Articles according to the order of the Creed of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct 1584. qu. Annexed to John Baker's Lectures on the Creed These 100 Articles were before Printed viz. an 1550. in oct Declaration of the 10 holy Commandments of Almighty God Lond. 1550. and 88. oct With other things which I have not yet seen the trite or slender titles of which you may see in Baleus He also translated from Lat. into English Turtullians second Book to his Wife concerning the choice of a Husband or Wife Lond. 1550. oct and perhaps other things At length he suffered death in the flames near to the College of Priests in the City of Glocester on Saturday the ninth of Febr. in Fifteen hundred fifty and four 1. and 2. of Philip and Mary being then near sixty Years of Age and much lamented by those that pretended to Reformation EDWARD WOTTON Son of Rich. Wotton superior Beadle of Divinity of this University of Oxon by Margaret his Wife was born within the City of Oxon. particularly as I conceive in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin wherein his Father lived and had Houses in Cat-street After he had been educated in the Grammar School joining to Magd. Coll. he was first made Semicommoner or Demie of that House and after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was 1513. he was as I conceive made Fellow At length upon the desire of John Claymond and Rob. Morwent who knew the singular virtues and learning of the Person he left that Coll. and by the favour of that most worthy Person Bishop Fox Founder of that of Corp. Christi was made socius compar thereof with leave to travel into Italy for three Years an 1520. So that after he had read the Greek Lecture there for some time he journied into Italy studied Physick and took the Degree of Doctor in that faculty at Padöua After his return he was settled Greek Reader of his Coll. was incorporated in the same Degree in the latter end of 1525 was made Physician to K. Hen. 8. and not only became famous for his happy practice in that faculty in these parts and afterwards in London for he was one of the College of Physicians there but also for his great knowledge in Philosophy and things natural He hath transmitted to posterity De differentiis Animalium lib. 10. Par. 1552. fol. By the publishing of which he obtained a famous name among learned Men especially with Mich. Neander who saith that no Author hath written of Animals more learned and elegant than Wottonus See more in Thom Mouffet under the Year 1590. What other things the said Wotton hath published I know not nor anything else of him or his only 1 That he dying 5. Octob. year 1555 in Fifteen hundred fifty and five in the climacterical Year of his Age 63 was buried in St. Albans Church in Woodstreet in the City of London 2 That Catherine his Widow dying 4 Dec. 1558. was buried by him and both had a stone with an inscription thereon laid over their Graves But that part of it which remained an 100 Years after was totally consumed in the grand conflagration of London an 1666. 3 That he is much celebrated by the Antiquarian Poet John Leland under the name of Eadverdus Ododunus 4 That among the Children he left behind him for he had a numerous issue Brian Wotton LL. Bach. and Fellow of New Coll. was one who bequeathed his Body to be buried in the yard belonging to St. Albans Church before-mention'd Another was called Hen. Wotton first a Student of Ch. Ch. and afterwards Proctor of the University Greek Reader and Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. who proceeding in the faculty of Physick an 1567. became afterwards famous for the practice thereof NICHOLAS RYDLEY was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Willymondswyke in Northumberland educated in Grammatical Learning at Newcastle upon Tyne in Academical at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he was elected into one of Walt. Skyrlaw's Fellowship of University Coll. 13. Apr. 1521. Which place he keeping but a little while and therefore the Members of that House can hardly lay claim to him he returned to Cambridge where he became D. of D. and Master of Pembroke Hall Afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Ed. 6. and at length through Rochester the temporalities of which See were restored to him 27. Sept. 1547. became Bishop of London 1549. He was a Person small in stature but great in learning and profoundly read in Divinity quo viro as one who knew him saith nihil integrius omnibus egregiis dotibus ornatius Anglia nostra multis hisce retro saeculis habuit c. Among several things that he wrot were these Treatise concerning images not to be set up nor worshipped in Churches Written in the time of K. Ed. 6. Brief declaration of the Lords Supper Printed 1555. and 1586. oct Written by him while he was a Prisoner in Oxon. It was translated into Lat. by Will. Whittyngham bearing this title Assertio de coena Dominica Genev. 1556. Answered by another Book entit Confutatio Catholica Nich. Rydley de Eucharistia Par. 1556. qu. Written by Alban Langdale D. D. of St. John's College in Cambridge Certain godly and comfortable conferences between him and Mr. Hugh Latymer during the time of their imprisonment Lond. 1555. 56. and 74 in oct A friendly farewell written during his imprisonment at Oxford unto all his true Lovers a little before his death Lond. 1559. oct A piteous lamentation of the miserable state of the Church of England in the time of the late revolt from the Gospel Lond. in oct A comparison between the comfortable Doctrine of the Gospel and the traditions of Popish Religion Print with the former An account of a disputation at Oxford an 1554 Oxon. 1688. qu. Written in Latin and published from the Original MS by Gilb. Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Col. and then Vicehanc of the Univ. of Oxon. Treatise of the blessed Sacrament The beginning of which is Many things confound the real memory c. published with the former by the aforesaid Person from an original MS. to which he added A Letter written by Mr. Jo. Bradford the Martyr never before Printed Letter of reconciliation written to Bishop Hooper Lond. 1689. qu. published by Sam. Johnson Author of the Short account of the life of Julian the Apostate Lond. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Rydley had a hand also in the compiling of the Common Prayer-Book now in use among us has also disputations arguings communications and conferences about matters of Religion in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church written by John Fox In which Book under the Years 1554. and 55. you may see a full account of his sufferings and afterwards of his burning near to Balliol College in Oxon. year 1555 on the 16. of Oct in Fifteen hundred fifty and
variety of other mens labours in Grammar of whom Joh. Stanbridge Rob. Whittington Joh. Colet and Lilye were of the number sprang a great diversity in the course of teaching which King Hen. 8. intending to reform caused sundry learned Men of whom Dr. Rich. Cox Tutor to K. Ed. 6. is supposed to be one to reduce the former attempts in this kind into one body of Grammar which they jointly did in 1545 being that now in use and first authorized by K. Hen. 8. Howbeit soon after it was thought too prolix for in the Reign of Ed. 6. John Fox of Magd. Coll. did set forth Tables of Grammar subscribed in Print by eight Lords of the Privy Council which Tables were quickly laid aside as being far more too short than K. Hen. 8. his Grammar was too long Since which time many learned Men in England and far more abroad have spent much profitable study in this Art and the method thereof as we well know In the 3. of Ed. 6. Dom. 1549. he the said Thom. Robertson was one of the number appointed by the K. and his Council to compile and frame the Liturgy of the Church which we now call the Common-Prayers and in the Year 1557. Jul. 23. he had the Deanery of Durham confer'd on him by the Queen being then void upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Watson to the See of Lincoln who had been instituted in the said Deanery by Tonstall Bishop of Durham 18. Nov. 1553. upon the deprivation of Dr. Rob. Horne at which time being greatly in respect for his piety and learning the Queen would have had him taken a Bishoprick but he modestly refused it His works are Annotationes in librum Guliel Lilii de Latinorum nominum generibus de verborum praeteritis supinis c. De nominibus heteroclitis opusculum cum annotationibus De verbis defectivis append interjectis etiam sparsim ubi opus videbatur annotatiunculis Compendium sive de arte versificandi cum annotationibus additis All which Books were printed together at Basil 1532. qu. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was forced first to leave the Deanery of Durham to make room for Dr. Horne about the latter end of 1559 who being soon after made Bishop of Winchester Robertson might if he would have taken the Oath of Supremacy have came in again but he refused it whereupon Ralph Skynner of Oxon succeeded and secondly to resign his Archdeaconry of Leycester to prevent ejection so that the said Dignity lying void for some time Rich Barber LL. D. was installed therein 24. Dec. 1560. What afterwards became of Tho. Robertson or where or when he died let others seek for I am totally ignorant John Parkhurst B. of Norwich sometimes his Scholar hath an Epigram on him in praise of his learning which may serve instead of his Epitaph if you think fit WILLIAM CHEADSEY a Somersetshire Man born was admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 16. March 1528. aged 18. or thereabouts Probationer-Fellow 13. Oct. 1531 and two years after compleat Fellow In 1534 he proceeded in Arts and in 1542 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Bonner B. of London who having a special respect for his learning and zeal for the R. Catholick Religion he made him not only Archdeacon of Middlesex but Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral In 1546 he proceeded in Divinity having about that time subscribed to the 34 Articles and three years after did learnedly dispute with Pet. Martyr in the Divinity School From which time an 1549 he seemed so moderate in his Religion in the remaining part of the Reign of K. Ed. 6. that the Protestants took him to be one of their number In the beginning of Qu. Mary he was made Canon of Windsore shewed himself a zealous Man against the Professors of Protestancy and in 1557 had a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon confer'd on him after the death of James Curthopp In 1558 he was elected President of Corp. Ch. Coll. and on the 15. Sept. in the same Year he was admitted thereunto but removed from it the next Year by the Commissioners sent by Qu. Elizabeth to visit the University About that time he was appointed one of the number of the R. Catholick Divines to repair to London to dispute with those of the Protestant Party when the said Queen was setting on foot a Reformation in the Church of England He was by the Protestants accounted a very mutable and unconstant Man in his Religion but by the Rom. Catholicks not but rather a great stickler for their Religion and the chief prop in his time in the University for the cause as it appeared not only in his opposition of P. Martyr but of the three Bishops that were burnt in Oxon. He was a learned Man a deep Divine an excellent Disputant and a characterised by John Leland to be resonae Scholae columna His works are Serm. on Matth. 22. 15. Printed 1545. in oct Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Univ. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem 29. Maii Jun. 1. an 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. Which disputation hath also been printed once at least among Pet. Martyrs works but whether true according to the Authors Copy I leave it to others to judge 'T is also translated into English Dispution with John Philpot concerning the real presence in the Sacrament in Octob. 1553. Disp with Archb. Cranmer at Oxon an 1554. Communication with B. Rydley an 1555. See more in the Acts and Monuments of the Church c. written by Jo. Fox wherein you 'll find several of his discourses with and examination of Protestant Martyrs At length he was deprived of most if not all of his spiritualities and committed a Prisoner to the Fleet in London where as 't is supposed by some he died soon after However in my searches into obscure Writings I find that one John Joanes a Priest living at or near Thame in Oxfordshire did by his last Will dated 27. of Aug. and proved the 16. of Oct. following an 1574 bequeath to Mr. Dr. Chedsey twenty shillings By which it appears that he was then living but where I find not nor when he died BARTHOLMEW TRAHERON commonly called Trahern was born in Cornwall or at least originally descended from an ancient Family of his name living in that County educated in Logicals and Philosophicals for the most part with us either in Exeter Coll. or Hart hall where he attained to some eminence in the Lat. and Greek Tongues But being desirous to improve himself in greater matters and to see the fashions of the World he travelled into Germany and thence into Italy where he was an auditor and an admirer of many famous Men By whose excellent Lectures and his indefatigable industry he became a compleat Person and much respected by Scholars Afterwards he returned into his own Country entred
in a matter concerning two manner of marriages corrected and somewhat augmented by the Author Lond. 1547. and 1598. in two parts in qu. All written in old English verse and printed in an English Character Three hundred Epigrams upon 300 Proverbs Lond. without date and there again 1598. qu. All in old English character The fourth hundred of Epigrams Lond. without date and there again 1598. qu. The Fifth Sixth hundred of Epigr. LOnd 1598. qu. The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie. Lond. 1556. in a pretty thick qu. and all in old English verse Before the title is the picture of Jo. Heywood from head to foot printed from a wooden Cut with a fur-gown on representing the fashion of that almost belonging to a Master of Arts but the bottom of the sleeves reach no lower than his knees On his head is a round cap his chin and lips are close shav'd and hath a dagger hanging at his girdle After the Preface which is in verse follows a table of all the Chapters in the Book then follows his picture again as is before described In the beginning of every chapter in number 77. is the Authors picture either standing or sitting before a table with a Book on it and the representation of a window near it with cobwebs flies and spiders in it 'T is one of the first printed Books in the English tongue that hath many Cuts and no doubt there is but that it was in high value in Qu. Maries Reign as the Author of it was who ending his days at Mechlin year 1565 about Fifteen hundred sixty and five was buried there leaving behind him several Children to whom he had given liberal education among which were Ellis and Jaspar Heywood the former Bach. of the Civil Law the other M. of Arts of this University and both afterwards noted Jesuits THOMAS HOBY of Bysham near to Maydenhead in Berks. Son of Will. Hoby of Leonminster commonly called Lemster in Herefordishire was born as I conceive in Herefordshire and after he had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses he went beyond the Seas lived in France Italy and other Countries several years became a perfect Master of the Languages there spoken and at length returned a compleat Gentleman well fuâ—nâ—shed with learning and for a time settled at Bysham Afterwards being introduced into the Court he became so much esteemed by Qu. Elizabeth that she not only conferr'd the honor of Knighthood upon but sent him Embasslador to the French King an 1565 or thereabouts where acting too zealous for his Mistress he was cut off in the prime of his years What he hath written I know not Sure I am that he hath translated from Italian into English Il cortagiano seu de Aulico written by 〈◊〉 Castiglione and from Lat. into English 1 〈◊〉 to the Church of England for the restitution of Christian Religion Lond. in oct without date written in Lat. by Martin Bucer 2 Answer unto the two railing Epistles of Steph. Gardiner B. of Winchester concerning the married state of Priests and Cloysterers Lond. in oct without date written also in Lat. by the said Bucer They were both printed in an English character after the Authors death as it seems which happing at Paris on Saturday 13. July between five and six in the morning to the great reluctancy of all good Men nay to the Queen her self in Fifteen hundred sixty and six year 1566 aged 36 years his body thereupon was conveyed into England and at length to Bysham where resting till his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Anth. Coke of Geddy-hall in Essex Knight had built a Chappel on the South side of the Chancel there was put into a Vault underneath it Which being so done the said Widow caused the body of his elder Brother Sir Philip Hoby a zealous Protestant in Qu. Maries Reign who dying issuless 31 May 1558. aged 53. made his Brother Sir Tho. before-mentioned his Heir to be removed from under the Chancel and to be laid by it in the said Vault That also being done she at her own charges caused a fair Table Monument breast-high to be erected over them with their statâ—a's from head to foot laying thereon and a large inscription in English prose and verse to be engraven which for brevity sake I shall now pass by This Sir Tho. Hoby left behind him several Children of whom the eldest was Edward as I shall tell you more hereafter in the latter end of the Year 1616. RICHARD EDWARDS a Somersetshire Man born was admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. under the tuition of George Etheridge on the eleventh of May 1540 Student of the upper table of Christ Church at its foundation by K. Hen. 8. in the beginning of the Year 1547. aged 24 and the same Year took the Degree of M. of Arts. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he was made one of the Gentlemen of her Chappel and Master of the Children there being then esteemed not only an excellent Musician but an exact Poet as many of his compositions in Musick for he was not only skill'd in the practical but theoretical part and Poetry do shew for which he was highly valued by those that knew him especially his associats in Lincolns Inn of which he was a member and in some respects an Ornament and much lamented by them and all ingenious Men of his time when he died He hath written Damon and Pythias a Com. Acted at Court and in the University Palaemon and Arcyte a Com. in two parts Acted before Qu. Elizab. in Ch. Ch. hall 1566. which gave her so much content that sending for the Author thereof she was pleased to give him many thanks with promise of reward for his pains And then making a pause said to him and her retinue standing about her these matters relating to the said Play which had entertain'd her with great delight for two nights in the said hall By Palaemon I warrant he dellieth not in love when he was in love indeed By Arcyte he was a right martial Knight having a swaâ—t countenance and a manly Face By Trecatio Gods pitty what a knave it is By Peritbous his throwing St. Edwards rich cloak into the funeral fire which a stander by would have staâ—d by the arm with an oath go fool he knoweth his part I 'll warrant you c. In the said play was acted a cry of hounds in the quadrant upon the train of a fox in the hunting of Theseus with which the young Scholars who stood in the remoter parts of the stage and in the windows were so much taken and surpriz'd supposing it had been real that they cried out there there he 's caught he 's caught All which the Queen merrily beholding said O excellent those boys in very troth are ready to leap out of the windows to follow the hounds This part being repeated before certain Courtiers in the lodgings of Mr. Rog. Marbeck one of the Canons of
the society when he was ejected from among them in 1554. Epistola ad Scipionem Patritium Venetum de causis cur Episcopi Angliae ad concilium Tridentinum non convenirent an 1559. This also is printed in an appendix to the second edit of the translation of the Hist of the Council of Trent made by Sir Nath. Brent Lond. 1629. fol. Letters between him and Dr. Hen. Cole upon occasion of a Sermon that Mr. Jewell preached before the Queen and her Council Lond. 1560. oct This Letter-Combat began 18. March 1559 and continued till 18. May 1560. Sermon at Pauls cross the second Sunday before Easther an 1560 on 1. Cor. 11. 23. Lond. 1560. oct In which he gave out a bold challenge against the Papists as I have before told you Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae Lond. 1562. oct Which book was so much esteemed by the Men of Zurich and all Protestants that it was translated almost into all tongues to the end that it might be generally known The Council of Trent held at that time saw and censured it and appointed a Frenchman and an Italian to answer it but they hung back and would or rather could not It was several times printed in England and beyond the Seas and in Greek at Oxon. 1614. oct This book was soon after its first publication translated into English by Anon. with this title An Apologie or answer in defence of the Church of England concerning the state of Religion used in the same Lond. 1562. qu. But Tho. Hardyng coming out with a confutation of it our Author published A defence of the Apologie of the Church of England containing an answer to a certaine book lately set forth by Mr. Harding and entit A confutation c. in 6 parts Lond. 1564. 67. fol. Translated into Lat. by Tho. Braddock Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Christs Coll in Cambr. printed beyond the Seas 1600 fol. Soon after the first publication of the said Defence Hardyng publishing A detection of certaine errours in the said Defence our Author came out with An answer to Mr. Hardings book entit A Detection of certaine errours c. Lond. 1565. Lov. 1568. Afterwards followed A reply to Mr. Hardings answer By perusing whereof the discreet and diligent reader may easily see the weake and unstable grounds of the Rom. Religion in 27. Articles Lond. 1566. fol. Therein also is an answer to Mr. Hardyngs preface to his aforesaid answer This reply of Jewell is translated into Lat. by Will. Whitaker Fellow of Trinity Coll. in Camb. Genev. 1585. fol. and with it is printed his Apologie A view of a seditious Bull sent into England from Pius 5. Bishop of Rome an 1569. Delivered in certain Sermons in the Cath. Ch. of Sarum 1570. Lond. 1582. oct A treatise of the Holy Scripture gathered out of his Sermons preached at Salisbury 1570. Lond. 1582. oct Exposition on the two Epistles of the Apostle St. Paul to the Thessalonians Lond. 1594. oct A Treatise of the Sacraments gathered out of his Sermons Lond. 1583. oct Certaine Sermons preached before the Qu. Majestie at Pauls cross and elsewhere They are in number at least 13 viz. on Josh 6. 1. 2. 3. Haggat 1. ver 2. 3. 4. Psal 69. 9. c. All which Books the five first excepted Sermons and Apolgie are printed in one Vol. in fol Lond. 1609. with an abstract of his life set before them but full of faults written by Don. Featly Besides them he hath left behind him these MSS which as I conceive are not yet printed viz. A paraphrastical exposition of the Epistles and Gospels throughout the whole Year A continuate exposition of the Creed Lords prayer and 10 Commandements Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galathians Com. on the Epist of St. Peter At length this worthy prelate paying his last debt to nature at Monkton-Farley 23. year 1571 Sept. in Fifteen hundred seventy and one was buried almost in the middle of the Choire of his Cathedral at Salisbury At which time Giles Laurence Archdeacon of Wilts preached the funeral Sermon and Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. formerly a Lay-preacher administred at the funeral See more of Joh. Jewells works in Job Garbrand under the Year 1589. DAVID WHITHEAD a great light of learning and a most heavenly professor of Div. of his time was of the same family with those of Tuderley in Hampshire and when at ripe years was educated in all kind of learning and virtue in this University but whether in Brasenose or All 's Coll. as some surmise I find not What Degrees he took it doth not appear or whether he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences because in the latter end of Hen. 8. and all the time of K. Ed. 6. the publick registers are very imperfect In the time of Hen. 8. he was Chaplain to Anna Bulleyne by whose means he had some preferment in the Church and in the beginning of Qu. Mary he among several zealous Protestants went to Frankfort in voluntary exile where being in great esteem with the English congregation wrot Lections and Homelies on St. Pauls Epistles In A brief discourse of the Troubles began at Frankfort in Germany c. printed 1575. you 'll find several of his discourses and answers to the objections of Dr. Rob. Horne concerning matters of discipline and worship See there in p. 128. 129. c. 146. 147. c. After his return into England he had a hand in the third edition of the English Liturgy in 1559 and was chosen one of the Disputants against the R. Cath Bishops So that in his discourses shewing himself a deep Divine the Qu. thereupon had so great an esteem for him that she offer'd him the Archbishoprick of Canterbury but he refused it as about the same time he did the Mastership of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near to London affirming that he could live plentifully on the preaching of the Gospel without either So that whether he had any spiritualities of note confer'd on him is yet doubtful he being much delighted in travelling to and fro to preach the word of God in those places where he thought it was wanting His life was spent in celebacy as it became a true Theologist and therefore the better esteemed by the Queen who had no great affection for such Priests that were married He was conducted by death to the habitation prepared for old age in Fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 but in what Church or Chappel buried I know not Take therefore this for his Epitaph which was made by one of his acquaintance Nominis unatui est Album caput altera pars est Quadrant in mores scilicet ista tuos Candidius nihil esse potest nam moribus ist is Dulce vocant omnes te lepidumque caput THOMAS KEY or Cay whose name and the same bearers of armes tho they have continued for several generations at Woodsome or Wodersome and elsewhere in Yorkshire yet I
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
Sir Will. Cecill in Canon rew and the third in that of Sir John Cheeke at the Carmes or White fryers lately dissolv'd These three disputations which were well carried on with great vigour and dexterity especially by Feckenham were prorogu'd to other places as first to Pershore in Worcestershire in which town was then lately a famous Monastery of the Benedictines standing and in the said County was Feckenham then beneficed At which place I say Hooper Bishop of Glocester and Worcester did dispute with him he being then in visiting his Diocess and received satisfaction from what he then said The next was in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester where Jo. Jewell did as 't is reported but I think false oppose him When these things were done he was remanded to his Prison in the Tower where continuing till the first year of Q. Mary was then released and not only made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral but soon after in Nov. 1556 Abbat of Westminster and Chaplain to that Queen In 1554 he was in Oxon and openly disputed with Cranmer Ridley and Latymer about matters of Religion before they were to sacrifice their lives in the fire and in the beginning of 1556 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity being then in wonderful esteem for his learning piety charity humility and other virtues All the time of Qu. Maries Reign he employed himself in doing good offices for the afflicted Protestants from the highest to the lowest and did interceed with the Queen for the Lady Elizabeth for which he gained her displeasure for a time After the said Lady Elizab. came to the Crown and Religion about to be altered he denied the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England in 1559. About that time he planted the elmes which do yet or did lately grow in the garden belonging to the Coll. of Westminster But the Queen having a very great respect for his learning and virtuous life as also for his former tenderness of her sent for and had private discourse with him but what it was none yet do positively know tho there be not wanting some that say that she offer'd to him the Archbishoprick of Canterbury if he would take the oath and conform to the Church of England which he refused The year after he was committed Prisoner again to the Tower and about that time did undergo several disputes with Protestant Divines about Religion but was not suffered to be one of those that were publickly to dispute with the said Divines when the Queen was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England In the winter time 1563 he was committed to free custody with Dr. Horne B. of Winchester who as the R. Catholicks say did deal uncivilly and falsly with him But tarrying with that Bishop only one Winter he was sent to the Tower again thence after some time to the Marshalsea then to a private house in Holbourn and in 1580 to Wisbich castle in Cambridgshire where he remained to the time of his death in great devotion and sanctity of life Under his name do go these things following A conference dialoguewise held between the Lady Jane Dudley and Mr. Jo. Feckenham four days before her death touching her faith and belief of the Sacrament and her Religion Lond. 1554. oct There again 1625. qu. Jo. Fox entitles this little book A communication between Mr. Feckenham and the Lady Jane Grey before she was to be beheaded 12. Feb. 1553. Speech in the House of Lords an 1553. Two Homelies on the first second and third article of the Creed Lond. in qu. Oratio funebris in exequiis Ducissae Parmae Caroli quinti filiae Belgii Gubernatricis Sermon at the Exequy of Joan Queen of Spayne c. on Deut. 32. 28. 29. Lond. 1555. oct The declaration of such scruples and staies of conscience touching the Oath of Supremacy delivered by writing to Dr. Horne of Winchester Lond. in qu. Answered by the said Horne an 1566. qu. refuted by Tho. Stapleton the year after Objections or Assertions made against Mr. Joh. Goughe's Sermon preached in the Tower of London 15. Jan. 1570. Soon after was published by the said Gough An answer to certain assertions of Mr. Fecknam which of late be made against a godly Sermon c. Lond. 1570. oct Caveat Emptor This I have not yet seen Commentarii in psalmos Davidis This was seen in MS. in the hands of the Author while he was a Prisoner at London by Rich. Stanyhurst but lost with other things as 't is conceived among which was his Treatise of the Eucharist written against Joh. Hooper At length after our Author had seen many changes in Religion and had continued stedfast in that wherein he was educated surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it within the precincts of Wisbich castle before-mention'd year 1585 in Fifteen hundred eighty and five and soon after was buried but where unless in the Parish Church there I cannot tell leaving then behind him this character that he was a Person full of offices of piety and humility and was always ready tho of a contrary opinion to do good to the Protestant party especially in the Reign of Q. Mary when they suffered Our celebrated Antiquary W. Camden tells us that he was a learned and good Man lived a long while did a great deal of good to the poor and always sollicited the minds of his adversaries to good will RICHARD CALDWALL or Chaldwell a Staffordsh Man born was educated in Brasenose College of which he was afterwards Fellow took the Degree of M. of Arts entred upon the Physick line and in the 32 year of his age became one of the Senior Students of Ch. Ch. a little after its last foundation by K. Hen. 8. an 1547. Afterwards he took the Degrees in the said faculty and became so highly valued for his learning and happy practice therein that he was examined approved and admitted into the Physicians Coll. at London and made censor of it in one and the same day Six weeks after he was chosen one of the Elects of the said Coll. and in 1570 President thereof He hath written several matters relating to his profession but whether extant I cannot tell All that I have seen of his labours is his translation into English of The tables of surgery briefly comprehending the whole art and practice thereof c. Lond. 1585. fol. Written originally by Horatio More a Florentine Physician As for his death which hapned in Fifteen hundred eighty and five year 1585 and other of his works let the learned Camden tell you in these words Nee inter hos licet minoris notae silendus hoc etiam anno fato fanctus Richardis Chaldwellus è Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxoniae Med. Doctor qui ut de reipub bene mereretur adscito in partem honoris Barone Lumleio lectionem Chriurgicam honesto salario in Medicorum collegio Londini à Thoma Linacro fundato instituit Juxtaque ad Sancti
being more Catholick than Protestant he left Oxon as he had done his Lecture before and being of a timerous Nature and always dreading of being called into Question for his seldom frequenting the Church and receiving the Sacrament he retired to an obscure Village called Cassington distant from Oxon North-West about 4 miles where purchasing an House at the end thereof next to Einsham spent the remainder of his Days in Study and Devotion As he was accounted by many an eminent Theologist and Linguist so by some a tolerable Philosopher Poet and Geographer He hath written Dialogus in adventum sereniss Reginae Elizabethae gratulatorius inter eandem Reginam D. Rob. Dudleium comitem Leicestriae Acad. Oxon. Cancellarium 'T is a 4to MS. written in 1566. in long and short Verses and hath this beginning Siccine chara tuis c. In this Book are contained besides the said Dialogues the Pictures or Effigies of all the Colleges and Schools then in being with long and short Verses under them shewing by whom they were founded and when A Table or Map describing the Colleges and Halls in Oxon with Verses underneath each This Map was hung up for two or three days on St. Mary's Church door when Q. Elizabeth was entertained at Oxon in Sept. 1566. which she several times viewed I take it to be the same containing the pictures of the Colleges and Halls which one Mr. Will Nutburne sometimes Commoner of St. John's Col. gave thereunto and the same which usually hung in the President 's Lodgings but by a decree made by that Society 28 Aug. 1616. it was given to Sir Tho. Lake Secretary to his Majesty King James I. and one of the Privy Council whereupon Sir Thomas gave to that College 20 l. towards the reparation of their Buildings situated between their Common Hall and their Publick Gate Our Author Th. Neale made a translation also of al the Prophets out of the Hebrew which he presented to Q. Elizabeth when she was entertained at Oxon in 1566 and translated from that Tongue several of the Rabbins into Latin which he dedicated to the great Cardinal Pole What else he hath performed either in writing or translating I cannot tell neither any thing material of him besides only 1 That he is noted by some Writers to be the Original Reporter of the Consecration of Matthew Parker to the See of Canterbury at the Nags-Head-Tavern in Cheapside which since is manifestly made a meer Forgery and 2 That in the year fifteen hundred and ninety he being then seventy one years of age and did put up a Monument for himself with an inscription on a Brass plate fastned thereunto at the upper end of the Body of Cassington Church over the Seat which belonged to the House where he lived for he sometimes went to Church with intentions to be buried under the said Seat but when he died or was buried the Register of that place which is very imperfect tells us not The Copy of the inscription is printed in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 139. a. One Tho. Neale of Yeate in Glocestershire where our Author was born dying in 1590. his Window named Christiana had a Commission granted to her to administer the Goods Debts and Chattels of him the said Thomas lately deceased dated 23 Sept. the same year Whether it be meant of our Author I cannot justly say because I could never learn that he was ever married ANTHONY de CORRO or Antonius Corranus or Corrano Son of Ant. Corranus Doctor of the Laws was born at Sevil in Spain educated there from his Childhood in the R. Catholick Religion and was at length an Ascetic but whether a Monk or Fryer I know not Afterwards he left his Order and Religion and being desirous to embrace the Reformed Doctrine fled from his Country went into England in 1570. or thereabouts and at length to London where he became a frequent Preacher In 1571. he was made Reader of Divinity in the Temple by the favour of Dr. Edwin Sandys Bishop of London in which Office he continued about three years In the beginning of March 1575. he was recommended to the University of Oxon by Rob. E. of Leicester Chanc. thereof to the end that he might proceed Doctor of Divinity at the next Act have the charges of his Degrees remitted and that he be dispensed with for taking the Degree in order In the beginning of April following a Convocation was solemnized wherein the Chancelor's Letters being read concerning the said matter a Dispensation was proposed that he the said Corranus might proceed but the House demurring upon it was at length granted with this condition that he purge himself of Heretical Opinions before the next Act. This they did for this cause that the Chancellour had design'd him to read Divinity in the University and to allot him a Catechist Lecture upon some consultation as was pretended for the utter extirpation of the R. Catholick Religion from the University This being the seeming design as it was afterwards the real intention of the Queen's Council and High Commissioners to plant him among the Accademians you cannot imagine what Fears and Jealousies were raised in the Heads of the old Puritanical Doctors and others who were fully bent to root out the dregs of Popery in the University lest that which they laboured in should be frustrated by a Stranger I have seen a Copy of a Letter written by Jo. Rainolds of Corpus Christi College to Dr. Laur. Humphrey then Vice-chancelour dated June 7. wherein several things being said of Corrano and his Doctrine you shall have the Contents only 1 That if Corano be settled in the University it is to be feared that it will raise such Flames therein that they will not easily be quenched 2 'T is requisite that it be really known whether he be able to shew that he be lawfully called to the Ministry of the Gospel and charge of teaching publickly either by the order of any Christian Church beyond the Sea or by the Authority of the Church of England or whether Ordain'd by a Bishop of which matters there be some that doubt And if he be not how can he read And if he be it would be well if it be known 3 That he is evilly thought of for Heresie of the French Church and others And Beza doth publickly charge him of it in an Epistle of his that is extant 4 That he is supposed to be tainted with Pelagianism which partly appears from certain Tables which he brought with him and afterwards scattered abroad On which a certain Person of sound judgment made such Notes that from thence one may evidently perceive that Corrano's obscure speeches in the said Tables do give just suspicion of very great Heresies about Predestination and Justification by Faith two the chief Points of Christian Religion c. And therefore it is hoped that as you were a means to remove Franc. Puccius so you
