2 Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man 3 Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life 4 The gathered Councils of Isidore Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo He hath also written Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium Nisenum Paynellum Written from C. C. C. in Oxon as by their dates it appears Those to Edw. Lee Archb. of York were written in behalf of Erasmus between whom and the said Lee were learned bickerings and are printed in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia Basil 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus In Ciceronis philippicas Sermones ad Clerum Preached mostly at Calais See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two year 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London which Church was translated afterwards to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Sion Coll. Over his Grave tho there be no memory of him by Inscription yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia Trophaea c. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow buried in 1545. JOHN BOURCHIER Lord Berners Son of Humph. Bourchier eldest Son of Sir Joh. Bourchier Knight Lord Berners of Hertfordshire the fourth Son of William Earl of Ewe by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. de Wodestock Duke of Glocester the sixth Son of K. Edw. 3. was instructed in several sorts of learning in this University in the latter end of K. Edw. 4 in whose Reign and before were the Sons of divers of the English Nobility educated in Academical literature in Balliol Coll. wherein as 't is probable this our Author was instructed also After he had left the University he travelled into divers Countries and returned a Master of several Languages and a compleat Gentleman But that which made him first known to the World was his valour shew'd in quelling the fury of the Rebels in Cornwall and Devon under the conduct of Michael Joseph a Blacksmith about 1495 whereby he greatly gained the favor of K. Hen. 7. In the 6. Hen. 8. he was made Chancellor of the Kings Exchecquer for life and about that time attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France in order to her Marriage with K. Lewis 12. Afterwards being made Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches adjoyning in France spent most of his time there and wrot Of the duties of the Inhabitants of Calais Comedie called Ite in vineam meam Usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers He also translated into English 1 The life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight 2 The famous exploits of Hugh of Bordeaux 3 The castle of Love a Romance And besides something of Marc. Aur. Ant. must not be forgotten that noted translation of his which he performed at the command of K. Hen. 8. viz. The Chronicles of France and England composed originally in the French Tongue by Sir Joh. Frossard Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to K. Edw. 3. as also to Queen Philippa These Chronicles have been more than once if I mistake not printed in English in an English Letter in fol. This worthy Lord Sir Joh. Bourchier died at Calais beforemention'd 16 March in Fifteen hundred thirty and two aged 63 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of our Lady there where was if not still a comely Mon. over his Grave JOHN FRYTH Son of Rich. Fryth an Inholder of Sevenoake in Kent was born there some say at Westram in the said County and educated in Kings Coll. in Cambridge till he was Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards being incited to go to Oxon for preferment was for his towardly parts made one of the junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's College and soon after viz. in Dec. 1525. he was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same degree of Bachelaur But before that time falling into the acquaintance of Will. Tyndale a zealous Lutheran they conferred together privately about the abuses in Religion So that in short time after he being by him converted to his opinion Fryth made a publick profession of it Whereupon being seized and examined by the Commissary of the University he was imprisoned within the limits of the said College At length being freed thence in 1528 or thereabouts he went beyond the Seas where improving himself much in his religious opinions returned into England about two Years after leaving his Wife behind But then again finding few Friends there that favoured his opinions he wandred to and fro and in fine was taken for a Vagabond at Reading in Berks. set in the Stocks and endured misery for want of relief At that time his condition being made known to Leonard Cox the Schoolmaster of that Town who presently understood the merits of the Person by his discourse procured his releasment refreshed his hungry stomack and gave him money Afterwards he went to London where endeavouring to gain Proselytes he was by the care of Sir Tho. More Lord Chancellor seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower where he had several disputes with Sir Tho. and others At length being examined by the Bishops sitting in St. Pauls Cath. who persuaded him to recant his opinions but in vain they condemned him to be burnt So that being delivered to the L. Mayor and Sheriffs was committed to Newgate where he remained in the Dungeon till he was conveyed thence to be burnt His works are Treatise of Purgatory Answer to Joh. Rastal's Dialogues of Purgatory This Jo. Rastal was Son in-Law to Sir Tho. More Answer to Sir Tho. More 's Dialogue concerning Heresies Answer to Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester The Subsidie or Bulwark to his first Book against Jo. Rastal His judgment upon Will Tracy of Todington in Glocestershire his Testament an 1531. Letter unto the faithful followers of Christ's Gospell Written from his Prison in the Tower 1532. A Mirror or Glass to know thy self Written in the Tower 1532. Mirror or Looking-glass wherein you may behold the Sacrament of Baptisme Written 1533. An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope Of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ in answer to Sir Thom. More 's letter which he wrot against the first little treatise of Fryth made concerning the Sacrament c. an 1533. Lond. 1548. oct Articles wherefore he dyed Written in Newgate Prison 23. June 1533. All which treatises were reprinted at London in fol. an 1573. He also translated into English Patricks places written by Patr. Hamilton At length after he had remained in the said Prison about a Fortnight or more he was carried thence to Smithfield on the 4.
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
what reason it appears not he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree which was accordingly done to his desire and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign he obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex He hath written a Book Entit Arbor Reipublicae c. It is penned in a Juridic Stile and is now or at least lately was reserved as a choice Monument in the Cottonian Library Whether ever Printed I cannot tell At length after King Henry 7. who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill being dead his Successor King Henry 8. did for the Peoples satisfaction issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley then a Prisoner in the Tower of London Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons the eldest of which was John afterwards Duke of Northumberland Father to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester JOHN HOLTE called by some Holtigena was born in the County of Sussex and from being Usher of the School joyning to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College and Bachelaur of Arts was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University that were afterwards eminent in the Nation Since which time and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning by producing a right Grammar-Institution For tho before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure and less care of good Arts yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton Bishon of Ely and the times thereupon became more peaceable our Author Holte made a Grammar Entit Lac Puerorum c. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton then Archbishop of Canterbury Which Grammar Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge being the first of note or most fit for use that was ever Printed in England was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars Afterwards the said Stanbridge and his Scholar Robert Whittington with others did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar but more especially Dr. John Colet the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral who compiled the Eight parts of Speech and William Lilye the first Master of S. Paul's School an English Syntax whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School The learned Erasmus also intreated by Dr. Colet to revise Lilyes Syntax made a new Latin Syntax in 1513. upon which Henry Pryme a School-Master in a certain Monastery and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented the former in 1539. and the other in 1540. But these things being spoken by the by I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar which perhaps are now quite lost and past recovery as the time of his death and place of burial is One Holte who was Master to Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant Which Holte is in the Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John NICHOLAS MAGWIRE was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland Educated among the Oxonians and took one or more Degrees Afterwards returning to his Country he was made Prebendary of Hillard in the Diocess of Laighlin being then and after accounted famous among his Country-men for his great Learning and constant Preaching among them In 1490. he was by provision from the Pope promoted to the Bishoprick of Laighlin aged about thirty one years Where being settled he began to write several Books but being untimely snatch'd away by death finished only these following Chronicon Hiberniae of which Thaddeus Dowling made use when he Composed his Annales Hiberniae and Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc quondan Laighliensis This our Author Magwire year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve 4. Hen. 8. and was buried as it seems in his own Church of Laighlin In his Bishoprick succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws whom I shall remember in his proper place among the Bishops that have received their Education in Oxon. MAURITIUS de PORTU otherwise called O-Fihely who in his time was for his great Learning and Virtue called and written by many The Flower of the World was born in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universiâ—â— and not unlikely in other Learning after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World John Duns Scotus had spent some years in Religion and Learning and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved From Oxon he Travelled into Italy and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua then flourishing in Learning made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks School-Divinity and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns whom he had in so great veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren he became known to and much respected by Pope Julius 2. who for a reward of his Learning and Vertues conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran and in the year following minding to return to his Native Country he obtained a Faculty from the Pope of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there but at his arrival at Galloway being overtaken with a deadly Disease died before he could Celebrate it His Works which have been much admired and
of the posterity and next in blood to our Author Sir Tho. More The said Utopia also was published in Italian at Venice 1548. Epigrammata Bas 1518. 1563. oct Lond. 1638 c. Progimnasmata Bas 1563. Responsio ad convitia Martint Lutheri written in the Year 1523. This I take to be the same with Vindicatio Henrici 8. Regis Angliae Galliae à calumniis Lutheri Lond. 1523. qu. published under the name of Gul. Rosseus Quod pro fide mors fugienda non est Written in the Tower of London 1534. Precationes ex Psalmis Collected there the same Year Imploratio divini auxilii contra tentationem cum insultatione contra Demones ex spe fiducia in Deum Lugd. 1572. He also translated from Greek into Lat. Dialogi Luciani with other matters of that Author Bas 1563. All which except Precationes ex psalmis beforemention'd together with his History of K. Rich. 3. and his Expositio passionis Domini were printed at Lovaine 1566. Epistolae Bas Lond. 1642. Epistola ad Acad. Oxon an 1519. Ox. 1633. qu. See in Tho. James under the Year 1638. History of the pitiful life and unfortunate death of Edward 5. and the then Duke of York his Brother Lond. 1651. oct This last being in English and published the last of all his Works I do therefore put it here At length this our worthy Author being brought to his trial in Westminster-hall was there for Treason for denying the King's Supremacy condemned to be hang'd drawn and quarter'd But that Sentence being mitigated by the K. he only lost his Head on Tower-hill 6. July in Fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 Soon after his Body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Tower called St. Peter ad Vincula by the care of his Daughter Margaret to which place as 't is said she afterwards removed the Body of John Fisher B. of Rochester who being beheaded for the same matter on 22. June going before was buried in the Church-yard of Allhallows Barkin But More 's Body continuing not long in that Chappel was by the said Margaret removed to Chelsey Church near London and there deposited on the South side of the Choire or Chancel Over it is a large Epitaph made by himself after he had given up his Chancellorship which is printed in several Books and by several Authors As for his head it was set upon a pole on London-bridge where abiding about 14 days was then privily bought by the said Margaret and by her for a time carefully preserved in a leaden Box but afterwards with great devotion 't was put into a Vault the burying place of the Ropers under a Chappel joyning to St. Dunstans Church in Canterbury where it doth yet remain standing in the said Box on the Coffin of Margaret his Daughter buried there Much more as 't is probable I could say of his Death and Burial could I see a Book intit Expositio fidelis de morte Thomae Mori Printed in 8 vo in the Year 1536. but the Book is very scarce and I could never see no more of it than the bare title One More of Hertfordshire descended from him had one of his Chaps and was by his among other rarities carefully preserved till the Rebellion broke out in 1642. Jasper and Ellis Heywood Jesuits Sons of Joh. Heywood the noted Poet in the time of Hen. 8 had one of the teeth of the said Sir Tho. More but they being loth to part with their right to each other the tooth fell asunder and divided of it self The said Sir Thomas had issue by his first Wife Jane the Daughter of John Cowlt of Cowlts Hall in Essex three Daughters and one Son named John who being little better than an Ideot as 't is said took to Wife in his Fathers life time Anne Daughter and sole Heir of Edward Cressacre of Baronburgh in Yorkshire by whom he had issue 1 Thomas right Heir of his Father and Grandfather who had 13 Children of which Five were Sons The four eldest lived in voluntary contempt and loathed the World before the World fawned on them The first was Thomas born anew and baptized on that day of the Year 6. July on which Sir Thomas suffered death This Thomas having the Estate come to him married and had several Children but being a most zealous Catholick and constantly affected to the French Nation and Crown did at his own cost and charge with unwearied industry assemble all the English Persons of note that were then in and about Rome to supplicate his Holiness for a dispatch of a contract between the K. of England and Henrietta Maria of France an 1624-25 which being done the said Thomas who was the Mouth or Speaker for the said English Persons died XI April according to the accompt followed at Rome an 1625. aged 59. and was buried in the middle almost of the Church of St. Lewis in Rome leaving then behind him the life of his Gr. Grandfather Sir Tho. More 's incomparably well written published at London I think in 4to about 1627 and dedicated to Henrietta Maria beforementioned Over the said Tho. Mores Grave was soon after laid a monumental Stone at the charge of the English Clergy at Rome and an Epitaph engraven thereon a Copy of which was sent to me by I know not whom as several things of that nature are from other places running thus D. O. M. S. Thomae Moro dioc Ebor. Anglo magni illius Thomae Mori Angliae Cancellarii Martyris pronepoti atque haeredi viro probitate pietate insigni qui raro admodum apud Britannos exemplo in fratrem natu minorem amplum transcripsit patrimonium presbyter Romae factus inde fuisse sedis Apostolicae in patriam profectus plusculos annos strenuam fidei propagandae navavit operam postea cleri Anglicani negotia septem annos Romae 5 in Hispaniâ P. P. Paulo 5to Gregorio 15 summa cum integritate industria suisque sumptibus procuravit Tandem de subrogando Anglis Episcopo ad Urbanum 8 missus negotio feliciter confecto laborum mercedem recepturus ex hac vita migravit XI Apr. An. 1625. aet suae 59. Clerus Anglicanus moestus P. The second Son of the said Joh. More Son of Sir Thomas was Augustine who dyed unmarried The third was Thomas the second or Thomas junior born at Chelsey 8. Aug. 23. Hen. 8. who when he came to mans Estate degenerated from the Catholick Religion and lived and died a professed Minister leaving Issue several Children of whom the eldest Cressacre More who was born at Baronburgh in Yorkshire 3. July 1572. lived afterwards in no commendable fashion The fourth was Edward born after Sir Thomas his death and having not his blessing as Thomas the first and Augustin in bad degenerated from the Catholick Religion The fifth was Bartholomew who died young of the Plague in London The Pictures of most of these Mores mention'd here
