honour of Knighthood conâ—erâ—ed upon him being about that time a frequent Speakâ—â— in several Parliaments and much in esteem for his excellent parts In 1604. he being about that time Treasurer to Henry Prince of Wales did by the name of Sir George More of Surrey give several MSS. to the Publick Library at Oxon and 40 l. to buy printed books and in the year following he was actually created Master of Arts. In 1610 he became Chancellour of the most Noble Order of the Garter and about 1615. Lievtenant of the Tower in the place of Sir Jervase Elwaies imprisoned for the consenting to the poysoning of Sir Thom. Overbnry He hath written A demonstration of God in his Works against all such that deny either in word or in life that there is a God Lond. 1598. 1624. qu. Parliamentary Speeches and other things which I have not yet seen He was living at Losely or Lothesley near Guildsord in Surrey where he had a fair Estate descended to him from his Father in sixteen hundred twenty and four and after and there died and was buried He had a Son named Rob. More who was a Knight and a Daughter who was married to the famous Dr. Joh. Donne afterwards Dean of Pauls I have made mention of another George More in the Fasti an 1573. WILLIAM BROWNE Son of Tho. Br. of Tavystock in Devonsh Gent. was born there spent some time among the Muses in Exeter coll after K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown whence retiring to the Inner Temple without any degree confer'd upon him became famed there for his Poetry especially after he had published Britannia's Pastorals Esteemed then by judicious persons to be written in a sublime strain and for subject amorous and very pleasing The first part of it was printed at Lond. 1613. fol. and then usher'd into the World with several copies of verses made by his learned acquaintance as by Joh. Selden Mich. Drayton Christoph Brook c. The second part or book was printed at Lond. 1616. fol. and then commended to the World by various copies made by John Glanvill whom I shall mention elsewhere for his sufficiencies in the Common Law Joh. Davies of Hereford George Wither of Linc.
stone neither marble nor free with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth Author Lake Doctor in Divinity late Bishop of Bathe and Wells who died on the fourth day of May an 1626. His brother Sir Thomas before mentioned who was of Channous near Edgworth in Middlesex died at Chanous 17. Sept. 1630. and was buried on the 19. of the same month JOHN DAVIES the third person of both his names that I have hitherto mention'd among these writers was born at Chisgrove in the parish of Tysbury in Wiltshire being the Son of wealthy Tanner of that place became a Commoner of Queens coll about the beginning of Mich. Term in the fifteenth year of his age an 1585. wherein having laid a considerable foundation of Academical literature partly by his own natural parts which were excellent and partly by the help of a good Tutor he was removed having taken a degree in Arts as it seems to the Middle Temple wherein applying himself to the study of the Common Law tho he had no great genie to it was in fine made a Barrester But so it was that he being a high spirited young man did upon some little provocation or punctilio bastinado Rich. Martin afterwards Recorder of London in the common Hall of the Middle Temple while he was at Dinner For which act being forthwith expell'd he retired for a time in private lived in Oxon in the condition of a Sojourner and follow'd his studies tho he wore a cloak However among his serious thoughts making reflections upon his own condition which sometimes was an affliction to him he composed that excellent Philosophical and Divine Poem called Nosce teipsum Afterwards by the favour of Thomas Lord Ellesmore Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England he was again restored to his Chamber was afterwards a Concellour and a Burgess for that Parliament which was held at Westminster in 1601. Upon the death of Q. Elizabeth he with the Lord Hunsdon went into Scotland to congratulate K. James as her Lawful Successor and being introduced into his presence the King enquired the names of those Gentlemen who were in the company of the said Lord and naming Joh. Davies among who stood behind them the King straightway asked whether he was Nosce Teipsum and being answered that he was the same he graciously embraced him and thenceforth had so great favour for that soon after he made him his Attorney-general in Ireland While he held that place he was made Serjeant at Law having never been Reader an 1606. the Poesie of whose Rings that were then given being Lex publica lux est Notwithstanding the said degree he returned into Ireland by his Majesty's leave and dispensation kept his office of Attorney and received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall 11. Feb. 1607. Afterwards he came into England for altogether was made one of his Maj. Serjeants at Law here in 1612. and sundry times appointed one of the Justices of the Assize in divers Circuits At length being constituted Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench had his robes made in order to be setled in that high office as his Daughter hath several times reported but died suddenly before the ceremony of settlement or installation could be performed He was held in great esteem by the noted Scholars of his time among whom were Will. Camden Sir Jo. Harrington the Poet Ben. Johnson Jo. Selden Facete Hoskyns R. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and others who esteemed him to be a person of a bold Spirit of a sharp and ready wit and compleatly learned but in truth more a Scholar than a Lawyer His works are Nosce Teipsum This Oracle expounded in two Elegies 1. Of Humane Nature 2. Of the Soul of Man Lond. 1599. qu. dedicated to Q. Elizabeth There again 1622. in oct Hymus of Astrea in Acrostick verse Printed with the former Orchestra Or a Poem expressing the antiquity and excellency of dancing in a dialogue between Penelope and one of her Woers containing 131 Stanzaes unfinished This being also printed with Nosce Teipsum they were all three especially the first much extoll'd by Scholars of all sorts Among them I find one who hath dealt poetically with him by an ingenious copy of verses which begins thus Si tua legisset redivivus c. If Plato liv'd and saw these Heaven bred lines Where thou the Essence of the Soul confines Or merry Martial c. Sir Jo. Harrington also before-mentioned would not let his memory escape his Pen without an Epigram especially for his Orchestra besides other Poets of those times which for brevity-sake I shall now pass by Discover of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued nor brought under obedience of the Crown of England until the beginning of his Maj. happy Reign Lond. 1612. qu. Dedic to the King with this Latin verse only Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos Declaration of our Sovereign Lord the King c. concerning the title of his Maj. Son Charles the Prince and Duke of Cornwal c. Lond. 1614. in 14 sh in fol. Printed in columns one in French and the other in English Le primer Reports des cases matters on ley resolves c. adjudges in les Courts del Roy en Ireland Dubl 1615. Lond. 1628. fol. In the sec edit was added a Table which was not in the former From this book it was that Sir Joh. Pettus Knight did chiefly select matter for another intit Englands independency upon the Papal Power historically and judiciously stated by Sir Jo Davies Attorn Gen. in Ireland and by Sir Edw. Coke L. Ch. Just of England in two reports selected from their great volumes with a Pref. written by Sir Joh. Pettus Lond. 1674. qu. Perfect abridgment of the eleven books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke Lond. 1651. in tw written in French by Sir Joh. Davies translated into English by another hand Jus imponendi vectigalia Or the learning touching Customs Tonnage Poundage and Impositions on Merchandizes c. asserted c. Lond. 1656. 59. c. oct I find one Sir J. D. Knight to have published Reasons Academy Or a new post with Sovereign Salve to cure the worlds madness expressing himself in several essays and witty discourses Lond. 1620. oct Written in prose and at the end of it is Reasons moan written in verse in eleven Stanzaes Whether the said Sir J. D. be the same with Sir Joh. Davies I cannot justly tell Besides the before-mentioned things as also Epigrams as 't is said which were published by and under the name of Sir Joh. Davies are several MSS. of his writing and composing which go from hand to hand as 1 Metaphrase of several of K. Davids Psalms 2 A large Epistle to Rob. E. of Salisbury of the state of the Counties of Monaghan Fennanagh and Downe and of Justices of the Peace and other Officers of Ireland written 1607. 3 Speech when he was Speaker of the H.
had in favour by all such that were lovers of Arts and Sciences At length obtaining an honourable Office under the Queen he became one of her favourites which he held for no short term but had the longest lease of any and the smoothest time without rub In the beginning of 1588. he among other persons of honour and quality was actually created Master of Arts which I think was the highest degree that was conferred upon him in this University In 1603. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. and soon after obtained the grant of the ruinous Castle of Wâ—rwick In the 12. year of the said Kings reign he being constituted under Treasurer and Chancellour of the Exchequer he was made choice of for one of Kings Privy Council And meriting much for his faithful services in those employments was by Letters Patents bearing date 9. Jan. 18. Jac. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Brook of Beauchamps court In Sept. 1621. he was made one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Bedchamber whereupon giving up his Chancellourship of the Exchequer Rich. Weston afterwards Earl of Portland succeeded him He was always esteemed a brave Gentleman and honourably descended as being sprung from the family of Willoughby Lord Brook was favoured by Qu. Elizabeth and such that knew he had interest in the Muses His life was always single and tho he lived and died a constant Courtier of the Ladies yet he prosecuted his studies in History and Poetry In which consider him as a Gentleman of noble birth and great Estate he was most excellent in his time as these things following shew composed in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Ph. Sidney Poems A Treatise of humane learning Inquisition upon fame and honour Treatise of Wars Tragedy of Alaham. Trag. of Mustapha Caelica containing 109 Sonnets Letter to an honourable Lady Letter of Travels Written to his Cousin GrevilVerney residing in France c. Some of the said things having been singly published were all remitted into a little thin Folio printed at Lond. 1633. and had this general title put to them Certain learned and elegant works of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke c. The first five years of King James or the condition of the State of England and the relation it had to other Provinces Lond. 1643. qu. The life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all foreign Princes c. Lond. 1652. oct Published by P. B. Short account of the Maxims and Policies used by Qu. Elizab. in her Government Printed with the former book Remains containing Poems of Monarchy and Religion Lond. 1670. oct never before printed with other things among which is his Trag. of Marc. Tull. Cicero which I have not yet seen At length our author who was Counsellour of State to Ch. 1. neglecting to reward one Haywood who had spent the greatest and chiefest part of his time in his personal service for which he expostulated the matter with his Master but was sharply rebuked for it the said Haywood thereupon gave him a mortal stab on his Back they two being then only together in his Bed-chamber in Brook house in Holbourne near London of which wound he died 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight aged 74. year 1628 Which being done the Assassianate discerning his own condition desperate went into another room and there having lock'd the dore murdered himself with his own Sword On the 27 of Oct. following he the said Lord Brook was buried in a Vault situate on the north side of the collegiat Church at Warwick which formerly had been a chapter house belonging thereunto wherein he had in his life time erected a fair Tomb with this Epitaph thereon Fulke Grevil Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellour to King James and friend to Sir Philip Sidney In his honour and dignity succeeded his kinsman Robert Grevil being then 1628. one and twenty years of age educated in Academical learning not in this but in the other University of Cambridge as I have been informed where being well tutor'd became learned considering his quality But being afterwards unhappily attainted with fanatick and antimonarchical principles by the influence of one of his near relations and some Schismatical preachers tho in his own nature a very civil and well humour'd person was without much difficulty drawn in by those fiery spirits of the Long Parliament which began 1640. By whom being back'd on he became an active man in the House against the Prerogative Bishops and the establish'd discipline of the Church insomuch that no less than the abolishing of all decent order in the service of God would satisfie him So that the members of the said Parliament looking upon him as a faithful person for the cause that they then drove on appointed him a Commander in their Army as I shall anon tell you As for the things which he wrote and published are 1 The nature of truth c. Lond. 1643. oct Animadverted upon by John Wallis a Minister in London afterward Geom. Professor of Oxon Printed at Lond. 1643. 2 A discourse opening the nature of Episcopacy which is exercised in England Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Assisted therein by some puritanical Minister and printed when the Press was open to receive all books against the Prerogative and Bishops 3 Two speeches spoken in the Guild-hall in London concerning his Majesties resusal of a Treaty of peace Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Answer to the speech of Philip Earl of Pembroke concerning accommodation Which answer was spoken in the House of Lords 19 Dec. 1642. Pr. in one sh in qu. by order of the House 5 Speech at the election of his Captains and Commanders at Warwick Castle Lond. 1643. qu. In the beginning of the Civil War an 1642. he became Commander in chief of those Forces which were sent to assault the Church-Close at Lichfield then defended by a small Garrison placed there by his Majesty out of a pious intent for the preservation of the stately Cathedral which the Lord Brooke intended presently to destroy when taken by his Forces But so it fell out that he having planted his great Guns against the South-east gate of the Close he was tho harnessed with plate-armour cap-a-pe shot from the Church in the Eye by one Diot a Clergy-mans Son who could neither hear or speak as he stood in a dore whether he came to see the occasion of a sudden shout made by the Soldiers of which he instantly died This memorable accident hapned on the second day of March an 1642. which is the festival of that sometimes famous Bishop S. Cedd or Chad to whose memory Offa King of the Mercians did erect the said Cathedral and devoutly dedicate it Archbishop Laud being then a prisoner in the Tower of London did make this memoire of it in his Diary under the year 1642.