expulsion wherein he disclaimeth the aforesaid Libel beginning thus Jenkin why Man Why Jenkin fie for shame c. But the Reader must know that none of these were printed JOHN DOVE a Surrey Man born of Plebeian Parents was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1580. aged 18. and after he had taken the degrees in Arts became a Preacher of note in the University In 1596. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time well beneficed if not dignified but where I cannot yet tell His works are A perswasion to the English Recusants to reconcile themselves to the Church of Rome Lond. 1603. qu. Confutation of Atheism Lond. 1605. and 1640. oct Defence of Church-Government wherein the Church Government in England is directly consonant to the Word of God c. Lond. 1607. qu. Defence of the Cross in Baptism as 't is used in the Church of England Printed with the Defence Advertisement to the English Seminaries and Jesuits shewing their loose kind of writings and negligent handling the cause of Religion c. Lond. 1610. qu. The conversion of Salomon A direction to holiness of life handled by way of Commentary upon the whole book of Canticles c. Lond. 1613. qu. Sermons on Ezek. 33. 11. and S. Matth. 19. 9. Lond. 1597. 1601. oct c. See more in Alb. Gentilis an 1611. where you will find him author of another book but whether printed I know not He concluded his last day in Apr. about the 19. day in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 but where buried I know not as yet I find one John Dove to be author of Polydorian or a miscellany of Moral Philosophical and Theological Sentences Printed 1631. oct But whether he was the same with the Doctor or another I cannot tell unless I see the book it self which I have not yet done RICHARD MOKET was born in Dorsetshire in the Dioc. of Salisbury elected from Brasnose to be Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1599. being then near four years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts. Afterwards he proceeding in that Faculty took on him the Sacred Function became Domestick Chaplain to George Archb. of Canterbury Warden of Allsouls Rector of Monks-Risborow in Bucks and of Newington near Dorchester in Oxfordshire D. of D. and one of the Kings Commissioners concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs He published in the Latin tongue Lond. 1616. fol. The Liturgy of the Church of England Greater and Lesser Catechisms Thirty nine Articles Book of ordination of Bishops Priests and Deacons Doctrinal points extracted out of the Book of Homilies To which he added his own book written in Latin intituled De politiâ Ecclesiae Anglicanae Reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct Which collection he published in a pious zeal for gaining honour to the Church of England amongst Foreign Nations But this his zeal was so little accompanied in the Constitutions of the said Church or so much byassed towards those of Calvins Platform that it was thought fit not only to call it in but to expiate the errours of it in a publick flame And the true cause which was conceived why the book was burn'd was that in publishing the twentieth Article concerning the authority of the Church he totally left out the first clause of it viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus caeremonias statuendi jus in controversiis fidei authoritatem By means whereof the Article was apparently falsified the Churches authority disowned and consequently a wide gap opened to dispute her power in all her Canons and Determinations of what sort soever He yielded up his last breath with grief as 't is thought for what had been done to his book on the day before the nones of July year 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried at the upper end of Allsouls coll chappel just below the steps leading to the high Altar In his Wardenship succeeded Richard Astley D. of D. who dying in Febr. 1635. was succeeded by Gilb. Sheldon who was afterwards Bishop of London and at length Archbishop of Canterbury JOHN GOLDESBURG descended originally from those of his name living at Goldesburg in Yorkshire was born 18. oct 1568. spent some time among the Oxonians for form-sake about 1584. went thence to the Middle Temple were after he had continued in the degree of Barrester and for some years been resorted to in matters relating to his profession was made one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas. He wrote and left behind him fit for the Press Reports or collection of cases and matters agitated in all the Courts in Westminster in the latter years of the reign of Qu. Elizabeth with learned arguments at the Barr and on the bench Lond. 1635. c. qu. Published by Will. Shepphard Esq Upon which cases and matters Sir Edm. Anderson and Sir Jo. Popham Judges wrote Resolutions and Judgments year 1618 Our author Goldesburg concluded his last day on the 9. oct in sixteen hundred and eighteen Whereupon his body was buried near to the high Altar of the Church belonging to the Temples He left behind him other things as 't is said fit for the Press but in whose hands they are I could never learn WALTER RALEIGH a person in his time of a good natural wit better judgment and of a plausible tongue Son of Walt. Raleigh Esq by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Philip Champernoon Kt. was born at a place called Hayes in Parish of East-Budeleigh in Devonshire an 1552. Which Hayes is a farm and his Father having had a remnant of a Lease of 80 years in it came after the expiration thereof to one Duke unto whom afterwards our author W. Raleigh having a desire to purchase it wrote a Letter dated from the Court 26. July 1584. wherein he says that for the natural disposition he has to that place being born in that house he had rather seat himself there than any where else c. His Father was the first of his name that lived there but his ancestors had possessed Furdell in the same County for several Generations before where they lived in gentile estate and were esteemed antient Gentlemen In 1568 or thereabouts he became a Commoner of Oriel coll at what time C. Champernoon his kinsman studied there where his natural parts being strangely advanced by Academical learning under the care of an excellent Tutor became the ornament of the Juniours and was worthily esteemed a proficient in Oratory and Philosophy After he had spent about 3. years in that house where he had laid a good ground and sure foundation to build thereon he left the University without a degree and went to the Middle-Temple to improve himself in the intricate knowledge of the municipal Laws How long he tarried there 't is uncertain yet sure I am from a Epistle or copy of Verses of his composition which I have seen that he was abiding in the said Temple in Apr. 1576. at which time his vein for ditty and amorous Ode was esteemed
several Faculties that he was esteemed by some a living Library He was also indefatigable in reading old MSS. and subtle in finding out the forgeries in them He and Allen of Glouc. hall were esteemed as most knowing in the ancient Statutes and Customs of this University and therefore their helps in the several attempts made of framing an intire and compleat body of them were often desired He was a Member of the Convocation held with the Parliament at Oxon 1. Car. 1. wherein he made a motion that some persons might be commissioned to peruse the Manuscript Fathers in all publick and private English Libraries that thereby the forgeries of Forreign Popish editions might be detected but what the event of it was I know not His designs were always for the publick benefit of learning and English Church which being well known to his learned friend Will. Camden he therefore saith thus of him He is a learned man and a true lover of books wholly dedicated to learning who is now laboriously searching the Libraries of England and purposeth that for the publick good which will be to the great benefit of Students Our author Dr. James saith also of himself thus in 1624. that if Cambridge will set up and set forward the like that is to collate and examine ancient MSS. as he hath done and will do I dare undertake more good to be done for the profit of learning and true Religion than by building ten Colleges I have of late given my self to the reading only of MSS. and in them I find so many and so pregnant testimonies either fully for our Religion or against the Papists that it is to be wondred at that the Religion of Papists then and now do not agree c. He also farther tells us that not only the Rabbins but the Thalmud in six volumes at Rome hath felt the smart of the popish indices would God we were but half as diligent to restore as they abolish and put out the truth I have restored 300 citations and rescued them from corruption in thirty quier of paper with sundry other projects of mine which if they miscarry not for want of maintenance it would deserve a Princes purse If I was in Germany the States would defray all my charges cannot our estates supply what is wanting If every Churchman that hath an 100. l. per an and upward will lay down but a shilling for every hundred towards these publick works I will undertake the reprinting of the Fathers and setting forth five or six volumes of Orthodox writers comparing of books printed with printed or written collating of popish translations in Greek and generally whosoever shall concern books or the purity of them I will take upon me to be Magister S. Palatii in England if I should be lawfully thereunto required c. As for his works that are printed they are these Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis lib. 2. Lond. 1600. qu. This Ecloga doth contain a Catalogue of all the MSS in each college Library in the University of Oxon but not of those in the publick and in each college Library in Cambridge and in that of the publick there In the making of which Catalogue he had liberty given to him by each coll in Oxon. to peruse their MSS. and from that Society which he perceived was careless of them he borrow'd and took away what he pleased and put them forthwith into the Publick Library Several such MSS were taken from Ball. coll and some from Merton and do yet bear in their respective fronts the names of the donours of them to those Houses This Ecloga is very useful for curious Scholars and is much commended by Joseph Scaliger in an Epistle to Rich. Thompson as I have told you elsewhere Cyprianus redivivus hoc est elenchus eorum quae in opusculo Cypriani de unitate ecclesiae sunt vel addita vel detracta vel lapsu Typographi vel alio quovis modo supposita c. Printed with the Ecloga Spicilegium D. Augustini hoc est libri de fide ad Pet. Diaconum cum antiquiss duob MSS. postremis ac ultimis editionibus excusis tam Basiliensi quam Parisiensi diligens collatio ac castigatio c. Pr. with the Ecloga Bellum paepale seu concordia discors Sixti v. Clementis viii circa Hieronymianum editionem Lond. 1600. qu. there again 1678. oct Catalogus Librorum in Bib. Bodleiana Oxon. 1605. in a large oct or rather a small qu. printed again with many additions in a thick qu. 1620. To which was added an Appendix 1635. 6. In this Catalogue is remitted the Cat. of all such MSS. that were then in the Bod. Library Concordantiae Sanctorum patrum i. e. vera pia libri Canticorum per Patres universos tam Graecos quam Latinos expositio c. Oxon. 1607. qu. Apology for Joh. Wicliff shewing his conformity with the now Church of England c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Written in answer to the slanderous objections urged against by Father Parsons the Apologist and others Life of Joh. Wicliff Printed with the Apology Treatise of the corruption of the Scripture Councells and Fathers by the Church of Rome Lond. 1611. qu. lb. 1688. oct Sufficient answer unto Jam. Gretser and Ant. Possevine Jesuits and the unknown author of the grounds of the Old Religion and the New Printed with the Treatise of the Corruption c. The Jesuits Downfall threatned against them by the Secular Priests for their wicked Lives accursed Manners heretical doctrine and more than Machiavillian Policy Oxon. 1612. qu. Life of Father Parsons an English Jesuit Printed at the end of the former book Index generalis sanctorum patrum ad fingulos versus cap. 5. secundum Mathaeum c. Lond. 1624. oct Notae ad Georgium Wicelium de methodo concordiae Ecclesiasticae cum Catologo authorum qui scripserunt contra squalores Ecclesiae Romanae Lond. 1625. oct Vindiciae Gregorianae c. Genev. 1625. qu. Manuduction or Introduction unto Divinity containing a confutation of Papists by Papists throughout the important articles of our Religion c. Oxon. 1625. qu. His humble and earnest request to the Church of England for and in the behalf of books touching Religion Pr. in one sh in oct 1625. Explanation or enlarging of the ten articles in his supplication lately exhibited to the Clergy of England for the restoring to integrity authors corrupted by Papists Ox. 1625. qu. Specimen corruptelarum Pontificiarum in Cypriano Ambrosio Gregorio M. authore operis imperfecti in jure canonico Lond. 1626. qu. Index Librorum prohibitorum a Pontificiis Oxon. 1627. oct Admonitio ad Theologos Protestantes de libris Pontificiorum caute legendis MS. Enchiridion Theologicum MS. Liber de suspicionibus conjecturis MS. These 3. MSS. I saw formerly in Lambeth Library under D. 1. 2 3. but whether printed I know not perhaps the Enchiridion is He also translated from French into English The moral
with the Delegates of Denmark concerning matters of traffick c. and Perkins performed his part well as to that matter Soon after by the said Bishops endeavours he became substitute to Sir Dan. Donne Master of the Requests who by reason of his age could not well attend that place and when he died he became Master in his own right and a Knight About that time George Duke of Buckingham who was in great favour with K. Jam. 1. Sir Christopher thought that his only way to rise higher was to be married to one of his Relations Whereupon tho he had vowed Virginity he took to Wife his Mothers Sister yet with this condition that she should not expect that he should pay old debts to which she made answer that she would expect none Afterwards Buckingham hearing of the said vow detested him and made a resolution that he should rise no higher Afterwards out of a revenge Sir Christopher made his estate over to a Servant of his that was childless and in a deep consumption and he dying within a few months after Sir Christopher who departed this mortal life in the month of Aug. 1622. the said Servant left most of the estate to the Lady I have been credibly informed by a good Author that the said Sir Christopher had a hand in contriving and drawing up the Oath of Allegiance while he was intimate with Dr. Bancroft In the Deanery of Carlile succeeded the said Sir Christopher Dr. Franc. White afterwards Bishop of that place Apr. 14. Will. Burton of New Coll. June 2. Tho. Coventry Fellow of Ball. Coll. The last of the said two was afterwards Fellow of the Inner Temple Serjeant at Law a Knight and one of the Justices of the Court of Common-pleas and a Judge in the time of Jam. 1. He was Father to Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Jan. 14. Henr. Savile of Mert. Coll. 23. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Admitted 45. Bach. of Law Five were admitted and four supplicated but not one of them appears yet to me to have been either a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Feb. 13. John Argall Will. James of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Durham John Bereblock of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll. and most admirably well skill'd in the art of Delineation and drawing the description of places some of which are extant particularly that of the City of Rochester at which place or near it he was born Admitted 14. Bach. of Div. Oct. 29. Edw. Cradock of Ch. Ch. now Margaret Professor A certain Author tells us that he was a learned Man and a Writer yet in all my searches I could never see any of his books Dec. 17. Thom. Godwyn Dean of Ch. Ch. lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards of Broadgates hall the seventh Vicar of Mayhenet in Cornwall and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop Adrian Hawthorne of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day being then Principal of Magd. hall On 25. Nov. 1568 he was admitted to the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells having about that time one or more benefices in that Diocess and dying in the latter end of 1576 in Feb. as it seems Rog. Goad D. D. and Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was admitted into his place of Chancellour on the 7. March in the same year Edw. Andleser was adm this year but of him I know nothing ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. Tho Godwyn Dean James Calfill Harb Westphalyng Canons of Ch. Ch. Edward Cradock mention'd before among the Bachelaurs of Divinity was admitted the same day Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne beforemention'd who accumulated John Piers of Magd. Coll. Dean of Chester Arthur Yeldard President of Trin. Coll. 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry On the 26. Mar. Will. Bradbridge Dean of Salisbury supplicated for the said Degree but was not admitted He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter Also John Molens Archdeacon of London Jan. 23 but him neither can I find admitted Incorporations May… Rich. Cheyney Bach. of Div. of Pembr Hall in Cambridge and Bishop of Gloucester See more among the Creations Feb. 21. Gregory Garth Bac. of Div. of Cambridge George Wyther M. of A. of 4 years standing in the said University was incorporated on the same day In 1570 he became Archdeacon of Colchester on the death of James Calfill had other spiritualities and wrot and published 1 Laymans Letters delivering unto them such Letters as the Holy Ghost teacheth them in the word by things sensible Lond. 1585. 2 View of the marginal notes of the Popish Testament translated into English by the English Fugities Papists resiant at Rheimes in France Lond. 1588. qu. with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen Another of both his names lived an 100 years after and was a Poet whom I shall hereafter in his proper place remember Will. Fulke M. A. of three years standing in the said Univ. of Cambridge was also then Feb. 21. incorporated This learned Man who was born in the City of London bred Fellow of St. Johns Coll. and at length became Master of Pemb. Hall in the said University was when young a good Philosopher and when elder in years a pious and solid Divine as his works shew the titles of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue He died Margaret Professor of Cambridge 28. Aug. 1589. Cyprean de Valera M. of A. of three years standing in the said University was also then incorporated He was a Spaniard born left his Country for Religion sake spent all or most of his time in England and wrot in Spanish 1 Institution of Christian Religion or the interpretation of Calvins institutions 2 The reformed Catholick 3 Of the lives of the Popes and their doctrine 4 Of the Mass 5 A swarm of false miracles wherewith Mary de la Visitation Prioress of the Annuntiada of Lisbon deceived very many c. The three last were written in Spanish about 1588. and the second edition of them came out with amendments and additions by the Author an 1599. oct Translated into English by John Golburne a Prisoner in the Fleet Lond. 1600. qu. He also published the Bible in Spanish printed the second time at Amsterdam 1602. fol. Owen Owen M. A. of two years standing in the said University was then also Feb. 21. incorporated All these except the first were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act had been concluded Creations Mar. 26. It was granted by the venerable Congregation that John Jewell Bishop of Salisbury should tho absent be actually created Doct. of Div. by a certain Graduate to be assign'd by the Commissary This was accordingly done at
incorporated Masters again I have made mention among the Incorporations in an 1612 and 1615. Will. Isaacson M. A. He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of S. Andrews Church in the Wardrobe in London and of Wodford in Essex but whether he hath published any thing I know not He was younger Brother to Henry Isaacson the Chronologer sometimes Amanuensis to Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester Son of Rich. Isaacson Sheriff elect of London who died 19 Jan. 1620 and he the Son of Will. Isaacson of Sheffield in Yorkshire by Isabel his first Wife This Hen. Isaacson by the way I must let the Reader know was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Coleman in London in Sept. 1581 but what Academical Education he received I cannot yet tell Sure it is that he arrived to great knowledge in Chronology as his large book of that subject doth sufficiently attest and dying about the 7 of Decemb. 1654 was buried in the Church of S. Catherine Coleman before mention'd having before been a considerable benefactor to the poor of that Parish Will. Beale M. A. of Pemb. Hall See among the Incorporations an 1645. Dan. Horsmanden M. A. He was afterwards D. of D. and Rector of Vlcomb in Kent and accounted by his Contemporaries a learned man but he being a zealous person for the Church of England and a high Loyalist was thrown out of his Living by the Committee of Religion an 1643 as you may see in the Pamph. entit The first century of scandalous malignant priests c. p. 36 37 He lost other Spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause during the time of the Rebellion Humphrey Henchman M. A. This loyal and religious person who was Son of Tho. Henchman of London Skinner and he the Son of another Thomas of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire in which Country his name and family had for several generations before lived was afterwards D. of D. Chauntor of Salisbury on the death of Hen. Cotton in January 1622 and Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church an 1628. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Bishop of that place upon the translation of Dr. Duppa to Winchester Whereupon being consecrated in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. within the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster 28 Oct. 1660 sate there three years and then upon the translation of Dr. Sheldon to Canterbury he was translated to London in Sept. 1663. About that time he was made Bishop Almoner and died as it seems in the month of Octob. an 1675. He was for his wisdom and prudence much valued by K. Ch. 2. whose happy escape from the battel at Worcester this pious Prelate did admirably well manage especially when his Majesty came in a disguise near Salisbury He was born as I have been informed within the Parish of S. Giles Cripplâ—gate London and educated in Clare Hall in Cambridge of which he was Fellow Arthur Jackson M. A. Afterwards he was a frequent and puritanical Preacher and sided with the Presbyterians when the Rebellion began an 1642. About which time he was Minister of S. Michael Woodstreet in London where I find him in 1649. He hath written Expositions on various parts of the Scripture as 1 An help for understanding the holy Scriptures the first part being an exposition upon the five books of Moses viz. Gen. Levit. Numb Deut. c. Camb. 1643. qu. 2 Annotations on the remaining part of the Old Testament viz. Jâ—sh Judges Sam. Kings Chron. Ezra Nehem. Estheâ— the second part 3 Annotations on the five poetical looks of holy Scripture viz. Job Psalms Prov. Eccles and Cant. Lond. 1658. Besides several other things which for brevity sake I now omit See more of him in Ch. Love among the Writers an 1651. The said Masters of Arts viz. Th. Goad Ben. Laney R. Holdsworth Hen. Burton Ab. Gibson W. Isaason W. Beale Dan. Horsmanden H. Henâ—hman and A. Jackson were incorporated as I have before told you 15 July as they had stood before at Cambridge Besides them were about 27 more incorporated of whom Sam Carter was one but not one of them being then or after men of note as I can yet find are here omitted On the same day also one Rob. Newton M. A. of the Univ. of S. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated of whom I know no more Creations March 5. Will. Stafford a Student of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the Congregation house by vertue of a dispensation obtained in that of Convocation on the second day of the said month This person who was a Norfolk man born and nobly descended was a Member of the House of Commons for a time and wrot a little thing as I have been informed by those that knew him entit Reasons of the War c. which I suppose is the same with a Pamphlet entit An orderly and plain narration of the beginning and causes of this War with a conscientious resolution against the Parliament side printed 1644 in 3 sheets in qu. He died at Thornborough in Glocestershire where he had a plentiful Estate about the year 1683 and in the ninetieth year of his age leaving behind him a Son named John Father of Rich. Stafford lately Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall Author of Of happiness c. Lond. 1689. qu. An. Dom. 1618. An. 16 Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. the same again July 17. Proct. Daniel Ingoâ—l of Qu. Coll. â—ch Drope of Magd. Coll. Apr. 15. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. San. Hoard of S. Maries Hall May 8. Meric Casaubon Son of Isaac of Ch. Ch. June 9. Wiâ—l Paul Tho. Laurence of All 's Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 10. Thom. Coâ—man of Magd. 12. Alexand. Griffith of Haâ—t Hall The last did not take the Degree of M. of A. till 1631. 18. Hen. Blount of Trin. Coll. July 2. Joh. Pointer of Brasâ— Coll. He was matriculated and took the degree of Bach. of Arts as an Esquires Son Afterwards departing without any other degree became a puritanical Preacher and acquainted with Oliver Cromwel who when Protector gave him a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon as a reward for the pains he took in converting him to Godliness i.e. to canting Puritanisâ— and Saintism After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was ejected and living many years after in Oxon in a retired and studious condition died 2 Jan. 1683 aged 84 or thereabouts whereupon his body was buried at the lower end of the north 〈◊〉 joyning to the Church of S Peter in the Baylie Oxon. Oct. 15. Humph. Chambers of Vniv. Edw. Reynolds of Mert. Coll. The laâ—t was afterwards Bishop of Norwich Dec. 3. Phâ—â—ip King of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Dr. King B. of London See among the created Doctors of Div. 1645. 15. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. 17. Rob. Bedingfield 19 George Morley Rob. Gomersall Zouch Townley of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last four you may
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
to the University say also thus He hath not only gained a singular good report for his abilities but for his pious and sweet conversation and esteem among us meaning his Soldiers and Voluntiers in the Low countries where the said Sir Horatio was a Commander of a Regiment sent to joyn with the united Princes in Germany The said Dr. Hassall was installed Dean of Norwych in the place of Dr. Edm. Suckling on the 15. July 1628 which Dignity he obtained by the endeavours of the Lady Elizabeth beforemention'd He died and was buried at Creak in Norfolk in the times of Usurpation and was succeeded in his Deanery after the restauration of K. Charles 2. by Dr. Joh. Croft of Allsouls College Brother to William Lord Croft An. Dom. 1626. An. 2. Car. 1. Chancellour William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Will. Juxon LL. D. President of St. Johns College July 22. Proct. Hopton Sydenham of Magd. C. Dionys Prideaux of Ex. C. Apr. 19. Bach. of Musick July 24. John Frith of St. Johns Coll. Some of his compositions and Anthems I have seen but whether extant I cannot tell Bach. of Arts. Apr. 28. George Bate of St. Edm. Oct. 21. Giles Workman of Magd. Philip Hunton of Wadh. Hall Nov. 20. Calybute Downing of Or. Coll. 25. Hen. Wilkinson of Magd. hall commonly called Long Harry Dec. 4. Rich. Napier of Wadh. Jan. 30. Edw. Hinton of Mert. Coll. Of the first of these two last I shall make larger mention among the created Doctors of Phys an 1642 and of the other among the created Doctors of Div. an 1649. June 30. Joh. Prichet of St. Edm. hall lately of Queens Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester 31. Henry Edmondson of Qu. Thom. Browne of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was the first Man of note that was admitted to a Degree as a member of Pembroke Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician Vertuoso and Knight Feb. 1. Franc. Cheynell of Mert. Coll. Joh. Biscoe of New Inn. All which will be mention'd at large hereafter On the 15. of March Sir Charles Howard of Ch. Ch. had his grace granted for Bach. of Arts but whether admitted it appears not I take him to be the same Sir Ch. Howard who was lately made Kt. of the Bath and after the death of his Father became Earl of Berkshire He died about the beginning of the year 1679. Adm. 272. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Of nine Bachelaurs of Law that were admitted this year I cannot find one of them that was afterwards a Writer or Bishop or of any eminent place in the Church Mast of Arts. March 28. Edw. Pococke of C. C. Apr. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter May 4. George Griffith of Ch. Ch. Coll. June 27. Rob. Codrington of Magd. July 6. Arthur Salway of Brasn Coll. The last was afterwards Minister of Severne-stoke in his native Country of Worcestershire and hath published Halting stigmatized Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 25. Oct 1643. on 1. Kings 18. 21. Lond. 1644. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Feb. 26. Tobias Crispe of Ball. Coll. He is to be numbred among the Writers in the 2. Vol. of this work Admitted 134. Bach. of Phys Of Six Bachelaurs of Phys that were admitted this year I can not find one that was afterwards eminent Besides them were two Students in that faculty adm to practice viz. John Speed of St. Johns and Thom. Nourse of Lincoln Coll. both afterwards eminent Physicians Bach. of Div. May 6. John Morris Chaplain of All 's Coll. See more of him among the Doctors of Div. an 1634. Besides Mr. Morris were 10 more Bachelaurs admitted of whom I cannot as yet give any account ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year nor one in Physick Doct. of Div. Dec. 14. Walt. Coningsbi◠of Exeter Coll. 16. Accepted Frewen President of Magd. Coll. a Compounder Feb. 17. Christopher Potter Provost of Queens Coll. Incorporations July 7. Edm. Layfield Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He hath published The Souls solace Fun. Serm. on Psal 73. 25 printed 1632. qu. And if he be the same Layfield who had been Chaplain to Geor. Earl of Cumberland in his travels he was Author of A large relation of Port Ricco voyage which is inserted in the fourth Vol. of Sam. Purchas his Pilgrims printed at Lond. 1625. p. 11. 55. One John Layfield D. D. had a hand in translating the Bible in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. but he you must know was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Parson of St. Clements Church without Temble-bar near London where he died in 1617. July 10. Thom. Aylesbury Bach. of Div. of the same University He hath published 1 Serm. preached at Pauls cross 2. June 1622 on Luke 17. 37. Lond. 1623. qu. 2 Treatise of the comfession of sin with power of the Keys c. printed 1657. qu. 3 Diatribae de aeterno divini beneplaciti ciroa creaturas intellectuales decreto ubi patrum consulta c. Cantab. 1659. qu. Edward Alston Doct. of Phys of the said Univ. of Cambridge was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards a Knight and President of the Coll. of Physicians at London He died in the Parish of Great St. Helens in Lond. in the Winter time 1669. July 24. James Vsher Archb. of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland was incorporated Doct. of Div. as he had stood in the Univ. of Dublin This was done while he lodged in Jesus Coll. purposely to peruse certain MSS. in the Publick Library and elsewhere In a Convocation held 10. March 1644. certain Doctors and Masters were by the Vicechanc. and Proctors appointed to take care and see that his Effigies should be engraven on a copper plate with an Elogium under it be prefix'd to his Annotations on Ignatius his Epistles then printing in Oxon. It was also then order'd that he said plate should be engrav'd at the charge of the University and in the name thereof The Elogium which was afterwards by their appointment made runs thus Jacobus Vsserius c. James Usher Archb. of Armagh Primate of all Ireland the most skilful of Primitive antiquity the unanswerable defender of the Orthodox Religion the maul of errors in preaching frequent eloquent very powerful a rare example of an unblameable life Rob. Pink Vicechanc. But this inscription with the Effigies was not put before the said Book but before that De Ro. Eccl. Symbolo Apost Lond. 1647. and some others since Jan. 31. Nich. Andrews was with Rich. Andrews both Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated here as they had stood there Nich. Andrews was afterwards Doct. of Div. Rector of Guilford and Vicar of Godalmine in Surrey where shewing himself a zealous Man for the Church of England and a great Loyalist was turn'd out of his livings by the Committee of Religion appointed by the Long Parliament an 1643. He is mention'd in The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests p. 8. Feb. 1. Tobias Crispe Bach. of
