in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
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
and that religious Protestants are indeed right Catholicks Lond. 1587. qu. The Schoole of vertue and book of good nurture teaching Children and Youths their duties Lond. 1588. oct c. This book is composed in Engl. meter hath at the end of it certain prayers and graces and is at this day commonly sold at the stalls of Ballad singers Dialogue between Lent and Libertie wherein is declared that Lent is a meer invention of Man Lond. in oct He also translated into English the Psalter of David The Letany with Hymnes and turned into meter Davids Psalmes All printed in the time of Ed. 6. in qu. an 1549. c. He also first of all published The Visions of Pierce Plowman Lond. 1550. qu. Which hath since been once or twice made extant with corrections At length this most zealous Person having lived to a fair age mostly spent in continual action for the settlement and propagation of the Protestant Religion submitted to the stroke of death in Fifteen hundred eighty and eight year 1588 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church dedicated to St. Giles situated and being near to Cripplegate in Lond. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with this inscription engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth the body of Robert Crowley Clerk late Vicar of this Parish who departed this life the 18 day of June an dom 1588. GEORGE ETHRYG or Etheridge or as he writes himself in Latine Edrycus was born in a mercate town in Oxfordshire called Thame admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. in Nov. 1534 being then put under the tuition of John Shepreve and in Feb. 1539 was made Probationer-Fellow In 1543 he was licensed to proceed in Arts and two years after was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Aphorismes of Hypocrates At length being esteemed by all to be a most excellent Grecian he was made the Kings Professor of that language in the University about 1553 and kept that lecture till some time after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown and then because he had been a forward Person against the Protestants in Qu. Maries Reign was forced to leave it So that following the practice of his faculty of Medicine with good success in and near Oxon especially among those of his opinion gained a considerable stock of wealth He mostly lived and kept a Family in an antient decayed place of literature called George hall opposite almost to the South end of Catstreet in St. Maries Parish in Oxon in which he took to him in the condition of Sojournours the Sons of divers Catholick Gentlement to be instructed in several arts and sciences among whom was Will. Gifford afterwards Archbishop of Rheimes who received from him rudiments in Grammar Musick and partly in Logick He constantly adher'd to the R. Catholick Religion wherein he had been zealously educated for which he suffer'd at the reformation by losing his lecture perhaps his Fellowship too and by continual imprisonments to be great impoverishment of his health and estate In a word he was esteemed by most Persons especially by those of his opinion a noted Mathematician well skill'd in vocal and instrumental Musick an eminent Hebrician Grecian and Poet and above all an excellent Physician as it appears in certain books of his composition the titles of which follow Musical compositions Diversa Carmina MS. Acta Henrici octavi carmine Graec. Presented in MS. to Qu. Elizabeth when she was in Oxon. 1566. Hypomnemata quaedam in aliquot libros Pauli Aeginetae seu observationes medicamentorum quae hâc aetate in usu sunt Lond. 1588 oct He also turn'd the Psalmes of David into a short form of Hebrew verse and translated most if not all of the works of Justin Martyr from Greek into Latin with other things which I have not yet seen He was living an antient Man in fifteen hundred eighty and eight but when or where he died I know not nor where buried unless in the ayard of St. Maries Church in Oxon in which his Father and Mother were before buried John Leland who was his familiar friend did celebrate his memory by verse while he lived and told him thus Scripsisti juvenis multâ cum laude libellos Qui Regi eximiè perplacuere meo PETER LEVENS or Levins was born at or near Eske in Yorkshire became a Student in the University an 1552 was elected probationer-Fellow of Madg. Coll. into a Yorkshire place 18. Jan. 1557. being then Bach. of Arts and on the 19. Jan. 1559 was admitted true and perpetual Fellow In 1560. he left his fellowship and one Thomas Dunne M. A succeeded him but whether our Author Levens proceeded in Arts or took a degree in Physick or was licensed to practise that Faculty it appears not in our Registers Afterwards he taught a Grammar-School and practised Physick which is all I know of him only that he wrot and published these things following A Dictionary of English and Latine words c. the English going before the Latine necessary for Scholars that want variety of words and for such as use to write in English metre Lond. 1570. in 18. sh in qu. A right profitable book for all diseases called the Path-way to health wherein are most excellent and approved medicines of great vertue as also notable potions and drinks and for the Distilling of divers waters and making of Oyles and other comfortable receipts Lond. 1587. qu. The Author is stiled in the title page Master of Arts of Oxon. and student in Physick and Chirurgerie This Book was afterwards several times printed with corrections and one Edition came out at Lond. 1664. what else Peter Levens hath written I cannot yet tell THOMAS SAMPSON was born about the year 1517 educated in Grammar and Academical learning amongst the Oxonian Muses afterwards studied the municipal Laws in one of the Temples where being converted to the Protestant Religion did shortly after as 't is said convert John Bradford the Martyr Whereupon they both taking Orders from Nich. Ridley Bishop of London became noted Preachers in the Reign of Ed. 6 and about that time Sampson as 't is said was made Dean of Chichester In the beginning of Qu. Mary he absconded at which time being well acquainted with one Rich. Chambers a zealous Protestant they collected moneys in the City of London from the well affected there to be distributed among such poor Scholars of each University that were haters of the Roman Catholick Religion Which matter being at length discovered he with his wife the Neice of Hugh Latimer were forced with Chambers to go beyond the Seas to Strasburge where wholly applying himself to the study of Divinity as much advanced in the knowledge thereof by his often associating himself with learned Tremelius After Queen Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his native country and became a frequent Preacher in London and much followed by the reformed party there and afterwards in
Sackvile being afterwards a noted Man in the Eye of Q. Elizabeth to whom he was an Allie and in the State the composition of the whole was attributed to him and the ingenious men of that age did esteem the said Tragedy to be the best of its time even in Sir Philip Sidney's judgment who tells us that it is full of stately Speeches and well sounding Phrases climyng to the heighth of Seneca's stile and as full of notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very and of Poâ—sie yet in truth it is very desectious in the circumstances c. Our author Sackvile also wrote Induction to the Mirrour of Magistrates Not to that Mirrour published by Will. Baldwyn but to that I suppose which was published by Joh. Higens an eminent Poet of his time whom I shall farther mention in Rich. Nicolls an 1615. Which Induction with the Mirrour it self were highly valued by Scholars in the time of Q. Elizabeth What else this Noble Person hath made publick I know not nor any thing besides material of him only that dying suddenly at the Council board being one of the Privy Council to K. James on the 19. year 1608 of Apr. in sixteen hundred and eight was buried in the Church of Withyam before-mentioned From him is lineally descended Charles Sackvile now Earl of Dorset and Middlesex a person that hath been highly esteemed for his admirable vein in Poetry and other polite learning as several things of his composition while Lord Buckhurst shew LAURENCE TOMSON was born in Northamptonshire elected Demy of Magd. coll 1556. aged 17. and soon after being a great proficient in Logick and Philosopy was admitted Probationer 11. Sept. 1559. and the year after perpetual fellow of the said coll In 1564. he proceeded in Arts was with Sir Tho. Hoby in his Embassie to France and in 1568. he resigned his fellowship What became of him afterward let his Epitaph following speak while I tell you that he translated from Lat. into English 1 Sermons on the Epistles to Timothy and Titus Lond. 1579. qu. written by John Calvin 2 Version and annotations on the New Test Lond. 1589. in oct Which version and annot were made in lat by Theod. Beza He also translated from French into English 1 A Treatise of the excellency of a Christian man Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct written by Monsieur Peter de la Place one of the Kings Councel and chief President of the Court of Aides in Paris 2 The life and death of Pet. de la Place c. Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I cannot tell year 1608 He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Chertsey in Surrey Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after fastned on the east wall of the said chancel Laurentio Tomsono honesta Tomsoniorum familia in agro Northamptoniensi oriundo in collegio Magdal Oxon. educato perigrinatione Sueviae Russiae Daeniae Germaniae Italiae Galliae nobilitato duodecem linguarum cognitione instructo Theologiae Juris civilis municipalis nostri totiusque literaturae politioris scientiae claro ingenii acumine disputandi subtilitate cloquenai suavitate lepore virtute omni pietateque insigni linguae Hebraicae publica Genevae professione celebri accurata Novi Testamenti translatione notabili In politicis apud Walsinghamam Elizabethae Reginae Scribam pracipuum diu multumque exercitato post cujus mortem vitae privatae umbratilisque jucunditate annos XX. continuos Lalamiae Middlisexiae persuncto septuagenario placidissime religiosissmoque desuncto quarto calendas Aprilis an 1608. Vxor Jana Jana filia ex quinque una superstes filiabus amoris ergo posuerunt pietatis The report at Chersey is that he built the House which now stands on the top of S. Anns-hill in Chertsey parish out of the ruins of S. Anns-chappel and on the very place where that chappel stood having a prospect into several Counties In which House the Inhabitants of the neighbourhood will tell you that this learned author died WILLIAM WARFORD received his first breath in that part of Bristow which is in Sommersetshire was admitted a Scholar of Trinity coll 13. June 1576. probationer two years after being then Bach. of Arts Fellow 1579. and Master of Arts in 82. But having more a mind to the Ro. Cath. religion in which he was partly educated than to Protestancy he left the college his friends and the nation went to Rome and obtaining entrance into the English coll there profited very much in Divinity At length being ordained Priest he was sent into the mission of England where making but little stay he returned to Rome and in the year 1594. he was entred into the society of Jesus Afterwards being sent by his Superiors into Spain he spent the remainder of his time in the English Seminaries there He hath written A short institution containing the chief mysteries of Christian religion collected from the holy Scriptures and Fathers Sevil 1600. and at S. Omers in 1616. Translated into Latine by Tho. More a Jesuit descended from the famous Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chancellor of England Printed at S. Omers in 1617. The said Warford also translated into English several of the Histories of Saints written by Pet. Ribadeneira but died before he could finish them at Valladolid in Spain on the 3. Nov. according the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred and eight and was buried in the college of the Jesuits there year 1608 leaving behind him other matters which were in a manner fit for the Press and the character among those of his profession of a godly and learned man WILLIAM WILKES a most excellent preacher in the Court of K. James 1. was born within the diocess of Lichfeild and Coventry elected Probationer-fellow of Merton coll in 1572. entred into the sacred function when Master of Arts and in 1580. became Vicar of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon by the presentation thereunto of the Warden and Society of the said coll where for his excellent Sermons he was much frequented by Scholars and Citizens Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity he resigned the said Church being well beneficed in Wiltshire and dignified After K. James came to the English Crown he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary preached often before him to his great content and wrote Of obedience or Ecclesiastical union Lond. 1605. oct A second memento for Magistrates directing how to reduce all offenders and being reduced how to preserve them in the Unity and Love both in Church and Commonwealth Lond. 1608. oct As for the first memento I have not yet seen unless it be meant of the book Of Obedience c. He died at Barford S. Martins in Wiltshire of which he was Rector leaving behind him one only daughter named Mary who
of a learned and pious man and of one who by his daily labours had done eminent service to the private and publick WILLIAM JONES the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire the ancient Seat of his Family educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey whence at 14 years of age he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall an 1570. and continued there 5 years But taking no degree he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn according to the course of those times After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following and a Knight in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland in which place he continued three years and then left it upon his own request In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench He hath written and collected Reports of divers special cases as well in the Court of Kings Bench as of the Common Pleas in England as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James as in the years of K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby This book also coming into the hands after the authors death of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law he made very good notes on it as it appears in the original copy sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones Several Speeches in Parliament He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried under the Chappel standing on pillars of Lincolns-Inn on the fourteenth day of the same month Over whose grave tho no writing or Epitaph appears yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws will make his name live to posterity more especially in these parts where he had his education and when Justice did constantly keep Oxford circuit WILLIAM CHIBALD or Chiball a Surrey man born was entred a Student into Magd. coll 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitour or Clerk I know not Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function became a Preacher in London and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fishstreet there where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching He hath written and published A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear for our friends or own visitation by the Plague Lond. 1625. oct An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof Printed with the former Sum of all namely Gods Service and Mans Salvation and Mans duty to God concerning both by way of dialogue Lond. 1630. oct Several Sermons as 1 The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct with others which I have not yet seen Apology for the trial of Faith Lond. in oct when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it He deceased in Febr. about the 25. day in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named James who became a Student in Magd. coll 1623. afterwards a Minister in London and if I mistake not a sufferer there for the Royal Cause when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians MARTIN WESTCOMBE sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France and Bac. of Arts there left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there was sent to Exeter coll among his Countrymen of Devonshire was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and by the favour of the Chancellour of the University proceeded in Arts the next year as a Member of the said college He hath written Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae Ox. 1639. oct Soon after the author of it went beyond the Seas returned to his former Religion as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll have told me and wrote certain matters there in vindication of himself but what they could not tell me ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash Gent was born there or at least in that County and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq Solicitor General to the Queen had his Poetical Genie so far incouraged by that generous person that he sent him to Exeter coll to compleat it with Academical learning in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years What stay he made there or whether he was honoured with a degree it appears not Sure it is that he having about that time composed several poetical and other things had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house and published under these titles Nocturnal Lucubrations or meditations divine and moral Lond. 1638. in tw To which are added Epigrams and Epitaphs The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball before-mentioned and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir He hath also written The swaggering Damsel a Comedy Lond. 1640. qu. Sicelides a Pastoral When printed I cannot tell for I do not remember I ever saw it In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit Sicelides a piscatory several times acted in Kings coll in Cambr. and therefore I presume 't was made by one of that house This Rob. Chamberlaine lived many years after but when he died I cannot justly tell One Rob. Chamberlaine proceeded Master of Arts as a Member of Pemb. coll but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlaine a Physician must not be taken as some of this University have done to be the same with the Poet before-mentioned Will. Chamberlaine of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida an heroick Poem Lond. 1659. oct but whether he was ever an Oxford Student I am hitherto ignorant ATHENAE OXONIENSES The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640. â—_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh called Middleton educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School
the Univ. of Oxon and became a considerable benefactor thereunto particularly to the reparation of Canon Law School in S. Edwards parish to the finishing of the re-edification of S. Maries Church and of the edification of the Divinity School In all which places were his Arms set up in colours in the Windows or else engraven in Stone But such is the vicissitude of time that nothing of Arms or any thing like them doth at this time remain Those that belonged to him were Quarterly gules and ermine a Goats head erased in the first and fourth quarter argent given or else taken in allusion to the Arms of the Corporation of Shomakers of which Corporation the Father of this Archb. was as 't is said a member They were curiously engraven on Stone at the bottom of the Stone-pulpit in St. Maries Church as also the rebus of his name an M. upon a Tun. Which Pulpit was pulled down when the inside of that Church was alter'd while Dr. Ralph Bathurst was Vicechancellor an 1676. They were also engraven on the Respondents Pew or Seat of Stone in the Divinity School which also were taken away when the inside of that School was altered an 1669. to what it now is But tho these monuments are decayed yet the memory of the person is fresh among some men who have said that he was a wife and eloquent man but in his nature harsh and haughty that he was much accepted by the King but envied by the Nobility and hated by the people He won the Kings mind with secrecy and diligence chiefly because he was his old servant in his less fortunes and for that also he was in his affections not without an inveterate malice against the House of York under which he had been in trouble Whatsoever else was in the man he deserveth a most happy memory in that he was the principal means of joyning the two Roses At length dying of great years about 90. but of strong health and powers about the latter end of Septemb. in fiveteen hundred year 1500 was buried in the Cath. Church of Canterbury before the image of the Virgin Mary commonly called Our Lady of Vndercroft Over his Stone-coffin or Sepulcher which was but just deposited in the ground was a marble-stone laid even with the surface of the pavement which stone being afterwards crack'd and broken several parts of his body wrap'd up in divers Cear-cloathes were taken away by certain rude and barbarous people At length the head being only in a manner remaining in the said Stone-coffin 't was beg'd out of a pious mind purposely to save it of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury in 1670. by that truly noble and generous Rophe Shedon of Beoley in Worcestershire Esquire who esteeming it as a choice relique provided a leaden box to preserve it with its Cear-cloathes about it and with great devotion kept it to his dying day an 1684. Afterwards that choice relique with very many rarities which he in his life time had gathered together came by vertue of his last Will into the hands of his Uncles Daughter named Frances Sheldon sometimes one of the maids of honour to Catherine the Royal Consort of King Charles 2. The said Cardinal Moreton did by his last Will and Testament leave maintenance for a Priest to celebrate Mass for 20. years space in the Church of Bere in Dorsetshire for the Soul of him the said Archbishop and for the Souls of his relations and parents buried there He also left maintenance during that time for 20 poor Scholars in Oxon and ten in Cambridge I find one John Moreton to be made Prebend of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells on the resignation of Robert Stillington afterwards B. of Bath and Wells in July 1447. and Minister of Axbridge and Charlton Mesgrose in the Dioc. of B. and Wells but this John Moreton who died about the month of Dec. 1463. is in the registers belonging to the Bish of B. and Wells written Sacrae Theologiae Professor I find also another Joh. Moreton who translated into English Speculum Vitae Christi written by S. Bonaventure Which John was living in 1438 in which year he with his Wife Juliana were admitted among the Suffrages and Prayers of the Dominicans or Black Fryers at York THOMAS LANGTON was born in a Market Town called Appleby in Westmorland where being educated in Religion and Grammar learning among the Carmes or White Friers was at ripe years sent to Oxon particularly as it seems to Queens coll but a pest breaking out in the University soon after he went to Cambridge and became a member of Clare hall one saith of Pembroke hall took the degrees in the Canon Law in which afterwards he was incorporated at Oxon and had considerable Dignities in the Church bestowed him among which was the Prebendship of S. Ducaman in the Church of Wells an 1478. In 1483 he being about that time Provost of Qu. coll in Oxon and Master of S. Julians Hospital in Southampton was consecrated Bishop of S. Davids whence being translated to the See of Salisbury on the death of Leonel Woodvill had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto 4. May 1 Rich. 3. dom 1484. In a certain writing in Queens coll treasury dat 19. Aug. 4. Hen. 7. dom 1489. he occurs by the titles of Doctor of the Laws Bishop of Salisbury and Provost of Qu. coll Whence we may conclude that he kept the said Provostship in Commendam with Salisbury as probably he had done with S. Davids In 1493. he was translated to the See of Winchester and had restitution made to him of the temporalities thereof 27. June the same year Where being setled he put in practice his good deeds which he had done at Sarum viz. by shewing himself a Mecaenas of learning for which I find he had so great respect that he took care to have youths trained up at his own charge in Grammar and Musick the last of which he was infinitely delighted in in a School which he set apart within the precincts of his house It was usual with him and he took a great pleasure in it to make his scholars or exhibitioners repeat at night before him such dictates that they in the day time had learned from their Master and such that could give a laudable account he either encouraged with good words or small rewards saying to those about him that the way to increase vertue was to praise it c. In his episcopal office he behaved himself so well that he was in great authority with three Kings especially for his learning religion and experience in civil affairs annd had not death snatch'd him untimely away would have succeeded Moreton in the See of Canterbury He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred and one and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester near to the tomb and shrine of S. Swithune By his last will and test which I
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
continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
Turners Book entit A preservative or Triacle printed in oct an 1551. Whether these two last be one and the same Person I know not nor can I be positive in it whether Tho. Solme Author of the Lords Flaile be the same with Thom. Solme the Historian THOMAS LANKET or Lanquet whose place of nativity or Hall or Coll. wherein he studied being yet uncertain I shall only say that he being a studious Young Man and curious searcher into ancient History laid the Foundation of a great work I mean a Chronicle consisting of two parts reaching from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour and was proceeding with a third part but death preventing the compleating thereof Thom. Croper of Magd. Coll. finished and entituled it Lanquets Chronicle See more in Tho. Cooper under the Year 1594. Lanquet also wrot Treatise of the Conquest of Bulloigne When or where printed I know not nor any thing else of the Author year 1545 only that he died at London in Fifteen hundred forty and Five which was the seven and thirtieth Year of K. H. 8. but in what Church or Yard he was buried I cannot tell THOMAS ELYOT was born as 't is said of a Knightly Family in Suffolk and educated in Academical learning in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin where he obtained a considerable proficiency in Logick and Philosophy The Year when he first began to salute the Muses it cannot through the deficiency of record be well known unless it should be about the Year 1514 for four Years after an 1518 I find one Tho. Elyot to be admitted ad lecturam alicujus libri facultatis artium Logices Aristotelis which is the admission to the Degree of Bach. of Arts and in the time of Lent the same Year he did compleat that Degree by Determination in School-street It doth also appear that the said Tho. Elyot was in the beginning of Aug. an 1524. admitted ad lecturam alicujus libri Institutionem that is to the Degree of Bach. of the Civil Law Now if we could find that Sir Tho. Elyot was about 50 Years of Age when he died then we may certainly conclude that Elyot the Bac. of Arts and of the Civil Law might be the same with him otherwise we cannot well do it After he had left the University he travelled beyond the Seas and upon his return was introduced into the Court Whereupon being made known to the King a lover of Scholars who found him to be a Person of good parts conferr'd on him the honor of Knighthood and employed him in certain Embassies bejond the Seas particularly to the Emperor Charles the 5th at what time his great Friend and Crony Sir Tho. More was beheaded He was a very good Grammarian Gracian Poet Philosopher Physician and what not to compleat a Gentleman He was admired by and beloved of Scholars and his memory was celebrated by them in their respective works particularly by Leland his contemporary The truth is his Learning in all kind of knowledge brought much honor to all the Gentry and Nobility of England He hath transmitted to posterity The Castle of health Lond. 1541. 1572. 80. 95 c. in oct The Governor in 3 Books Lond. 1544 47. 80. c. in oct Of the Education of Children Lond. in qu. Banquet of sapience Lond. in oct Preservative against the fear of death De rebus memorabilibus Angliae For the compleating of which he had read and perused many old Monuments of England See in Rog. Ascham's Treatise of Archery in two Books p. 28. A Defence or Apologie for good Women Bibliotheca Eliotae Elyots Library or Dictionary Lond. 1541. c. fol. Which work Thom. Cooper augmented and enriched with 33000 words and phrases besides a fuller account of the true signification of words Sir Tho. Elyot also translated from Greek into English The Image of Governance compiled of the Arts and Sciences by Emperor Alexander Severus Lond. 1556 1594 c. oct and from Lat. into Engl. 1 St. Cypreans Sermon of the mortality of Man Lond. 1534 in oct 2 The rule of a Christian life written by Picus Earl of Mirandula Printed there the same Year in oct See more among the translations of Tho. Lupset numb 38. This worthy Knight who was a servant to the King was buried in the Church of Carleton in Cambridgshire of which County he had been Sheriff 25. March in Fifteen hundred forty and six year 1546 and had soon after a Monument put over his Grave Besides several Mannors that he had in Cambridgshire he had one or more in Hampshire JOHN LONGLAND received his first breath in a Mercat Town called Henley in Oxfordshire was first made a Semicommoner or Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magdalen College About which time being Master of Arts and in Orders he addicted himself very severely to study and devotion and became famous for his exemplary life and conversation In 1505 he was made Principal of Magd. Hall in 1510 2. Hen. 8. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in the Year after he proceeded in Divinity In Decemb. an 1514 he succeeded Dr. Will. Atwater in the Deanery of Salisbury and in 1519 he was made Canon of Windsore At which time he being in great favour with the King for his excellent way of Preaching he did not only make him his Confessor but also upon the death of Atwater Bishop of Lincoln and about that time Lord Almoner To the same See therefore he being consecrated 5. May 1521 had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto 26. June following In 1528. or thereabouts he was the first Man of account that mention'd a divorce to the King to be between him and his Qu. Catherine for which afterwards when it was known he was much blamed and the more because he took all occasions to forward and not in the least to contradict it In 1532 he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxen which office he keeping to his dying day shew'd himself a special Friend thereunto in maintaining it privileges and in exhibiting as he had done before to the wants of certain Scholars and in solely maintaining others I have seen divers Epistles written to him from the venerable House of Regents and Non-Regents wherein they in an high manner do proclaim his Religion and Doctrin and do not stick to compare him to Joseph the Patriarch His writings are these Declamatio five concio coram reverendiss in Ch. patribus Domino D. Thomâ Rom. Ecclesiae Presbytero Cardinali Ebor. Archiep. c. laurentio Cardinali sedis Apost de latere quoque Legato principio visitationis Ordinis S. Benedicti apud Westmonasterium initae 10. Jan. 1519. in Gen. 18. Descendam videbo c. Concio babita coram eruditiff Oxoniae Academiae auditorio in jaciendo collegii Cardinalis fundamento an 1525. in Prov. 9. Sapientia aedificavit sibi domum Concio habita coram