Brother to that mirrour of Piety Mrs. Cath. Brettergh was a Com. or Gent. Com. of S. Albans hall an 1577. aged 18. where he was much noted for an early Zealot Our author Will. Hinde did also revise correct and publish The discovery of the Man of Sin c. Oxon. 1614. qu. written by Jo. Rainolds before-mentioned and An exposition on the last Chapter of the Proverbs Lond. 1614. qu. penn'd by Rob. Cleaver the Decalogist then lately dead At length after our author had undergone several troubles concerning matters of indifferency he surrendred up his last breath in his study at Bunbury in the month of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by his Grandson Thomas Hinde D. of D. sometimes Fellow of Brasnose college afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of Ormond and Dean of Limerick in Ireland who died in his house at Limerick in Nov. 1689. HUMPHREY LEECH or Lechius as he is sometimes written was born at Allerton commonly called Ollerton in Shropshire was entred a Student in Brasnose coll before the month of Nov. in 1590. for in that year and of his age 19. he was as a Member of that house matriculated But before he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Cambridge where taking the degree of Master he returned to Oxon in 1602. and in June the same year he was incorporated in that degree About that time he was made Vicar of St. Alkmonds Church in Shrewsbury where making a short stay he returned to Oxon and became one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. Of whose Preaching and what followed you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. sub an 1608. In which year being suspended of his Chaplainship for Preaching publickly some Popish Tenets for so they were accounted by the puritanical Doctors of the University in those days he left the Church of England and went to Arras in Artois where he wrote these things following The triumph of Truth Or a declaration of the doctrine concerning Evangelical counsayles in two parts Doway 1609. oct Sermon in defence of Evangelical counsayles and the Fathers on Apoc. 20. 12. Printed with the former book Twelve motives which perswaded him to embrace the Catholick Religion An honourable Grand-Jury of 24 Fathers testifying the distinction betwixt legal precepts and evangelical counsayles by their uniform Verdict Which book with the Motives were printed with The triumph of Truth Humble considerations presented to King James concerning his premonitory Epistle sent to all Christian Princes S. Omâ—r 1609. Afterwards our author going to Rome was admitted into the Society of Jesus an 1618. before or after which time he lived in the English coll of Jesuits at Liege and was most commonly the Porter there At length being sent into the English Mission settled in a R. Cath. house in Cheshire near the River Mersie own'd by one Massie where he departed this life in July about the 18. day in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 2629 as I have been informed by Will. Lacey of Oxon one of his Society whom I shall remember when I come to the year 1673. as having been originally of this University THOMAS GOFFE or Gorgh a Ministers Son made his first entry on the stage of this transient World in the County of Essex was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1609. aged 18. where applying his Muse to polite studies became an excellent Poet and Orator Afterwards he proceeded in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and shortly after became a quaint Preacher and a person of excellent language and expression In 1623. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time had the Parsonage of East-Clandon in Surrey conferr'd upon him where taking to Wife a meer Zantippe the Widdow of his Predecessor notwithstanding he had always before prosessed himself an Enemy to the Female Sex and esteemed by many another Joseph Swetnam he was so much overtop'd by her and her children which she had by her former Husband that his life being much shortned thereby died at length in a manner heart-broken But before his Marriage he composed most of these things following some of which were printed after his death Oratio funebris habita in Ecclesiâ Cath. Christi Ox. in obitum Gul. Goodwin istius Eccles Decani S. T. Doctoris Ox. 1620. in one sh and an half in qu. Oratio funebris habita in Scholâ Theol. Oxon. in obitum D. Hen. Savilii Oxon. 1622. qu. Deliverance from the grave Sermon at St. Maries Spittle in Lond. 28. Mar. 1627. on Ezek. 37. 13. Lond. 1627. qu. The raging Turk or Bajazet the Second Trag. Lond. 1631. qu. Couragious Turk or Amurath the First Trag. Ibid. 1632. qu. Tragedy of Orestes Lond. 1633. qu. These three Tragedies were reprinted at Lond. 1656. in oct by the care of Rich. Meighen the authors friend Selimus Emperour of the Turks Trag. Lond. 1638. qu. Careless Shepardess Trag. Com. Lond. 1656. qu. It was printed before but lying dead had a new title bearing date the same year put to it The Bastard Trag. Lond. 1652. qu. Some say it was not written by Goff but by Cosmo Manuche and therefore perhaps 't was only a translation Qu. He the said Th. Goffe made his last Exit at E. Clandon before-mentioned and was buried 27. year 1629 July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine in the middle of the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him other things fit for the Press as I have been informed by one that was acquainted with the author but what became of them he could not tell THOMAS JAMES or Jamesuis as he writes himself was born in the Isle of Wight at Newport as it seems educated in Grammaticals in Wykchams School and in Academicals in New coll of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1593. where drudging day and night in several sorts of learning he proceeded in Arts in 1599. About that time he being taken into the favour of Mr. afterwards Sir Tho. Bodley for his excellent worth in the knowledge of books as well printed as written and of the ordering of them he was by him designed the first keeper of the Publick Library at Oxon then in founding which office being confirmed to him by the University in 1602. he did much good therein and laid a most admirable foundation for his Successors to build upon In 1614. he took the degrees in Divinity and having about that time the Subdeanery of Wells conferr'd upon him freely without seeking by the Bishop of that place and the Parsonage of Mongcham in Kent with other Spiritualities by the Archb. of Canterbury without asking he resigned his place of Keeper of the Publick Library being about that time also a Justice of Peace and betook himself more severe to his studies He was very well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and so much vers'd in
Philosophy of the Stoicks Lond. 1598. oct And published Two short Treatises against the orders of the begging Fryers written by Joh. Wicliffe Also as 't is said a book intit Fiscus Papalis Sive Catalogus indulgentiarum reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae ex vet MS. discriptus Lond. 1617. qu. The Latine out of the MS. is set down in one Colum and the English in another by the publisher This I say is reported to have been published by our author James tho others tell us that it was done by Will. Crashaw of Cambridge Howsoever it is sure we are that it hath supplyed with matter a certain scribler named Henry Care in his Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome when he was deeply engaged by the Fanatical party after the popish Plot broke out in 1678. to write against the Church of England and the members thereof then by him and his party supposed to be deeply enclining towards Popery c. I say by that Hen. Care whose breeding was in the nature of a petty Fogger a little despicable wretch and one that was afterwards much reflected upon in the Observators published by Rog. L'estrange which Care after all his scribbles against the Papists and the men of the Church of England was after K. James 2. came to the Crown drawn over so far by the R. Cath. party for bread and money-sake and nothing else to write on their behalf and to vindicate their proceedings against the men of the Church of England in his Mercuries which weekly came out intit Publick occurrences truly stated The first of which came out 21. Feb. 1687. and were by him continued to the time of his death which hapning 8. Aug. 1688. aged 42. was buried in the yard belonging to to the Black-friers Church in London with this inscription nailed to his Coffin Here lies the ingenious Mr. Henry Care who died c. This person I can compare to none more than to Marchemont Nedham whose parts tho he wanted yet they were Weather-Cocks both alike as I shall tell you more at large when I shall come to that person which will be in the 2d Vol. As for our learned and industrious author Dr. James he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the north Suburb of Oxon in the month of Aug. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged about 58. years and was buried towards the upper end of New college Chappel leaving behind him this character that he was the most industrious and indefatigable writer against the Papists that had been educated in Oxon since the Reformation of Religion Which character being made manifest by his writings it would have been esteemed as generous an act for the Society of that House to have honoured his reliques with a Mon. and Epitaph as they did those of Tho. Lydiat the Mathematitian I shall make mention of another Thomas James in my discourse of Hen. Gellibrand under the year 1637. ROBERT WAKEMAN Son of Tho. Wakeman of Fliford-Flavel in Worcestershire Minister of Gods word was born in that County became a student of Ball. col in the beginning of 1590 aged 14. made Chaplain-Fellow thereof 17. Jul. 1596. being then Bach. of Arts. About that time entring into Orders was a frequent preacher for some years in these parts At length being made Rector of Beer-Ferres and afterwards of Charlton in Devon took the degrees in Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Christian practice at S. Maries in Oxon. on Act. Sunday 8. Jul. 1604. on Acts 2. 46. Lond. 1605. in oct 2 Solomons exaltation before the King on 2 Cor. 2. 8. Ox. 1605. oct 3 The Judges charge on 2 Cor. 19. 6. printed 1610. oct 4 Jonahs Sermon and Ninevehs repentance at Pauls Cross on Jonah 3. ver 4. 5. Ox. 1606. oct 5 The true Professor opposed against the formal Hypocrites of these times on Luke 10. 28. Lond. 1620. oct and others which I have not seen among which is a Serm. on Eccles 11. 1. printed 1607. he gave up the ghost in Septemb. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of the Church at Beer-Ferres on the nineteenth day of the same month leaving then behind him several Children who were all in the beginning of the civil war as the Tradition goes there perswaded from their Religion to that of Rome by one Capt. Rich. Read as 't was supposed who quarter'd in the house where they lived and married one of the Doctors Daughters Afterwards they retired into Worcestershire where they or at least their issue now live JOHN SANFORD Son of Rich Sanford of Chard in Somersetshire Gent. descended from those of his name in Devon was born in Somersetshire entred a Commoner of Ball. college about the time of the Act in 1581. where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was then made one of the Chaplains of Magd. coll At length having contracted a friendship with John Digby Commoner of that House did travel with him into France Spain and Italy whereby he did much advantage himself in the modern languages Afterwards he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the said Digby then known by the name of Sir John Digby at which time he as sent into Spain to treat of a marriage between the Infanta Sister of the King of that Realm and Prince Charles of England After his return Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. made him his domestick Chaplain and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and Rector of Ivychurch in Kent He was a person of great learning and experience and a Solid Divine well skill'd in several languages and a tolerable Lat. Poet. His works are Gods arrow of Pestilence serm on Psal. 38. 2. Oxon. 1604. oct Le Guichet Francois Janicula scu introductio ad linguam Gallicam Ox. 1604. qu. A brief extract of the former Lat. Grammar done into English for the easier instruction of the Learner Oxon. 1605. qu. Grammar or introduction to the Ital. tongue Oxon. 1605. qu. An entrance to the Spanish tongue Lond. 1611. and 1633. qu. and other things as 't is probable with I have not yet seen year 1629 He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the 24. Septemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 60. and more and was buried in the middle almost of the north Isle joyning to the nave er body of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over his Grave was soon after laid a white free-stone with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 199. b. wherein is mention'd his great charity to Widdows Orphans and the Poor EDWIN SANDYS Second Son of Edwin sometimes Archbishop of York was born in Worcestershire particularly as I suppose within the City of Worcester when his father was Bishop of that Diocess before his translation to York admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Sept. 1577. and
the performance of which service he took for his Text these words of the Apostle Let every Soul c. Rom. 13. 1. In canvassing whereof he fell upon the point of the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical which he handled as the most rev Arch. Spotswood who was present at the Sermon hath informed us of him both soundly and learnedly to the satisfaction of all the hearers only it grieved the Scotch Ministers to hear the Pope and Presbytery so often equalled in their opposition to Soveraign Princes c. As for the Presidentship of S. Johns coll our author Buckridge keeping but a little more than five years became B. of Rochester to which he was consecrated 9. June 1611. Afterwards by the endeavours of his sometimes Pupil Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells he was nominated B. of Ely upon the death of Dr. Nich. Felton who died 1626. the Temporalities of which See were restored to him 18. Jul. 1628. A person he was of great gravity and learning and one that knew as well as any other person of his time how to employ the two-edged Sword of the holy Scripture of which he made good proof in the times succeeding brandishing it on the one side against the Papists and on the other against the Puritans and Non-conformists In reference to the first 't is said of him in general by a certain author that he endeavoured most industriously both by preaching and writing to defend and propagate the true Religion here by Law established which appears plainly by his learned laborious piece entituled De potestate Papae in rebus temporalibus sive in regibus deponendis usurpata adversus Robertum Cardinalem Bellarminum Lib. 2. In quibus respondetur authoribus Scripturis rationibus exemplis contra Gul. Barclaium allatis Lond. 1614. in a larg qu. In which book he hath so shaken the Papal Monarchy and its superiority over Kings and Princes that none of the learned men of that party did ever undertake a reply unto it Johannem itaque Roffensem habemus saith my before mentioned author quem Johanni Roffensi opponamus Fishero Buckridgium cujus argumentis siquid ego video ne a mille quidem Fisheris unquam respondebitur With like success but less pains unto himself he managed the controversie concerning kneeling at the Lords Supper against those of the Puritan Party the piety and antiquity of which religious posture in that holy action he asserted with such holy reasons and such clear authorities in A Sermon preached at Whitehall 22. Mar. 1617. touching prostration and kneeling in the Worship of God on Psal. 95. 6. Lond. 1618. qu. and in A discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion printed with the Sermon that he came off without the least opposition of that party also Besides which he hath published Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 23. Sept. 1606. on Rom. 13. 5. London 1616. qu. Another on Heb. 4. 7. printed 1618. qu. A third which is a Funeral Serm. on Heb. 13. 6. was printed 1626. qu. and a fourth on the same chap. vers 16. was published at the end of B. Andrew's Sermons in fol. Lond. 1661. The day and place when and where this most worthy and learned Bishop died I know not only that he was buried in the parish Church of Bromley in Kent the manner of which belongs to the See of Rochester on the last day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt. Carle whom I shall mention elsewhere and in Ely Dr. Francis White the Kings Almoner JOHN HOSKYNS Junior was born at Mounton in the parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1601. took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated 1613. in which year he left the coll being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Rob. Bennet B. of Hereford as he was afterwards to K. James Prebendary of Hereford and Parson of Ledbury in his native Country He was an able Civilian but better Theologist and much followed for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching He hath published Eight Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxon. Pauls Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1615. qu. The first is on Luke 12. 41. The second on Isa 28. 1. The 3. and 4th on Matth. 11. 19. c. He hath also extant a Sermon upon the parable of the King that taketh an account of his Servants on Matth. 18. 23. Lond. 1609. oct A short Catechisme upon the Lords Prayer the ten Commandements and the Creed very profitable for Children and others Lond. 1678. 9. oct published by Charles Townsend M. of A. He ended and finished his course at Ledbury before mentioned 8. August in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the parish Church there Soon after was an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of eight verses the two first of which are these Sub Pedibus Doctor jacet hic in Legibus Hoskyns Esse pios docuit quodque docebat erat The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 145. 6. DANIEL PRICE elder brother to Sampson Price before mentioned was born in the antient Borough of Shrewsbury and there educated in Grammar learning In 1594. and in the sixteenth year of his age he became a Commoner of S. Maries hall in Midsomer Term but before he took a degree in Arts he was transplanted to Exeter coll where by the benefit of a diligent Tutour he became in short time a smart disputant After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he had holy Orders confer'd upon him and was a frequent and remarkable preacher especially against the Papists About that time he was constituted one of Prince Henries Chaplains in Ordinary whereupon taking the degrees in Divinity he was made Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. as afterwards to K. Ch. 1. Dean and Canon residentiary of Hereford Rector of Worthyn near Caus Castle in Shropshire and of Lanteglos in Cornwall Justice of the Peace also for the Counties of Shrewsbury Hereford Montgomery and Cornwall He hath written and published The defence of truth against a book called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras 1609. by Humph. Leech Oxon. 1610. qu. He hath also published at least Fifteen Sermons Among which are these 1 Praelium praemium The Christians war and reward on Rev. 2. 26. Oxon. 1608. qu. 2 Recusants Conversation on Esay 2. 3. Ibid. 1608. qu. 3 The Merchant on Matth. 13. 45. 46. Lond. 1608. qu. 4 Spiritual Odours to the Memory of Pr. Henry in four of the last Sermons preached in S. James after his Highness death the last being the Sermon before the body the day before the burial The first is intit Meditations of Consolation on our Lamentations on Psal. 90. 15. The second which hath the same title is on 2 Sam. 12. 23. The third which is intit Sorrow for