strong hatred against the Papists as if nothing but divine truths were to be found in the one and nothing but abominations were to be seen in the other This was the opinion of several eminent Divines of the Church of England yet one that lived in his time and knew him saith that he and Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge whom he stiles standard bearers for a long time of the Nonconformists did grow conformable in the end as they grew riper in experience and sager in judgment Howsoever it was sure it is that Humphrey was a great and general Scholar an able linguist a deep Divine and for his excellency of stile exactness of method and substance of matters in his writings he went beyond most of our Theologists An eminent Archbishop who knew him well saith that be Dr. Humphrey had read more Fathers than Campian the Jesuit ever saw devour'd more than he ever tasted and that he had taught more in this University than he either had learned or heard Dr. Humphrey hath written Epistola de Graecis literis Homeri lectione imitatione ad Praesidem Socios Coll. B. Mar. Magd. Oxon. Set before a book intit Cornu copiae c. written by Hadrian Junius Bas 1558. The beginning of the said Epistle is Patriae communis nostrae c. De religionis conservatione reformatione deque primatu Regum Bas 1559. oct De ratione interpretandi authores Bas 1559. oct At the end of which is the Prophecy of Obadiah in Hebr. and Lat. and Philo de judice in Greek and Latine done by our Author Humphrey Optimates sive de nobilitate ejusque antiquâ origine natura officiis disciplina c. lib. 3. Bas 1560. oct At the end of which is Humphries translation from Greek into Lat. of Philo Judaeus his book De nobilitate Optimates was afterwards translated into English by Anon. and printed at Lond. 1563. oct Oratio Woodstochiae habita ad illustriss R. Elizab. 31. Aug. 1572. Lond. 1572. in 3 sh or more in qu. Johannis Juelli Angli Episc Sarisburiensis vita mors ejusque verae doctrinae defensio c. Lond. 1573. qu. From which is taken an abstract of the said Bishops life published in oct in the English tongue by one who writes himself a Person of quality an 1685 put at the end of a translation into English of Jewells Apologie and his Epistle to Scipio Orat. in Aula Woodstoc hab ad illustr R. Elizab. an 1575. Lond. 1575. qu. The beginning is Eloquar an sileam c. De fermento vitando concio in Math. 16. Marc. 8. Luc. 12. Jesus dixit illis videte cavete à fermento Pharisaeorum Lond. 1582. Rupel 1585. oct Jesuitismi pars prima sive de praxi Rom. curiae contra respubl principes c. Lond. 1582. in a large oct Jesuitismi pars secunda Puritano-papismi seu doctrinae Jesuiticae aliquot rationibus ab Edm. Campiano comprehensae à Joh. Duraeo defensae confutatio c. Lond. 1584 in a large oct Apologetica Epistola ad Academiae Oxoniensis Cancellarium Rupel 1585. oct Seaven Sermons against treason 1 Sam. cap. 26. 8. 9 10. 11 c. Lond. 1588. oct Concio in die Cinerum Pr. in oct He also with Rob. Crowley hath written a book against that of Miles Hoggeard published in Qu. Maries Reign against the Protestants and other things which I have not yet seen And reviewed corrected and published Joh. Shepreves book intit Summa Synopsis N. Testamenti c. At length after Dr. Humphrey had spent most part of his time in a studious and retired condition tho with little comfort of his Wife and male Children he departed this mortal life on the kalends of Febr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine aged 63 and was buried at the upper end of the inner Chappel of Magd. Coll. Soon after was a comely mon set over his grave in the South wall which when the said Chap. was adorn'd and paved with Marble was removed and set up on the S. wall of the outer Chappel The inscription of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 208. b. and some things said of him in lib. 1. p. 287. a. 288. a. b. 292. a. 304. a. 310. a c. He took to Wife in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth one Joan the Daughter of Andr. Inkfordby of Ipswych in Suffolke by whom he had 7 Sons and 5 Daughters She dyed 27. Aug. 1611. aged 74 and was buried in the Chancel of Steple Barton Church in Oxfordshire over whose grave her eldest Dau. called Justina the Wife of Caspar Dormer of the said place Esque erected a fair Monument as she had before done over that of her Father in Magd. Coll. Chappel JOHN-BANISTER was born of honest and wealthy Parents but in what County I know not studied Logicals for a time in this University afterwards entring upon the Physick line solely gave himself up to the study of that faculty and chirurgery In 1573 he was licensed by this University to practice Physick about which time being settled in the antient borough of Nottingham lived there many years in great esteem and was wonderfully followed by all sorts of People for his happy practice in that and chirurgery His works are A needful new and necessary treatise of chirurgery briefly comprehending the general and particular curation of ulcers Lond. 1575. oct Certain experiments of his own invention c. History of Man sucked from the sap of the most approved Anatomists c. in 9 books Lond. 1578. in a thin fol. Compendious chirurgerie gathered and translated especially out of Wecker c. Lond. 1585. in tw Antidotary chirurgical containing variety of all sorts of Medicines c. Lond. 1589. oct What other books he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was in great renown in the middle of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth several years after his death came out his works in six books as 1 Of Tumours in general and particular 2 Of Wounds in general and particular 3 Of Ulcers in general and particular 4 Of Fractures and Luxations 5 Of the curation of Ulcers and 6 Antidotarie beforemention'd All which six books were printed at Lond. 1633. qu. THOMAS RANDOLPHE Son of Averey Randolphe of Badlesmere in Kent was born in that County made Student of Ch. Ch. when K. Hen. 8. turn'd it into a Cathedral admitted Bach. of the Civil Law 1547 and about that time was made a publick notary In 1549. Nov. 20. he succeeded Rob. Weston in the principality of Broadgates hall which he kept till 1553 and then Tho. Stempe LL. D. was admitted into his place In the Reign of Qu. Elizab. he being then Doctor of his faculty he was employed in several Embassies as thrice to the Peers in Scotland thrice to Q. Mary of Scotland after her return from France seven times to K. James the 6. of
made Archdeacon of Winchester His Works are Carmina in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandon c. Lond. 1552. qu. De Pii V. Gregorii XIII furoribus contra Elizabetham Reginam Angliae Lond. 1582. oct An Exhortation to true Love Loyalty and Fidelity to her Majesty Lond. 1587. oct Treatise against Treasons Rebellions and such Disloyalties Printed with the Exhortation to c. Syntagma hortationum ad Jacobum Regem Angliae Lond. 1604. oct and translated from English into Latin An apology or defence of Priests Marriages written by Joh. Poynet or Ponet B. of Winchester The other Works done by him may be seen in a certain author who knew Rhenniger well which made him therefore say of him In omni bonarum literarum ac linguarum genere it a se exercuit ut famam non vulgarem inde meruit He died on the 26. of Aug. year 1609 in sixteen hundred and nine aged 89 years and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Crawley before-mentioned under the Communion Table Over his Grave was soon after a Marble Stone laid with an inscription thereon in prose and verse a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. b. This Dr. Rhenniger died rich left a fair Estate some of which laid in Lincolnshire and a Son named Samuel to injoy it In his Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Dr. Ranulph Barlow of Cambridge THOMAS SMITH was born of sufficient Parents in a Town called Abendon in Bâ—rkshire educated in Grammar learning there in the Free School founded by Joh. Royse Citizen and Mercer of London an 1563. became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 78. and six years after was elected one of the Proctors of the University About that time he being esteemed a religious and a discreet Gentleman was made Secretary to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex who had an especial respect for him So that being thereupon introduced into the Court raised himself meerly by his own merits to considerable eminency as first to be Clerk to the High Court of Parliament afterwards to be one of the Clerks of the Council a Knight in 1603. Secretary of the Latin Tongue and one of the Masters of the Requests 'T is supposed by some and confidently reported by others that are learned that tho he lived not to publish any thing yet several matters he left behind him fit for the Press but of what Subject or Faculty they treat I could never learn He deceased in the prime of his years whereby a stop was given to his father promotion at his house called Parsons Green near to London 28. Nov. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Fulham in Middlesex on the 7. of Dec. following Over his grave was soon after erected a comely monument by his disconsolate Widdow Frances the Daughter of William Lord Chandois afterwards the Wife of Thom. Earl of Exeter by whom he had a Son named Robert who was entred a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term an 1620. aged 15. and became an Inheritor for a time several Lands which his Father left to him particularly the Mannor of Barwick upon Tease in Yorks The said Sir Thomas bequeathed a considerable sum of Money to this University to buy books for the new or East part of the Publick Library as also a Mathematical instrument gilt besides 100 l. to the poor of Abenaon for their relief All which was accordingly done and setled by his younger Brother Rich. Smith sometimes a Member of Ch. Ch. also who had been prime Mourner at his Brothers Funeral I find another Sir Tho. Smyth to have been of Bidborough in Kent second Son of Tho. Smith of Ostenhanger in the same County Esq who dying 7. June 1591. was buried in the Church of Ashsord adjoyning Son of John Smith of Corsham in Wilts Gent. Which Sir Thomas who had sarmed the Customs in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and therefore by some called Customer Smith was so much in favour with K. James that he sent him Embassador to the Emperour of Russia 19. Mar. 1604. From whence returning he was made Governour of the Society of Merchants trading to the East-Indies Musâ—â—ie the French and Summer Islands and Treasurer for the Colonies and Companies of Virginia There goes under this Man's name a book intit Sir Thomas Smith's voyage and entertainment in Russia with the tragical ends of two Emperours and one Empress within one Month during his being there c. Lond. 1605. qu. But him I take not to be the author because it was published unknown to him and without his consent What else I find of him is that his fair and magnificent house at Deptford near to London was burnt on 30. Jan. 1618. and that upon several complaints against him for certain frauds used by him in withdrawing sums of Money in his Rectorship and place of Treasurer before mentioned he was removed from those imployments in Apr. 1619. His eldest Son Sir Joh. Smith married Isabel Daughter of Rob. Earl of Warwick and another the Natural Daughter of Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy without the consent of his Father in Nov. 1618. but in the middle of July following he upon some discontent left England without taking leave of his Father or Wife Besides these two I find another famous Sir Tho. Smith who went before them not only in time but eminence His native place was Saffron-Walden in Essex his Parents John Smith of the same place and Agnes the Daughter and Heir of one Charnock Gent. and the place of Academical education Queens coll in Cambridge where at riper years he was made choice of such was his proficiency in learning to be sent into Italy at the King's charges and there to be educated in certain kinds of learning which our Universities at home could not then yield or rather for the compleat polishing of his parts and studies After his return he became so eminent for his acquired learning that he was not only made the publick Orator of Cambridge but also the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue and at length the King's Professor of the Civil Law in which Faculty he was incorporated Doctor at Cambridge in 1542. and afterwards at Oxon but the particular time when it appears not through the imperfectness of the Registers of that time In the Reign of Ed. 6. he found so much favour with the Duke of Somerset that he was made one of the Secretaries Sir Will. Cecill being the other to that King a Knight Steward of the Stanneries and Dean of Carlile in the place of one Lancelot Salkeld then ejected About the same time also he became Provost of Eaton coll whereof he had very well merited but when Q. Mary came to the Crown she deprived him of those dignities assigning
of Commons in Ireland before Arthur L. Chichester Visc Belfast L. Lievtenant of Ireland 21. May 1613. These two last were in the Library of Sir Jam. Ware of Ireland and are now if I mistake not in that of the Earl of Clarendon 4 An argument upon the question of impositions digested and divided in sundry chapters This was in the Library once of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultry-Compter and with it was bound up an Answer thereunto Fol. But the question is whether this argument be not part of or involved in Sir John's Jus imponendi vectigalia before-mentioned At length he died suddenly in his house in the Strand near to London in the 57 year of his age for being well at night when he went to rest he was on Thursday morning year 1626 the seventh of December in sixteen hundred twenty and six found dead in his bed by an Apoplexy as 't was said It was then commonly rumour'd that his Prophetical Lady had foretold his death in some manner on the Sunday going before For while she sate at Dinner by him she suddenly burst out with tears Whereupon he asking her what the matter was she answered Husband these are your Funeral tears to which he made reply Pray therefore spare your tears now and I will be content that you shall laugh when I am dead Her name was Elianor Touchet youngest Daughter to George Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven and what she usually predicted she folded up for the most part in dark expressions received from a voice which she frequently heard as she used to tell her Daughter Lucy and she others By this Elianor Sir Joh. Davies had Issue a Son who was a natural Idiot and dying young the Father made an Epitaph of 4 verses on him beginning Hic in visceribus terrae c. So that the said Lucy being sole Heiress to her Father Ferdinando Lord Hastings afterwards Earl of Huntingdon became a Suitor to her for Marriage whereupon the Father made this Epigram Lucida vis oculos teneri perstrinxit amantis Nec tamen erravit nam via dulcis erat After the body of Sir John had laid in state for some time it was conveyed to the Church of St. Martin in the Fields near to Whitehall where it was solemnly inter'd in the South Isle Soon after was a monument fastned to the Pillar near his grave with a large inscription on it part of which runs thus Vir ingenio compto rarâ facundiâ oratione cum solutâ tum numeris astrictâ faelicissimus juridicam severitatem morum elegantiâ amaeniore eruditione mitigavit Patronus fidus judex incorruptus ingenuae pietatis amore anxiae superstitionis contemptu juxta insignis c. Obiit 8. Id. Dec. 1626. His Widdow afterwards lived mostly at Parton in Hertfordshire had her Strange and wonderful Prophesies Printed in qu. an 1649. and dying in St. Brides Parish in London 5. Jul. 1652. was buried near to the relicks of her Husband and soon after had a large Epitaph of commendations put over her grave You may see more of her and her Prophecies in the History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. Part. 2. lib. 4. an 1634. See also in the Diary or Breviat of the life of the said Archb. Printed 1644. p. 18. One Joh. Davies a Bencher of the Inner Temple was buried against the Communion Table in the Temple Church 20. Aug. 1631. What relation he had to the former or whether he collected or published Reports I know not EDMUND GUNTER was a Hertfordshire man born but descended originally from those of his name living at Gunterstown in Brecknockshire elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Church 1599. aged 18. where going through with great industry the several Classes of Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he entred into the Theological Faculty became a Minister of Gods word and in 1615. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences But his excellencies being above all in the Mathematick Arts he was made Astronomy Professor of Gresham coll before he was Bach. of Div. in the place of Edw. Breerewood deceased Where being settled he acted much for the publick by his profession as well by writing as teaching His works are Of the Sector Cross Staff and other Instruments Lond. 1624. 36. qu. Canon Triangulorum five tabulae sinuum artificialium ad radium 10000,0000 ad scrupula prima quadrantis Lond. 1620. oct This being Englished was with the former book published by Sam. Foster Astronomy Professor of Gresham coll sometimes a Member of that of Emanuel in Cambr. with a tract of his own called The use of the Quadrant Lond. 1624. 53. qu. The fifth edition of these works of Gunter was diligently corrected and had divers necessary things and matters pertinent thereunto added throughout the whole work not before printed by Will. Leybourne sometimes a Printer and afterwards an eminent Mathematician Lond. 1673. qu. What these additions are the said Leybourne acquaints us in his Epistle before the said works Wherein he takes notice of some Plagiaries who had then lately thrown into the World several tractates extracted or rather transcribed from Mr. Gunter without the least mention of their true author Some questions in Navigation are added to these works by Hen. Bond teacher of the Mathematicks at Ratcliff near London and to that was then 1673. added The description and use of another Sector and Quadrant both of them invented by Sam. Foster before-mentioned What other things our author Gunter hath written I know not unless one two or more parts of Dialling which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in Gresham coll year 1626 in sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried on the eleventh of December in the same year in the Parish of St. Peter le Poore within the City of London See more of him in Edm. Wingate whom I shall hereafter mention under the year 1656. THOMAS WORTHINGTON Son of Rich. Worthington by Dorothy his Wife Dau. of Tho. Charnock of Charnock in Lanc. was born at Blainscough near to Wygan in that County and being fitted for the Univ. in those parts he was sent to Ox. about 1566. but to what house of learning unless to Brasnose coll I cannot tell After he had been drudging in the studies of Logick and Philosophy for about 4 years he took a degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University his Country and Friends and crossed the Seas to Doway where he was received with great humanity into the English college in Feb. 1572-73 Soon after he took upon him the Priesthood and in 1577. he was promoted to the degree of Bach. of Divinity and the year after being translated to the English college at Rheimes was thence sent into England to gain Proselites but being taken at Islington near to London in the house of my Progenitor Rich. à Wood his Friend and Countryman