with other things which Baleus mentions He also wrot several Verses which were sent by him to the Oxonians Of which and his published Books much esteemed by K. Hen. 8 John Leland hath exercis'd his Muse in his Encomia The said Sir Rich. Morysine hath also translated into English 1 The Epist of Joh. Sturmius to the Cardinals and Bishops that were chosen by the Bishop of Rome to search out the abuses of the Church Lond. 1538. oct 2 The Symboles of Lud. Vives much about the same time with other matters which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate at Strasburgh being then there in voluntary exile for the Protestant Religion which he professed on the 17. March in Fifteen hundred fifty and six but whether buried there I know not He left behind him a Son named Charles begotten on the body of his Wife Dame Bridget and a natural Son named Marcellus Morysine besides two Daughters begotten on the body of one or more Concubines Joh. Hales a noted Scholar of that time to whom he gave his Books was one of his Executors as having always been an entire friend to him Bernardine Ochine also with his Wife and Children did tast sufficiently of his liberality The same Bernard I mean who was Author of the Dialogue of the unjust usurped primacy of the Bishop of Rome translated from Latin by John Ponet afterwards B. of Winchester Lond. 1549. qu. The said Sir R. Morysine had a fair estate most of which was obtained by his own endeavours as the Mannour of Whitesbury or Whichbury with all its appurtenances in Wilts and Hampshire the Mannour of East-Chinnock in Somersetshire the Mannour of Cashiobury in Hertfordshire where he had began to build a stately House c. All which descended to his Posterity JOHN HUNTINGTON was educated for sometime in good arts but whether he took a Degree here it appears not only that while he continued in this University he was noted among his contemporaries for a tolerable Poet. His works are Epitaphium Ricardi Pacaei car 1. The beginning of which is Noscitur omnis homo c. Humanae vitae deploratio car 1. The beginning is Nunc ubi magnanimi c. The Genealogie of Heresies De lapsu philosophiae besides several Sermons In 1553. Decemb. 3. he was brought before her Majesties Council for composing a rhime against Dr. Stokes and the Sacrament but making a recantation and an humble submission for what he had done with a promise to amend as well in Doctrin for he was a godly Preacher as in way of living was suffer'd to depart Afterwards he left the Nation and lived mostly in Germany with Joh. Bale who calls him his beloved Son in Christ RICHARD TRACY Son of Will Son of Hen. Tracy was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family living at Todyngton in Glocestershire the body of which William was taken out of the grave and burn'd in the time of Hen. 8. for a Will that he made then savouring of Heresie was conversant among the Muses for a time took a Degree in Arts and became noted for his pregnant parts Afterwards his learning being much improved in his elder years by reading and experience he became noted for it an enemy to the Roman Church and a zealous Reformer as it may partly appear by his Writings the titles of which follow Of the preparation to the cross and to death and of the comfort under the cross and death in two Books Lond. 1540. in oct Dedic to Thom. Lord Cromwell Which Book wrap'd up in canvase being found in the belly of a Cod when brought from Lin-Regis in Norfolk to Cambridge Mercat to be sold on Midsummer Eve 1626 it was reprinted soon after as 't is said under the name of Joh. Frythe The profe and declaration of this proposition Faith only justifyeth Not said when or where Printed 'T is in oct and ded to K. Hen. 8. Treatise of the errours and blindness of the Popish Clergy Declaration of the Sacrament Lond. 1548 oct Confutation of the articles of Papisme With other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen only know that some of them were prohibited to be read by the Proclamation of K. Hen. 8. The Author was living in an absconded condition in Fifteen hundred fifty and six which was the 3. and 4. of Philip and Marie and perhaps was in being several years after JOHN GWYNNETH was a Welsh Man born and tho of very poor parentage yet of most excellent natural parts and exceeding apt to embrace any kind of juvenile learning But so it was that he having little or nothing to maintain him in his studies at Oxon he was exhibited to by an Ecclesiastical Mecaenas who well knew that his abilities were such that in future time he might be an Ornament to the Cath. Church by writing against the Hereticks as they were then called The younger years of this Gwynneth were adorned with all kind of polite literature and his elder with the reading of the Scriptures and conversation with Books written by and against the Lutherans and Zwinglians At length perceiving full well what ground their Doctrine had gotten he wrot Declaration of the state wherein Hereticks do lead their lives Lond. in qu. Detection of that part of Fryths Book which he termeth His foundation Lond. 1554. oct Printed also if I mistake not before that time Against Joh. Fryth on the Sacrament of the Altar Lond. 1557. qu. Printed also I think before that time Declaration of the notable victory given of God to Qu. Mary shewed in the Church of Luton 22. July in the first Year of her Reign Lond. 1554 oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen This Joh. Gwynneth I take to be the same with Jo. Gwynneth a Secular Priest who for his great proficiency and works performed in the faculty of Musick had the Degree of Doctor of the said faculty conferr'd upon him by the Members of this University an 1531. See more in the Fasti under that Year WILLIAM PYE a Suffolk Man born was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. in 1529 and after he had continued in the Degree of Master some years he studied Physick became thrice Proctor of the University and as it seems D. of D. On the 7. of Oct. 1545. he became Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of Dr. Jo. Crayford and in the Reign of Ed. 6. a pretender to reformation but when Qu. Mary succeeded he changed his mind was in the beginning of her Reign not only made Dean of Chichester in the place if I mistake not of Barthelm Traheron but also Prebendary of Lytton in the Church of Wells upon the deprivation of Will. Wrythiosley and Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the deprivation also of Mr. Nich. Mason All that I have seen of his labours are only these following Oratio coram patribus clero habita
into holy Orders and was made Library keeper to K. Ed. 6. who finding him to be a Person of Merit conferr'd the Deanery of Chichester on him about 1551. But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he left his preferments and as a voluntary exile went into Germany where accompanying other English Exiles that had fled thence for Religion sake continued there till the death of Qu. Mary and then returning was restored to what he had lost and without doubt was rewarded with more While he was beyond the Sea he exercised himself much in writing matters in verse and prose in both which he wrot several things with great happiness especially those to his Brother Thomas to embrace the true Doctrine of Jesus Christ that is to leave the R. Catholick Church turn Protestant and come over to him Among many things that he wrot were Paraenesis lib. 1. Written to his Brother Thomas Carmina in mortem Henrici Dudlaei Analysis Scoparum Johannis Cochlei Exposition of a part of S. John's Gospel made in sundry Readings in the English Congregation against the Arrians Printed the second time in an 1558. oct The Readings were ten and they were performed in the English Congregation beyond the Sea Exposition on the fourth Chapter of S. John's Revelations which treateth of the providence of God made before his Countrymen in Germany Printed 1557. in oct Lond. 1577. and 83. in oct Treatise of Repentance besides other things which are mention'd by Jo. Bate He also translated into English The Chirurgerie of Joh. de Vigo Lond. 1580. qu. 2 Edit and the said Vigo's Little Practice Lond. 1562. in octavo In which year which was part of the third and fourth of Qu. Elizabeth Barth Traberon was if I mistake not living HENRY PENDLETON a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Lancashire became a Student in Brasnose Coll. about the year 1538 took the Degrees in Arts and afterwards those in Divinity in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being then beneficed and dignified in the Church In the Reign of Qu. Marie he shew'd himself so grand a Zealot for the Cause then professed in several Sermons by him preached that when in one by him delivered at Pauls Cross which was very sharp against the Hereticks as they were then called a Gun was discharged at but miss'd him Under his Name were these things following printed Homilies to be read in the Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Communication between him and Mr. Lour Sanders Disputation between him and Mr. Joh. Bradford Protestants an 1555. The Contents or part of which Communic and Disput you may see in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. and also Pendleton's Arguings with Bartlet Green and certain Protestant Martyrs Other things he hath written which I have not yet seen and was always accounted a learned Doctor of his time and so endear'd to the Cath. Religion that he made a solemn Protestation in Qu. Maries Reign that he would see the nntermost drop of his Grease molten away and the last gobbet of his Flesh consumed to Ashes before he would forsake God and his truth He lived after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and was imprison'd for a time but when or where he died I know not PETER MARTYR who is to have a place in these Athenae was born in the great and rich City of Florence in Italy in Sept. on the Nativity of the Virgin Marie an 1500 educated in several sorts of Learning in that City by the great care of his Father Steph. Vermilius became a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin at 16 years of age in the Coll. at Fiesoli more than a mile distant from Florence After he had spent three years there he was sent to Padua to enlarge his Learning that University then being in a flourishing Condition and setling in the Monastery of St. John de Verdera of the same Order of S. Austin spent almost 8 years in philosophical Studies and all other Arts especially in the Greek Tongue and Poets which at length he conquered At 26 years of age he began to preach and the first time he performed that Office was in the Church of St. Afra in Brescia and afterwards frequently in the most famous Cities of Italy However all the time that he could obtain from his Function was spent in sacred Learning Philosophy and in obtaining the Hebrew Tongue At length being cried up for a celebrated Scholar he was made Abbat of Spoleto in the Duchy of L'Ombria in Italy where he continued three years Thence he was translated to Naples and there became Abbat of the Monastery of his Order called St. Peter ad aram being of greater profit and a far more pleasant place than Spoleto After he had been setled there for some time he began to see the verity of the Gospel especially after he had read some of the Works of Bucer and Zwinglius Three years being spent there also he fell into a dangerous Sickness but the strength of Nature overcoming it he was advised by his Physitians to take better Air than what Naples afforded To that end therefore that he might with convenience be absent from his Cure the Fathers chose him General Visitor of their Order that is of the Order of S. Austin and soon after was elected Prior of S. Fridian within the City of Luca which is a place of great dignity having Episcopal Jurisdiction in the middle part of the said City Being setled at that place he instituted a most admirable way of Studies for the younger sort at Luca but at length his Opinions as to Heresie then so called being discovered snares were laid for him so that being not in a capacity to speak his mind he by the advice of certain Friends committed the best part of his Library to the Custody of one of them gave another part to the Coll. and forthwith left Luca and went to Pisa whence he wrote Letters to Card. Pole shewing the Reasons of his Departure Afterwards he went into Schwitzerlands and fixed for some time at Zurich Thence to Strasburgh where for about five years he read and taught sacred Letters in which time he took to Wife he being near 50 years of Age one Cath. Dampmartin causing thereupon his Enemies to say that he left his Order and Monastic Vows purposely for the sake of a Woman Which Wife after she had lived with him about 8 years died at Oxon as I shall anon tell you In 1547 he was invited into England by Edward Lord Protector and Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury to the end that his Assistance might be used to carry on a Reformation in the Church In the Month of Dec. the same year he with Bemnardine Ochine another Italian arrived in England and retiring to Lambeth were kindly received by Archb. Cranmer and entertained there for some time About the latter end of the same year in Feb. or
beginning of March Martyr went to Oxon was incorporated Doctor of Div. as he had stood at Padua and tho addicted more to the Zwinglian than to the Lutheran Doctrines in point of the Sacrament was in the beginning of the year following appointed by the King to read a public Lecture to the Academians in the Divinity School and for his reward to have an Annuity of 40 Marks What followed and how he and his Adversaries behav'd themselves thereupon I have largely told you elsewhere In the same year 1548 upon the receeding from the University of Dr. Rich. Smyth the Kings Professor of Divinity that Lecture with the profits belonging thereunto was confer'd by the King on Martyr and in the year following being much troubled with the R. Catholicks as in all the year before he disputed publickly with three of the most eminent of them as I have also told you in the same place In the year 1550 he had a Canonrie of Ch. Ch. bestowed upon him by the King on the death of Mr. Will. Haynes whereupon being installed 20 January the same year entred into his Lodgings belonging to him then joyning on the North side to Ch. Ch. great Gate leading into Fishstreet With him also setled his beloved Wife Catherine as the Wife of Dr. Rich. Cox did about the same time with him in the Deans Lodgings being the first Women as 't was observ'd that resided in any Coll. or Hall in Oxon. By whose Example it was not only permitted that any Canon beside might marry if he please but also a Head of a Coll. or Hall whereby other Women or idle Huswives were tolerated if the said Head allowed it to serve in them Which act beside their permitting of bawling Children to come among them was looked upon as such a damnable matter by the R. Catholicks and others too that they usually stiled them Concubines and the Lodgings that entertained them and their Children Stews and Cony-buries While Martyr continued in the said Lodgings whose Windows were next to Fishstreet he continually especially in the night time received very opprobrious Language from the R. Catholicks as well Scholars as Laicks and often had his Windows broken So that his Studies and Sleep being often disturb'd he changed his Lodgings which were those belonging to the Canons of the first Canonry for those in the Cloyster which belonged to those of the second being formerly the very same which belonged to the Prior of S. Frideswide in which being setled he spent the remaining part of his Abode in Oxon in Peace However for the severer enjoyment of his Thoughts and Studies he erected a Fabrick of Stone in his Garden situated on the East side of his Lodgings wherein he partly composed his Commentary on the first Ep. to the Corinthians and certain Epistles to learned men which were afterwards printed This Fabrick which contained two Stories stood till the latter end of March 1684 at which time they were plucked down by that Canon that was Owner of the Lodgings to which the Garden and Fabrick appertained About that time Martyr's Wife dying she was buried in the Cathral Church near to the place where S. Frideswydes Reliques had been reposed but four years after or thereabouts her body was taken up thrown out of the Church with scorn and buried in a Dunghil but when Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown the body was taken up again and reburied as I have elsewhere at large told you After the death of K. Edward 6. and Religion alter'd when his Sister Mary was setled in the Throne Pet. Martyr left Oxon went to London and so to Lambeth and obtaining his safe Conduct from the Qu. he left England and went to Strasburgh from whence he came where he taught Philosophy and Divinity for some time Thence he travell'd to Zurich an 1556. where he met with Joh. Juell and several exil'd Divines of England and took to his second Wife one Catherina Merenda While he continued there Maximilian Celsus an exil'd Count and the chief Minister of the Italian Church at Geneva died whereupon being invited to take his place upon him refused it for several Reasons When Qu. Mary died Queen Elizabeth invited him to return into England and there to accept of what Preferment he pleas'd but he fearing another mutation he modestly refused it To pass by several other matters not now fit to be related I shall give you the Titles of some of his Works as they follow Comment in Epist S. Paulis ad Romanos Bas 1558. fol. translated into Engl. by H. B. Lond. 1568 fol. Com. in priorem ad Corinth Epistolam Written at Oxon. and ded to K. Ed. 6. Printed several times at Zurich in fol. Defensio doctrinae veteris Apostolicae de Sacramento Eucharisticae adversus Step. Gardineri librum sub nomine M. Antonii Constantii editum c. Printed in fol. 1502 in four parts Tractatio de Sacramento Eucharistiae habita Oxonii cùm jam absolvisset interpretationem xi Capitis prioris Epistolae ad Corinthios Printed 1562. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in qu. Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. Printed 1562 and translated into English Com. in Genesin Tig. 1579. fol. Com. in lib. Judicum Tig. 1582. fol. which is the second or third Impression Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1564. Com. in lib. duos posteriores Regum Heid 1599. fol. Com. in Samuelis Prophetae libros duos Tig. 1595. fol. Loci communes sacrarum literarum Tig. 1587. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. De lib. arbitio De providentia praedestinat Tig. 1587. fol. An Deus sit causa author peccati An missa sit sacrificium Ib. eod an fol. Theses propofitae ad disputandum publicè in Schola Argentinensi an 1543. Ib. eod an fol. Ib. eod an fol. Oratio de Utilitate dignitate sacri Ministerii Oratio de Morte Christi Oratio de Resurrectione Christi These three last are also translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1583. Sermo in xx cap. Johan Christus die unto Sabbat c. 'T is translated into English and printed 1583. Exhortatio ad sacrarum literarum studium Translated also into English Oratio quam Tiguri primam habuit cum in locum D. Conradi Pellicani successiscet Translated also into English Adhortatio ad coenam Domini Mysticam Translated also Epistolae Theologicae Some of which were written at Oxon. and also translated into English and published Note that P. Martyr's Common places and all those things that follow which I have said were translated were put into the English Tongue by Anth. Marten Gentleman Sewer to her Majestie Lond. 1583. fol. One Anth. Marten of London was Father to Sir Hen. Marten as I shall tell you among these Writers ann 1641. Whether the same with the Translator I cannot yet tell Praeces ex Psalmis Davidis desumptae Tig.
at this day maintain against the Church of England and upon any good proof of any such one allegation to yield up the bucklers and reconcile himself to Rome Now tho Thom. Hardyng and some others undertook him about the controverted articles yet as those of the reformed party say they came off so poorly and Jewell on the contrary so amaz'd them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question that no one thing in that age gave the papacy so deadly a wound as the said challenge at Pauls cross so confidently made and bravely maintain'd This say the Protestant writers but let us hear what a grand zealot for the Romish cause saith concerning the said matter After this Man meaning B. Nich. Rydley stepped to Pauls cross in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days about the Year 1559 and 1560 Mr. Joh. Jewell otherwise called Bishop of Salisbury and he proceeded yet farther in this brag and fiction meaning that what the Fathers said made for the Protestants for he protested there even with feigned tears that if any one authority place sentence or asseveration of any one Father Doctor Council or authentical History within the first 600 years after Christ could be brought forth by any man living for any one of those points of Catholick Religion which he there recited to be in controversie that then plainly and sincerely he would subscribe Against which vain and shameless bragg when Dr. Hardyng and divers other learned men of our side began to write from Lovayne and to bring forth authorities of all Fathers Doctors Councils and Histories in great abundance the first effect of this challenge that appeared to the world was a severe proclamation that no such book written in English by the Catholick party should be received or read in England under great punishments By which Provision Mr. Jewell thinking meetly well defenced he plyed the pulpit often and renewed his challenges many times and perceiving notwithstanding that Dr. Hardyngs confutation was come into England he answered the same with a long volume of Rhetorical words and stuffed the Margent thereof with the shew of infinite Authors as tho the whole world had been for him and none for the other side And with this he deceived the People then and doth to this day such I mean that have not commodity or learning or other means to examine those places and to find out the manifold lyes and falsifications therein contained And this was the gain by all likelyhood that Mr. Jewell pretended to his cause by that work knowing full well that this sort of Men is far the greater which would be gained and settled in his doctrine before the learneder sort who are but few in comparison of the other could have time books and commodity to discover and refute him and when they should do it they should hardly be believed c. How many learned Men lightly of our Nation have taken upon them seriously to go over that book of Mr. Jewells and to examine it by the Authors themselves with any indifferency of mind have for the most part been thereby converted to Catholick Religion though never so great Protestants before Of which sort I have heard relation of many but of some I can testifie my self for that I have heard it from their own mouths who of earnest Protestants were made most zealous Catholicks by that means principally of which number I think it not inconvenient to name here some two or three omitting others which for just respects may not be named The first of them is Sir Tho. Copley made Lord afterwards in his banishment by the King of France who oftentimes hath related unto one with much comfort of his soul how that being a zealous Protestant and very familiar to Robert the late Earl of Leycester in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days when Mr. Jewells book was newly come forth he being also learned himself in the Latin tongue took pains to examine certain leaves thereof and finding many falshoods therein which were inexcusable as they seemed to him he conferred the same with the said Earl who willed him that the next time Mr. Jewell dined at his table he should take occasion after dinner to propose the same which he did soon after And receiving certain trifling answers from Mr. Jewell he waxed more hot and urged the matter more earnestly which Jewell perceiving told him in effect That Papists were Papists and so they were to be dealt withal and other answer he could not get Which thing made the good Gentleman to make a new resolution with himself and to take that happy course which he did to leave his Country and many great commodities which he enjoyed therein to enjoy the liberty of conscience and so both lived and died in voluntary banishment c. The second example which I remember of mine own knowledge is Mr. Doctor Stevens a learned Man yet alive who being Secretary or Chaplain to Mr. Jewell and a forward Man in the Protestant Religion at that time espyed certain false allegations in his Masters book whilst it was under the print in London whereof advertising him by Letters for that he supposed it might be by oversight the other commanded notwithstanding the print to go forward and passed it over as it was Which this Man seeing that had a conscience and sought the truth indeed resolved to take another way of finding it out And having found it in the Cath. Church where only it was to be found he resolved also to follow it and so he did and went voluntarily into banishment for the same where yet he liveth to this day in France c. As for the third example which is Will. Rainolds I shall remember from my before quoted Author when I come to speak of him and in the mean time proceed to speak of Jewell In the beginning therefore of the Year 1565 he tho absent was actually created Doctor of Div. and the year following when the Queen was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses he shew'd himself a profound Theologist in moderating at Divinity disputations in St. Maries Church The learned Camden saith that he was a wonderful great and deep Divine a most stout and earnest maintainer of our reformed Religion against the adversaries by his learned books That he was a Man of a singular ingenie of exquisite erudition in Theologicals and of great piety As for Jewells writings the titles of them follow Exhortatio ad Oxonienses See in his life written by Laurence Humphrey printed in 1573. p. 35. Exhortatio in Coll. Corp. Ch. sive concio in fundatoris Foxi Commemorationem See there again p. 45. 46. c. Concio in templo B. Mariae Virg. Oxon an 1550 in 1. Pet. 4. 11. preached for his Degree of Bach. of Div. A Copy of which is printed in his life written by L. H. before-mention'd p. 49. Translated into English by R. V. Lond. 1586. oct Oratio in Aula C. C. Chr. spoken to
Will Bishop of Rurimund in Gelderland wherein is detected and made manifest the doting dangerous doctrine and haynous heresies of the rash rablement of the hereticks This book was by Lew. Evans entit The betraying of the beastl iness of the Hereticks c. Antw. 1565 in tw Afterwards the said Evans being reconcil'd to the Ch. of England by some of his friends did to shew his zeal for the love he had to it write and publish a book as full of ill language against the Roman Catholicks as the other was as full of good for them entituled The Castle of Christianity detecting the long erring estate as well of the Rom. Church as of the Bishop of Rome Lond. 1568. oct Which being dedicated to Queen Elizab. he saith in his Epistle to her that he himself had once drank of the puddle of ignorance of the mud of idolatry of the pond of superstition c. whereupon great distast being taken by the R. Catholicks the common report flew abroad by their endeavours that he was gone over again to the Church of Rome in which being settled he died in great ease and content These reports being often told to Evans while he was in Oxon by the learnedest there he soon after published a book entit The hateful hypocrisie and rebellion of Romish Prelates Lond. 1570 in tw to which he added these two treatises following A view of certaine rebellions and their ends Four paradoxes First a Bishop and a Minister is all one 2 A Bishop c. Afterwards if I mistake not our Author Evans was a Schoolmaster and was the same Person I think that revised and increased with phrases and necessary additions A short dictionary for young beginners compiled at first by John Withals and by him published at Lond. 1566. in qu. but when the additions of Evans came out I find not Afterwards the said Dictionary was augmented with more than 600 rythmical verses whereof many are proverbial by Abr. Flemmyng a native of London printed at Lond. 1594 qu. In my travels and searches I find one Lew. Evans a Flintshire Man to be a Student of Ch. Ch. in the time of Ed. 6. and to have taken the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1557 but this Person I presume is not the Author because the Author doth not stile himself in his Books Bach. or Master of Arts. Another Lew. Evans a Brecknockshire Man became Fellow of Oriel C. an 1566 Mast of Arts 1570 and resign'd his Fellowship 1577. A third who was a Monmouehshire Man was matriculated as a Member of Gloc. hall 1574 aged 28. And a fourth also I find to be a Minister of God's word who in the 31 year of his age or more was matric as a member of the same Hall and as a Native of Monmouthshire an 1581. and in 1585 took the Deg. of M. of A. Whether either of these was the Author before-mention'd is to me as yet doubtful or whether the same with Lew. Evans who by the favour of Dr. Piers B. of Sarum became Prebend of Warmister in that Church an 1583 which he resigned in May 1598 I cannot tell or whether the same with Lew. Evans Clerk Parson of Westmeane in Hampshire who died there about the beginning of 1601 leaving then behind him a Wife and Children and houses in Winchester JOHN PARKHURST Son of George Parkhurst was born at Guildford in Surrey sent when very young to Oxon where he was educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. common gate under the famous Mr. Thom. Robertson was elected Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1529 and three years after proceeding in Arts entred into holy orders tho better then for poetry and oratory than Divinity At length he became Rector of the rich Church of Cleve called by some Bishops Cleve in Glocestershire where he did a great deal of good by his hospitality and charity After the death of K. Ed. 6. he left all for Religion sake and went into voluntary exile to Zurich where remaining till the death of Qu. Mary not without great dangers and afflictions returned when Qu. Eliz. succeeded and was by her made Bishop of Norwych To which See being elected 13. Apr. was consecrated on the first of Sept. and installed by John Salisbury Dean of that Church 27 of the same month an 1560 and about six years after was made D. of D. He hath written and published Epigrammata in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Caroli Henrici Brandon Lond. 1552. qu. They were the Sons of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and died of the sweating sickness Some of which Epigrams were afterwards published in his Ludicra which I am now to mention Ludicra sive Epigrammata juvenilia Lond. 1573. qu. Which book tho written in his younger days and contains therein more obscurity than the Epigrams of Martial as some say tho I my self cannot perceive it yet while he was Bishop he must needs have it printed alledging that he would not be like Heliodorus to lose his Bishoprick for it He also view'd took pains about and published John Shepreve his Dislicks on the New Test and added thereunto of his own Epigrammata Seria Lond. 1560. oct Most of which seem to be taken from his former book while it remained in MS. See more in Job Shepreve under the Year 1542. At length this Bishop yielded up his last breath in Fifteen hundred seaventy and four and was buried in the body or middle Isle of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych Over his grave was soon after a fair monument of marble raised between two pillars on the S. side of the said middle Isle on which Mon. was his proportion engraven on brass with a gown and square cap on holding his hands together in a praying posture with this inscription engraven on brass also but taken away in the civil war Johannes Parkhurstus Theologiae professor Gylfordiae natus Oxoniae educatus temporibus Mariae Reginae pro nitida conscientia Tigurinae vixit exul voluntarius Postea praesul factus sanctissime hanc rexit ecclesiam 16 annis mortuus est secundo die Februarii an 1574. aetatis suae 63. Another inscription which is on one of the said pillars runs thus Viro bono docto ac pio Johanni Parkhursto Episcopo vigilantissimo Georgius Gardiner posuit hoc Which George Gardiner who was D. of D. was installed Dean of Norwych 24. Dec. 1573 in the place of John Salisbury deceased Ralf Gualter Father and Son both of Zurich and entirely beloved of this our Author Parkhurst have written Epiceds on his death which if they could be procured being very scarce might satisfie a curious reader concerning some actions of him the said Parkhurst LEONARD DIGGES second Son of James Digges of Digges Court in the Parish of Berham in Kent by Philippa his second Wife Daughter of John Engham of Chart in the said County was born in the Province of Kent particularly
as it seems at Digges Court educated for a time in this University but in what house unless in Univ. Coll. I know not where laying a foundation of greater learning departed without a Degree and afterwards became a most excellent Mathematician a skilful Architect and a most expert surveyour of Land At length lest it should be thought that he studied only for himself and not for the benefit of others he published a book entit Tectonicon Briefly shewing the exact measuring and speedy reckoning of all manner of lands squares timber stones steeples c. Lond. 1556. qu. Augmented and published again by his Son Tho. Digges Lond. 1592. qu. Printed there again 1647 qu. Our Author Leon. Digges wrot also A Geometrical practical treatise named Pantometria in 3. bookes Which being attempted in his younger years his said Son Thomas supplied such parts of it after his death as were left obscure and imperfect adjoyning thereunto A discourse Geometrical of the five regular and Platonical bodies containing sundry Theorical and Practical propositions arising by mutual conference of these solides Inscription Circumscription and Transformation Lond. 1591. fol. Prognostication everlasting of right good effect or choice rules to judge the weather by the Sun Moon Stars c. Lond. 1555 56. and 64 qu. corrected and augmented by his said Son Thomas with divers general tables and many compendious rules Lond. 1592. qu. what else he wrot I find not nor certainly when he died unless about the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and four or whether his death was at Eltham in Kent or at another place There is some memory of him and his Family in whose veines hereditary learning doth seem to run on a Monument in Chilham Church in Kent not to shew that he was buried there but to shew the genealogie of his Family set up by his Grandson Dudley Digges of whom I shall make mention in 1638 which being too long for this place I shall pass it by at present for brevity sake RICHARD WILLS who in his books writes himself Willeius which is the reason why some call him Willey was a Western Man born educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and in Academical for a time in his Coll. at Oxon but before he took a Degree or was made Fellow he left the University and travelled into France Germany and Italy where spending some years in several Universities return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman And being noted for his admirable dexterity and honorable advance in the Latine Empire as Joh. Brownswerd was at the same time wrot and published Lond. 1573. oct Poematum liber ad Gul. Baronem Burghleium De re poetica disputatio In suorum poemat Librum Scholia With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen In the Year 1574 Apr. 24. he by the name and title of Rich. Wills Master of Arts of the University of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated the ven congregation of Regents that he might be incorporated into the same Degree in this University but the said Regents suspecting his opinions did grant his desire conditionally 1 That he produce a testimony of his creation under the seal of the University of Mentz 2 That he render a testimony of his faith before the Vicechanc. and Proctors and 3 That he acknowledge the Queen to be his legitimate Governess or Monarch of all England c. whether he performed these conditions or was really incorporated appears not in any of the registers RICHARD TAVERNER Son of Joh. Taverner of Brisley in Norfolke was born at Brisley or else in that County in the Year 1505 descended from an ancient Family of his name living sometimes at North Elmham near to Brisley before-mentioned educated for a time in Logick in Bennet Coll. in Cambridge but before he had consummated an year and an half there did with others of that University go to Oxon for preferment about the same time that Card. Wolsey did begin his Coll. there At length being admitted one of the Junior Canons of that Coll. he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the Year 1529 and about that time obtaining a competent knowledge in Philosophy the Greek tongue and Divinity left Oxon some time before the said Coll. came into the Kings hands by Wolseys fall and forthwith went to an Inn of Chancery near London call'd Staire Inn otherwise Strond Inn pulled down when Edw. D. of Somerset built Somerset house in the Strond or Strand and thence to the Inner Temple for before his time and some years after students were not admitted into the Inns of Court before they had read the ground of Law in one of the Inns of Chancery where his humour was to quote the Law in Greek when he read any thing thereof In 1534 he went to the Court and was there taken into the attendance of Tho. Cromwell then Principal Secretary to K. Hen. 8. by whose commendation he was afterwards made by the said King one of the Clerks of the Signet in ordinary an 1537. Which place he kept till the first of Q. Mary having been in good repute not only with K. Hen. 8. but also with K. Edw. 6. and most of all with Edw. Duke of Somerset Lord Protector In 1552 he tho a mere Lay-man obtained by the name of Rich. Taverner Master of Arts being Master of Arts of both the Universities a special licence subscribed by K. Ed. 6. to Preach in any place of his dominions and the more for this reason because the scarcity and slackness of Preachers was so great that some of the Kings Chaplains were appointed to ride circuit about the Kingdom to preach to the People especially against Popery I have been informed by some notes of him written by his Grandson that he preached before the King at Court and in some publick places in the Kingdom wearing a velvet bonnet or round cap a damask gown and a chain of gold about his neck in which habit he was seen and heard preaching several times in St. Maries Church in Oxon. in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. In like manner other Lay-Gentlemen such that had been educated in the Universities did either preach or else write books concerning controversies in Religion or else make translations from Divinity books Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. Esq whom I have mention'd in Joh. Jewell sometimes of Univ. Coll. was often seen in the same habit in Pulpits in London and in his own Country and would often give the printed Catechismes in the book of Common-Prayer to Children as he walked in London streets to learn without book and would after call out those children and examine them and for encouragement would give especially to the poorer sort of them money silk points ribbands c. Sir Tho. More also after he was called to the bar in Lincolns Inn did for a considerable time read a publick Lecture out of St. Austin De civitate Dei in the Church of St.