the 15. Ap. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet near London As for Albert Morton before mention'd who was Nephew to Sir Henry Wotton was elected Scholar of Kings coll 1602. went with his Uncle in the quality of Secretary when he went on his Embassie to the States of Venice Afterwards he was thrice Agent in Savoy Secretary to the Lady Elizabeth in Heidleburg and there imployed as Agent for the King with the Princes of the Union Afterwards he became one the Clerks of the Council and a Knight as I have before told you and at length one of the Secretaries of State He ended his days in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in the winter time in Nov. as it seems an 1625. having a little before been elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Univ. of Cambridge He then left behind him a Widdow named Elizabeth by whom he had if I mistake not a Son of both his names who was elected Scholar of Kings coll in the said University 1638. but left that house soon after and became a Leiuetenant Colonel in the Wars in Ireland NATHANIEL TORPORLEY a Shropshire man born applied his Muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church an 1579. aged 16. about which time he became one of the Students of that house Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University and whether he then travelled beyond the Sea I cannot tell For that he was in France for two or more years and was Amanuensis to the celebrated Mathematician Fran. Vieta of Fontenay in the Province of Poictau is notoriously known but the time when whether before or after he was M. of A. we cannot tell Sure it is that his Genie being mostly enclined to the Mathematicks and Astronomy in which faculties he had obtained in his absence a sufficicient knowledge he returned to the University and entring himself into Brasnose coll did as a member thereof take the degree of Master of Arts an 1591 being then eight years standing in that of Bachelaur Afterwards he retired to the great City and became so famous for his singular knowledge that being made known to the great Earl of Northumberland named Henry Piercy the generous favourer of all good learning was received into his Patronage and had a pension paid yearly unto him for several years from his Purse About the same time he was made Rector of Salwarp in his native Country in the place of Tho. Forest deceased 1608. where residing sometimes but mostly in Sion coll in London of which he was a Student and a most eminent member continued in the last till the time of his death He hath transmitted to posterity Diclides Caelometricae seu Valvae Astronomicae universales omnia artis totius munera Psephophoretica in sat modicis finibus duarum tabularum methodo nova generali facilimâ continentes Lib. 2. Lond. 1602. qu. Tabula praemissâ—is ad declinationes caeli mediationes Printed with the former book in five parts Directionis accuratae consummata doctrina Astrologis hac tenus plurimum desiderata Written by way of Preface to the two former books He hath also printed something against Fr. Vieta under the name of Poulterey which is Torpurley's name transpos'd but that book I have not yet seen and hath also written MSS. in Bib. coll Sion Congestor Opus Mathematicum Imperfect Pholosophia Atomorum atopia demonstrata Imperfect Corrector Analyticus artis posthumae Imperfect He took his last farewel of this world in Sion coll before mention'd and was buried in the Church of St. Alphage near to that college on the seventeenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 By his nuncupatory Will which he spake on the 14. day of the same month he gave to the use of those that study in the Library of the said coll all his mathematical books and others all his Astronomical instruments notes mapps and his brass clock Among the said books were some few MSS. of which one contained Certain definitions of the Planisphere made by Walter Warner a most noted Mathematician of his time LEWES BAYLY was born in the antient Borough of Caermerthen in Wales but in what house educated unless in Exeter coll or what degrees he took in Arts I find not only that as a member of the said coll he was admitted to the reading of sentences an 1611. being about that time Minister of Evesham in Worcestershire Chaplain to Prince Henry and Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London and that he proceeded in Divinity two years after Much about the same time he being fam'd for his eminence in preaching was made one of the Chaplains to King James 1. who nominating him Bishop of Bangor in the place of Dr. H. Rowlands was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth with Dr. Lake to the See of B. and Wells on the 8. of Dec. an 1616. On the 15. July 1621. I find this passage of him Episcopus Bangoriensis examinatur in Le Fleet datur sed paulo post liberatur What his crime was my author tells me not nor do I lift further to inquire unless it concern'd the Princes match with the Infarta of Spain He hath published The practice of Piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God Printed about 40 times in oct and tw the eleventh edition of which was printed at Lond. 1619. It was also printed once or more in the Welsh tongue and once or more in the French an 1633. c. And in France having been much cried up did therefore cause John Despagne a French writer and a Preacher in Somerset-house Chappel an 1656. to make some complaint of not for any ill thing in it because the generality of the Plebeians do look upon the authority of it equal with that of the Scripture It is said by an author who takes all advantages to speak against the Bishops and Church of England that this book called The practice of Piety was written by a Puritan Minister and that a Bishop not altogether of a Chast life did after the Authors death bargain with his Widdow for the Copy which he received but never paid her the money Afterwards he interlopating it in some places did publish it as his own c. But let this report which hath been common with some as also that which saith it was written by one Price Archdeacon of Bangor remain with their authors while I tell you that Dr. Bayly dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two was buried in his Church of Bangor year 1632 He left behind him four Sons Nicholas John Theodore and Thomas John was Fellow of Exeter coll and a publisher of certain Sermons as I have already told you Thomas Bayly the youngest Son was not educated in
Arts and all that he knew he own'd to him Thence his silly Mother who had married to her second Husband a Bricklayer took him home and made him as 't is said work at her Husbands trade At length being pitied by some generous Gentlemen Camden got him a better imployment which was to attend or accompany a Son of Sir Walt. Raliegh in his adventures whereby gaining experience made his company acceptable among many After their return they parted I think not in cold blood and thereupon Ben went to Cambridge and was as 't is said statutably elected into St. Johns coll but what continuance he made there I find not Sure 't is that his Genie being mostly Poetical he did afterwards receed to a Nursery or obscure Play-house called The Green Curtain about Shoreditch or Clerkenwell but his first action and writing there were both ill At length improving his fancy much by keeping Scholastical company he betook himself again to write plays which he did so admirably well that he was esteemed paramount in the dramatick part of Poetry and to teach the stage an exact conformity to the Laws of Comedians Whereupon Sir Jo. Suckling bringing him into the Session of Poets Ben broke silence spoke to the Poets and Bid them remember how he had purg'd the Stage Of Errours that had lasted many an age His own proper industry and addition to books especially to ancient Poets and Classical authors made him a person of curious learning and judgment and of singular excellence in the art of Poetry Which with his accurate judgment and performance known only to those few who are truly able to judge of his works have gain'd from the most eminent Scholars of his time particularly from the learned Selden an increasing admiration Dr. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and other Poets of this University did in reverence to his parts invite him to Oxon where continuing for some time in Ch. Ch. in writing and composing Plays he was as a Member thereof actually created M. of A. in 1619. and therefore upon that account I put him among the Oxford writers for at Cambridge his stay was but short and whether he took a degree in that University I cannot yet learn of any His works are these Every Man in his humour a Comedy Acted 1598. Every Man out of his humour Com. Act. 1599. Cynthia's Revels Com. Act. 1600. Poetaster or his arraignment Com. 1601. Sejanus his Fall a Tragedy Act. 1602. Volpone or the Fox Com. 1609. Alchemist Com. 1610. Cataline his Conspiracy Trag. 1611. Epigrams in number 134. Epigrams called the Forrest in number 15. Part of the Kings entertainment in passing to his Coronation in prose and verse A panegyre on the happy entrance of K. James to his first high Session of Parliament 19. March 1603. A Poem A particular entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Apethorp at the house of the Lord Spencer 25. June 1603. A Poem Private entertainment of the K. and Q. on May day in the morn at Sir Will. Cornwallis his house at Highgate 1604 In verse and prose Entertainment of the two Kings of Great Britain and Denmark at Theobalds 24. Jul. 1606. In Lat. and Engl. verse Entertainment of K. James and Q. Anne at Theobalds when the house was delivered up with the possession to the Queen by the Earl of Salisbury 22. May 1607. Written in verse Twelve Masks at Court Barthelmew-Fair Com. Acted 1614. Devil is an Asse Com. 1616. Staple of News Com. 1625. Magnetick Lady or humours reconciled Com. Tale of a Tub Com. Sad Shepherd or a tale of Robin Hood Trag. Masks Underwoods Consisting of divers Poems entertainments and of some Odes of Horace translated Mortimer his fall Trag. imperfect Horace his Art of Poetry made English This last was afterwards printed by it self Lond. 1640. oct and with it 1 Execration against Vulcan 2 Masque of the Gypsies 3 Epigrams to several noble personages about 23. in number All composed by B. Johnson English Grammar for the benefit of all strangers Discoveries made upon men and matter All which are contained in two vol. in fol. printed 1616. and 1640. Tragedy of Thierry K. of France and his Brother Theodored The New-Inn or the light heart Com. Lond. 1631. octav His Motives Printed 1622. oct He also had a hand in a Com. called The Widdow Lond. 1652. qu. Jo. Fletcher and Th. Middleton were his Assistants Also in Eastward hoe Com. assisted by Geo. Chapman c. and did with Dr. Hacket afterwards B. of Lichfield translate into Latin the Lord Bacons Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral At length B. Johnson after he had arrived to the sixty third year of his age marched off from the stage of this vain World on the 16. year 1637 of August in sixteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried three days after in S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster commonly called the Abbey Church not among the Poets but at the west end near to the belfry under the Escoheon of Rob. de Ros or Roos with this engraven on a common pavement stone laying over his grave at eighteen pence charge given by Jack Young of Great Milton in Oxfordshire afterwards a Knight by the favour of K. Ch. 2. O rare Ben Johnson There was a considerable sum of money gathered from among the Wits and Vertuosi of his time for the erection of a monument and a Statua for him but before they could be done the Rebellion broke forth and hindred the design whereupon the money was refunded I have been informed by a worthy Prelate several years since deceased that this Poet Ben had a pension of an 100. l. per an from the King a pension also from the City of London and the like from several of the Nobility and from some of the Gentry particularly from Sutton Founder of the Hospital that now bears his name which were commonly well paid either out of pure love to him or out of fear of his railing in verse or prose or both When he was in his last sickness the said Prelate who was then M. of A. did among other of his acquaintance often visit him and as often heard him repent of his prophaning the Scripture in his Plays and that with horrour c. Many years after his death did appear to the World another Poet of both his names who writes himself in his Poems published 1672. Ben. Johnson Junior but what relation there was between him and the former I know not ROBERT FLUDD or de Fluctibus second afterwards eldest Son of Sir Tho. Fludd Knight sometimes Treasurer of War to Q. Elizabeth in France and the Low Countries Grandson of Dav. Fludd of Shropshire was born at Milgate in the Parish of Bearsted in Kent became Convictor of S. Johns coll in 1591. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts studied Physick travelled into France Spain Italy and Germany for almost six years In most of which Countries he became acquainted with several of
Charles 8. K. of France choosing him then the rather for that imployment because he was a Church-man as best sorting with an Embassie of pacification as that and others were to the said King In 1488. May 22. he being then LL. D. he was confirmed Dean of York by his Proctor in the place of Rob. Bothe who died 25. Jan. going before Which dignity Vrswyke resigning was succeeded therein by Will. Sheffield LL. D. in the month of June 1494. In 1490. he was made Canon of Windsore and about that time Archdeacon of Wilts in the place if I mistake not of one Hugh Pavy who had succeeded in that dignity Pet. Courtney upon his promotion to the See of Exeter in the beginning of Febr. 1478. and in 1493. Mar. 21. was not only only made Preb. of Botevaunt in the Church of York on the resignation of Edward Cheyney but also Archdeacon of Richmond on the promotion of John Blyth to the See of Sarum In 1495. Nov. 20. he was installed Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Jo. Morgan made Bishop of St. Davids and about the same time became Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards he was offered the Bishoprick of Norwich upon the death of James Goldwel but refused it and in the beginning of Febr. an 1504. became Archdeacon of Oxford on the promotion of Dr. Rich Mayhew to the See of Hereford At length after he in the chief part of his life-time had refused great honours and so consequently riches he retired to Hackney near London where in a contented condition he spent several years in a religious and close retirement even to his death which hapning in a good old age on the 24. Octob. in 1521. was buried on the north side of the Chancel of the Ch. there where was lately if not still a monument of white free-stone remaining over his grave JAMES STANLEY Son of Thomas Earl of Derby was born in Lancashire and educated in this University but in what house I cannot yet tell On the 3. March 1491. he became Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Cath. Church of Sarum and in the year following Preb. of Beminster prima in the said Church In 1500. Dec. 3. he became Archdeacon of Richmond on the resignation of Christop Vrswyke and in 1505. in Sept. Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Sarum being then Warden of the coll at Manchester in his own Country On the 18. June 1506. he by the name of Jacobus Stanley nuper hujus Vniversitatis Scholasticus did supplicate the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be licensed to proceed in the Civil Law which was granted with some conditions and being soon after elected Bishop of Ely after the death of Rich Reaman the temporalities thereof were restored to him 5. Nov. following On the 29. Jan. 1507. the said Regents with the Non-Regents did grant that he the said James Stanly Bishop of Ely might be created Doctor of decrees by a cap put on his head by Will Archb. of Canterbury and Richard B. of London Which grant being accordingly performed with solemnity a Letter of thanks was sent to the University for the honour they had done unto him He left behind him at his death a natural Son called John de Yarford a Knight whom probably he had begotten on a Concubine which as Dr. Fr. Godwin tells us he kept at Somersham in his Diocess In his last Will and Test dated 210. March 1514. and proved 23. May 1515. I find that it was his desire to be buried in a new Chappel to be made within the precincts of the Cath. Ch. of Ely or else in his new Chappel then in building at Manchester His will farther was That the Chappel to be made for him to be buried and rest his bones in should be made at the east end of the Cathedral Church of Ely for which be would that 100 marks be bestowed on a Tomb for him to be erected therein Also that another Chappel be built at Manchester on the north side of the Church between St. James Chappel and the east end of the Church wherein he would have a Tomb made for him On which Chappel and Tomb he would have an hundred pounds bestowed for the building of them c. In this last Chappel dedicated to S. Joh. Bapt. which joyns on the north side of the collegiate Church at Manchester wherein I presume he was buried because there is neither Tomb or inscription for him at Ely I find this inscription following Of your charytye pray for the Sowle of James Stanley sometymes Byshop of Elye and Wardeyn of Manchester who decessed thys transytory Wourld the xxii of March yn the yere of owre Lord God mdxv upon whose Sowle and all Christen Sowles Jesu have mercy c. Vive deo gratus toto mundo tumulatus Crimine mundatus semper transire paratus Filii hominum c. In a catalogue or rather history of the Wardens of Manchester coll which I have seen I find these matters of James Stanley At Manchester he built a most sumptuous Chappel on the north side of the Church being 28 yards long and 9 yards broad and a square Chappel on the north side of that again he built He built the south side of the wood-work in the Quire the seats for the Warden Fellows and Church-men being thirty seats on both sides and Mr. Rich. Bexwick that builded Jesus Chappel builded the other side He lyeth buried on the north side of this Chappel in a fair Tomb with his picture in brass in his pontificial robes and the Arms of Derbie and his Bishoprick impaled c. In the See of Ely succeed James Stanly one Nicholas West Doctor of both the Laws of Cambridge who had restitution made of the temporalities of that See 6. Sept. 7. Hen. 8. dom 1515. He was born at Putney in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near Windsore chose Scholar of Kings coll in 1477. Where proving a factious and turbulent person set the whole College together by the Ears about the Proctorship of the Vniversity And when he could not obtain his desires he set fire on the Provosts lodgings stole away silver spoons and ran away from the Colledge But within short space after he became a new Man repaired to the Vniversity and with general approbation for his excellent learning he was made Doctor of Divinity He was well experienced in the Civil and Canon Laws and had such an art and faculty in opening dark places and sentences of the Scripture that none of his time could exceed him c. In 1510. he became Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thom. Hobbes Warden of All 's coll deceased and Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards King Hen. 8. sent him often Embassador to Foreign Princes and Q. Katherine chose him and Bishop Fisher her Advocates in the cause of divorce from K.