Oxford He was Son of John Vere Earl of the said place who dying in 1562 left this his Son Edw. a vast Estate which he afterwards squandred for the most part away upon some distaste taken against his Wives Father Will. Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England who refused to endeavour when it laid in his power to save the life of his beloved and entire Friend Thomas Duke of Norfolk for what he was charged with relating to Mary Queen of Scots This most noble Earl of Oxon was in his younger days an excellent Poet and Comedian as several matters of his Composition which were made publick did shew which I presume are now lost and worn out All that I have yet seen are certain Poems on several Subjects thus entit 1 His good name being blemished be bewayleth 2 The complaint of a Lover wearing black and tawnie 3 Being in love he complaineth 4 A lover rejected complaineth 5 Not attaining to his desire he complayneth 6 His mind not quietly setled be complayneth thus with many such like things that were highly valued in their time He gave way to fate in a good old age 24 June 1604 and was as I conceive buried by the body of his Father at Earls Colne in Essex Will. Haward or Howard Baron of Effingham Lord Chamberlain to the Queen He was Son of Thomas the second Duke of Norfolk by Agnes his second Wife dau of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Lincolnshire Kt. Tho. Butler Earl of Ormond This person is one of the Ancestors of the present Duke of Ormond was now in great favour with Qu. Elizab. and by her employed several times in matters of concern relating to Ireland especially in that of quelling the Rebellion there made by some of his house as Sir Edm. Butler Pierce and Edw. his Brethren Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick He was the eldest Son that survived of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland beheaded for High Treason in the Reign of Qu. Mary and elder Brother to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester Chanc. of this University Hen. Lord Strange Son of Edw. Earl of Derby He became Earl of Derby after his Fathers Death an 1572. Edw. Stafford Joh. Sheffield Barons The first of these two Barons was the true heir of the Staffords Dukes of Buckingham and is Ancestor to John Howard the present Viscount Stafford The other Joh. Sheffield died in 1568. leaving then behind him a Son of about two years of age named Edmund who was created Earl of Mulgreve or Mulgrave by K. Ch. 1. in the first year of his Reign Sir Will. Cicill Secretary of State He was afterwards Lord Burleigh and Father to Tho. Earl of Exeter Rob. Earl of Salisbury and Edw. Vicount Wimbleton … Rogers Controller What his Christian Name was I cannot yet tell Sir Franc. Knollis Knight Captain of the Halbertiers Sir Nich. Throcinorton Knight a wise and stout man lately leiger Embassadour in France and about this time chief Butler of England and Chamberlaâ—ne of the Exchequer He died suddenly in Leycester House in the Parish of S. Clement without Temple barre London on Munday 12 Feb. 1570. Whereupon his body was carried to his house in the Parish of Chree Church near Algate where resting till the 21 day of the said month was then buried in the Parish Church there See more of him in Camdens Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1570. John Tomworth or Tamworth Esq of the Privy Council to the Queen The same who in 1564 had been sent to Mary Qu. of Scots to interceed with her for the readmission of some of her Lords that had been against her Marriage with Henry Lord Darnley This Jo. Tomworth had spent much of his youth in travelling beyond the Seas These Nobles and persons of Quality before mention'd were I say actually created Masters of Arts in a Convocation held Sept. 6. in the public Refectory of Ch. Church in the presence of Robert Earl of Leycester Chancellour of the University Dr. Kennall Commissary Dr. Laur. Humphrey both the Proctors c. the Queen being then about to leave Oxon. Sept… Thom. Randolphe Bach. of the Civ Law sometimes Principal of Broadgates Hall had leave tho absent to be created Doctor of his Faculty but whether he was created it appears not Oct. 11. By vertue of a Commission from the prime Members of the University then bearing date and sealed directed to Dr. Lawr. Humphrey the Queens Professor of Divinity were these five Bishops following made Doct. of Divinity Oct. 30. Joh. Parkhurst Will. Downham Tho. Bentham Rich. Davies Joh. Best Bishop of Norwych Chester Lich. and Cov. S. David Carlile All which were actually created Oct. 30. in the House of one Steph. Medcalf at London in the presence of Will. Standish publick Notary and Registrary of the University Thomas Roberts John Pratt Archdeacon of S. David Walt. Jones Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards Canon of Westminster in the place of Dr. Mathew Hutton and Thom. Huet Chantor of S. David Oct… Edward Earl of Ruâ—land was actually created Master of Arts at London Feb… Will. Smyth one of the Clerks of the Queens Council was also created M. of A. at London An. Dom. 1567. An. 9 Eliz. An. 10 Eliz. Chanc. the same Commiss Tho. Cooper D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. elected 26 March Proct. Adam Squyre of Ball. Coll. Henr. Bust of Magd. Coll. elected 9 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. John Chardon of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Downe and Connor in Ireland Jun. 7. Rich. Stanyhurst of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 12. Thom. Williams See among the Writers under the year 1600. Oct. 10. John Case the Philosopher of S. John's Coll. Dec. 16. Edward Lord Russell of Vniv. Coll. eldest Son of Francis Earl of Bedford Adm. 46. Bach. of Law Dec. 9. Michael Maschiart of New Coll. Besides him were 9 admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Apr. 21. Tho. Allen or Alan George Blackwell of Trin. Coll. Thom. Ford was also admitted on the same day This person who was Fellow of Trin. Coll. and a Devonian born did soon after leave the University Country and Friends went to Doway and became a R. Cath. Priest and Bach. of Divinity Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England was taken and imprisoned and at length executed at Tybourne near London 28 May 1582. Jun. 4. Will. Raynolds of New Coll. 20. Jo. Field See among the Writers under the year 1587. Jul. 9. Franc. Bunney of Magd. Coll. He is mentioned at large among the Writers p. 355 but the Printer hath set his name Bunne for Bunney Oct. 17. Nich. Bond of the same Coll. This person I set down here not that he was a Writer but to distinguish him from Nich. Bownd whom I shall mention among the Incorporations an 1577. Thom. Coâ—e of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day In the latter end of the year in March 1588 he became Archdeacon of the
PULLAYNE a Yorkshire Man born was educated in New Coll. of which he was either Clerk or Chaplain or both successively and in the Year 1547. being then 3 years standing Master of Arts and thirty years of Age was admitted one of the Senior Students of Ch. Ch. and much in esteem for his Lat. and English Poetry About that time he became a frequent Preacher and a zealous Reformer but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he absconded and preached privately to the brethren in the Parish of St. Michael on Cornhill in London where I find him in 1556. Afterwards he was forced beyond the Seas to Geneva but returned when Qu. Elizab. was in the regal Throne and had the Archdeaconry of Colchester bestowed on him lately enjoyed by Dr. Hugh Weston besides other spiritualities He hath written Tract against the Arrians And translated into English verse 1 The Ecclesiastes of Salomon 2 Hist of Susanna 3 Hist of Judith 4 Hist of Hester 5 Testament of the 12. Patriarchs He went the way of all flesh year 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and five which is all I know of him only that after his death fell out a controversie among his Relations for his estate under pretence that his Children were illegitimate because he had taken to him a Wife in K. Edwards Reign The Reader is to understand that there was one John Pollayne an Oxfordshire Man born elected and admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1507. but what he hath written I know not he being altogether different from the former notwithstanding Baleus is pleased to tell us that the said former Pullayne the Writer was of Merton Coll. which is false THOMAS CHALONER Son of Reg. Chaloner by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Rich. Middleton Son of Tho. Chaloner second Son of Rice Chaloner of Denbigh in Wales was born in London educated in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge where for a time he devoted himself to the Muses as he did afterwards to Mars After he had left the University he travell'd beyond the Seas in the company of Sir Hen. Knevet Embassador from K. Hen. 8. to the Emperor Charles 5. Which Emperor T. Chaloner did afterwards serve in the expedition of Algier where being Shipwrack'd did after he had sworn till his strength and his armes failed him catch hold of a Cable with his teeth and so escaped but not without the loss of some of them In the beginning of K. Ed. 6. he received the honor of Knighthood in the camp besides Rokesborough immediatly after the battel of Musselborough wherein he had shewed great valour from Edward Duke of Somerset Lord Protector of England 27. Sept. 1547. and soon after was by him made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council In the time of Qu. Mary he mostly lived in a retir'd and studious condition but in the very beginning of Qu. Elizabeth an 1558. he went on an honorable Embassie to the Emperour Ferdinand such esteem then had the Queen for his port carriage and admirable parts and about an year after was sent ordinary Embassador to Philip K. of Spayne where he continued 4 years in which time at leisure hours he wrot his Book of a Commonwealth which I shall anon mention in elegant and learned verse whilst as he saith in his Preface to it be lived in Winter in a stove and in Summer in a barne Soon after his return from Spayne he ended his days as I shall tell you by and by having before written several things as A little Dictionary for Children De Rep. Anglorum instauranda lib. 10. Lond. 1579. qu. Which Book was by him began 25. Dec. 1562. and ended 21. Jul. 1564. De illustrium quorundam encorniis cum epigram epitaphiis nonnullis Printed with De Rep. Angl. Voyage to Algier with the Emperour an 1541. See in the first vol. of R. Hakluyts voyages He also translated from Lat. into English 1 The office of Servants Lond. 1543. oct written by Gilb. Cognatus which translation is dedicated to Sir H. Knevet before-mention'd 2 The praise of folly Lond. 1549. qu. written by Erasmus What other things he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in his house in St. Johns near London on the nones of Octob. year 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and Five and was buried with a sumptuous Funeral according to his worth in the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul within the said City of London His Son Thomas I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1615. and his Grandson Edward under 1625. JOHN HEYWOOD or Heewood a most noted Poet and jester of his time was born in the City of London and notwithstanding he is said to be Civis Londinensis yet he laid a foundation of learning in this University particularly as it seems in that ancient Hostle called Broadgates in St. Aldates Parish But the crabbedness of Logick not suiting with his airie genie he retired to his native place and became noted to all witty Men especially to Sir Tho. More with whom he was very familiar wrot several matters of Poetry and was the first as some say but I think false that wrot English plays taking opportunity thence to make notable work with the Clergy He had admirable skill also in instrumental and vocal Musick but whether he made any compositions in either I find not He was in much esteem with K. H. 8. for the mirth and quickness of his conceits and tho he had little learning in him yet he was by that King well rewarded After Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was much valued by her often had the honor to wait on and exercise his fancy before her which he did even to the time that she lay langushing on her death-bed After her decease he left the Nation for Religion sake and setled at Mechlin in Brabant which is a wonder to some who will allow no Religion in Poets that this Person should above all of his Profession be a voluntary exile for it He hath written The Play called the four PP being a new and merry enterlude of a Palmer Pardoner Poticary and Pedler Printed at London in an old Engl. character in qu. and hath in the title page the pictures of three Men there should be 4 in old fashioned habits wrought off from a wooden cut Interludes printed at London The Play Of love The Play Of weather The Play Between John the Husband and Tib the Wife Interludes Printed at Lond. Play between the Pardoner and the Fryer the Curat and neighbor Pratt Play of gentleness and nobility in two parts The Pinner of Wakefeld a Comedie Philotas Scotch a Com. I have seen also an interlude of youth Printed at Lond. in an old English Char. temp Hen. 8. but whether Jo. Heywood was the Author of it I know not He also wrot A Dialogue containing the number in effect of all the proverbs in the English tongue compact
Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns for they were all Scholars that acted among whom were Miles Windsore and Thom. Twyne of C. C. C. before the Queen came to Oxon was by them so well liked that they said it far surpassed Damâ—n and Pythias than which they thought nothing could be better Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death he would run mad But this it seems was the last for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him He also wrot Several Poems in Engl. and Latine Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit The paradise of dainty devises Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer with other Mens Poems mix'd among them Among which are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford the best for Comedy in his time who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet who hath about nine Copies in the said collection Jasp Heywood Nich. Lord Vaux Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein R. Hall R. Hill T. Marshall Tho Churchyard a Salopian Lodowyke Lloyd one Yâ—oop and several others At length this noted Poet and Comedian R. Edwards made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six or thereabouts When he was in the extremity of his sickness he composed a noted Poem called Edwards Soulknil or the Soules knell which was commended for a good piece One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs Epigrams Songs Sonnets c. which I shall hereafter mention printed at Lond. the second time 1570 hath an Epitaph on his death made by Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. and another by himself ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderliâ— in Glocestershire where his Family was gentile gave breath and Wykehams School near to Winehester education was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd upon him in 1560 but went away before he compleated it by standing in the Comitia Afterwards leaving his Relations Country and all future expectation for Religion sake settled at Lovaine in Brabant as it seems became a Student in Divinity and published Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers which lived far within six hundred years Lov. 1566. oct Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing Printed with the former book Miracles performed by the Eucharist This last with other things that he hath written as 't is said I have not yet seen An 100 years after this R. Pointz lived another of both his names and of the same Family a writer also and a Knight of the Bath whom I shall remember hereafter ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh Esq Son of Rob. Browne by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire by Joane Kirkham his second Wife Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country was born in Essex and being made soon ripe for the University was sent thereunto but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple of which after he had been some years an Inner Barrester he was elected summer-Reader 1 o Mariae but did not read till the Lent following In the 2 Year of the said Queens Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law and was the antientest of the call and soon after was made Serjeant to the King and Queen In oct 1558. 5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after and Elizabeth succeeding she remov'd him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time as it seems a Justice of the Common-pleas and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench in which dignity he dyed having but an year before his death received the honor of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeths time and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen had not too much modesty laid in the way What he did as to that was concealed and partly published under another name as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown conceiv'd by Sir Anth. Browne Justice Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England was by him answered and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned Our Author Sir Anthony wrot a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester as one reports but what the contents of it are he mentions not At length having always lived a R. Catholick he gave way to fate at his house in the Parish of South-weld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven year 1567 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the tenth of June following What Epitaph was put over his Grave I know not Sure it is that these verses were made on him several years after his death which may serve for one Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum Gentis Anglorum regia sceptra tenet Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit On the 9. Nov. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died Joan his Widow Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire and formerly the Widow of Charles Bothe Esq died and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony before-mentioned who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple made Serjeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died being about 33 Years after he was made a Serjeant WILLIAM SALESBURY a most exact Critick in British antiquities was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire spent several year in