he was buried in the Chappel or Cloyster belonging to the said House if the Author saith true that he died therein THOMAS STERNHOLD was in all likelihood born in Hampshire but whether educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester is as yet doubtful Sure it is that he having spent some time in this University left it without the honor of a Degree and retiring to the Court of K. Hen. 8. was made Groome of the Robes to him and when that King died he left him in his Will 100 Marks Afterwards he continued in that office under K. Ed. 6. at which time he was in some esteem in the Royal Court for his grave vein in Poetry and other trivial Learning But being a most zealous Reformer and a very strict liver he became so scandaliz'd the amorous and obscene Songs used in the Court that he forsooth turn'd into English meeter 51 of Davids Psalms and caused musical notes to be set to them thinking thereby that the Courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets but did not only some few excepted However the Poetry and Musick being admirable and the best that was made and composed in those times they were thought fit afterwards to be sung in all Parochial Churches as they do yet continue All those Psalmes which he put into rhime have the Letters T. S. set before to distinguish them from others What other Poetry or what Prose this our Poet Sternhold hath composed and left behind I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in London or Westminster year 1549 in Fifteen hundred forty and nine By his last Will and Testament dat 22. Aug. and proved 12. of Sept. an 1549 wherein he is stiled Groome of the Kings Majesties Robes it appears that he died seized of Lands in Slacksted in Hampshire of the Farmes of Conynger Willersley and Holgreaves in the same County and of Lands in the Parish of Bodmin and elsewhere in Cornwall Contemporary with Sternhold was Joh. Hopkyns who is stiled to be Britanicarum Poetarum sui temporis non infimus as indeed by the generality living in the Reign of Ed. 6. he was so if not more esteemed He turn'd into Meeter 58 of David's Psalms which are to this day sung in Churches and in all editions of the said Psalms his which he translated hath set before them the two Letters J. H. Whether this Poet who was living in the 3. and 4. of Phil. and Mary Dom. 1556 and after was of this University of Oxon I dare not yet affirm However the Reader is to know that one Joh. Hopkyns was admitted Bach. of Arts thereof 36. Hen. 8. Dom. 1544. which he compleated the same Year by Determination I find also one Job Hopkyns of Waldingfeild in Suffolk Clerk who dying in Octob. 1570 was buried in the Church-yard there leaving then behind him a Son to be brought up in learning Besides these two I find others to have had hands in making the said Psalms to run in meeter as 1 Will. Whittyngham afterwards the unworthy Dean of Durbam whom I shall hereafter mention and 2 Tho. Norton of Sharpenhaule or Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire a forward and busie Calvinist in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign who then was accounted eminent for his Poetry and making of Tragedies as I shall tell you in Tho. Sakvile under the Year 1608. This T. Norton who seems to have been a Barrester made 27 of the said Psalms of David to run in rhime but whether he was educated in this University is to me as yet uncertain As for other works of his that are published which are now in a manner lost are these 1 An Epistle to the Queens poor deceived Subjects of the North Country drawn into Rebellion by the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland Lond. 1569. oct 2 A warning against the dangerous practices of the Papists c. 2 A Bull granted by the Pope to Dr. Harding c. and others by reconcilement and assoiling of English Papists to undermine faith and allegiance to the Queen with a true declaration of the intention c. 4 A disclosing of the great Ball and certain calves that he hath gotten and especially the monster Bull that roared at my Lord Bishops gate 5 An addition declaratory to the Bulls with a searching of the maze All which five pieces were printed at Lond. in oct an 1569. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Epistle to Edw. Duke of Somerset Lond. 1550. oct written by Pet. Martyr 2 Institutions of Christian Religion Lond. 1587. qu. written by Jo. Calvin 3 The larger Catechisme Lond. 1571. qu. written by Alex. Nowell besides other things which I have not yet seen JOHN HERON a Kentish Man born near of kin to Sir Jo. Heron Kt. Master of the Jewel-house to K. Hen. 8. and of the same Family with those of Barmyng in Kent was elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1538 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1544 at which time he was in great esteem for his singular skill in the Latin Tongue for in that Language Baleus tells us that he wrot several things which he had not seen and had translated others from the English into the Latin Tongue one of which was Explicatio petititoria adversus expilatores plebis written originally by Rob. Crowley as I shall tell you when I come to him I find one Joh. Heron of Chiselhurst in Kent to have been tampering much with Necromancy to the great affrightment of his Neighbors Whereupon being complained of to the higher Powers he was bound in a Bond of an 100 Marks an 1540 not to practice again Necromancy Astronomy Calculations and other experiments c. Whether this Jo. Heron be the same with the former I know not Sure I am that this Heron the Conjuror was not unknown to Job Waller and Will. Cobbie two young Fellows of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who studied and were conversant in the Black art in the Reign of Ed. 6. RICHARD SHERREY or Shirrie became a Demie or Semi-commoner of Magd. Coll. about the Year 1522 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1531. About which time he was either Usher or Master of the School joyning to the said College but whether ever Fellow thereof I find not He was a Person elegantly learned as Bale saith and hath written A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Lond. 1550. oct gathered out of the best Grammarians and Orators He hath also translated from Lat. into English 1 A declamation shewing that Children should from their Infancy be gently brought up in learning Lond. 1550. oct 2 Homilies on the sixth of St. John Lond. 1550. in oct Written by John Brentius 3 The Letter of St. Basil the Great to Gregory Nazianzen shewing that many hundred years ago certain godly Men used the life commonly called monastical Lond. in oct This our Author Shirrie hath written and translated other things which
place of credit and considerable profit and introduced into the acquaintance of most of the Nobility that frequented the Court He hath transmitted to posterity Opusculum plano divinum de mortuorum resurrectione extremo judicio in quatuor linguis succinctè conscriptum viz. Lat. Angl. Ital. Gall. Lond. 1545. and 47. in qu. Declaration of certain Articles with a recital of the capital errours against the same Lond. 1546. in oct Meditations on death declinatione verborum De Italica De Gallica He hath also translated from French into English A treatise of Nobility with other things written and translated which I have not yet seen At length being clap'd up Prisoner within the Tower of London whether for matters of Religion or any other thing I know not did to avoid publick shame as 't is thought hang himself in his Chamber with his girdle on the tenth of May in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 leaving this character behind him by a Calvinistical Author that he was an open Enemy to the Gospel and all godly Preachers The Reader is to note that several of both his names occur in records as first Joh. Clerke a Berkshire Man born who became Fellow of Magd. Coll. 1482. 2 Joh. Clerke of the same Coll. as it seems who proceeded M. of A. 1516. 3 Joh. Clerke a Cambridge Man afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells whom I shall elsewhere mention 4 Joh. Clerke who was originally of Cambridge afterwards of Cardinal College in Oxon and incorporated M. of A. 1525 but ejected the said Coll. soon after for Lutherisme 5 Joh. Clerke a Benedictine Monk incorporated Bach. of Divinity 13. July 1538 as he before had stood at Cambridge proceeded in that faculty at Oxon within few days after and stood in an Act to compleat that Degree 29. of the same Month in the said Year But of all the said Joh. Clerks not one as I conceive is Joh. Clerke the writer except you 'll say the second ALEXANDER de BARKLAY who seems to have been born at or near a Town so called in Somersetshire was for a time educated in this University particularly as it seems in Oriel Coll. of which his great Patron and Favourer of his studies Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne was then Provost Afterwards he travel'd beyond the Seas and at his return became by the said Bishops endeavours to whom he was Chaplain one of the Priests of the College of St. Mary at Otery in Devonshire founded by Joh. Grandison B. of Exeter But his Patron dying soon after he entred into the Order of St. Benedict or into that of St. Francis as one who gives him an ill report because he lived and died a single Man tells us but at what place I know not Sure 't is that living to see his Monastery dissolv'd he being about that time Doctor of Divinity became Vicar of Much Badew in Essex and in 1546 Vicar of the Church of St. Mathew the Apostle at Wokey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Rich. Eryngton which I think was all the preferment that he had to the time of his death In his younger days he was esteemed a good Poet and Orator as several specimens of his composition in those faculties shewed but when Years came on he spent his time mostly in pious matters and in reading the Histories of Saints His works are The figure of our Mother Holy Church oppressed by the French King Printed at London by Rich. Pynson in qu. The miseries or miserable lives of Courtiers Besides his answer to Job Skelton the Poet and other things which I have not yet seen He translated from Lat. into English The lives of St. Margaret St. Catherine St. Etheldreda St. George c. Several things also of Jo. Bapt. Fiera Mantuam and other matters as Baleus tells you But above all must not be forgotten his translation out of Latin French and Dutch into the English Language a Book intit The Ship of Fools an 1508. Printed at Lond. by Pich Pynson 1509. fol. and dedicated by the translator to the said Tho. Cornish B. of Tyne and suffragan Bishop of Wells This translation is adorned with great variety of Pictures printed from wooden cuts which could not be but very delightful to the Reader in those days The original Author of that Book was one Sebastian Brantius much famed in his time for his excellent works As for his translator Dr. Barklay who also translated from French into English The Castle of Labour lived to be an aged Man and dying at a Mercat Town called Croyden in Surrey before the 10. of June for on that day his will was prov'd in Fifteen hundred fifty and two was buried in the Church there year 1552 leaving then behind him among some the character of a good Scholar EDWARD SEYMOURE Son of Sir Joh. Seymoure of Wolfhall in Wilts Knight was educated in trivials and partly in quadrivials for some time in this University and whether he afterwards studied in Cambridge of which he was Chancellour in the Reign of Edw. 6. I cannot say If so 't is very strange that one that had conversed with the Muses of both Universities should be so unlearned as one who was an enemy to his memory reports that he could scarce write or read Afterwards K. Hen. 8. marrying his Sister Jane he ascended to and obtained great honours and places in the Realm of England as all Histories will tell you While he was Lord Protector there went under his name Epistola Exhortatoria ad pacem missa ad nobilitatem ac plebem universumque populum regni Scotiae Lond. 1548. qu. In which Year also came out his Expedition into Scotland written by another hand After he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for divers miscarriages in his Government he made very great shew of sanctity and seemed not to omit any opportunity whereby he might employ his time religiously as it well appears by a Book that he then wrot entituled A spiritual and most precious Pearl teaching all Men to love and embrace the cross as a most sweet and necessary thing c. Lond 1550 oct At that time before and after he was much courted by John Calvin and Peter Martyr as being the chief Person that carried on the reformation The former wrot to him the said Protector An Epistle of godly consolation 22. Oct. 1549. Writ before the time and knowledge of his trouble Which Epistle being delivered to him in the time of his trouble was translated by him from French into English Printed at Lond. 1550. oct The other P. Martyr wrot an Epistle to him about the same time in the Lat. tongue which being much pleasing to him was by his desire translated into English by that noted Zealot Thom. Norton Printed 1550. in oct From which Epistles it doth plainly appear what great respects they Calvin and Martyr and their Parties had for him and what solemn wishes and prayers they continually
his diligent teaching and instructing the knowledge of the Greek tongue or the true and genuine Greek was there with much ado planted In 1524 he commenced D. of D. at Cambridge being then or about that time Tutor to the Duke of Richmond and beneficed if not dignified in the Church Afterwards he was employed by the King to go to several places in Italy especially to the University of Padôua to agitate about the matter of the unlawfulness of the Kings Marriage with his Brothers Widow After his return the University of Oxford as a certain Writer tells you by great means and favourable friends and fair promises of large allowance invited him thither to be their Reader The time when he came to Oxon was in the beginning of 1532 in which Year K. Hen. 8. by his Charter dated 18. Jul. did convert Cardinal Wolsey's College into that of King's Coll. or that founded by King Hen. 8. In which Year he was not only incorporated D. of D. as he had stood at Cambridge but was made the third Canon of the twelve of the said foundation but whether he was a Reader I cannot in all my searches find In the latter end of the same Year the new Dean Dr. Jo. Hygden died and thereupon the Canons wrot to Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State that he would interceed with the King that Dr. Croke might succeed him but for what reason it was that he was put aside I cannot justly say Sure I am that Dr. Croke continued Canon of the said College till it was about to be converted into a Cathedral an 1545 and then having an yearly pension of six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence allowed to him in recompence of his Canonry he retired to Exeter Coll. where he lived in the condition of a Sojournour many years and was not at all made a Canon of the Cathedral founded by K. H. 8. He hath written Oratio de Graecarum disciplinarum laudibus Dedicated to Nicholas Bishop of Ely by an Epist before it dated cal Jul. 1519. 'T is Printed in qu. but where or when I cannot tell Oratio qua Cantabrigienses est hortatus ne Graecarum literarum desertores essent Printed with the former oration Before and at the end of the said two Orations Gilb. Ducher hath an Epistle in praise of Croke and his learning Introductiones ad linguam Graecam Elementa Gram. Graecae De verborum câ—â—structione besides translations made from Greek into Latin from Theod. Gaza and Elysius Calentinus As for those things he wrot against Leland while he continued in Oxon as a certain Author tells us are no more as I suppose than scoffs in Verse or repartees made on him for changing his Religion and thereupon dyed distracted whereas Dr. Croke made no change as 't is said but dyed in that Faith which he in the beginning had received year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight A Copy of his last Will and Testament which I have seen dated 21 Aug. and proved 29. of the same Month an 1558. I find that he was Parson of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire but cannot find the Church or Yard wherein he would have his body to be buried only that he died in London leaving behind him a Brother named Rob. Croke of Water-Horton in Warwickshire JOHN ROBYNS a Staffordshire Man born became a Student in this University an 1516 or thereabouts was elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. 1520. and afterwards took the Degrees in Arts and holy Orders But such was his vigorous genie that by the force thereof being conducted to the pleasant studies of Mathematicks and Astrology he made so great a progress in them that he became the ablest Person in his time for those studies not excepted his friend Record whose learning was more general At length taking the Degree of Bach. of Divinity in 1531 he was the Year following made by K. Hen. 8. to whom he was Chaplain one of the Canons of his College in Oxon and in Decemb. 1543 Canon of Windsore upon the death of Dr. Rich. Rawson who was also Archdeacon of Essex and in fine Chaplain to Qu. Mary who had him in great veneration for his learning Among several things that he hath written relating to Astrology I find these following De culminatione fixarum stellarum c. De ortu occasu stellarum fixarum c. Annotationes Astrologicae c. lib. 3. Annotationes de Edwardo VI. Tractatus de prognosticatione per Ecclipsin All which Books that are in MS. were sometimes in the choice Library of Mr. Tho. Allen of Glocester Hall After his death they coming into the hands of Sir Ken. Digby were by him given to the Bodleian Library where they yet remain 'T is said also that he the said Robyns hath written a Book intit De portentosis cometis but such a thing I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that paying his last debt to nature 25. Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Over his Grave was soon after a Marble-stone laid with a large inscription thereon part of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 178. b. WILLIAM STAUNFORD Son of Will. Staunford of London Mercer by Margaret his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Gedney of London Son of Rob. Staunford of Rowley in Staffordshire was born in the County of Middlesex 22. Aug. 1509. 1. Hen. 8. received so much literature among the Oxonians that enabled him sooner than another Person to conquer the rudiments of the municipal Law in Greys-Inn near London In the 36. of Hen. 8. he was elected Autumn Reader of that House but did not read because of the pestilence then in those parts yet in the Lent following he did perform that office with great credit and honor In the 5. Ed. 6. he was Double-Reader of that Inn in the time of Lent and the next Year was called by writ to be Serjeant at Law In 1553 1 o Mariae he was made the Queens Serjeant and the next Year was not only constituted one of the Justices of the Common-pleas some say of the Common-bench but also dubb'd a Knight being then in high esteem for his great abilities in his profession especially for the Books that he about that time composed taken then especially in after Ages into the hands of the most learned in the Law which have ever since made him famous among them and others The titles are Pleas of the Crown divided into several titles and common places Lond. 1557. qu. c. In some impressions they are divided into two Volumes Exposition of the King's Prerogative collected out of the abridgment of Anth. Fitzherbert and other old Writers of the Laws of England Lond. 1567. 68. c. qu. Besides other Books which have not been yet Printed This noted Lawyer who was a zealous R. Cath. departed this mortal
The birth of this most noble Person was as a learned Author reports at Stoverton Castle in Staffordshire or as another who was a Forreigner tells us but false as I presume at London in the Month of March 1500. His education in Grammatical learning was partly in the Carmes House commonly called White Friers in the North suburb of Oxon and his Academical in the Coll. of St. Mary Magdalen where continuing for some time he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the Degree of Bach. of Arts an 1515. In which year he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might wear panni pretiosi and pellurae pretiosae and be admitted to enter into the Library How long he tarried in that Coll. after he had taken his Degree or whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts or a Degree in any other faculty it appears not in our Registers In the Year 1517. March 19. he was made Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury in 1519. Apr. 10. Preb. of Yatminster secunda in the said Church and on the 14 of Feb. 1523 he was admitted Fellow of Corp. Chr. College by command from the founder Which place I presume he never enjoyed being then absent if not happily Dean of Winbourne Minster in Dorsetshire from whence he was promoted to be Dean of Exeter Afterwards his life being chiefly spent in Italy he became by the favour of the Pope Cardinal of St. Nereus and Achilleus afterwards of St. Mary in Cosmedin and at length of St. Prisca was employed also by him in several Embassies to the French King and to the Emperor and lastly after the said Popes death Paul 3. he was in the Conclave of Cardinals chose twice by them to succeed him an 1549. But he upon some account refusing both the elections craved license to depart unto a certain Monastery in the Territory of Verona there to spend the remainder of his days To which place afterwards retiring he exercis'd himself for some years in great devotion and retiredness At length the news of K. Edw. death being brought of him and that Qu. Mary had obtained the Crown he procured of P. Julius 3. license to be sent his Legat into England to reconcile that Nation to the Romish See and the rather for this cause that being not in holy orders tho a Cardinal he might be in a capacity being one of the three that were named to marry the Queen Soon after coming into England the Queen being then married he was elected Chancellour of this University and was made Archb. of Canterbury in the place of Cranmer to which he was consecrated 22. March 1555. being about that time invested with the Temporalities of that See and kept it to his dying day He was a Person of great learning eloquence and judgment of singular piety charity and exemplary life as several Writers tell us who add also that he was an excellent Canonist and well read in the Laws of ecclesiastical polity as may partly be seen in the Books written by him which are these Pro unitate ecclesiastica ad Hen. 8. Rom. in fol. Oratio ad Imperatorem contra Evangelicos cum Scholiis Athanasii Print 1554. in qu. Oration of Speech in the Parliament House 27. Nov. 1554. The contents of which you may see in John Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under that year Letter to P. Julius 3. touching the restoring of the Realm of England dated on the last of Nov. 1554. See there again under the same year Unitatis Ecclesiasticae defensio c. lib. 4. Argent 1555. fol. Ingolst 1587. oct Oratio in materia de pace Ven. 1558. qu. Reformatio Angliae ex decretis Reg. poli an 1556. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1569. oct De concilio lib. 1. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1567. fol. 69. oct c. This is printed in Canones Decreta concilii Tridentini published by Philip Labbe Par. 1667. fol. De Baptismo Constantini Imperatoris Printed with the former Book De summi pontificis officio potestate Lov. 1569. oct A Treatise of Justification Lov. 1569. qu. in two Books This was found among the Writings of Card. Pole remaining in the custody of Mr. Hen. Pyning Chamberlain and receiver general to the said Cardinal then lately deceased at Lovaine With it were Printed and bound certain translations touching the said matter of justification viz. 1 The sixth Session of the generall Councel of Trent which is of justification with the Canons of the same Session 2 A Treatise of St. Augustin that famous Doctor by him intit Of faith and works c. Which translations were made by the Cardinal who sate several times in the said Council 3 A Sermon of St. Chrysostome of praying unto God 4 A Serm. of St. Basil of Fasting 5 Certain Sermons of St. Leo the great of the same argument 6 A notable Sermon of St. Cyprian of Almesdeeds He also Card. Pole had been several years gathering and obtaining from divers learned Persons the various readings emendations castigations c. of Cicero's works with intentions to have published a compleat Copy of them but death seizing on him unexpectedly that good work was stopp'd and what are become of the papers of corrections I know not This great Person who was in an high manner venerated by all Men tho extremely hated by K. Hen. 8. yielded to nature 18. Nov. early in the morning being the very next day that Qu. Mary died in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 58. years Whereupon his body being carried to Canterbury in the latter end of Decemb. year 1558 following was buried with solemnity in the Cathedral there within the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr being as yet 1689. the last Archb. of that See that hath been there buried See more of him in his life written in the Italian tongue by Ludov. Bacatellus sometimes Domestick to this great Cardinal and afterwards advanced to the Archbishoprick of Rhaguse for his rare piety and learning translated into Latin by Andr. Duditius Sâ—ordellatus Episc Tininiensis Ven. 1563. qu. Who afterwards left his Religion and became a Protestant and Socinian HUGH WESTON was a Leycestershire Man born entred a Student in Balliol Coll. about 1526 took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1530 about which time being chose Fellow of Lincoln Coll. I mean into one of those Fellowships founded by Edw. Darby he proceeded in his Faculty studied Physick and was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University In 1538 he was elected Rector of the said College was admitted the year after to the reading of the sentences and in 1540. he proceeded in Divinity About which time he was made Margaret Professor Archdeacon of Colchester and Rector of Cliff in Kent In the first of Qu. Mary he had the Deanery of Westminster bestowed on him in the place of Dr. Ric. Coxe was made prolecutor
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
While he continued at Madrid in Spain in the quality of an Ambassador he was accused to have spoken somewhat unreverently of the Pope Whereupon he was excluded from the Court and afterwards thrust out of Madrid into a Country Village his Servants compelled to be present at Mass and the exercise of his own Religion forbidden and this whether in more hatred to the Queen of England or to Religion I cannot say whereas she in the mean time had shewed all kindness to Goseman the Spanish Ambassador allowing him his own Religion This Man-goose hath as I have been informed written and translated several things but none have I yet seen only his translation from Latin into English of Common places of Christian Religion gathered by Wolfg. Musculus c. Lond. 1563. fol. and 1573. in a thick qu. He paid his last debt to nature at London 18. March in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight and received sepulture in the Chancel of St. Anns Church near Aldersgate in the same City leaving issue by his Wife Frances Dau. of Edm. Herenden of London Mercer several Children some of whose posterity do now or at least did lately live at Hatfield-Braddock in Essex In his Deanery of Glocester succeeded Dr. Tho. Cooper afterwards B. of Winchester and in the Wardenship of Merton Coll. Dr. Tho. Bickley afterwards B. of Chichester Besides this Jo. Man I find another of both his names of New Coll. born at Writtle in Essex who being LL. B. was presented by the Warden and Fellows of the said Coll. to the rectory of Great-Horwood in Bucks an 1551 where he died 1565. EDMUND BONNER a Person much esteemed by those of his profession for the zeal he bore to the R. Catholick cause was the natural Son of George Savage Priest Parson of Davenham in Cheshire natural Son of Sir Job Savage of Clifton in the said County Knight of the Garter and one of the counsel to K. Hen. 7. Which Geo. Savage Priest had seven natural Children by three sundry Women viz. 1 George Savage Chancellour of Chester 2 Joh. Wymesley Parson of Torperley in Cheshire who was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Ed. Bonner 3 Randal Savage of Lodge in the said County 4 Edm. Bonner of whom we are to make further mention begotten on the body of Elizab. Frodsham who was the Wife after Bonner had been begotten of Edm. Bonner a Sawyer living with a Gentleman called Armingham of Potters Hanley in Worcestershire besides three Daughters named Margaret Ellen and Elizabeth Our Author who was called by his supposed Fathers name Edm. Bonner was born either at Elmeley or at Potters-Hanley in Worcestershire and in 1512 or thereabouts became a Student of Broadgates hall now Pembroke Coll. being then a noted nursery for Civilians and Canonists Soon after having made a sufficient progress in Philosophy and the Laws he was on the 12. June admitted Bach. of the Canon and on the 13. of July following an 1519. Bach. of the Civil Law About that time he entred into Holy Orders and performed many matters relating to his faculty in the Dioc. of Worcester by the appointment of the then Bishop In 1525 he was licensed to proceed in the Civil Law and about that time obtained the rectories of Ripple Bledon Dereham Cheswick and Cherriburton in Yorks Afterwards he was one of the Kings Chaplains a favourer of the Lutherans of the divorce between the K. and Catherine of Spain a favourer of the Kings proceedings in expelling the Popes authority from the Kingdom of England and Master of the Faculties under Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury In 1535 he became Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Edw. Fox promoted to the See of Hereford which Fox had been installed in that Archdeaconry upon the resignation of Steph. Gardener LL. D. 27. Sept. 1531. and by the endeavours of Thom. Cromwell Secretary of State he was employed Ambassador to the Kings of Denmark and France to the Pope and to the Emperour of Germany and made Bishop of Hereford 1538 the temporalities of which See were restored to him by the K. 4. March the same Year But before he was consecrated thereunto he was elected Bishop of London 1. Oct. 1539 being then in an Embassie had restitution made of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 18 Nov. following and was consecrated 3. Apr. 1540. After the death of K. Hen. 8. and Religion being about to be reformed by K. Ed. 6. Bonner seemed at first to be forward for it but recanting what he had done he was enjoyn'd to preach a Sermon at Pauls cross to make farther trial perhaps of his humour wherein leaving out the article of the Kings authority was upon the complaints of Joh. Hooper and Will some call him Hugh Latymer Bach. of Div. and Parson of St. Laurence Pountney who prosecuted him very zealously for it and his slowness in forwarding reformation in his Diocess first committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea 20. Sept. and in the beginning of Oct. following an 1549. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick Soon after which time his Mother Elizab. Frodsham died and was buried at Fulham at whose Funeral Bonner tho a Prisoner gave to several Persons mourning coats In the beginning of Aug. 1553. he was released out of the Marshalsea and restored to his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary in whose Reign he shew'd himself severe being put upon it by publick authority against the Protestants as may be fully seen in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church As for the writings of the said Bonner they are many but all that I have yet seen are only these viz. Preface to the oration of Stephen Bish of Winchester concerning true obedience Printed at London in Lat. 1534. 35 and at Hamburgh 1536. oct Translated and imprinted by a most zealous enemy to the Papists called Mich. Wood who wrot a bitter and libellous Epistle before and a conclusion after it to the Reader Print at Roan 1553. oct I have seen another translation of it perhaps by the same hand without the said lib. Epist printed in oct an 1536. In the said Pref. written by Bonner are several matters against the Popes power in England and in defence of the Kings divorce from Qu. Catherine Several Letters to the Lord Tho. Cromwell an 1538. A declaration to the Lord Th. Crom. describing to him the evil behaviour of Steph Bish of Winchester an 1538 These two last are mention'd in the Acts and Mon. of the Church under that year Responsum exhortatio Lond. 1553. in oct Which answer and exhortation to the Clergy in praise of Priesthood beginning Dum tacitus apud me considero c. were utter'd by our Author after Joh. Harpesfield had finished his Sermon to the Clergy in St. Pauls Cath. in Lond. 16. Oct. 1553 and the orations ended of John Wymesley Archdeacon of London before-mention'd and of Hugh Weston Dean of Westminster All which were printed and bound together in one volume Articles
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.