admitted and but three that supplicated for that Degree Bach. of Phys Feb… David Tolley M. of A. of S. Maries Hall This learned Physitian supplicated for the Degree of Doctor of his Faculty in 1533 but was not as I can yet find admitted or licensed to proceed Bach. of Div. July 13. Hen. Williams of C. C. Coll On the 28 Sept. 1535 he was admitted Prebendary of Osbaldwick in the Church of York and on the 20 Sept. 1537 Canon of VVindsore in the place of Rob. Aldridge promoted to the See of Carlile being about that time also Canon of the Collegiat Church at Southwell in Nottinghamshire Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon and Rector of VVest Ildesley in Berks. His Canonry of the said Coll. at Oxon he lost when K. Hen. 8. was about to convert it into a Cathedral an 1545. in consideration of which he had given to him an yearly Pension of 20 l. per an during his life As for Windsore York and Southwell as also the Prebendary of Bedmynstre and Radeclyve in the Church of Sarum to which he was collated in Jan. 1534 in the place of Edw. Powell D. D. he was deprived of them in the time of Q. Mary an 1554 either for being married or that he was a zealous Protestant or both Jul. 17. Fath. John Tyndall a Carme or White Fryer Oct. 2. Fath. Tho. Kampswell or Kamyswell a Benedictin Monk He was the last Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictines at Coventry Nov. 29. Fath. Tho. Adreston or Aderston Jan. 20. Fath. Donat Machive Austin Fryers 22. The venerable Tho. Marshal a Compounder In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of Nich. Budlyngham in which Dignity he was succeeded by John Aylmer of Elmer M. A. an 1562. One Tho. Marshall supplicated in 1528 to be Doct. of Div. but him I take to be a Dominican Feb. 1. Fath. Laurence Seymore Subprior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon. Mar. 16. John Robyns M. A. of All 's Coll. Besides these were ten more admitted among whom Fa. Matthew Devins a Cistercian of S. Bernard's Coll. was one and about nineteen that supplicated for the said Degree of which number Fa. Rich. Bruerne a Benedictin was one and John Gibbys a Carme another One Fath. John Savage an Austin Fryer was admitted this year to oppose in Div. but whether admitted Bach. of that Faculty it appears not Doct. of Law Not one either in the Canon or Civil Law was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Oct. 10. Fath. Rich. Thornden sometimes written Thornton a Benedictin Gardian Warden of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon. He was afterwards Bishop of Dover Jan. 17. Rich. Coren or Corwyn Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon and of the Kings Chappel of S. Stephen at Westminister He was made Archdeacon of Oxford in the place of Dr. Nic. Wilson 1534 and died about the latter end of 1542. 23. Anthony Molineaux of Magd. Coll. Mar. 12. Fa. Edw. Baskervyle He was about this time Gardian of the Franciscans Coll. in the Suburb of Oxon. Besides these who were licensed to proceed did supplicate for the said Degree Tho. Byrton B. D. lately a Canon of Card. Coll. and Rich. Criyspyne M. A. of Oriel Coll. Incorporations Oct… Stephen Gardiner Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambridge He was now Bishop elect of Winchester and had lately returned from his Embassy to Rome to expedite the King's Divorce from Qu. Catherine being then Secretary to the King and commonly called by the name of Dr. Stephens He was a learned man and of excellent parts a great Statist and a Writer of many Books which are printed I have seen one or more Letters written to him while he was at Rome by Card. Wolsey who stiling him by the name of Mr. Stevens desires him and his Colleagues to spare no labour and cost to obtain for him the Papacy for the settlement of the state wherein the Church and all Christendom doth at present stand as also the state of this Realm and of the Kings secret matter meaning the Divorce from Qu. Cath. which if it should be brought to pass by any other means than by the Authority of the Church I account this Prince and Realm utterly undone c. an 1529. Many of the Letters written by this Dr. Gardiner to the King Cardinal Wolsey and others are subscribed by the name of Stevens and Stephens Oct… John Bell Archdeacon of Glocester and Doct. of the Civil Law beyond the Seas He was afterwards Bishop of Worcester Oct… Rich. Wolman Dean of Wells Doct. of Decrees as the public Register under the year 1523 tells us and Dr. of the Civil Law of an University beyond the Seas as the said Reg. under this year saith was incorporated Doct. of the Civ Law In 1532 he was made Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. James Denton mention'd under the year 1505 being then stiled Consiliarius regius and dying in the Summer time 1537 at which time he left several Legacies to the Church of Wells and to Clavering in Essex was buried in the Cloyster belonging to the Coll. of S. Stephen within the Palace of Westminster In his Deanery succeeded Tho. Cromwel Secretary to K. Hen. 8. and in his Canonry one Rich. Arche of whom will be mention made under the year 1537. William Knight Archdeacon of Richmond and Doctor of Law beyond the Seas He was afterwards Bishop of Bathe and Wells Oct… Ed. Lee D. of D. beyond the Sea and Archbishop elect of York These five persons who were incorporated were not then present in the University but were deplomated or had sent to each of them a Writing under the University Seal to attest that they had the consent of the Commissary and Regents that they were embodied or incorporated Oct. 29. John Chamber Doctor of Physick beyond the Seas was then incorporated A Certificate of it was sealed with the University Seal 16 Nov. following and forthwith sent to him This person who had been Fellow of Mert. Coll. did after he had taken the Degree of M. of A. travel into Italy 1502 studied Physick at Padua and there took the Degree of Doctor in that Faculty After his Return he became the Kings Physitian and with Lynacre and Victoria Founder of the Coll. of Physitians at London In 1510 he became Canon of Windsore and in 1524 he was made Archdeacon of Bedford being then Preb. of Combe and Harnham in the Church of Sarum In 1526 he was elected Warden of Mert. Coll. and about the same time was made Dean of the Kings Chappel dedicated to the blessed Vergin Mary and S. Stephen within the Palace of VVestminster the Cloyster of curious Workmanship adjoyning to which he did not only build but did give to it the said Chappel and the Canons belonging thereunto for ever certain Lands which he afterwards upon the dissolution saw taken into the Kings hands Afterwards he was made Treasurer of VVells was double beneficed in Somersetshire and
Vicar General to Gilbert Bishop of that place and at length Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Sarum He died about the month of Feb. in 1575 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Wells Oct. 18. John Croke of New Coll. He was now an eminent Advocate in the Court of Arches and about this time dignified in the Church Doct. of Div. July 6. John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. He was made Dean of Lichfield in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign in the place of one Rich. Willyams deprived for having married a Widow in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. But the said Ramridge leaving England without any compulsion in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth being much troubled in mind upon a foresight of the alteration of Religion he went into Flanders where in wandring to and fro in great discontent he met with Thieves who first rob'd and afterwards murder'd him Only two supplicated for the said Degree this year viz. Will. Wetherton M. A. and Bach. of Div. and Edw. Sepham M. A. and Student in that Faculty but were not now or after admitted Incorporations Apr…Nich Grimoald Jul. 19. Laur. Nowell B. of A. of Cambr. Nov. 8. George Dogeson or Dogâ—on Chantor of Wells and M. A. of the University of Paris was then incorp M. of A. Which being done he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood in the said University of Paris An. Dom. 1543. An. 35 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Estwyke Will. Pye again Elected the first day of Easter Term. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 12. Tho. Godwyn of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bathe and Wells Dec. 14. Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. The Cat. of Fellows of that House saith that he was afterwards Dean of Dublin and Bishop of Meath in Ireland whereupon recurring to the Commentary of Irish Bishops written by Sir James Ware I could find no such Person nor Dr. Johnson of Christs Coll. in Cambridge who is reported by Th. Fuller the Historian to be Archb. of Dublin Feb. 20. Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Lichfield and Coventry In all about 35 besides about 7 who were Supplicators or Candictates for the said degree of Bac. of Arts. Bach. of Civ Law Jan. 4. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll. Mar… John Plough The former was afterwards a zealous Writers for the Rom. Catholic the other for the Protestant Cause Besides these two were about twelve more admitted Mast of Arts. Jun. 6. Joh. Fox Hen. Bull Tho. Cooper Will. Dounham of Magd. Coll. The two last of which were afterwards Bishops At the same time was one John Redman or Redmayne of Magd. Coll. admitted But whether this be the same John Redman who was afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton or another mentioned under the year 1508 and 1524 or a third mention'd among the Writers an 1551 I cannot justly say June 6. Will. Hugh 20. George Ethoridge John Morwen of C. C. Coll. Feb. 21. Joh. Pullayne Mar. 18. Laur. Nowell 24. Nich. Grimoald In all thirty nine of New Brasn Mert. Coll. Bach. of Div. June 30. Gilb. Bourne of All 's Coll. Nov. 21. John Somer He was Can. of Winds in the time of Qu. Mary where he died 1573. Tho. Slythurst was admitted the same day He was made Canon of Winds and the first President of Trin. College in the time of Qu. Mary of which being deprived in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died about 1560. Feb. 8. Will. Pye of Oriel College now one of the Proctors of the University In 1534 he seems to have been admitted Bach. of Physick Besides these were ten more admitted and five that supplicated among whom was William Peryn one lately a Dominican or Black Fryer who was I suppose admitted because in a Book or Books which he soon after published he writes himself Bach. of Div. Doct. of the LL. Jul. 2. John ap Harry or Parry He was soon after Principal of Broadgates Hall and seems to be the same John ap Harry who was Successor to Gilb. Smith in the Archdeaconry of Northampton This Dr. Parry died in the beginning of 1549 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Castor in Northamptonshire John Williams lately Principal of Broadgates Hall was admitted the same day Doct. of Div. June 1. Philip Brode about this time a shagling Lecturer of Divinity in this University He was afterwards a Prebendary of the Church of York beneficed in the Diocess thereof and died in 1551. or thereabouts John Robyns the Astrologer and Mathematician sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. and now Canon of Windsore did supplicate that he might be admitted to proceed in Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not Rich. Cox also a D. of D. of Cambridge did supplicate that he might sit and take a place among the Doctors of Divinity tho it was unusual and out of order as being not incorporated See in the year 1545. Incorporations This year or thereabouts John Cheek of Cambridge was incorporated but in what degree unless in that of Master of Arts I cannot justly tell because of the imperfectness of the Registers He had studied before for some time in this University and was now one of the Canons of Kings Coll. in Oxon. I mean of that College founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Card. Wolsey which continued from the year 1532 to 1545 at which time he was about to translate the See of Oxon from Osney to his said Coll. intended then by him to have it known by the name of Christ Church which was effected accordingly in the year following When the said Kings Coll. was dissolved by Hen. 8. in the beginning of the year 1545 he allowed most of the then Canons yearly Pensions in lieu of their Canonries and to Jo. Cheek who was then Tutor to his Son Prince Edward he allowed six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence He was afterwards a Knight and most famous for his Learning exprest in his Introductio Grammatices his Book De ludimagistrorton officio in another De pronunciatione Linguae Graeâ—â—c and in many more besides Translations the Catalogue of which mostly taken from Baleus you may see at the end of Sir John Cheeks Life written by Ger. Langbaine put by him before a Book written by the said Cheek entit The true Subject to the Rebel or the heart of Sedition c. Oxon. 1641. qu. This Sir John Cheek died at Lond. in the house of Pet. Osbourne Esq a great Comforter of afflicted Protestants in the month of Sept. 1557 and was buried in the Church of S. Alban in Woodstreet within the said City An. Don. 1544. An. 36 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. Nich. Alambrygg of All 's Coll. Will. Smyth of Brasn Coll. again Elected about the Ides of May. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. In an Act then celebrated Will. Fitzjames Dean of We'ls was
or 3 hours Which being done not without great disdain by the Musician Bull in that time or less added forty more parts to the said Lesson or Song The Musician thereupon being called in he view'd it tried it and retri'd it At length he burst out into a great extasie and swore by the great God that he that added those 40 parts must either be the Devil or Dr. Bull c. Whereupon Bull making himself known the Musician fell down and ador'd him Afterwards continuing there and in those parts for a time became so much admir'd that he was courted to accept of any place or preferment suitable to his profession either within the Dominions of the Emperour King of France or Spain But the tidings of these transactions coming to the English Court Qu. Elizabeth commanded him home See more of him under the year 1592. John Mundy another eminent Musician now or after one of the Organists of her Majesties Chappel was admitted Bachelaur also the same day See more of him in 1624. One Will. Mundy was also a noted Musician and hath composed several divine Services and Anthems but him I find not to be graduated in this University or elsewhere One Benjam Hamm a Student of Musick supplicated to be Bac. of that fac in January which was granted conditionally that he compose a choral hymn of eight parts before the Passover following About the same time he supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was denied Bach. of Arts. Jun. 10. Charles Sonibanke of Ch. Ch. See among the Doct. of Div. 1607. Jul. 13. Rich Middleton of Jesus Coll. This Person who took no other Degree in this University I take to be the same with Rich. Middleton Son of Marmaduke Middleton Bishop of St. David and about this time Archdeacon of Cardigan One Rich. Middleton Chaplain to Charles Prince of Wales hath written and published 1 The Key of David Lond. 1619. in a thick tw Before which is his picture with a ruff and a great beard 2 The heavenly progress Lond. 1617. in tw 3 The card and compass of life containing many passages fit for these times c. Lond. 1613. oct Whether this Rich. Middleton the Writer be the same with Rich. Middleton the Bach. of Arts and Archdeacon of Cardigan I cannot well tell Quare Oct. 11. Rowland Searchfield of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bristow 12. Edw. Gee lately of Merton now of Linc. Coll. Oct. 12. Rich. Brett Christop Sutton of Linc. 19. John Budden of Trin. Nov. 9. Alex. Gill of C. C. Coll. The last was the Senior of both his names and afterwards Master of St. Pauls School Dâ—cemb 14. Sam. Slade See among the M. of A. 1593. Dec. 17. John Sanford of Bâ—llioâ— afterwards of Magd. Coll. Jan. 27. Franc. Mason Afterwards worthily characterized to be Vindex Ecclesiae Anglicane 30. Nich. Fuller of Hart hall Feb. 15. Lew. Thomas Edw. Bree-word of Bras Coll. John Day of St. Alb. hall afterwards of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day 16. Anthony Benn of Broadgates hall He was afterwards Recorder of London and a Knight 17. Bernard Adams of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Limrick in Ireland 23. Tho. Clerke of Broadgates hall Whether this Person who was a Warwick hire Man born was the same Tho. Clerke who was a Seminary Priest of the Coll. at Rheimes but afterwards returned to the Church of England and recanted in a Sermon at Pauls Cross 1. Jul. 1593 which Sermon was printed at London 1594. in oct or the same Tho. Clerke who wrot The life and death of M. Pet. Kempe printed about the same time I know not See another Tho. Clerke who was admitted Bach. of Arts in 1566. Admitted 179. Mast of Arts. Apr. 20. John Buckridge of St. Johns Coll. Jan. 4. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch. Laur. Keimis of Ball. Coll. was adm the same day This Keimis who was a Wilts Man born became afterwards companion in travel and counsellour in design to the renowned Knight Sir Walt. Rawleigh but whether he gave any assistance to the composure of his history is very doubtful In 1595 when that Knight undertook to gain a golden mine in Guiana this Keimis was one of his chief Captains and Conductors in that expedition but being unfortunate in his undertakings and therefore very much blamed by Rawleigh he out of a deep reluctancy pistol'd himself in his Cabin in Rawleigh's Ship in the Summer time in 1618 after he had view'd and travell'd through the remotest parts of the world Jun. 15. Henry Airay of Queens Coll. Jul. 6. Henry Penry lately of Cambridge now of St. Albans hall 8. Hen. Jacob of St. Maries hall Jan. 27 Henry Bright of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards Master of the Kings School at Worcester in which City he was born for 40 years together and Prebendary of the Church there for the last 7 years of his life He had a most excellent faculty in instructing youths in Lat. Gr. and Hebrew most of which were afterwards sent to the Universities where they proved eminent to emulation He was also an excellent Preacher was resorted to far and near and dying 4. March 1626 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester The posterity of this Hen. Bright do live now in gentile fashion in Worcestershir Mar. 16. John Dove of Ch. Ch. Admitted 65. or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Jul. 4. W. â— Massie of Brasn Coll. He was born in Cheshire and was at this time 〈◊〉 to Sir Edm. Trafford of Trafford in Lancashire He hath published A Sermon preached at Trafford in Lancashire at the marriage of a Daughter of Sir Edm. Trafford Knight 6. Sept. 1586 on Psal 128. 1. 2. Oxon. 1586. oct Two years alter he was removed from his Fellowship and perhaps did publish other things Will. Leigh of Brasn Coll. was adm the same day Admitted 8. Doct. of Law Jul. 4. Anthony Blencow Provost of Oriel Coll. Not one besides him was this year admitted ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 14. John Chardon of Exeter Coll. Jul. 9. Nich. Balgay of Magd. Coll. In 1583 he became Prebendary of Netherhaven in the Church of Salisbury and in May 1589 Subdean thereof in the place of Tho. Dillworth Both which Dignities he resigning to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker he became Master of the Temple in the said Mr. Hooker's place 1591. Incorporations Jul. 11. Lawrence Staunton M. of A. of Cambridge In 1601 he succeeded Dr. Will. Cole in the Deanery of Lincolne which dignity he keeping till 1613 was then succeeded by Roger Parker D. D. after he had been 14 years Chantor of the Church there The said Dr. Parker died 29. Aug. 1629 aged 71. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Lincolne whereupon his Deanery was bestowed on one Anth. Topham Simon Robson M. of A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day In the year 1598 the said Robson being then D. D. succeeded Dr.