Laurence in the Old Jewrie to which the learneder sort in the City of London would resort Afterwards also when he was L. Chanc. of England he wrot treatises against the Lutherans and when at home on Sundays he would sit in the choir in a surplice and sing service But to return as for our Author Rich. Taverner he for security sake when Qu. Mary came to the Crown did receede to his house called Norbiton hall in Surrey where he mostly continued all her Reign But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he presented to her a gratulatory Epistle in Latin by which being made more known to her than formerly she had so great respect for and confidence in him that she not only offer'd to him the Degree of Knighthood but put him into the commission of peace for the County of Oxon wherein he had several mannors that had belonged to religious houses entrusted him with a considerable share of the concerns thereof and in the 12 Year of her Reign Dom. 1569 made him High Sherriff of the said County In which office he appeared in St. Maries Pulpit with his sword by his side as 't is said and a chain of gold hanging about his neck and preached to the Scholars a Sermon there being then a great scarcity of Divines in the University beginning thus Arriving at the mount of St. Maries in the stony stage where I now stand I have brought you some five biskets baked in the oven of charity carefully conserv'd for the chickens of the Church the sparrows of the spirit and the sweet swallows of salvation c. Which way of preaching was then mostly in fashion and commended by the generality of Scholars This Rich. Taverner hath written and published The sum or pith of the 150 Psalmes of David reduced into a forme of prayers and meditations with other certaine godly orisons c. Lond. 1539. oct Recognition or correction of the Bible after the best exemplars Lond. 1539 fol. Allowed to be publickly read in Churches in the English tongue with an Epist dedic to the King whose servant Taverner then was But after the death of the Lord Cromwell the Kings Secretary an 1540 the Bishops caused the Printers of the Bible in the Engl. tongue to be imprison'd and punished and this our Author for his labours was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but he so well acquitted himself that he was shortly after released and restored to his place in Court and in the Kings favour The Epistles and Gospels with a brief postill upon the same from Advent to Low Sunday which is the Winter part drawn forth by divers learned Men for the singular commoditie of all good Christian Persons and namelie of Priests and Curats Lond 1540. qu. The Epist and Gosp with a brief postill upon the same from after Easther till Advent which is the summer part set forth c. Lond. 1540. qu. Fruite of faith containing all the prayers of the holy Fathers Patriarks Prophets Judges Kings renowned Men and Women in the Old and New Test Lond. 1582. in tw Various Poems in Latine and English Hortus sapientiae lib. 2. Sententiarum flores In Catonis disticha lib. 4. In Mimum publianum Catechismus fidei These are mention'd by Jo. Bale but I have not yet seen any of them and therefore I cannot tell you whether they are in Engl. or Lat. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Rob. Capito Grosthead his prayers on the Psalmes Lond. 1539. oct 2 Confession of the Germans exhibited to the Emperour Charles 5. in the Councell of Augusta in the Year 1530 to which is added The Apologie of Melancton of the said confession Lond. 1536 in oct Translated at the command of the Lord Cromwell Lord Privy Seal 3 Common places of Scripture orderly and after a compendious forme of teaching c. Lond. 1577. oct Written by Erasmus Sarcerius 4 An introduction to a Christian concord and unitie in matters of Religion Translated from Erasm Roterd. De sarciendâ ecclesiae concordiâ Which translation was done by our Author upon K. Hen. the eighth his coming into the Parliament house an 1545 at which time he exhorted the members thereof of which number R. Taverner our Author was one to charity unity and concord At length after he had lived beyond the age of Man and had been a zealous promoter of reformation and the Protestant Religion laid down his head in peace and willingly resign'd up his last breath at Woodeaton near to and in the County of Oxford in the mannour-house now standing there which he did build from the ground about 1544 on the 14 day of July in Fifteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church there by two Heralds or Officers of Arms about 5 days after year 1575 was buried in the Chancel with great solemnity near to the body of his first Wife Margaret Soon after the said Officers caused to be hung up on the North wall of the said Chancell an helmet standard pennon and other cognisances belonging to Esquires All which continued there several years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and then were pulled down by Mr. Joh. Nourse the Lord of that mannour to make room for a monument and banners for his Relations He the said Rich. Taverner had married two wives the first was Margaret Dau. of Walt. Lambert Esq by whom he had several Sons whose male issue is now as I conceive worn out except that of Peter his second Son of Hexton in Hertfordsh His second Wife was Mary Daughter of Sir Joh. Harcourt of the noble and antient family of the Harcourts of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire by whom having only one Daughter that survived named Penelopie she was married to my Grandfather by the Mothers side named Robert Le Petite commonly called Pettie of Wifald near to Henlie and of Cottesford near Bister in Oxfordshire Gentleman a younger Son of Joh. Pettie of Tetsworth and Stocke-Talmache near Thame in the said County Esq The next Brother in order to the said Rich. Taverner was named Roger born in Norfolk also and educated for a time in Cambridge afterwards surveyour general on this side of the river Trent of the Kings woods to Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizabeth who in the Year 1560 wrot a book De fame viz. of the means to prevent famine in this land dedicated to Qu. Elizab. who delivering it to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury he gave it afterwards with many other MSS. to Bennet Coll. Library in Cambridge where it now remains and hath had this testimony given of the writer by some of that house in the beginning of Ch. 1. that tho the Author was no professed Scholar yet he was competently learned well versed in the affairs of the Commonwealth and of the Estates of Kingdoms in Forreign parts and that the book was worthy of publication He died at Upminster in Essex where he had a fair Estate and was buried
from the riding tales of Bartello 'T is among Gascoignes Poems called Weedes And from Greek into English Jocasta a Tragedie written by Euripides This also was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted in Greys Inn 1566. In this translation the said Gascoigne had the assistance of Francis Kynwelmersh before mention'd who translated about half of it The Epilogue was written by an ingenious Gentleman of the said Inn called Christoph Yelverton afterwards an eminent Counsellour a Knight and a Judge who dying at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire 1607 left behind him several Sons of whom Henry was the eldest afterwards a Knight and a Judge also as I shall tell you elsewhere This Trag is among Gascoignes Poems called Hearbes All which poems and translations being gathered together were printed in an English character in two vol. in qu. One of which was printed at London about 1577 and the other there after the Authors death an 1587 at which time it was usher'd into the world by various copies of verses written by the Poets of that time As for the Author of them he made his last exit or yielded to nature in his middle age at his house in Walthamstow before-mention'd in Octob. or Nov. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 and was buried as I suppose in the Church there I find another George Gascoigne Esq but later in time than the former of whom I know nothing only but that he was of the Middle Temple and that he dyed about 1619. JOHN HARPESFEILD a grand zealot for the Rom. Cath. Religion was born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fishstreet within the City of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1534 took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders was made Chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London and left his Fellowship about 1551 being then beneficed in London About 1554 he being then D. of D. he was made by his Patron Archdeacon of that place in the room of Joh. Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild and it was then temp Mariae Reg. observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London shew'd himself the most severe of all Bishops against Hereticks as they were then called so our Author Harpesfeild of all Archdeacons which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of Religion In 1558 some months before Qu. Mary died he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwych upon the resignation of John Boxall but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560 to make room for John Salisbury suffragan Bishop of Thetford who had been ejected in the first year of Qu. Mary I find published under this Doctor Harpesfeilds name these things following Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli 16. Oct. 1553 in Act. cap. 20. 28. Lond. 1553. oct Homelies to be read in Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554-55 At the end of Bonners Catechisme Disputations for the degree of Doctor of Divinity 19. Apr. 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church by Joh. Fox In which disputation Archb. Cranmer bore a part Disputes talkings arguings examinations letters c. Printed also in the said book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where continuing for an year or more was released upon security given that he should not act speak or write against the doctrine of the Church of England Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his dwelling within the Parish of St. Sepulcher in the Suburb of London spent the remainder of his days in great retiredness and devotion At length paying his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 was buried as I conceive in the Church of that Parish On the 5. Dec. in the same year one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him had a Commission granted to her from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts and chattels of Joh. Harpesfeild D. D. of the Parish of St. Sepulcher in Lond. lately deceased so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nov. going before He had a brother named Nicholas whom I shall remember under the Year 1583. JOHN FOWLER was born in the City of Bristow educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation in 1555 resigned it in 1559 and the year after took the Degree of Master of Arts but did not compleat it by standing in the Comitia About that time leaving England he took upon him the trade of printing partly at Antwerp and partly at Lovaine whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholicks in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England He was well skill'd in the Greek and Latin tongues a tolerable Poet and Orator and a Theologist not to be contemn'd So learned he was also in Criticismes and other polite learning that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens Printers He did diligently peruse the Theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium To which he gave this title Loca communia Theologica c. lib. 1. He wrot also Additiones in Chronica Genebrandi A Psalter for Catholicks Answered by Tho. Sampson sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. Epigrams and other verses He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Osorius and The oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion Antw. 1566. oct answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge At length giving way to fate at Newmarck called by some Krainburg in Germany 13. Febr. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the Ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist there near to the body of John Harrys sometimes Father to Alice his Wife GEORGE FERRERS seems to have been born at or near to St. Alban in Hertfordshire was educated for a time in Oxon. whence going to Lincolns Inn did after he was Barrester became as eminent for the Law as before he was for his Poetry having been as much celebrated for it by the learned of his time as any This Person tho he hath not writ much as I can yet find yet he is numbred among the the illustrious and learned Men of the Age he lived in by Joh. Leland the Antiquary He hath written Miscellany of Poems And translated from French into Latin The Statutes called Magna Charta The beginning of which is Hic habes candide lector leges c. He ended his days at Flamsted in Hertfordshire in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was as I conceive buried there You may see more of him his character and employments in the Author before quoted In the Year 1542 I find
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
born at Bolingdon in the same County educated as it seems in New Inn where applying his studies to the Civil Law was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions an 1524. at which time the said Inn was replenished and did excellently flourish with Civilians After he had left the University he became supreme Moderator of the Free-school within the cemitery gate at Canterbury and in 1553 Mayor of that City At length growing rich for his School was very much frequented by the youth of the neighbourhood many of which went afterwards to the Universities he purchased Lands at Preston and Hardacre in Kent which he left to his posterity He was a Person well read in Greek and Lat. Authors in the histories and antiquities of our Nation and much valued for his abilities in other matters by the learned Men of his age particularly by his acquaintance Joh. Leland who numbers him among the illustrious worthies of his time He hath written De rebus Albionicis Britannicis atque Anglicis commentariorum libri duo Lond. 1590. in oct written to his Son Thomas who afterwards with an Epistle made it publick Our Author John Twyne hath also written and collected divers things of antiquities which are dispersed in several hands and some of them descending to his Grandson Brian Twyne he gave them at his death to the Library of C. C. Coll. At length our Author arriving to a good old age year 1581 gave way to fate 24. Novemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one and received sepulture in the Chancel of the Church of St. Paul withing the City of Canterbury Over his grave is an inscription wherein he is stiled Armiger and said to have been Mayor of Canterbury in the time of Wyatts rebellion in the beginning of Qu. Mary This Epitaph being written in verse I shall now omit and commend you to that just Encomium of him given by Leland before mentioned By Alice his Wife who died 20. Oct. 1567. aged 60 and in the 43 year of her Wedlock Daughter of Will. Piper of Canterbury he had issue divers Sons The first was Laurence Twyne who was Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and Bach. of the Civil Law an ingenious Poet of his time as several copies of verses set before books written in commendation of their respective Anthors do sufficiently attest He was a married Man lived at Hardacre in Kent and left issue behind him at his death several Children The second was Tho. Twyne before-mention'd whom I shall mention under the Year 1613. The third was John Twyne whose ingenuity also is scatter'd in several copies of verses before books in the time of Qu. Elizabeth and the fourth was Nicholas of whom I know nothing RICHARD COXE was born as 't is said at Whaddon in Bucks elected from Eaton School Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in 1519 where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon for preferment was made one of the junior Canons of the Cardinal Coll. and in Decemb. 1525 was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same Degree About that time he supplicated that he might answer at the Austin Fryery now called Disputations in Austins and answer the Masters in formal disputations which was granted conditionally that he also oppose at the said Fryery This exercise being by him performed in order to the taking of his Masters Degree he was licensed to proceed in Arts 8. Feb. following and accordingly did proceed in an Act celebrated 2. July 1526. Soon after being notoriously known to be a follower and abettor of the opinions of Luther he was forced to leave Oxon and some years after became Master of Eaton School near to Windsore where by his diligent instruction the boys profited much About the Year 1537 he proceeded D. of D. at Cambridge became Archdeacon of Ely in the room as it seems of Tho. Thirlby promoted to the See of Westminster and afterwards was incorporated at Oxon in the Degree of Doctor In 1543. Jan. 8. he was made Dean of the new erected Cathedral of Osney near Oxon and in 1546 when that See was translated to Ch. Ch. he was also made Dean there In 1547 he was chosen Chancellour of the University of Oxford being in great favour with the then K. Ed. 6. By which election it fell out that as the Oxonians enjoyed one that had been partly educated in Cambridge so it was with the Cantabrigians in former time by their election of John Bromyerd an Oxonian and an eminent writer in the Reign of Rich. 2. and since by their election of Dr. Thomas Ruthal in the Reign of Hen. 7. But what mad work this Dr. Coxe did in Oxon while he sate Chancellour by being the chief Man that worked a reformation I have elsewhere told you In 1548. July 16. he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thomas Magnus who resigned that dignity in 1547 and about that time was made one of the Privy Council Almoner to the King and Dean of Westminster But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he among others fled to Frankfort in Germany where he shewed himself among the English Exiles a zealous Man for the Common Prayer as used in the days of K. Ed. 6. against Joh. Knox a Scot and a violent Calvinist When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded in the Empire he was appointed the chief of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Rom. perswasion in a disputation when that Queen was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England But that disputation coming to nothing he was made Bishop of Ely to which See he was consecrated 21. Dec. 1559 yet whether it was for his retiredness or small hospitality or the spoil he was said to make of his woods and parks feeding his Family with powdered venison he was but in little favour with the said Queen At Cambridge he was esteemed a good Scholar and a better Poet than Dr. Wal. Haddon who call'd him Master as having been either his Scholar or Servant There goes under this Dr. Coxe's names Oration at the beginning of the disputation of Dr. Tresham and others with Pet. Martyr Oration at the conclusion of the disputation These two orations which are in latine were printed 1549. in qu. and afterwards among Pet. Martyrs works Dr. Coxe also had a considerable hand in framing the first Liturgy of the Church of England and a hand in the third an 1559 and also turned into metre the Lords Prayer at the end of the Psalmes of David besides other works not yet remembred by publick Authors He yielded up his last breath 22. Jul. year 1581 in Fifteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the Cath. Church of Ely near to the monument of Bishop Goodrich I find another Rich. Coxe who was living and a writer in the tâ—me of the former but that Rich. Coxe which Joh. Leland the Antiquary and Poet doth so much celebrate for his faith and integrity in