from the riding tales of Bartello 'T is among Gascoignes Poems called Weedes And from Greek into English Jocasta a Tragedie written by Euripides This also was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted in Greys Inn 1566. In this translation the said Gascoigne had the assistance of Francis Kynwelmersh before mention'd who translated about half of it The Epilogue was written by an ingenious Gentleman of the said Inn called Christoph Yelverton afterwards an eminent Counsellour a Knight and a Judge who dying at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire 1607 left behind him several Sons of whom Henry was the eldest afterwards a Knight and a Judge also as I shall tell you elsewhere This Trag is among Gascoignes Poems called Hearbes All which poems and translations being gathered together were printed in an English character in two vol. in qu. One of which was printed at London about 1577 and the other there after the Authors death an 1587 at which time it was usher'd into the world by various copies of verses written by the Poets of that time As for the Author of them he made his last exit or yielded to nature in his middle age at his house in Walthamstow before-mention'd in Octob. or Nov. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 and was buried as I suppose in the Church there I find another George Gascoigne Esq but later in time than the former of whom I know nothing only but that he was of the Middle Temple and that he dyed about 1619. JOHN HARPESFEILD a grand zealot for the Rom. Cath. Religion was born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fishstreet within the City of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1534 took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders was made Chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London and left his Fellowship about 1551 being then beneficed in London About 1554 he being then D. of D. he was made by his Patron Archdeacon of that place in the room of Joh. Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild and it was then temp Mariae Reg. observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London shew'd himself the most severe of all Bishops against Hereticks as they were then called so our Author Harpesfeild of all Archdeacons which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of Religion In 1558 some months before Qu. Mary died he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwych upon the resignation of John Boxall but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560 to make room for John Salisbury suffragan Bishop of Thetford who had been ejected in the first year of Qu. Mary I find published under this Doctor Harpesfeilds name these things following Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli 16. Oct. 1553 in Act. cap. 20. 28. Lond. 1553. oct Homelies to be read in Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554-55 At the end of Bonners Catechisme Disputations for the degree of Doctor of Divinity 19. Apr. 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church by Joh. Fox In which disputation Archb. Cranmer bore a part Disputes talkings arguings examinations letters c. Printed also in the said book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where continuing for an year or more was released upon security given that he should not act speak or write against the doctrine of the Church of England Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his dwelling within the Parish of St. Sepulcher in the Suburb of London spent the remainder of his days in great retiredness and devotion At length paying his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 was buried as I conceive in the Church of that Parish On the 5. Dec. in the same year one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him had a Commission granted to her from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts and chattels of Joh. Harpesfeild D. D. of the Parish of St. Sepulcher in Lond. lately deceased so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nov. going before He had a brother named Nicholas whom I shall remember under the Year 1583. JOHN FOWLER was born in the City of Bristow educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation in 1555 resigned it in 1559 and the year after took the Degree of Master of Arts but did not compleat it by standing in the Comitia About that time leaving England he took upon him the trade of printing partly at Antwerp and partly at Lovaine whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholicks in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England He was well skill'd in the Greek and Latin tongues a tolerable Poet and Orator and a Theologist not to be contemn'd So learned he was also in Criticismes and other polite learning that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens Printers He did diligently peruse the Theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium To which he gave this title Loca communia Theologica c. lib. 1. He wrot also Additiones in Chronica Genebrandi A Psalter for Catholicks Answered by Tho. Sampson sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. Epigrams and other verses He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Osorius and The oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion Antw. 1566. oct answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge At length giving way to fate at Newmarck called by some Krainburg in Germany 13. Febr. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the Ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist there near to the body of John Harrys sometimes Father to Alice his Wife GEORGE FERRERS seems to have been born at or near to St. Alban in Hertfordshire was educated for a time in Oxon. whence going to Lincolns Inn did after he was Barrester became as eminent for the Law as before he was for his Poetry having been as much celebrated for it by the learned of his time as any This Person tho he hath not writ much as I can yet find yet he is numbred among the the illustrious and learned Men of the Age he lived in by Joh. Leland the Antiquary He hath written Miscellany of Poems And translated from French into Latin The Statutes called Magna Charta The beginning of which is Hic habes candide lector leges c. He ended his days at Flamsted in Hertfordshire in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was as I conceive buried there You may see more of him his character and employments in the Author before quoted In the Year 1542 I find
character given of him by one the knew him in Ireland I shall here insert for a conclusion of those things I have said of him which is this He was stately without disdain familiar without contempt very continent and chast of body no more than enough liberal learned and a great lover of learning perfect in blazoning of Arms skilful of Antiquities of wit fresh and lively in consultations very temperate in utterance happy which his experience and wisdom hath made artificial a preferrer of many a Father to his Servants and both in war and peace of commendable courage WILLIAM GOOD was born in the ancient Town of Glastenbury in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. Feb. 1545 afterwards Fellow Master of Arts 1552 and about that time Humanity reader in the said College After Queen Mary came to the Crown being then a most zealous R. Catholick he was promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice in his own Country called Middle Chinnoke and to a little Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Comba octava in Nov. 1556 besides the rectory of a School in the said City All which he keeping till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and for some time after he voluntarily left them and his native Country for Religion sake and retiring to Tourney in Flanders entred himself there into the Society of Jesus in 1562 aged 35. After he had served his probationship he went into Ireland with Father David the titular Archbishop of Armagh who left no stone unremoved there for the settling of that Kingdom in the Catholick faith and obedience Four years being spent in that Country not without some danger he went to Lovaine where he met with Rob. Persons about to enter into the said Society whom he strengthned with many arguments in order thereunto In 1577 he was called to Rome to take upon him the profession of the four vows which being done he went into Sweeden and Poland in the company of Anth. Possevin to settle certain affairs relating to the society Two years after he returned to Rome and became Confessor to the English Coll. there newly converted from an Hospital dedicated to the Holy Trinity to a Seminary for the educating the youth of England that profess the R. Cath. Religion Vir fuit probatae virtutis doctrinae as one of his society saith atque imprimis in historiis Sanctorum Angliae optimè versatus quorum res gestas in templo collegii Anglicani curavit coloribus exprimi quae subinde in aes incisae prodierunt tacito ipsius inscriptae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea Robnae 1584. fol. In the Library also of the English Coll. at Rome there is extant a Manuscript digested according to the years of Christ and Kings of Britaine containing the Acts of the Saints of Britain Which book is said there among those of England to have been composed and written by our Author Good who dying at Naples 5. July according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 was buried in the College of the Jesuits there who have yet a great respect for his name One or more of whom have promised me a copy of his Epitaph if there be any but no answer have I yet received PHILIP SIDNEY the short-liv'd Ornament of his noble Family and the Marcellus of the English Nation hath deserv'd and without dispute or envy enjoyed the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding Ages The Poets of his time especially Spencer reveren'd him not only as a Patron but a Master and he was almost the only Person in any age I will not except Mecaenas that could teach the best rules of Poetry and most freely reward the performances of Poets He was a Man of a sweet nature of excellent behaviour of much and withall of well digested learning so that rarely wit courage breeding and other additional accomplishments of conversation have met in so high a degree in any single Person It is to be wish'd that his life might be written by some judicious hand and that the imperfect essay of Sir Fulk Grevill L Brook might be supply'd In the mean time I am forc'd to consider him only as an Author and to give him these short notes of his life and education He was Son of Sir Hen. Sidney before-mention'd by the Lady Mary his Wife eldest Daughter of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland was born as 't is supposed at Penshurst in Kent 29. Nov. 1554 and had his Christian name given to him by his Father from K Philip then lately married to Qu. Mary While he was very young he was sent to Christ Ch. to be improved in all sorts of learning and was contemporary there with Rich. Carew Author of The Survey of Cornwall where continuing till he was about 17 years of age under the tuition of Dr. Tho. Thornton Canon of that house he was in June 1572 sent to travel for on the 24 Aug. following when the Massacre fell out at Paris he was then there and at that time as I conceive he with other English Men did fly to the house of Francis Walsingham Embassadour there from the Queen of England Thence he went through Loraine and by Strasburgh and Heydelburg to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following as his said life written by Sir Fulk Grevill his companion and friend attesteth But what is added there that Hubert Languet accompanied him in the whole course of his 3 years travels is a great mistake as will appear by Languets Epistles to our Author Philip Sidney printed more than once For so it was that in the next spring in May 1573 Larguet removed to Vienna where our Author met him again and stayed with him till September when he went into Hungary and those parts Thence he journied into Italy where he continued all the Winter following and most of the Summer an 1574 and then he returned into Germany with Languet and next spring he returned by Frankfort Heydelberg and Antwerp home into England about May 1575. The like mistakes are in the said life concerning Languets coming into England in Februar 1578 at which time 't is said he was about 66 years of age whereas he was but 61 that also he and Sidney parted at Sea which could not be for Duke John Caâ—â—mire with whom he came went away so suddenly that Languet could not take leave of him In the Year 1576 he was sent by the Queen to Rodolph the Emperour to condole the death of Maximilian and also to other Princes of Germany at which time he caused this inscription to be written under his Arms which he then hung up in all places where he lodged Illustriss generosiss virs Philippi Sidneii Angli Proregis Hiberniae filii Comitum Warwici Leycestriae nepotis sereniss Reginae Angliae ad Caesarem Legati The next year in his return he saw that gallant Prince Don John de Austria Vice Roy
Book was written after Mart. Marprelate had writ his Libel which some playing with Martin at his won weapon answered pleasantly both in Rhime and Prose But this our Author the Bishop with Authority and Gravity confuted him soundly in this Book whereupon Martin replyed in a Book enit Ha'y any Work for a Cooper c. At length this reverend and holy Bishop paying his last Debt to Nature at Winchester year 1594 29. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried on the South side of the Choire a little above the Bishop's Seat belonging to the Cathedral there Over his Grave was soon after laid a flat Marble with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a Copy of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. a. He left behind him a Widow named Amey and two Daughters one of which named Elizabeth was the Wife of Dâ—â— Joh. Belly sometimes Provost of Oriel Col. afterward Chanclour of the Dicocess of Lincoln the other was Mary the Wife of John Gouldwell Gent. WILLIAM RAINOLDS second Son of Rich. Râ—â—â—â—ids a sufficient Farmer third Son of Rich. Rainolds was born at Pynhoc alias Pynhawes the Seat of his Ancestors near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in School learning in Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester elected Probationer of New Coll. in 1560. and two years after was admitted perpetual Fellow In that House where then was a severe Discipline kept up he became a most noted Philosopher a quick Disputant and one much noted for his sincere love to the Protestant Cause In 1566. he proceeded Master of Arts and about that time he took Holy Orders In 1572. he left his Fellowship and retiring to Hart Hall lived there in the quality of a Câ—â—moner All which time he was earnest for Reformation while John his Brother of C. C. Coll. stood affected to the Roman Catholick Religion as it is said This difference in judgment proved a firebal of Câ—ntention between and engaged them in a strong Duel and set Disputes whereupon both being strengthned by each 〈◊〉 Arguments our Author Willaim turned a zealous Catholick and John a strong Puritan Whereupon Dr. Will. Alabaster a learned Divine and an excellent Poet made an Epigram on them a copy of which you may see elsewhere This is the reason commonly received among Protestants for each others conversion but false for the dispute was if you will believe one that then lived between John and Edmund Rainolds of C. C. Câ—ll as I have told you elsewhere So that now there being no pretence left for William's conversion by disputing with his Brother John you may take this reason following different from the other if your charity will permit you to believe a R. Catholick Author as he had received it from the mouth or Pen of Will. Rainolds which is this Mr. William Rainolds being first an earnest Professor and Preacher of the Protestant Religion in England and much engaged among the Puritans in Northamptonshire as he was wont to tell he fell in the end to read over Mr. Jewel ' s Book and did translate some part thereof into Latin but before he had passed half over he found such stuff as made him greatly mistake of the whole Religion and so he leaving his hopes and commodities in England went over the Sea and the last year of Jubilee to wit 1575. he came to Rome and brought that Book with him and presented both himself and it to the Tribunal of the Inquitsition of his own free motion and accord where I guess the Book remaineth still if it be not burned and himself after absolution received for his former Errors which he with great humility and zeal required and my self also at that time spake with him in that place he returned into France and Flanders and there lived many years with singular edification for his rare Vertue and Learning c. Thus a zealous Romanist whom I have here quoted in the Margin Afterwards our Author Will. Rainolds went to Rheimes in France where being kindly received by Dr. Will. Allen President of the English College there was shortly after made Professor or Reader of Divinity and of the Hebrew Tongue Afterwards he went to Antwerp where he wrote mostly under the Name of Will. Rosseus these things following Resutation of Mr. W. Whittaker's Civils against the Annotations of the New Testament Par. 1583. oct De justa republicae Christiane in reges impios haereticos Authoritate Antw. 1592. oct c. Catholick Faith concerning Christ's last Supper against Berengarius and Bruce Antw. 1593. oct This Bruce was the same as it seems with Rob. Bruce a Scotch Minister Paraphrase on the New Testament MS. in the English coll of Benedictines at Deiulward in Loraine Calvino-Turcismus i. e. Calvinisticae perfidiae cum Mahumetanâ collatio dilucida utriusque sectae confutatio Antw. 1597. Col. Agr. 1603. oct in four Books Which Books being left imperfect were corrected finished and published out of his Notes by his dear Friend Will. Gifford Dean of St. Peter's Church at L'isle This Book endeavours to prove that Calvin's Religion is worse in condition and less probable in reason than that of the Turks and hath less ground and substance therein than the other The copies of which stealing over the Sea into England were answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a Book bearing this Title De Turco-Papismo Hoc est de Turcorum Papistarum adversus Christi Ecclesiam fidem conjuratione eorumque in Religione moribus concensione similitudine Lond. 1598 99. qu. ibid. 1604 in oct To which Book are added 4 more against the said Calvino-Turcismus In the Preface to the first that came forth the Author saith that Will. Rainolds his going over to the Church of Rome was because he was not compos mentis as being somewhat distracted for the love of the Wife of one M. a famous Women of Oxon c. The said Rainolds also translated from English into Latin all the Works of Tho. Harding with a large Preface to them as I have elsewhere told you but for want of Money they could not be Printed Also Dr. Will. Allen's Book entit A true sincere and modest defence of English Catholicks c. which Book W. Rainolds did also much increase And what else he hath written Pitscus will tell you who adds that he deceasing at Antwerp in Flanders year 1594 in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Chancel of the Church of the Bigwins there on the South side of the Altar Soon after was a stone laid over his Grave with this inscription thereon Honorabili Domino D. Gulielmo Reginaldo alias Ressaeo pio exuli Auglo viro doctissimo hujus Ecclesiae Ministro Obiit 24. Aug. 1594 c. Tâ—â—w Rainolds had five Brothers the eldest of which was named Hierom Fellow of C. C. College and Master of Arts in 1557. who continuing in
the Roman Catholick Religion practised Physick in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign but soon after left the University and whether he went beyond the Seas and was Doctorated there I cannot tell Under this Hierom Rainolds our Author William who was the next Brother did receive most of his tuition while he was a Junior in Oxon. The third Brother was Edm. Rainolds before-mentioned Fellow of C. C. College also who leaving that House because he was in animo Catholicus retired to Glocester Hall where living many years in the condition of a Tutor dyed a wealthy Man The fourth Brother was James Rainolds Master of Arts and Fellow of Exeter Coll. The fifth and youngest was Nicholas who lived at Pynhaws on the Lands of his Ancestors Father to Will. Rainolds of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire Gentleman sometimes a Member of Glocester Hall under his Uncle Edmund from whom I formerly received a writing under his hand concerning his Ancestors and Relations for three Generations above him part of which is here mentioned WILLIAM ALLYN Allen or Alan so many ways I find him written was the second Son of John Allen by Joanet or Jennet Lyster his Wife Sister of Tho. Lyster of Westby in Yorkshire the Son of George Allen of Staffordshire who having an Uncle or near Kinsman called Allen Abbat of Delawise setled at Rossal in Lancashire by the endeavours of the said Abbat who demised to him divers Lands there which belonged to his Monastery At that place Rosial was Will. Allyn or Alan whome we are farther to mention born and being arrived to about the fifteenth year of his age was sent to Oxford in 1547. entred into Oriel Coll. and committed to the tuition of Morgan Philips the chiefest Tutor then in that House under whome having profited to a miracle in Logick and Philosophy was unanimously elected Fellow of that Coll. in 1550. 4. Ed. 6. Four years after he proceeded in Arts and stood in that Act wherein proceeded Tho. Hardyng and Nich. Harpesfield two noted Writers the former being then a Proceeder in Divinity and the other in the Civil Law In 1556. or thereabouts he became Principal of St. Mary's Hall and in that and the year following one of the Proctors of the University In 1558. or thereabouts he was made Canon of York but soon after upon the coming to the Crown by Q. Elizabeth and the alteration of Religion that followed he left his Country and Preferment about 1560. and going beyond the Seas he retired to Lovaine then an eminent Acamedy especially for the study of Divinity to which place did several eminent Theologists repair for a time as Saunders Harding Dorman Rastal c. purposely to avoid the places infected with Heresie as they called it While he continued at Lovaine he wrote a Book in the English Tongue against Mr. Jewel treating of Purgatory which afterwards was Printed About that time falling into a grievous disease by too careful attending a Pupil of his of gentile extraction in England had advice given him by his Physicians to retire to his Native Country for Health's sake Whereupon returning into England he kept himself unknown till he had recovered his former strength and then endeavouring to reconcile People to the Church of Rome and to terrifie them from going to the Meetings of Hereticks as he stiled them was forced by the Magistrates to leave that harbour Lancashire So that going to a certain place near Oxon he practiced the like and wrote two Books in English one Of the Authority of the Priesthood and the other Of Indulgences From thence he removed his Quarters to the County of Norfolk and lived sometimes in the House of the Duke of that Name and sometimes near it where he wrote Certain brief Reasons concerning Catholick Faith whereby the vanity of Heresie and excellency of Catholick Faith as therein it is said were evidently set down purposely to settle such who were wavering in other Opinion Afterwards tho advantage was given to him to return to Lovaine by the opportunity of a Ship then going from England yet he neglected it and went near to Oxon again went to the University and meeting with one of his Contemporaries did work so much upon him by his discourse that he promised him to abstain for the future from Protestant Company and their Meetings Which act of his being made known to the Parents of the said Contemporary they prosecuted Allyn so close that he was forced to leave England after he had continued there about three years So that retiring to a certain Monastery at Mâ—chlin in Brabant became a Divinity Reader there which Office he performed with great commendations for some time Afterwards being desirous to go to Rome in the company of Dr. Jo. Vendivile the King's Professor at Doway afterwards Bishop of Tournay did make some advance that way but for certain Reasons that then passed between them Allyn turned his Face and went to Doway at which place in Academy was setled about 1562. where he studied Divinity became Doctor of that Faculty and so much esteemed for his rare and active Parts that he was made Canon of the Church of Cambray Afterwards by his endeavours he began a Seminary at Doway about 1568. to receive all such learned English Catholicks that had fled their Country for Religion sake where soon after they framed for themselves a common Discipline after the manner of a College and got the Pope to assign them an yearly Pension Soon after our author Allyn being made Canon of Rheimes he procured another Seminary to be erected there by the Guises Kinsmen to Mary Q. of Scots For the Netherlands wherein Doway is situated being run into confusion the English Fugitives or Scholars were banished thence by the command of Don Lewis de Requesens so that thence going to Rheimes they setled there for a time Afterwards our active Author began another Seminary at Rome and two in Spain to the end that English Youths might be trained up purposely to keep up the Roman Catholick Religion in England At length for these his great and indefatigable labours he was created a Priest Cardinal of St. Martin in montibus by Pope Sixtus 5. on the 28. July according to our accompt An. 1587. and two years after was made Archbishop of Mechlin or Machlin the Metropolis of Brabant The character given of this Man by several of our English Authors of the reformed Party is That he with R. Persons the Jesuit and others did lay in continual wait for the destruction of Prince and People of England and who by exciting both Forreigners abroad and natural Subjects at home plotted the reducement of the R. Religion to its antient vigour c. Farther also That after he had put off both his love to his Country and his obedience to his Prince he incensed the Spaniard and the Pope of Rome to assault England And to that purpose adjoyned himself to all pernicious consultations about that
Office of a Serjeant Major Lond. 1590. qu. Written in Spanish by Francisco Valdes Master of the Camp I shall make mention of another Joh. Thorius in the Fasti 1627. and of the Name of Thoris in other years there and elsewhere but whether the Thoryes of Boston and Ingoldmells in Lincoluishire who lived there in the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. and after were of Kin to the aforesaid Joh. Thorie I know not Besides all these I find one Raphaei Thorius commonly called Thoris a Frenchman whom I shall set down among he Writers under the year 1625. JOHN BRIDGWATER or Aquepontanus as he writes himself was born in Yorkshire as the Reg. here quoted saith but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire applied his Muse to Accademical Studies at his first coming to Oxon in Hart Hall whence translating himself to Brasenose soon after took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1556. and about that time entred into Holy Orders In 1562. May 1. he was admitted to the Rectory of Wottoâ—-Courtney in the Diocess of Wells and on the 14. Apr. 1563. he was elected Rector of Lincoln College on the resignation of Dr. Francis Babington On the 23. of May following he was admitted Rector of Luccomb in the said Diocess of Wells being then also Archdeacon of Rochester and soon after being made Canon Residentiary of Wells was admitted Rector of Porlock in the Diocess thereof 16. Apr. 1565. In 1570. Nov. 28. he was admitted Master of the Hospital of St. Catherine neay to Beâ—mystre and in 1572. March 29. to the Prebendship of Bishops Compton in the Church of Wells In 1574. he resigned his Rectory of Lincoln College to prevent as I presume expulsion because he was actually or very near it a Roman Catholick and had given great incouragement during his Government to the Students under him to embrace Religion The same year he left Oxon carried away with him several Goods belonging to the said College and taking with him certain young Scholars left all his preferments acquaintance and relations and went beyond the Sea to Rheimes Where continuing for a time did at length as it is said enter himselfe into the Society of Jesus He was esteemed by those of his Profession a good Scholar and well read in various Authors as many of his Writings shew all which being published beyond the Sea I have only seen these following Confutatio virulentae disputationis Theologica in qua Georgius Sohn professor Academiae Heidelbergensis conatus est docere Pontificem Romanum esse Antichristum à Prophetis Apostolis praedictum Aut. Trev. 1589. qu. It must be now known that one Joh. Gibbon a Jesuit and John Fenne having taken a great deal of pains in writing the lives and sufferings of several Popish Martyrs with other matters relating to the Roman Catholick cause their labours were published under this Title Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia adversus Calvino-Papistas Puritanos c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in a prerty thick oct But many things therein being wanting or defective our author Bridgwater took more pains in enlarging and adding to it other matters with an account of 100 or more Popish Martyrs which were partly written by the said Gibbon and Fenne which being so done it was printed with this Title like almost to the former viz. Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia adversus Calvino-Papistas Puritanos sub Elizabetha Regina quorundam hominum doctrina sanctitate illustrium renovata recognita c. Aug. Trev. 1594. in a thick qu. and divided in 3 parts The Preface to it dedicated to John Archbishop of Trier was writ by our author who subscribes himself at the end by the Name of Joh. Aquepontanus who hath also written Apologia Martyrum qua ipsorum innocentia variis rationibus demonstratur c. Printed in the third part of the said Concertatio Ecc. Cath. De persecutione Anglicana So Pet. Ribadeneira but his continuatour Phil. Alegamb doth attribute that work to Rob. Persins Entitling it De presecutione Anglicana Epistola c. It is printed in the first part of Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae A Treatise or Discourse against the six articles which are wont to be proposed to Martyrs This I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing more of the author only that he was living in great esteem at Trier in Germany in fifteen hundred ninety and four From the said Concertatio Eccles Cath. did Thom. Worthington take most of his materials when he composed his Catalogus Martyrum pro religione in Angliae accisorum c. Which though but a six penny book when it first came forth yet eleven shillings and more was given for it in a certain Auction An. 1682. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of the said Worthington GEORGE TURBERVILE de turbida villa a younger Son of Nich. Turbervile of Whitchurch in Dorsetshire Son of Hen. Turb of the said place and he the fifth Son of Joh. Turbervile of Bere Regis a right ancient and gentile Family in Dorsetshire was born at Whitâ—â—urch before-mentioned educated in Wâ—keham's School near to Winchester became perpetâ—â— Fellow of New Coll. 1561. left it before he was graduated the year following and went to one of the Inns of Court where he was much admired for his excellencies in the art of Poetry Afterwards being esteemed a Person fit for business as having a good and ready command of his Pen he was entertained by Tho. Randolph Esq to be his Secretary when he received commission from Queen Elizabeth to go Embassador to the Emperour of Russia After our author's arrival at that place he did at spare hours exercise his muse and wrote Poems describing the places and manners of the country and people of Russia an 1568. Written to Edw. Dancie Edm. Spencer c. at London See in the Voyages of R. Hakeluyt printed 1598. vol. 1. p. 384 385 c. After his return he was esteemed a most accomplished Gentleman and his company was much sought after and desired by all ingenious men especially upon his publication of his Labours entit Epitaphs Epigrams Songs and Sonnets Lond. 1570. oct Some if not most of which were published a little before that time This Book was the same as I conceive which was printed with additions under his name in oct An. 1587. with this Title Tragical Tales Epitaphs and Sonnets c. He also translated in English The Eglogues of John Bapt. Fiera Mantuan Lond. 1594. Which Eglogues Turbervile turned in English Verse and added an argument to every Eglogue Also about the same time he translated into English Verse and set out The Heroical Epistles of the learned Poet Pub. Ovid. Naso with Aul. Sabinus Answers to certain of the same Printed in oct twice as it seems one edition whereof came out at Lond. 1600. The said Eglogues were afterwards translated by
England and changed his Name to Smyth for adhering to the deposed King Rich. 2. Further also I find another John Smyth commonly called Captain Smyth who wrote 1. A Map of Virginia with a Description of the Country the Commodities People Government and Religion Oxon. 1612. qu. 2. New Englands Trials c. Lond. 1620. qu. 3. General History of Virginia c. Lond. 1624. qu. 4. Travels in Europe c. Lond. 1630. with other things but this Captain Smyth was a Cheshire man and whether he had received any Education in this University of Oxon I cannot say to the contrary JOHN PRIME Son of Rob. Prime a Fletcher was born in the Parish of Halywell in the North Suburb of Oxford received his Grammatical Literature in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Col. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted puritanical Preacher in the City of his Nativity and much favoured by Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winchester In 1589. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time Vicar of Adderbury alias Eabburbury in Oxfordshire where he became much followed for his edifying way of preaching He hath written A short treatise of Sacraments generally and in special of Baptism and of the Supper Lond. 1582. oct Treatise of nature and grace Lond. 1583 oct Sermon briefly comparing the State of King Solomon and his Subjects together with the condition of Queen Elizabeth and her People preached at S. Maries in Oxon. 17. Nov. 1585. on 1 Kings 10. 9. Oxon. 1585. oct Exposition on the Galathians Ox. 1587. oct The consolations of David applied to Queen Elizabeth in a Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon. 17. Nov. 1588. on Psal 23. 4. Oxon. 1588. oct These as I think were all the books and Sermons that he hath published tho he intended more had he not been cut off in his middle Age. At length after he had been Vicar of Adderbury about 7 years he concluded his last day there about the 12 of April in fifteen hundred ninety and six year 1596 and was buried in the Church of that place but hath neither Epitaph or Inscription over his Grave FRANCIS KNOLLIS Son of Robert Knollis of Rotherfield-Gray commonly called Grays near to Henley in Oxfordshire did receive for a time his Grammatical and Dialectical Education in this University particularly as it seems in Magd. coll Afterwards he retired to his patrimony and at length to the court and became one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to K. Hen. 8. in the latter end of his reign When a reformation was set on foot by King Ed. 6. he was so zealous for the religion then professed as that when Qu. Mary began to reign and grow severe towards the Reformed party he fled into Germany where he sorted himself for a time among several of the English Divines that went away about the same time for conscience sake After the death of that Queen he returned and became so much in esteem by Q. Elizabeth who stood totally affected to the reformation as that in the first year of her reign he was made choice of for one of her privy Council and shortly after that she made him Vice-chamberlain of her houshold and employed him in matters of concern beyond the Seas In 1566. he was actually created Master of Arts being then chief Steward of the City of Oxon Captain of the Halbertiers and about that time Treasurer of the Queens Chamber in the place of Sir John Mason deceased Afterwards he was trusted with the custody of Mary Qu. of Scots while she was a prisoner in Bolton-castle in Yorkshire and in the 29. Elizab. being then a Knight he was one of those who by commission sate in judgment upon the said Queen at Foderingey At length he was made Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter being always by many accounted a faithful subject an honest and learned man and a person of great prudence and wisdom and by others so a great a friend to Calvin in his heart whose principles he embraced while he lived at Geneva that he was never a cordial friend to Episcopacy but rather a patron of the Non-conformists which appeared by several of his actions while he was a privy Counsellour His writings are these Treatise against the usurpation of Papal Bishops Printed 1608. in oct some attribute it to Jo. Rainolds the famous Divine A General Survey of the Isle of Wight with all the Castles and Fortresses near adjoining This is a MS. in fol. and was sometimes in the Lib. of Arthur E. of Anglesey From whence we may suppose that the author had some office in or relating to the said Isle but what in truth I cannot tell I have seen also several of his speeches spoken in Parliaments letters of state and letters written by him to the said Jo. Rainolds between whom there was great amity and intercourse but few or none of those letters or speeches I think are printed At length paying his last debt to nature in the Summer time before Septemb. year 1595 in fifteen hundred ninety and six was as I presume buried at Grays before mentioned By his Wife Catherine daughter of Will. Cary Esque by Mary his Wife daughter of Thom. Bolein Earl of Wiltshire as also Sister to the Lady Anne Bolein second Wife to K. Hen. 8. he had issue Henry his Eldest Son bred in the Free-School joyning to Maga College under the care as it seems of Tho. Robertson Afterwards he went with his Father and others into Germany and at his return if not happily before became a Commoner of the said College where he obtained so much literature as afterwards to gain the character by a learned Author of homo virtute animi dotibus non infimus and of homo religionis studiosissimus liberalissima literatura egregic ditatus c. But he dying without issue the estate went to the next Son called William afterwards Earl of Baâ—bury He had another Son named Francis 2 Knight whom I shall mention elsewhere as also a fourth who was a member of the said College and all four admired by some and envied by others for their great vertue and towardliness JOHN SMITH was a Berkshire man born as it seems became Fellow of St. Johns coll in the Founders time Master of Arts in in 1560. and afterwards Schoolmaster at and Vicar of the Church of St. Laurence in Reading in the aforesaid County He hath written The Doctrine of Prayer in general for all men that is universally for all Mankind c. Lond. 1595. qu. What else he hath published I know not being a difficult matter to distinguish his Works from others of both his names and time And whether he was author of The use of the Gospel printed 1580. in qu. which is said to be written by Jo. Smith I cannot tell The said Joh. Smith of Reading did give way to Fate there and was buried