Heton D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. July 10. Proct. Tho. Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Musick July 8. Thomas Morley one of the Gentlemen of her Majesties Royal Chappel This person tho he had not so excellent a hand on the Organ as Bull had yet his Compositions were admirable in their time as 1 Consonets or little short songs to three Voices Lond. 1593. qu. 2 The first book of Madrigalls to four Voices Lond. 1594 qu. 3 The first book of Ballets to five Voices Lond. 1595. in a large qu. 4 Madrigalls to five Voices Lond. 1595 in a large qu. 5 Introduction to musick Lond. 1597 c. in a thin fol. This last Book which shews the Authour to have been admirably well skill'd in the theoretick part of Musick hath afforded some matter to Christop Simpson when he composed his Compendium of Musick but more to the Author of An introduction to musick Lond. 1655 c. oct published by John Playford a Seller of musical Books and Paper near the Inner Temple Gate Lond. and a practitioner in Musick who as I have been informed had the assistance of Charles Pidgeon of Greys Inn in the drawing it up The said Morley also hath composed Divine Services and Anthems the words of some of which are published and also collected and published Madrigalls the triumphs of Oriana to five and six Voices composed by divers Authors Lond. 1601 qu. Among which Authors Tho. Morley is one Michael Est Joh. mundy Joh Hilton Rich. Carlton Tho. Hunt Edw. Johnson George Marson c. all Bachelaurs of Musick were others which last was nearly related to Simon Marson a Servant to Sir Thom. Mounson in the time of K. Jam. 1. and a good Musitian as you may see elsewhere The said Thomas Morley had been bred up under the most famous Musitian Mr. Will. Byrde one of the Organists belonging to Queen Elizab. I mean the same Byrde who was Author and Composer of Graduallia seu cantionum sacrarum quarum aliae ad quatuor aliae vero ad quinque sex voces editae sunt Lond. 1610. qu. in 6 Vol. Also of several Divine Services and Anthems in English the words of which are extant and of a most admired Composition of forty parts but this last is not yet extant I say by this Byrde's endeavours the said Morley became not only excellent in Munck as well in the theoretical as practical part but also well seen in the Mathematicks in which Byrde was excellent July 3. John Dowland one of the Gent. of her Majesties Royal Chappel was then also with Tho. Morley adm Bach. of Musick He enjoyed the same place also when King James 1. came to the Crown being then esteemed a most admirable Lutinist about which time an Anagram was made on his name Johannes Doulandus running thus annos ludendi hausi He was the rarest Musitian that his Age did behold and therefore admired by foreign Princes among whom the King of Denmark was one who being infinitely taken with his playing when he was in England to visit his Sister the Queen an 1606 took him with him at his return to Denmark where as 't is supposed he died He hath among other things written Necessary observations belonging to Lute-playing Lond. 1610 in a thin fol. printed with Variety of Lute lessons published by his Son Rob. Douland a most excellent Lutinist also who before while his Father was absent had been trained up to the Lute by excellent Masters at the care and charge of Sir Tho. Mounson before-mention'd The said Rob. Douland published also of his own composition A musical banquet Lond. 1610. in a thin fol. and The pilgrims solace for three and four parts c. which was composed by him as it seems and not by his Father Bach. of Arts. May 6. John Hoskyns senior of New Coll. June 12. Sam. Burton of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1591. Jan. 13. Mathew Slade of S. Albans Hall Henry Wotton of Queens Coll. supplicated in June for the degree of Bach. of Arts but I cannot find him admitted or his name among the Determiners in the Lent following Adm. 114. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Feb… Henry Cromwell Fellow of S. Johns Coll. This person who was third Son of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchinbrook in Huntingdonshire Knight I put not down here as a Writer or learned man but only that he was a noted Gent. of his Country had a fair Estate at Vpwood there was a Justice of Peace and Uncle to Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England See among the Bach. of Law an 1599. Adm. 14. Mast of Art Dec. 23. Rich. Latewar of S. Joh. Jul. 2. Alexand. Cook of Vnivers Feb. 20. Henr. Cuffe of Mert. Coll. In the month of June Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated by his Dean or Censor that whereas it was 16 years since he took the degree of Bach. of Arts three solemn Lectures pro forma performed by him might be sufficient for the taking the degree of Mast of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should stand in the Act following but his Admission and Inception occurs not Here you see is mention made that he was Bach. of Arts which if true for no such matter occurs in the Register of that time then must that Will. Camden mention'd under the year 1573 be the same person who was afterwards known by the Title of Clarentius and sirnamed The learned See more among the Creations an 1612. Admit 64. Bach. of Div. July 4. Robert Temple M. A. of Magd. Coll. He hath published A Sermon concerning the abuses of the Church preached at Pauls Cross on 1 Cor. 14. 1. Lond. 1592 he being then Chaplain to John Bishop of London What else he hath written or published I know not nor any thing besides only he was an Oxfordshire man born Adm. 4 Doct. of Law Jul. 9. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. He was the only person admitted Doctor of his Faculty this year ☞ Not one Doct. of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 4. Thom. Mountfort a Compounder This worthy Doctor who was Son of John Mountfort of the City of Norwych was now or about this time Prebendary of Harleston and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul as also Prebendary of Westminster in which last Dignity he succeeded one Thomas whom some call John Browne an 1584. He died in London 27 Feb. 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Tewing in Hertfordshire whereupon one Gabr. More sometimes Chaplain in the House of George Villiers the first Duke of Buckingham of his name succeeded him in Westm but who in the Residentiaryship in S. Pauls I cannot yet tell He left behind him a Son named John Mountfort D. of D. and Rector of Austie in Hertfordshire who being a most zealous man for the Church of England suffer'd much in the time of the Rebellion
as temporal and in many dangers of his life which God did miraculously deliver him from At length K. James the first of England did call him into England and to the holy Ministry he being then 58 years of age and upon the promotion of Dr. John Bridges to the See of Oxon in the latter end of 1603 he made him Dean of Salisbury in Febr. 1604. He hath written 1 Assertiones Theologicae pro vera verae Ecclesiae nota quae est solius dei adoratio contra falsae ecclesiae creaturarum adorationem Rupell 1603. oct 2 England and Scotlands happiness in being reduced to unity of Religion under K. James Lond. 1604. qu. 3 Orthodoxo-Jacobus Papa apostaticus c. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Anti-Bellarmino-tortur sive Tortus retortus Juliano papismus c. Lond. 1612. qu. 5 Of the ceremonies of the Church of England Lond. 1612. qu. besides Sermons and other things He departed this mortal life in August 1619 and was I suppose buried in the Cathed Ch. at Salisbury whereupon Dr. John Williams succeeded him in the Deanery of that place about the 10. of Sept. and installed in the middle of Oct. following To Sir Rob. Gourden of Sudderland who married his only Daughter and Heir named Lucy he left his MSS. of his own composition written in Latine and English desiring him that the English may be published in Scotland and the Latine beyond the Seas to the end that the great pains that he had taken about them may not be lost These Noble Men Knights and Esquires following were actually created Masters of Arts on the 30. of August the King being then in Oxford The illustrious Prince Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox near of kin to the King James 1. of England He was Father to Lodowick the first Duke of Richmond of his name Henry de Vere Earl of Oxford He was Son of Edw. de Vere called by some the Poetical Earl of Oxford and died at the Siege of Breda in the Netherlands an 1625. Henry Percy the most generous Count of Northumberland a great encourager of learning and learned Men especially Mathematicians who as others have in a high manner celebrated his worth He died 5. of Nov. 1632 and was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex Robert D'Evereux Earl of Essex now a young Nobleman of Merton Coll. See more in the year 1636. Will. Herbert Earl of Pembroke the very picture and Viva effigies of Nobility a Person truly generous a singular lover of learning and the professors thereof and therefore by the Academians elected their Chancellour some years after this His Person was rather Majestick than elegant and his presence whether quiet or in motion was full of stately gravity His mind was purely heroick often stout but never disloyal and so vehement an opponent of the Spaniard that when that match fell under confideration in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he would sometimes rouze to the trepidation of that King yet kept in favour still for His Majesty knew plain dealing as a jewell in all Men so was in a Privy Counsellour an ornamental duty and the same true heartedness commended him to K. Ch. 1. Philip Herbert his younger Brother now Earl of Montgomery He was quite different in nature from the aforesaid William being a Person esteemed a very frequent swearer and one so intolerably cholerick quarrelsome and offensive while he was Lord Chamberlain to K. Ch. 1. that he did not refrain to break many wiser heads than his own Mr. Thomas May the translator of Lucan and afterwards Historian to the Long Parliament felt the weight of his staff which had not his office and the place being the Banquetting-house protected it might have been a question whether ever he would have struck again See more of him in Will. Herbert among the writers under the year 1630. William Cecill Viscount Cranbourne Son of Robert Earl of Salisbury He was after the death of his Father Earl of Salisbury and Knight of the Garter and lived to 1668. John Bridges Bishop of Oxon sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge and lately Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Dr. John Piers to the See of Rochester was then also created He was now famous for the several books that he had published the titles of some of which you may see in Bodlies or Oxford Catalogue He died on the 26. March 1618 and was buried in the Church of Marsh-Balden or Balden in the Marsh near to and in the County of Oxford as I have elsewhere told you He was Doctor of Divinity and therefore I presume the Registrary of the University should have put him among such that were incorporated this year and not among the Creations of Masters of Arts. Theophilus Howard Baron of Walden Son and Heir of Thomas Earl of Suffolk He was afterwards Earl of Suffolk and Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter He died 3. June 1640 and was buried in the Church at Walden beforementioned Charles Howard Baron of Effingham Son of Charles Earl of Nottingham He was afterwards Earl of Nottingham Thomas West Lord La Warr commonly called Lord de la Ware Grey Brugges or Bridges Lord Chandois He was commonly called King of Cotswould because of his numerous attendants when he went to Court He died at the Spaw in Italy 1621. Will. Compton Lord Compton He was afterwards the first Earl of Northampton of his name and dying 14. Jun. 1630 was buried by his ancestors in the Church at Compton in the hole in Warwickshire Edward Bruce Master of the Rolls and Baron of Kinloss in Scotland He died 14. Jan. 1610 aged 62 years and was buried in the Chappel of the Rolls in Chancery-lane London He was Father to Thomas Earl of Elgin in Scotland and Baron of Whorlton in Yorkshire as I shall tell you elsewhere … Erskeine a noble Man of Scotland Perhaps he was the same with Sir James Erskeine Knight of the Bath Son to the Earl of Marre or with Alex. Erskeine who was after his Fathers death Viscount Fenton in Scotland and died in the beginning of the year 1633. Sir Hen. Nevill Knight He was afterwards Leiger Embassador at Paris being the same I think of Billingbere in Berks who died about the later end of June 1629. Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. now Tutor to Prince Henry William Herbert John Egerton afterwards Earl of Bridgwater Valentine Knightley John Ramsey a Scot Knights Sir Roger Aston Knight He was the natural Son of John Aston Gentleman second Son of Rich. Aston of Aston in Cheshire had all his breeding in Scotland which made some to take him to be a Scot born was originally the Barber to K. James 1. while he was King of the Scots as a libellous Author tells you though from record it appears that he was Groom of the Bedchamber to him and belonged to it in the time of that Kings Father and Grandfather He was