against her The second doth handle her title to the Crown of England and the third doth answer the book of Joh. Knox the Scot entit Against the monstrous government of Women But not long after the said book was published John Lesley Bishop of Ross in Scotland who at that time was Embassador for the said Qu. of Scots in England did more largely handle in the second book of a treatise which he published her title to the Crown of England c. Thus he so that according to this Authors opinion here quoted Lesley had no hand in the said treatises but in another different from them which I think is most true At length after our Author Morg. Philipps had suffered about 17 years exile died at Lovaine year 1577 or rather at Doway in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven for on the 15. Feb. the same years was a Commission granted from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to George Farmour of Estneston in Northamptonshire Esq to administer the goods debts chattels c. of Morgan Philipps Clerk sometimes Chauntor of the Cath. Ch. of St. David who lately died in parts beyond the Seas THOMAS DORMAN was born at Berchamstede in Hertfordsh partly educated in the Free-School there under Mr. Rich. Reve a Protestant by the care and exhibition of his Uncle Tho. Dorman of Agmondesham alias Amersham in the Country of Bucks and partly in Wykehams School near to Winchester At length being made full ripe for the University he was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. but leaving that house before he was made compleat Fellow upon what account I know not was after Qu. Mary came to the Crown elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1554 where following his studies with indefatigable industry was admitted in the University to the reading of any book of the institutions of the Civil Law an 1558. But upon the alteration of Religion which soon followed in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he left all he had in the University his friends country and patrimony and went to Antwerp where being encouraged in his studies by Dr. Tho. Hardyng then an Exile in those parts and therefore zealously took his part against Jewell became Bach. and at length Doctor of Divinity He hath written A proof of certaine articles in religion denied by Mr. Jewell Antw. 1564. qu. A request to Mr. Jewell that he keep his promise made by solemne protestation in his late Sermon at Pauls cross 15 June 1567. Lond. 1567. oct Disproof of Mr. Alex. Nowells reproof Antw. 1565 qu. Besides other things which being printed beyond the Seas we seldom see them in these parts As for the death of this our learned and pious Author year 1577 which hapned at Tournay in the Law Countries about Fifteen hundred seventy and seven this note following written in a MS. remaining in the English Coll. of Seculars at Doway doth intimate thus of it Thomas Dormannus vir doctus qui unum aut alterum librum edidit contra Haereticos postea fuit pastor in civitate Tornacensi ibidem obiit circa an 1577. GEORGE GASCOIGNE an Esquire and an Essex Man born had his education in both the Universities chiefly as I conceive in Cambridge whence being translated to Greys Inn to study the municipal Law made less progress in that profession than in Logick which was but little for having a rambling and unfixed head he left that place went to various Cities in Holland and became a Soldier of note which he afterwards professed as much or more as learning and therefore made him to take this motto Tam Marti quam Mercurio From thence he went into France to visit the fashions of the royal Court there where he fell in love with a Scottish Dame At length being weary of those vanities and his rambles in other Countries he returned into England and retiring to Greys Inn again was esteemed by all ingenious Men there to be a Person of breeding eloquent and witty the most passionate among them to bewail and bemoan by his dexterous Pen the perplexities of love and the best of his time for his activity in advancing the stage part Afterwards receeding to his patrimony at Walthamstow in the Forest within the Province of Essex at which place if I mistake not he was born he published several matters among which are these that follow Flowers Poems so called The first of which is entit The anatomie of a Lover The second The arraignment of a Lover The third The passion of a Lover and the last is The Lover encouraged by former examples determineth to make virtue of necessity Several of these Poems are contained in those made by him called The Devises The delectable historie of sundry adventures passed by Dan Barthelmew of Bathe This is written in verse The Reporter or the Reporters conclusion This is also a Poem Fruits of War written upon this Theame Dulce bellum inexpertis Began to be written at Delft in Holland Hearbs Poems so called In which are several translations as I shall tell you anon and several copies of verses that are in The Devises Weedes Poems so called with several things intermix'd in prose The Divises These are also Poems among which are various copies of verses made by our Author on certain Theams given by several Gentlemen among which are Francis and Anthony Kynwelmersh Essexians and noted Poets of their times the former having had several Poems printed in a Book entit The paradise of dainty Devises Lond. 1578 Alex. Nevill of Cambridge Richard Courtop c. The steele Glass A Satyre Lond. 1576. qu. Before which is the Authors picture in armour with a ruff and a large beard On his right hand hangs a musquet and bandileers on his left stands books and inkhorn and under him is written Tam Marti quam Mercurio Among several commendatory verses set before it Walt. Rawley of the Middle Temple hath one The complaynt of Phylomene An Elegie Lond. 1576. qu. This Elegy was begun in Apr. 1562 continued in Apr. 1575 and finished the 3 day of the same month 1576. Discourse of the adventures of Mr. F. J. Freeman Jones Written mostly in prose about 1572. Glass of government A tragical comedie so entit because therein are handled as well the rewardes of virtue as also the punishment for vice Lond. 1575. qu. Written partly in rhime but mostly in prose Princelie pleasures at Kenilworth castle A mask written in verse and prose 'T is a relation of the entertainment of Qu. Elizabeth given to her there by Robert Earl of Leycester 9. 10. 11. c. of July 1575. Certaine notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or rime in English This is written in prose He also translated from Italian into English 1 The suppeses a Comedy Originally written by Aristo This Com. was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted at Greys Inn in 1566. 'T is among his Poems called Hearbes 2 The pleasant fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi and Leonora de Valesco Transl
the English Sectaries and of their foul dealing herein by partial and false translations c. Rhemes 1582. oct Answered in a book intituled A defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue c. Lond. 1583. oct Written by Will. Fulke D. D. Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Treatise of Christian Peregrination and relicks Printed 1583. oct Epistles to certain of his friends The last of which which is the largest dat 15. Oct. 1575. was written to Dr. Tho. Whyte then lately Warden of New Coll. touching his following the world and dissembling in Religion against his conscience and knowledge Of the love of the soul with questions to the Protestants Printed at Roan in Normandy He hath also written other books which remain in MS. in several Libraries beyond the Sea as I conceive treating of Divinity In the Year 1584 was set forth a certain book which one calls a horrid piece of Popish malice against Queen Elizab. wherein her Gentlewomen were exhorted to act the like against the Queen as Judith had done with applause and commendations against Holofernes The Author was never discovered but the suspicion lighted upon Gregory Martin one very learned in the Greek and Lat. tongues as my Author before quoted saith but how he could be Author having been dead two years before that time I cannot say He also was the chief Man that translated the New Testament printed at Rhemes 1582 for which work his name remains precious to this day among those of his party He also made other translations which are preserved in MS. in certain Libraries among which is the Tragedy of Cyrus King of Persia which is as some say in the Library of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon. See the titles of other books which are remembred by one that knew him while I in the mean time tell you that our Author dying 28. year 1582 Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Parish Church of St. Stephen at Rheimes There is an Epitaph over his grave comprehended in 16 verses the two first of which are these Quem tulit umbrosis tenerum Southsaxia sylvis Gallica qua spectat regna Britannus ager The rest I shall now omit for brevity sake and proceed to the next in order who was a Romanist also WILLIAM HART a most zealous young Man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Somersetshire entred in his puerile years into Lincoln Coll. an 1572 where after he had been instructed in Grammar and Logick left it without a Degree his relations and Country and going beyond the Seas to Doway compleated his studies in Philosophy Afterwards he travelled to Rome studied Divinity and was there made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England before he was 24 years of age settled in Yorkshire where he administred comfort to the afflicted Catholicks for a considerable time with little or no interruption At length being taken and imprison'd at York he wrot Letters to certaine Catholicks Letters to his spiritual Sons Letters to the afflicted Cath. and to those that suffer in Prison Letters to a noble Matron All which at least 10 in number were as I presume written by him in the English tongue The Latine copies with many things of their Author you may see in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia p. 104. mention'd in Joh. Bridgwater among the writers following under the Year 1594. This Will. Hart was hang'd drawn and quarter'd for being a R. Priest at York on the 15 of March in Fifteen hundred eighty and two and his quarters afterwards hanged up in publick places In his time were several young Scholars of Lincoln Coll. educated and afterwards professed themselves openly to be R. Catholicks having received instructions from some of the Fellows that were inclined that way but chiefly from the Rector thereof Job Bridgwater before-mentioned who always at last his Rectory to prevent expulsion Some of them I shall mention as they lay in my way NICHOLAS HARPESFEILD an eminent Theologist well skill'd in both the Laws and in Greek History and Poetry in all or most of which faculties having written very well do report him renowned by those of his own perswasion His first being in this World he received in the Parish of St. Marie Magd. in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and his Grammaticals in Wykehams School near to Winchester In 1536 he was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served 2 years of probation there about which time having with great industry gone through all the parts of Philosophy he applyed himself to the study of the Civil and Canon Law wherein he became very eminent In 1544 he being then Bach. of the Civ Law of about an year standing was admitted Principal of an ancient hostle mostly for Civilians called White hall on the Site of which Jesus Coll. was afterwards partly built and in 1546 he was appointed by K. Hen. 8. to be the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue in the University In 1553 he left his Fellowship took the Degree of Doctor of his faculty and had then considerable practice in the Court of Arches In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Canterbury in the place of Edm. Crammer Brother to the Archb. deprived for being married and in the beginning of Qu. Elizab. he was one of the 7 R. Cath. Divines who were to dispute with those of the Protestant party concerning matters of Religion when Qu. Eliz. was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England But that matter coming to nothing he was soon after imprison'd for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and thereupon had opportunity given to write several books some of which follow Dialogi sex contra summi pontificatûs monasticae vitae sanctorum sacrorum imaginum oppugnatores pseudo-Martyres Antw. 1566. qu. Which book being put into the hands of his friend Alan Cope he put it out under his name lest danger should befall the Author in Prison See before in Alan Cope an 1580. Our Author Harpesfeild wrot also Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica à primis gentis susceptae fi dei incunabilis ad nostra fere tempora deducta Duac 1622. fol. published by Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit 'T is a book no less learnedly than painfully performed and abating his partiality to his own interest he well deserves of all posterity The original of this Ecclesiastical history written with the Authors own hand is in the Cottonian Library under Vitellius C. 9. num 12. and a copy of it in two volumes is in the Archbishops Library at Lambeth L. 3. and 4. But in that copy in the Cottonian are several things expunged by the Licenser and not at all remitted into the printed copy Among which are these to be in p. 422. cap. 2. lin 4. and to come in between the words inter exitialem and Qui omnis c. Non
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
will endeavour to stop Corrano from coming among us who is thought to be a Master of Puccius c. Thus in brief from Job Rainolds But notwithstanding all the endeavours to keep him out he was at length admitted after he had fleed himself from Heresie and became Reader of Divinity to the Students in Gloucester St. Mary's and Hart Hall lived as a Student in Ch. Ch. in 1579. if not before of which House he occurs Censor Theologicus in 1581 82 83 84 and 85. being then also Prebendary of the Prebend of Harlesten belonging to the Cathedral of St. Paul In 1579. he stirred again for the Degree of Doctor of Divinity but I cannot yet find that he was admitted notwithstanding he stiles himself Doctor of that Faculty in his Dialogus Theologicus an 1574. and in the year 1582. in April he laid under the censure of Heresie again upon which arose some trouble but soon after quieted and he restored to the good Opinion of the generality of Scholars and others His Works are these An Epistle or godly Admonition sent to the Pastors of the Flemish Church in Antwerp exhorting them to concord with other Ministers This was originally written in Latin but the Copy of it have not yet seen Translated into English by Geofry Fenton Lond. 1570. oct Tabulae divinorum operum de humani generis creatione Printed 1574. c. oct Translated also into English under the Title of Tables of God's Works c. Dialogus Theologicus quo Epistola D. Pauli Apost ad Romanos explanatur Collect. ex praelectionibus Corran Lond. 1574. oct printed in English there 1579. oct Articuli fidei orthodoxae quam ille perfectus est Printed with Dial. Theol. Supplication to the King of Spain wherein is shewed the Sum of Religion for the Profession whereof the Protestants do suffer Persecution in the Low Countries Lond 1577. oct 'T was written in Latin and French but who put it into English I know not unless the Author Notae in concionem Solomonis de summo hominis bono quam Hebraei cohelet Graeci Latini Ecclesiastem vocant Lond. 1579. and 81. in oct The version of which into Latin was done by Corranus also The said Notes were adorn'd with a learned Analasis by Abrah Scultet Printed at Francf 1618. oct Sermons on Ecclesiastes Abridged by Thomas Pitt Oxon. 1585. oct which is called by some Pitt's Paraphrase on Ecclesiastes A Spanish Grammer with certain rules for teaching both the Spanish and French Tongues Put into English by Joh. Thorius as I shall tell you when I come to him Printed at Lond. 1590. qu. What other things Corrano hath written I find not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at London March 30. or thereabouts in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 64. was buried in the Church of S. Andrew but whether in that in Holbourn or in that by the Wardrobe I know not perhaps in the last leaving then behind him a Wife of no good repute and a Daughter named Susan which if the same that was at Woman's Estate in Oxon a little before her Father's Death was if any credit might be given to a Libel of that time made by an Oxf. Scholar of a light reputation JOHN MOLYNS Molens or Mullins so many ways I find him written was born in Sommersetshire elected Probat Fellow of Magd. College in 1541. and afterwards being Bach. of Divinity became a zealous Man for Reformation In the Reign of Q. Mary he left the Nation for Religion sake and setled at Zurick where he was esteemed a learned Man of credit and Authority being there as it is said Greek Reader among the Natives of England But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crwon he returned was made Archdeacon of London in the place of Jo. Harpesfield depriv'd and Canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul where he was much reverenced for his great Learning and frequent Preaching One that knew him well gave this Character of him Johannes Molinsaeus Archidiaeconus Ecclesiae Paulinae qui nulli injuriam fecerat qui prodesse omnibus studuerat qui Philosophiae Theologiae Linguarum studio sc totum tradiderat qui nihil commeritus est nisi quod ut Aristides justus ut olim Christiani veteres nunc meaning in the beginning of Q. Mary's Reign missae interesse recusaret eandem ancipitem fortunam subire compulsus est meaning also that he was forced to leave his Fellowship of Magd. College and seek his Fortune elsewhere with Arth. Saul Pet. Morwin and other learned and pious Fellows of that House who soon after went as voluntary Exiles into Germany He hath written and published several Books yet in all my searches I can only find extant Carmina Lat. Graec. in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandon c. Printed 1552. in two sheets in qu. Sermons c. He concluded his last day on the eleventh of the Cal. of June in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him a Daughter named Mary Wife of Walt Chetwind of Ingestry in Staffordshire Over his Grave was soon after a flat stone laid with his Image thereon engraven on a Brass plate and an Epitaph under it the beginning of which runs thus Clarus Johannes vitae moderamine Mullins Doctrinae insignis plenusque senilibus annis Qui. c. He gave by Will 200 l. to purchase Lands worth 12 l. per An. for an exhibition to be given to two Scholars of Magd. College in Oxon each to have 6 l. which if I mistake not continueth to this day In his Archdeaconry of London succeeded Theophilus Aylmer Son of Dr. Jo. Aylmer Bishop of London CHRISTOPHER HATTON Son of Will. Hatton of Holdenby in Northamptonshire Son of John Son of Hen Hatton by Eliz. his Wife Sister and Heir of Will. Holdenby of Holdenby before-mentioned was born at Holdenby became a Gentleman-Commoner of S. Mary's Hall in the Reign of Q. Mary at which time Will. Alan afterwards a Cardinal presided it Thence without a Degree he went to the Inner-Temple afterwards became successively one of the Queen's Gentlemen Pensioners Gentleman of the Privy Chamber Captain of the Band of Pensioners a Knight Vice-chamberlain of the Queen's Houshold one of the Privy Council Lord Chancelor of England Knight of the Garter and Chancelor of this University He was a Man to say nothing of him but that which in truth is due for Religion and Godliness right devout of approved faithfulness to the State of incorrupt Equity for Alms deeds of all others most bountiful and one which is not the least part of his praise that was most willing and ready to support and maintain Learning c. He was also somewhat enclined to the Popish Party by reason his Natural
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
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
Edward the old Earl of Hertford when he was sent Embassador to the Archduke for the confirming of a Peace In which Voyage it is observed by a certain person that the Royal Ships of England did then being the first time as he saith suffer an indignity and affront from a Dutch Man of War as he passed by them without vailing Of the same Family was Will. Monson a Knight or Esq Father to Will. Monson Visc Castlemaine who died in the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields near London in January or thereabouts 1642. EDWARD FORSET a Gentlemans Son of Lincolnshire and of the same Family with the Forsets of Billesby in that County became a Commoner of Linc. coll in 1590. or thereabouts aged 18. but leaving that house without the honour of a degree retired at length to his Patrimony and wrote A comparative discourse of the bodies natural and politick Wherein out of the principles of nature is set forth the true form of a Common-weal with the duty of the Subjects and the right of the Sovereign c. Lond. 1606. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen The next person that must begin the year of 1607. was in his time esteemed a most excellent Latinist and Poet as was by all acknowledged THOMAS NEWTON the eldest Son of Edw. Netwon of Butley in the Parish of Presbury in Cheshire descended originally from the Newtons of Newtons by Alice his Wife was born in that County educated in Grammaticals under John Brownswerd whom I have mentioned under the year 1589. sent while very young to Oxon but making little stay there he went to Cambridge where he setled in Queens coll and became so much renowned for his Latine Poetry that he was numbred by Scholars of his time among the most noted Poets in that Language Afterwards taking Oxon in his way where he continued for some time he retired to his own Country taught School at Macclesfield or near it with good success practiced Physick and was encouraged in his undertakings by Robert Earl of Essex At length being benificed at Ilford in Essex taught School there also as it seems and continued at that place to the time of his death This person hath written several things and translated more the titles of which such that have come to my hands you shall have tho' he is rather to be numbred among the writers of Cambridge than of Oxon. A notable History of the Saracens c. drawn out of August Curio in 3 books Lond. 1575. qu. A summary or brief Chronicle of the Saracens and Turks continued from the birth of Mahomet to an 1575. Printed with the former book Approved Medicines and cordial Precepts with the Nature and Symptoms c. Lond. 1580. oct Illustrium aliquot Anglorum Encomia Lond. 1589. qu. At the end of Jo. Letands Encomia Trophaea c. Atropoion Delion Or the death of Delia with the tears of her Funeral A poetical excusive discourse of our late Elizabeth Lond. 1603. qu. A pleasant new History Or a fragrant Posie made of three flowers Rosa Rosalynd and Rosemary Lond. 1604. He also viewed and corrected Embryon relimatum written by Joh. Stanbridge and was author as a certain writer saith of two Tragedies viz. of the first and second parts of Tamerline the great Scythian Emperor but false For in Tho. Newtons time the said two parts were performed by Christop Marlo sometimes a Student in Cambridge afterwards first an actor on the stage then as Shakespeare whose contemporary he was a maker of Plays tho' inferior both in fancy and merit This Marlo by the way it must be known was author besides the said two Tragedies of 1 The rich Jew of Malta Trag. published at Lond. by Tho. Heywood 2 The tragical History of the life and death of Dr. Jo. Faustus several times printed 3 Lusts dominion c. Trag. Lond. 1661. oct then published by Franc. Kirkman Junior a Bookseller and a great Trader in Plays From which Tragedy was another stolen or at least the better part intit Abdelazer or the Mores revenge Lond. 1677. published under the name of Mistriss Aphora Behn 4 Trag. of K. Ed. 2. 5 Trag. of Dido Qu. of Carthage In the composure of which Tom Nash joyned with him But in the end so it was that this Marlo giving too large a swing to his own wit and suffering his lust to have the full reins fell to that outrage and extremity as Jodelle a French tragical Poet did being an Epicure and an Atheist that he denied God and his Son Christ and not only in word blasphemed the Trinity but also as 't was credibly reported wrote divers discourses against it affirming Our Saviour to be a deceiver and Moses to be conjurer The holy Bible also to contain only vain and idle stories and all religion but a device of policy But see the end of this person which was noted by all especially the Precisian For so it fell out that he being deeply in love with a certain Woman had for his Rival a bawdy serving man one rather fit to be a Pimp than an ingenious Amoretto as Marlo conceived himself to be Whereupon Marlo taking it to be an high affront rush'd in upon to stab him with his dagger But the serving man being very quick so avoided the stroke that with all catching hold of Marlo's wrist he stab'd his own dagger into his own head in such sort that notwithstanding all the means of surgery that could be wrought he shortly after died of his wound before the year 1593. Some time before his death he had began and made a considerable progess in the Poem called Hero and Leander which was afterwards finished by George Chapman who fell short as 't is said of the spirit and invention of Marlo in the performance thereof It was printed at Lond. 1606. in qu. and whether before that time I know not But all this I speak by the by Our author Tho. Newton whom and his works I am further to mention hath also translated from Latine into English 1 A direction for the health of magistrates and students namely such as be in the consistent age or near thereunto Lond. 1574. in tw written by Gul. Gratarolus 2 Commentary or exposition upon the two Epistles general of S. Peter and that of S. Jude gathered out of the lectures and preachings of Dr. Martin Luther by Anonymus Lond. 1581. qu. 3 Touchstone of Complexions containing most easie rules and ready tokens whereby every man may know as well the exact state habit disposition and constitution of his body outwardly as also the inclinations c. of the mind inwardly Lond. 1581. oct written by Levinus Lemnius 4 Third Tragedy of L. Ann. Seneca ent it Thebais Lond. 1581. qu. in old verse and printed in an English character Note that the fourth seventh eight and tenth Tragedys of the said author were in the like manner translated by