returned and was made the first Canon of the seventh Stall in the collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster an 1560. and soon after about the beginning of the year 1561. he was made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in the place of Will. May L. L. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambr. the same who in 1549. had a hand in compiling the first Edition of the Common Prayer and in correcting the the third Edit in 1559. So that Nowell being settled in the Deanry of Pauls resigned Westminster and afterwards became a frequent and painful Preacher and a zealous writer against certain English Catholicks that had fled their Country upon account of Religion For 30 years together he Preached the first and last Sermons in the time of Lent before the Queen wherein he dealt plainly and faithfully with her without dislike In 1594. Apr. 28. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Rich. Reve Bach. of Div. deceased in the year after Sept. 6. he was elected Principal of Brasnose coll and in oct following he was actually created D. of Divinity with allowance of Seniority over all the Doctors then in the University not only in regard had to his age but Dignity in the Church He was in the time he lived a learned Man charitable to the poor especially if they had any thing of a Scholar in them and a great comforter of afflicted Consciences His Works are A reproof of a book intit A proof of certain Articles in Religion denied by Master Jewel set forth by Tho. Dorman Bach. of Div. Lond. 1565. qu. Reproof of Mr. Dormans proof continued with a defence of the chief authority of Princes as well in causes Ecclesiastical as Civil within their Dominions by Mr. Dorman maliciously impugned Lond. 1566. qu. Confutation as well of Mr. Dormons last book intit A defence c. as also of Dr. Saunder's Causes of Transubstantiation Lond. 1567. qu. Catechismus sive prima institutio disciplinaque pietatis Chistianae Latinè explicata Lond. 1570 71 74 76. qu. There again 1590. 1603. c. oct Translated into English by Tho. Norten Lond. 1571. and into Greek by Will. Whittaker an 1575. c. Catechismus parvus pueris primum qui ediscatur proponendus in Scholis Lond. 1574. 78. oct c. Written in Lat. and Greek Translated also into English by another person Lond. 1587. oct c. and into Hebrew by Anon but this last I have not yet seen Conference had with Edm. Campian Jesuit in the Tower of London ult Aug. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. See more in Joh. Redman under the year 1551. This reverend Dr. Nowell died in a good old age on the 13. Feb. in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Cathedral of St. Paul Soon after was a comely Monument set over his Grave with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a copy of which you may see in Jo. Stow's Survey of London and elsewhere And of his benefaction to Brasnose coll and other matters you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 214. b. 225. b. In his Deanty of St. Paul succeeded Joh. Overhall the King's Professor of Div. in Cambridge a general learned Scholar preferred to it by the commendations to the Queen of Sir Fulk Grevill his Patron HARBERT WESTPHALING Son of Harbert Westphaling Son of Harbert a Native of Westphalia in Germany from whom by a popular Errour the Son who lived mostly in London and this his Grandson were called Westphaling At 15 years of age in 1547. which was the year after K. Hen. 8. had put his last hand to the foundation of Ch. Church he was made one of the Students thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1555. applied his studies to the Supreme Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in Dec. 1561. and in the beginning of March following he was installed Canon of the said Church being about that time Rector of Brightwell near Watlington in the County of Oxon. In 1565. he was licensed to proceed in his Faculty in the year following he learnedly disputed before Q. Elizabeth in S. Maries Church and in the beginning of 1577. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Ant. Rush deceased In 1585. Dec. 12. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford in which County he had several Lands and Inheritances where as throughout the Nation he was esteemed a person of great gravity integrity and most worthy of his Function He hath written Treatise of Reformation in Religion divided in seven Sermons Preached in Oxford on Matth. 21. 12 13. Lond. 1582. qu. Two Sermons touching the Supper of the Lord on 1 Cor. 11. 28 29. and on Matth. 26. v. 26 27 28. Lond. 1582. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to Nature on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the North transcept of the Cath. at Hereford In his Will he bequeathed the Mannour of Batche in Herefordshire to Jesus coll for the maintenance of two Fellows and two Scholars conditionally that his kindred be preferred to the said places before all others His picture is painted on the Wall in the School-Gallery at Oxon. next to that of Dr. Eâ—des as having in his time been a famous Theologist CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN was born in Cheshire particularly as I conceive within the City of Chester became a Student in Brasnose coll 1536. aged seventeen or thereabouts took one degree in Arts but was never as I can yet find Fellow of that House In 1544. he proceeded in that faculty and three years after was constituted one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church being then newly founded by K. Hen. 8. In the year 1551. or thereabouts he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time he was as 't is said Reader of the Divinity Lesson in the Vniversity but whether of that founded by the Lady Margaret or by K. H. 8. seems as yet doubtful In the beginning of Q. Mary he left the University and went with several Academians beyond the Sea for Religion sake but dissenting from the chief body of them assembled at Frankfort he did with Whittyngham Knox Gilby c. retire to Geneva as may be farther seen in a book intit A brief discourse of the troubles began at Frankfort c. printed 1575. qu. wherein as in other places the turbulent spirit of this person may be discern'd A noted author tells us that he was a most pernicious fellow for that he not only practiced against the life of Q. Mary but wrote also that most seditious known Libel against the regiment of Women c. This Goodman I say being a furious hot spirit and guilty in conscience of wicked attempts but especially as was thought of the conspiracy with Will. Thomas that would have killed Q. Mary ran out
wall of the said Chancel by his Widdow I think wherein being nothing of him but what I have mentioned already I shall pass it by for brevity sake JOHN DAVID RHESE or Jo. David or Davis was born at Lanvaethley in the Isle of Anglesey elected Student of Ch. Ch. after he had been conversant among the Oxonians for 3 or more years in the month of Dec. 1555. aged 21. travelled beyond the Seas before he took a degree in this University became Doctor of Physick of Senes or Sienna in Tuscany and publick Moderator of the School at Pistoia in that Country whose Language there which is Italian he understood as well as any native Afterwards he returned to his Country where he practiced his Faculty with admirable success and was held in high esteem by learned men for his exquisite knowledge in all kind of literature especially for Physick Poetry the Grammatical part of the Welsh Tongue and curiosity in various Criticisms yet by the generality he being not understood his rare parts and curious learning was in a manner buried where he lived He hath written in the Florentine Language Rules for the obtaining of the Latin Tongue Printed at Venice And in Latin these two books following De Italicae linguae pronuntiatione Printed at Padua Both which were in their time held in great repute by the Italians and the last by Strangers that occasionally travelled into Italy Cambro-Britannicae Cymraecaeve linguae institutiones rudimenta c ad intelligend Biblia sacra nuper in Cambro-Brittannicum sermonum eleganter versa Lond. 1592. fol. Written to Sir Edw. Stradling of S. Donats Castle in Glamorganshire a great favourer and furtherer of learning as I have elsewhere told you Before which book is a large Preface written by Humph. Prichard of Bangor in North Wales sometimes an Oxford Scholar Our author Rhese hath also written in the British Language Compendium of Aristotles Metaphysicks MS. formerly in Jesus coll Library In which book the author saith that the British Language is as copious in expressing congruous terms as the Greek or any Language whatsoever He hath written other excellent things but are lost as I have been assured by Olor Iscamus and therefore I cannot say any thing else of him only that he died a Rom. Cath. as he had lived at or near Brecknock where he mostly dwelt and practiced Physick in the Reign of K. James 1. Scil. about sixteen hundred and nine and that he is much celebrated by Stradling the Epigiammatist for his learning while he lived who stiles him Novum antiquae linguae lumen and by Camden who calls him Clariss eruditissimus linguae vir D. Johannes David See more of him in Tho. Leyson under the year 1607. ROBERT PERSONS or Parsons a most noted and learned writer of his time and the ornament of the English Nation in the opinion of those of his Society must according to time have the next place to be mentioned Concerning whom several R. Priests and others who have written bitterly against and scurrilously of him have peremptorily said as Tho. Bell and Tho. James from them hath done the like that he was basely born of mean parentage at Stokersey in Sommersetshire that his supposed Father was a Blacksmith his right the Parish Priest of Stokersey by means whereof he was binominous sometimes called Rob. Parsons sometimes Rob. Cowbuck c. that he was one of the dregs of the Commonalty a Fellow of a most seditious disposition a Sycophant an Equivocator and one that would set Kingdoms to sale c. But these things with many other not now to be named having been written out of malice against him I shall by no means follow or embrace them for truths but receed to that collection of his life which I have made partly from his own writings partly from record and partly from impartial Writers Born therefore he was at Stowey commonly called Nether-Stowey near to Bridgewater in Somersetshire an 1546. His Father was a Plebeian of honest repute and an enemy to the Church of Rome but by Alex. Bryant reconciled thereunto His mother was a known grave Matron living divers years in flight and banishment for Religion dyed therein at London very aged about 1599. The Son Robert being a child of very great towardliness and exceeding apt to learn was by his Fathers edeavours trained up in the English tongue and having a good memory could repeat what he had read once or twice very readily About that time it hapned that one John Hayward a vertuous good Priest who before had been a Canon Regular in Devonshire became Vicar of Nether-Stowey who perceiving that Robert had pregnant parts did teach him the Latin tongue and after had a special affection for him for he living to the beginning of the year 1575. endeavoured to get him into Balliol coll did exhibit unto him as 't is said and was not against the resignation which he made of his fellowship In the latter end of 1563. our author R. Parsons being fitted for Academical learning was sent to the said coll but whether he was at his first coming a Servitour or Scholar I know not Sure it is that by the help of good natural parts accompanied with unwearied industry he became in short time a smart Disputant not only in the coll but publick Schools as occasion served In the latter end of May 1568. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and the same year Probationer-Fellow of the said college which being terminated he was made Chaplain-Fellow and so consequently I presume went into Orders being then a noted Tutor in the coll In Michaelmas-Term 1572. he was admitted Master of Arts stood in the Act celebrated 12. Oct. 1573. and on the 13. of Feb. following he resigned his Fellowship of his own accord as the Register of Bal. coll saith tho certain authors tell us that he resigned to prevent Expulsion being then if not before about to change his Religion In June 1574. he left England went to Calis and thence to Antwerp at which place after he had continued for some weeks he diverted himself for a time with a journey to Lovaine where being no sooner arrived but he fell into the company of Father Will. Good his Country man by whom he was kindly received and with him spent some days in spiritual exercise So that whereas then and before he had addicted his mind to the study of Physick and did intend to prosecute it at Padua to which place he had then intentions to go he by Goods advice made some doubt of that matter At length he went there and was for some time not only conversant in that faculty but also in the Civil Law Upon second thoughts he relinquished those studies went to the English coll at Rome was there admitted into the Society of Jesus 4. July 1575. went thro the several Classes of Dinivity and in 1580. journied into England with Edm. Campian and
exemplar Complutense cum Latina versione ex Ebraeo cum comment Amstel 1632. qu. Animadversionum libri duo pro emendatione 〈◊〉 Ebr. veterum Interpr in plurimis locis S. Scripturae Amstel 1634. qu. Grammatica linguae sâ—â—ctae Franek 1612. qu. Catechesis religionis christianae Heb. Gr. Lat. pr. 1591. oct Other things as 't is probable he hath published but such I have not yet seen He surrendred up his pious soul to God on this 12. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and fifteen and was buried as I suppose at Franeker after he had lived there a most severe student and in continual labour for the good and benefit of Literature about 31. years He left behind him a Son of both his names bred partly in this University but not to be numbred among most learned men especially such as was his Father as also a Daughter named Agnes the wife of Abel Curiander author of the Latin life of his Father-in-Law Joh. Drusius printed at Franaker 1616. qu. In which the Reader may see more of his life and works than are here set down by me THOMAS ROGERS a most admirable Theologist an excellent Preacher and well deserving every way of the sacred Function was born as I conceive in Cheshire and came full ripe to the University before 1568. About which time being made one the Students of Ch. Ch. took holy Orders very early and afterwards the degree of Master of Arts Scil. an 1576. before which time he was a sedulous and constant Preacher of Gods word What his preferments were successively afterwards I know not only that he was Chaplain to Doctor Bancroft Bishop of London and at length Rector of Horninger near to S. Edmonds Bury in Suffolke where and in the neighbourhood he was always held in great esteem for his learning and holiness of life and conversation His works are these A Philosophical discourse entit The Anatomy of the mind Lond. 1576. oct Before which is a copy of Verses in praise of it written by his Contemporary Will. Camden of Ch. Ch. Of the end of the world and second comming of Christ c. Lond. 1577. qu. The English Creed wherein is contained in tables an exposition on the articles which every man is to subscribe unto Where the articles are expounded by Scripture and the confessions of all the reformed Churches and Heresies are displayed Lond. 1579. and 85. fol. General Session containing an apology of the comfortable doctrine concerning the end of the world and seccond coming of Christ Lond. 1581. qu. The English Creed consisting with the true ancient Catholique and Apostolick Church in all the points and articles of Religion which every christian is to know and believe that would be saved c. In two parts The first printed at London in 1585. the second there 1587. and both in fol. An Exposition on the 39 Articles of the Church of England Lond. 1586. c. qu. Which book at the first appearance met not with that welcom entertainment which seemed due to the authors endeavours For besides the two extreams Papists and Schismaticks who were highly inraged many Protestants of a middle temper were much offended thereat Some conceived it presumption for a private Minister to make himself the mouth of the Church to render her sense in matters of so high-concernment Others were offended that his interpretation confin'd the charitable latitude formerly allowed in those Articles Howsoever it was sure it is the work in some years wrought it self in good esteem as dedicated to and countenanced by Dr. Bancroft before-mentioned A golden Chaine taken out of the rich treasure house of the Psalms of David Lond. 1587. in tw The Peerles of K. Soleman gathered into common places Taken from the Proverbs of the said King printed with the former book Historical dialogue touching Antichrist and Popery drawn and published for the comfort of our Church c. Lond. 1589. oct Serm. on 12. Rom. ver 6. 7. 8. Lond. 1590. qu. Miles Christianus Or a defence of all necessary writings and writers written against an Epistle prefixed to a Catechism made by Miles Moses Lond. 1590. qu. This Miles Moses was Bach. of Div. and published besides the former things The arraignment of Vsury in six Sermons Lond. 1595. qu. Table of the lawful use of an oath and the cursed state of vain Swearers Lond. Two dealogues Lond. 1608. He also translated into English 1 A discourse of the end of the world and second comming of Christ Lond. 1577. 78. oct written by Schelto à Geveren of Emden in Friesland 2 General discourse of the damnable sect of Vsurers c. Lond. 1578. qu. written by Philip Caesar To which is added A treatise of the lawful use of riches written by Nich. Heming 3 The profession of the true Church and Popery compared Lond. 1578. oct 4 Exposition on the 84. Psalm Lond. 1581. oct written by Nic. Heming for the instruction of the ignorant in the grounds of Religion and confutation of the Jewes Turks c. 5 S. Augustins heavenly meditations call'd A private talke with God Lond. 1581. in tw Purified by our Translator T. Rogers and adorned with annotations of Scripture 6 Of the foolishness of men and women in putting off the amendment of their lives from day to day Lond. 1583. and 86. oct written Joh. Rivius 7 Of the imitation of Christ Lond. 1584. 89. in tw written in three books by Tho. de Kempis and for the worthiness thereof oft since translated into sundry Languages Now newly translated by Tho. Rogers corrected and with most ample Texts and Sentences of holy Scripture illustrated 8 A method to Mortification called heretofore The contempt of the World c. Lond. 1586. in tw written by Didac Stella 9 S. Augustins Prayers Lond. 1591. in tw c. Purged by our Translator T. Rogers from divers superstitious points and adorned with manifold places of Scripture 10 A manual containing special and picked meditations and godly prayers Lond. 1591. in tw with corrections by the Translator 11 Enemy of security or a daily exercise of godly meditations Lond. 1580. and 91. in tw written by Joh. Avenar publick Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Witeberge 12 Enemy to Atheism or christian godly prayers for all degrees Lond. 1591. in tw written in the German Language by Jo. Avenar translated out of Lat. by our author T. Rogers 13 Soliloquium animae The fourth book of the imitation of Christ Lond. 1592. in tw written by Th. de Kempis before mentioned What other thing our author hath written and translated I know not Nor any thing else of him only that he was a zealous opposer of the doctrine of the Sabbath and the first that publickly stood up against Dr. Nich. Bownds opinion of it in his Preface to the Exposition on the 39. Articles c. which made the other party the Puritan angry and so far to be enraged as maliciously to asperse and blemish him
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâ—ctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâ—s delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
he married was a Parliament man in the latter end of Qu. Eliz. and in 1603. received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds being then a person of repute in his own country At length being full weary of the vanities and fooleries of this world did retire to Doway in Flanders and there was by letters of confraternity dated in the beginning of Feb. 1617 received among the Brethren in the coll of English Benedictines who appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house spent the remainder of his days therein in strict devotion and religious exercise After his settlement there he wrote Letters perswasive to his wife and children in England to take upon them the catholick religion Arguments to shew that the Rom. Church is a true Church written against Dr. R. Field his Four books of the Church Reply to the answer of his Daughter M. C. Mary Croft which she made to a Paper of his sent to her concerning the Rom. Church At the end of it is a little thing entit The four ministers of Charinton gag'd by four propositions made to the Lord Baron of Espicelliere of the religion prtended And presented on S. Martins day to du Moulin in his house and since to Durand and Mestrezat All these were published by Sir Herb. Croft at Doway about 1619. in tw containing 255. pages There were but eight copies printed viz. one for himself now in the libr. of the English Benedictines at that place formerly sent to me by a Brother of that order purposely to be perused for a time and then to be returned who for religion sake and in contempt of the world hath denied the inheritance of an Estate of at least three thousand pounds per. an Another copy was printed for Sir Herberts wife and the rest for his children but all without a title only dedicated to his wife and children with a short Epistle before them beginning thus I would have you know that although this ensuing discourse cometh to you in print c. The beginning of the book it self is this When it had pleased almighty God in his great mercy even after above 53. years of my mispent life c. At length after he had macerated his body with fasting hardship and devotion surrendred up his pious Soul to the Almighty on the 10 Apr. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the said English Benedictines at Doway Soon after was a monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon a copy of it you may elsewhere see in which he is stiled vir prudens fortis nobilis patriae libertatis amantissimus c. He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a R. Catholick but afterwards a zealous Protestant and a Bishop of whom I shall hereafter make mention in his due place JOHN RANDALL sometimes a frequent and painful preacher in the City of London was born at Missenden in Bucks sent by his relations to S. Maries hall in 1581. being then very young where spending some time in Trivial learning was afterwards translated to Trinity coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts which he compleated by determination In 1587. July 6. he was elected Fellow of Lincoln coll and two years after proceeded in his faculty About that time entring into the sacred function he became one of the most noted preachers in the University In 1598 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity and the year after resigning his fellowship was made about that time Rector of the Church of S. Andrews Hubart in Little Eastcheap in London where after some time he became so great a labourer in Gods vineyard by his frequent and constant work in the ministry as well in resolving of doubts and cases of conscience as in preaching and lecturing that he went beyond his brethren in that City to the wonder of all But greater was the wonder especially to those of his parish and neighbourhood that this poor man who was for the most part strangely afflicted with sickness should undergo his duty so strictly and preach so many Sermons as he did for comfort and support in troubles This indeed did sound highly to his merit and plainly shewed that his great learning and parts could not be subdued with the pitiful afflictions here below He was accounted a judicious orthodox and holy man and by some a zealous and innocent puritan of a harmless life and conversation and one that was solely fram'd to do good acts His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The necessity of righteousness on Mat. 5. 20. Lond. 1622. and 1640. qu. 2 Description of fleshly lusts on 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. Lond. 1622. and 40. qu. 3 S. Pauls triumph c. eleven Sermons on Rom. 8. 38. 39. Lond. 1633. c. qu. published by Will. Holbrook preacher The great mystery of godliness or a treatise opening unto us what God is and Christ is Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1640. third edit Treatise concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1630. qu. c. Catechistical Lectures in number 23. upon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1630. qu. c. Nine and twenty lectures of the Church for support of the same in these times c. Ibid. 1631. c. qu. besides other things fit for the press as one shewing what a true visible Church is and another what Predestination is He concluded his last day in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred twenty and two being then about 54. years of age year 1612 and was buried in the Church of S. Andrew before mentioned By his last will and testament he bequeathed a tenement to Linc. coll called Ship hall situated on the west side of that Street antiently called Schediardstreet now commonly called S. Mary hall lane in Oxon. The picture of this Mr. Randall drawn to the life when he was fellow of Linc. coll is or at least was lately hanging in the Common room of that house JOHN OWEN or Audoenus as some call him the most noted Epigrammatist in the age he lived was born at Armon in Caernarvonshire educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation there in 1584. took the degree of Bach. of Civil Law in 1590. and leaving his fellowship the year after taught School as some of his antient country men that remember him have told me at Trylegh near to Monmouth and at Warwick as the tradition goes there among the Schoolmasters in the School founded by K. Hen. 8. in the place of one Tho. Hall about the year 1594. He was a person endowed with several gifts especially with with the faculty of Poetry which hath made him famous for those books of Epigrams that he hath published wherein an ingenious liberty of joking being by him used was and is now with some especially forreigners
Involved in a book intit Monumenta Westmon â—r an historical account of the original increase and present State of S. Peter's or the Abby Ch. of Westminster c. Lond. 1682. in oct Published by Hen. Keep of the Inner Temple Gent. sometimes a Gent. Com. of New Inn in Oxon. Remains concerning Britain their Languages Names Surnames Allusions c. Lond. 1604. 14. c. qu. Published at first under the two letters of M. N. which are the two last letters of the authors name To this book were several additions made by Jo. Philipot Herald of Arms under the title of Somerset Lond. 1637. c. qu. afterwards in oct with Camden's picture before all the editions Rerum 〈…〉 regnante Eli 〈◊〉 in 4 parts The first half with an Apparatus beâ—ore it reaching from the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. to the end of the year 1588. was printed at Lond. in fol. 1615. having had several things therein before that time expunged especially such that related to the story of Mary Q. of Scots The other half reaching from the beginning of 1589. to the death of Q. Elizab. and an Appendix were printed at the same place in fol. 1627. Both printed in two tomes at Leyden in oct and in a thick oct at Amsterdam 1639. and all translated into English by B. N. Gent. and several times printed in fol. The last half was translated into English by Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. afterwards Canon of Windsore and by him intit Tomus alter idem or The History c. Lond. 1629. in qu. His opinion concerning the High Court of Parliament Lond. 1658. oct Printed with the opinions on the same subject of Joh. Doderidge Arth. Agard and Franc. Tate I have seen also a discourse of his concerning the High Stewardship of England but 't is not as I conceive printed Epistolae variae ad viros doctos Written mostly in Latin Annales Regis Jacobi These reach from the death of Q. Elizab. 24. of March 1602-03 to the 18. of Aug. 1623. and no farther because the author being then very ill in body remaining in that condition till his death he could not well continue them any farther So that there wants memories more than for a year to the end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. These Annals are written with the authors own hand in fol. being only a Skeleton of a History or bare touches to put the author in mind of greater matters that he had in his head had he lived to have digested them in a full History as that of Q. Elizabeth The original came after his death into the hands of Mr. Joh. Hacket afterwards D. D. and at length Bishop of Lichfield who as I have been divers times informed did privately convey it out of the Library of the author Hacket being then a Master of Arts of some years standing This original being communicated by the said Dr. Hacket while he was living at Lichfield to Mr. afterwards Sir Will. Dugdale then Norroy King of Arms he contrary to the Doctors knowledge took a copy of it which I have seen and perused at Sir Williams house called Blith hall in Warwickshire but therein I found many mistakes as it afterwards more evidently appeared to me when that Transcript was put into the Ashmolean Musaeum Another copy I have seen in the hands of Sir Hen. St. George Clarenceaux King of Arms which having been transcribed by one that understood not Latin are innumerable faults therein and therefore not at all to be relyed upon After Dr. Hacket's death the original was put into the Library of Trin. coll in Cambridge where it now remains Our author Camden did also put into Latin Actio in Henricum Garnet Societatis Jesu in Anglia Superiorem c. adjectum est supplicium de Hen. Garnet Londini sumptum c. Lond. 1607. qu. And also viewed corrected and published certain old writers to whom he gave this title Anglica Normanica Hibernica Cambrica per varios authores c. Francof 1603. 04. fol. The first of which writers is Asser Menevensis his book De vita rebus gestis Regis Aelfredi At length our author Camden paying his last debt to nature in his house at Chiseihurst in Kent on Sunday the ninth of Nov. about 4 or 5 of the clock in the morn in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 his body afterwards was conveyed to Westminster to the house there where he used to dwell where laying in State for some time 't was on the 19. day of the same month carried to St. Peters commonly called the Abby-Church within that City accompanied by several of the Heralds in their formalities many of the Nobility Clergy Gentry and others All which being placed Dr. Christop Sutton a Prebendary of that Church stept up into the Pulpit and made a true grave and modest commemoration of his life Adding that as he was not sactious in Religion so neither was he wavering or inconstant of which he gave good testimonies at his end prosessing in the Exordium of his last Will that he died as had lived in the Faith Communion and Fellowship of the Church of England Sermon being ended the body was carried into the S. Cross Isle where it was buried in the west side or part of it As soon as the news of his death was certified to the Sages or Governours of the University they in gratitude of so worthy a Benefactor as he had been caused his memory to be celebrated in an Oration publickly delivered by the mouth of 〈…〉 M. of A. and Student of Ch. Ch. who was then the Deputy Oâ—â—tor To which Speech many of the Academians adding verses on the Benefactors death they were with the Speech printed under the title of Camdeni Insignia Oxon. 1624. qu. After these things were done was a Monument erected on the west Wall of the said S. cross isle with the bust of the Defunct resting his hand on a book with Britannia insculp'd on the Leaves thereof This Monument which was composed of black and white Marble was somewhat defaced in 1646. when the Hearse and Effâ—gies of Robert Earl of Essex the Parliamentarian General were cut in pieces and defaced The Inscription however being left intire I caused it to be printed elsewhere In the last Will and Testam of this great Scholar which I have more than once perused I find besides his publick benefactions his Legacies of 16 l. 10 l. and 5 l. to all his learned acquaintance then in being as to Ja. Gruter Library Keeper to the Prince Pal. Elector of Heidelberg 5 l. To Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. hall in Oxon. 16 l. To Jo. 〈◊〉 of the Inner Temple 5 l. c. besides a piece of plate to Sir 〈◊〉 Grevill Lord Brook Chancellour of the Exchequer who preferr'd him gratis to his Office and another of 16 l. price to the Company of Painter-Stainers of London and this to be engraven thereon Gul. Camden Clarenceaux
will tell you He dyed in that parish in 1649. as I think but was not of the University of Oxon. PETER ALLIBOND an ingenious man in the opinion of all that knew him was born at Wardenton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where his name and family had for some generations lived became a Student of Magd. hall in the beginning of 1578. aged 18. years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts travelled for some time beyond the Seas and at his return became Rector of Cheyneys in Bucks Where continuing many years did much improve the ignorant with his found doctrine What he hath written I know not nor translations which he hath made only these two from French into English viz. 1 Comfort for an afflicted conscience wherein is contained both consolation and instruction for the sick c. Lond. 1591. oct written by John de L'espine 2 Confutation of the popish transubstantiation together with a narration how that the Mass was at sundry times patched and pieced by sundry Popes c. Lond. 1592. oct And a translation from Lat. into English entit The golden chain of Salvation Lond. 1604. qu. written by Harman Renecher This Pet. Allibond died on the sixth day of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Cheyneys before mention'd leaving then behind him three Sons one of which was called John a witty man of Magd. coll whom I shall mention elsewhere another named Peter of Linc. coll Proctor of this University in 1640. and a third Job who changing his Religion to which he had been carefully brought up for that of Rome which was the reason I presume why his name was omitted in his Fathers Will did at length get a place in the Post Office which kept him and his in a comfortable condition This Job was Father of Rich. Allibond a Barrester of Grays Inn who being also a Roman Catholick was not only Knighted by K. James 2. but also made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench to which Office he was sworn by the name of Rich. Allebone 28. Apr 1687. He dyed at his house near to the back part of Grays Inn 22. of Aug. 1688. aged 47 years of thereabouts and was buried on the fourth of Sept. following at Dagenham in Essex near to the grave of his Mother JAMES LEY a younger Son of Henry Ley of Teffont-Evias in Wilts Son of Henry Ley of Ley in the parish of Bere-Ferres in Devonsh Esq was born at Teffonts-Evias became a Commoner of Brasenose coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 17. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and on the first of May 1577. he was admitted a Student of Lincolns Inn where making great proficiency in the Municipal Law which was much advanced by his Academical learning he became a Councellour of great repute was call'd to the Bench. 22. Eliz. and in the 44. of that Qu. was Lent reader of that Inn. After which his profound learning and other great abilities deservedly rais'd him to sundry degrees of honour and eminent employment For in the 1. of Jac. 1. he was called to the state and degree of Serjeant at Law and in the year following he was constituted Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in Ireland in which place he continued till Mich. term 6. Jac. 1. and then being a Knight he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries in England Shortly after he obtained a Privy Seal from the Kings Maj. dat 15. May 7. Jac. 1. to take place in the said Court of the Kings Attorney General which till then was never used but since hath constantly been observed By virtue of that Seal and by appointment of Rob. Earl of Salisbury then Master of the said Court he took the place the same day of Sir Hen. Hobart Knight then Attorney General to his Majesty During his continuance in that place he was made a Baronet and in the 18. Jac. he was removed from that Court having been Attorney 12 years and upwards and was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in England In 22. Jac. he was made Lord High Treasurer of Engl. and a Counsellour of State and on the last day of the same month he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron by the title of Lord Ley of Ley before mentioned In the 1. of Car. 1. he was created Earl of Marlborough in wilts and in the fourth of that King he resign'd his place of Treasurer and was made Lord President of the Council He was a person of great gravity ability and integrity and of the same mind in all conditions He hath written Treatise concerning Wards and Liveries Lond. 1642. oct composed by the author while he was Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Reports of divers resolutions in Law arising upon cases in the Court of Wards and other Courts at Westminster in the Reigns of King James and King Charles Lond. 1659. fol. He also collected with intentions to publish some of the historical writers of Ireland for which end he caused to be transcribed and made fit for the Press the Annals of John Clynne a Friâ—r Minor of Kilkenny who lived in the time of K. Ed. 3. the Annals of the Priory of St. John the Evangelist of Kilkenny and the Annals of Multifernan Resse and Clonmell c. But his weighty occasions did afterwards divert his purpose After his death the copies came into the hands of Henry Earl of Bathe who also did intend to make them publick but what diverted him I cannot tell Our author Sir Jam. Ley E. of Marlborough ended his days in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 14. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church of Westbury in Wilts in which Parish he had purchased an Estate Over his grave was soon after a stately monument erected by Hen. Ley his Son who succeeded him in his honour begotten on the body of his Father's first Wife named Mary Daughter of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach and Tetsworth in Com. Oxon Esq THOMAS VICARS who writes himself Vicarsus and de Vicariis was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland made his first entry into Queens coll in the beginning of 1607. aged 16. where after he had been a poor serving Child Tabarder and Chaplain he was elected Fellow 1616. being then M. of A. Six years after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he being esteemed an able Theologist Preacher and well qualified with other learning was taken into the Family of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester and by him preferr'd after he had married his Daughter Anne to the Vicarage of Cockfield near Horsham in Sussex and as it seems to a Dignity in the Church of Chichester His works are Manuductio ad artem Rhetoricam ante paucos annos iâ— privatum quorundum Scholarium usum concinnata c. Lond. 1621. oct there again 1628.