a plain honest Man and therefore beloved by that King who often intrusted him as a Messenger to carry letters from him to Qu. Elizabeth At length being made Master of the Great Wardrobe to K. Jam. 1. while King of England departed this mortal life 23. May 1612. and was buried 28. of the said month in the Church at Cranford in Middlesex Sir Patrick Murray a Scot The same I think who was of Elibanke in Scotland and afterwards Knight and Baronet of that Kingdom Sir Thomas Mounson Knight and Baronet He was of the antient Family of those of his name in Lincolnshire had been Commoner of Magd. Coll. and was about this time Master of the Armory and Master Faulconer to His Majesty and in truth such an one as no Prince in Christendom had the like Afterwards he was twice brought to his trial upon deep suspicion of having an hand in the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury but at length with much ado came off clear He was a Person of excellent breeding was a great lover of ingenuity especially of Musick having himself good skill in it and a Patron to the Professors thereof Thom. Cornwallis Franc. Castilion Gilb. Kniveton Rolls Kniveton George Chaworth Edw. Grevill Davi'd Foulis Knights The last of which who was a Scot was afterwards made a Baronet and is ancestor to those of his name living at Inglebie in Yorkshire Will. Fleetwood Will. Bowyer Hen. Capell Geor. More Knights The first of these last four was knighted in 1603 and therefore not to be taken for Will. Fleetwood Recorder of London who had been dead some years before The last George More I have already mentioned at large among the Writers John Digby Esq sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. afterwards Earl of Bristow I shall mention him at large among the Writers in the second vol. of this work Levine Monke Gabr. Dowse Will. Lilsley Edm. Dowse Anth. Abington Will. More Geor. Calvert Esquires While the said Nobles Knights and Esquires were created Roger Earl of Rutland Edward Earl of Somerset and Henry Howard E. of Northampton who had formerly been created and incorporated Masters of Arts did sit among the venerable Masters in Convocation and gave their suffrages This year in the month of Aug. Henry Prince of Wales the Peoples darling and the delight of mankind eldest Son of K. James 1. was matriculated a member of this University as a member of Magd. Coll. at which time John Wilkinson Bach. of Div. and Fellow of the said Coll. had the honour to be nominated his Tutor I mean that Wilkinson who most ungratefully sided with the Rebels that took up arms against the younger Brother of the said Prince K. Charles 1. of ever blessed memory An. Dom. 1606. An. 4. Jac. 1. Chanc. the same viz. Thomas Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Henry Airay D. D. Provost of Queens Coll. Jul. 17. Proct. Simon Baskervyle of Exet. Coll. James Mabbe of Magd. Coll. Apr. ult Bach. of Arts. May 20. Thom. Sutton of Queens Coll. Rich. Nicholls of Magd. Hall Jun. 3. Thom. Willis of St. Johns Coll. 30. Mich. Wigmore of Magd. hall afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. Oct. 31. Leonard Digges of Vniv. Coll. Nov. 24. Will. Dickinson of Mert. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. in 1619. Jan. 24. Will. Sparke Tho. Godwin of Magd. Coll. Feb. 10. Charles Somerset of Magd. Coll. was then admitted Bac. of Arts in Convocation He was Son to Edward Earl of Worcester and was afterwards made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Henry Prince of Wales 13. Will. Jewell of Exeter Coll. See among the Masters an 1609. Tho. Willis and Tho. Godwin are to be mention'd in the second vol. Adm. 188. Bach. of Law June 27. John Hoskins junior of New Coll. He was afterwards a Divine and an eminent Preacher Besides him were but four more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 10. Thom. Bastard of New Coll. Jul. 2. Edm. Gunter of Ch. Ch. 3. Will. Heale of Exet. Coll. 5. Joh. Ferebe or Ferriby of Magd. hall One of both his names who was Minister of Thoydon-Gernon in Essex wrot and published a book intit A discourse shewing that they only ought to preach who are ordained Ministers c. Lond. 1652. qu. But Ferriby of Magd. hall who was a Glocestershire Man born I take not to be the same with the Writer as being much before him in time but rather to be the same John Ferriby who was beneficed in Glocestershire and at Poole in North Wiltshire where dying 2. May 1662 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over whose grave was soon after a stone laid with an inscription thereon wherein he is stiled Theologus tam studio quam exercitio insignis March 13. Edw. Evans of Ch. Ch. Adm. 102. Bach. of Div. Nov. 19. Rich. Meredith of New Coll. This Person who was born in the City of Bathe was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 15â—8 left it about six years after and through certain preferments succeeded at length Dr. Benj. Heydon in the Deanery of Wells an 1607. He hath published a Sermon on Micah 6. 4 5 6. printed 1606. qu. and perhaps other things which I have not yet seen He died 15. Aug. 1621 and was buried on the 17 of the same month on the South side of the choire of the Cath. Ch. at Wells He was succeeded in that Deanery by Dr. Ralph Barlow as I shall elsewhere tell you Dec. 15. Edw. Chetwynd of Exeter Coll. Adm. 10. ☜ Not one Doctor of Law or Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 17. Rich. Crakanthorpe of Queens Oct. 30. Will. Fisher of Oriel Coll. March 16. Gerrard Williamson of Ch. Ch. Incorporations Apr. 8. Theodore de Mayerne or Mayernius Turquettus or Theodore Turquettus de Mayerne born of Protestant Parents at Geneva who hardly escaped the Parisian Massacre Doctor of Physick of the University of Mâ—ntpellier lately of the Council to the K. of France as to matters of Physick now Physician to the Queen of England was incorporated with more than ordinary solemnity Doctor of the said faculty He was Baron of Aubon or Aâ—bon in France being Son of Lewis de Mayerne a French Writer was afterwards chief Physician to K. Jam. 1. by whom he was sent in the beginning of the Year 1618 into France about matters of concern but being suspected to come there purposely to disturb affairs was commanded by the Councillours belonging to the King of that Country to depart the Kingdom forthwith In 1624 Jul. 14. he received the honor of knighthood at Theobalds and was afterwards Physician to K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort Henrietta Maria. He hath written in French 1 Medicinal counsels and advices 2 A Treatise of the Gout Both put into Latine and published by Theoph. Bonet Doct. of Physick See more in Dr. Thom. Shâ—rley in my discourse of Anth. Sherley among the Writers under the year 1630. and in Dr. Tho. Moufet an 1590. 3 Excellent and well approved
unfortunate An. Dom. 1617. An. 15 Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke sometimes of New Coll. Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again Jul. 17. Proct. Franc. Grevill of Mert. Coll. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. Apr. ult Bach. of Arts. May 10. Christop Harvey of Brasn Coll 23. Joh. Seager of S. Maries Hall Oct. 17. Pet. Heylyn of Magd. 23. Will. Tipping of Qu. Coll. Nov. 23. Joh. Atherton of Glocester Hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. and the unfortunate Bishop of Waterford in Ireland 27. Gilbert Sheldon of Trinity Coll. afterwards Fellow of All 's and at length Archb. of Canterbury Feb. 10. Robert Blake of Wadham Coll. This right valiant person having taken no higher degree in this University I must therefore make mention of him in this place Born therefore he was at Bridgwater in Somersetshire being the Son and Heir of Humphrey Blake of that place Gent. but descended of the antient Family of the Blakes of Blanchfield in the said County In the beginning of Lent Term an 1615 he being then about 15 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a Member of S. Albans Hall about which time standing for a Scholarship of C. C. Coll. with Rob Hegge and Rob. Newan was put aside whether for want of merit or friends I cannot tell While he continued in the said Hall he was observed by his Contemporaries to be an early riser and studious but withal he did take his pleasure in Fishing Fowling c. and sometimes in stealing of Swans Before the time came when he was to take a degree in Arts he translated himself to his Country men in Wadham Coll. and as a Member of that House he did stand for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. with Alex. Fisher John Doughtie Edw. Reynolds John Earle c. an 1619 but whether it was for want of Scholarship or that his person was not handsome or proper being but of stature little which Sir Hen. Savile then Warden of that Coll. did much respect he lost it continued in Wadham Coll. without the taking of any other degree and in 1623 wrot a Copy of Verses on the death of the learned Camden Afterwards he went into his own Country where he lived in the condition of a Gentleman but always observed to be puritancially inclin'd In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Bridgwater to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. 1640 but missing that Office in the same year when the Long Parliament began on the 3 Nov. following he sided with the Presbyterian took up arms for the Parliament soon after received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain of Dragoons and afterwards being made Governour of Taunton was made a Colonel Which Town as also afterwards Lyme he defended with great Valour against several famous and forcible Sieges of the Kings Army under the command of Prince Maurice and George Lord Goring At length the War being in a manner terminated the worth of this inestimable great Commander being so esteemed by those of his party was taken notice of by the Parliament whereupon they resolved that it should not lye hid at home but shew it self abroad and therefore he was made first one of the Commissioners of the Navy then one of the Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports and at length about 1649 one of the Generals at Sea At his entrance into which office he pent up Prince Rupert in the chief Port of Portugal and hunted him from Sea to Sea till he had reduced those Ships with him which before had revolted from the Parliament In the beginning of the year 1651 he reduced the Isle of Sciâ—ly to the Parliament Service and on the 25 Nov. following he was elected one of the Council of State being then in great repute with Oliver In 1652 Sept. 5. he sorely beat the French Fleet and at that time there being a Quarrel between the two Republicks England and the Vnited Provinces he and his Fleet were worsted in the Downes by Van Tromp the Dutch Admiral and his Fleet 29 of Nov. following but on the 18 of Febr. following that on which day hapned a most terrible Sea-sight betwixt them again near to the Isles of Wâ—ight and Portland the Dutch were in a woful manner worsted Ever after Blake continued a fortunate Vindicator of his Countries Privileges from the encroachments of insulting Neighbours a victorious Enemy of the Spaniard and was highly valued of all even the Royalist The last part and the most desperate attempt that he ever acted in a Sea-blood not that I shall now take notice of his daring piece of service at Tunis against the Turks an 1655 was against the Spaniards at Sancta Cruz in Apr. 1657 which made him as terrible as Drake had been before to them there being less difference betwixt the same and report of their actions and exploits than in the sound of their names For there with 25 sail he fought as 't were in a ring with seven Forts a Castle and 16 Ships many of them being of greater force than most of those Ships Blake carried in against them yet in spite of opposition he soon calcined the Enemy and brought his Fleet back again to the Coast of Spain full fraught with honour But what Commander is able to repel the stroke of death This is he that doth conquer the Conquerours and level the honours of the mightiest Monarchs with the meanest Captains there is no withstanding his force for all must fall Blake himself was compel'd to strike the top-sail and yield for in his return home he gave up the Ghost in the Ship called the George the Admiral as it entred into Plymouth Sound on Friday the seventeenth of August an 1657 aged 59 occasioned by the Scurvy and Dropsie which he had contracted by his seasaring The next day his body was imbowelled and closed in a sheet of lead and the bowels were interred in the great Church at Plymouth He was a man wholly devoted to his Countries Service resolute in his undertakings and most faithful in the performance of them With him Valour seldom mist its reward nor Cowardize its punishment When news was brought him of a metamorphosis in the State at home he would then encourage the Seamen to be most vigilant abroad for said he 'T is not our duty to mind State affairs but to keep foreigners from fooling us In all his expeditions the Wind seldome deceived him but most an end stood his friend especially in his last undertaking at S. Cruze in the Canary Islands To the last he lived a single life never being espoused to any but his Countries Quarrels Soon after his death and embalming the body was conveyed by Sea to Greenwych House where it remained for some time From thence it was conveyed by Water on the 4 of Sept. following with all due solemnity and honour in a barge of state coveâ—ed with Velvet adorned with Escocheons and Pencils accompanied with his brothers and
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ— 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâ—th right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. and Clerk of the Council In 1640 he was employed by his Majesty to go to Henry Frederick Prince of Aurange or Orange about the marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince his Son as also to the Queen of Bobemia and the Prince Elector an 1641 to hinder that Prince his coming over into England at the then juncture of affairs with promise to take into his consideration the concern of the Palatinate and other matters of state In the same year the said R. Browne was sent to Paris where he continued Resident in the Court of France for K. Ch. 1. and Ch. 2. to the French King Lewis the 13 and his Son Lewis 14 till the Restauration of his Majesty an 1660. In which time which was 19 years I find these things following to occur relating to him 1 That divers important matters of state were transacted by him with those great Ministers Cardinal Richlieu and Mazarine 2 That many advantages were offer'd him by the Usurpers of England to be false to his Masters but he resisted them 3 That he did to his great expence but more to his everlasting glory keep up in the large house which he hired at Paris the publick Service and Liturgy of the Church of England whither his Maj. Ch. 2. and then Duke of York did constantly resort From whence divers Ministers of the Church of England Exiles for their Loyalty had many disputes with the R. Catholicks and others concerning the visibility of their Church which they then kept up while it was ecclipsed in England 4 That he was employed by his Maj. Ch. 1. to carry the George and Garter to Bernard Duke of Espernon 5 That he did negotiate about the Queens portion out of which he had I think 1000 l. which with 200 l. more was all he touched in the said 19 years whilst he spent of his paternal Estate much more than that yearly during his abode at Paris 6 That on the first of Sept. 1649 he was created a Baronet being the first that K. Ch. 2. made by virtue of a dormant Warrant sent to him by Ch. 1. dated 1 Febr. 1643 and on the 19 of the said Sept. he received the honour of Knighthood at St. Germaines from his said Maj. Ch. 2. he being then also Clerk of the Council to him In 1660 he returned into England with his Majesty and did execute the said Office for some time But years then coming on he resign'd it and retired to Charlton in Kent where he spent the remainder of his time in a pleasant retiredness and studious recess At length giving way to fate in a good old Age on the 12 of Febr. 1681 was buried according to his desire in the Churchyard at Deptford close to the Wall of the Church where is a black Marble ballastred over his body On the other side of the Wall in the Church lies buried his Father Christop Browne Esq who died in March 1645 aged 70 years and his Grandfather Sir Rich. Browne Knight a younger Son of an antient Family at Hitcham in Suffolk seated afterwards at Horsley in Essex who being a Student in the Temple was by Robert Dudley the great Earl of Leycester taken into the service of the Crown when he went Governour of the Vnited Netherlands and was afterwards by Qu. Elizab. made Clerk of the Greencloth In which honorable office he also continued under K. James 1. untill the time of his death which hapned in May 1604 aged 65 years The before mentioned Sir Rich. Browne Grandson to this last Sir Richard lest behind him a Daughter named Mary who being his Heiress was several years before married to the learned Vertuoso Joh. Evelyn of Says-court in the Parish of Deptford Esq in which house or at least in that Parish Sir Richard was born as also three folio's of his dispatches several Letters some in cypher c. as well from his Maj. Ch. 1. at Oxon as from his Royal Consoâ—t and other great persons Jun. 27. Geâ—v Warmstrey Rich. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. July 8. Oliver Thomas of Hart Hall The time when he took the degree of Bach. of Arts appears not nor when or of what house he was matriculated And therefore all that I can say of him is that he was afterwards perhaps now beneficed in Shropshire that he wrot and published a book in Welsh entit Carwry Cymru c. printed 1630 or thereabouts and that dying at Felton in that County was there buried In the year 1647 one Oliver Thomas Minister of Oswestry did subscribe among other Ministers of Shropshire to the lawfulness of the Covenant who I suppose is the same with the former Jul. 11. Rich. Jones of Jesus Coll. Jan. 22. George Bate of S. Edm. Hall 29. Christop Ayray Guy Carlton Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. March 19. Joh. Price of Jesus Coll. This year Jun. 25. Joh. Davis of Magd. Hall sometimes of that of S. Edm was licensed to proceed Master of Arts and accordingly compleated that degree in the Act following which being all I know of him he therefore is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Davis M. of A. afterwards Lecturer of Christ Church in London and at length Pastor of a Congregation in Dover Author of Heaven and Earth shaken A treatise shewing hâ—w Kings Princes and their Government are turned and changed by Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1656. oct For this Joh. Davis the Author was originally of Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards siding with the Faction was first a Presbyterian and took the Covenant afterwards an Independent and took the Engagement for which he stickled in his Lectuers at Ch. Ch. At length being discovered by the then godly Party to be every way fit to carry on the trade of Faction he was translated to Dover where he kept a Conventicle in a noted Brewhouse by the Reer and soon after was made Chaplain to the Castle there by Col. Tho. Kelsey then Governour and preached constantly at S. James Church tho he was no setled Incumbent Where continuing officiating till after the Kings Return he was then outed and afterwards kept a Conventicle in S. James street in Dover where he continued to the time of his death which was about 1663. Adm. 149. Bach. of Phys I find but three admitted this year of whom John Speed a learned Physitian of S. Joh. Coll. was one Jun. 20. Bach. of Div. May 7. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 14. Meric Casaubon of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. Jerem. Stephens Gilb. Sheldon Rob Gomershall of Ch. Ch. of All 's Coll. Mar. 13. Will. Paul Tho. Lawrence of All 's Coll. Adm. 28. Doct. of Law Mar. 26. David Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Warden of Ruthin in Denbighshire Prebendary of Chester and afterwards Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Andr. Morrice sometimes Chaplain of All 's Coll. This Dr. Lloyd died about
Scotland He was afterwards made a Baron of England by the Title of Lord Bruce of Whorlton in Yorkshire and departed this life 21 Dec. 1663 leaving then behind him a Son named Robert created Earl of Aylesbury in Bucks by K. Ch. 2. who dying on the 19 of Octob. or thereabouts an 1685 he being then Lord Chamberlain to the houshold of K. Jam. 2. was buried at Ampthill in Bedfordshire where if I mistake not the body of his Father had been interr'd He was a learned Person and otherwise well qualified was well vers'd in English History and Antiquities a lover of all such that were Professors of those studies and a curious collector of MSS especially of those which related to England and English antiquities Besides also he was a lover of the regular Clergy as those of Bedfordsh and Bucks know well enough Henry Spencer of Magd. Coll. eldest Son of William Lord Spencer Baron of Wormleighton This Henry was afterwards Earl of Sunderland and taking part with K. Ch. 1. when he was opposed by his rebellious Subjects was slain in the Battel at Newbury in Berks 20. Sept. 1643. whereupon his body was carried to Braynton commonly call'd Brinton in Northamptonshire and there buried George Lord Digby of Magd. Coll. the eldest Son of John Earl of Bristow William Lord Craven of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Earl of Craven and is now 1690 living Will. Herbert of Exet. Coll. a younger Son of Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Coventrie Bach. of Arts and Fellow of All 's Coll. Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie Keeper of the great Seal See among the Bachelaurs of Law an 1638. Rich. Lovelace a Gentleman Commoner of Gloc. Hall Afterwards eminent for his valour and poetry as I shall tell you either in the next Vol. or elsewhere Hen. Jacob the curious critick of Merton Coll. Ralph Brideoakâ— of New Coll. sometimes a Student in that of Brasn He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester Frederick Schlâ—de of the Palat. in Germ. Nich. Oudart Esq This Person who was born at Mechlin in Brabant and brought from beyond the Seas by Sir Henry Wotton who afterwards trusted him with his domestick Affairs studied Physick of which faculty he was Bachelaur as I shall tell you among the Creations under the year 1642. About which time he became Secretary to Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State at Oxon and afterwards attending King Charles 1. in the Treaty in the Isle of Wight an 1648. lived for some time obscurely At length he became Secretary to the Princess of Orange then Latin Secretary to William Prince of Orange and of his Council in which capacity I find him in 1669. and afterwards Latin Secretary to King Charles 2. He paid his last debt to nature in or near to Whitehall about the day of the nativity of our Saviour an 1681. One Nich. Oudart of Bruxells who was official of Mechlin died 1608 whom I take to be Father or Uncle to the former Paul Becker of the Palatinate George Kendall of New Inn. Joh. Suatosius c. Bach. of Div. Sam. Keme or Kem of Magd. Hall sometimes of Magd. Coll. Mark Zeiglier of Exeter Coll. who entitles himself Archipalatinus He was a learned Man and whether he hath published any thing I cannot justly tell He became a Sojournor in the University 1623. Doct. of Law Sir Dudley Carleton of Holcombe in Oxfordshire Knight He was soon after made one of the Clerks of the Council and whether Secretary of State as an Author of no good credit tells us I cannot tell See more of him in Sir Dudley Carleton among the Writers under the year 1631. num 519. Sam. Henton or Hinton He died at Lichfield in 1668. Will. Turner of Wadham Coll. He was now or soon after a Civilian of Doctors Commons and in the time of the rebellion he sided with those that were uppermost In the middle of Jan. 1659 he was appointed by the Rump Parliament then newly restored by General Geor. Monk one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and of the Court for Probat of Wills Dr. Walt. Walker and Mr. W. Cawley being the other two And after his Majesties restauration he became Chancellour of Winchester a Knight and Advocate to the Duke of York He died at Richmond in Surrey as I conceive an 1670. At the same time that these were created Doctors of the Civil Law was a proposal made in the Convocation that Sir John Finet Knight Master of the Ceremonies should be also created or at least diplomated Doctor of the said faculty but whether he was really so it appears not in the publick register However what I have to say of him shall be briefly this viz. 1 That he was the Son of Rob. Finet of Soulton near Dover in Kent Son and Heir of Thomas Son and Heir of John Finet of Siena in Italy where his name is antient who came into England in the quality of a Servant to Cardinal Laur. Campegius Legat a latere from the Pope by his Wife the Daughter of one Mantell sometimes a Maid of honor to Qu. Catherine the Royal Consort of K. Hen. 8. 2 That the said John Finet was always bred in the Court where by his wit innocent mirth and great skill in composing songs he pleased K. Jam. 1. very much 3 That he was sent into France an 1614. about matters of publick concern and in the year after he received the honour of Knighthood at Whitehall about which time he was made Assistant to the Master of the Ceremonies with reversion of that place 4 That upon the death of Sir Lewis Lewknore Master of the Ceremonies he had that office confer'd upon him 12. March 1626 being then in good esteem with his Majesty King Charles 1. 5 That he wrot Fineti Philoxenis Some choice observations touching the reception and precedency the treatment and audience the punctilio's and contests of foreign Ambassadors in England Lond 1656. oct Published by James Howell and by him dedicated to Philip Lord L'isle 6 That he translated from French into English The beginning continuance and decay of Estates c. Lond. 1606. qu. Written originally by R. de Lusing And lastly that dying 12. July 1641 aged 70 years was buried in the North side of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster by the body of Jane his sometimes Wife daughter of Henry Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead in Suffolk Sister to the Earl of Cleevland Doct. of Phys Peter Turner of Mert. Coll. lately Geometry Professor of Gresham Coll. now the Savilian Professor of Geometry in this University John Carter of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a practitioner of his faculty near to Chancery-lane in Lond. Gaspar Hopfius of the Palat. in Germany Doct. of Div. George Warburton of Brasn Coll. was the first and senior Theologist that was actually created Doct. of Div. He was a Cheshire man born of an antient Family had been Chaplain in Ord. to K. Jam. 1.
159 Gascoigne Geor. 49. 150. 151 Gataker Cha. 501. Tho. 488 Gauden Joh. 262. 263 Gaudy Franc. 281 Gaunt Hen. 560 Gaydon Nich. 158 Gee Edw. 310. 377. Jo. 427 Geffry Will. 694 Gellibrand Hen. 521. 522 Gentilis Alb. 314. 315. 531. Matth. 314. 316. Rob. 315. Scip. 185. 314 George Jo. 649 Geree Jo. 405 Gery Will. 865 Ghest Edm. 591. 599. 6â—2 Gibbon Jo. 240 Gibbons Christop 808. Edw. 768. Ellis 768. Franc. 827. Joh. 704. Nich. 768. Orl. 768. 842 Gibson Abr. 821. Joh. 736. 814. Tho. 108. 749 Giffard or Gifford Geor. 387 Gifford Joh. 410. 778. Matth. 755. b. alias 757. Rog. 727. Will. 191. 250. 453. 454. 735 Gilbert Will. 656 Gilbert Rich. 576. Will. 276. 421. 565. 568. 644. 800. 845 Gilby Ant. 153. Nath. 842. 851 Gill Alex. 512. 513 Gillingham Geor. 888. Will. 647 Gilpin Bern. 220. 441. 593. 703 Giovannus Joh. 710 Glanvill Jo. 811 Glasier Tho. 742 Glemham Char. 108 Glisson Franc. 856 Glover Rob. 319 Glue Pet. 778 Glynn Joh. 544 Glynne Maur. 651. Will. 583. 710 Goad Rog. 614. 723. Tho. 827 Goch or Gooch Barn 772. 794. See Gough Goddard Will. 4. 878 Godwin Franc. 319. 348. 409. 496. 497. 629. Morg. 497. Tho. 607 Godmersham Will. 642 Godskall Jam. 788 Goffe or Gough Franc. 630. John 889. Steph. 888. 889. Tho. 398. 458. Will. 889. See Gough Goldesborough Geff. 7â—6 Nich. 743 Goldesburg Joh. 293. 369 Golding Arth. 184. 401 Goldwill John 233. Tho. 166. 586. 605. 644 Gollop Gibbs 286 Gomersall Rob. 519. alias 509 Gooch Barn 772. 794. See Goch Good Jo. 833. 834 Goodfield 650 Goodman Christoph 153. 154. 272. 273. Gabr. 269. 294. 409. 751. Godfrey 409. 622. 623. 629. 773. 820. 821. 831. Hugh 617. John 641. 698 Goodrick Tho. 558 Goodwin Jo. 522. 882. Tho. 517. 820. 897. Will. 358. 787. 788 Gorge Franc. 775 Gorton Will. 777 Goseman Ded. 416 Gosson Steph. 256 Gostlyn Jo. 814 Gostwick Rog. 777 Gotereus Dan. 860 Gough John 179. Will. 807. See Goffe Gâ—â—â—son Ellen 488. Theod. â—88 Gourdon Jo. 795. 803 Grandison Jo. 71 Grant Edw. 269. 329. 410. Henr. 269 Gray Rich. 649. Will. 63â— Greaves Jo. 470 Grebby Rob. 83 Green Barth 700. Christop 843. Ed. 429. Rob. 424. 761. Rich. 7â—8 Sim. 638 Greenway Tho. 698 Greenwood Ich. 387. Will. 535 Grenfield Nath. 813 Gregory Hen. 889. Joh. 659 Grenevil Bevil 815. Rich. 816 Grent Tho. 838 Gressop Tho. 718 Grevil Fulk 182. 183. 272. 410. 413. 444. 445. Rob. 445. 446 Grey Jane 610. Rich. 41. Will. 334 Griffin Jo. 64. Ralp 289 Griffith Edm. 330. 631. Joh. 64. 719. Manr 590. Will. 855. See Gryffyth Grimald or Grimoald Nic. 121. 140 Grocyn Will. 13. 32. 85 Grostest or Grosthead Rob. 5. 145 Gruter Jam. 413 Gryffyth or Gruffyth Jo. 659 Grynaeus Sim. 97. 6â—9 Gualo Britan. 295 Gualter Giles 740. Ralph 142. 148. 686 Guest Edm. 591. 599. 612 Guidott Tho. 494 Guillim Jo. 389 Gundamore Count 371 Gunter Edm. 333. 432. 433 Gunthorp Jo. 562 Gunton Sim. 319 Guy Arn. 659. Nic. 810 Gwent Rich. 659. 666. 670. 684 Gwinn Math. 420. 437. 438. 771. Rob. 227. Tho. 8â—0 Gwynn Oweâ— 828 Gwynneth Jo. 83. 680 H. HAak Theod. 470 Habington or Abington Edw. 735. Tho. 88 Haddock Geor. 321 Hacket Jo. 412. 509. alias 519. 824. Rog. 398 Haddon Walt. 98. 162. 705. 707 Hakebourne Jo. 636 Hakeluyt Oliv. 350. Rich. ibid. Hakewill Geo. 624. Will. 817 Hall Joh. 455. 456. Jos 424. 779. 875. 881. Rich. 489. R. 118. Tho. 400 Hales Joh. 475. 528 Hales or Hayles 82. 139. Christ 140 Halgate or Holgate Rob. 560 Halsay or Halsey Th. 562 Halke Will. 767 Hallesworth Rob. 654 Hamm Ben. 757. b. alias 759 Hamey Bald. 841. 866 Hamilton Patr. 30 Hammond Jo. 795 Hampâ—on Jo. 652 Hancock Jo. 720. Tho. 561 Hanmer Joh. 627. 628. 824. Mer. 278. 279. 306 Hannay Jo. 888 Hannington Jo. 713 Hanyball or Hannyball Tho. 570. 584. 654. 667. 672. Hanworth Hug. 636 Hardyman Jo. 692 Harding 589. Joh. 776. 846. Tho. 133. 135. 138. 149. 700 Harford Rich. 698 Hariot Tho. 390. 391. Harley Jo. 9. 587 Harman Godfr 31. Joh. 581. 582 Harmar Jo. 332 Harpesfield Joh. 124. 151. 599. Nich. 157. 151. 152. 222 Harrington Jam. 3. 570. 573. 657. Joh. 251. 125. 497 Harry ap Joh. 695. 697 Harris Nath. 813. Tho. 559. Will. 274 Harrison Jo. 316. 351. 610. 690. 756. b. alias 758. Will. 11. 189 Harsnet Sam. 505. 601. 626 Hart Will. 170. 171 Harte Jo. 242. 662 Hartley Will. 165 Hartlib Sam. 384. 85â— Hartwell Abr. 761. Rob. 85 Harvey Gabr. 173. 376. 755. b. alias 757. 762. Hen. 755. b. alias 757. Joh. 174. 655. Rich. 173. 174. 239. Rob. 755. b. alias 757. Tho. 241. 401. Will. 889. 894 Harward Sim. 296 Hassall or Halsall Jo. 852 Hastings Franc. 311. Jo. 4 Hatcher Tho. 707 Hatton Christop 196. alias 1â—8 223. 246. 759. 560. Will. 765 Hausted Pet. 196. alias 198. 422. 423 Haward or Howard Hen. 730. 797. Tho. 730. Will. 727. See Howard Haward Jo. 305 Hawarden Jo. 186 Hawes Steph. 5 Hawford Phil. 638. 691 Hawkins Will. 265 Hawley Rich. 856 Hawthorne Adrian 723 Haydock Rich. 257 Hayes Will. 855 Hayman Rob. 494 Haynes Sim. 672. Will. 690 Hayward Jo. 678. 824 Heale Will. 314 Heath Joh. 343. 702. Nich. 76. 593. 603. 604. Rob. 374. 507. Tho. 173. 174 Heather Will. 842 Heerboord Andr. 405 Hegge Rob. 455 Helme Christ 772. Will. 405 Helyar Jo. 41 Hemerford or Emerford Tho. 321. 758 Hemming Rob. 765 Hena Joh. 888 Henchmaâ— Humph. 808. 820 Hendon Rob. 506 Heneage Gon. 594. 601. 700 Henly Andr. 372 Henry 6. K. of Engl. 643 Hen. Prince of Wales 798 Hennin Ant. 224 Henshaw or Heronshaw Hen. 714 Herbert Hen. 185. 769. Joh. 733. 793. Phil. 466. 795. Will. 60. 466. 795. 822. 887 Heron Jo. 63. Sam. 779 Heronshaw Hen. 715 Herte Jo. 568 Heryng Joh. 68 Herydans Will. 87 Heskyns Tho. 694 Heslyngcon Will. 664 Heth Jo. 702. Thom. 173. 174. See Heath Heton Geor. 617. Mart. 499. 616. 617 Hewes or Hughes Tho. 701. See Hughes Hewys Joh. 643. 677 Heyden Benj. 793. 794. Christop 278 Heylyn Pet. 333. 486. 487. 502. 792. 804. 805. 862. 867. 869 Heywood Ellis 34. 140. 251. Jasp 34. 118. 157. 251. Joh. 116. 117. Tho. 762 Hickeringil Ed. 898 Hicks Franc. 469. Tho. ibid. and in 507 Hide Tho. 250 Hieron Sam. 779 Hâ—gen Jo. 113. 114 Hâ—gens Joh. 297. 343 Higgs Griff 866. Nich. 789 Higgons Theoph. 353. Thom. 803 Higgins Anth. 834 Hildesley Jo. 44. 575 Hill Jo. 719. 726. Nich. 312. 313. Rob. 649. 791. Tho. 499. 844. See Hyll Hill R. 118 Hill or Hilley Rich. 643 Hills Jo. 744. 878 Hilsey Jo. 44. 575 Hilton Strack 767 Hinde Sam. 457. Tho. ibid. Will. 291. 456 Hitch Rob. 753 Hobbes Tho. 391. 558. 828 Hobert Hen. 448 Hobson Tho. Hoby Edw. 353. 424. Phil. 117. 178. Tho. 117 Hodges Will. 889 Hodgeskyn Jo. 588 Hodye Humph. 286 Hodson Elâ—az 822. Phin. 788 Hoffman Jo. 878 Hogeard Mil. 96 Hoker Jo. 53 Holbeach alias Rands Hen. 577. 638 659. Laur. 40