and add that the platform of the said Resolution was laid to his hand by L. de Granada who gave him the principal grounds and matter thereof and the penning by one Brinkley c. Responsio ad Elizabethae Reginae edictum contra Catholicos Rom. 1593. in oct c. Published under the name of Andr. Philopater A conference about the next succession of the Crown of England in two parts Printed 1593 94. in oct under the name of N. Doleman and is known by the name of The book of titles The first part is for chastising of Kings and proceeding against them c. and was reprinted before the time that K. Ch. 1. was beheaded by Rob. Ibbotson living in Smithfield under this title Several Speeches made at a conference or Several Speeches delivered at a conference concerning the power of Parliament to proceed against their King for mis-government The second part was to prove that the Infanta of Spain was the legal Heir to the Crown of England the penning whereof did much endear him to the K. of Spain But so soon as this book peeped forth which was accounted a most hainous and scandalous thing the Parliament enacted 35. Elizab. that whosoever should be found to have it in his house should be guilty of High Treason And whether the Printer of it was hang'd drawn and quartered as some say he was I cannot affirm it K. Charles 1. in his Messages for Peace doth mention and insist upon that book called Several Speeches c. and Mr. W. Prynne in his Speech to the Committee 4. Dec. 1648. affirmed that he himself and others did complain of it but nothing was done to vindicate the houses from that gross imputation c. The said Conference about the next Succession c. put out under the name of Doleman was answered by Sir Joh. Hayward Knight LL. D. an 1603. under this title The right of Succession asserted c. Which answer was reprinted for the satisfaction of the zealous promoters of the Bill of Exclusion Lond. 1683. oct The Conference it self also was reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct purposely to lay open the author's pernicious Doctrines in that juncture of time when the Parliament was zealously bent to exclude James D. of York from the Imperial Crown of England And how much some of the then Fanatical applauded pieces in Politicks have traded with and been beholding to that Conference written by Doleman alias Persons notwithstanding their pretendedly great hatred of and seeming enmity to Popery by asserting many of the self same most damnable and destructive Principles laid down therein is at large by a just and faithful comparing of them together made apparent in a piece intit The Apostate Protestant in a Letter to a Friend occasioned by the late reprinting of Doleman Lond. 1682. in 8 sh in qu. Said to have been wrote by Edw. Pelling Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate in London Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset and a Wiltshire man born Among the said Fanatical applauded pieces in Politicks before-mentioned must be reckoned a Pamplet intit A brief History of Succession collected out of the Records and the most authentick Historians Written for the satisfaction of George Earl of Hallifax in 5 sh in fol. To which tho no place or time was set to shew when or where 't was printed yet as I then observed 't was published in 1680. It was answered by Rob. Brady Doctor of Physick Master of Gonvil and Caius coll and the Kings Professor of Physick in the University of Cambridge and Burgess for that University to sit in the Parliament that began at Oxon. 21. March 1680. in a book intit The great point of Succession discussed c. Lond. 1681. in a thin fol. and by another excellent tract written by Anon called Religion and Loyalty supporting each other Another Pamphlet also which was mostly borrowed from Doleman alias Persons was that intit The great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York or Successor of the Crown c. considered Lond. 1680. in 9 sh in fol. which is quoted also in the Brief History of Succession before-mentioned Which Great and weighty considerations c. consisidered were reprinted at Lond. 1682. in oct and annexed to the second edition of the Postscript written by Thom. Hunt of Grays Inn Esq who therein tho he makes use of Doleman'S Principles yet in a new Epistle before the said second edition of the Considerations he owns them to be his This person Tho. Hunt who had an ingenious Pen and was commonly called Postscript Hunt was forced to leave England in the Fanatical Plot which broke out 12. June 1683. Afterwards setling at Vtrecht in Holland we heard no more of him till Sept. 1688. and then an express coming to my hands dated 13. of that month I was thereby instructed that he then died lately at Vtrecht before-mentioned being big with expectation of returning shortly after to his native Country under the conduct of the Prince of Orange then about to make his expedition into England But to return I find other noted Pamphlets which were about that time published by some ill designed Scriblers who are shewn to have taken many of their dangerous tenets thence I mean from Doleman alias Persons which is a well furnished common-place-book for such turbulent authors to enlarge on as their respective projects and interests should suggest Also that John Bradshaws long Speech spoken at the condemnation of K. Ch. 1. and also the Treatise concerning the broken Succession of the Crown of England c. to make way for Oliver the Usurper were mostly taken out of Doleman alias Persons may be seen in Dr. George Hicks's Sermon on the 30. Jan. 1681. before the L. Mayor of London The truth of this as to the last a note placed at the end of the said Treatise hath put beyond all doubt At length several positions in the said Conference written by Persons being looked upon as dangerous and destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes their State and Government by the University of Oxford particularly that which saith Birthright and Proximity of Blood do give no title to Rule or Government c. the Members thereof condemned them and that in particular by their judgment and decree passed in Convocation 21. July 1683. Which being so done they caused the book it self to be publickly burnt in their School-quadrangle As for the other books that our author Rob. Persons hath written are these following A temperate Wardword to the turbulent and seditious Watchword of Sir Franc. Hastings Knight c. Printed 1599. qu. under the name of N. Dolman that is Vir dolorum in respect of the grief and sorrow that Fa. Persons bore in his heart for the affliction and calamity of his Country as a certain author tells me tho others say that the reason why he put the name of Doleman to some of his books was because he bore great malice
concerned in the matter Some time after Carre then Earl of Sommerset and his Lady Frances before-mentioned were brought to their trials for contriving his death and hiting others to make him away who being both found guilty had the sentence of death passed on them but through the clemency of the King being spared they were only banished the Court. As for our author Overbury who in learning and judgment excelled any of his years which as 't was generally thought made him while living in the Court to be proud to overvalue himself undervalue others and affected as 't were with a kind of insolence hath written A Wife Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the choice of a Wife c. Printed several times at Lond. while the author lived In 1614 it was printed there again in qu. being the fourth or fifth impression bearing this title A Wife now the Widdow of Sir Tho. Overbury being c. Characters Or witty descriptions of the properties of sundry persons Which Characters as 't is observed were the first that were written and published in England To them are added 1 Certain Edicts from a Parliament in Eutopia written by the Lady Southwell 2 Newes from any whence or old truth under a supposal of novelty occasioned by divers Essays and private passages of Wit between sundry Gentlemen upon that subject 3 Paradoxes as they were spoken in a Mask before his Majesty at Whitehall 4 The Mountebanks Receipts 5 Songs Of the remedy of Love In two parts A Poem Lond. 1620. in about 2 sh in oct Observations in his travells upon the state of the 17. Provinces as they stood an 1609. Printed 1627. qu. This goes under his name but doubted by some whether he wrote it Observations upon the Provinces united And on the state of France Lond. 1651. oct with his picture before it an aetat 32. This also is doubted whether ever he wrote it The arraignment and conviction of Sir Walt. Ralegh at the King's Bench Bar at Winchester 17. Nov. 1603. c. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh in qu. Said to be copied by Sir Tho. Overbury but doubtful He yielded up his last breath occasioned by poyson as I have before told you on the 15. Sept. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 and was buried as some authors say presently and very unreverently in a pit digged in an obscure and mean place But the Register of the Tower -Chappel dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula saith he was buried in the said Chappel 15. Sept. being the day of his death an 1613. as I have been informed by the Letters of that learned Gent. Sir Edw. Sherburne Knight late Clerk of his Maj. Ordinance and Armories within the Kingdom of England Over his Grave tho no memory by writing was ever put yet Ben. Johnson's Epigram written to him will eternize it and other verses by the Wits of his time set before his Poem called A Wife and in particular that Epigram written by Owen the Welsh Bard running thus Vxorem angelico describis carmine talem Qualem oratorem Tullius ore potens Qualem describis quamvis tibi nuberet Vxor Aequalis tale non foret illa viro Our author Sir Tho. Overbury had a Nephew of both his names a Knight and Justice of the Peace for the County of Gloucester who lived and injoyed the inheritance of the Overburies at Boorton on the hill before-mentioned He wrote 1 A true and perfect account of the examination trial condemnation and execution of Joan Perry and her two Sons John and Rich. Perry for the supposed Murder of Will Harrison Gent c. Lond. 1676. in 4 sh and half in qu. Written by way of Letter to Thom. Shirley Doctor of Physick in London 2 Queries proposed to the serious consideration of those who impose upon others in things of divine and supernatural revelation and prosecute any upon the aecount of Religion with a desire of their candid and christian resolution thereof Printed 1677. Answered by George Vernon Rect. of Boorton on the water the same year in his Ataxiae obstaculum Whereupon Sir Tho. came out with a reply intit Ratiocinium vernaculum or a Reply to Ataxiae obstaculum Being a pretended answer to certain Queries dispersed in some parts in Gloucestershire Lond. 1678. oct This Sir Tho. Overbury was not educated in any University only was a great Traveller in parts beyond the Seas and afterwards a favourer of Protestant Dissenters which is all I know of him only-that he sold his Inheritance at Boorton on the hill to Alex. Popham Esq about 1680. and afterwards retiring to an Estate that he had at Adminton in Queinton Parish in Gloucestershire died there 28. Feb. 1680. and was buried in Queinton Church JOHN HARMAR a most noted Latinist Grecian and Divine was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1574. took the degrees in Arts was made the Kings Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University 1585. being then in holy Orders one of the Proctors thereof two years after chief Master of Winchester School for nine years Warden of the coll there 17 years and at length Doctor of Divinity being always accounted a most solid Theologist admirably well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and in his younger years a subtile Aristotelian The chief actions of his Life an account of his travels of his disputing at Paris with the great Doctors of the Rom. Party and also of the things that he had written and published his Nephew John Harmar whom I shall mention under the year 1670. promised to give unto me a full narration in writing but sickness and death soon after following prevented him He hath published 1 Chrysostomi Archiep. Constant Homeliae sex ex MSS. cod in bib coll Novi Oxon. 1586. 2 Chrysostomi Homeliae ad populum Antiochenum omnes exceptâ primâ cum Latinâ versione Homeliae decimae nonae quae in latinis etiam exemplaribus hactenus desiderata est Lond. 1590. He also translated from French into English Sermons on the three first Chapters of the Canticles Ox. 1587 qu. Written by Theod. Beza And from Lat. into English Sermons on the 10. Commandments Lord. 1581. qu. written by Joh. Calvin and had a prime hand in the translation of the New Testament into English at the command of K. Jam. 1. an 1604. At length paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 was buried at the upper end of New coll Choire His Epitaph you may read in a book intit Historia Antiquit Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. a. He was a considerable Benefactor to the Libraries of both Wykehams colleges EDWARD BREREWOOD Son of Rob. Br. Wet-Glover thrice Mayor of the City of Chester was born and educated in Grammar learning there applyed his Muse to Academical studies in Brasenose coll in the latter end of 1581. aged
16. or thereabouts where continuing an indefatigable Student several years took the degrees in Arts and then as 't is said translated himself to St. Maries hall In 1596. he became the first Astronomy Professor in Gresham coll in London wherein as in Oxon he always led a retired and private course of Life delighting with profound speculations and the diligent searching out of hidden verities It was also observed that tho he never published any thing while he injoyed this earthly Tabernacle yet to avoid the fruitless curiosity of that which some take upon them to know only that they may know he was ever most ready in private either by conference or writing to instruct others repairing unto them if they were desirous of his resolution in any doubtful points of learning within the ample circuit of his deep apprehension The things that he wrote were many the first of which that was published was as I conceive this De ponderibus pretiis veterum nummorum eorumque cum recentioribus collatione lib. 1. Lond. 1614. qu. Published by his Nephew Rob. Brerewood of Chester who was Commoner of Bras coll 1605. aged 17. Remitted into the eighth vol. of the Criticks and in the Apparatus before the first vol. of the Polyglot Bible He also wrote Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages and Religion through the chief parts of the World Lond. 1614. 23. 35. c. qu. and in 1647. c. in oct published by the said Rob. Brerewood who if I mistake not hath written a large and learned Preface to it Elementa Legicae in gratiam studiosae juventutis in Acad. Oxon. Lond. 1614. and 15. c. in oct Tractatus quidem Logici de Praedicabilibus Praedicamentis Oxon. 1628. 37. c. oct Treatise of the Sabbath Oxon. 1630. qu. Which coming in MS. into the hands of Nich. Byfield a Minister in Chester and by him answered was replied upon by our author in A second Treatise of the Sabbath Ox. 1632. qu. The Puritans it seems then before our authors death 1613. did verily think there was a Plot against the power of godliness but could never be pulled down whilst the Sabbath stood upright and therefore the Patrons of impiety as they said did rightly project to take that out of the way which stood so much in theirs Rich. Byfield did vindicate his Brother against Brerewood and Joh. Ley wrote partly against him in his Sunday a Sabbath An old and zealous Puritan named Theophilus Brabourne an obscure Schoolmaster or as some say a Minister of Suffolk was very stiff for a Sabbath in his books published 1628. and 31. and endeavoured to take off all objections that might be said against one yet by maintaining the indispensable morality of the fourth Commandment and consequently the necessary observation of the Jewish Sabbath did incline several of his Readers to Judaism Tho. Broad who was esteemed an Anti-Sabbatarian did write almost to the same effect that Brerewood did tho Brerewood's first book did dissent from his opinions in those points opposed by George Abbot in his Vindiciae Sabbathi wherein are also surveyed all the rest that then had lately written on that subject concerning the Sabbath viz. Francis White B. of Ely Pet. Heylyn D. D. and Christop Dowe whose several treatises on the said subject he calls Anti-Sabbatarian Tractatus duo quorum primus est de meteoris secundus de oculo Oxon. 1631. Published by Tho. Sixesmith M. A. and Fellow of Bras coll Commentarii in Ethica Aristotelis Ox. 1640. qu. Published by the said Sixesmith and 't is called by some Brerewood de moribus The original MS. of which written with his own hand in the smallest and neatest character that mine eyes ever yet beheld was by him finished 27. Oct. 1586. The Patriarchal Government of the ancient Church declared by way of answer unto four questions c. Ox. 1641. qu. He ended his days in Gresham coll of a Feaver to the great reluctancy of all good men that knew the learning and the excellencies of the person year 1613 on the fourth of Nov. in sixteen hundred and thirteen and was buried the eighth day of the same month near to the Readers Pew in the Chancel of the Church of Great S. Helen within the City of London In his Lectureship of Astronomy in the said coll succeeded Edm. Gunter as I shall tell you elsewhere WILLIAM WESTERMAN was entred a Commoner of Gloucester hall in the latter end of 1583. took one degree in Arts translated himself to Oriel coll proceeded in that Faculty and by continual study and unwearied industry he became a proficient in Divinity and Minister of Sanbridge in Hertfordshire Afterwards his merits introducing him to the knowledge of Dr. Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury was by him made his Chaplain so that taking the degree of Doctor of Div. was also by him prefer'd to a Dignity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A prohibition of revenge on Rev. 12. 19. Lond. 1600. oct 2 Sword of maintenance on Amos 5. 15. Lond. 1600. oct 3 Faithful Subject or Mephibosheth on 2 Sam. 19. 29 30. Lond. 1608. oct 4 Salomons Porch or a Caveat c. on Eccles. 4. 17. Lond. 1608. oct 5 Jacobs Well on Joh. 4. 6. Lond. 1613. oct c. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of the author JOHN DUNSTER born of a Family of his name living at Doneat near to Ilminster in Somersetshire was made Demy of Magd. coll in 1598. aged 16. perpetual Fellow 1602. afterwards Master of Arts Proctor of the University 1611. and at length Chaplain to Archb. Abbot who bestowed on him a Benefice or Dignity about 1613. in which year Dunster resigned his Fellowship He hath published Caesar's Penny Serm. on 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. Oxon. 1610. oct Prodromus Or a literal exposition of the 79 Psalm concerning the destruction of Jerusalem Lond. 1613. oct In his younger days being esteemed a noted Poet by his Contemporaries had several copies of verses printed in various books especially in that made by the Society of Magd. coll on the death of a noble young Man of that house named Will. Grey Son of Arth. Grey Baron of Wilton who died 18. Feb. 1605. WILLIAM SYMONDS an Oxfordshire Man born was elected Demy of Magd. coll in 1573. and perpetual Fellow six years after but whether he was M. of A. it appears not About the time that he was made Fellow he entred into holy Orders and had a Spiritual Cure bestowed on him at Halton Holgate in Lincolnshire by Sir Rob. Bertie Lord Willoughby where continuing several years was called thence and became at length Preacher at S. Saviours Church in Southwarke and D. and D. 1613. He was a person of an holy life grave and moderate in his carriage painful in the Ministry well learned and of rare understanding in Prophetical Scriptures He hath written Pisgah Evangelica according to the method of the Revelation presenting the
History of the Church and those Canaanites over whom she shall triumph Lond. 1605. qu. Virginia Serm. at White-chappel in the presence of many honourable and worshipful the Adventurers and Planters for Virginia 25. Apr. 1609. on Gen. 12. 1 2 3. Lond. 1609. qu. What other things he published I cannot yet find nor to what year he lived WILLIAM CHEEKE who writes and entitles himself Austro-Britannus became a Student in Magd. coll in the beginning of the year 1592. took one degree in Arts as a Member of Madg. hall in Lent Term 1595. which being compleated by Determination he left the University and afterwards wrote and published certain matters of which one is intit Anagrammata Chronogrammat a Regia Lond. 1613. oct In which book are several copies of Latin and Greek verses which shew the author to have been a good Poet in the time he lived ROBERT HOVEDEN a Kentish Man born was elected Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1565. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1570. and in the year following being then 27 years of age he was elected and confirmed Warden of the said coll About the same time entring into holy Orders he was made Domestick Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury afterwards Prebendary of the Cath. there Prebendary of Henstridge in the Church of Wells Prebendary of Clifton in the Church of Lincoln and at length Doctor of Div. He hath written Henrici Chichleii Cantuar. Archiepiscopi collegiique Omnium Animarum apud Oxonienses fundatoris vita Written in Dec. 1574. and hath this beginning Henricus Chichleius in pago prope Northamptoniam c. It is a short thing and is kept in MS. under the authors hand in All 's coll and served as an Apparatus of a larger life written by Dr. Arth. Duck. Catalogus Custodum Sociorum coll Om. Animarum MS. It commences at the foundation of the college and reaches down to Hoveden's days and by others continued to these times This Catalogue tho it is trite and slender and now and then faulty yet it hath instructed me in many things when I was in composing this and a preceedent work It is commonly in the custody of the Warden and hath in the beginning of it the life of the Founder before-mentioned This worthy Doctor died on the 25. of March in sixteen hundred and fourteen and was buried towards the upper end of All 's coll chappel year 1614 A copy of his Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 185. a. JOHN SPENSER a Suffolke man born was originally one of the Clerks of C. C. coll and being Bach. of Arts in 1577. was elected Greek Reader of the same 9. June in the year following not without great opposition of Mr. Joh. Rainolds whose resignation it was On the 7. May 1579. he was admitted Fellow and the year after took the degree of Master of Arts. So that entring into Orders he became a noted Preacher Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. and a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Rainolds before mention'd On the death of the last he was elected President of the said coll and reverenced by all good men for his knowledge learning and piety At the time of his death he left several things fit for the Press among which was a Sermon publish'd by Hamlet Marshall his Curate bearing this title A learned and godly Sermon at Pauls Cross on Esay 5. 2. 3. Lond. 1615. qu. But this is not all that he is to be remembred for for for several years before his death he took extraordinary pains together with a most judicious and compleat Divine named R. Hooker before mention'd about the compiling of a learned and profitable work which he published I mean some of the books of Ecclesiastical Policy yet would not he be moved to put his name to tho he had a special hand in it and therefore it fell out that tulit alter honores Our Author Spenser also did about four years after Hooker's death publish the five Books of Eccles Policy together in one Volume with an Epistle before them subscribed by J. S. and reprinted at London with some of his smaller works which had been before published by Hen. Jackson an 1622. fol. He the said Dr. Spenser gave way to fate 3. Apr. it sixteen hundred and fourteen year 1614 and was buried in Corp. Ch. coll Chappel Over his Grave is a fair Monument with his bust and an inscription a copy of which you may read in Histor Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. His Picture is painted on the Wall of the School gallery in Oxon among our eniment English Divines WILLIAM BATHE was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland Studied several years in this University with indefatigable industry but whether in any of the three houses wherein Irish men of his time studied viz. in Vniv. coll Hart or Glocester-hall or whether he took a degree I find not Afterwards under pretence of being weary with the Heresie professed in England as he usually call'd it left the Nation the Religion that he was brought up to and entred himself into the Society of Jesus in 1596. being then between 30. and 40. years of age After he had spent some time in that order he was sent from Flanders to Padua to increase his studies which being compleated he went into Spain where at Salamanca he presided the Seminary of that Nation ad formationem spiritus He was endowed with a most ardent zeal for the obtaining of Souls and was beloved of and respected by not only those of his own Order but of other Orders for his singular vertues and excellencies of good conditions He hath written Introduction to the Art of Musick wherein are set down exact and easie rules with arguments and their solutions for such as seek to know the reason of the truth which rules he means whereby any by his own industry may shortly easily and regularly attain to all such things as to this Art do belong Lond. 1584. qu. This book he wrote while he was a young Student in Oxford being then much delighted in the faculty of Musick Janua linguarum seu modus maxime accomodatus quo patefit aditus ad omnes linguas intelligendas Salam 1611. Published by the care of the Irish Fathers of the Jesuits Order living at Salamanca and is used at this time there for the instruction of Youth He also wrote in the Spanish Tongue Preparation for the administring of the Sacrament with greater facility and fruit of repentance than hath been already done Millan 1604. Published by Joseph Creswell under the name of Pet. Manrique He also W. Bathe wrote in English but his name not put to it A methodical institution concerning the chief mystesteries of Christian Religion Method for the performing of general Confession At length our author taking a journey to Madrid in Spain about several concerns of the Order died there 17 June in sixteen
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
a great influence upon the doctrine of Obedience Qu. Elizabeth therefore conceiving it convenient for her worldly designs to take on her the protection of the Low-Countries against the King of Spain did employ our author Bilson to write the said book of Christian subjection c. In which to justifie the revolt of Holland he gave strange liberty in many cases especially concerning religion for Subjects to cast off their obedience But this book which served her designs for the present did contribute much to the ruine of her Successor K. Ch. 1. which one calls a just judgment of God For there is not any book that the Presbyterians have made more dangerous use of against their Prince Ch. 1. than that which his predecessor commanded to be written to justifie her against the King of Spain However our authors Bilson Successor in Winchester I mean Dr. Morley saith that tho Bishop Bilson was in an errour yet he was not so much for the resisting of Kings as Mr. Rich. Baxter is Of the perpetual government of Christ his Church wherein are handled the fatherly superiority which God first established in the Patriarks and after continued in the tribe of Levi c. Also the points in question at this day touching the Jewish Synedrion c. Lond. 1593. qu. c. Printed in Lat. at Lond. 1610. The effect of certain Sermons touching the full redempton of mankind by the death and blood of Ch. Jesus wherein besides the merit of Christs sufferings the manner of his offering the power of his death the comfort of his Cross the glory of his Resurrection are handled c. Lond. 1599. qu. The clearing of certain objections made against the aforesaid doctrine The said Sermons being preached at Pauls Cross made great alarums among the puritanical brethren Whereupon they mustering their forces and comparing their notes sent them to Hen. Jacob an old Dessenter to have them published with his collections under his own name But the matter of the controversie coming to the Queens knowledge she being at Farnham castle belonging to the B. of Winchester she signified her pleasure to Bilson that he should neither desert the doctrine nor suffer the Function which he had exercised in the Church of England to be trodden and trampled under foot by unquiet men who both abhorred the truth and dispised authority Upon which command the Bishop did set himself upon the writing of that learned Treatise chiefly also delivered by him in Sermons entituled A survey of Christs sufferings and descent into Hell Lond. 1604. fol. See more in Hen. Jacob. He also published Sermon at Westm before K. and Qu. at their Coronation S. James day 28. Jul. 1603. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1603 oct and wrote MS. in my Libr. Orationes Carmina varia Vulgaria c. He also with Dr. Miles Smith added the last hand in the translation of the Bible commanded by K. James 1. At length after he had gone through many employments and had lived in continual drudgery as 't were for the publick good surrendred up his pious soul to God on the 18. year 1616 of June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried saith one on the south side of Westminster Abbey Church near to the Monument of K. Rich. 2. or as the Register hath it near to the entrance into S. Edmunds Chappel One John Dunbar a Scot who writes himself Megalo-Britannus hath a learned Epigram on him which may serve for his Epitaph JOHN PITS or Pitsous as he writes himself a grand zealot for the Ro. Cath. cause Son of Hen. Pits by Elizabeth his Wife sister to Dr. Nich. Saunders was bron at a market Town called Aulton in Hampshire educated in juvenile learning in Wykeham's School near to Winton admitted Probationer-fellow of New coll in 1578. being then about 18. years of age but leaving that house before he was admitted perpetual Fellow which was to be in 1580. he went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile and going to Doway was kindly received there by the learned Tho. Stapleton who then gave him advice what course to take relating to his studies Thence he went to Rheimes and after one year spent in the English college he was sent to Rome and continued in the English coll there also in the zealous prosecution of the studies of Philosopy and Divinity for seven years and was made a Priest Thence he returned to Rheimes where he taught Rhetorick and Greek for two years But troubles arising in France he withdrew himself into Loraine and took the degree of Master of Arts which before he had neglected at Pont-a-musson and was soon after made Bach. of Divinity Thence taking a journy into High Germany he continued at Trier an year and an half where after he had performed certain exercise he was made a Licentiat of Divinity Thence after he had seen several of the best Cities in Germany he removed to Ingolstadt in Bavaria where remaining 3 years did in that time after he had performed solemn disputations take the degree of Doctor of his faculty So that by that time having viewed several parts of Italy and Germany and had learned their Languages he returned to Loraine where by Charles Cardinal of Loraine he was made Canon of Verdun After two years spent there he was called thence by the illustrious Princess Antonia Daughter to the Duke of Loraine and Wife to the D. of Cleve and was by her made her Confessor And that he might be the better serviceable to her he learned the French Tongue most accurately so that it was usual with him afterwards to preach in that Language In her service continuing about 12 years he had leisure to turn over the Histories of England whether Ecclesiastick or Republick Whence making several collections and observations he wrote and digested four great Volumes One was of the Kings another of the Bishops a third of Apostolical and a fourth of illustrious and learned men of this Nation At 12 years end the said Dutchess dying he went a third time into Loraine where by the favour of John Bishop of Toul sometimes his Scholar he was promoted to the Deanery of Liverdune of considerable value which with a Canonry and an Officialship of the said Church he kept to his dying day He hath written De legibus Tract Thâ—ologicus Trev. 1592. De beatitudine Tr. Th. Ingols 1595. De Peregrinatiene lib. 7. Dusseld 1604. in tw dedicated to Antonia Dutchess of Cleve Relationem Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis tom 1. quatuor partes complectens c. Par. 1619. in a thick qu. published by Dr. Will. Bishop of whom I shall speak elsewhere This book is the same with that De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus commonly called Pitseus de Scriptoribus And hath in the beginning of it certain prolegomina containing 1 De laudibus Historiae 2 De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britanniae 3 De Academiis tam antiquis Britonam quam recentioribus Anglorum