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
President of Trinity coll and his Successors to be there remaining in the Dining-room of the said President for ever Another copy he gave to the Cottonian Library and a third to his old Friend Dr. Tho. Clayton Master of Pembroke college whose Son Sir Thomas hath it at this day I shall make mention of another Tho Allen under the year 1636. ROBERT HAYMAN a Devonian born was entred a Sojourner of Exeter coll while he was very young an 1590 where being noted for his ingenuity and pregnant parts became valued by several persons who were afterwards eminent among whom were Will. Noy Arth. Duck his kinsman Will. and George Hakewill Tho. Winniff Rob. Vilvaine Sim. Baskervile c. all of that House Will. Vaughan of Jesus coll Charles Fitzgeffry of Broadgates c. Afterwards he retired to Lincolns Inn without the honour of a degree studied for a time the municipal Law but his Genie being well known to be poetical fell into acquaintance with and received encouragement to proceed in his studies from Mich. Drayton Ben. Johnson John Owen the Epigrammatist George Wither the puritanical Satyrist John Vicars of Ch. Ch. Hospital c. and at length writing several specimens of his wit which I think are quite lost had tho phantastical the general vogue of a poet After he had left Linc. Inn and had arrived toward the fortieth year of his age he was made Governour of the plantation of Harbor-Grace in Bristol-hope in Britaniola anciently called New found-land where after some time of residence he did at spare hours write and translate these matters following Quodlibets lately come over from New Britaniola antiently called New-found-land Epigrams and other small parcels both moral and divine These two divided into four books were printed at London 1628. in qu. the author of them being then there He also translated from Lat. into English verse Several sententious epigrams and witty sayings out of sundry authors both ancient and modern especially many of the epigrams of Joh. Owen Lond. 1628. qu. As also from French into English The two railing Epistles of the witty Doctor Francis Rablais On the 17. of Nov. in 1628. he being then bound to Guiane in America to settle a Plantation there made his Will a copy of which I have seen wherein he desires to be buried where he dies year 1632 On the 24. of January in sixteen hundred thirty and two issued out a Commission from the Prerog Court of Canterbury to a certain person who had moneys owing to him by Hayman to administer the goods debts chattels c. of him the said Rob. Hayman lately deceased So that I suppose he died beyond the Seas that year aged 49. or thereabouts WILLIAM SUTTON a Citizens Son was born in London sent by his Relations from Merchant-Taylors School to Ch. Ch. in 1578. aged 15. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and in the year 1592. was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he was Parson of Blandford St. Mary in Dorsetshire and Vicar of Sturminster-Marshal in the same County He was a very learned man an excellent Orator Latinist Grecian and Preacher He had a well furnish'd Library wrote much but ordered his Son to print nothing after his death All that was made publick in his life-time was only this The falshood of the chief grounds of the Romish Religion descried and convinced in a brief answer to certain motives sent by a Priest to a Gentleman to induce him to turn Papist Which book stealing into the Press and coming out full of faults his Son Will. Sutton Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. corrected and reprinted it after his Fathers death Lond. 1635. in oct or tw He finished his course about the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and two and was buried in the Church of Blandford St. Mary before-mentioned I have been informed that other things of our author Will. Sutton were published after his death but such I have not yet seen JOHN RIDER received his first being in this World at Carrington in Cheshire applied his Genie to Academical studies in Jesus coll an 1576. took the degrees in Arts as a Member thereof and after he had remained some years in the University in the instruction of Youths in Grammar became Minister of S. Mary Magd. at Bermondsey near to London afterwards Rector of the rich Church of Winwick in Lancashire Archdeacon of Meath in Ireland Dean of St. Patricks Church near to Dublin and at length Bishop of Killaloe an 1612. where he was much respected and reverenced for his Religion and learning While he remained in Oxon he composed A Dictionary English and Latin and Lat. and Engl. Oxon. 1589. in a large thick qu. It was the first Dictionary that had the English before the Latin epitomizing the learnedst and choicest Dictionaries that were then extant and was beheld as the best that was then in use But that part of it which had the Latin before the English was swallowed up by the greater attempts of Franc. Holyoake who saith that he designed and contrived it so before the Vocabularies or Dictionaries of Becman Funger and Martin came out notwithstanding it appears that he was beholding to them and made use of their materials in his Dictionary that he published an 1606. Besides the said Dictionary our author Rider hath also written A Letter concerning the news out of Ireland and of the Spaniards landing and present state there Lond. 1601. qu. And having had controversies with one Hen. Fitz-Simons a learned Jesuit of Ireland published a book intituled Claim of Antiquity in behalf of the Protestant Religion When this was printed I know not The confutation of it I am sure with a reply to Rider's Rescript or Postscript written by the said Fitz-Simons were printed at Roan in Normandy an 1608. qu. as I shall tell you under the year 1643. He also Rider published other matters which having been printed in Ireland and therefore few or none of them come into these parts I cannot give you the titles of them He departed this mortal life on the twelfth day of Novemb. year 1632 in sixteen hundred thirty and two and was buried at Killaloe in the Cathedral Church there dedicated to the memory of S. Flannan leaving behind him the character of a learned and religious Prelate EDWARD JORDEN a learned candid and sober Physician of his time was born at High-Halden in Kent and educated for a time as it seems among several of his Countrymen in Hart hall where some of his Sirname did about that time study but whether he took a degree here it appears not Afterwards designing Physick his profession he travelled beyond the Seas spent some time at Padua where he took the degree of Doctor of that Faculty and upon his return practiced in London and became one of the Coll. of Physicians there Afterwards he setled in the City of Bathe where practicing with good success
beginning of the year 1640. he was chosen a Member of the House of Commons for Newport in the Isle of Wight to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster on the 13. of Apr. the same year and again for the same place for that Parliament that began there also 3. Nov. following In which last he shewed himself a great reformer of divers abuses and a stickler for the Commons against the Kings Prerogative and Bishops But being taken off from those proceedings by being made one of the Secretaries of State he ever after adher'd to his Majesty was with him at York in 1642. and had a hand in most of those Declarations published by his Majesty's special command in all places in England to shew the reason of his intentions and proceedings Afterwards he was a constant follower of his Majesty was with him at Edghill fight and afterwards at Oxon where he discharged his office with a great deal of prudence While he lived and especially after his death he was esteemed by many a Socinian having been as 't is said strengthned in that opinion by Chillingworth and I know not what but one that knew him very well doth tho a zealous Papist clear him from being guilty of any such matter and tells us withal that he was the greatest ornament to our Nation that the last age produced Another also who had been intimate with him saith that he was the envy of this age and will be the wonder of the next that he honoured and served his Creator in the days of his youth that he was not a Candidate of Atheism c. The truth is all that knew the said Lucius L. Falkland were fully possessed with opinions to the contrary and have usually said that he was a sincere Christian that he always led a virtuous life and despised all worldly things in comparison of necessary divine truth that he was a lover of veracity and sincerity and what not for the accomplishment of a religious man As for his parts which speak him better than any Elogy they were incomparable and needed no supplies of industry His answers were quick and sudden and tho he had a great deal of true worth treasured up in him yet he had much of modesty withal So that all these things put together to which more might be added his memory ought to be precious especially with such who have any esteem for virtue heroical fidelity to their Prince or to incomparable learning Among several things of his that are printed are 1 A speech in Parliament concerning Vniformity 2 Sp. concerning ill Counsellours both spoken in 1640. 3 Sp. about Ship-money 5. Dec. 1640. 4 Sp. concerning John Lord Finch lately L. Keeper and the Judges 5 Sp. to the Lords of the upper House after the reading of the Articles against John L. Finch 14. Jan. 1640. 6 Sp. concerning Episcopacy 9. Feb. 1640 the beginning of which is Mr. Speaker he is a great stranger in Israel c. Which Sp. is said by Dr. P. Heylyn to be a bitter Speech against the Bishops upon which account it is much used and quoted by the Presbyterians I have seen another Speech also intit A draught of a Speech concerning Episcopacy found among the L. Falklands papers since his death written with his own hand Oxon. 1644. in 1 sh in qu. The beginning of which is Mr. Speaker whosoever desires this total change c. Also another thing of his intit A discourse concerning Episcopacy Lond. 1660. qu. Published then I presume by one who was not a Friend to Bishops being the same I think that was by Dr. Heylyn taken to be a bitter Speech against them He hath also written A dscourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome several times printed in qu. Whereupon an answer to it being made the Lord came out with a reply All published together by Tho. Triplet sometimes Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards D. of D. and Prebendary of Westminster printed at London 1651. qu. with a dedicatory epistle before them See more in Dr. Hen. Hammond under the year 1660. But before Triplets edition another was put out by Anon. to which J. P. put a Preface to it which is omitted in that of Triplet See more in Hugh Cressy under the year 1674. By this Discourse of infallibility it is apparent that the L. Falkland had framed a judgment touching the R. Cath. Church out of certain Cath. writers who represented it too disadvantagiously and not with such qualifications as the Ch. her self has done He also wrote An answer to a letter of Mr. Walt. Mountague who justifies his change of Religion an 1635. printed at the end of his Discourse of Infalibility an 1651. and A Letter to Mr. Fr. M. an 1636. printed at the end of Five captious questions propounded by a Factor for the Papacy Lond. 1673. qu. As also a Comedy called The marriage night Lond. 1664. qu. At length this learned author being with his Majesty King Ch. 1. at Newbury in Berks. when he was about to fight the Rebels he called for a clean shirt in the morning before the encounter began and being asked the reason for it he answered that if he was slain in the Battle they should not find his body in foul linnen Whereupon his friends endeavouring to disswade him from going into the fight as having no call to it or that he was a military Officer he said he was weary of the times and foresaw much misery to his own Country and did believe he should be out of it before night Into the Battle therefore he did go notwithstanding all perswasions to the contrary and was there slain 20 Sept. 1643. much lamented as a great Parliamentarian saith of all that knew him being a Gentleman of great parts ingenuity and honour courteous and just to all and a passionate promoter of all endeavours of Peace betwixt the King and Parliament Whether the Church of England lost a friend by his death some have doubted Sure it is learning it self had a loss and one of the greatest as many Clergymen have said that ever hapned in that or in the age before His body was conveyed to Oxon and afterwards to Great Tow before mention'd where it was buried in the Church without being carried into his house there Over his grave tho there be not yet any memory extant yet Sir Franc. Wortley of Wortley in Yorkshire Knight and Baronet an admirer of his virtues and learning who stiles him Musarum militumque patronus hath bestowed an Epitaph and an Elegy on him in his book intit Characters and Elegies printed 1646. in qu. His person was little and of no great strength his hair blackish and somewhat flaggy and his eye black and quick He left behind him a most disconsolate Widdow named Letice the Daughter of Sir Rich. Morison of Tooley-Park in Leicestershire Knight the most devout pious and virtuous woman of the time she lived in who dying about
refectory at what time the said Doctor was returned from Salisbury after he had been installed Dean thereof an 1635. The said Pastoral is not printed but goes about in MS. from hand to hand Dr. Speed who was by all persons that knew him accounted an ingenious man year 1640 died in the month of May in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in the Chappel of S. John's coll leaving then behind him a Son named Samuel who was aftera Student of Ch. Ch. and M. of A. installed Canon of the said Church on the death of Dr. Seb. Smith on the sixth day of May 1674. and another named John afterwards Fellow of St. John's coll and Doctor of Physick living now at Southampton THOMAS FITZHERBERT Son of Will. Fitzherbert by Isabell his Wife Daughter and one of the heirs of Humph. Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Staffordshire fourth Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the famous Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire was born in the said County of Stafford an 1552. in which County being initiated in Grammer learning was sent either to Exeter or Lincoln coll in 1568 But having been mostly before trained up in the Cath. Religion the college seemed uneasie to him for tho he would now and then hear a Sermon which he was permitted to do by an old Roman Priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon for to him he often retired to receive instructions as to matters of Religion yet he would seldom or never go to prayers for which he was often admonished by the Sub-Rector of his house At length he seeming to be wearied with the heresie as he stil'd it of those times he receeded without a degree to his Patrimony where also refusing to go to his parish Church was imprison'd about 1572. But being soon after set at liberty he became more zealous in his Religion defended it against the Protestant Ministers and not only confirm'd and strengthned many wavering Catholicks therein but wrote also several valid reasons for the not going of Catholicks to Protestant Churches for which being like to suffer he withdrew and lived abscondedly In 1580. when Campian and Persons the Jesuits came into the mission of England he retired to London found them out shew'd himself exceeding civil and exhibited to them liberally Whereupon bringing himself into a promunire and foreseeing great danger to come on him and all Catholicks he went as a voluntary exile into France an 1582. where he continued a zealous sollicitor in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots with the K. of France and Duke of Guise for her relief tho in vain After her decollation and all hopes of the Catholicks frustrated for the present he left that Country and the rather because that he about that time had buried his Wife and forthwith went into Spain For some years there he became a zealous agitator in the Royal Court for the relief of Catholicks and their Religion in England but his actions and the labours of many more of that nature being frustrated by the Spaniards repulse in 1588. he under pretence of being weary with the troubles and toyles of this life receeded to Millaine with the Duke of Feria Whence after some continuance there he went to Rome where he was initiated in sacred Orders took a lodging near to the English college and observed all hours and times of Religion as they in the college did by the sound of their bell and there composed certain books of which that against Machiavel was one A certain author of little or no note named James Wadsworth tells us that the said Tho. Fitzherbert had been before a Pensioner and Spye to the King of Spain in France and his service being past and his pension failing him out of pure necessity he and his man were constrained to turn Jesuits or else starve And he being a worthy Scholar and a great Politician was very welcome to that Order But let this report remain with the author who is characteriz'd by a Protestant writer to be a Renegado proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade now living 1655. a common hackney to the basest Catch-pole Bayliffs c. while I proceed In 1613-4 he took upon him the habit of the Society of Jesus on the feast of the Purification initiated therein on the vigil of the Annuntiation following and on the next day he sung his first Mass Afterwards he presided the mission at Bruxells for two years and at length much against his will he was made Rector of the English coll or seminary at Rome which he governed with great praise about 22. years He was a person of excellent parts had a great command of his tongue and pen was a noted Politician a singular lover of his Country men especially those who were Catholicks and of so graceful behaviour and generous spirit that great endeavours were used to have him created a Cardinal some years after Allens death and it might have been easily effected had he not stood in his own way He hath written A defence of the Catholick cause containing a Treatise in confutation of sundry untruths and slanders published by the Hereticks c. S. Omers 1602. Apology or defence of his innocence in a fained conspiracy against her Majesties person for the which one Edw. Squire was wrongfully condemned and executed in Nov. 1598. Printed with the Defence before mention'd This is the book which the learned Camden tells us was written by Walpole a Jesuit or one under his name Treatise concerning policy and religion Doway 1606. qu. Wherein are confuted several principles of Machiavel The second part of the said Treatise was printed also at Doway 1610. and both together in 1615. qu. A third part was printed at Lond. 1652. qu. being then cried up for a good book as the other parts had been An sit utilitas in scelere vel de infelicitate Principis Machiavellani Rome 1610. oct Suppliment to the discussion of Mr. Dr. Burlows answer to the judgment of a Cath. Engl. Man c. interrupted by the death of the author F. Rob. Persons Jesuit S. Omer 1613. qu. published under the two letters of F. T. Censure of Dr. Joh. Donnes book intit Pseudo-Martyr Additions to the Suppliment These two last are printed at the end of the Suppliment to the discussion c. against Dr. Will. Barlow B. of Line before-mentioned Confutation of certain absurdities in Lancelot Andrews's answer to Bellarm. Printed 1603. qu. and published under the two letters of F. T. instead of T. F. This was written in vindication of Card. Bellarmine's Apology for his answer made to K. James's book De jure fidel Whereupon came out a book intit Epphata to F. T. or a defence of the Bishop of Ely Lanc. Andrews concerning his answer to Card. Bellarmine's Apology against the calumnies of a scandalous Pamphlet Cambr. 1617. qu. written by Sam. Collins D. D. a Buckinghamsh man born Provost of Kings coll in Cambridge elected the Kings
person who mostly seemed to be a true Son of the Church of England a hater of Papists Arminians and Sectaries published 1 Seven Sermons on the 23. Psal of David Lond. 1603. oct 2 The Converts happiness Sermon on Rev. 3. 20. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The raging tempest still'd The history of Christ's passage with his Disciples over the Sea of Galilee c. Lond. 1623. qu. 4 Help to the best bargain c. Serm. in the Cath. of Canterb. 26. Oct. 1623. Lond. 1624. in oct and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Septemb. 1644. being then the Senior Prebendary of Christ-Church in Canterbury and died shortly after having before cast a stone against Archbishop Laud when he was to be tried for his life JOHN BALL Son of Will. Ball and Agnes Mabet his Wife was born of a plebeian family at Cassington alias Chersington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire in the beginning of Octob. 1585. and baptized the 14. of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School taught by the Vicar of Yarnton a mile distant from Cassington admitted a Student of Brasnose coll in 1602 where continuing under a severe discipline and Tutor about five years in the condition as it seems of a Servitour removed to S. Maries hall and as a Member thereof took the degree of Bac. of Arts in 1608. Soon after he was invited into Cheshire to teach the Children of the Lady Cholmondeley where continuing for some time fell into the acquaintance of several severe Puritans who working on his affections they brought him over to them About that time having gained a sum of money he went to London with some of them and made shift to be ordained a Minister there without subscription by an Irish Bishop Soon after he removed into Staffordshire and became Curate of Whitmore a Chappel of â—ase to Stoke where he lived and died a Nonconformist in a poor house a poor habit with poor maintenance of about 20 l. per an and in an obscure Village teaching School also all the week for a farther supply deserving as high esteem and honour as a noted Presbyterian observes as the best Bishop in England yet looking after no â—igher things but living comfortably and prosperously with these c. The Brethren report him to have been a excellent Schoolmaster and Schoolman qualities seldom meeting in the same person a painful Preacher and a profitable Writer And tho somewhat disaffected to Ceremonies and Church discipline yet he confuted such as conceived the corruption therein ground enough for a Separation He hath written A short treatise containing all the principal grounds of Christian Religion c. Fourteen times printed before the year 1632. and translated into the Turkish Language by Will. Seaman an English Traveller Treatise of Faith in two parts The first shewing the nature the second the life of Faith c. Lond. 1631. qu. 1637. qu. the third edition It hath a Preface to it in commendation of the work written by Rich. Sibbes Friendly trial of the grounds tending to Separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the unlawfulness of stinted Liturgy and set form of Common Prayer Communion in mixed Assemblies and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys c. Cambr. 1640. qu. The rude and imperfect draught of this book was first made for satisfaction of Mr. Rich. Knightley which by importunity of Ministers and others was afterwards enlarged into this treatise The answer returned to the first conceptions thereof is briefly examined in some marginal notes annexed p. 13. 15. 24. 33. An answer to two Treatises of Mr. Joh. Can the Leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam The former is called A necessity of separation from the Church of England proved by the Nonconformists principles And the other A stay against straying Wherein in opposition to Mr. John Robinson he undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of hearing the Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1642. qu. Published by Simeon Ash The Epistle to the Reader is subscribed by Tho. Langley Will. Rathband Simeon Ash Franc. Woodcock and Geo. Croft Presbyterians After our author Ball had finished this last book he undertook a large treatise of the Church wherein he intended to discover the nature of Schism and to deal in the main controversies touching the essence and Government of the Visible Church of which also 50 sheets of paper he left finished Notwithstanding all this yet by what our author hath written in his answer to Jo. Can and in his Friendly trial c. some dividing Spirits of his own party censured him as in some degree declining from his former profest inconformity in deserting the Nonconformists cause and grounds being too much inclined especially in the last of these two to favour the times in Ceremonies and the Service-book Yet if you 'll give credit to what these men deliver they 'll tell you that he lived and died a strict forbearer and constant opposer of all those pretended corruptions which the Nonconformists had commonly in their publick writings disallowed in the Church of England So that they of his own perswasion would willingly have it believed that altho he was in these his pieces against aggravating and multiplying conceived corruptions and that these were not of so great weight as to inforce the unlawfulness of our set forms or warrant a separation from our Churches and publick worship in regard thereof yet he acknowledged some things blame-worthy in the English Liturgy which he designed to have evidenced as these men tell us in some publick treatise had he lived but a little longer For all this he died abundantly satisfied in the justness of that cause which he so well defended against separation Trial of the new Church-way in New-England and Old c. Lond. 1644. qu. Treatise of the Covenant of Grace Lond. 1645. c. qu. Published by his great admirer Simeon Ash Of the power of godliness both doctrinally and practically handled c. To which are annexed several Treatises as 1 Of the affections 2 Of the spiritual combatâ— 3 Of the government of the tongue 4 Of prayer with an exposition on the Lords Prayer c. Lond. 1657. fol. Published by the aforesaid Simeon Ash sometimes of the University of Cambridge Chaplain to the Lord Brook afterwards to the Earl of Manchester an 1644. Minister of St. Michael Bashishaw and at length of St. Austins in London who dying 20. of Aug. 1662. being a little before the fatal day of St. Barthelmew was buried 23. of the same month in the Church of St. Austin before-mentioned Treatise of divine meditation Lond. 1660. in twelv published also by the said Ash These I think are all that have been written by our author Ball who dying 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 aged fifty and five or thereabouts was buried in the Chappel or Church of Whitmore aforesaid leaving then behind the character
egregious falsity in reporting that one Grimwood of Higham in Suffolk died in a miserable manner for swearing and bearing false witness against one Joh. Cooper a Carpenter of Watsam in the same County for which he lost his life The miserable death of the said Grimwood was as J. Fox saith thus that when he was in his labour staking up a goffe of Corn having his health and fearing no peril suddenly his bowels fell out of his body and immediately most miserably he died Now so it sell out that in the reign of Q. Elizabeth one Prit became Parson of the Parish where the said Grimwood dwelt and Preaching against perjury being not acquainted with his Parishioners cited the said story of Fox and it hapning that Grimwood being then alive and in the said Church he brought an action upon the case against the Parson but Judge Anderson who sate at the Assizes in the County of Suffolk did adjudge it not maintainable because it was not spoken maliciously Pray see in the Abridgment of many cases and resolutions of the Common Law written by Judge Henry Rolls p. 87. sect 5. tit Action sur case But to return as for our Bishop Hen. Morgan who died in Godstow house then own'd by Rich. Owen did by his last Will and Testam dated in Decemb. 1559. and proved 24. of January following bequeath his body to be buried in the Church of Olvercot or Wolvercot to which he gave six shillings and eight pence Also to two Masters of Arts of Oxon to pray for his Friends Souls of which Edw. Pennant Parson of Stanlake near Oxon was one four pounds yearly during the term of five years to Mary Owen his Chymere of Scarlet to Morgan Philips of Oriel coll several Legacies besides the bestowing of his books c. By which Will it appears that he did not die in a mean condition that he was not senseless affrighted or any way perturbed JOHN WHYTE sometimes Fellow of New coll was made Bishop of Lincoln in the beginning of 1554. translated thence to Wynchester in 1557. and died in January in fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Winchester succeeded Dr. Rob. Horne of Cambridge reported by a certain author to be a man of a great mind and profound ingenie and no less sagacious in detecting the crafts of his adversaries than prudent in preventing and avoiding them He was also a frequent Preacher and an excellent Disputant and wrote in the mother tongue an answer to Joh. Fâ—kenhams scruples concerning the Oath of Supremacy as I have told you among the writers under the year 1585. He gave way to fate in 1579. leaving this character behind him given by one belonging to the Church of Durham who speaking of his demolishing several antient monuments of that Church while Dean thereof tells us that he could never abide any antient monuments acts or deeds that gave any light of or to godly religion JAMES BROKES sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester about the beginning of the year 1554. and died about the beginning of Febr. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Gloc. succeeded Rich. Cheyâ—â—â— Bach. of Div. of Pembr hall in Cambridge who being elected thereunto had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging to it on the 15. of Apr. 1562. and had at the same time liberty allowed to him to keep Bristow in Commendam In the reign of K. Ed. 6. he was Archdeacon of Hereford and dignified elsewhere In Q. Mary's time he was deprived of his spiritualities for being more addicted to the opinions of Luther than he ought In the beginning of the reign of Q. Elizab. an 1560. he was made by her the first Canon of the fourth Stall or Prebendship in the collegiate Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster Which dignity he keeping till 1562. was then succeeded by one Rich. Morley After he had sate Bish of Glouc. three years he was incorporated D. of D. of this University as he had stood in Cambridge One of his Successors in the See of Glouc. named Godf. Goodman doth wonder why his Master Will. Camden should say that the said Rich. Cheyney was Luthero addictissimus whereas it was certain that he was a Papist and bred up his servants Papists as he had been informed by one of them with whom he had spoken He tells us also that it doth appear upon record in the Arches that he was suspended for Popery and died so suspended and never would make any recantation He was buried in his Cath. Ch. of Gloucester but whether ever any monument was put over his grave I know not OWEN OGELTHORP the third natural Son of Owen Ogelthorp of Newton-Kime in Yorkshire Son of John Ogelthorp of Ogelthorp in the said County was born at Newton-Kyme before-mentioned near to Tadcaster admitted Fellow of Magd. coll about 1526. and in 29. he proceeded in Arts being about that time in holy Orders In 1533. he was Proctor of the University and on the 21. of Feb. 35. he was elected President of his coll having a few days before taken the degrees in Divinity About that time he was constituted one of the Canons of the coll at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Cardinal Wolsey in the year 1540 he was made Canon of Windsore in the place of Will. Tate LL. D. deceased and in 1544. he was presented to the Church of S. Olave in Southwark In 1551. he did undergo with great honor the Vicechancellourship of this University and in 1553. Oct. 31. he being then Rector of Newyngton and Haseley in the Dioc. of Oxon was elected again President of the said coll having resigned that place about an year before to make room for Dr. Walt. Haddon and in the same year he was made Dean of Windsore In 1554 he was constituted Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter to execute it by himself or a sufficient deputy with the fee of 50 l. per an allowed him for it Which office he kept while he was Bishop of Carlile during the time that Dr. Hugh Weston his Successor was Dean of Windsore About the month of Apr. 1556. he was consecrated Bishop of Carlile and in the latter end of 1558. when Heath Archb. of York and all the rest of the Bishops refused to Crown Q. Elizabeth the See of Canterb. being then void he with much ado was obtained to set the Crown on her head For which fact when he saw the issue of that matter and both himself and all the rast of his Sacred Order depriv'd and the Churches holy Laws and Faith against the conditions of her consecration and acceptation into that Royal Room violated he sore repented him all the days of his life which were for that special
Catholick cause that preaching at Pauls cross in the behalf of the said Bonner then present against his late unjust sufferings and against the unhappy times of King Edw. 6. as he called them had a dagger thrown at him by one of the auditors Whereupon Bourn withdrawing himself to prevent farther danger the work was carried on by another and search being made after the Assissinate certain persons were imprison'd for it In the year 1554. Sir Joh. Bourn of Batenhall in Worcestershire Uncle to the said Gilb. Bourne being then Principal Secretary of State to Q. Mary the said Gilb. was elected to the See of Bathe and Wells upon the free resignation as 't is said of D. Will. Barlow Whereupon he had the temporalities thereof given to him 20. of April the same year at which time Barlow fled into Germany upon account of Religion Soon after Gilb. Bourn was made President of Wales and was in great favour during the reign of Q. Mary but when Q. Elizab. succeeded he was deprived of his bishoprick for denying her Supremacy notwithstanding he had done many good offices for his Cath. Church and had been a benefactor thereunto Afterwards he being committed to free custody with the Dean of Exeter he gave himself up wholly to reading and devotion At length dying at Silverton in Devenshire 10. Sept. in fifteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Parish Church there on the south side of the Altar bequeathing then what he had to his brother Rich. Bourn of Wyvelscomb in Somersetsh Father of Gilb. Bourn of the City of Wells In the See of Wells did not succeed Will. Barlow who returned from his exile in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth as 't was expected but Gilb. Berkley D. of div a Lincolnshire man born and a descendant from the Noble Family of the Berkleys WILLIAM ALLEY sometimes a Student in this University of which he was afterwards Bach. and Doct. of divinity was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in July 1560. where sitting about 10 years died in the beginning of fifteen hundred and seventy year 1570 See more of him among the writers under that year In the said Bishoprick succeeded Will. Bradbridge as I shall hereafter tell you JOHN BEST a Yorkshire man born was originally of this University and afterwards was dignified in the Church of Wells and elsewhere but leaving all in the beginning of Q. Mary for Religion sake lived obscurely and as occasion serv'd At length after Q. Elizab. came to the Crown he being then Bach. of Divinity was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in the place of Owen Ogelthorp depriv'd on the second of March in fifteen hundred and sixty aged 48 years the temporalities whereof were given to him by the Queen on the 18. of Apr. following and in 1566. he was actually created Doct. of divinity year 1570 He ended his days on the 22. of May in fifteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Carlile In 1533. one Joh. Best was admitted to inform in Grammar as I shall further tell you in the Fasti under that year and in 1558. one Joh. Best was elected into a Founders fellowship of Vniversity coll from that of Lincolne What relation this last had to the Bishop I know not nor do I know yet to the contrary but that Jo. Best the Grammarian was afterwards the same who was Bishop THOMAS STANLEY was a Cadet of the noble family of the Stanleys Earls of Derby and after he had spent some time in this and another University beyond the Seas return'd to his native country of Lancashire became Rector of Winwick and Wygan therein as also of Badsworth in the diocess of York and dignified in the Church At length upon the vacancy of the See of the Isle of Man he was made Bishop thereof but when I cannot justly say because he seems to have been Bishop in the beginning of K. Ed. 6. and was really Bishop of that place after the death of Dr. Man whom I have before mention'd under the year 1556. This Thom. Stanley paid his last debt to nature in the latter end of fifteen hundred and seventy having had the character when young of a tolerable Poet of his time and was succeeded in the See of Man by one John Salisbury whom I shall mention anon JOHN JEWELL sometimes Portionist or Post-master of Merton coll afterwards Scholar and Fellow of that of Corp. Christi was nominated Bishop of Salisbury by Q. Elizabeth To which See being elected by the Dean and Chapter of that place she gave her consent to it 27 Dec. 1559. He departed this mortal life in fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Salisbury succeeded Edm Gheast Son of Thom. Gheast of the family of the Gheasts of Rough heath in Worcestershire which Edmund was born as a certain writer saith at Afferton in Yorkshire and dying 28. of Feb. in 1576. was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury JOHN SALISBURY seems to have been descended from the antient family of his name living in Denbighshire but the Town or County which gave him his first breath I cannot yet learn This person after he had studied some years in this University but more in another entred into the Sacred Function and being beneficed and dignified in the Church was made Suffragan Bishop of Thâ—tford in Norfolk but the year when I cannot tell and in 1540. Dean of Norwych in the place of Will. Castleton who having been the last Prior of the Black Moaks there was made the first Dean of the Cath. Ch. in 1539. But Salisbury being outed of his Deanery for what cause I know not in the first year of Q. Mary Dr. John Christopherson was installed in that dignity 18. of Apr. 1554. and soon after became Bishop of Chichester On the 4. of Dec. following the said Salisbury was installed Chancellour of the Church of Lincoln in the place of Joh. Pope who had then lately obtained the Archdeaconry of Bedford In 1560. he was restored to his Deanery upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Harpesfield and in the beginning of the year 1571. being made Bishop of the Isle of Man was confirmed in that See on the seventh of Apr. the same year at which time he had liberty given him to keep the Deanery of Norwych in Commendam with it He concluded his last day about the latter end of Septemb. in fifteen hundred seventy and three and was year 1573 as I suppose buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych In the said Deanery succeeded George Gardiner D. D. installed therein 24. of Dec. 1573. and in the See of Man one Joh. Merick as I suppose of whom I shall make farther mention under the year 1599. HUGH JONES a Welsh man born but in what hall or college educated unless in New Inn I know not was admitted Bach. of the Civil law by the name of Hugo Jonys