character given of him by one the knew him in Ireland I shall here insert for a conclusion of those things I have said of him which is this He was stately without disdain familiar without contempt very continent and chast of body no more than enough liberal learned and a great lover of learning perfect in blazoning of Arms skilful of Antiquities of wit fresh and lively in consultations very temperate in utterance happy which his experience and wisdom hath made artificial a preferrer of many a Father to his Servants and both in war and peace of commendable courage WILLIAM GOOD was born in the ancient Town of Glastenbury in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. Feb. 1545 afterwards Fellow Master of Arts 1552 and about that time Humanity reader in the said College After Queen Mary came to the Crown being then a most zealous R. Catholick he was promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice in his own Country called Middle Chinnoke and to a little Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Comba octava in Nov. 1556 besides the rectory of a School in the said City All which he keeping till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and for some time after he voluntarily left them and his native Country for Religion sake and retiring to Tourney in Flanders entred himself there into the Society of Jesus in 1562 aged 35. After he had served his probationship he went into Ireland with Father David the titular Archbishop of Armagh who left no stone unremoved there for the settling of that Kingdom in the Catholick faith and obedience Four years being spent in that Country not without some danger he went to Lovaine where he met with Rob. Persons about to enter into the said Society whom he strengthned with many arguments in order thereunto In 1577 he was called to Rome to take upon him the profession of the four vows which being done he went into Sweeden and Poland in the company of Anth. Possevin to settle certain affairs relating to the society Two years after he returned to Rome and became Confessor to the English Coll. there newly converted from an Hospital dedicated to the Holy Trinity to a Seminary for the educating the youth of England that profess the R. Cath. Religion Vir fuit probatae virtutis doctrinae as one of his society saith atque imprimis in historiis Sanctorum Angliae optimè versatus quorum res gestas in templo collegii Anglicani curavit coloribus exprimi quae subinde in aes incisae prodierunt tacito ipsius inscriptae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea Robnae 1584. fol. In the Library also of the English Coll. at Rome there is extant a Manuscript digested according to the years of Christ and Kings of Britaine containing the Acts of the Saints of Britain Which book is said there among those of England to have been composed and written by our Author Good who dying at Naples 5. July according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 was buried in the College of the Jesuits there who have yet a great respect for his name One or more of whom have promised me a copy of his Epitaph if there be any but no answer have I yet received PHILIP SIDNEY the short-liv'd Ornament of his noble Family and the Marcellus of the English Nation hath deserv'd and without dispute or envy enjoyed the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding Ages The Poets of his time especially Spencer reveren'd him not only as a Patron but a Master and he was almost the only Person in any age I will not except Mecaenas that could teach the best rules of Poetry and most freely reward the performances of Poets He was a Man of a sweet nature of excellent behaviour of much and withall of well digested learning so that rarely wit courage breeding and other additional accomplishments of conversation have met in so high a degree in any single Person It is to be wish'd that his life might be written by some judicious hand and that the imperfect essay of Sir Fulk Grevill L Brook might be supply'd In the mean time I am forc'd to consider him only as an Author and to give him these short notes of his life and education He was Son of Sir Hen. Sidney before-mention'd by the Lady Mary his Wife eldest Daughter of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland was born as 't is supposed at Penshurst in Kent 29. Nov. 1554 and had his Christian name given to him by his Father from K Philip then lately married to Qu. Mary While he was very young he was sent to Christ Ch. to be improved in all sorts of learning and was contemporary there with Rich. Carew Author of The Survey of Cornwall where continuing till he was about 17 years of age under the tuition of Dr. Tho. Thornton Canon of that house he was in June 1572 sent to travel for on the 24 Aug. following when the Massacre fell out at Paris he was then there and at that time as I conceive he with other English Men did fly to the house of Francis Walsingham Embassadour there from the Queen of England Thence he went through Loraine and by Strasburgh and Heydelburg to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following as his said life written by Sir Fulk Grevill his companion and friend attesteth But what is added there that Hubert Languet accompanied him in the whole course of his 3 years travels is a great mistake as will appear by Languets Epistles to our Author Philip Sidney printed more than once For so it was that in the next spring in May 1573 Larguet removed to Vienna where our Author met him again and stayed with him till September when he went into Hungary and those parts Thence he journied into Italy where he continued all the Winter following and most of the Summer an 1574 and then he returned into Germany with Languet and next spring he returned by Frankfort Heydelberg and Antwerp home into England about May 1575. The like mistakes are in the said life concerning Languets coming into England in Februar 1578 at which time 't is said he was about 66 years of age whereas he was but 61 that also he and Sidney parted at Sea which could not be for Duke John Caâ—â—mire with whom he came went away so suddenly that Languet could not take leave of him In the Year 1576 he was sent by the Queen to Rodolph the Emperour to condole the death of Maximilian and also to other Princes of Germany at which time he caused this inscription to be written under his Arms which he then hung up in all places where he lodged Illustriss generosiss virs Philippi Sidneii Angli Proregis Hiberniae filii Comitum Warwici Leycestriae nepotis sereniss Reginae Angliae ad Caesarem Legati The next year in his return he saw that gallant Prince Don John de Austria Vice Roy
Clemency could not be drawn into a Persuasion that in case of Religion Men should be burnt hang'd or quartered And therefore it was that one reporteth that he always was in animo Catholicus and another that he was of such credit and favour in Rome as if he was the greatest Papist in England He wrote as it is said several things pertaining to the Law but none of them are extant only this if I may say it is his and not his Name set to it for sale sake A Treatise concerning Statutes or Acts of Parliament and the Exposition thereof Lond. 1677. oct Whether ever before printed I know not Speeches spoken during the time of his Chancelorship MS. This great and worthy Person dyed on the 20th of November in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 51. and was buried in the upper part of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on the 16th of December following Soon after came out a little Book of Verses made on his Death by several Hands intit Musarum plangores Christopher Lord Hatton Son of John Hatton the nearest Knsman of the Male Line to the aforesaid Sir Christopher was not of St. Mary's Hall but of Jesus College in Cambridge and afterwards a Doctor of the Civil Law of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you He published the Psalms of David with Titles and Collects according to the matter of each Psalm Printed at Oxon 1644. in oct and afterwards enlarged and published several times These Collects or Prayers at the end of every Psalm were compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor and so were the Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian People which are at the end of every impression of the aforesaid Book yet notwithstanding they go all under the Name of the aforesaid Christop L. Hatton having his Arms in the Title of them who dying 4 July 1670. being then or lately a Member of the Privy Council to his Majesty was buried in a private Chappel of the Collegiate Church at Westminster dedicated to St. Peter opposite to the Capella Regum on the North side See more in Jer. Taylor under the year 1667. BARTHELMEW CHAMBERLAINE was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family in Oxfordshire admitted Scholar of Trinity Col. 7. June 1563. aged 17 years Probationer in 67 and Fellow the year after About that time entring into Holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts took both the Degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated 579. before which time he was beneficed and dignified in the Church but where I cannot justly say He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Passion of Christ and benefits thereby on Heb. 9. 28. Lond. 1581. and 1613. oct 2 Concio ad Academicos Oxomienses in Comitiis An. 1576. Lond. 1584. qu. 3 Sermon at Pauls on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1589. oct 4 Sermon at Farington in Berks on Lond. 1571. oct with others which I have not yet seen Between the time of the first coming of the said Barth Chamberlain to Trinity College to the year 1578. I find seven of his Sirname to be Students in the said College and some after but cannot in all my searches find out George Chamberlaine who was afterwards Bishop of Ypre and whether he ever abode in this University in the condition of a Student I cannot justly say it The said George Chamberlaine was the eldest Son of George Chamberlaine Esque by his Wife the Daughter of Moses Pring of Gaunt in Flanders and he the second Son of Sir Leonard Chamberlaine of Oxfordshire Knight Governor of the Isle of Guernsey who dyed there 2. Eliz. From which Sir Leonard are the Chamberlains of Sherburn in the said County desended the Heiress general of which Family named Elizabeth was married to John Nevile Baron of Abergavenny The said George Chamberlatine who was Bishop of Ypre was born at Gaunt before-mentioned An. 1576. and being bred up ro Learning and Religion became successively Canon Archdeacon and Dean of St. Bavon in Gaunt and at length in 1626. was made Bishop of Ypre within the Province of Machlin in Brabant on the Death of Antonius de Hennin where being settled he became much admired as he was partly before for his great Piety for his voluble Preaching in five Languages at least and beloved of Kings and Princes c. Had I time and room allowed I would give you a Copy of an Epitaph made on by one that knew and much admired him wherein no doubt but that high character of his Piety Learning and Worth is justly said but I must hasten and tell you that he dying to the reluctancy of all that knew him on the 19. Dec. according to the account followed at Ypre in 1634. aged 58 years one month and 19 days was buried in his own Cathedral Some years before his Death he came into England purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn before-mentioned and elsewhere which belonged to the noble Family of the Chamberlains sometimes Barons of Tanquervil in Normandy he being the first and true Heir And this he did for Religion sake and purposely to avoid the incumbrances of earthly things See more of him in Athenae Belgicae c. written by Franc. Sweertius printed at Antwerp 1628. where you will find several things that he had written and published ROBERT GWINN a Welsh Man born took one degree in Arts 1568. and in 1571. leaving the University went with Thom. Crowther another Batchelaur to Doway where being admitted into the English College made very great progress in Divinity Afterwards Gwinn returning into England and settling in Wales in the condition of a Secular Priest did write several Pious Works in the Welsh Tongue as Anton. Possivinus tells us but the Titles of them he omits and also translated from the English into the Welsh Language A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding Men to Eternal Salvation commonly called the Resolution Written by Rob. Persons the Jesuit which Translation was much used and valued and so consequently did a great deal of good among the Welsh People See more in Jo. Davies under the year 1634. WALTER BALEY or Bailey Son of Henry Baley of Warnwell in Dorsetshire was born at Portsham in that County educated in Wykchams School 〈◊〉 Win chester admitted perpetual fellow of New Colledge after he had served two years of probation an 1550 tok the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line was admitied to practice that faculty while he was Proctor of the University in the year 1558 and about that time was made Prebendary of Dultingcote alias Dulcot c. in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in 1579. In 1561 he was made the Queens Professor of Physick in this University proceeded in that faculty two years after and at length became Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much resorted to for his practice He hath written A discourse of three kinds of Pepper in
carrere dignus Culleolo insutus si te mea musa sileret c. As for his Writings they were many but none of them only one were published till after his Death some of which are these Elenchus Annalium Regum Edwardi 5. Rich. 3. Hen. 7. 8. Lond. 1579. and 1597. in tw Dedicated to Sir Tho. Bronley Lord Chancelor of England This is called among the Lawyers Table to the Annals or Year-Book of Edw. 5. Rich. 3. c. The office of a Justice of Peace Together with instructions how and in what manner Statutes shall be expounded Lond. 1658. Oct. Observations upon the Eyte of Pickering Lambert's Areheion c. MS. Fol. sometimes in the Library of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter with other things which I have not yet seen This eminent Lawyer did mostly dwell in London in a street called Noble-street within Aldersgate-ward in an house which himself newly built wherein he dyed but was buried as I suppose in the Church at Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire where he had purchased an estate in the latter end of fifteen hundred nienty and three for on the 7th of March that year was a commission granted from the Prorogative Court of Canterbury to Mariana his Widdow daughter of Joh. Barley of Kingsey in the said county to administer the goods debts and chattels of her Husband Will. Fleetwood lately deceased He left behind him two Sons whereof Sir Will. Fleetwood Knight was one who succeeded him in the Estate at Missenden and the other was Sir Thomas of the Middle-Temple afterwards Attorney to Prince Henry He had also divers Daughters one whereof was married to Sir David Foulis Knight and Baronet and another to Sir Tho. Chaloner Tutor to the said Prince Son of the learned Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight JOHN WOOLTON was born at a Market Town in Lancashire called Wigan or Wiggen entred a Student in Brasnose Col. 26. Oct. 1553. aged 18 or thereabouts having perhaps wore a Gown in the University before that time supplicated for the Degree of Bach of Arts in the beginning of 1555. but it doth not appear that he was admitted Afterwards as it is said he went to or with his Uncle Alex. Nowel into Germany to which place several Protestants of England had receeded as voluntary Exiles In the beginning of Q. Eliz. he returned and in 1563. being about that time Canon Residentiary of Exeter he was admitted by the Name of John Wolton Bach. of Arts to the Church of Spaxton in the Diocess of Wells In April 1574. he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether his desire was granted or he admitted it appears not In May 1575. being then Warden of Manchester College in his own Country he supplicated under the Name of John Wolton a Minister of Gods Word and sometimes a Student of this Vniversity that he might be licensed to proceed in Divinity but whether that also was granted it doth not appear Sure it is that he being then the designed Bishop of Exeter was consecrated thereunto in the beginning of August following He was a Person of great Piety and Reason and an earnest assertor of conformity against the Opposers thereof for which he was blamed by many but commended by more after his Death He hath written The armour of proof shewing the firm sortress of defence and haven of rest in these troublesome times Lond. 1576. oct Of the immortality of the Sou wherein is declared the Origin Nature and Power of the same c. Christian Manual Or the Life and Manners of true Christians wherein is declared how needful it is for the Children of God to manifest their Faith by their Works Castle for Christians and Fortress