England where he preached the word of God very constant as his brother Edmund did was inducted into a Prebendship of Durham 9. May 1572. made Archdeacon of Northumberland on the resignation of Ralph Lever 20. Oct. 1573. and on the eleventh of Sept. 1578. he was made Rector of Ryton within the Bishoprick of Durham This person was very zealous in the way he professed was a great admirer of Jo. Calvin a constant preacher charitable and a stiff enemy to Popery He hath written and published Survey and tryal of the Popes Supremacy Lond. 1590. qu. Written against Card. Bellarmine Comparison between the antient faith of the Romans and the new Romish Religion Lond. 1595. qu. This is commonly called Truth and Falshood Answer to a popish Libel called A petition to the Bishops preachers and Gospellers Oxon. 1607. oct Exposition on the 28. verse of the third Chapt. of the Epistle to the Romans wherein is manifestly proved the doctrine of justification by faith c. Lond. 1616. qu. Plain and familiar Exposition of the ten Commandements by questions and answers Lond. 1617. oct In Joelis prophetiam enarratio Written by the author an 1595. and by his Epistle dedicated it to Tobie Bishop of Durham in which he saith he hath preached Sermons at Berwick about 20. years before that time upon Joel of which this book is the summ And if printed for 't is in MS. would contain about 3 quire of Paper He departed this mortal life at Ryton before mention'd 16. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there year 1617 near to the Graves of 4 of his Sons which he had by Jane his Wife Daughter of Henr. Priestly Over his Grave was soon after set up in the Wall adjoyning a table or plate of Brass whereon are engraven certain trite Verses The first Stanza runs thus My bark now having won the haven I fear no stormy Seas God is my hope my home is heaven My life is happy ease c. By his will he bequeathed to the University of Oxon. 100 l. towards their building of the New Schools and 33 l. to Madg. college HENRY SAVILE Sometimes of Shawhill in Yorkshire commonly called Long Harry Savile was born of an antient family of his name living at Banke near Halyfax in that County entred a Student in Merton coll of which his kinsman Mr. Hen. Savile was Warden in 1587. and was soon after made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he left it and retired to S. Albans hall and as a member thereof he took the degree of M. of Arts in 1595. All which time being under the inspection of his kinsman he became an eminent Scholar especially in the Mathematicks Physick in which faculty he was admitted to practice by the University Chemistry Painting Heraldry and Antiquities Afterwards for the compleating and advance of his knowledge he travelled into Italy France and Germany where spending his time very profitable returned the most accomplished person of his time and therefore his company was desired and sought after by all learned and vertuous Men. He had written several things fit for the Press but whether ever published I find not as yet It must be now known that this Henr. Savile being an intimate friend with the learned Camden he communicated to him the antient exemplar of Asser Menevensis which contains the story of the discord between the new Scholars that Grimbald brought with him to Oxon at the restauration of the University by K. Alfred with the old Clerks that the said Grimbald found when he came to that place Which exemplar being discovered to be genuine by the said Camden who afterwards stil'd it Optimum exemplar Asserii he did therefore make it publick an 1602. But so it was that as soon as it peep'd forth certain envious Cantabrigians did not stick to report that the said story concerning the dissention between the old and new Scholars was foisted into Asser by the said Long Harry Savile and which is more that passage also was put by him into the printed History of Ingulphus which maketh much for the Antiquity of the University of Oxon. Ego Ingulphus c. pro literis addiscendis in teneriore aetate constitutus primum Westmonasterio postremo Oxoniensi studio traditus sum c. But for the clearing of the said vain reports much hath been said already and therefore I shall trouble the reader no more but only tell him that after the said Long Harry had lived for some years after his return from forreign Countries within the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields near London died there to be the great reluctancy of all learned men on 29. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 aged 49. Whereupon his body being buried in the Chancel of the Church of that Parish had soon after a Monument set over his Grave on the north Wall with his bust to the middle carved out from stone and painted The reader is now to know that there was one Hen. Savile Esq who was employed as a Captain in one of her Majesties Ships called the Adventure under the conduct of Sir Franc. Drake and Sir John Hawkyns against the Spaniard in the West Indies Which Henry wrote a book intit A Libel of Spanish lyes found at the Sack of Cales discoursing the fight in the West Indies between the English and the Spaniard and of the death of Sir Franc. Drake with an answer confuting the said Spanish lies c. Lond. 1596. qu. But this Capt. Henry Savile must not be understood to be the same with Long Harry or with Sir Hen. Savile Warden of Merton college but another of the same House as I conceive for three Hen. Saviles of Yorkshire were atriculated as members of that coll in the time of Qu. Elizabeath viz. one who is written the Son of a Plebeian 1588. a second the Son of an Esq in 1593. and a third an Esq Son also in 1595. The said Capt. Savile or else Long Harry was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons for which he was forced to abscond and withdrew for a time WILLIAM JAMES Son of Joh. James of Little On in Staffordshire by Ellen his Wife Daughter of Will. Bolt of Sanabach in Cheshire was born at Sandbach admitted Student of Ch. Ch. in 1559. or thereabouts and took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences 1571 being then Divinity Reader of Magd. coll The next year he was elected Master of Vniv. coll and in 1577. Aug. 27. he became Archdeacon of Coventry on the death of Thom. Lewes In 1584. he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and in 96. June 5. he was installed Dean of Durham after that place had laid void for some time upon the promotion of Tob. Mathew to the See of Durham In 1606. he succeded the
our author Bunney who had a bulkey body and a broad face did several times come to Oxon accompanied with two men in black Liveries with horses and did preach or catechize in some Churches there and near to it where was none to do that office particularly in Allsaints Church to whom many resorted and took Notes Also that whatsoever he had given to him by way of gratuity he would bestow on his men and farther added that by his seeing holiness of life and soundness of doctrine many Scholars particularly himself were induced afterwards to take holy Orders He would travel over most parts of England like a new Apostle and would endeavour to act as the Apostles did So that being blamed for it by many as if there were none to be found to do that office but he and looked upon by others as a forward busie and conceited man he therefore wrote his Defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry and dispersed several copies of it abroad among his friends and acquaintance The truth is he was the most fluid Preacher in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth for he seldom or never studied for what he was to deliver but would preach and pray extempere as our beloved Saints did in the time of the rebellion under K. Ch. 1. and after insomuch that many were pleased to say he was troubled with the Divinity squirt I have heard some of our Ancients who remember him report that he was a severe Calvinist and that by the liberty he took did a great deal of harm by his Preaching in Corporation-Towns as many then did and some Gentlemen also with Licenses obtained from the Queen under pretence of a scarcity of Divines He hath written The summ of Christian Religion in two parts The first intreateth of the Trinity and the second of the Commandments Lond. 1576. oct Abridgment of Jo. Calvin's Institutions Lond. 1580. oct Translated into Engl. by Edw. May. Scepter of Judah or what manner of Government it was that unto the Commonwealth or Church of Israel was by the Law of God appointed Lond. 1584. oct Of the Coronation of K. David wherein out of that part of the History of David that sheweth how he came to the Kingdom we have set out what is like to be the end of these troubles that daily arise for the Gospels sake Lond. 1588. qu. Necessary admonition out of the Prophet Joel concerning that hand of God that of late was upon us and is not clean taken off as yet c. Lond. 1588. oct The Reader is to understand that Rob. Persons a Jesuit did put out a book intit Christian Exercise appertaining to Resolution c. in two parts The first of which coming forth before the other our author Bunney did correct alter and made it fit for the use of Protestants adding thereunto of his own composition A Treatise of Purification Lond. 1584. or thereabouts in oct But the Jesuit in the next edit of the said Resolution did much complain of our author for assuming to himself the labours of another person and of spoiling his work and the impression thereof Whereupon our author put out another book intit A brief answer unto those idle and frivolous quarrels of R. P. against the late edition of the Resolution Lond. 1589. oct He hath also written Of Divorce for Adultery and Marrying again that there is no sufficient Warrant so to do Oxon. 1610. qu. At the end of which is a note to shew that Rob. Persons was many years since answered The corner Stone Or a form of teaching Jesus Christ out of the Scriptures Lond. 1611. fol. A defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry MS. written 20. Jan. 1602. He also translated as some say into the English tongue or as others perverted it that excellent book of Joh. Gerson or rather of Tho. de Kempis intit Of the imitation of Christ but whether true I know not for I have not yet seen such a thing He ended his days at Cawood in Yorkshire 26. Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the choire of York Cathedral Over his grave is a fair Monument in the wall with his Effigies carved from stone and this inscription by it Edmundus Bunnaeus ex nobili Bunnaeorum familia oriundus S. Th. Bac. coll Mertonensis in Oxâ—n olim Socius Parochiae de Bolton-Percy Pastor Ecclesiarum B. Pauli London B. Petri Eborum B. Mariae Carleol Praebendarius dignissimus concionator frequentiss vicatim oppidatim praedicando multos annos consum siâ— cum ob amorem christi haereditatem paternam fratri Riâ—â—â—â—â—â—uniori relinquisset Obiit die mensis Febr. 26. an 1617. Haec senis Edmundi Bunney est quem cernis imago A quo Bunnaei villula nomen habet Clarus â—rat tanti tumuit neque sanguinis aestu Haeres patris crat profuit esse nihil Denotat aetatem gravitas resolutio mentem Zelum Scripta aciem Pulpita facta fidem Vasa sacro librosque dedit post funera templo Et bona pauperibus caetera seque deo ROBERT ABBOT the eldest Son of Maurice Abbot Sherman who died 25. Sept. 1606. by Alice March his Wife was born at Guildford in Surry in an house now an Ale-house bearing the sign of the Three Marriners by the Rivers side near to the Bridge on the North side of the Street in St. Nicholas Parish educated in the Free School there founded by K. Ed. 6. 1551. under Mr. Franc. Tayler Schoolmaster thereof became a Student in Balliol coll 1575. aged 15 years elected Socius Sacerdotalis of that house 16. Jan. 1581. took the degree of M. A. in the year following became a noted Preacher in the University and a constant Lecturer at St. Martins Church in the Quadrivium and sometimes at Abendon in Berks. Afterwards being made Lecturer in the City of Worcester and Rector of Allsaints Church there he resigned his Fellowship 8. March 1588. and not long after became Rector of Bingham in Northamptonshire by the favour of Joh. Stanhope Esquire and afterwards took the degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated in 1597. In the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to him in the year 1609. he was unanimously elected Master of Balliol coll and in the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was made Prebendary of Normanton in the Church of Southwell In 1612. he was appointed Doctor of the Theological Chair usually called the Kings Professor of Divinity by his Majesty and in 1615. he was nominated by him to be Bishop of Salisbury meerly as 't is said for his incomparable Lectures read in the Divinity School concerning the Kings Supream Power against Bellarmino and Suarez and for his Antilogia which he a little before had published So that being consecrated thereunto on the third of Dec. the same year sate there till the time of his death which was soon after He was a
person of unblameable life and conversation a profound Divine most admirably well read in the Fathers Councils and Schoolmen and a more moderate Calvinian than either of his two Predecessors Holland and Humphrey in the Divinity-chair were which he expressed by countenancing the Sublapsarian way of Predestination His works are The Mirrour of Popish Subtilties discovering certain wretched and miserable evasions and shifts which a secret cavilling Papist in the behalf of one Paul Spence Priest yet living and lately Prisoner in the Castle of Worcester hath gathered out of Saunders and Bellarmine c. concerning the Sacraments c. Lond. 1594. qu. The Exaltation of the Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ Sermons on 110 Psalm from the 1. to the 7. ver Lond. 1601. qu. Antichristi demonstratio contra fabulas Pontificias ineptum Rob. Bellarmini de Antichristo disputationem Lond. 1603. qu. 1608. oct Defence of the Reformed Catholick of Mr. Will. Perkins lately deceased against the Bastard Counter-Catholick of Dr. Bishop Seminary Priest The first part Lond. 1606. qu. The second part was printed at the same place 1607. qu. and the third part 1609. qu. The old way Serm. at S. Maries Oxon on Act-Sunday 8. July 1610. on Jerem. 6. 16. Lond. 1610. qu. The true ancient Rom. Catholick being an Apology against Dr. Bishops Reproof of the defence of the Reformed Catholick Lond. 1611. qu. See more in Will. Bishop an 1624. Antilogia adversus apologiam Andreae Endaemon-Johannis Jesuitae pro Henrico Garnetto Jesuitâ proditore quâ mendacissime c. Lond. 1613. qu. Exercitationes de gratiâ perseverantiâ Sanctorum c. Lond. 1618. qu. In Richardi Thomsoni Angli Belgici deatribam de amissione intercessione justificationis gratiae animadversio brevis The former of which two viz. Exerc. de gratia c. was printed at Francfort 1619. under this title Exercitationes Academicae de gratiâ perseverantiâ Sanctorum itâ—mque de intercessione justificationis in oct As for Rich. Thomson you may see more of him in the Fasti an 1596. De supremâ potestate regiâ exercitationes habitae in Acad. Oxon contra Rob. Bellarminum Franc. Suarez Lond. 1619. qu. He also wrote a most accurate Commentary in Latin upon the Epistle to the Romans with large Sermons upon every verse in which he handled as his Text gave him occasion all the controverted points of Religion at this day This Commentary which is in 4 volumes in MS. was given to Bodlies Library by Dr. Edw. Corbet Rector of Hasâ—ley in Oxfordshire who married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Nath Brent Knight by his Wife Martha the only Daughter and Heir of the said Dr. Rob. Abbot Other matters also he left behind him fit for the Press but whether they were all printed I know not At length through a too sedentary life which brought him to the terrible disease of the Stone in the Kidneys he gave way to fate on the second of March in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury over against the Bishops seat having in less than two years before married a second Wife for which he gained the great displeasure of his Brother Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury I find another Rob. Abbot who was a frequent writer but after the former in time He was originally of Cambridge and afterwards a Minister of God's Word first in Kent then in Hampshire and at length in London as I shall more at large tell you in the Fasti 1607. WALTER WYLSHMAN a Cornish man born educated in Exeter coll took the degrees in Arts stood as a Member of Broadgates hall in an Act celebrated 1594. to compleat it being about that time Minister of Dartmouth in Devonshire and much resorted to for his frequent and practical way of Preaching He hath written and published The sincere Preacher Proving that in whom is adulation avarice and ambition he cannot be sincere Delivered in three Sermons in Dartmouth upon 1 Thes 2. 5 6. Lond. 1616. oct THOMAS BASTARD a most ingenious and facetious person of his time was born at a Market Town in Dorsetshire called Blandford educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1588. and two years after Bach. of Arts. But this person being much guilty of the vices belonging to Poets and given to libelling he was in a manner forced to leave his Fellowship in 1591. So that for the present being put to his shifts he was not long after made Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Suffolk Lord Treasurer of England by whose favour and endeavours he became Vicar of Beer-Regis and Rector of Amour or Hamer in his native Country being then M. of A. He was a person endowed with many rare gifts was an excellent Grecian Latinist and Poet and in his elder years a quaint Preacher His discourses were always pleasant and facete which made his company desired by all ingenious men He was a most excellent Epigrammatist and being always ready to versifie upon any subject did let nothing material escape his fancy as his compositions running through several hands in MS. shew One of which made upon his three Wives runs thus Terna mihi variis ducta est aetatibus uxor Haec juveni illa viro tertia nâ—pta seni Prima est propter opus teneris mihi juncta sub annis Altera propter opes tertia propter opem The things that he hath written and published are many but all that I have seen are only these Epigrams Which being very pleasant to the Reader that noted Poet Sir Joh. Harrington of Kelston made one or more Epigrams dedicated to the author of them Pocma intit Magna Britannia lib. 3. Lond. 1605. qu. Dedicated to K. Jam. 1. Five Sermons Lond. 1615. qu. The three first on Luke 1. 76. are called The Marigold and the Sun The two last on Luke 7. 37 38. are intit The Sinners Looking-glass Twelve Sermons Lond. 1615. qu. The first on Ephes 4. 26. is intit A Christian exhortation to innocent anger The second on Exod. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. is The calling of Moses c. This Poet and Preacher being towards his latter end crazed and thereupon brought into debt was at length committed to the Prison in Allhallows Parish in Dorchester where dying very obscurely and in a mean condition was buried in the Church-yard belonging to that Parish on 19. Apr. in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 leaving behind him many memorials of his Wit and Drollery In my collection of Libels or Lampoons made by diverâ— Oxford Students in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth I meet with two made by his author One of which is intit An admonition to the City of Oxford or his Libel intit Marprelates Basterdine Wherein he reflects upon all persons of note in Oxon that were guilty of amorous exploits or that mixed themselves with other Mens Wives or with wanton Huswives in Oxon. Another also was made after his
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
ingratitude 4 Afflictions the Christians portion 5 Duty and affinity of the faithful 6 No peace with Rome c. Oxon. 1629. qu. Status quaestionum inter nos pontificios MS. in qu. containing 92. pages in Lat. in the Libr. of Dr. Tho. Barlow At length after he had lived 34. years he was to the great grief of many untimely snacth'd away by the Plague that was then in Oxon. 25. July in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and was privately buried late at night in the south yard belonging to S. Maries Church within this University leaving then behind him a disconsolate Widdow named Elizabeth Daughter of Dr. Râ—b Hoveden sometimes Warden of All 's coll besides children Over his grave was soon after an altar-monument erected with an Epitaph engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 181. b. RAPHAEL THORIUS commonly called Thoris a French man born was in his younger days conversant among the Oxonians in the condition of a Sojourner and made a considerable progress in the faculty of medicine but took no degree therein only numbred among those of the Physick line Afterwards he setled in London practiced that faculty with good success and was in his time accounted Corypheus Medici gregis and as a Physitian famous so no vulgar Poet. The works that he hath written are many but none were published till after his death the titles of some of which follow Hymnus Tabaci sive de Pacto libri duo Which books being procured from the author in Feb. 1624. by Ludov. à Kinschot were by him published at Lond. 1627. oct This elegant Lat. Poem was translated into English verse by Pet. Hansted M. A. of Cambridge afterwards D. D. Lond. 1651. oct Cheimonopegnia A winter song in Lat. verse published also by the said Kinschot 1627. oct and translated into English by P. Hausted before mentioned Epistolae duae de Isaaci Casauboni morbi mortisque caussa written in 1614. Put at the end of Isaac Casaubons epistles published by Joh. Freder Gronovius 1638. qu. In the first of Car. 1. when the plague raged in London he acted more for the publick by exposing his person too much than his most dear concern Wherefore being deeply infected with that disease died of it in his house in the parish of S. Bennet Finck in Jul. or Aug. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 but where he was buried I know not unless in the Church or Ch. yard of that parish He left behind him a Son named John whom I shall elsewhere mention and a most dear friend who lamented his death in a Lat. Poem not to be contemn'd entit Lessus in funere Raphaelis Thorii Medici Poetae praestantissimi c. In which if it can be seen which I think not for I never saw but one you may read many things justly said of him JOHN FLORIO the Resolute as he used to write himself was born in London in the latter end of the raign of K. H. 8 a little before which time his Father descended from the Florii of Sienna in Tuscany and Mother who were Waldenses had fled from the Valtoline into England for religion sake But when K. Ed. 6. died and the protestant religion silenc'd by the succession of Qu. Mary they left England and went to another Country where Jo. Florio received his puerile literature After Protestancy was restored by Q. Elizab. they return'd and Florio for a time lived in this University At length Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham sending his Son Emanuel to Magd. coll to obtain Acad. literature in the quality of a Commoner about 1576. Florio was appointed to attend him as a Tutor in the Italian and French tongues At which time wearing a Gown he was matriculated as a member of that house in 1581. aged about 36 years and as a teacher and instructor of certain Scholars in the University After K. James came to the Crown he was appointed Tutor to Pr. Henry for those languages and at length made one of the Privy Chamber and Clerk of the closet to Qu. Anne to whom he was a Tutor also He was a very useful man in his profession zealous in the religion he professed and much devoted to the English nation His works are His first fruits which yield familiar speech merry proverbs witty sentences and golden saying Lond. 1578. qu. 91. oct Perfect introduction to the Italian and English tongues Printed with the former and both dedicated to Rob. Earl of Leicester His second fruits to be gathered of twelve Trees of divers but delightsome tastes to the tongues of Italian and English men Lond. 1591. oct Garden of recreation yielding six thousand Italian Proverbs Printed with the former Dictionary Ital. and English Lond. 1597. 98. fol. Which Dictionary was by him afterwards augmented and to the honour of Queen Anne did intitle it Queen Anna's new world of words Lond. 1611. fol. which for the variety of words was far more copious than any extant in the world at that time But this notwithstanding being also defective our author did out of other Dictionarys and Italian authors which came accidentally into his hands collect out of them an addition of many thousand words and phrases relating to Arts Sciences and Exercises intending if he had lived to come out with a third edition After his death his additions being transmitted to Gio Torriano an Italian and professor of the Italian tongue in London were by him diligently perused and in very many places supplied out of the generally approved Dictionaries of the Academici della crusca and several others that were set forth since Florio's death The said Torriano also did much correct the English interpretations and where there was cause he reduced them to their genuine sense as they are now used in these modern times Which additions and corrections were printed at Lond. 1659. fol. Florio also translated from French into English The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne Lond. 1603. 13. 32. fol. and others things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen At length retiring to Fulham in Middlesex to avoid the plague raging in London was there overtaken by it in his old age of which he died in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five and received year 1625 as I suppose sepulture either in the Ch. or yard there I have several times sent for his Epitaph but receiving none you may take this for one Virtute suâ contentus nobilis arte Italus Ore Anglus pectore uterque opere Floret adhuc adhuc florebit floriat ultra Florius hâc specie floridus optat amans THOMAS LODGE was descended from those of his name living in Lincolnshire but whether born there I cannot tell made his first entry into this University about 1573. and was afterwards Servitour or Scholar under the learned and vertuous Mr. Edward Hobye of Trinity coll where making early advances his ingenuity began