Man born and an ingenious Poet was afterwards Secretary to Sir Edw. Philipps Master of the Rolls and a Burgess in several Parliaments particularly in that which began 3. Nov. 1640. being then a Burgess for Okehampton in Devonshire He died 15. Apâ— 1654 aged 76 and was buried in the Church of St. Giles in the fields near to London He was much admired by Tho. Coryat the traveller in the dishing out of whose Odcombian banquet he had a considerable hand an 1611. being numbred among the Poets of that age Jul. 12. Will. Knight M. A. of the same University I take him to be the same with 〈◊〉 Knight of Arâ—ington in Sussex a Divine who wrot A concordance Axiomatical containing a survey of Theological propositions with their reasons and uses in holy Scripture Lond. 1610. fol. and the same perhaps who published Mundus alter idem sive terra australis c. written by Joseph Hall who was afterwards Bishop of Norwych Francis Dee M. A. and Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in Cambr. was incorporated the same day He was the Son of David d ee of Shropshire who is said to be Rector of Great St. Bartholomews Church in London and he the great Grandson of the Great Bede Dee of an antient Family in those parts Afterwards he took the Degree of D. of D. being then Minister of Allhallows in Lumbard-street in London was Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury and in 1630 was made Dean of Chichester In 1634 Apr. 9. he was elected Bishop of Peterborough and on the 28. May following he was installed by proxy being then esteemed a Person of a pious life and conversation and of very affable behavior He died after he had been twice married on the eighth day of Octob. 1638 and was buried at the upper end of the choire belonging to the Cathedral Church at Peterborough near to the Episcopal seat A little before his death he gave to the Master and Seniors of St. Johns Coll. beforemention'd the impropriat Parsonage of Pagham in Sussex held by lease of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury for the maintaining of two Fellows and two Scholars therein for ever the Scholars to be elected out of Peterborough School John Pocklington M. A. and Fellow of Pembr hall in Cambr. was also then Jul. 12. incorporated He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of Yeldon alias Yevelden in Bedfordshire Vicar of Waresley in Huntingdonshire Prebendary of Peterborough and in 1639 Canon of Windsore in the place of Tho. Sheafe deceased being also about that time Chaplain to His Maj. Ch. 1. This is the Person who among other books published Altare Christianum c. Lond. 1636. and Sunday no Sabbath c. Lond. 1637. Which last being no other than a Sermon preached at Ampthill in Bedfordshire at the B. of Lincolns Visitation 17. Aug. 1635 was much brought up by and taken into the hands of young Students who usually read it at their common fires and according to their dispositions it was liked or disliked But both being in an high manner disgusted by the Puritans they who had the chief sway in the long Parliament that began 3. Nov. 1640 ordered them both on the tenth of March following to be publickly burnt by the common executioner in both the Universities and in the City of London About that time they deprived the Author of all his spiritualities beforemention'd and would have proceeded father as to other punishment but he being in a manner heart-broken prevented their fury by death which hapned at Peterborough I think in the Winter time 1642. Josephus Barbatus a Native of Memphis in Aegypt was conversant about this time with the Oxonian Muses He could speak French and Ital. very readily but most of all the Arabian tongue which was natural to him and therefore recommended by the Archb. of Canterbury to the Vicechanc. to read a lecture of it to the Academians He hath written one or more things in that language which were acceptable to the learners of it An. Dom. 1604. An. 2. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Buckhurst created this year Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Joh. Williams D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll. and reader of the Margaret Lecture July 14. Proct. Will. Ballow of Ch. Ch. George Darrell of All 's Coll. Apr. 18. Bach. of Musick Jul. 14. John Daniel of Ch. Ch. Some of his instrumental compositions we have remaining in the publick School of that faculty Bach. of Arts. May 8. Hen. Whistler of Trinity Jun. 10. Franc Kinaston of Oriel Jul. 20. Gabr. Richardson of Brasn Coll. Oct. 23. Nathaniel Pownoll of Ch. Ch. 26. Sim. Birckbek of Queens Dec. 12. Tho. Baylie of Magd. Coll. Jan. 23. Rob. Sanderson Thom. Hayne of Linc. Coll. The first of these two last was afterwards the learned and religious Bishop of Lincolne Feb. 4. Rich. Capell of Magd. Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Pownoll are to be mention'd at large as Authors in the next volume Adm. 180. Mast of Arts. March 27. John Dunster of Magd. Coll. May 1. Isaac Singleton of All 's Coll. This Person who was nearly related to Dr. Thom. Singleton Principal of Brasn Coll. of which house he was originally a Commoner but now Fellow of the said Coll. of All 's hath published The downfall of Shelna together with an application to the bloody Gowry of Scotland in two Sermons at St. Maries in Oxon on Isay 22. 15. Lond. 1615. qu. and perhaps other things In 1622 I find him Chancellour of the Dioc. of Carlile and some years after to be collated to the Archdeaconry of that place in the room of Robert Wrigt who had been collated thereunto in 1621. he being then only Bach. of Arts. In 1640 Isaac Singleton occurs by the title of Archdeacon of Brecknock but afterwards was deprived of that and other spiritualities which is all I know of him only that he was a Londoner born May 22. Dan. Price of Exet. Jun. 12. Will. Twysse of New Coll. 26. Will. Wheatlie of St. Edm. hall Oct. 22. Sam Turner of S. Albans Hall This person who was the Son of Dr. Pet. Turner mention'd before among the Incorporations under the year 1599 by Pascha his Wife Sister of Hen. Parry Bishop of Worcester was originally of S. Maries Hall afterwards for a time of C. C. Coll. but now of S. Albans Hall before mention'd and as a Member thereof did compleat his degree of Master in an Act celebrated 8 Jul. 1605. Afterwards he travelled and became Doct. of Phys of an University beyond the Seas and whether after his Return he practised that Faculty in Dorsetshire I am not certain Sure it is that he was several times chosen by the men of Shaftsbury in that County to serve as a Burgess for them in several Parliaments particularly in that called 1625 wherein he shew'd himself what he was of a bold Spirit and able Elocution in assaulting the Kings great Minion George Duke of Bucks as the main cause of divers infirmities in the State being
very uncouth Language to a Princes ears the particulars of which you may see elsewhere For the Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 he was elected again for the same place but being soon after fully satisfied what desperate courses the Members thereof took he left them and retiring to his Majesty at Oxon sate in the Parliament there 1643 and so consequently was a shater of Sufferings then incident to Royalists I have seen divers of his Speeches in MS. but whether made publick I cannot tell He died in 1647 or thereabouts leaving then behind a natural Son of both his names and the character of a man of very loose principles Adm. 65. Bach. of Div. Jul. 6. Will. Laud of S. Johns Coll. Jan. 18. John Burbadge of Linc. Coll. a rich Dignitary in the Church He was nearly related to Rich. Burbadge of the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch near London which Richard who is stiled by the learned Camden to have been alter Roscius died 9 March 1618. Feb. 22. Robert Wakeman of Balliol Coll. On the second day of March this year Gabriel Powell Bach. of Arts of S. Maries Hall who had studied Divinity nine years supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. but whether his desire was granted it appears not I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1607. Adm. 12. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law Phys or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations July 10. Rob. Hill Bach. of Div. of Christs Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time Parson of S. Barthelmew near to the Exchange in London was afterwards D. of D. and always esteemed a learned man and a good and painful Preacher He hath written 1 Life everlasting or the true knowledge of one Jehovah Cambr. 1601. oct 2 The path way to prayer and piety c. Lond. 1613. oct 3 A Communicant instructed c. printed 1617. oct with an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and other things which I have not yet seen See more among the Incorporations an 1598. This Dr. Hill died in 1623 and was buried near to the Body of his Wife in the Chancel of the Church of S. Barthelmew before mention'd One Rob. Hill was Parson of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester an 1604 but him I take to be different from the former I find only five Masters of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated this year and two Bach. of Div. of whom Rob. Hill the Writer before mention'd was one Daniel Plancius a Belgian born was this year a Sojourner in the Univ. for the sake of the publ Library and did soon after publish several Books which shew'd him a learned man one of which was answer'd and animadverted upon by Heribert Ross-weidus and Rob. Swertius Joh. Drusius also was a Sojourner not in a private House but in Gloc. Hall who being admirably well skill'd in the Hebrew Chalday and Syriack Tongue was recommended to the chief Heads of the University to read those Tongues either privately or publickly He soon after removed to Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took a degree in Arts as I shall tell you in the year following An. Dom. 1605. An. 3 Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again July 16. Proct. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. Joh. Hanmer of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. June 11. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. Many year after his death were published by Dr. Sim. Patrick Dean of Peterborough his Works entit Reliquiae Raleighanae 20. Hen. Jackâ—on of C. C. Coll. 27. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Pet. Turner Oct. 21. Hen. Rogers of Jes Coll. 23. Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Dec. 17. Joh. Andrews of Trin. Coll. Feb. 26. Franc. Stewart of Ch. Ch. Son of the Earl of Murray and of kin to his Maj. James 1. See more in the year 1616 among the Creations Joh. Drusius of Ch. Ch. Son of the learned Critick Joh. Drusius was admitted the same day 28. Sampson Price of Hart Hall lately of Exet. Coll. Of Raleigh Jackson Fell Turner Rogers and Ley will be large mention made in the second Vol. Adm. 190. Mast of Arts. Apr. 17. Daniel Fairclough commonly called Featley of C. C. Coll. 24. Benj. Culme of Linc. Coll. lately of S. Albans Hall He was the Son of Hugh Culme of Molland in Devonshire and going afterwards into Ireland became at length D. of D. and Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin where he was accounted a learned man and an excellent Preacher and Theologist But he being forced thence by the Rebellion that broke out in 1641 went into England lived several years in a retired condition at Mudghill near to Lidiard St. Johns in Wiltshire where dying in October an 1657 aged 76 was buried in the Church-yard of Lidiard before mention'd Over his Grave was soon after an Altar-tomb erected with a large Inscription thereon wherein 't is said he died 21 Octob. May 16. Joh. Bery or Bury of Balliol lately of Corp. Christ Coll. Jun. 16. James Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. 9. Thom. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. This Gentleman who was a Londoner born was second Son of Will. Aylesbury by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Poole Esquire and from Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. 1598. After he had left the University he became Secretary to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and to George Duke of Bucks his Successor in that great Office By the endeavours of which last he was made one of the Masters of the Requests and Master of the Mint being about that time a Baronet which places he keeping till the grand Rebellion broke out in 1642 he adher'd to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and in 1649 when all things were in a Confusion as to the Royal Party he retired with his Family to Antwerp in Brabant where continuing till 1652 he removed to Breda and dying in 1657 aged 81 was buried in the great Chnrch there leaving behind him a Son named William of whom I shall speak elsewhere and a Daughter named Frances the Wife of Edw. Hyde of Pirtâ—n in Wilts since made Earl of Clarendon These things I mention because the said Sir Tho. Aylesbury was a learned man and as great a Lover and Encourager of Learning and learned men especially of Mathematicians he being one himself as any man in his time June 9. Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. 12. Joh. Warner of Magd. 23. George Webb of C. C. Jul. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Dec. 16. Edw. Abbot of Vniversity Coll. In the year 1616 Jan. 13. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of Wells in the place of Rich. Boughton sometimes of Magd. Coll. in this University and dying in 1634 Sebastian Smith M. A. of Ch. Ch. was admitted to that dignity on the 9 of March the same year Will. Boswell of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was afterwards Chaplain to John