for the Faithful besieged and defended now almost 6000 years New Anatomy of the whole Man as well of his Body as of his Soul declaring the condition and constitution of the same in his first creation corruption regeneration and glorifiration Discourse of the conscience wherein is declared the unspeakable joys and comfort of a good conscience and the grief of an evil conscience All which six Treatises were printed at London in oct An. 1576. At length he having sate Bishop about 14 years with great commendations dyed on the 13th of March in fifteen hundred ninety and three and was buried in his Cathedral Church at Exeter on the South side of the Presbytery or Choire leaving then a Son behind him named John Fellow of Allsouls college Master of Arts and a Graduat in Physick Over his Grave was a Monument soon after erected with an inscription thereon containing six Verses two of which run thus Ingenium genium mores pietatis honore Eloquiumque pium busta perusta tegent THOMAS WATSON a Londoner born did spend some time in this University not in Logick and Philosophy as he ought to have done but in the smooth and pleasant studies of Poetry and Romance whereby he obtained an honourable Name among the Students in those Faculties Afterwards retiring to the Metropolis studied the Common Law at riper years and for a diversion wrote Ecloga in obitum D. Francisci Walsingham Eq. aur Lond. 1590. in two sheets in qu. Amintae Gaudia Lond. 1592. qu. Written in Lat. Hexamiter and dedicated to the incomparable Mary Countess of Pembroke who was a Patroness of his Studies He hath written other things of that Nature or Strain and something pertaining to Pastoral which I have not yet seen and was highly valued among ingenious Men in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth I shall make mention of another Tho. Watson who in his younger years was a Poet also in the Fasti following among the Incorporations of the year 1554. HENRY SMITH Son of Erasmus Smith of Bosworth Son of Joh. Smith alias Harrys of Withcock in Leicestershire was matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Col. in 1575. thus Henricus Smithe Leicestrensis generosus Aetat 15. What stay he made in the same House or whether he was the same Heâ— Smyth who received the Benefaction of Jo. Claymond in Bras Col. An. 1574. or took the Degre of Batchelaur of Arts it appears not Sure it is that having some Ecclesiastical employment conferred upon him was absent from the University for some time and at length in 1583. did take the Degree of Master of Arts as a Member of Hart Hall being then esteemed the Miracle and Wonder of his Age for his prodigious Memory and for his fluent eloquent and practical way of Preaching Afterwards he became Lecturer of St. Clements Danes without Temple-Bar near London where being much frequented by the Puritanical Party was by them esteemed as he was by the generality the prime Preacher of the Nation which his Sermons taken into the Hands of all People did shew Some of them were printed in 1591 92 and 93 while he lived but after his Death 40 or more were collected into one Volume
Book was written after Mart. Marprelate had writ his Libel which some playing with Martin at his won weapon answered pleasantly both in Rhime and Prose But this our Author the Bishop with Authority and Gravity confuted him soundly in this Book whereupon Martin replyed in a Book enit Ha'y any Work for a Cooper c. At length this reverend and holy Bishop paying his last Debt to Nature at Winchester year 1594 29. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried on the South side of the Choire a little above the Bishop's Seat belonging to the Cathedral there Over his Grave was soon after laid a flat Marble with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a Copy of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. a. He left behind him a Widow named Amey and two Daughters one of which named Elizabeth was the Wife of Dâ—â— Joh. Belly sometimes Provost of Oriel Col. afterward Chanclour of the Dicocess of Lincoln the other was Mary the Wife of John Gouldwell Gent. WILLIAM RAINOLDS second Son of Rich. Râ—â—â—â—ids a sufficient Farmer third Son of Rich. Rainolds was born at Pynhoc alias Pynhawes the Seat of his Ancestors near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in School learning in Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester elected Probationer of New Coll. in 1560. and two years after was admitted perpetual Fellow In that House where then was a severe Discipline kept up he became a most noted Philosopher a quick Disputant and one much noted for his sincere love to the Protestant Cause In 1566. he proceeded Master of Arts and about that time he took Holy Orders In 1572. he left his Fellowship and retiring to Hart Hall lived there in the quality of a Câ—â—moner All which time he was earnest for Reformation while John his Brother of C. C. Coll. stood affected to the Roman Catholick Religion as it is said This difference in judgment proved a firebal of Câ—ntention between and engaged them in a strong Duel and set Disputes whereupon both being strengthned by each 〈◊〉 Arguments our Author Willaim turned a zealous Catholick and John a strong Puritan Whereupon Dr. Will. Alabaster a learned Divine and an excellent Poet made an Epigram on them a copy of which you may see elsewhere This is the reason commonly received among Protestants for each others conversion but false for the dispute was if you will believe one that then lived between John and Edmund Rainolds of C. C. Câ—ll as I have told you elsewhere So that now there being no pretence left for William's conversion by disputing with his Brother John you may take this reason following different from the other if your charity will permit you to believe a R. Catholick Author as he had received it from the mouth or Pen of Will. Rainolds which is this Mr. William Rainolds being first an earnest Professor and Preacher of the Protestant Religion in England and much engaged among the Puritans in Northamptonshire as he was wont to tell he fell in the end to read over Mr. Jewel ' s Book and did translate some part thereof into Latin but before he had passed half over he found such stuff as made him greatly mistake of the whole Religion and so he leaving his hopes and commodities in England went over the Sea and the last year of Jubilee to wit 1575. he came to Rome and brought that Book with him and presented both himself and it to the Tribunal of the Inquitsition of his own free motion and accord where I guess the Book remaineth still if it be not burned and himself after absolution received for his former Errors which he with great humility and zeal required and my self also at that time spake with him in that place he returned into France and Flanders and there lived many years with singular edification for his rare Vertue and Learning c. Thus a zealous Romanist whom I have here quoted in the Margin Afterwards our Author Will. Rainolds went to Rheimes in France where being kindly received by Dr. Will. Allen President of the English College there was shortly after made Professor or Reader of Divinity and of the Hebrew Tongue Afterwards he went to Antwerp where he wrote mostly under the Name of Will. Rosseus these things following Resutation of Mr. W. Whittaker's Civils against the Annotations of the New Testament Par. 1583. oct De justa republicae Christiane in reges impios haereticos Authoritate Antw. 1592. oct c. Catholick Faith concerning Christ's last Supper against Berengarius and Bruce Antw. 1593. oct This Bruce was the same as it seems with Rob. Bruce a Scotch Minister Paraphrase on the New Testament MS. in the English coll of Benedictines at Deiulward in Loraine Calvino-Turcismus i. e. Calvinisticae perfidiae cum Mahumetanâ collatio dilucida utriusque sectae confutatio Antw. 1597. Col. Agr. 1603. oct in four Books Which Books being left imperfect were corrected finished and published out of his Notes by his dear Friend Will. Gifford Dean of St. Peter's Church at L'isle This Book endeavours to prove that Calvin's Religion is worse in condition and less probable in reason than that of the Turks and hath less ground and substance therein than the other The copies of which stealing over the Sea into England were answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a Book bearing this Title De Turco-Papismo Hoc est de Turcorum Papistarum adversus Christi Ecclesiam fidem conjuratione eorumque in Religione moribus concensione similitudine Lond. 1598 99. qu. ibid. 1604 in oct To which Book are added 4 more against the said Calvino-Turcismus In the Preface to the first that came forth the Author saith that Will. Rainolds his going over to the Church of Rome was because he was not compos mentis as being somewhat distracted for the love of the Wife of one M. a famous Women of Oxon c. The said Rainolds also translated from English into Latin all the Works of Tho. Harding with a large Preface to them as I have elsewhere told you but for want of Money they could not be Printed Also Dr. Will. Allen's Book entit A true sincere and modest defence of English Catholicks c. which Book W. Rainolds did also much increase And what else he hath written Pitscus will tell you who adds that he deceasing at Antwerp in Flanders year 1594 in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Chancel of the Church of the Bigwins there on the South side of the Altar Soon after was a stone laid over his Grave with this inscription thereon Honorabili Domino D. Gulielmo Reginaldo alias Ressaeo pio exuli Auglo viro doctissimo hujus Ecclesiae Ministro Obiit 24. Aug. 1594 c. Tâ—â—w Rainolds had five Brothers the eldest of which was named Hierom Fellow of C. C. College and Master of Arts in 1557. who continuing in
none of Christ or a discourse of the propagation of the Gospel of Christ Jesus Lond. 1652. qu. c. But of what University the said Williams was if of any I know not or whether a real Phanatick or Jesuit HENRY UNTON was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Wadley near Faringdon in Berkshire educated in Oriel coll under Mr. Rich. Pygot one of that Society left it without a degree and travelled After his return being esteemed a Person well qualified had some Employment under Sir Christopher Hatton L. Chancelour who quickly finding him to be a man of business and experience commended him to the Queen who in 1586. not only conferred on him the Honour of Knighthood but sent him afterwards twice in the quality of an Embassador to the King of France where he behaved himself right stoutly in behalf of his Mistress particularly for some injury done to her by the Duke of Guise an 1592. This person who was actually created M. of A. of this University before he went into France hath written An account of his Embassy or a Diary containing his Commission Instructions Expences and Transactions as also Letters from or to him from July 13. an 1591. to June 12. an 1592. MS. in bib Bod. He also made a Diary for his last Embassy which continued to the time of his Death but that I have not yet seen He gave way to Fate in the King of France's Camp lying before Lafere on the 23. March in fifteen hundred ninety and five whereupon his Body being conveyed into England was buried on the 8. July following in a Chappel joyning to the North side of the Church of Faringdon before-mentioned Soon after was a noble Monument set over his grave with this inscription containing certain matters relating to him which I have not yet mentioned Virtuti honori Sacrum Henrico Vntono Eq. Aurate Edovardi Vntoni Eq. Aur. filio ex Annâ Comitissâ Warwici filiâ Edovardi de Sancto Mauro Ducis Sommersetti Angliae Protectoris qui optimarum artium studiis a primâ aetate in Academiâ Oxon institutus magnam orbis Christiani partem perlustravit ob virtutem bellicam in Zutphaniae obsidione dignitate equestri donatus propter singularem prudentiam spectatum sidem multiplicem rerum usum iterum Legatus à Sereniss Angliae Reginâ ad Christianiss Regem missus in Galliam è quâ ad celestem patriam migravit 23. Mart. an 1596. c. The Muses of Oxon had so great a respect for the memory of this most worthy Person that a book of Verses on his death came out soon after under their name intit Funebria nobiliss ac praestomtiss Eq. D. Henrici Vntoni ad Gallos bis legati regii c. à Musis Oxon apparata WILLIAM MIDDLETON the third Son of Rich. Middleton of Denbigh by Jane his Wife Daughter of Hugh Dryhurst of the same place fourth Son of Foulk Middleton of Denbigh before-mentioned the third Son of Dav. Middleton of Gwenock Recordator of North-Wales was born in Denbighshire and educated for a time among the Oxonians but whether in Jesus coll at its first foundation as probably it might be so or whether he took more than one degree I know not Afterwards he travelled into various parts of the World exercised himself in fears of Arms became the most noted Bard of his Country and tho a Souldier and a Captain by profession having had the command of a Ship for several years yet all the time he got was bestowed in exercising his Poetical fancy The Works of him that I have seen are these Bardoniaeth or the Art of Welsh poetry Lond. 1593. qu. in 3 sh and half This book which is written in Welsh he stiles the first book or part as if there was a second to be published He also translated into the Welsh tongue the Psalms of David running in excellent Meter Which noble work he performed apud seâ—tum insulam occidentalium Indorum and finished it there 24. Jan. in fifteen hundred ninety and five This translation coming into the hands of his Country-man Tho. Salisbury was with the help of his Friend Tho. Middleton Citizen of London and kinsman to the author published at Lond. 1603. qu. Before which time the author as it seems was dead In my searches I find another Will. Middleton Bach. of Divinity and Minister of Hardwick in Cambridgshire author of Papisto mastix or the Protestants Religion defended c. Lond. 1606. qu. and of other things but what relation there was between the former and this who seems to have been educated in Cambridge I know not JOHN SMYTHE or Smith Son of Sir Clem. Smythe of Little Badew in Essex by Dorothy his Wife Sister to Edw. Seymour Duke of Somerset whose Sister Jane Seymour was the third Wife of K. Hen. 8. was born as it seems in Essex and laid the foundation of Literature in Oxon but in what house 't is difficult to find because both his Names are very common Afterwards being martially inclined he travelled into various countries exercised himself in feats of arms and became as well a compleat Souldier as Gentleman At length he was made a Knight by Qu. Elizabeth and by her sent Embassador into Spain in 1576 as being a person of a Spanish port and demeanour and well known to the Spaniard who held him as their King did in high value and especially for this reason that he was first cousin to K. Ed. 6. His works are Discourse concerning the forms and effect of divers Weapons and other very important Matters Military greatly mistaken by divers of our men of War in their days and chiefly of the Musquet Calyver and Long-bow c. Lond. 1589. and 1590. qu. Certaine Instructions Observations and Orders Military requisite for all Chieftains Captains higher and lower Officers Composed 1591. Lond. 1594. 95. qu. Instructions for Enrolling and Mustering Printed with Certain Instructions c. What other books of his are published I cannot yet find nor exactly when he died only that he was living and in great esteem among Souldiers and learned men in fifteen hundred ninety and five Besides this was another Sir Joh. Smyth equal in time with him eldest Son of Tho. Smyth of Ostinhanger in Kent Esq and brother to Sir Thomas of Bidborough in the same County whom I shall mention elsewhere Which Sir John dying in the beginning of 1609. was buried in Ashford Church in the said County leaving Issue as it seems Tho. Smyth of Ostenhanger afterwards Knight of the Bath and Viscount Stranford in Ireland who dying 30. June 1635. was buried in his Chappel joyning to the said Church of Ashford But this Sir John was no writer nor of the same Family because he was descended from the Smyths of Corshan in Wiltshire whereas Sir John who was the Writer and Souldier was Grandson to Tho. Smyth of Ravinhall in Essex and he a Discendant from John Carrington who fled for a time from