cuts engraven from the representations drawn with great curiosity by him which hath advantaged the sale of it much And I am verily perswaded had the said book been published two years before I mean before the first edition of Camdens Remaines which first saw light in 1604. it would have been more cried up and consequently would have sold more But however so it is that the book hath been so much valued by learned and curious men in times following that a second impression of it was made at Lond. 1653. in large oct and another in 1674. oct He hath also written The sundry successive regal governments of the Realm of England Antw. 1620. printed in one long sheet wherein are the pictures of a Britain Roman Saxon Dane and Norman wrought off from a Copper plate And was the same person without doubt with him who writes himself R. V. author of Odes in imitation of the seven penitential Psalms with sundery other Poems and Ditties bending to devotion and piety Printed beyond the Sea in 1601. with the Jesuits mark in the title for as I have been informed Verstegan had some skill in Poetry as well as in Painting In the said Poems he toucheth on many matters of antiquity and antient Saints of England The same R. V. also hath translated into English A dialogue of dying well Antw. 1603. oct written in Ital. by Don Peeter of Luca a Can. regular and D. of D. and by the translator dedicated to the Lady Joan Berkley Abbess of the English Nuns of S. Benedict in Bruxells The said Verstegan hath written and translated other things but few of them coming into England we seldom or never see them He was living in good condition among the English at Antwerp who had fled for the sake of Religion under the notion of a Spanish stipendary having several years before been married to so thirâ—ty and prudent a woman that she kept up his credit in the latter end of K. James and beginning of K. Ch. 1. as one or more Letters written by him to the great Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton which I have seen in his Library shew And thus much of Rich. Verstegan alias Rowland of whom Will. Watson Priest will give you a sharp character and another stuff enough beyond the rules of charity to run down a Dog JOHN STRADLING Son of Franc. Stradling by Elizabeth his Wife was born near to Bristow in Somersetshire but descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donats in Glamorganshire was educated in puerile learning under a learned and pious man named Edw. Green Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Bristow became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1579. aged 16. years or thereabouts and in 1583. he took a degree in arts as a member of Magd. hall being then accounted a miracle for his forwardness in learning and pregnancy of parts Soon after his great worth being discovered in the Metropolis while he continued in one of the Inns of Court but especially after he had return'd from his travels beyond the Seas was courted and admired by the Learned Camden Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Tho. Leyson mention'd before under the year 1607. and above all by that most noted Critick and Physitian Dr. Jo. Dav. Rhese He hath written and published De vita morte contemnenda lib. 3. Francof 1597. in oct written to his Uncle Sir Edw. Stradling of S. Donats whom I have mention'd under the year 1609. Epigrammatum libri quatuor Lond. 1607. in oct Two years after he became heir to his Uncle before mention'd setled at S. Donats Castle and was made a Baronet in 1611. at which time he was esteemed a wise and most learned Gentleman Afterwards being involved in secular affairs and the services of his Country was taken off from writing till the latter end of the raign of K. Jam. 1. at which time he published a book intit Beati pacifici Printed 1623. but whether in prose or verse I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it Afterwards he published Divine Poems in seven several Classes written to K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1625. qu. At the end of which is an Epitaph made by him on K. Jam. 1. I have sent several times to several persons in Wales to have some account of this person his last end and his Epitaph but no returns are yet made ARTHUR LAKE brother to Sir Tho. Lake Knight principal Secretary of State to K. Jam. 1. Son of Almeric Lake or du Lake of the antient borough of Southampton was born in S. Michaels parish and educated for a time in the Free-School there Afterwards being transplanted to Wykehams School to perâ—ect his Grammar learning was thence elected probationer Fellow of New coll and after two years of Probation he was made perpetual Fellow thereof an 1589. Five years after that he proceeded in Arts entred into the sacred function was made Fellow of Wykehams coll near to Winton about 1600. and three years after Master of the hospital of S. Cross in the place of Dr. Rob. Bennet promoted to the See of Hereford In 1605. he took the degrees in Divinity and the same year he was installed Archdeacon of Surrey Afterwards he was made Dean of Worcester in Apr. 1608. in the room of Dr. Jam. Monutague promoted to the See of Bath and Wells and at length Bishop of those Cities to which he was consecrated at Lambeth 8. Dec. 1616. In all these places of honour and employment he carried himself the same in mind and person shewing by his constancy that his virtues were virtues indeed in all kind of which whether natural moral Theological personal or pastoral he was eminent and indeed one of the examples of his time He always lived a single man exemplary in his life and conversation and very hospitable He was also well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and had such a command of the Scripture which made him one of the best preachers that few went beyond him in his time The things that he hath written were not by him published but by his Friends after his death the titles of which follow Exposition of the first Psalm Exposition of the 51. Psalm Nine Sermons on Matth. 22. verse 34 35 36 37 38 39 40. Ten Serm. on Exod. 19. Five Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon. on Luke 3. ver 7 8 9. Eight Serm. on Isa 9. Six Serm. on Haggai 2. Sundry Sermons de tempore preached at Court Meditations All which being collected into a large volume were printed under this general title Sermons with religious and divine meditations Lond. 1629. fol. Ten Sermons upon several occasions preached at S. Paul's Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1641. qu. The first is on Psal 160. 29 30. the second on Jude 5. c. He dyed in sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in an Isle on the north side of the Choire of Wells Cathedral Over his grave was soon after laid a plain
Independent-party fled with Will. Lenthal their Speaker to the Head Quarter of the Army then at Windsore 30. Jul. 1647. In which office he continued but till the 6. of Aug. following at what time the General of the Army Fairfax restored Lenthall to his Chair but suffered Pelham to keep his Recordership of Lincoln City which he had confer'd upon him by the Presbyterians upon the ejection of Sir Charles Dalison JOHN TERRY received his first breath at LongSuttoâ— in Hampshire was elected Probationer Fellow of New college from Winchester School in 1574. and two years after he was made compleat Fellow In 1582. he proceeded in Arts and about 8 years after had the Parsonage of Stockton in Wilts confer'd upon him where he always expressed himself a zealous Enemy against the R. Catholicks not only in his Lectures and Sermons but also in his writings the titles of which follow Theological Logick Or the trial of truth containing a discovery of the chiefest points of the doctrine of the great Antichrist and his Adherents the false Teachers of the times Oxon. 1600. qu. In 1602. was published the second part of Theol. Logick and in 1625. the third part both in qu. and the last dedicated to the B. of Bath and Wells Reasonableness of wise and holy truth and the absurdity of foolish and wicked errour Serm. on Joh. 17. ver 17. Oxon. 1617. qu. Defence of Protestancy proving that the Protestants Religion hath the promise of Salvation c. Lond. 1635. second edition Before which time the author was dead ANTHONY HUNGERFORD Son of Anth. Hungerford of Dewne-Ampuâ—y in Gloucestershire by Bridget his Wife Daughter of one Shelley a Judge was educated in this University with other R. Catholicks but for a short time for his Father being much troubled with the incumbranceâ— of his Estate and therefore could not well look after the Son the Mother who was a zealous Papist caused him to be trained up in her Religion from his Childhood So that carrying his opinion on till 1584. about which time he had left Oxon being then 20 years of age stagger'd somewhat in his opinion upon the reading of Capians book called Decem rationes wherein he found some undecent passages but confirmed in his mind soon after by Mr. Tho. Neale of Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire and at length totally setled by one Twiford a Priest or Jesuit who was brought to him by George Etheridge a Physician of Oxon. In this setled course he held on till the beginning of the year 1588. at which time it pleased God as he said to make a hand that had given the wound the means to make good the cure when it aimed at a further mischief being occasioned mostly from certain words unwarily dropt from one Hopton a Priest and his acquaintance concerning an invasion then about to be made for the relief chiefly of Rom. Catholicks who laid under the heavy hand as they said of Q. Elizabeth In 1594. one of both his names was actually created Master of Arts and 't is supposed that he was the person because he had formerly spent some time in this University In 1607. he received the honour of Knighthood and about that time being then of Blackbourton near Witney in Oxfordshire wrote The advice of a Son professing the Religion established in the present Church of England to his dear Mother a Rom. Catholick Oxon. 1639. qu. Which book lying by him till his death and several years after in his Cabinet his Son Sir Edw. Hungerford carried it at length upon a sight as he thought of the increase of Popery in England to one of the Chaplains of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to have it licensed an 1635. but he refusing so to do because there were several offensive passages in it against the Papists he therefore got it to be printed at Oxon and added to it another thing of his Fathers writing intit The memorial of a Father to his dear Children containing an acknowledgment of God's great mercy in bringing him to the profession of the true Religion at this present established in the Church of England Finished and compleated for the Press at Blackbourton in Apr. 1627. This person who hath written other matters of the like nature but not printed gave way to fate about the latter end of June in sixteen hundred twenty and seven year 1627 and was buried in the Church at Blackbourton He left behind him Issue by his Wife Lucy Daughter of Sir Walt. Hungerford of Farley Castle in Somersetshire Sir Edward Hungerford who had Issue another Edward made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. who most unworthily squander'd away the Estate of his Ancestors JOHN DAY Son of a famous Printer of both his names in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth was born near or over Aldersgate in London entred a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1582. aged 16. elected Fellow of Oriel coll in 1588. being then Bach. of Arts proceeded in that Faculty entred into holy Orders and became the most frequent and noted Preacher in the University In the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he with leave from his Society travelled for 3 years beyond the Seas whereby he improved himself much in learning and experience and as I was about to say in Calvinism After his return he was made Vicar of S. Maries Church in Oxon in Jan. 1608. where by his constant and painful Preaching he obtained great love and respect not only from those of the University but City But missing the Provostship of his Coll. upon the resignation of Mr. Will. Lewis in 1621. he left his Fellowship and Vicarage in the year following and by the favour of Sir Will. Sâ—ame Knight became Minister of one of the Thirlows Great Thirlow I think in Suffolk where he continued to his dying day not without some discontent for the loss of the said Provostship He was a person of great reading and was admirably well vers'd in the Fathers Schoolmen and Councels He was also a plain Man a primitive Christian and wholly composed as 't were to do good in his Function His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Davids desire to go to Church in two Sermons on Psal. 27. 4. Ox. 1612. oct and 1615. qu. 2 Day 's Festivals or twelve of his Sermons Ox. 1615. qu. The first of which is of our Saviours Nativity on Esa. 9. 6. To these twelve Sermons are added Several fragments concerning both the Sacraments in general and the Sacrament of the Supper in particular He hath also written Day 's Diall or his twelve hours that is twelve Lectures by way of Catechism as they were delivered in Oriel coll Chappel an 1612. and 13. Oxon. 1614. qu. Conciones ad Cierum viz. 1 In 2. Reg. 6. ver 1 2 3 4. Oxon. 1612. and 1615. qu. 2 Iâ— Joh. 9. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. Commentaries on the first eight Psalms of David Ox. 1620. year 1627 qu. He concluded his last day
in the year of his age 16 or thereabouts being then Pupil to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who made use of his and the judgment of George Cranmer when he compiled his books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1579. Jan. 23. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that House being then Bach. of Arts and on the 17. March 1581. he was collated to the Prebendship of Wetwang in the Church of York Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he left his Fellowship travelled into several Countries and at his return grew famous for his learning prudence and vertue In the month of May 1602. he resign'd his Prebendship on the 11. of May 1603. he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by K. Jam. 1. and was afterward by him imployed in several affairs of great trust and moment He was very dexterous in any great employment kept as constant time in all Parliaments as he that held the Chair did and was esteemed an excellent Patriot in all transactions faithful to his Country without any falseness to his Prince But this I must say that being found factious and too daring in the Parliament held 1621. he was with Selden committed to custody to the Sheriff of London 16. June in that year and not delivered thence till the 18. July following Which matter being ill resented by the House of Commons they on the eighth of Nov. following did dispute the matter tumultuously taking it for a great breach of their Privileges that any one of them should be imprison'd At length Secretary G. Calvert protesting before them that neither he or Selden were imprisoned for any Parliamentary matter a stop was thereupon put to the dispute What I find farther of Sir Edwin is that he was Treasurer to the undertakers for the Western Plantations which he effectually advanced that he was a person of great judgment and of a commanding Pen a solid Statesman and as my author saith ingenio gravitate morum insignis Farther also that he was as famous for those matters he published as his Brother George was for his Travels and Poems This worthy Knight Sir Edwin hath written Europae Speculum Or a view or survey of the state of Religion in the Western part of the World Wherein the Roman Religion and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same are notably displayed c. Written by the author at Paris and by him finished 9. Apr. 1599. A copy of which coming into the hands of an unknown person in England an impression of it full of errours stole into the world without the authors name or consent an 1605. besides another the same year or soon after Notwithstanding which the book was esteemed so much by Scholars and thereupon cried up at home for a brave piece of ingenuity that it was forthwith translated into French and printed I think at Paris But as soon as 't was finish'd the printer to his great sorrow received information that it would be called in and suppress'd as it was shortly after whereupon he dispersed most of the copies into remote parts before he did disperse any at home and so was a gainer by his Politicks At length after the author had taken great care that the English impressions should be called in and the Printers punished he caused a true copy thereof to be printed a little before his death anno 1629. From which were printed the impressions of 1632. and 37. at London in quarto and another there in 1673. in oct One copy under the authors hand as 't is said I have seen in Bodlics Library and another in that of Dr. Barlow which I suppose were dispersed to vindicate the author from spurious printed copies that flew abroad I find one Sir Edwin Sandys who paraphrastically turned in English verse Sacred Hymnes consisting of 50 select Psalms of David c. set to be sung in 5 parts by Rob. Taylor Printed at Lond. 1615. in qu. Whether this version was performed by Sir Edwin Sandys before-mentioned or by another of both his names of Latimers in Bucks I know not Our Sir Edwin Sandys author of Europae Speculum died about the beginning of Octob. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine leaving then 1500 l. to the Univ. of Oxon for the endowment of a Metaphysick Lecture and was buried in the Ch. of Nortbourn in Kent where he had a Seat and a fair Estate joyning to it Over his grave is a handsome monument erected but as I have been informed there is no inscription upon it He left behind him at the time of his death at least 5 Sons namely Henry Edwin Richard Robert and Thomas Who all one excepted proved zealous Parliamenteers in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642. The outrages of the Second then called Colonel Edwin Sandys which he made against the Church and the vengeance that followed him for so doing the common prints that in those times fâ—ew abroad do sufficiently testifie He published or rather one for him a Pamphlet intit Col. Sandy's travailes 〈◊〉 Kent which gives an account of the Sacrileges and outtages he had committed for the sake of the Blessed Parliament then sitting and another called His Declaration in vâ—nâ—icatiâ—n of himself from those calumnious aspersions cast upon him by Lucius L. Falâ—land and Secretary Nicholas 11. Oct. 1642. printed at Lond. 17. of the same month Which was followed with another Pamphlet intit A vindication of Câ—l Sandys's Honour and Loyalty from a Declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester 11. Oct. 1642. But whether the said Colonel was educated in Oxon 't is not worth the enquiry nor any thing else of him And therefore I shall only let the Reader know that he died of his wounds which he had received in the Parliaments Cause near to Worcrster from the hands of a French-man called Arnold de L'isle a Captain of a Troop of Horse in Sir Joh. Byron's Regiment for which service he was soon after Knighted whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester in the month of Oct. 1642. I find one Edwyn Sandys an Essex man born and a Knights Son to be entred a Gent. Com. of C. C. coll in 1608. aged 17. But this person must not be taken to be the same with the Colonel who was then but one or two years of age WILLIAM PINKE a Hampshire man born was entred a Commoner in Magd. hall in Mich. Term 1615. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after became Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll Which office he performing with great commendation was elected Fellow of that house in 1628. being then accounted by some a serious person in his studies devout and strict in his conversation and therefore a Puritan by others He had in him a singular dexterity in the Arts a depth of judgment acuteness of wit and great skill in the Hebrew Greek and Arabick languages which made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reverenced by the Academians He wrote The
the Royal Society At length after our author Briggs had spent most of his time for the benefit and advancement of Geometry he paid his last debt to nature in his lodgings in Merton coll 26. Jan. in sixteen hundred and thirty aged 70. or more and was three days after buried at the upper end of the Choire of the Church belonging to the said Coll. under the honorary monument of Sir Hen. Savile At which time the Heads of several Colleges and Halls being present a learned Sermon and an eloquent Oration were delivered the former by Mr. Will. Sellar the other by Mr. Hugh Crossâ— Fellows of that College In both which were many things said to the honour of the Defunct Over his grave was soon after a plain stone laid neither Marble nor Free with only his bare name engraven thereon and therefore instead of an Epitaph you may take this character of him as it stands in the publick Register of that Coll. Vir doctrina clarus stupor Mathematicorum moribus ac vita integerrimus c. JOHN ANDREWS a Somersetshire man born was entred a Student in Trin. coll 1601. aged 18. took one degree in Arts left the University became a painful Preacher of Gods word and a publisher of these books following The converted Man's new birth describing the direct way to go to Heaven c. Lond. 1628. oct second edit Celestial Looking-glass to behold the beauty of Heaven and the perfect way to it Lond. 1621. in tw There again 1638. Andrews resolution to return unto God by repentance c. Lond. 1621. in tw There again 1630. A Caveat from God on S. Joh. 5. 14. Lond. 1627. with other things which I have not yet seen When he died or where he was buried I know not WILLIAM SPARKE Son of Tho. Sparke whom I have mentioned under the year 1616. was born at Bletchley in Bucâ—s became a Commoner of Magd. hall in Lent-Term 1602-3 aged 16. Demie of Magd. coll 5. June 1606. and soon after Fellow thereof Afterwards being M. of A. he was made Chaplain to the Duke of Bucks Rector of Bletchley after his Father's decease Divinity Reader of Magd. coll and in 1629. Bach. of Div. He hath written Vis naturs â—irtus vitae explicata ad univâ—â—sam doctrine ordinem constituendum Lond. 1612. oct The mystery of Godliness A general discourse of the reason that is in Christian Religion c. Oxon. 1628. qu. These are all that I have seen that go under the name and therefore I can say no more of him only that he was living at Bletchley in sixteen hundred and thirty I find one of both his names of Magd. coll who was admitted Bac. of Physick 3. Dec. 1645. by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the Univ. which say that 〈◊〉 deserved well for having 〈◊〉 very 〈◊〉 against Enemies and contributed much of his skill to his and our Loyal Friends c. This Will. Spark who became a Student in Magd. coll an 1639. was Son to the former ANTHONY SHERLEY second Son of Sir Tho. Sherley of Wistneston commonly called Wiston in Sussex Knight by Anne his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho. Kempe Knight was born there matriculated as a Member of Hart hall in the beginning of the year 1579. aged 14. admitted Bac. of Arts in the latter end of 1581. and about the beginning of Nov. following he was elected Probat Fellow of Allsouls coll being of kin to the Founder thereof by his Mother's side But before he proceeded in Arts he left the University and retired to one of the Inns of Court or went to travel beyond the Seas or both successively Soon after he became known to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex whose heroick spirit and vertues he so much admired that he resolved for the future that he should be a pattern to him in all the civil actions of his life The first adventure that he made was his voyage into America particularly to S. Jago Dominica Margarita c. an 1596. From which voyage wherein great valour was shewn against the Portuguese he returned the year following Afterwards having received the honour of Knighthood from the said Earl of Essex in Ireland if I mistake not he went beyond the Seas again made long voyages and was employed as Embassador several times by Foreign Princes In which voyages his Exploits were so great that the K. of Spain taking an affection to allowed him an yearly pension made him Admiral of the Levant Seas and next in place to the Viceroy of Naples So that his greatness making our King jealous of he sent for him to return but he refused to come and therefore was numbred among the English Fugitives About that time he was known by the title of Earl of the Sacred Empire as having been created so I suppose by the Emperour of Germany and had from his Catholick Majesty a Pension of 200 Ducats yearly Ever after so long as he lived he shew'd himself so zealous a Servant to that King that he became a great plotter and projector in matters of state and undertook by Sea-stratagems if you 'll believe an author of no great credit to invade and ruine his native Country the whole story and passages of which would make a just volume He hath written Voyage to America See R. Hakeluyts third and last vol. of Voyages Printed at Lond. 1600. p. 598 599 c. Account of M. Hamets rising in the Kingdom of Morocco Fez c. Lond. 1609. qu. History of his travailes into Persia Lond. 1613. qu. Which voyage was began 24. May 1599. and is epitomiz'd in the second vol. or part of Sam. Purchas his Pilgrims printed 1625. fol. in the ninth book Voyage over the Caspian Sea and thorough Russia Publish'd by W. Parry an 1601. involv'd in the Pilgrims of Purchas before-mention'd History of his Embassages See Purchas vol. 2. book 6. 9. and in Rich. Hakluyt before-mentioned What other matters he wrote or caused to be published of his composition I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was living in the Court of Spain in sixteen hundred and thirty and that he had taken to Wife long before Francis the Sister of Rob. Vernon of Hodnet Knight He had an elder Brother named Thomas Sherley who was entred into Hart hall at the same time with his Brother an 1579. aged 15. where continuing about two years or more was called home married and in 1589. Knighted But this person being asham'd to see the trophies and atchievements of his two younger Brothers Anthony before-mentioned and Robert a great Hero worn like flowers in the breasts and bosoms of Foreign Princes whilst he himself wither'd upon the stalk he grew on left his aged Father and as 't is said a fair inheritance in Sussex and forthwith undertook several voyages into Foreign parts to the great honour of his Nation but small enrichment of himself A narration of which voyages he printed
of the Spanish and Italian Monks into one Congregation While he continued there he wrote Dissertatio contra Aequivocationes Par. 1625. oct c. dedicated to P. Vrban 8. at which time the author was the prime person of the English Mission for assisting the Spanish Congregation In 1627. I find him in Oxon again in the condition of a Gentleman and a Sojournor to the end that he might obtain materials from the Bodleian Library towards the composition of a work by him then in hand and about that time published a book against the Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia published by Clem. Reyner D. D. and Secretary to the Congregation of the Benedictines an 1626. fol. Which being esteemed a piece savouring of too much impudence and contradiction if not Heresie it was prohibited the reading by the Brethren and thrown aside among unlicensed and heretical books and soon after had a reply published against it which in some copies of the Apostolatus is put at the end without a name to it or any naming of Barnes It must be now known that this learned person being a very moderate man in his opinion and deeply sensible by his great reading and observation of several corruptions of the Romish Church and doctrine which partly were expressed in his discourse but mostly in a book which he wrote called Catholico-Romanus Pacificus became for that tho not printed and his answer to Apostol so much hated by those of his Order that endeavours were made to seize upon and make him an example Whereupon Barnes perceiving a storm approaching he fled to Paris and was there protected by the English Embassador But so it was that by the endeavours of Clem. Reyner before-mentioned and his interest made with Albert of Austria he was carried out from the midst of that City by force was divested of his habit and like a four-footed Brute was in a barbarous manner tyed to a Horse and violently hurried away into Flanders Where continuing for some time was thence soon after carried to Rome where by command of the Pope he was as a contriver of new doctrine thrust into the dungeon of the Inquisition Soon after being distracted in mind as a certain Jesuit saith was removed to a place for the reception of Mad-men behind the Church of S. Paul the less there to continue till he came to his senses Afterwards several copies in MS. of Cath. Rom. Pacificus flying abroad a true copy of it was made up by comparing it with others and printed at the Theatre in Oxon an 1680. oct Several years before that some of the sections therein were made use of by another person as that 1 Of Councils Popes Schism 2 Of the priviledges of the Isle of Great Britain 3 Of the Pope's Supremacy and the Supreme Power of Kings both in Temporals as also in Spirituals c. Our author Barnesius hath written also a Tract of the Supremacy of Councils which I have not yet seen and other things and also hath translated from the Spanish into the Latin tongue Pugna Spiritualis c. written by Joh. Castiniza a Benedictine Monk It was also afterwards translated into the same tongue by Jodochus Lorichius D. D. of Friburg Duac 1625. in sixt By those of the reformed party he the said Barnes who was living in sixteen hundred and thirty is stiled the good Irenaeus a learned peaceable and moderate man but by the R. Catholicks especially by those of his Order a person of a turbulent and contradictory Spirit occasioned by too much confidence and presumption of his own parts and wit which was greater than his humility and so consequently did expose him to great danger as they say of Apostacy and disobedience to his Superiours as also unworthy gratitude towards some who had deserved better returns from him The time of his death or place of burial I cannot yet obtain nor any thing else of him only this that certain fierce People at Rome being not contented with his death have endeavoured to extinguish his fame boldly publishing that he died distracted JOHN DONNE a person sometimes noted for his Divinity knowledge in several languages and other learning was born of good and vertuous Parents in London became a Commoner of Hart hall with his younger Brother Henry in the beginning of Michaelmas-Term an 1584. being then but eleven years of age where continuing about three years in which time Sir Hen. Wotton had a Chamber there he went to Cambridge and spending three more there he was transplanted to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the Municipal Laws where he had for his Chamber fellow for some time Mr. Christop Brook an eminent Poet of his time After he had continued there two years in exercising his poetical fancy he began to survey the Body of Divinity wherein he made very good notes and observations Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas advanced himself much in the knowledge of countries men manners and languages and was at his return made by Egerton L. Chanc. of England his chief Secretary and soon after was admitted M. of A. of this University as I shall tell you elsewhere But continuing not long in that beneficial imployment he did upon the solicitations of some of his Friends especially upon the motion of K. James 1. enter into the Sacred Function and not long after was made one of the Kings Chaplains Doctor of Div. of Cambridge and at length in 1621. Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London upon the promotion of Dr. Val. Carey to the See of Exeter He was a person of great wit virtue and abilities learned in several Faculties and religious and exemplary in his life and conversation In all which being eminent he was therefore celebrated and his memory had in great veneration by the Wits and Virtuosi of his time among whom were Ben. Johnson Sir Lucius Cary afterwards L. Faulkland Sydney Godolphin Jasp Mayne Edward Hyde afterward L. Chancellour Enâ—ymion Porter Arthur Wilson c. As for those things by him written few of which were published in his time are these Pseudo-Martyr a treatise shewing from certain propositions and gradations that those that are of the Rom. Religion in England may and ought to take the Oath of Allegiance Lond. 1610. qu. See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. Devotions upon emergent occasions and several steps in his sickness Lond. 1624. in tw second edit An anatomy of the World Wherein by occasion of the untimely death of Mrs. Elizab. Drury the frailty and decay of this whole World is represented Lond. 1625. oct a Poem in two anniversaries The second anniversary is intit The progress of the Soul c. which is a Poem also Juvenilia or certain Paradoxes and Problems Lond. 1633. and 1652. in qu. Divine Poems with Epistles to Sir H. Goodeere Lond. 1633. qu. Poems Songs Sonnets Satyrs Letters Funeral Elegies c. Lond. 1633. qu. 35. oct In which are involved Divine