Episcoporum Regularium a secretis Episcopo Cassanensi Gregorii xiv ad Helvetios Nuncio Clementis viii Apostolicae visitationis in alma urbe adjutori Anglos in Italia Gallia Belgio omni ope semper juvit at ejus imprimis opera hujus collegii ac Duacensis Rhemensis fundamenta jecit Vixit annos lxi menses ix dies xiix Exul à patria xxxvi Obiit xiv Octob. mdxciv Ludovicus de Torres Archiepiscopus Montis Regalis Amico posuit The said Dr. Lew. Owen had a Nephew called Hugh Griffyth who was Provost of Cambray JOHN GARVEY was born as it seems in the County of Kilkenny in Ireland took one or more degrees in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. he being then a Student in Oxon but by the negligence of the Scribe his name is omitted in the publick Register of that time Afterwards he retired to his Country became Archdeacon of Meath and in 1565. Dean of the Church of the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ-Church in Dublin Afterwards being made a Member of the Queens Privy Council there was promoted to the Bishoprick of Kilmore in Ap. 1585. with liberty then allowed him to keep his Deanery in Commendam In 1589. he was made Archbishop of Armagh in the place of Dr. Joh. Long deceased Whereupon being translated thereunto on the tenth of May the same year had liberty given him to keep his Deanery then also He departed this mortal life on the second day March in fifteen hundred ninety and four and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity before-mentioned leaving then behind him a little thing of his writing intit The Conversion of Philip Corwine a Franciscan Fryer to the reformation of the Protestant Religion an 1589. Published in 1681. when the Phanatical party were big with hopes of satisfying their insatiable ends under pretence of aggravating and carrying on the pretended horridness of the Popish Plot. He was succeeded in Kilmore by one Rob. Draper Rector of Trimm in Ireland and in the See of Armagh by Henry Usher whom I shall mention at large under the year 1613. WILLIAM LALY or Lawly alias Mullaly received his first being in this World in the County of Galloway in Ireland was educated in New Inn took the degree of Bach. of decrees as a Member of that house in 1555. 1. and 2. of Ph. and Mary and returning soon after into his own Country was made Dean of Tuam and at length consecrated Archbishop of that place in Apr. 1573. He ended his days in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 and was buried as I presume in the Cath. Ch. at Tuam In the See of Tuam succeeded one Nehemias Donellan an Irish man educated in the University of Cambridge as my author here quoted saith Yet the Reader must know that one or more of his Sirname and time studied in Oxon but his or their Christian names being not registred I cannot say that either of them was Nehemias THOMAS BICKLEY was born at Stow in Bucks educated in Grammaticals in the Free-School joyning to Magd. coll while he continued in the quality of a Chorister of that house Afterwards upon examination of his proficiency he was elected one of the Demies or Semi-Commoners and in July 1540. was admitted Probationer and on the 26. of the said month in the year following was made perpetual Fellow of the said house In the beginning of K. Edw. 6. he became the Kings Chaplain or Preacher at Windsore to which he was elected according to custom by the Members of the University of Oxon and about that time shewing himself a very forward person for reformation and therefore looked upon as an impudent and pragmatical Man by the R. Cath. party nay and by some also of his own he was forced to leave the coll in the beginning of Q. Mary's reign being then Bach. of divinity Whereupon going into France he spent most of his time at Paris and Orleance during her reign where he improved himself much in learning and in the language of that Country After Q. Elizab. came to the Crown he returned and became Chaplain to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury Archdeacon of Stafford and Residentiary of the Church of Lichfield which dignities were given to him by Dr. Bentham Bishop of that place sometimes his Friend and Contemporary in Magd. coll In the beginning of the year 1569. he was one of the three persons that was elected Warden of Merton coll by the Fellows thereof whereupon the Archb. before-mentioned conser'd that place on him and in the next year he proceeded Doct. of div as a Member of the said house In 1585. he had the Bishoprick of Chichester confer'd upon him on the death of Rich. Coortess to which See being consecrated 30. of January was installed or enthronized the 3. March the same year where he sate to the time of his death much beloved of all in his diocess He gave up the ghost on the 30. of Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and six and was buried year 1596 in the north Isle joyning to the Choire of his Cath. on the 26. May following Soon after was a monument set over his grave with his figure kneeling thereon which shews him to have been a comely and handsome Man with this inscription engraven near it Thomas Bickley sacrae Theologiae Doctor Magdalenensis Collegii Oxon. Alumnus Archidiaconus Stafford Collegii de Merton Custos hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus quam annos decem tres menses sobrietate sinceritate summâ justitiâ prudentiâ singulari piè religiosè administravit Obiit pridie calendas Maii Aldingborniae anno salutis nostrae Millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo sexto aetatis suae septuagesimo octavo c. I find by his last Will and Test that he gave to Magd. coll his good nurse forty pounds to be bestowed on the Grammar School joyning to the said college for the seeling and paving it To Merton coll also he gave an hundred pounds to buy land that the revenue thereof be bestowed in exhibition on one of the Fellows thereof that professeth divinity to preach one publick Sermon c. This exhibition was afterwards ordered to be given to that Fellow that should Preach a Sermon to the University on May-day in the Chappel or Church belonging to Merton coll which yet continues In the See of Chichester succeeded Anth. Watson D. D. of Cambridge Son of Edward Watson of Thorp-Thales in the County Pal. of Durham and he the Son of Will. Watson of the same place Which Anthony was first Chancellour of the Ch. of Wells in the place of Dr. Rog. Good afterwards Dean of Bristow on the death of Joh. Sprint in 1590. and in 1596. being consecrated Bishop of Chichester before-mentioned was succeeded in his Chancellourship by one Joh. Rogers to whom succeeded also Will. Barker D. D. 1602. and in his Deanery by Simon Robson not in 1596. but in 98. which shews that Watson kept the said
Gam or Game of Allsoules Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University He was now Principal of Biham commonly called Beame Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. Which Principality he resigned this year to make room for Hugh Pole of the same Coll. Doct. of Div. John Thornden or Thornton did proceed in Divinity about this Year He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University and a Bishop as I have before told you This year one John Newland a Black or Regular Canon of the Order of S. Augustin supplicated for a Degree in Divinity but whether granted which is very imperfect or not at all tells us not This is the same John Newland who was born at Newland in the Forest of Deane in Glocestershire and was commonly called and written John Naileheart alias Newland He was the last Abbat saving one of the Monastery of S. Austin at Bristol in which Monastery as also in the Church belonging thereto he expended much Money in building and adorning He was called the Good Abbat being a Person solely given up to Religion and Almsdeeds and after he had ruled 33 years or thereabouts he gave way to Fate in a good old Age and was buried on the south side of the Choire of the Church of S. Austin now the Cath. Church at Bristol Over his Grave is his Statua in Pontificalia graven or carved out from Stone laying on the Back with a Crosier in his Hand and a Miâ—re on his Head His Arms do now or did lately continue in the Church and other Buildings of that Monastery which are a Man's heart pierced thro from top to bottoâ—â— with three nails which is as 't were a Rebus for Naileheart An. Dom. 1503. An. 18 19 Hen. 7. Chanc. Rich. Mayhew D. D. Archdeacon of Oxford c. at length Bish of Hereford Commiss John Thornden or Thornton D. D. John Kynton D. D. a Minorite Sim. Greene alias Fotherbie D. D. of Linc Coll. Proct. John Stokesley of Magd. Coll. Rich. Dudley of Oriel Coll. The Senior who was the Northern Proctor was afterwards Bish of London and the Junior who was the Southern Proctor was afterwards Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury He was Master of Arts of this University but whether he took any Degree in Divinity therein I find not See more in 1508. Bachelaurs of Arts Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Arts of the Logick of Aristotle Edward Lee of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. seems to have been admitted Bach. of Arts this year among twenty or thereabouts that were admitted within the compass of the same year We have no Register that shews it only certain imperfect and broken Scripts containing sums of money received for the taking of Degrees which I have seen but I think are now perish'd Bach. of Physick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Rich. Barthlet Master of Arts and Fellow of Allsoules Coll. See more among the Doctors of Physick under the year 1508. Doct. of Div. Will. Salyng or Selling Lord Prior of Martyn or Merton in Surrey Rob. Tehy or Thay of Magd. Coll. Rich. Sydenore of the same Coll. about this time Archdeacon of Totness In 1518 he was made Canon of Windsor and in 1524 constituted Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter He died 1534 and was I presume buried in the Chap. of S. George at Windsor In his Canonry and Registrary's place succeeded Rob. Aldridge who was afterwards Bish of Carlisle and in his Archdeaconry of Totness succeeded as it seems George Carew This year was a Supplication made in the ven Congregation of Regents for one Rich. Bere a Benedictin Monk to be graduated in Divinity but whether in the Degree of Bach. or Doct. it appears not or whether he was admitted to either 'T was the same Rich. Bere who was installed Abbat of Glastenbury on the Death of John Selwood the former Abbat 20 January 1493 after the Election of another Person named Tho. Wasyn a Monk of the same Order had been cassated by Rich. Fox Bish of B. and Wells on the 12. of Nov. going before This Rich. Bere who was well known to and reverenced by Erasmus died 20. Jan. 1524 whereupon Rich. Whyting was elected Abbat in his place on the third of March following there being then in the Monastery of Glastenbury 47 Monks If you are pleased to know more of this Bere you may read what Leland saith of him and his Benefaction to the said Abbey thus Rich. Bere Abbat built the new Lodgings by the great Chamber called the Kings Lodgings in the Gallery He builded also new Lodgings for Secular Priests and Clerks of our Ladies Chappel He also arched on both sides the East part of the Church He built Edgar's Chappel at the East end of the Church Abbat Whyting performed part of it Abbat Bere made the Vault on the Steple in trancepto He also made a rich Altar of Silver and guilt and set it afore the high Altar And coming from his Embassadry out of Italy made a Chappel of our Lady of Loretto joyning to the North side of the Body of the Church He made the Chappel in the South end Navis Ecclesiae Glaston whereby he is buried sub plano mannore in the South Isle of the Body of the Church He made an Almshouse in the North part of the Abbey with a Chappel for seven or ten poor Women He also made the Mannor place at Sharpham in the Park two miles by West from Glaston It was before a poor Lodge c. An. Dom. 1504. An. 19 20 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Mayhew by whose Persuasion K. Hen. 7 gave 10l yearly Revenue to the Univ. of Oxon conditionally that the Members thereof celebrate a solemn Maâ—s for him yearly in S. Maries Church Commiss Sim. Greene again John Kynton again Rob. Tehy or Thay D. D. of Magd. Coll. Proct. Laur. Stubbes of Magd. Coll. Bor. elected 17. Apr. John Beverston of Mert. Coll. Principal of S. John Bapt. Hall Austr elected 17. Apr. Mast of Arts. Edward Finch Of what Coll. or Hall he was a Member I cannot yet find sure I am that on the 23 Sept. 1517 he became Predendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury on the death of Andrew Ammonius an Italian whom I have mention'd among the Writers in Will. Grocyn an 1522. that also he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Christoph Vrshwyke 12 May 1522 and Preb. of Chermister and Bere in the said Church of Sarum on the death of Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll in this University 30. June 1524. Philip Dense Fellow of Mert. Coll. He hath this Character added to his Name in the Album of that Society Medicus Astronomus cum primis doctus In the Act wherein these two proceeded were about 14 Masters but whether any of them were afterwards Bishops Writers or
the month of May or thereabouts an 1552 lest much of his substance to pious uses On the 2 of June the same year he being then dead Leonard Bilson succeeded him in the Prebendship of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the Church of Salisbury John Feyter of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day John Tregoâ—well sometimes of Broadgates afterwards Principal of Vine hall alias Peckwaters Inn was admitted also the same day June 23. He was an eminent and learned Man in his profession and therefore was employed to be Proctor for K. Hen. 8. in that long and costly cause of his divorce from Qu. Catherine wherein shewing himself very diligent was by him Knighted and for an inconsiderable sum of money had settled on him and his heirs for ever the rich demesne and site of the mitred Abbey of Milton alias Middleton for Benedictine Monks in Dorsetshire He gave way to fate in the latter end of the year 1564 7. Elizab. and was buried in the Church there Doct. of Can. Law June 23. Father John Burton a Canon Regular Prior of St. â—rideswydes Monastery in afterwards Abbat of Osney near to Oxford John Prynne a Secular Chaplain was admitted the same day He was afterwards Subdean and Can. resident of Lincolne and dying 29. Apr. 1558 was buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincolne Anthony Draycot lately Principal of White hall involved afterwards within the limits of Jesus Coll. and of Pirye hall adjoyning was admitted also the same day In 1542 he was made Archdeacon of Stow in the place of Edward Darbye sometimes of Linc. Coll. deceased and in the year following Archdeacon of Huntington in the place of Dr. Richard Gwent deceased He was Chancellour for a time to Dr. Longland Bish of Linc. and to Dr. Ralph Bayne Bish of Lichfield in which Offices he acted much against the Protestants as John Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. will tell you In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths Reign he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet and suffer'd much upon account of Religion Nich. Saunders tells us that one Draycot Archdeacon of York was ejected from that Dignity or left it of his own accord in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth but I find no such Man in my Catalogue of Archdeacons of that place which is punctually made from the registers of the Church of York Doct. of Div. Jul. 3. Fath. Peter Lee a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict This year Jun. 2. Rowland Philips M. of A. supplicated for the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity and was as it seems admitted Soon after by the power of the Archbishop of Canterbury he was thrust in Warden of Merton College He was now Vicar of Croyden in Surrey one of the Canons of Pauls a famous and notable Preacher and a forward Man in the Convocation of the Clergy an 1523 in acting and speaking much against the payment of a Subsidie to the King Incorporations May 2. George Henneage Bach. of the Canon Law of Cambridge Archdeacon of Oxford and Chaplain to John Bishop of Lincolne With him it was then dispensed that he might uti palliis ac sumptuoso omni vestitu pellibus ac serico pertinent In Apr. 1521 he was installed Archdeacon of Oxford on the death of Christoph Vrswyke in 1528 he became Dean of Lincolne on the death of John Constable who dyed 15. July in the same year and in 1542 Archdeacon of Lincolne upon the attainder of Richard Pates I mean him who was afterwards B. of Worcester This G. Henneage died in 1549 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Linc. near to the tomb of Mr. Sim. Fotherbie sometimes Chanc. of that Church directly before the image of the Virgin Mary without her Chappel In the Archdeaconry of Line succeeded Nich. Bullyngham in Sept. 1549. and the same year succeeded John Tayler D. D. in the Deanery Feb. 18. Nich. de Burgo a Minorite Bach. of Divinity of the University of Paris He was an Italian born did succeed Dr. Tho. Brynknell in the reading of Card. Wolsey's Divinity Lecture lately erected in this University And when the matter of the divorce of K. H. 8. from Qu. Catherine was in agitation in the University he shewed himself so forward for it that the Women of Oxon did not only scold at him publickly but threw stones after him as he passed along the street Whereupon complaining of their rudeness thirty of them were the next day imprisoned in Bocardo where they continued 3 days and as many nights I find one Nicholaus Italus to be Sub-commissary of this University in Aug. 1534. whom I take to be the same with Nich. de Burgo beforemention'd a very learned Man of his time Feb. 19. Nich. Cracher or Kratzer Bach. of Arts of Colen and Wittenburgh In the month of May one John Taylor Dr. of Decrees and of the sacred Canons beyond the Seas having been lately incorporated at Cambridge supplicated for incorporation in this University which being granted he was as it seems taken into the bosome thereof This Person who was Archdeacon of Derby and Bucks and had been Rector of Sutton Colfield in Warwickshire was Clerk of the Parliaments that sate in 1515. 7. Hen. 8. and prolocutor of the Convocation of the Clergy that was dissolved 21. Dec. the same year In which Parliaments and Convocation arose those most dangerous seditions between the Clergy and Seculars concerning several Ecclesiastical Liberties In 1528. the said Dr. Taylor who had been employed in several Embassies beyond the Seas succeeded Thomas Hanyball in the Mastership of the Rolls and dying in 1534 was succeeded in that office by Thomas Cromwell This Dr. Taylor who was a learned Canonist and a Statesman was born being the Son I suppose of a Taylor in a poor Cottage at Barton in the Parish of Tatinhills in Staffordshire and being the eldest of the Tremelli which his Mother had at one birth were by command of the King to whom they were presented as he rode in hunting in that Country carefully educated in good Letters Afterwards in gratitude to the place that gave him birth he built a fair Chappel upon or near the site where the Cottage stood In his rectory of Sutton Colfield succeeded George Henneage beforemention'd An. Dom. 1523. An. 15. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Tho. Moscroff or Musgrave M. D. now or lately Fellow of Merton Coll. Proct. Tho. Canner again Edm. Campion Apr. 19. The Senior was soon after preferred to be one of the first Canons of Cardinal Coll. of which he became Subdean 1527. and the other who was of Linc. Coll. had a Dignity soon after confer'd upon him Grammarians Mar. 14. Jam. Davenport a Secular Chaplain One Joh. Wooddys another Sec. Chapl. supplicated to be admitted to inform but whether he was so it appears not Bach. of Arts. Dec. 15. Richard Pates or Patys of Corp. Ch. Coll. He was afterwards through several preferments Bishop of Worcester Besides
John Cox who was a Student of C. C. 1555 I cannot yet resolve you … The Wylson of Brasn Coll. a Yorkshire man born See in the year 1516 and 1553. In all about 36. ☞ Not one Admission in the Law or Laws is this year registred Mast of Arts. … Tho. Neale of New Coll. now eminent for the Hebrew as well as for the Greek Tongue … Leonard Bilson lately of Mert. Coll. as it seems now the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks. This person who was Uncle to Dr. Tho. Bilson B. of Winchester had several Dignities in the Church of which a Prebendship of Winchester was one … Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. He is reported to be afterwards Bishop of Meath in Ireland See in the year 1543. The Admissions of Masters being not registred by the Scribe I can only say that only 10 stood in the Act celebrated 11 Jul. this year ☞ The Admissions of Bach. of Div. are omitted in the Reg. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Physick was adm this year Doct. of Div. June… James Brokes of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Gloc. as I have before told you Incorporations June… John Crayford D. of D. of Cambridge He was originally of Queens Coll. in that University from whence being ejected he went to Oxon was elected Fellow of Vniv. Coll. an 1519. incorporated M. of A. in 152â— as I have before told you in that year became Proctor of Camb. in the year following and in 1523 he was made one of the Canons of Cardinal College Afterwards leaving Oxon he went to Cambridge the third time swhere he commenced D. of D. an 1535 and was soon after Vicechancellor of that University In Octob. 1544. he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of John Edmunds being then Prebendary of North Aulton in the said Church and in the middle of July 1545 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Berkshire on the death of Rob. Audley On the 17 of March following he was collated to the Prebendship of Chermister and Bere in the Church of Sarum upon the resignation of George Heneage and in Sept. 1546 he having been newly incorporated D. of D. as 't is before told you he was elected Master of Vniv Coll being then also Prebendary of Winchester He concluded his last day soon after whereupon Henr. Parry succeeded him in the Chancellorship of Saâ—um in Sept. 1547 and in the Mastership of the said Coll. one Rich. Salveine M. A. As for his Archdeaconry which he before had resigned did succeed him therein Will. Pye 7 Oct. 1545. An. Dom. 1547. An. 1 Ed. 6. Chancellour the same namely John Longland D. of D. and Bish of Lincoln but he dying on the 7 day of May this year Rich Coxe D. of D. and Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was tho at London by a solemn Decree of the University elected in a Convocation not in a Congregation of the Regents according to the antient manner on the twenty first day of the said month Dr. Hugh Weston in the mean time being Cancellarius natus The 22 of July following the said Chanc. coming to Oxon was received with the publick Congratulation of the Vicechancellour Doctors Proctors and other Members of the University at Magdalen Coll. near to the East Gate of the City where being present also Dr. Oglethorpe the President with the Fellows of that House Mr. Tho. Hardyng the Kings Professor of the Hebrew Tongue delivered an eloquent Oration before him which being done he was conducted to his Lodging at Ch. Ch. Vicechanc. or Commiss Walter Wryght L. L. D. sometimes Principal of Peckwaters Inn now Head or Governour of Durham Coll. and Archdeac of Oxford designed to the Office of Vicechanc. by Dr. Coxe about S. John Baptist's time Proct. Edm. Crispyne of Oriel Hen. Baylie of New Coll. Elected a little after the new Chancellour had taken his place the senior being then six years and the other five years standing in the degree of Master which was not altogether according to the order of K. Hen. 8. made 1541 appointing that the Proctors should be elected from the senior Masters of eight years standing at least These two Proctors were afterwards eminent Physitians in the time they lived and the senior died in the latter end of the year in March 1549. Bach. of Gram. Edward Pendleton the famous Schoolmaster of Manchester in Lancashire was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Grammar that is to the degree of Bach. of Grammar but the day or month when is not set down in the public Register now very much neglected Bach. of Arts. Humph. Lhoyd or Lhayd now or soon after of Brasnose Coll. Julius Palmer of Magdalen Coll This person was elected Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. 25. Jul. 1549 and true and perpetual Fellow in the year following In 1553 he left his Fellowship and what became of him after John Fox in his Book of The Acts and Mon. of the Church c. will tell you at large among the Martyrs that stood up and died for the Protestant Religion under the year 1556. This year also was admitted Bach. of Arts one Barthelmew Green but whether the same with Bartier that is little Barthelmew Greene who suffered Martyrdom for the Protestant Cause an 1556 as you may see at large in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church under that year I cannot justly say John Fox who hath written his story tells you that he was educated in the University of Oxon and afterwards in the Inns of Court Thirty and one Bachelaurs were admitted this year Bach. of Law Tho. Randall or Randolphe of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Principal of Broadgates Hall and a frequent Embassadour in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth Besides him I find but one more admitted the Register as I have told you before being much or in a manner altogether neglected Mast of Arts. Thomas Godwyn Thomas Bentham of Magd. Coll. They were afterwards Bishops Richard Edwards William Whittyngham of Ch. Ch. The former was lately of C. C. Coll. and now in much esteem for his Poetry the other was lately of All 's Coll. but not as yet known to have any eminence in him James Bicton of Ch. Ch. now Dean of Kilkenny in Ireland He died in 1552 and was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Christop Malton of Ch. Ch. also as it seems On the 3 of April 1564 he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. John Warner resigning and dying in the latter end of the year in March 1569 was succeeded by Ralph Coulton M. of A. and Prebendary of York afterwards Bach. of Div. Bach. of Div. Jul… Rich. Bruerne of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards Hebrew Professor of this University Canon of Ch. Ch. and of Windsore Fellow of the College at Eaton of which he was elected Provost about 1561 but soon after ejected He died about the latter end of April 1565
Rom. Cath. Cause in this University being authorized by publick Authority was born at a Town in Spain called Garcia or Garcevile and being from his Childship much addicted to Letters he was while a Boy received among and instructed by the Dominicans or Black Fryers in his own Country so that in a short time profiting much under them in several sorts of Learning especially in Divinity he took the Degree of Bach. of that Faculty in the University of Valladolid he being then a Member of S. Gregories Coll. there Afterwards upon the performance of certain Exercise for the said Degree in this University had it confer'd upon him as I have told you under the year 1555 and this year being licensed to proceed stood in an Act celebrated in S. Maries Church on the 11 of July This is the person who with Hen. Syddal Canon of Ch. Ch. a very inconstant man in his Religion took great pains in perswading Archb. Cranmer to recant his Opinions when he was condemn'd to be burnt at Oxon and the same who hath this character given of him by one living in his time in this University Prâ—elegit autem nostra memoria Frater Johannis Hispanus scientissimus cum 27 non excesserat annos Platonis autem disciplinacum cyclopedian absolvisset tum apud Philosophos Oxonienses Platonicam Aris telicam mysticam sacram professus est c. Whether he hath published any Books I cannot tell Sure I am that after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to the Country from whence he came leaving then behind him the character of a most subtile Philosopher and Theologist This Fryer was the only person that was admitted D. of D. this year and but 3 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom were Baldwyn Norton Bath of Div. and Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll who the next year became Prebendary of Langtoft in the Ch. of York Creations Jul. 8. John Boxall Bach. of Div. of New Coll. now Secretary of State to Qu. Mary Dean of Windsore c. was tho absent actually created Doct. of Div. by a Certificate or as we now call it a Diploma sent to him under the Seal of the University An. Dom. 1559. An. 1 Elizab. An. 2 Elizab. Chanc. Hen. Fitzalan Earl of Arundel who resigning his Office 12 June this year Sir John Mason one of the Queens Privy Council was elected Chancellour again 20 of the same month in which Vacancy Dr. Tresham was Canc. natus Commiss Dr. Will. Tresham in one years space twice Cancellarius natus who continuing in his Office till Michaelmas Dr. John Warner of All 's Coll. succeeded as it seems by Election mention being made of his Resignation Proct. John Daye of Magd. Coll. Edw. Bramborow of New Coll. elected 5 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 17. Tho Owen either of Ch. Ch. or Broadgates Hall Rich. Bristow was admitted the same day May 8. Leonard Fitzsimons of Trin Coll. 30. Rich. Whyte of New Coll. The same who afterwards wrot himself in the Titles of his books Ricard Vitus Basingtochius Jun. 5. Lawr. Tomson Nov. 27 Tho. Kingsmill of Magd. Coll. Feb. 19. Will. Sheperey of C. C. Coll. The same who afterwards wrot himself in the Title of a learned book which he published Guliel Scepraeus Adm. 50. Mast of Arts. Dec. 14. Joh. Watkyns of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and Dean of Hereford See among the Bach. of Div. 1569. Feb. 16. Pet. Morwyn or Morwyng of Magd. Coll. In the said month of Feb. did supplicate for the said Degree Pet. Levens of the same Coll. but whether admitted it appears not however in his Book intit The path way to health he writes himself M. of A. of Oxon. Adm. 18. ☞ This year was but one Bach. of Law admitted and but three that supplicated As for Physick not one was adm Bach. or supplicated in that Faculty Bach. of Div. Dec. 18. Will. Bocher or Butcher President of C. C. C. He was the only Bach. of that Fac. who was admitted this year Soon after he left his Presidentship being in animo Catholicus and retiring to his small Cure at Dounsbourne Militis near Cirencester in Glocestershire lived there obscurely many years At length giving way to fate was buried in the Church there on the first of Nov. 1585. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Nov. 27. Thomas Coveney President of Magd. Coll. He was deprived of his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winchester in his Visitation of that Coll. 25 Sept. 1561 either for being not in sacred Orders or for that he was a R. Cath. and refused the Oath of Supremacy Howsoever it is sure I am that he was admitted Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisb. in Jul. 1563. For the said Degree supplicated Job Dotyn of Exeter Coll. whom I have mention'd under the year 1534 and James Good M. A. and Bach. of Phys whom I shall mention in the next year Doct. of Div. Dec. 9. Francis Babyngton Master of Ball. Coll. This person who was originally of All 's Coll. did proceed M. of A. in an Act celebrated 16 Jul. 1554 was elected one of the Proctors of the University 18 Apr. 1557 admitted Bach. of Div. in July 1558 Master of Ball. Coll. 5 Sept. 1559. D. of D. 9 Dec. this year as before 't is told you Commissary or Vicechanc. of the University 21 May Rector of Linc. Coll. in August and Margaret Professour about the latter end of 1560. Which sudden and quick Promotions are not to be attributed to the deserts of the Person but to the emptiness of the University at this time to the want of Theologists to perform Offices and that any one in a manner proceeded as he or they pleased An. Dom. 1560. An. 2 Elizab. An. 3 Elizab. Chanc. Sir John Mason Knight Commiss Franc. Babyngton D. D. designed by the Chancellours Letters dated 21 May Dr. Warner having then or before resigned Proct. Rob. Leech of Ch. Ch. Tho. Scot of Trin. Coll. elected 24 April Bach. of Arts. Jul. 23. Edm. Bunney of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards eminent for the Books which he published Nov. 28. Edm. Campian Greg. Martin of S. John's Coll. Both afterwards stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. Cause Jan. 27. Edm. Raynolds of C. C. Coll. See more among the Masters of Arts 1564. Adm. in all 47. Bach. of Civ Law Eight this year were admitted of whom Thom. Tookey of All 's Coll. was one afterwards Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Carlile Two or more of the others were also Dignitaries Mast of Arts. May 27. Rob. Pointz John Fowler of New Coll. 28. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll. June 26. John Pratt of Brasn Coll. now Archdeacon of S. Davids and a Compounder for his Degr. Admitted 19. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Will. Stock of S. John's Coll. This person who was a Herefordshire man born was originally of Brasn Coll. from whence for
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
Brook I have spoken at large among the Writers under the year 1628. An. Dom. 1589. An. 31 Elizab. An. 32 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton Kt. who by the death of Robert Dudley Earl of Leycester became also High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge Vicechanc. Nich. Bond D. D. President of Magd. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. John Harding of Magd. Coll. John King of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Will. Thorne of New Coll. June 25. Sebast Benefeild of C. C. Coll. July 12. George Benson of Queens Coll. See more among the Doctors of Div. an 1607. Nov. 5. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Dec. 1. Tho. Frith of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Divin 1605. 17. Edmund Griffyth of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bangor Feb. 11. John Tapsell See among the Doct. of Div. 1617. Adm. 104. Bach. of Law June 30. Will. Gager July 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. See more among the Doctors of the Civ Law this year In the month of April this year Edwyn Sandys of C. C. Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Law but was not admitted Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. June 9. George Warwick of Qu. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Carlile in the place as I suppose of Hen. Dethick 18. Christoph Sutton of Linc. 21. Griffith Powell of Jes Coll. 27. John Budden of Gloc. Hall lately of Trin. Coll. July 4. Rich. Brett Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. 11. George Cranmer Dec. 5. Alexand. Gill. of C. C. Coll. Adm. 74. Bach. of Phys Nov. 4. John Case the noted Philosopher of S. Johns Coll. Besides him was only one admitted and another licensed to practise Medecine Bach. of Div. July 6. Thomas Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mar. 21. Giles Tomson of All 's John Spenser of C. C. Coll. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Hen. Manning of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Exet. and died in 1614. Jun. 30. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law Joh. Estmond of New Coll. was admitted the same day He was now Principal of Nâ—w Inn. Jul. 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. He was lately one of the Proctors of the University afterwards Vicar Gen. in Spirituals to the Archb. of York Prebendary of Langtoft in the Church of York Chancellour to Qu. Anne a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury In the beginning of 1617 he was sent Embassadour to Bruxelis to question the Archduke in behalf of his Master the King of Great Britain concerning a late famous Libel wrot and published as 't was supposed by Erycius Puteanus who neither apprehended the Author nor suppressed the Book untill he was sollicited by the Kings Agent there only interdicted it and suffered the Author to fly his Dominions Afterwards in 1621 the said Sir Joh. Bennet was for bribery corruption and exaction in his place of Judge of the Prerogative first committed to custody to the Sheriff of London then to prison afterwards fined 20000 l. and at length deprived of his place of Judicature till such time that he had restored what he had unjustly taken away He died in the Parish of Christ Church in London in the beginning of 1627 and was buried I suppose in the Church there July 11. Thomas Crompton M. A. of Merton Coll. His Grace had before been denied because he was suspected to have something of a Papist in him but afterwards making a protestation of his Religion according to the Church of England in a solemn Congregation of Regents he was permitted then July 11. to proceed He was afterwards a Knight Judge of the Court of Admiralty and one of the first Burgesses that the Members of this University chose to sit in after they had been impowr'd to send them to Parliament He died in the latter end of 1608 having before as I conceive been engaged in the Earl of Essex his Treasons Doct. of Phys June 30. John Bentley of Ch. Church Nov. 4. Joh. Case of S. Johns Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Physick and were learned men Doct. of Div. July 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Dean of Worcester as I have before told you among the Writers Creations June 16. Sir Charles Blount Kt. He was originally of this University was afterwards Earl of Devonshire and dying in 1606 left behind him a natural Son named Montjoy Blount created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight by K. Charles I. which Montjoy dying in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon. 12 Feb. 1665 was buried in the south Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church near to the Grave of Will Lord Grandison the King with his Court having about that time left Oxon to which place he before had retired to avoid the Plague raging in London Sir Charles Danvers Kt. was actually created M. A. the same day He was afterwards beheaded on Tower hill near London for being deeply engaged in the Earl of Essex's Treasons an 1601. Sept. 17. Ferdinando Lord Strange He was soon after Earl of Derby and dying in the flower of his Youth not without suspicion of poyson on the 16 of Apr. 1594 having enjoyed his Earldom but for a little time was buried near to the body of his Father in a Chappel joyning to the Church of Ormeskirke in Lancashire Sept. 17. Sir George Carew Kt. He was afterwards Earl of Totness Sir John Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire Kt. All which were actually created Masters of Arts. An. Dom. 1590. 32 Elizab. 33 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 16 who in 1581 had undergone the same Office Proct. Jasp Colmer of Mert. Coll. Jeh Evelegh of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Tho. Bastard of New Jul. 9. Joh. Davies of Queens Coll. George Carew of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day Quaere Dec. 14. Thom. Cooper or Couper of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1600. Feb. 5. Sam. Page Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. The two last I shall mention among the Writers in the second Volume Feb. 5. Mathew Lister Lionel Day of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Incorporations an 1605 and of the other who was originally of S. Albans Hall among the Bach. of Div. 1608. 10. Lancelot Bulkley of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland Adm. 133. Bach. of Law May 2. John Owen of New Coll. the Epigrammatist Feb. 2. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. This person whom I have mention'd among the Masters in 1587 was Proctor of the University two years after and travelling beyond the Seas return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman In 1607 June 28. he received the honor of Knighthood at Richmond was sent Embassadour into the Low Countries soon after made Secretary of State 29 Mar. 1614 being the very day that Sir Tho. Lake was
him among the Masters 1610. Jul. 8. Edw. Chaloner of Magd Coll. Oct. 17. Joh. Reading of Magd. Hall 20. Arth. Hopton of Linc. Joh. Wylde of Balliol Coll. Of the last of these two see more among the M. of A. an 1610. Dec. 9. Edw. Seimour of Magd. Coll. Son of Edward Lord Beauchamp Son of Edw. Earl of Hertford Will. Seimour of the same College younger Brother to the said Edward was admitted the same day This William Seimour was afterwards Earl and Marquess of Hertford Chancellour of this University and at length Duke of Somerset He died 24 Oct. 1660. Feb. 1. Roger Manwaring of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. David 5. Tho. Hobbes of Magd Hall He was afterwards the famous Philosopher and Mathematician of Malmsbury 25. Giles Widdowes of Oriel Coll. As for Robinson Reading Manwaring Hobbes and Widdowes there will be a large mention made of them in the other Volume of this Work Adm. 154. Bach. of Law Apr. 21. Joh. Reinolds of New Dec. 16. Arth. Duck of All 's Coll. Besides these two was but one more admitted this year Mast of Arts. Jun. 12. Sim. Birckbek of Queens Coll. 18. Nathan Pownoll of Ch. Ch. Rich. Tillesley of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Tho. Baylie of Magd. Oct. 20. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Dec. 14. Rich. Capell of Magd. Coll. Adm. 101. Bach. of Physick June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll. 28. Edm. Dean of S. Alb. Hall Besides these two was but one more Will. Barker of S. Maries Hall admitted Bach. of Div. Apr. 23. Rich. Moket of All 's Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll. Jul. 9. Mich. Boyle of S. Joh. Joh. Bancroft of Ch. Ch. Coll. Which two last were afterwards Bishops 18. Will. Gilbert of Magd. Coll. Whether he be the same Will. Gilbert who was afterwards D. of D. and Minister of Orset in Essex where he died about 1640. I know not Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Jan. 14. Thomas Gwynne of All 's Coll. He was afterwards or about this time Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury as the cat of the Fellows of that Coll. tells us but falsely and Chancellour of Landaff He was a Benefactor to Jesus Coll. in Oxon as you may see elsewhere and lived if I mistake not till the Reign of Oliver Protector Doct. of Phys Jul. 4. Will. Barker of S. Maries Hall He was a learned Physitian but whether he hath published any thing I know not Doct. of Div. July 8. Will. Wilson of Mert. Coll. In 1584 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Will. Wickham promoted to the See of Lincoln being about that time Chaplain to Edmund Archb. of Canterbury Afterwards he became Prebendary of Rochester and Rector of Clyve or Cliffe in Kent He died 14 May 1615 aged 73 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore near to the Body of his Father and not in the Cath. Ch. at Rochester near to the Bodies of his sometimes Wives Isabel and Anne Charles Sonibanke of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Salopian born and originally of S. Maries Hall was now Canon of Windsore Rector of Hasely in the County of Oxon and possessor of the Donative of Wrotham in Kent I have seen a Sermon of his intit The Evenuchs conversion preached at Pauls Cross on Acts 8. 26 27 28 c. Lond. 1617 qu. And what else he hath published I know not Quaere He died on the 12 Oct. 1638 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Haseley before mention'd Jul. 8. Rich. Pilkington of Queens Coll. Francis Bradshaw of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was born of a gentile Family in Bucks was a Dignitary in the Church and hath written certain matters of Divinity as some Antients of his Coll. have told me yet all that I have seen which he hath published is only a Sermon intit The Worlds wisdome or the Politicians religion on Psal 14. 1. Oxon. 1598 oct July 8. Mathew Davies of New Coll. He was Brother to Sir Joh. Davies whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1626. George Benson of Queens Coll. was admitted the same day He was about this time Canon residentiary of Hereford and Parson of Rock in Worcestershire Author of A Sermon at Pauls Cross on Hosea 7. from ver 7. to 12. Lond. 1609. qu. and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen He was born of a gentile Family in Westmorland was Fellow of Qu. Coll. Proctor of the University and died at Rock I think about 1647. Jan. 14. Geor. Darrel of All 's Coll. This Person who was Brother to Sir Marmaduke Darrel Cofferer of his Majesties Houshold was installed Canon of the sixth Stall in the Collegiate Church of Westminster on the 8 of June this year in the place of Dr. Griff. Lewys deceased and dying on the last of Oct. 1631 Pet. Heylyn Bach. of Div. was nominated to succeed him the next day and accordingly was installed on the 9 of Nov. Incorporations May 16. Thom. Bell M. of A. of Cambr. One of both his names had been a Rom. Catholick afterwards a Protestant and a Writer and Publisher of several Books against the Papists from 1593 to 1610 and after as the Oxford Catalogue will partly tell you Quaere whether the same July 14. Patrick Kinnimond M. A. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland He was afterwards benificed in Dorsetshire Anth. Cade M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day He hath published A justification of the Church of England Lond. 1630. qu. and certain Sermons as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you Rob. Abbot M. A. of the same University was incororated the same day He was afterwards Vicar of Cranbrook in Kent a sider with the Presbyterians in the Rebellion which began in 1642 was Minister of Southwick in Hampshire and at length of S. Austin's Church in Watling street near S. Paul's Cath. in London where after he had been tumbled and tossed to and fro enjoyed himself quietly for some years in his old Age. He hath written and published several things among which are 1 Four Sermons c. Lond. 1639 oct dedicated to Walter Curle Bishop of Winchester to whom he had been Servant who then exhibited to his two Sons one at Oxon and another at Cambr. 2 Tryal of our Church for sakers c. on Heb. 10. 23. Lond. 1639 oct 3 Milk for Babes or a Mothers Catechism for her Children Lond. 1646. oct 4 Thâ—ee Sermons printed with the former book 5 A Christian Family builded God or directions for Governours of Families Lond. 1653. oct At which time the Author was two years above the great climecterical year Other things he hath also published among which is Be thankful London and her Sisters Sermon on Psal 31. 21. Lond. 1626. qu. which for brevity sake I shall now omit Creations Jul. 14. The most noble John Kennedi a Knight of the illustrious Family of the Earls of Cashills in Ireland