time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine He was a Person of a strict life and conversation as those of his Perswasion say of great gravity of severity and a lover of vertue and vertuous men He hath written A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks Lov. in oct and other things as I have been told but such I have not yet seen which if printed few or no copies come into England He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman on the 9. year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there near to the horn of the Gospel leaving then behind him this character that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON a most excellent Latin Poet Philosopher and Physician of his time was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. 2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar. left it after he was M. of Arts and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School in the place of Tho. Hyde where by his industry and admirable way of teaching were many good Scholars sent to the Universities All the time that he could get at vacant hours he spent upon his beloved study of Physick which he practiced in the City of Winchester but not to the neglect of his School At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty did shortly after resign his School and repairing to London practiced with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West where being accounted eminent was admitted as it seems a Member of the Coll. of Physicians He hath written and published Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi Written in 140 long and short Verses 14. Dec. 1564. Printed 1 on the broadside of a sheet of Paper with Wykehams Arms encompassed with the Garter before them 2 At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius Lond. 1573. And 3 in a Book intit A brief view of the State of the Church of England as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 37 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight an 1608. and made publick by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son then no Friend to the Church of England Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton Series Written in Verse also and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus In Verse also at the end of the said Poems Counsel against the Plague or any other infectious Disease Lond. 1577. oct Question Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no Printed with the Counsel c. Ranarum murium pugna Latino versu donata ex Homero Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh in qu. with other things as it is probable but such I have not yet seen See more of him in Rich. White under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there as it seems situated and being in Fleetstreet He dyed wealthy left several Sons and Daughters behind him and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law a Student in Physick his Executor who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books and succeeded him in his Practice JASPER HEYWOOD a quaint Poet in his younger days Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigramatist of his time was born in London sent to the University at about 12 years of age an 1547. educated in Grammar as well as in Logic there took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll where remaining about 5 years in all which time he bare away the Bell in disputations at home and in the publick Schools did upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanors for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild to the great grief of their Father resign his Fellowship to prevent expulsion on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master and in Nov. ensuing he was elected Fellow of All 's coll where abiding for a little while left the University and soon after England and entred himself into the Society of Jesus But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following Various Poems and Devises Some of which are Printed in a Book intit The Paradise of dainty Devises Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer an 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse 1 Thiestes the second Tragedy of Seneca Lond. 1560. oct Published again with other Tragedies of that author by Thom. Newton Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him in an 1607. 2 Hercules furens another Trag. of Seneca And 3 Troas a third published also by the said Newton 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion and in 1562. being then at Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus 21. May in the then professed house of the Jesuits there After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them he was sent to Diling in Switzerland where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Hereticks in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity and of the four Vows At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him with others the same year into the mission of England and the rather because the Brethren there told his Holiness That the Harvest was great and the Labourers few Being setled then in the Metropolis of his own Country and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England it was noted by all that knew him That he kept many Men Horses and Coaches that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priest-like c. At length going into France about publick matters relating to the Order was when ready to land in Normandy drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore where being taken and examined was with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship and set on shore in France in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity he made a copy of verses mentioned by a noted Poet of his time concluding with these two Thanks to that Lord that will me good For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the City of Dole where he was troubled much with Witches thence to Rome and at length fixed in the City of Naples where as at Rome he became familiarly
Commentarii in quaedam S. Scripturae loca Vita Edm. Campiani This I have not yet seen Vit. Martyrium Mariae Reg. Scotiae Orationes Septendecem Tractatus Septem Epistolarum centuriae duae Oratio Epistola de vitae morte D. Martini à Schamberg Episcopi Eustad Ingol 1590. Funebris oratio in Principem Estensem Antw. 1598. with other things as one who knew him well tells you who adds that he dyed at Gratz in Istria 28. Nov. in fifteen hundred ninety and nine year 1599 and was buried there I find one Rob. Turner who among several things wrote A description of the little World or Body of Man which being printed in oct an 1654. must not be taken as written by the former Robert because there is 54 years distance between them JOHN CASE more esteemed beyond than within the Seas was born at a Market-Town in Oxfordshire called Woodstock educated there in the English but in the Latin Tongue partly in New college School and partly in that at Ch. Church of both which places he was successively a Choirister In 1564. he was elected Scholar of St. Johns coll and was afterwards Fellow Master of Arts and the most noted Disputant and Philosopher that ever before set foot in that college But so it was that being Popishly affected he left his Fellowship and married and with leave from the Chancellour and Scholars of the University he read Logic and Philosophy to young men mostly of the R. C. Religion in a private house in St. Mary Magd. Parish particularly in his latter days in that large tenement situated on the North side of the Inn called the George wherein having had disputations declamations and other exercises as in colleges and halls many eminent men issued thence He wrote several Treatises for their use which afterwards he published as commentaries on Aristotle's Organon Ethicks Politicks Economicks and Physicks which were taken into the hands also of most of the Juniors of the University tho since slighted and looked upon as empty things As for his knowledge in the Faculty of Medicine of which he became Doctor 1589. he being made that year Prebendary of North-Aulton in the Ch. of Sarum he was much respected and by his practice therein and reading to Scholars obtaining a fair Estate he bestowed much of it on pious uses as I have elsewhere told you He was a man of an innocent meek religious and a studious Life of a facete and affable conversation a lover of Scholars beloved by them again and had in high veneration His Works are Summa veterum interpretum in Vniversam Dialecticam Aristotelis Lond. 1584. Ox. 1592. and 98. qu. Speculum moralium quaestionum in Vnivers Ethicam Aristot Ox. 1585. qu. Sphaeraâ—civitatis sive de politiâ Ox. 1588. c. qu. in eight books It was then printed by Joseph Barnes Printer to the University of Oxford but the said book undergoing several impressions afterwards beyond the Seas Barnes put up a Petition to the University in 1590. desiring that every Bachelaur of Arts that should hereafter determine should take off one copy of the said book from his hands which was granted Apoligia Musices tum vocalis quam instrumentalis mixtae Ox. 1588. oct I have a book in my Library intitled The praise of Musick wherein besides the Antiquity and Dignity c. is declared the sober aend lawful use of the same in the Congregation and Church of God Ox. 1586. oct It was written by an Oxford Scholar then lately deceased but what was his Name I cannot in all my searches find 'T was printed and published by the said Joseph Barnes who putting a Dedic Epist before it to Sir Walt. Raleigh with his name subscribed he is therefore in several Auction Catalogues said to be the author of it Thesaurus Oeconomiae seu commentarius in Oeconomica Arist c. Ox. 1597. qu. in two books Appendix Thes Oeconom Printed with the former book Reflexus speculi moralis seu comm in magna moralia Arist Ox. 1596. oct Lapis Philosophicus seu comm in octo libros Physicorum Arist Ox. 1599. qu. Ancilla Philosophiae seu Epitome in 8. lib. Arist Ox. 1599. qu. MS. Apologia Academiarum Rebellionis vindiciae What other things he hath written or published it doth not yet appear to me tho there is no doubt but something in MS. hath escaped my sight At length our author after he had attained to about the sixtieth year of his age surrendred up his last breathings in his house in Magd. Parish before-mentioned 23. January in fifteen hundred ninety and nine whereupon his Body was solemnly interr'd in the Chappel of St. Johns coll before-mentioned and had soon after a comely Monument set over his Grave the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 312. b. The said Dr. Case whose picture did hang many years after in that house where he dyed married Elizabeth the Widdow of one Dobon the Keeper of Bocardo Prison 30. Dec. 1574. whose Daughter Ann Dobson for Dr. Case had no Children by her was married to Barthelm Warner Doctor of Physick of St. Johns coll 30. Sept. 1583. who having none but Daughters by her that surviv'd one was married to Tho. Clayton Dr. of Physick and Master of Pemb. coll another to John Speed Dr. of the said Faculty of St. Johns coll Son of Joh. Speed the Chronologer a third to Will. Taylor Dr. of Physick of the said coll and a fourth to Anthony Clopton D. D. of C. C. coll and Rector of Childrey in Berks. GEORGE PEELE was if I mistake not a Devonian born whence being sent to Broadgates hall was after some time made Student of Ch. Ch. 1573. or thereabouts where going through the several forms of Logic and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1579. At which time as he was esteemed a most noted Poet in the University so afterwards in the Metropolis where he knew also what belonged to the Stage part as well as any there His Comedies and Tragedies were often acted with great applause and did endure reading with due commendation many years after their author's death Those that I have seen are only these following Lond. 1593. qu. The famous Chronicle of K. Ed. 1. Sirnamed Edw. Longshank Life of Llewellin Rebel in Wales The sinking of Q. Elinor at Charing-cross and of her rising again at Potters-Hith now named Queen-Hith Lond. 1593. qu. This and a Ballad of the same subject are now usually sold by Ballad-singers or Ballad-mongers The love of K. David and fair Bethsheba with the Tragedy of Absalon c. Lond. 1599. qu. Alphonsus Emperor of Germany Trag. Besides these Plays he hath several Poems extant as that entit A farewel to Sir Joh. Norrys and Sir Fr. Drake Lond. in qu. and some remnants of Pastoral Poetry extant in a collection intit Englands Helicon but such I have not yet seen nor his
notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the Regal Power which are to be found in them Now altho this is generally confessed that the said three books are not genuine yet some Nonconformists and among these chiefly Mr. Rich. Baxter do urge seemingly probable reasons to induce a belief that these posthumous books as published by Dr. Gauden are to be accounted the true and authentick Writings of Mr. Hooker yet this must be known that the reason why the said Mr. Baxter contends so eagerly for their genuineness is because the said three books but more especially the eighth do contain certain popular and false Principles concerning the true Nature of the Legislative Power the Original of Government and the Office of Kings it self as derived from the People And on this account it is that he seems to take a more than ordinary delight in so often telling the World that the Abettors of these seditious positions have so great a Chruch-man as our author was justly esteemed on their side It was these and such like Prelatist's principles as he saith meaning I guess Bish Jewell but chiefly Bish Bilson in his book of Christian Subjection c. which he frequently cites as defending the resistance of Superiours in some cases and such like pernicious tenets and whom he usually joyns with Mr. Hooker in quotations of this kind that led him to what he did and wrote in the book of Holy Commonwealth which he hath retracted And that he may charge these destructive Assertions home on our author he saith if any do causlesly question whether the eighth imperfect book be in those dangerous passages above-mentioned his own let them remember that the summ of them is in his first book which is old and highly honoured by the Prelatists And after all this to shew himself an Enemy to the above-named Principles he examines and confutes the first and eighth books so far as they make for popularity with some strictures intermixed on Bishop Bilson's false Notes of subjection whereby he makes but a scanty satisfaction for the malignant influence those many traiterous opinions with which his Political Aphorismes are fraught have had on the minds of many giddy People towards the withdrawing them from yielding cheerful obedience to their lawful Superiours and this notwithstanding he hath sometime since called this piece in The eighth book is commonly supposed to have been first published together with the sixth and seventh by Bish Gauden yet Mr. Baxter affirms that the said eighth book was in print long before that time which is true for the sixth and eighth were printed at Lond. 1648. in qu. nay all the eight books with certain Tractates and Sermons together with the author's Life were published in two vol. in fol. 1617. As for the other Books and Sermons that our author Hooker hath written are these following Answer to a supplication preferred by Mr. Walt. Travers to the H. H. Lords of the Privy Council Oxon. 1612. qu. Causes of contention concerning Church-Government Oxon. 1641. qu. As for his Sermons they are these 1 Discourse of Justification Works and how the foundation of Faith is overthrown on Abak 1. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. 2 Of the Nature of Pride on Abak 2. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. 3 Remedy against Sorrow and Fear Fun. Sermon on Joh. 14. 27. Ox. 1612. qu. 4 Of the certainty and perpetuity of Faith in the Elect on Abak 1. 4. 5 Two Sermons upon part of St. Jude's Epistle viz. ver 17 18 19 20 21. Oxon. 1614. qu. All which Sermons with Wickliffs Wicket were published by Henry Jackson Fellow of C. C. coll reprinted at London the Wicket excepted an 1622. fol. at the end of the five books of Ecclesiastical Policy c. and again at the end of the eight books Lond. 1682. fol. 6 Serm. on Matth. 7. 7. Found in the study of Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester and published by Isaac Walton at the end of Dr. Saunderson's Life Lond. 1678. oct What other things our most renowned author Hooker hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that paying his last debt to Nature on the second of Nov. year 1600 in sixteen hundred leaving then behind him the character of Schismaticorum Malleus was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bishops-Bourne in Kent before-mentioned Over his Grave was 35 years after a Monument erected by Will. Cowper Esq with the Statua of Bust of the Defunct to the middle part of his Bodyâ— From which Statua was taken the picture of him set before his Life written by the said Isaac Walton of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know that he was born in the ancient Borough of Stafford in Aug. 1593. that he was by Trade a Sempster in Chancery-lane in London where continuing till about 1643. at which time he found it dangerous for honest men to be there he left that City and lived sometimes at Stafford and elsewhere but mostly in the Families of the eminent Clergy-men of England of whom he was much beloved He hath written the lives of Dr. Joh. Donne Sir Hen. Wotton Mr. Rich. Hooker Mr. George Herbert and of Dr. Rob. Sanderson sometimes B. of Lincoln All which are well done considering the education of the author as also The compleat Angler or the contemplative Man's recreation c. He ended his days in the great Frost at Winchester in the house of Dr. Will. Hawkins Preâ—endary of the Church there who had married his Daughter on the 15. Dec. 1683. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at that place GEORGE CRANMER a Gent. sometimes of singular hopes eldest Son of Tho. Cranmer Son of Edm. Cranmer Archdeacon of Canterbury who died in the beginning of 1571. Brother to Tho. Archb. of that place was born in Kent admitted Scholar of C. Ch. Coll. 10. Jan. 1577. aged 13. or thereabouts and was then or soon after put under the tuition of the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who found him afterwards very useful to him when he was compiling the books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1583. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that house and six years after was licensed to proceed in Arts. About which time he betook himself to the service of Will. Davison Esq one of the Secretaries of State After whose removal he went in place of Secretary with Sir Hen. Killegrew in his Embassage into France and after his death he accompanied that worthy and learned Gent. Sir Edwyn Sandys in his travels into France Germany Italy and other parts for the space of three years After his return he was sought out by the most Noble Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy with whom he went into Ireland in the quality of Secretary where he remained until his unfortunate Death He hath written Letter to Mr. Richard Hooker concerning the new Church discipline Feb. 1598. Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Remitted into the Life of R. Hooker written by Is Walton Lond. 1670. p. 123. Our author Cranmer hath