the performance of which service he took for his Text these words of the Apostle Let every Soul c. Rom. 13. 1. In canvassing whereof he fell upon the point of the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical which he handled as the most rev Arch. Spotswood who was present at the Sermon hath informed us of him both soundly and learnedly to the satisfaction of all the hearers only it grieved the Scotch Ministers to hear the Pope and Presbytery so often equalled in their opposition to Soveraign Princes c. As for the Presidentship of S. Johns coll our author Buckridge keeping but a little more than five years became B. of Rochester to which he was consecrated 9. June 1611. Afterwards by the endeavours of his sometimes Pupil Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells he was nominated B. of Ely upon the death of Dr. Nich. Felton who died 1626. the Temporalities of which See were restored to him 18. Jul. 1628. A person he was of great gravity and learning and one that knew as well as any other person of his time how to employ the two-edged Sword of the holy Scripture of which he made good proof in the times succeeding brandishing it on the one side against the Papists and on the other against the Puritans and Non-conformists In reference to the first 't is said of him in general by a certain author that he endeavoured most industriously both by preaching and writing to defend and propagate the true Religion here by Law established which appears plainly by his learned laborious piece entituled De potestate Papae in rebus temporalibus sive in regibus deponendis usurpata adversus Robertum Cardinalem Bellarminum Lib. 2. In quibus respondetur authoribus Scripturis rationibus exemplis contra Gul. Barclaium allatis Lond. 1614. in a larg qu. In which book he hath so shaken the Papal Monarchy and its superiority over Kings and Princes that none of the learned men of that party did ever undertake a reply unto it Johannem itaque Roffensem habemus saith my before mentioned author quem Johanni Roffensi opponamus Fishero Buckridgium cujus argumentis siquid ego video ne a mille quidem Fisheris unquam respondebitur With like success but less pains unto himself he managed the controversie concerning kneeling at the Lords Supper against those of the Puritan Party the piety and antiquity of which religious posture in that holy action he asserted with such holy reasons and such clear authorities in A Sermon preached at Whitehall 22. Mar. 1617. touching prostration and kneeling in the Worship of God on Psal. 95. 6. Lond. 1618. qu. and in A discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion printed with the Sermon that he came off without the least opposition of that party also Besides which he hath published Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 23. Sept. 1606. on Rom. 13. 5. London 1616. qu. Another on Heb. 4. 7. printed 1618. qu. A third which is a Funeral Serm. on Heb. 13. 6. was printed 1626. qu. and a fourth on the same chap. vers 16. was published at the end of B. Andrew's Sermons in fol. Lond. 1661. The day and place when and where this most worthy and learned Bishop died I know not only that he was buried in the parish Church of Bromley in Kent the manner of which belongs to the See of Rochester on the last day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt. Carle whom I shall mention elsewhere and in Ely Dr. Francis White the Kings Almoner JOHN HOSKYNS Junior was born at Mounton in the parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1601. took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated 1613. in which year he left the coll being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Rob. Bennet B. of Hereford as he was afterwards to K. James Prebendary of Hereford and Parson of Ledbury in his native Country He was an able Civilian but better Theologist and much followed for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching He hath published Eight Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxon. Pauls Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1615. qu. The first is on Luke 12. 41. The second on Isa 28. 1. The 3. and 4th on Matth. 11. 19. c. He hath also extant a Sermon upon the parable of the King that taketh an account of his Servants on Matth. 18. 23. Lond. 1609. oct A short Catechisme upon the Lords Prayer the ten Commandements and the Creed very profitable for Children and others Lond. 1678. 9. oct published by Charles Townsend M. of A. He ended and finished his course at Ledbury before mentioned 8. August in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the parish Church there Soon after was an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of eight verses the two first of which are these Sub Pedibus Doctor jacet hic in Legibus Hoskyns Esse pios docuit quodque docebat erat The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 145. 6. DANIEL PRICE elder brother to Sampson Price before mentioned was born in the antient Borough of Shrewsbury and there educated in Grammar learning In 1594. and in the sixteenth year of his age he became a Commoner of S. Maries hall in Midsomer Term but before he took a degree in Arts he was transplanted to Exeter coll where by the benefit of a diligent Tutour he became in short time a smart disputant After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he had holy Orders confer'd upon him and was a frequent and remarkable preacher especially against the Papists About that time he was constituted one of Prince Henries Chaplains in Ordinary whereupon taking the degrees in Divinity he was made Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. as afterwards to K. Ch. 1. Dean and Canon residentiary of Hereford Rector of Worthyn near Caus Castle in Shropshire and of Lanteglos in Cornwall Justice of the Peace also for the Counties of Shrewsbury Hereford Montgomery and Cornwall He hath written and published The defence of truth against a book called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras 1609. by Humph. Leech Oxon. 1610. qu. He hath also published at least Fifteen Sermons Among which are these 1 Praelium praemium The Christians war and reward on Rev. 2. 26. Oxon. 1608. qu. 2 Recusants Conversation on Esay 2. 3. Ibid. 1608. qu. 3 The Merchant on Matth. 13. 45. 46. Lond. 1608. qu. 4 Spiritual Odours to the Memory of Pr. Henry in four of the last Sermons preached in S. James after his Highness death the last being the Sermon before the body the day before the burial The first is intit Meditations of Consolation on our Lamentations on Psal. 90. 15. The second which hath the same title is on 2 Sam. 12. 23. The third which is intit Sorrow for
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
Preacher and therefore much followed by ingenious men At length being made one of the Chaplains to his Maj. K. Jam. 1. who highly valued him for his fine fancy and preaching he was by his favour promoted to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon an 1620. being then D. of D. Senior Student of that house Vicar of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire and Prebendary of Beminster Secunda in the Church of Sarum At length upon the translation of Dr. Howson to the See of Durham he by vertue of the Kings Letters was elected Bishop of Oxon 30. July 1629. and afterwards consecrated at Lambeth 19. Octob. and installed in his Chair 3. Nov. following Upon the translation of Dr. White to Ely he was elected Bishop of Norwich 7. Apr. 1632. and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 12. of May the same year His writings that are published are only Poetica Stromata or a collection of sundry pieces of Poetry Lond. 1647. 48. c. oct made in his younger years and never intended to be published by their author He was buried at the upper end of the Choire belonging to the Cath. year 1635 Church of Norwich in sixteen hundred thirty and five and soon after was a large Free stone of a sandy colour laid over his body with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Richardus Corbet Theologiae Doctor Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi Oxoniensis primum Alumnus inde Decanus exinde Episcopus illinc huâ— translatus hinc in Coelum Julii 28. an 1635. On the said stone are the ancient Arms of the Corbets of Shropshire viz. Or a Raven passant sab This person was hospitably disposed and ever ready to express himself generous towards publick designs Upon the repair of S. Paul's Cathedral an 1634. he used his utmost endeavour both by his excellent speech and exemplary gifts to advance that pious work not only contributing largely himself but also giving monies to some Ministers that had not to give to incourage others to contribute that might better give JOHN COLLETON or Collington Son of Edmund Colleton of Milverton in Somersetshire Gent. was born there and at 17 years of age an 1565. was sent to the University of Oxon particularly as 't is thought to Lincoln coll but leaving the place without a degree and his Country he crossed the Seas and went to Doway where applying himself to the study of Divinity in the English coll was made a Priest and returned into England with Father Campian an 1580. But being taken and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London was afterwards upon his trial for conspiring the death of the Queen at Rome or Rheimes set at liberty and charged to depart the Land within few days after In obedience therefore to that command he with others of his profession went or rather were sent accordingly in 1584. but tarrying there not long returned and spent many years in administring to the Brethren and gaining Proselytes In which time as Father Persons reports he was a principal author of the Libels against the Archpriestship See more in Christop Bagshaw under the year 1625. In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he was made Archdeacon of London only titular Vicar General of the East parts of England and at length Dean of Chalcedon but when age grew upon him Greg. Fisher alias Musket Archdeacon of Surrey and Middlesex was added as a Coadjutor in the Office of Vicar-General 10. Feb. 1626. to assist in the East parts of England namely in Essex Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgshire Isle of Ely Bedfordshire Bucks Middlesex and Hertford He hath written and published A just defence of the slandred Priests wherein are contained reasons against their receiving Mr. George Blackwel to be their Superior c. Printed 1602. qu. concerning which book and Father Persons his character therein you may see in The Anatomy of Popish Tyranny c. written by Tho. Bell lib. 4. cap. 5. sect 4. Supplication to the King of Great Britain for a toleration of the Cath. Religion Epistle to P. Paul 5. with other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days in the house of a Rom. Catholick at Eltham in Kent on the fourteenth of the Calends of Novemb. year 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five aged 87. and was buried in the Church there dedicated to S. John Bapt. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with an inscription round the verge a copy of which was sent to me by his Sisters Son named Joh. Kynn O. S. B. living at Beoly in Worcestershire Much about the time that this Joh. Colleton studied according to report in Linc. college one Joh. Filby an Oxfordshire man born studied there also who leaving that coll before he was Bac. of Arts went to Rheimes where he studied Divinity in the English coll and was made a Priest Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England he was taken imprisoned and at length being condemned to die was executed at Tyburn 30. May 1582. ALEXANDER GILL born in Lincolnshire on the 27. Feb. 1564. was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in Sept. 1583. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1590. left the coll and became an instructer of Youth but where unless in the City of Norwich where he lived 1597. and then wrote his treatise of the Trinity I know not Sure I am that in 1608. he became the chief Master of S. Pauls School within the City of London in the place of Rich. Mulcaster was esteemed by most persons to be a learned man a noted Latinist Critick and Divine and also to have such an excellent way of training up youth that none in his time went beyond him Whence 't was that many noted persons in Church and State did esteem it the greatest of their happiness that they had been educated under him His works are Treatise concerning the Trinity in unity of the Deity Lond. 1601. oct written to Tho. Manering an Anabaptist who denied that Jesus is very God of very God Logonomia Anglica Qua gentis sermo facilius addiscitur Lond. 1621. qu. Sacred Philosophy of holy Scripture Or a Commentary on the Creed Lond. 1635. fol. At the end of which is printed also his Treatise of the Trinity before mention'd He died in his house in St. Pauls Ch. Yard on the 17. year 1635 Novemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and five and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in Mercers Chappel in London in a vault near to the Monument of Mr. Brown and Mr. Fishbourne He left behind him a Son of both his names whom I shall hereafter mention EDMUND DEANE Brother to Richard Deane Bishop of Ossory and both the Sons of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire was born there or in that County entred a Student in Merton coll in Lent-Term 1591. aged 19. took one degree in Arts and then retired to St. Albans hall where prosecuting his Genie
of Sir Will. Finch of the Mote in St. Martins Parish in the County of Kent but the Widdow of one Morton of the same County Esq was born at Bocton hall in Kent 30. March 1568. educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and thence in the beginning of 1584 he was transplanted to New coll where living in the condition of a Gent. Com. had his Chamber in Hart hall adjoyning and to his Chamber-Fellow there Rich. Baker his Countryman afterwards a Knight and a noted writer But continuing there not long he went to Queens coll where by the benefit of a good Tutor and severe discipline there practiced he became well vers'd in Logick and Philosophy and for a diversion now and then he wrote a Tragedy for the private use of that house called Tancredo On the 8. June 1588. he as a Member of Qu. coll did supplicate the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of the Logick of Aristotle that is to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should determine in the Lent following but whether he was admitted or did determine or took any other degree it doth not appear in any of the University Registers which I have exactly searched and the more for this reason because the author of his life saith that at 19 years of age he proceeded Master of Arts and at that time did read three Lat. Lectures De Ocello which being learned caused a friendship between him and Alberic Gentilis who thereupon ever after called him Henrice mi Ocelle The said author also saith that the University Treasury was rob'd by Townsmen and poor Scholars of which such light was given by a Letter written to Hen. Wotton from his Father in Kent occasioned by a dream relating to that matter that the Felons were thereupon discovered and apprehended c. But upon my search into the University Registers Records Accompts c. from 1584. to 1589. in which time our author Wotton was resident in Oxon I find no such robbery committed To pass by other mistakes in the said life especially as to time which are not proper to set down in this place I shall go forward After our author had left Oxon he betook himself to travel into France Germany and Italy and having spent about 9 years in those places he returned into England and became Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex with whom continuing till towards his fall he left England once more and retiring to Florence became so noted to the Great Duke of Tuscany that he was by him privately dispatched away with letters to James 6. K. of Scots under the name of Octavio Baldi to advise him of a design to take away his life Which message being welcome to that K. he was by him when made K. of England honoured with the degree of Knighthood sent thrice Embassador to the Reipub. of Venice once to the States of the Vnited Provinces twice to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy once to the united Princes of Vpper Germany in the Convention at Heylbrune also to the Archduke Leopald to the Duke of Wittenbergh to the Imperial Cities of Strasburgh and Vlme as also to the Emperor Ferdinando the second On the 15. July 1619. he returned from his Embassie at Venice with a vain hope of obtaining the office of Secretary of State but missing his design I cannot yet tell to the contrary but that he was sent to Venice again Sure 't is that about 1623. he had the Provostship of Eaton coll confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day being all the reward he had for the great services he had done the Crown of England He hath written these things following Epistola de Casparo Scioppio Amberg 1613. oct This Scioppius was a man of a restless spirit and a malicous pen who in books against K. Jam. 1. took occasion from a sentence written by Sir Hen. Wotton in a Germans Album viz. Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causâ to twit him in the teeth what principles in Religion were professed by him and his Embassador Wotton then at Venice where the said sentence was also written in several glass windows Epist ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir Augustae Vindelicae an 1612. The elements of Architecture Lond. 1624. qu. in two parts Reprinted in Reliquiae Wottonianae an 1651. 54. and 1672. c. oct Translated into Latin and printed with the Great Vitruvius and a great Elogy concerning Wotton put before it Amstel 1649. fol. Plausus vota ad Regem è Scotiâ reducem Lond. 1633. in a large qu. or rather in a little fol. Reprinted by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in a book intit by him Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct 'T is in English also in Reliquiae Wotton Parallel between Rob. late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Bucks Lond. 1641. in four sh in qu. Short view of the life and death of George Duke of Bucks Lond. 1642. in four sheets and an half in qu. Difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Bucks and Robert Earl of Essex Characters of and Observations on some Kings of England The election of the new Duke of Venice after the death of Giovanno Bembo Philosophical survey of education or moral Architecture Aphorisms of education The great action between Pompey and Caesar extracted out of the Rom. and Greek writers Meditations on 22 Chap. of Gen. Christmas day Letters to and characters of certain personages Various Poems All or most of which books or treatises are reprinted in a book intit Reliquiae Wottonian◠before-mentioned Lond. 1651. 54. 1672. and 1685. in oct published by Is Walton at the end of Sir H. Wottons life Letters to the Lord Zouch Printed at the latter end of Reliq Wottom in the edition of 1685. The state of Christendom or a more exact and curious discovery of many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the times Lond. 1657. fol. Letters to Sir Edm. Bacon Lond. 1661. oct He hath also several Letters extant to George Duke of Bucks in a book called Cabala Mysteries of State Lond. 1654. qu. and others in Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Journal of his Embassies to Venice -MS fairly written in the Library of Edw. Lord Conway Three propositions to the Count d'Angosciola in matter of duel comprehending as it seems the latitude of that subject MS. sometimes in the Library of my most worthy Friend Ralph Sheldon Esq now among the books in the Coll. of Arms. The first proposition is Quale sia stato c. The said Count was a Gentleman of Parma from whence he was banished and afterwards lived in the Court of Savoy where he was esteemed a very punctual Duelist and there managed many differences between Gentlemen Other MSS. also of his composition do go from hand
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
that no other Church hath any salvation in it but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins Item I give 20 s. for the painting or otherwise of the said Font. It. I give my tenement in Yale and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire Cordmaur and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born c. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel and that he together with good security should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany two months in Italy two months in France and two months in Spain and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose c. The books that he designed for Chelsey college he gave to Trin. coll in Cambridge but with this condition that if Chelsey coll be ever restored the books should be restored thereunto He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestred Ministers of the Loyal Party and a 100 l. to poor distressed Church-men Rom. Catholicks according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar and if any thing should be found worthy of printing that they be published c. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism he did in his younger years examine all the mysteries in Religion and all the miracles in Scripture how far they agreed with natural reason and wherein they transcended and thereupon did publish a book intit The fall of man or the corruption of nature proved by natural reason Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time and so he ended with the Church of England as seâ—led by Laws little regarding the opinion of particular men but Statutes Acts of State Proclamations Injunctions c. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library But these with the rest of his goods were lost and whether they were ever recovered before his death I know not He hath also written Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit An apology or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World c. written by Dr. George Hakewill Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills answere involved in the sixth book of the said Apology printed at Oxon the third time 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers an 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed 'T is a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library and hath this beginning I cannot say that I was an eye and ear-witness but truly I have been an observer of the times and what I shall relate of my own knowledge God knows is most true My conjecturals I conceive c. The conclusion which is imperfect is this Yet notwithstanding I have given him Sir A. W. the name of a Knight because he hath pleased so to stile himself and that I might not offend him This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit The court and character of King James Lond. 1650. oct written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel especially by the Loyalists and Court-party was also answered in print by Anonymus intit Anlicus Coquinariae or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet intituled The Court and Character of K. James c. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue Sir Anthony went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practiced there to libel that Nation Which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed from his place as unworthy to eat his bread whose birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyal during his life tho as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier who earnestly disswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal which as it seems in Conscience he so declined I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles accounted a very sober and prudent Woman who after perusal did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door that he was resolved never to make it publick Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author should say that with some regret of what he had maliciously written did intend it for the fire and died repentant tho since stolen to the Press out of a Ladies closet And if this be true our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel who by his additions may abuse us with a false story which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable passages and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony who was dead some time before the said libel was published The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct an 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley and hath added to it 1 The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. 2 Observations instead of a character upon this King from his Childhood 3 Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeths death But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq or B. Goodman because they came out after they had written their respective answers The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated c. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist to Oliver Cromwell L. General and by another to the Master Fellows Scholars and Students of Trin coll in Cambridge Also An Account of his sufferings which is only a little pamphlet printed 1650. BERNARD ADAMS was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London admitted Scholar of Trinity coll in 1583. aged 17 years fellow five years after and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland where by the favour of the Lord
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
and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore John Leland numbers him among the learned men of his time and saith That he was Hebraei radius chori Several other Bachelaurs of Divinity were admitted this year but not registred among whom Rich. Turner of Magdalen College was one ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick Feb… Tho. Hughes or Hewes of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Physitian to Qu. Mary and one of the College of Physitians at London He died at London in the Month of August 1558 and was a Benefactor to the College which had given him Education Edmund Crispyne of Oriel Coll. lately a shagling Lecturer of Physick now one of the Proctors of the University did supplicate to be licensed to proceed in Physick Also Henry Bayli◠the other Proctor did in like manner do so and were without doubt licensed tho not registred so to be because I find them afterwards to be written and stiled Doctors of Physick ☞ Not one Doctor of Divinity was admitted or licensed this year Incorporations Feb… Pet. Martyr Doct. of Div. of the University of Padua was then incorporated Doct. of Div. He was this year designed by the King to read a Divinity Lecture in the University which he accordingly began to do in the beginning of the next year One Edward Banke and John Chaundler were incorp Bachelaurs of Arts but of what University they had been is not set down which is all I know of them An. Dom. 1548. An. 2 Ed. 6. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Coxe Dean of Ch. Ch. Vicechanc. Dr. Walt. Wryght Proct. John Redman of Magd. Coll. Thomas Symons of Mert. Coll. adm 20 April Bach. of Arts. The Admissions of Bachelaurs and Catalogue of Determiners being this year omitted by the Registrary I cannot give you the Names of any who were afterwards Bishops Writers c. only David de la Hyde whom I have mention'd among the Writers an 1580. Bach. of Law Maurice Clenneck was admitted but the day or month when appears not He was afterwards elected to the Episcopal See of Bangor but Queen Mary dying before his Consecration thereunto he fled beyond the Seas and what became of him there I have told you already in Arthur Bokely among the Bishops under the year 1555. Mast of Arts. James Neyland of All 's Coll. This person who was Fellow of that House and an Irish man born is reported by one of his Countrymen to be a learned Physitian John Boxall of New Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Chichester Windsore c. and a man of note in the Reign of Queen Mary Besides these two were but nine more stood in the Act celebrated this year 16 July The Admissions of them and many other are omitted in the Register Doct. of Civ Law David Lewes of All 's Coll. He was afterwards the first Principal of Jesus Coll. Judge of the High Court of Admiralty Master of S. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London one of the Masters of the Chancery and of her Majesties Requests He died on Munday 27 April 1584 in the Coll. called Doctors Commons at London whereupon his Body was conveyed to Abergavenny in Monmouthshire where it was buried on the 24 of May following in the North Chancel of the Church there under a fair Tomb erected by him while living which yet remains as an Ornament to that Church Doct. of Div. Richard Beisley of All 's College The day and month when he was licensed to proceed is omitted One of both his names was an Exile in Queen Maries Reign Incorporations Christopher Tye Doct. of Musick of Cambridge This person who seems to be a Western man born was now one of the Gentlemen of the Chappel belonging to K. Ed. 6. and much in renown for his admirable skill in the theoretical and practical part of Musick The Words of several of his Divine Services and Anthems are in a Book entit Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals and Collegiate Choires in the Church of England Lond. 1663. oct collected and published by Jam. Clifford Petty Canon of Pauls sometimes Chorister of Magdalen College in Oxon. We have also some of his Compositions among the ancient Books in the publick Musick School of six parts but long since with others of that time antiquated and not at all valued He also translated into English Meeter The Acts of the Apostles with notes to sing each Chapter by printed 1553 in oct An. Dom. 1549. An. 3 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. the same Proct. Leonard Lyngham of Brasn Rich. Hughes of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Arts. James Calfill of Christ Church Will. Good of Corp. Ch. Coll. He was afterwards a Jesuit Hieronimus Philippides of Ch. Ch. Alan Cope Lawr. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. Both which were afterwards noted Writers John Abulines an Helvetian of Ch. Ch. He is the same I suppose who is written but false Johannes ab Vlmis The Admissions and names of the Determiners are omitted this year by the carelesness of the publick Scribe and therefore the number of them is uncertain Bach. of Law Will. Awbrey of Allsoules College He was afterwards successively Principal of New Inn the Kings Professor of the Civil Law in this University Judge Advocate of the Queens Army at S. Quintins in France Advocate in the Court of Arches one of the Council of the Marches of Wales Master of the Chancery Chancellor to John Archbishop of Canterbury throughout his whole Province and lastly by the special favour of Queen Elizabeth he was taken to her nearer Service and made one of the Masters of Requests in Ordinary What other Bach. of this Fac. were admitted I find not for they are not inserted in the Register Four occur that supplicated who I presume were admitted among whom Joh. James or Jamys was one who was afterwards one of the first Fell. of S. Johns Coll. and on the 24. of March 1563 succeeded Thom. Curteys in the Subdeanery of Salisbury and he Rob. Elyot in Dec. 1561. Mast of Arts. Michael Renniger Arth. Saule of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Exiles for their Religion in the time of Queen Mary Of the first I have made mention among the writers an 1609. The other Arthur Saul became Prebendary of Bedmynster and Radclive in the Church of Sarum which is a Residentiary in January 1559 and had other Dignities besides benefices confer'd upon him One of both his names was Author of The famous game of Chesse-play lately discovered and all doubts resolved c. Lond. 1614. oct dedicated to Lucy Countess of Bedford Whether this Ar. Saul who writes himself Gent. was descended from the former I cannot justly say it Thom. Hyde of New John Piers of Magd. Coll. The former was afterwards an Exile for the R. Cath. Religion in the time of Queen Elizab. the other was an Archbishop in her Reign The admissions of Masters are also omitted this year but the number of those that stood in an