of Mrs. Mary Swaine the Wife of Mr. Will. Swaine at St. Botolphs without Aldersgate on Luke 10. 42. Lond. 1611. oct and perhaps other things He died about the beginning of November this year 1614 and was buried I presume in his Church of St. Martin beforementioned Mar. 23. Philip King M. A. of the same University Another of both his names was of this University as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1618. and 1645. This year Charles de Beauvais of the Isle of Guernsey a young Man most conversant in the study of learned arts was entred a Student in Bodies Library but whether he was matriculated as a member of any Coll. or Hall it appears not He is the same Ch. de Beauvais without doubt who was afterwards Author of 1 Dedisciplinis scientiis in genere de recto ordine quo sunt in Scholis Academiis docendae c. 2 Recta delineatio disciplinae Vniversalis seu primae Philosophiae itemque Logicae Which two were printed at Lond. 1648. in oct 3 Exercitations concerning the pure and true and the impure and false religion Lond. 1665. oct at which time the Author was Rector of Witheham in Sussex An. Dom. 1615. An. 13. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Egerton Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again July 17. Proct. Hugh Dicus of Brasn Coll. Richard Baylie of St. John Coll. Apr. 19. Bach. of Arts. May 4. John Bayly of Exet. Coll. 5. Steph. Geree of Magd. Hall July 5. Cornelius Burges of Wadh. 7. Charles Herle of Exeter Nov. 9. Francis Gough of New Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Dec. 13. James Lamb of Brasn College afterwards of St. Maries Hall Feb. 5. Thom. Twittie of Oriel 6. Thom. Paybody of Merton Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1633 and of the other among the Masters of Arts an 1624. 7. John Brian of Queen Coll. I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same John Brian who published a funeral Sermon called The vertuous Daughter on Prov. 31. ver 29. Lond. 1636. qu. c. and perhaps other things Quaere 26. Alexander Gill Son of Alexander lately of Trin. Coll. now of Wadham and afterwards of Trinity again Five of these Bachelaurs namely Geree Burges Herle Lamb and Gill will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 203. Bach. of Law June Tho Merriot John South John Crook of New Coll. The first who will be mention'd in the next volume was a good Latinist and Orator The second was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue and at length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Hyde Chauntor of Salisbury 24. Sept. 1666. He died at Writtle in Essex of which place he was Vicar in August 1672 and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Chauntorship was confer'd on Dr. Dan. Whitbye of Trin. Coll. As for the last John Crook he was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. 〈◊〉 Winchester Prebendary of the Cathedral there and Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magd. near to that City Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. May 3. Jerem. Stephens of Brasn 20. Will. Nicholson of Magd. Coll. Jun. 15. Rob. Weldon Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. 17. Will. Thomas of Brasn Tho. Vicaâ— of Qu. 27. Griff. Higgs of Mert. Coll. Admitted 106. Bach. of Div. July 13. Sampson Price of Exeter Coll. Nov. 23. Edm. Gunter Samuel Fell Hen. Whistler of Trin. of Ch. Ch. Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. March 4. Fredericus Dorvilius of Exeter Coll. He writes himself Aquisgranensis natione Palatinus educatione being at this time a Sojournour in the said Coll. for the sake of Dr. Prideaux the Rector whom he much admired Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick July 3. Clement Westcombe of New Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in Physick He was about this time held in great value for the happy success in the practice of his faculty in and near the City of Exeter where he died in 1652 or thereabouts Doct. of Div. Mar. 27. Sam. Radcliff Principal June 17. John Barnston of Brasn Coll. The last of which who was now Chaplain to Egerton Lord Chancellour of England was about this time Canon Residentiary of Salisbury and afterwards a Benefactor to learning as I have told you elsewhere He lived to see himself outed of his spiritualities and dying 30. May 1645 was buried as it seems at Everton in Wilts Jun. 27. â—arnab Potter of Queens July 6. John King of Merton Coll. The last of these two was installed Canon or Preb. of the twelfth and last stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster on the death of Dr. Will. Barlow Bish of Linc. an 1613 and this year 1615 Nov. 23 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Mardoche Aldem deceased He died 7. Aug. 1638 and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. See more among the Creations in the year following Feb. 27. Jasper Swyft of Ch. Ch. March 14. John Barcham of C. C. 21. John Davies of Lincoln Coll. Incorporations July 11. Will. Spicer Bach. of Law of Cambridge See among the Incorporations 1618. Abraham Gibson M. A. of the said University was incorporated the same day and again on the 15. July 1617. This Person who was afterwards Preacher to the Temples in London hath published 1 The Lands mourning for vain swearing Sermon on Jerem. 23. 10. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Christianae-polemica or a narrative to War Serm. at Wool-church in London before the Captains and Gentlemen of exercise in the Attillery-garden on Judg. 7. 18. Lond. 1619. oct and not unlikely other things He was afterwards D. of D. and dying in or near one of the Temples was buried near to the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Temples 5. Januar. 1629. July 11. Godfrey Goodman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge See more of him among the Bishops in Miles Smith an 1624. Samuel Purchas Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day This worthy Divine who is by some stiled our English Ptolemy was born in the County of Essex either at Dunmow or Thacksted but in what Coll. or Hall in Cambridge educated I cannot yet tell After he had left the University he became Minister of Eastwood in Rochford hundred in his own Country but being desirous to forward and prosecute his natural Genie he had to the collecting and writing of voyages travels and pilgrimages left his cure to his Brother and by the favour of the Bishop of London got to be Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate He hath written and published 1 Pilgrimage or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered from the Creation to this present c. in 4 parts Lond. 1614. fol. second edit and there again 1626. fol. 2 Purchas his Pâ—â—grims
the next month into Scotland This worthy Doctor who was Son of Thomas Turner of Heckfield in Hampshire Alderman and Mayor of Reading in Berkshire was born in the Parish of St. Giles within the said borough and admitted Scholar of St. Johns Coll. in 1610 being their put under the tuition of Mr. Will. Juxon who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury After he had entred into holy orders he became a practical useful Preacher which he kept up to the very last and was much resorted to by those whose principles were orthodox Afterwards he was made domestick Chaplain to Bishop Laud Chaplain in ordinary to King Char. 1. Canon residentiary of St. Paul and Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Hen. King promoted to the See of Chichester in which Dignity he was installed 26. Feb. 1641. Soon after he was sequestred from his Church of St. Olave in Southwark plundered carried thence Prisoner by a Party of Horse and at length forced to fly to save his life In 1643 he had the Deanery of Canterbury bestowed on him by his Majesty on the death of Dr. George Eglionby so that he constantly adhering to the cause of his Master in the worst of his calamities particularly at Hampton-court and afterwards in the Isle of Wight suffered afterwards great misery himself during the times of Usurpation which he bore with a good courage being then as always before esteemed a great exemplar of humility most Christian simplicity and of most fervent zeal to the Church After the restauration of King Charles 2. he contented himself only with those spiritualities which he before had lost for his loyalty and dying on the eighth day of Octob. 1672 aged 81 or thereabouts was buried on the 17 of the same month within the Cathedral Church of Canterbury At which time Dr. Peter du Moulin preaching a funeral Sermon did speak honorably of the Person that then laid dead before him to which Sermon being extant I refer the reader He the said Dr. Turner hath published A Sermon preached at Whitehall on Matth. 9. 13. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He left behind him several Sons which he had by his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Francis Windebanke Knight sometimes Secretary of State to King Charles 1. of whom Francis was one now Bishop of Ely Apr. 3. Rich. Doughtie Fellow of All 's Coll. was actually created M. of A. which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1634. An. 10. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Rob. Pinke D. of D. Warden of New Coll. July 26. Proct. Herbert Pelham of Magd. Coll. John Warren of Wadham Coll. Apr. 16. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. Thom. Gawen 24. George Kendall of New Coll. Inn. June 18. Josias How of Trin. Coll. See among the created Bachelaurs of Div. an 1646. 20. Rob. Waring 21. Hen. Gregory of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1637. July 8. John Maplet of Ch. Ch. July 9. Ralph Brideoake Nov. 11. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Chichester 20. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall Jan. 15. Hen. Janson of Ball. afterwards of Allsouls Coll. 24. Hen. Hall of Lincolne Christopher Merret of Oriel Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry in Ireland The other was afterwards of Glocester Hall and an eminent Physician Feb. 6. Nathan Heigmore of Trin. Job Fountaine of C. C. Coll. The last of these two was originally of Linc. Coll. See more among the Masters of Art in 1637. Feb… Will. Taylor of Magd. Hall All these Bachelaurs except Henry Gregory will be mention'd elsewhere Admitted 216. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Nineteen were admitted this year among whom George Wild of St. Johns Coll. was one Feb. 7. afterwards Bishop of Londonderry in Ireland as I shall tell you at large in the next Volume Mast of Arts. Apr. 24. Tho. Wood of Ch. Ch. 29. Rich. Allein of New Inn lately of St. Alb. Hall Jun. 11. John Wilkins Nich. Clagett Walt. Bushnell of Magd. Hall The first of these there was afterwards Bishop of Chester as I should have told you under the year 1631 and Clagett had before been of Mert. Coll. 14. Tim. Taylor late of Qu. Coll. now of St. Maries Hall June 28. Dan. Whitby of Brasn July 2. Joh. Toy of Pemb. Coll. Oct. 29. Christoph Fowler of St. Edm. Hall Dec. 5. Will. Rowland of Exet. Coll. Jan. 29. John Warner Rich. Hayter of Magd. Coll. Feb. 5. Will. Thomas of Jes Coll. Admitted 150. Bach. of Phys Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. Hall Besides him were five more admitted the first of whom was John Dixon of Gloc. hall and the last John Aubrey of Magd. Coll. but not one of them was afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. Mar. 26. John Hoffman of Exeter Coll. He was the Son of John Hoffman a Merchant of Elsentia in the Palatinat of Germany was about this time Rector of Wotton near to Wodstock in Oxfordshire which place he kept during the time of the rebellion being himself a Presbyterian and published The Principles of Christian Religion in 30 questions and answers Lond. 1674. oct and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He died soon after and was buried at Wotton beforemention'd June 26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. Coll. Admitted 12. Doct. of Law July 5. George Ryves of All 's 23. Tho. Heath of Merton Coll. The last of these two was about this time Chancellour of Peterborough where continuing till that office was annull'd and all matters relating to the Church tending to ruine he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion for that of Rome and lived ever after especially in his last days in so great poverty at Gant in Flanders that he was mostly sustained by the almes of the Monastery of English Nuns there and partly by the contribution of some charitable Persons in that town He died on the second day of Febr. 1680. according to the accompt there followed and was buried by the charity of others having nothing of his own in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas near to the said Monastery Doct. of Phys Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. hall He accumulated the Degrees in Physick and was the only proceeder in his faculty this year He is now living in Convent-garden near Lond. 1690. Doct. of Div. Mar. 26. Morgan Wynne of All 's Coll. In the beginning of Dec. 1629. he became Archdeacon of Lincolne but in whose room I cannot tell for between the death of Dr. John Hills which hapned in 1626 to Nov. 1629 that Dignity was enjoyed by one as yet unknown to me This Dr. Wynne who was Rector of Scotter in Lincolnshire died and was buried at Scotter as it seems an 1644. Whereupon Raphael Throckmorton succeeded him an 1645. May 10. John Morris Hebrew Professor of the University and Canon of Ch. Ch. sometimes
and afterwards to K. Ch. 1. was installed Dean of Glocester after Dr. Tho. Winniff's removal to the Deanery of St. Pauls on the eleventh of June 1631 and on the 25. of Aug. or thereabouts following became Dean of Wells on the death of Ralph Barlow He hath published King Melchizedek Serm. at Court at East-hamstead 2. Sept. 1623. Lond. 1623. qu. and whether any thing else I cannot yet tell In 1640 he went to London to attend the Convocation of the Clergy that began with the Long Parliament and dying in Drury-lane in the month of Dec. or thereabouts an 1641 was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Walt. Rawleigh James Hena or Hannay a Scot. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. He was admitted to the Deanery of Wells 13. January 1641. Edw. Burby of Linc. Coll. He was now Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was before enjoyed by Ranulph Barlow D. D. of Cambridge George Gillingham of Pemb. Coll. He was at this time one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 2. Nov. 1639 was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Elly deceased He had other preferments and died 16. Dec. 1668 being then Rector of Chalton in Hampshire Daniel Escott Warden of Wadham Coll. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Morgan Owen of Jes Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne and the last Bishop of Landaff Samuel Marsh of Trin. Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University and at this time Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Sarum Steph. Goffe or Gough of St. Albans Hall lately of Mert. Coll. This Person who was Son of Steph. Goffe the puritanical Minister of Stanmer in Sussex travelled into the Low-countries after he had taken his Masters Degree and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Col. H. Vere whereby he gained good acquaintance and experience which wound him at his return so much into the favour of Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of St. Alban that he was made one of the Kings Chaplains by which title he was created Doctor of Divinity and afterwards employed in the quality of a minor Agent and Envoy into France then into Flanders Holland and other Countries c. In the time of the rebellion he also acted much for his Master in several Countries beyond the Seas and did him great Service but when he saw the English Church ruin'd and Monarchy declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and was thereupon taken into the society of the Oratorians at Paris an order very famous there tho but little known among us The brethren whereof having liberty to improve their particular estates for things are not common among them as with other orders he grew rich upon the stock which he had formerly gathered together by his endeavours whereby he was in capacity sometimes to do courtesies for his exil'd Countrymen Abrah Cowley the Prince of Poets was while at Paris preferr'd and plac'd by him tho the story is perverted in the Family of the said noble Henry then Lord Jermyn Through whose heroical bounty he was afterwards design'd to the Mastership of the Savoy but by certain enemies to the Muses was depriv'd of it Afterwards Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother to whom Goffe was Chaplain committed to the said Goffs care the tuition of the natural Son of K. Ch. 2. known then by the name of James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth with whom continuing till he was about nine years of age was taken from him and committed to the care of a Gentleman called Rose or Rosse who after his Majesties restauration went Secretary to Henry Coventry Esq in his Embassy into Sweeden This Doctor Goffe who was esteemed by some a learned Man and well read in the Fathers and therefore respected by Gerard Jo. Vossius and others died in the house of the Fathers or Brethren of the Oratory situated in the street called St. Howrè at Paris on Christmas day according to our account an 1681. aged 76 or thereabouts and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that house What writings of his are published besides Nine Latin Epistles to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius and his Negotiations taken by the Rebels at the battel at Sherburne in Yorkshire which with George Lord Digby's Cabinet and other things were published at Lond. in qu. 1646. I know not He had a younger Brother named John Goffe who was a true Son of the Church of England as I shall tell you among the Writers under the year 1661. and another called William originally a Salter or a Hatter as some day in London who closing with the Presbyterians in the time of the Rebellion became a Colonel great with Oliv. Cromwell one of the Judges of King Char. 1. and a member of the other house that is one of Olivers Lords See more in the Fasti an 1649. among the Creations Rich. Marsh of the University of Cambridge lately Chaplain to Archb. Laud afterwards to his Maj. Ch. 1. He was now Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York and soon after Vicar of Halyfax in the room of Hen. Ramsden deceased In Nov. 1644. he had the Deanery of York conferr'd upon him on the death of Dr. Job Scot who died in the Kings bench Prison in Southwark At which time his Majesty being at Oxon Dr. Pet. Heylyn endeavoured by his friends to obtain that Dignity but was put aside After his Majesties restauration he was elected 17. of Aug. and installed 20. of the same month an 1660. and dying 13. Oct. 1663. aged 78 was buried near to the grave of Matthew Hutton sometimes Archbishop of York in the South Isle joyning to the Cath. Church there In his Deanery succeeded Will. Sandcroft D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26. Feb. 1663 who being removed to the Deanery of St. Pauls Cathedral in London Dr. Rob. Hitch of the same University succeeded in Dec. 1664. Dr. Marsh hath one or more Sermons extant Edw. Morton lately M. of A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge now Rector of Sefton in Lancashire Chaplain to the Lord Keeper and Prebendary of Chester He was born of an antient Family at Morton in Cheshire and was Father to Dr. Will. Moreton Bishop of Kildare in Ireland Samps Johnson of Magd. Coll. Thomas Whittington Thomas Manwaring of Brasn Coll. Meric Casaubon Edw. Thornborough of Ch. Ch. The last of these two was Son of Dr. Jo. Thornborough Bishop of Worcester was now Archdeacon of Worcester who dying in 1645 Will. Hodges Bach. of Div. of Oxon was admitted in his place 30. of May the same year Mich. Reade of Linc. Will. Haywood of St. Jo. Coll. Laur. Pay of Ch. Ch. These were all the Doctors of Divinity that were then created Afterwards these noble Persons were created in Oct. following Oct. 14. The most illustrious and high born Prince Christianus Landtgrave of Hassia Count in Catzenellebogen Dieza Ziegenhain and Nidda was diplomated Master of Arts. The most illustrious and high born Prince
to that Declaration and not according to the antient Laws and Customs of the Land and Church Wherefore he being uncertain whether the Kings Declaration would stand or pass into a Law he delayed to see the certainty and when he saw that the Declaration was dead and Prelacy was as 't was before he utterly refused it So that continuing in the said Cure of S. Mary Aldermanbury till S. Bartholomew's day in 1662 he was then ejected for Nonconformity Notwithstanding which he preached soon after in the said Church on a Sunday and on the 28 of Dec. following when then among other dangerous passages he said the Ark of God was lost and the glory was departed from Israel For which his contempt to the then late Act of Parliament for Uniformity he was by virtue of the L. Mayor's Mittimus committed Prisoner to Newgate on the 6 Jan. 1662 where continuing for some time Dr. Rob. Wild the Presbyterian Poet made and published a Poem on his Imprisonment as did the Author called Hudibras Most of the things that he hath written and published are Sermons seven of which at least were preached before the Long Parliament as 1 Englands looking glass before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 22 Dec. 1641 on Jer. 18. 7 8 9 10. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Gods free mercy to England before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 23 Feb. 1641 on Ezek. 36. 32. Lond. 1642. qu. 3 The Noblemans pattern of true and real thankfulness at a solemn Thanksgiving 15 Jun. 1643 on Josh 24. 15. Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Englands antidote against the plague of Civ War before the House of Commons at their Fast on Acts 17. latter part of the 13 verse Lond. 1645. qu. 5 An indictment against England because of her self-murdering divisions before the House of Lords at their Fast 25 Dec. Christmas day 1644 on Math. 12. 25. latter part Lond. 1645. qu. c. Afterwards he published The great danger of Covenant refusing and Covenant breaking c. preached before the L. Mayor Sheriffs Aldermen Ministers c. of London on 2 Tim. 3. 3. Lond. 1646. qu. Serm. at the funeral of Sam. Bolton another before the L. Mayor called The monster of self-seeking anatomized five Sermons entit The godly mans ark or a city of refuge in the day of his distress printed several times in tw The eighth Edition of which was printed at Lond. 1683. The first Sermon was preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Moore to which are added her Evidences for Heaven and the other four were preached on several occasions Another Serm. to the native Citizens of London called The City remembrancer in oct Sermon at the funeral of Rob. Earl of Warwick an 1658. Sermon at the funeral of Simeon Ash an 1662 and about the same time A farewel Sermon when he was to leave S. Mary Aldermanbury c. He hath also written A just and necessary Apology against an unjust invective published by Mr. Hen. Burton in a late book of his entit Truth still Truth though shut out of doors c. Lond. 1646. qu. Also The art of divine Meditation in oct and A leading case c. At length having lived to a fair age gave way to fate in Octob. 1666 being soon after the grand Conflagration of the City of London which hastned his end but where buried unless within the precincts of the Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury which a little before was consumed by the said Fire I cannot yet tell He left behind him a son named Benjamin afterwards D. of D. a loyal person excellent preacher and a zealous man for the Church of England Of Edm. Calamy see more in Jos Caryl in the other Vol. Jul. 10. Thom. Fleetwood Doctor of the Laws of Padua He was now or lately of All 's Coll. Oct. 12. George Hammond Scholar of Trin. Coll. near to Dublin and Bach. of Arts there Nov. 9. Dudley Loftus of Trin. Coll. before mention'd was incorporated Bach. of Arts as he had stood there which degree was confer'd upon him in that University Dublin 19 Jan. 1637. Dec. 17. Richard Rolle Bach. of Arts of Cambr. He was now of Gloc. Hall but originally of New Inn which is all I know of him March 16. Edw. Harrison Bach. of Arts of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge Creations Jun. 14. Joh. Birkenhead of Oriel Coll. was declared Master of Arts and admitted to the degree in the Congregation house by virtue of the Diploma of the Archb. of Canterbury dated 5 Octob. 1639. I shall make mention of this person at large in the second Volume of this Work An. Dom. 1640. An. 16 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Christop Potter D. D. Provost of Queens Coll. and Dean of Worcester Proct. Peter Allibond of Linc. Coll. Nich. Greaves of All 's Coll. Apr. 15. But the senior dying in the Parish of S. Bride in London about the beginning of Feb. Will. Watson of the same Coll. was within few days after elected into his place and admitted according to the Caroline Cycle Bach. of Musick July 9. Arthur Philipps Organist of Magd. Coll. and publick Professor of the musical Praxis of this University Afterwards upon the change of the times and a perfect foresight of the ruin of the Church he changed his Religion for that of Rome and became Organist to Henrietta Maria Qu. of England From whose service being dismist he returned into England and was entertained by a Roman Catholick Gent. called Caryll of Sussex He hath made several vocal compositions of two and three parts which have been tried and commended by several great Masters of Musick but whether any of them are extant I cannot yet tell One Pet. Philipps an English man and Organist to Albert the Archduke of Austria hath composed and published Madrigals for eight voices Antwerp 1599. qu. dedicated to Sir Will. Stanley a Colonel of a Regiment of English and Walloons To which Peter Philipps Arthur before mention'd was nearly related if not descended from him Bach. of Arts. Apr. 22. Humph. Brooke of S. Johns Coll. June 4. Henr. Stanhope of Exeter Coll. Son of the Earl of Chesterfield George Jolliff of Pembr afterwards of Wadham College was admitted the same day 11. Sim. Ford of Magd. Hall July 7. Martin Llewellin of Ch. Ch. Oct. 24. John Fell Rich. Allestrie of Ch. Ch. Nov. 3. Will. Joyner of Magd. Coll. 6. George Strading of Jesus afterwards of Allsoules Coll. See among the created Doct. of Div. 1661. 10. Philip Stephens of S. Alb. Hall See among the Doct. of Phys an 1633. Feb. 9. Will. Jackson of Magdalen afterwards of Brasnose Coll. a noted Grammarian All which Bachelaurs except Stanhope will be at large mention'd elsewhere Adm. 181. Bach. of Law May 19. Rich. Whitlock of All 's Coll. 21. John Manley of Magd. Hall He afterwards as it seems studied the common Law and became eminent therein Besides these two were nine more admitted among whom Joh. Hall
John Philipot of Kent Herald of Arms by the title of Somerset by Susan his Wife only daughter and heir of Will. Glover Brother to that most skilful Genealogist Robert Glover Somerset Herald was educated in Clare Hall commenced M. of A. and was by those that well knew him esteemed a tolerable Poet when young and at riper years well vers'd in matters of Divinity History and Antiquities He hath extant under his name 1 Elegies offered up to the memory of Will Glover Esq late of Shaldeston in Bucks Lond. 1641. qu. 2 A congratulatory elegy offered up to the Earl of Essex upon his investiture with the dignity of Lord Chamberlayne Lond. 1641. qu. 3 Poems Lond. 1646. oct 4 Villare Cantianum or Kent surveyed and illustrated Lond. 1659. and 1664. fol. To which is added An historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent by John Philipot the Father who indeed is the true Author of Viliare Cantianum 5 The Cripples complaint a Serm. printed 1662. qu. 6 The original and growth of the Spanish Monarchy united with the house of Austria Lond. 1664. oct 7 Antiquitas Theologica Gentilis Or two discourses The first concerning the original of Churches and their direct and collateral endowments the second touching the Religion of the Gentiles c. Lond. 1670. in tw 8 Historical discourse of the original and growth of Heraldry pr. 1672. oct 9 Self-homicide-Murther or some Antidotes gleaned out of the Treasuries of our modern Casuists and Divines against that horrid and reigning sin of self-murther Lond. 1674. qu. He hath written and published other things which I have not yet seen among them is The life of Aesop in English and died in 1684 or thereabouts Jul. 15. Will. Blake Doct. of the Civ Law of Padua This Will. Blake who was now or lately Fellow of Wadham Coll. as also Brother to Rob. Blake General at Sea in the Reign of Oliver died at Bridgwater in Somersetshire 1667. Nov… Isaac Basire D. of D. of Cambridge This learned Doctor who had that degree confer'd on him there in July this year and is stiled in the publick Register of this time Vir doctissimus ingenii doctrinae ornamentis praeditus was born in the Isle of Jersey and was about this time one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary and soon after Archdeacon of Northumberland in the place of Ever Gower Bach. of Div. who had that dignity confer'd on him about 1640 by the ceasing of Will. Flathers Bach. of Div. collated thereunto 24 Nov. 1636. In the time of the Rebellion Dr. Bafire fled to Oxon adhered to his Majesties cause preached frequently before him and the Parliament there and was an equal sharer in afflictions with other Loyalists About the year 1646 he left the Nation and travelled into remote Countries purposely to propagate the Doctrine established in the British Church among the Greeks Arabians c. as to the Island of Zante near Peloponesus thence to Morea where the Metropolitan of Achaia prevailed with him to preach twice in Greek at a meeting of some of the Bishops and Clergy From thence after he had travelled thorow Apulia Naples and Sicily in which last place he had been once before he imbarked for Syria where at Aleppo he continued some months and had frequent Conversation with the Patriarch of Antioch From Aleppo he went to Jerusalem and so travell'd all over Palestina At Jerusalem he received much honor both from the Greeks and Latins from the last he procured an entrance into the Temple of the Sepulcher at the rate of a Priest Afterwards returning to Aleppo he passed over Euphrates and went to Mesopotamia Thence to Aleppo again and at length to Constantinople in 1653 in which year he designed to pass into Egypt to survey the Churches of the Cophties there and to confer with the Patriarch of Alexandria as he had done with three Patriarchs besides partly to acquire the knowledge of those Churches and partly to publish ours quantum fert status Afterwards he went into Transylvania and was entertained by Prince George Rogoczi or Rogotzi the second Prince of that Country by whom he was entrusted with the Chair in the Divinity School After the Return of King Charles 2. to his Dominions he took his leave of that Country then in broils returned into England took possession of his Archdeaconry and was made Prebendary of Durham which Dignities he kept to his dying day He hath written 1 Deo ecclesiae sacrum Sacriledge arraigned and condemned by St. Paul Romans 2. 22. Oxon. 1646. qu. Lond. 1668. oct 2 Diatriba de antiqua ecclesiae Britannicae libertate Brugis 1656. oct The MS. of which being found in the Cabinet of John Lord Hopton after his decease by Rich. Watson an exil'd Theologist for his loyalty was by him published at Bruges Afterwards the said Watson translated it into English and put it out under this title The antient liberty of the Britannick Church and the legitimate exemption thereof from the Roman Patriarchate discoursed in four positions Lond. 1661. oct Dedicated by the said Watson by his Epistle dated from Caen in Normandy 12. Aug. 1660. to Sir Rich. Browne Clerk of the Privy Council to his Majesty of Great Britaine he supposing then that Basire the Author had been dead in Transylvania Three chapters or positions of which were selected from a Latin MS. written by F. John Barnes of the order of St. Benedict as I have elsewhere told you 3 Letter to Sir Rich. Browne Resident at Paris for his Majesty of Great Britaine relating his travels and endeavours to propagate the knowledge of the doctrine and discipline established in the Britannick Church among the Greeks Arabians c. dated from Pera near to Constantinople 20. July 1653 and printed at the end of The ancient Liberty of the Britannick Church c. 4 History of the English and Scotch Presbytery c. printed 1659. 60. oct 5 Oratio privata boni Theologi speciatim concionatoris practici partes praecipuas complectens Lond. 1670. in half a sh in oct 6 The dead mans real speech Serm. on Heb. 11. 4. at the funeral of Dr. John Cosin late Bishop of Durham 29. Apr. 1672. Lond. 1673. oct 7 A brief of the life and dignities of the benefactions and principal actions c. of Dr. John Cosin late Bishop of Durham Printed with the former together with An appendix of his profession and practice and of his last will concerning religion This Dr. Basire who without doubt hath published other things paid his last debt to nature in a good old age on the twelfth day of Octob. 1676 and was buried in the Cemetery belonging to the Cathedral of Durham near to the body of an antient servant that had lived many years with him and not by that of his Wife in the Cathedral In his Archdeaconry succeeded Will. Turner Rector of Stanhope in the County Palat. of Durham M. of A. afterwards D. D. and sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll.
raised by the Long Parl. against K. Ch. 1. was cast out of his Benefice of Austie by the Committee of Religion in 1643 as you may see in that diabolical Pamphlet entit The first Century of scandalous and malignant Priests c. pr. 1643. qu. p. 13. and lost other Spiritualities The said Dr. Tho. Mountfort had also another Son named James who succeeded his Father as it seems in the Rectory of Tewing before mention'd who also being a zealous man for the Church of England was thrown out of Tewing by the said Committee as you may see in the said Phmphlet p. 10. Jul. 4. Thom. Pye of Mert. 9. John Prime of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 11. Rob. Devereux Earl of Essex and Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge being then accounted one of the best Poets among the Nobility of England and a person adorned with singular gifts of Nature This Incorporation was the better to capacitate him to be Chancellour of this University when that honourable Office should become void as it shortly after did He had received his Academical Education in Trinity Coll. in Cambridge under the tuition of Dr. John Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury and hath written 1 Advice to Reger Earl of Rutland in his travels MS. the beginning of which is My Lord I hold it a principle in the course c. This MS. which I have in my Library was if I am not mistaken printed in a Book entit Profitable instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all Nations Lond. 1633. oct said in the title to be written by Robert Earl of Essex Sir Philip Sidney c. 2 His apology against those which falsly and malitiously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of his Country written to Sir Anth. Bacon which piece had such esteem among men that they thought that nothing could be more honourably utter'd nor more to the Writers praise so far as belongs to a noble Orator than it 3 Letters to Qu. Elizabeth and Lord Howard c. MS. in bib Bod. 4 His speech and prayer at the time of his Execution printed at the end of Dr. Will. Barlow's Sermon preached at Pauls Cross 1 Mar. 1600. Lond. 1601. oct with other things which I have not yet seen He left behind him when beheaded in 1600 a Son of both his names educated in this University whom I shall mention elsewhere Apr. 11. Abraham Hartwell M. of A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated He was Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Amanuensis to John Archb. of Canterbury a Traveller and at length Rector of Tuddyngton in Bedfordshire He hath written 1 Regina literata seu narratio de regina Elizabetha carmine Lond. 1565. oct 2 Report of the Kingdom of Conge a region in Africa printed 1597 qu. and translated from french into English 4 A true discourse upon the matter of Martha Brossier of Romantin pretended to be possessed by a Devil Lond. 1599. qu. See another Translation made by him in Walt. Haddon mention'd in these Fasti an 1552. July… Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge was also then incorporated He was at this time a pastoral Sonnet-maker and Author of several things which were pleasing to Men and Women of his time They made much sport and were valued among Scholars but since they have been mostly sold on Ballad-mongers stalls The Titles of some of them are these 1 Euphues his censure to Philautas Lond. 1587. qu. 2 A quip for an upstart Courtier or a dispute between Velvet breeches and Cloth breeches Lond. 1592. qu. 3 His mourning Garment given him by repentance at the funerals of Love One Edition of this book was printed at Lond. 1616. qu. 4 His groats worth of wit bought with a million of repentance c. Lond. 1617. qu. second Edit The first Edit was printed after his death and hath at the end of it his Epitaph in six Stanzaes 5 Theeâ—â—s falling out true men come by their goods or the Belman Lady Fitzwaters Nightingale Several times printed 7 His nusquam sera est or a treatise deciphering those particular vanities that hinder youthful Gentlemen from attaining to their intended perfections Several times printed 8 The history of Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay 9 Greens Ghost haunting Cunny Catchers One Ed. of which was printed at Lond. 1626. qu. Other trifles he hath extant which he wrot to maintain his Wife and that high and loose course of living which Poets generally follow He assisted also Thom. Ledge in the composure of several Plays as I have told you in my discourse of that person among the Writers under the year 1625. He wrot against or at least reflected upon Gabriel Harvey in several of his Writings whereupon Harvey being not able to bear his Abuses did inhumanely trample upon him when he lied full low in his grave even as Achilles tortured the dead body of Hector This R. Green died about 1592 of a Surfeit taken by eating pickled Herrings and drinking with them Rhenish Wine At which fatal Banquer Tom. Nash his Contemporary in Cambridge was present who in his Apology of Pierce Penniless doth make excellent sport with him and some of his Works I have seen a witty Comedy called Greens Tu quoque or the City Gallant not pen'd by the said Green but by one John Cook Gent. published by Thomas Heyword an 1622. and another entit Planetomachia or The first part of the general opposition of the seven Planets c. Lond. 1585. qu. said in the Title to be written by R. Green but whether the same R. Green the Poet I cannot tell On the eleventh day of the said month of July supplicated to be incorporated one Joh. Osbourne Doct. of Physick of Leyden whose Grace being granted simpliciter I therefore think that he obtained his Option Creations When Robert Earl of Essex was incorporated these persons following who had formerly been partly educated in this University were actually created Masters of Arts Apr. 11. Which Creation was usually called the Essexian Creation because done upon his account Thomas Lord Clinton Son of the Earl of Lincoln Sir John Norris Kt. President of Mounster in Ireland second Son of Henry the first Lord Norris and one now celebrated among the famous Captains of our Nation He died discontented as being not rewarded according to his worth an 1597 or thereabouts Sir Robert Sidney Kt younger Brother to Sir Philip Sidney This Sir R. Sidney was afterwards the first Earl of Leycester of his name who dying at Penshurst in Kent 13 July 1626 was there buried Sir Hen. Norris Kt. younger Brother to Sir John before mention'd who died of a wound about the same time and place that his Brother Sir Thomas did which Sir Tho. was also President of Mounster Sir Philip Boteler Kt. Rob. Carew Fulke Grevil Francis Darcie Esquires Of Fulke Grevil who was afterwards Lord