of S. Alb. Hall Dec. 5. Michael Boyle Joh. Sandsbury of S. Joh. Coll. The first of which two was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland Feb. 25. George Wall of Brasn Coll. See in the year 1616. Joh. White Rob. Vilvaine and Th. Higgens are to be remembred at large in the next Vol. Adm. 129. Bach. of Law Oct. 29. James Cook of New Coll. Nov. 22. Oliver Lloyd of All 's Coll. See among the Doct. of Law 1602. But one more besides these two was admitted this year Mast of Arts. July 2. Joh. Tapsell Thom. Allen of Mert. Coll. 5. Tobias Mathew of Ch. Ch. 6. Rob. Wakeman of Ball. Nov. 5. Alex. Spicer of Ex. 16. Will. Vaughan of Jes Coll. Adm. 55. Bach. of Div. June 6. Henr. Perry of Jesus Coll. sometimes of Gloc. Hall Rich. Brett of Linc. Coll. was admitted the same day 30. Rowl Searchfield Thom. Hutton Hen. Price of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Hen. Wilkinson Franc. Mason of Mert. Coll. 12. Joh. Aglionby Rich. Crakanthorpe of Queens Coll. Dec. 15. Rob. Tinley Rich. Boughton of Magd. Coll. On the 6 March 1605 the said Boughton was admitted Chauntor of the Cath. Church of Wells in the place of Jam. Cottington deceased Mar. 13. John Pelling of Magd. Coll. He was a Ministers Son of Wilts and published A serm of the providence of God on 1 Pet. 5. 7. Lond. 1607. qu. and perhaps other things Admit 20. Doct. of Law July 9. Will. Aubrey of Ch. Ch. He was a learned Civilian but hath published nothing ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 9. Rob. Inkforbie of Magd. Will. Vaughan Geor. Abbot of Ball. Ralph Kettle of Trin. Coll. The last of which was soon after President of his College July 2. Thom. Singleton Princ. of Brasn Robert Wright of Trin. John Williams of All 's Coll. The last of which was now Margaret Professor of this University Nov. 16. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch. Incorporations On the twelfth of July being the next day after the Act had been celebrated were about twenty Cantabrigians incorporated in several Faculties among whom were these following Joh. Bridgman Bach. of Arts. See in the Incorporations an 1600. Joh. Boys M. of A. I find two of both his names who were at this time Masters of Arts viz. Joh. Boys fourth Son of Tho. Boys of Eythorne in Kent by Christiana his Wife Dau. and Coheire of Joh. Searle who being educated in Clare Hall was afterwards Doct. of Div. and Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Charles Fotherby who died 29 Mar. 1619. This J. Boys who died at Eythorne before mention'd the place of his Nativity a little after K. Charles 1. came to the Crown was famous for his Sermons Expositions and Postills written by him the Titles of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue The other J. Boys who was a Suffolk man born and Andr. Downe's Scholar was Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. in the said University afterwards Prebendary of Ely and Parson of Boxworth in Cambridgeshire an excellent Greecian Divine and one of the Translators of the Bible an 1604. He wrot certain notes upon Chrysostome put out by Sir Hen. Savile who stiles him ingeniosissimus doctissimus Boysius and his Notes doctissimas ejus observationes and other things by some taken to be written by the former J. Boys Which of these two was incorporated M. of A. this year I know not We have had one Joh. Boys an Esquires Son of Kent a Student in Vniversity Coll. 1594. Another elected Fellow of All 's Coll. 1604 who was afterwards Bach. of Law and a third who took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of Qu. Coll. an 1606 but not one of these can I yet find was a Writer Roger Gostwyke M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Bach. of Div. Chaplain to Dr. Martin Heton Bishop of Ely and Rector of Sampford Courtney in Devonshire Among several things that he hath published I have seen these 1 The anatomie of Ananâ—as or God's censure against Sacriledge Cambr. 1616. 2 Brief commentary upon Psal 83 concerning the same Subject Printed there the same year 3 The truth of tithes discovered or the Churches right maintained and defended c. Lond. 1618 c. One Roger Gostwick Rector of Sampford Courtney before mention'd lived to about the year 1655 whether the same with the former I cannot tell James Spâ—ght Bach. of Div. He hath one or more sermons in print Benjamin Carier Bach. of Div. He was the son of Anthony Carier a learned and devout Preacher who caused this his son to be strictly educated in the Protestant Religion and afterwards in Academical literature in the said University of Cambr. where he became Fellow of C. C. Coll. and a noted Scholar and Preacher About the time that K. James 1. came to the Crown he proceeded in his Faculty published one or more Sermons became Chaplain to him and one of the first Fellows of Chelsey College founded by Dr. Mathew Sutcliff But being then very unsetled in his Religion he changed it for that of Rome left the Nation and went to Liege in Germany where after some time of continuance he wrot A missive to his Maj. of Great Britain K. Jam. containing the motives of his conversion to Cath. Religion c. Leige 1614. oct and at the same time A letter of the miserable ends of such as impugn the Cath. Ch. print 1615. qu. But before Midsummer day in the said year 1614 12 Jam. 1. he concluded his last day putting thereby a period to the great imaginations that men of Learning had of him and his worth and to the expectation of other Books to be published In 1649 were printed two Impressions of the said Missive in oct said in the Title to be printed at Paris but in truth at London with a large Preface and marginal Notes to it by N. Strange a Rom. Cath. At the end of the said Preface are the names of some who had lately then been Ministers or University men in England and Scotland that had been converted to the Church of Rome Those of Oxon are these Hugh Paulin de Cressy of Mert. Coll. Hen. Janson LL. D. of All 's Coll. afterwards a Baronet but a poor one God wot Tho. Read L. L. D. of New Coll. Will. Rowlands sometimes of Ex. Coll. afterwards Minister of S. Margarets in Westminster Will. Joyner alias Lyde M. A. of Magd. Coll. Pet. Glue of Ball. Coll. c. An. Dom. 1598. An. 40 Eliz. An. 41 Eliz. Chanc. the same viz. Tho. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. Tho. Singleton D. D. Principal of Brasn College July 18. Proct. Edw. Gee of Brasn Hen. Bellyngham of New Coll. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 27. Rob. Pink of New July 8. Rob. Johnson of Magd. 12. Thomas Winniff of Exet. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Linc. Oct. 30. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1601. Nov. 15. Thom. Overbury
as temporal and in many dangers of his life which God did miraculously deliver him from At length K. James the first of England did call him into England and to the holy Ministry he being then 58 years of age and upon the promotion of Dr. John Bridges to the See of Oxon in the latter end of 1603 he made him Dean of Salisbury in Febr. 1604. He hath written 1 Assertiones Theologicae pro vera verae Ecclesiae nota quae est solius dei adoratio contra falsae ecclesiae creaturarum adorationem Rupell 1603. oct 2 England and Scotlands happiness in being reduced to unity of Religion under K. James Lond. 1604. qu. 3 Orthodoxo-Jacobus Papa apostaticus c. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Anti-Bellarmino-tortur sive Tortus retortus Juliano papismus c. Lond. 1612. qu. 5 Of the ceremonies of the Church of England Lond. 1612. qu. besides Sermons and other things He departed this mortal life in August 1619 and was I suppose buried in the Cathed Ch. at Salisbury whereupon Dr. John Williams succeeded him in the Deanery of that place about the 10. of Sept. and installed in the middle of Oct. following To Sir Rob. Gourden of Sudderland who married his only Daughter and Heir named Lucy he left his MSS. of his own composition written in Latine and English desiring him that the English may be published in Scotland and the Latine beyond the Seas to the end that the great pains that he had taken about them may not be lost These Noble Men Knights and Esquires following were actually created Masters of Arts on the 30. of August the King being then in Oxford The illustrious Prince Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox near of kin to the King James 1. of England He was Father to Lodowick the first Duke of Richmond of his name Henry de Vere Earl of Oxford He was Son of Edw. de Vere called by some the Poetical Earl of Oxford and died at the Siege of Breda in the Netherlands an 1625. Henry Percy the most generous Count of Northumberland a great encourager of learning and learned Men especially Mathematicians who as others have in a high manner celebrated his worth He died 5. of Nov. 1632 and was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex Robert D'Evereux Earl of Essex now a young Nobleman of Merton Coll. See more in the year 1636. Will. Herbert Earl of Pembroke the very picture and Viva effigies of Nobility a Person truly generous a singular lover of learning and the professors thereof and therefore by the Academians elected their Chancellour some years after this His Person was rather Majestick than elegant and his presence whether quiet or in motion was full of stately gravity His mind was purely heroick often stout but never disloyal and so vehement an opponent of the Spaniard that when that match fell under confideration in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he would sometimes rouze to the trepidation of that King yet kept in favour still for His Majesty knew plain dealing as a jewell in all Men so was in a Privy Counsellour an ornamental duty and the same true heartedness commended him to K. Ch. 1. Philip Herbert his younger Brother now Earl of Montgomery He was quite different in nature from the aforesaid William being a Person esteemed a very frequent swearer and one so intolerably cholerick quarrelsome and offensive while he was Lord Chamberlain to K. Ch. 1. that he did not refrain to break many wiser heads than his own Mr. Thomas May the translator of Lucan and afterwards Historian to the Long Parliament felt the weight of his staff which had not his office and the place being the Banquetting-house protected it might have been a question whether ever he would have struck again See more of him in Will. Herbert among the writers under the year 1630. William Cecill Viscount Cranbourne Son of Robert Earl of Salisbury He was after the death of his Father Earl of Salisbury and Knight of the Garter and lived to 1668. John Bridges Bishop of Oxon sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge and lately Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Dr. John Piers to the See of Rochester was then also created He was now famous for the several books that he had published the titles of some of which you may see in Bodlies or Oxford Catalogue He died on the 26. March 1618 and was buried in the Church of Marsh-Balden or Balden in the Marsh near to and in the County of Oxford as I have elsewhere told you He was Doctor of Divinity and therefore I presume the Registrary of the University should have put him among such that were incorporated this year and not among the Creations of Masters of Arts. Theophilus Howard Baron of Walden Son and Heir of Thomas Earl of Suffolk He was afterwards Earl of Suffolk and Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter He died 3. June 1640 and was buried in the Church at Walden beforementioned Charles Howard Baron of Effingham Son of Charles Earl of Nottingham He was afterwards Earl of Nottingham Thomas West Lord La Warr commonly called Lord de la Ware Grey Brugges or Bridges Lord Chandois He was commonly called King of Cotswould because of his numerous attendants when he went to Court He died at the Spaw in Italy 1621. Will. Compton Lord Compton He was afterwards the first Earl of Northampton of his name and dying 14. Jun. 1630 was buried by his ancestors in the Church at Compton in the hole in Warwickshire Edward Bruce Master of the Rolls and Baron of Kinloss in Scotland He died 14. Jan. 1610 aged 62 years and was buried in the Chappel of the Rolls in Chancery-lane London He was Father to Thomas Earl of Elgin in Scotland and Baron of Whorlton in Yorkshire as I shall tell you elsewhere … Erskeine a noble Man of Scotland Perhaps he was the same with Sir James Erskeine Knight of the Bath Son to the Earl of Marre or with Alex. Erskeine who was after his Fathers death Viscount Fenton in Scotland and died in the beginning of the year 1633. Sir Hen. Nevill Knight He was afterwards Leiger Embassador at Paris being the same I think of Billingbere in Berks who died about the later end of June 1629. Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. now Tutor to Prince Henry William Herbert John Egerton afterwards Earl of Bridgwater Valentine Knightley John Ramsey a Scot Knights Sir Roger Aston Knight He was the natural Son of John Aston Gentleman second Son of Rich. Aston of Aston in Cheshire had all his breeding in Scotland which made some to take him to be a Scot born was originally the Barber to K. James 1. while he was King of the Scots as a libellous Author tells you though from record it appears that he was Groom of the Bedchamber to him and belonged to it in the time of that Kings Father and Grandfather He was
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
two parts 1. of Divines 2. of Novility c. Lond. 1683 fol. before which is a canting narrative of his own life He died at Thistleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex 25 Dec. 1682. 3 Sam. Clark of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge who published certain matters in 1649 and after c. Jun. 25. Will. Kingsley of All 's Coll. 26. Joh. Flavell of Broadgates Hall July 4. Hen. Seward of Brasn Coll. Compounders The first of these three was at this time Archdeacon of Canterbury and died about the beginning of the year 1648. The second was a Dignitary and Rector of Tallaton in Devonshire where he died in 1623. Another of both his names was a Writer of Wadham Coll. as you may see among the Writers an 1617 and a third who was a Devonian born and Son or at least near of kin to him of Tallaton hath published several things some of which are mention'd in Joh. Flavell of Wadh. Coll. and was living divers years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but whether he was of the Univ. of Oxon I cannot yet tell Jo. Flavell of Tallatâ—n had a Son named Thomas who was Bach. of Arts of Trin Coll. in this University afterwards Vicar of Mullian and Rector of Great Ruan in Cornwal also Prebendary of Exeter and died 1682 aged 77 years 9. Edw. Gee of Brasn 15. Edw. Chetwynd of Exet. Oct. 23. John Moseley of Magd. Nov. 7. Hâ—nr Beaumont of All 's Coll. The last of which was a Compounder being at this time Dean of Peterborough and Canon of Windsore In 1622 May 18. he was installed Dean of Windsore in the room of Marc. Anton. de Dominis who in Feb. going before had left England This Dr. Beaumont died 30 June 1627 and was buried in S. George's Chap. there on the right side of the grave of Tho. Danett one of his Predecessors in that Deanery See more in the Incorporations an 1571. Feb. 10. Rich. Carpenter Joh. Standard of Ex. Coll. Both of these were learned men and so taken to be by Dr. Joh. Prideaux as I have elsewhere told you Dr. Standard was afterwards a Justice of Peace for Oxfordshire being Lord of Whithill and dying 16 Dec. 1647 aged 66 was buried in the Churchyard at Tackley in the said County Incorporations Apr. 24. Tho. Farnabie M. A. of Cambr. sometimes of Merton Coll. in this University and afterwards the eminent Schoolmaster of Kent I shall mention him at large in the second Volume of this work Jul. 2. Ralph Rand M. A. of S. Andrew in Scotland 9. Joh. Hacket M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. About this time he wrot a Latin Comedy called Loiola printed at Lond. 1648. in oct was afterwards D. of D. Parson of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London Chaplain to K. Charles 1. Residentiary of S. Pauls and a great sufferer in the time of the Rebellion At length after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. to whom he was Chaplain in ordinary he became Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry to which being consecrated at Lambeth 22 Dec. 1661 sate there to the time of his death 28 Oct. 1670 aged 79. Afterwards came out under his name Christian Consolations taught from five heads in Religion printed 1671 in tw and A century of Sermons c. Lond. 1675 fol. Rob. Farsereus or Faisereus M. A. of Lovaine was incorporated the same day Jan. 14. Edw. Kellet M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. He was at this time Rector of Ragborough and Crocombe in Somersetshire and afterwards Canon residentiary of Exeter His Writings speak him a learned man some of which are 1 Miscellanies in Divinity in 3 books c. Camb. 1633 fol. 2 The threefold supper of Christ in the night that he was betrayed Lond. 1641 fol. besides Sermons of which one is entit A return from Argier preached at Minhead in Somersetshire 16 Mar. 1627 at the readmission of a relapsed Christian into our Church on Gal. 5. 2. Lond. 1628 qu. This was preached in the morning of the third Sunday in Lent and in the Afternoon preached Dr. Hen. Byam on the same occasion but not on the same subject He the said Kellet was a sufferer if I mistake not in the time of the Rebellion which began 1642. Febr. 20. Joh. Foxeroft Bach. of Arts of Cambr. See more among the Masters in the year following This year was a Supplicate made for one John Hayward LL. D. and Historiographer of Chelsey Coll. near to London to be incorporated in the same Faculty but whether he was really so I cannot tell In the year 1619 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall being then accounted a learned and godly man and one better read in Theological Authors than in those belonging to his own profession The Titles of all or of most of the Books that he published you may see in the Oxford Catalogue As for those of History which he hath published the phrase and words in them were in their time esteemed very good only some have wish'd that in his History of Hen. 4. he had not called Sir Hugh Lynne by so light a word as Mad-cap tho he were such and that he had not changed his Historical stile into a Drammatical where he induceth a Mother uttering a Womans passion in the case of her Son This Sir Joh. Hayward ended his days in his house in the Parish of Great S. Barthelmew in London on Wednesday 27 June 1627 and was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish You may see more of him in Camdens Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1601 where you 'll find him punished by a tedious Imprisonment for an unseasonable Edition of one of his books Creations Jul. 9. Francis Stewart of Ch. Ch. Knight of the Bath one of the Sons of the Earl of Murrey was actually created Master of Arts. He was a learned Gentleman was one of Sir Walt. Raleigh's Club at the Meremaid Tavern in Friday street in London and much venerated by Ben. Johnson who dedicated to him his Comedy called The silent Woman He was a person also well seen in marine Affairs was a Captain of a Ship and as I have been informed by those who remember him did bear the office for some time of a Vice or Reer Admiral Nov. 13. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. was then actually created D. of D. as the Register saith which was as I suppose no more than the completion of that degree which should have been done in the Act preceeding had he not been absent In the latter end of Aug. this year Prince Charles came honorably attended to the University and after he had been entertained with Ceremonies and Feasting sutable to his Dignity and Merit he was pleased with his own hand writing to matriculate himself a Member of the said University Aug. 28. with this Symbole or Sentence Si vis omnia subjicere subjice te rations To say no more he was afterwards a King of great Religion and Learning but
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
treatise very exquisitely penn'd as one saith entituled Answers to certaine questions propounded by the Citizens of Waterford Also Divers Sermons Soon after he left his Country for the sake of Religion went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where he was promoted to the Degree of Doctor of Divinity 23. June 1576 and afterwards as 't is said wrot and published divers other things See more in Peter White under the Year 1599. To him I now add his great friend and countryman Rob. Garvey of the Diocess of Kilkenny who was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1563 proceeded Master of Arts three years after and became noted for his skill in both the Laws and for a volubility in the English and latin tongues as my Author an Irish Man tells me but whether he published any thing I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in Ireland about 1579. MAWRICE CHAWNEY Chamney Chancy or Channy so many ways I find him written was from his juvenile years a Carthustan Monk in the house of that order near London now called by some the Charter-house and by others Suttons Hospital the Brethren of which place as of others in England did commonly study in an antient place of Literature near to London Coll. alias Burnells Inn within this University and no doubt there is but that this M. Chawney did receive instruction in Theological matters therein or at least in some other house of learning in Oxon. But so it was that at the dissolution of religious houses by K. Hen. 8. he with his brethren 18 in number being committed to custody for denying the Kings Supremacy over the Ch. of England did at length with much difficulty escape out of prison and so consequently death which all the rest suffered at several times before the Year 1539. At length settling himself at Bruges in Flanders became Prior of some of his English Brethren of the same order there And from him do our English Carthusians beyond the Sea at Neoport in Flanders derive their succession in the said house near London to this day having always been by them esteemed a most devout and pious Person He hath written a book entit Historia aliquot nostri saeculi Martyrum cum pia tum lectu jucunda nunquam antehaec typis excusa Printed at Mentz in Bavaria as it seems an 1550 in qu. and dedicated by Vitus à Dulken Prior of the Carthusians of St. Michael near to Mentz and William à Sittatis Procurator of the said house to Theodore Loher à Stratis Prior of the Carthusians house of St. Marie the Virgin in Buxia near to Memmingen in Schawben a Province of Germany This book contains 1 The Epitaph of Sir Tho. More written by himself in Latin fixed over his grave in Chelsey Church near to London 2 The captivity and martyrdom of John Fisher B. of Rochester 3 The capt and mart of the said Sir Th. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England 4 The martyrdome of Reynold Brigitt a pious Divine and of other 5 The passion of 18 Carthusians of London beginning with the life and passion of John Houghton the Prior of them all contained in 14 Chapters c. This passion and martyrdom of the said Carthusians was by the care of our Author represented in figures and being afterwards engraven on copper were printed at Colon. Ub. about 1608. He also reviewed corrected and put some additions to a book entit Vita Carthusiana written by Peter Sutor Prior of the Carthusians at Paris an 1522. Which being so done he wrot the Epistle dedicatory before it all printed together at Lovaine 1572. in oct Our Author Chancaeus as he writes himself in that book was then living in his Cell at Bruges before-mention'd with several English Carthusians under his government I have seen a MS. written by our Author Chancaeus bearing this title The divine clowde of unknowing The beginning of which is Goostly frende in God I pray the and besece the that thou wilt have a besy beholding to the course and manntr of thy calling c. It containeth 75 Chapters and with i is bound his Epistle of private counsel the beginning of which is Goostly frende in God as touching thy inward occupation c. And at the end of the book is this written Liber domus Salvatoris beatissimae virginis Mariae juxta London Ordinis Carthusiani per M. Chawncy quem exaravit secundum Willmum Exmâ—use The said Exmeuse or ex Mewe who had been bred in Christs Coll. in Cambridge did enter himself a Carthusian of the said house near London in the 28 year of his age being then sufficiently versed in the Gr. and Lat. tongues Afterwards he was made Vicar and thence removed to be Procurator thereof And being one of the number that denied the Kings Supremacy suffered death by hanging drawing and quartering 19. June 1535. As for our Author Chancy he submitted to fate on the 12. July in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 according to the accompt followed in Flanders Whereupon his body was buried as I suppose in the Chappel belonging to the Carthusians at Bruges before-mention'd He hath left behind him a most celebrated name for his rare piety which is preserved among those of his profession at Bruges Neôport in Flanders and at other places Neither is it denyed by any knowing and moderate Protestants but that his name is worthy to be kept in everlasting remembrance RICHARD DAVYES a Welsh Man born was educated as it seems in New Inn but what Degrees he took in Arts it appears not In Qu. Maries Reign he retired beyond the Seas upon account of Religion whence returning in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth was elected Bishop of St. Asaph on the deprivation of Tho. Goldwell the temporalities of which See he receiving 29. March 1560 was the year following translated to the See of St. David and in 1566 was actually created Doctor of Divinity He hath published several things among which are Epistle to all the Welsh especially within his Diocess wishing a renewing of the antient Cath. faith by the light of the Gospel of Christ Printed and bound with the New Test in Welsh an 1567. It was printed also among other things and published by Charles Edwards a Welsh Man Ox. 1671. in oct Funeral Sermon preached 26. Nov. 1576. in the Parish Church of Caermerthen at the burial of Walt. Earl of Essex on Rev. 14. 13. Lond. 1577. qu. Whereunto is added a genealogical Epitaph with memorials on the said Count but these were made by other Men. This Bishop paid his last debt to nature about the month of Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 aged about 80 years and was buried in the Parish Church of Abergwilly in Caermerthenshire leaving then behind him a Widow called Dorothie and several Children JOHN TWYNE Son of William Son of John Son of Nicholas Son of Sir Brian Twyne of Long Parish in Hampshire Knight was