the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law conferr'd on him elsewhere but at what place or by whom I cannot yet find He hath written Christian Ethicks or Moral Philosophy containing the difference or opposition of vertue and voluptuousness Lond. 1587. oct An historical collection of the continued Factions Tumults and Massacres of the Romanes and Italians during the space of 120 years before the peaceable Empire of Augustus Caesar c. Lond. 1600. oct and 1601. in qu. A parallel or conference of the Civil Law the Canon Law and the Common Law of this Realm wherein the agreement and disagreement of these three Laws and the causes and reasons of the said agreement are opened and discussed in sundry Dialogues Lond. 1602. qu. in 2 parts But this book lying dead on the Booksellers hands he put a new Title to the first part as if the whole had been reprinted at London 1618. but to the second not leaving the old Title bearing date 1602. The Pandects of the Laws of Nations or the discourses of the Matters in Law wherein the Nations of the World do agree Lond. 1602. qu. What else he hath written I know not nor when or where he died One Henry Fulbeck related to the said William hath published A direction or preparation to the study of the Civil Law wherein is shewed what things ought to be observed and what ought to be eschewed and avoided Printed at Lond. in oct much about the time that the former was SAMPSON ERDESWICKE Son of Hugh Erdeswicke Esq was born at Sandon in Staffordshire studied in the condition of a Gent. Com. in Brasnose coll in 1553 and 54. 1. and 2. of Q. Mary where he laid the foundation of some learning that advanced him to greater in future times Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony at Sandon where applying his Muse to that kind of learning which his genie led him to became at length a Gentleman well accomplished with many vertuous qualities He was very well vers'd in Histories but more in Antiquities especially in those of his own County and therefore stiled by the learned Camden A very great Lover and diligent Searcher of venerable Antiquity adding that in this regard he is no less worthy of remembrance than for that he is directly in the Male-line descended from Sir Hugh Vernon Baron of Shipbrook the name being changed by the use of that age according to sundry habitations first into Holgrave and afterwards into Erdeswicke At length for the tender respect he had to his Native Country and desiring much the honour of it wrote A short view of Staffordshire containing the Antiquities of the same County MS. The beginning of which is Sir having disposed with my self to take a farther view of the Shires of Staffordshire and Chester c. It was began about the year 1593. and continued by him to his death from ancient Evidences and Records with brevity clearness and truth The original of this or at least a copy is in the hands of Walt. Chetwind of Ingestre in Staffordshire Esq who is and hath been several years in the collecting of the Antiquities of that County Collections of Genealogies Monuments Arms c. MSS. Some of which are in the hands of the said W. Chetwind and elsewhere and have been used by divers Antiquaries It is said also that 'our author Erdeswicke wrote a book intit The true use of Armory published under the name of Will. Wyrley an 1592. as I shall more at large tell you hereafter but let that report remain with its author while I tell you that Erdeswicke submitted to the stroke of death on the eleventh of Apr. year 1603 in sixteen hundred and three and was buried under a goodly Monument of Free-stone with his proportion thereon erected by himself in his life-time in the Church of Sandon before-mentioned Which Church was a little before new glazed and repaired by him See more of him in William Wyrley among these Writers under the year 1617. THOMAS D'OYLIE descended from a right ancient Family of his name living or Oxfordshire was born in that County elected Probationer-Fellow of Magd coll an 1563. and after he had taken the Magisterial degree entred on the Physick line travelled and became Doctor of his Faculty in the University of Basil Afterwards setling in London he became one of the College of Physicians and much frequented for his successful Practice in his Faculty He had a chief hand in a book intit Bibliotheca Hispanica containing a Grammer with a Dictionary in Spanish English and Latin Lond. 1591. qu. in two parts This book was published by one Rich. Percyvall Gent. who had another hand in it yet with the advice and conference of Dr. D'oylie who dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred and three year 1603 was buried in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew in London leaving then behind him a Son named Francis born 8. Feb. 1597. and a daughter married to Hugh Cressy a Counsellour Father to Hugh Cressy a Benedictine Monk WILLIAM GILBERT Son of Hierom Gilbert of Colchester in Essex was born there and educated in both the Universities but whether in Oxon first or in Cambridge I cannot justly tell Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas where I presume he had the degree of Doctor of Physick conferred upon him and at his return being famed for his learning depth in Philosophy and admirable skill in Chymistry became one of the Coll. of Physicians in Lond. and Physician in Ord. to Q. Elizabeth who had so high a value for him that she allowed him an annual Pension to encourage his studies He hath written De magnete magneticisque corporibus de magno magnete tellure Physiologia nova Lond. 1600. fol. To which book the author added an Appendix of 6 or 8 sheets but whether printed I cannot tell De mundo nostro sublunari Philosophia nova Amstel 1651. qu. Published from a MS. in the Library of the Famous Sir Will. Boswell Knight He also was the first that invented the making description and use of the two most ingenious and necessary instruments for Sea-men to find out thereby the Latitude of any place upon the help of the Sun Moon and Stars Which invention was published by one Tho. Blondeville Lond. 1602. qu. This Dr. Gilbert gave way to fate in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and three year 1603 having always lived a single life Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity in Colchester in which Parish he was born and accounted the chief person thereof By his last Will and Test he gave all his books in his Library his Globes Instruments and Cabinet of Minerals to the Coll. of Physicians which part of his Will was exactly performed by his Brethren viz. William so he is written in his Will a Proctor in the Arches Hierom Ambrose and George who participated of his Estate The picture of this famous Doctor drawn to the life
fit to let the Reader know that posterity may distinguish between the said two Bonds the first a polite and rare critick whose labours have advanced the Common-wealth of learning very much and the other an impudent canting and blasphemous person who by his doctrine did lead People to Rebellion advance the cause of Sathan much and in fine by his and the endeavours of his Brethren brought all things to ruine meerly to advance their unsatiable and ambitious desires He lived as I conceive to the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660. being then about 49 years of age but when or where he died I cannot yet learn His Father Dennis Bond before-mentioned who was Son of Joh. Bond of Lutton in Dorsetshire and he the Son of Dennis of the same place was bred up to the Trade of a Woollendraper in Dorchester being then a constant hearer and admirer of Jo. White aforesaid was elected Burgess with Denzil Hollis for the Borough of Dorchester of which he was then Alderman to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. In which shewing himself an active person first under the opinion of a Presbyterian and afterwards of an Independant was design'd and prick'd down for one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. an 1648. but whether he sate when Sentence was passed upon him I cannot justly say it notwithstanding one or more authors say that he did then sit and was numbred among the Judges On the 14. Feb. next following the decollation of that King he was appointed one of the 30 persons for the Council of State and ever after shewed himself a Devoto to Oliver's interest On the 30. of Aug. 1658. being then Monday and the windiest day that had before hapned for 20 years he paid his last debt to nature being then tormented with the Strangury and much anxiety of Spirit At which time as the then vulgar talk was the Devil came to take away Oliv. Cromwell who then lay on his death-bed but being not prepared for him he gave Bond for his future appearance and accordingly on Friday following being the 3. of Sept. he made good his promise The carkass of Dennis Bond was buried in the Abby Church of St. Peter at Westminster where continuing about three years was with the bodies of other Cromwellians taken up in the month of Sept. 1661. and buried in St. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning before the back-door of the lodgings belonging to one of the Canons of Westminster I find one John Bond to be author of a Pamphlet intit A whip for the Judges Bishops and Papists c. Lond. 1641. Of another also called The downfal of the old Common-Counsel-Men Pr. there the same year and of a third intit The Poets recantation Lond. 1642. qu. but I take this John Bond to be different from the other Joh. who was a Presbyterian and afterwards an Independant I find another John Bond later than all the former who is now or at least was lately a Barrester of Grays-inn who wrote and published A compleat Guide for Justices of the Peace c. in two parts Lond. 1685. in oct RICHARD WHYTE or Vitus as he writes himself the Son of Henry Whyte of Basingstoke in Hampshire by Agnes his Wife Daughter of Rich. Capelin of Hampshire the Son of Tho. Whyte the Son of Jenkin sometimes called John Whyte who had almost half the Town of Basingstoke in his own possession the Son of Tho. Whyte of Purvyle in Hampshire which Thomas was Gr. Grandfather to John Whyte sometime Bishop of Winton was born in the Town of Basingstoke before-mentioned trained up in Grammar learning in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1557. took one degree in Arts but before he had that of Master conferred on him he absented himself from his college and the time limited for his absence being spent his place was pronounced void in 1564. A little before that time he went to Lovaine and afterwards to Padua in Italy where applying his Muse to the study of the Civil and Canon Law became Doctor of them At length going to Doway he was constituted the King's Professor of those Laws in which place he continued above 20 years married two rich Wives of which one was an Inheretrix grew wealthy was made by order of the Pope Magnificus Rector tho out of his ordinary turn and about the same time was created Comes Palatinus Which title is commonly conferred by the Imperials on their Professors At length having buried two Wives he was by the dispensation of P. Clem. 8. made a Priest and about the same time had a Canonry in St. Peters Church in Doway bestowed on him The first thing that made him known to curious Scholars was his exposition of an ancient enigmatical Epitaph which was in his time remaining near to Bononia the title of which is Aelia Laelia Crispis Epitaphium antiquum in agro Bononiensi adhuc videtur à diversis hactenus interpretatum variè novissimè autem a Ric. Vito Basingstochio amicorum precibus explicatum Patav. 1568. in 6 sh. and a half in qu. dedicated to Christop Johnson chief Master of Winchester School Afterwards he wrote and published Orationes quinque de circulo artium Philosophia De eloquentia Cicerone Pro divitiis Regum Pro doctoratu De studiorum sinibus cum notis Attrebat 1596. oct The two first which were spoken at Lovaine were published by Christoph Johnson before-mentioned about 1564. and commanded by him to be read publickly in the said School near Winton by the Scholars Notae ad leges Decem-virorum in xii tabulis Attrebat 1597. oct Historiarum Brittanniae libri 1. Ab origine ad Brutum 2. Ab illo ad Malmutium 3. Ab hoc ad Heliam 4. Ab isto ad Lucium 5. Ab eo ad Constantium cum notis antiquitatum Britannicarum Attreb 1597. oct Historiarum Britanniae liber sextus Quo vis armorum in campis authoritas literarum in Scholis atque religio Christiana in orbe terrarum publicata demonstratur cum notis Duac 1598. oct Histor Britan. lib. 7. Quo versus ad eam insulam Saxenicam ingressus permansio declaratio cum notis Duac 1600. oct Hist Brit. lib. 8. Quo vera causa excidii regni Britonum in insula demonstratur cum notis Duac 1600. oct Hist Brit. lib. nonus Quo fundamenta regni Ecclesiae Anglorum in insulâ Brit. exponuntur cum notis Duac 1602. oct After this last was published all the nine books were bound together and had this general title put to them Historiarum Britannicae Insulae ab origine mundi ad annum Domine octingentesimum libri novem priores Duac 1602. in a thick oct Before the Preface to the Reader is the author's picture and before the beginning of the work it self are his arms viz. Parted per chevron embatled arg and gul three rases leaved vert counter-changed of the field on a chief of the
book written by the hand of Blackwell and subscribed by him as fit for the Press So that no other name being put to it hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it whereas he was not but rather Franc. Tresham as I have told you elsewhere He the said Blackwell died suddenly having been much troubled with swooning fits on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried as I conceive in some Church in London This next person according to time and order that must crave place is one who tho no writer worth the remembrance yet hath he been the greatest promoter of learning that hath yet appeared in our Nation THOMAS BODLEY another Ptolomey eldest Son of John Bodley of the City of Exeter by Joan his Wife Daughter and Heir of Rob. Hone of Otterie S. Mary in Devon Esq Son of Joh. Bodley of Tiverton second Son of John Bodley of Dunscumbe near Crediton in Devon Gent. was born in the said City of Exeter 2 Mar. 1544. partly educated in Grammar learning in the said City but mostly in Geneva while his Father lived there as a voluntary Exile in the time of Q. Mary where tho he was then very young yet he was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew of Berealdus in Greek of Calvin and Beza in Divinity and of some other professors in the University there then newly erected besides his domestical teachers in the house of Philebertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City with whom he was boarded where Rob. Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon read Homer to him After the death of Q. Mary he returned into England with his Father and was sent to Magd. coll in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Laur. Humphrey was admitted Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1563. and soon after being elected Probationer of Merton coll determined in the Lent following In 1565. he by the perswasion of some of the Fellows of that house and for his private exercise did read publickly for some years a Greek Lecture in the hall of that coll without expectation of any reward or stipend for his labour Nevertheless it pleased the Society to allow him soon after of their own accord four Marks by the year In 1566. he was admitted Master of Arts which degree being compleated he read Nat. Philosophy for an year in the Pub. Schools then situated on the East side of Schoolstreet In 1569. he was elected Junior Proctor of the University which office he performing with great commendations bestowed some time in the study of sundry Faculties without any inclination to profess any one above the rest At length being desirous to travel beyond the Seas for the obtaining of knowledge of some special modern tongues and for the increase of his experience in the managing of affairs to no other end but to imploy himself and all his cares in the publick Service of the State did with leave from the Warden and Society of his coll depart England with the allowance belonging to a traveller an 1576. and continued near 4 years in Italy France and Germany Afterwards returning to his coll he remained there for some time in studying politicks and historical affairs and in 1583. he was made Esquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth At length in 1585. having about that time married Anne the Daughter of… Carew of the City of Bristow the rich Widdow as I have heard of one Ball was imployed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark Julius Duke of Brunswyke William Lantgrave of Hesse and other German Princes Which imploymnet being faithfully performed he was sent to K. Hen. 3. of France at what time he was forced by the Duke of Guise to leave Paris In 1588. he was sent to the Hague for the better conduct of the Queen's affairs in the Vnited Provinces where making his residence for some years was admitted one of their Council of State took place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and gave a suffrage in all that was proposed In 1593. he returned into England for a time to look after his private Estate but was soon after remanded to the Hague again by the Q. where continuing near one year returned again to deliver some secret overtures to her and to perform thereupon an extraordinary service Soon after the applauding the fruit of his discoveries he was presently commanded to return to the States with charge to pursue those affairs to performance which he had secretly proposed At length all things being concluded and brought to the desired issue he procured his last revocation in 1597. At his return as before in his absence Burleigh the Lord Treasurer did several times tell the Queen that there was not any Man in England so meet as Bodley to undergo the office of Secretary by reason of his well-tryed Wisdom in the Low-Country affairs intending that he should be Colleague with his Son Rob. Cecill But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner not without biting calumniations of Cecill Burleigh found means to divert the Queens mind from him supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecill So that Mr. Bodley being eased of ever expecting that troublesome office he retired from the Court and wholly commended himself to the care and provision for learning worthy indeed the care of the greatest King For about that time setting up his staff at the Library door in Oxford did restore or rather new found it the particulars of which I have elsewhere told you After K. Jam. came to the Crown he received the Honour of Knight from him and a few years before his death wrote His Life an 1609. Which being kept as a choice rarity in the archives of his Library was published at Oxon. 1647. qu. But this little thing is not the reason that I put him among the Oxford Writers but because by his noble and generous endeavours he hath been the occasion of making hundreds of publick Writers and of advancing in an high degree the Commonwealth of learning in which respect he should have craved the first place but I have put him here according to the time of his death which is the method I observe Letters of State Some of which I have seen published not in one vol. but scatteredly Letters relating to Books and Learning Written to Mr. Tho. James MS. in his Lib. He paid his last debt to nature 28. Jan. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll Choire The manner of which you may see at large in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 320. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that Dr. Joh. Morris Canon of Ch. Ch. did bequeath to the University of Oxon. a Rent-charge of 5 l. per an to be given to a Master of Arts that should make
hundred and fourteen according to the accompt there followed and was buried year 1614 I presume among the brethren in their house there who had a most entire respect for him and his learning while he was living JOHN REINOLDS the most noted Epigrammatist next to Joh. Owen and Sir Jo. Harrington of his time received his first being in this world at Tuddington in Bedfordshire was elected Probationer of New coll from Wykeham's School near to Winchester in 1600. and two years after was admitted Perpetual fellow being then noted for a good Grecian Orator and Poet. Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law and wrote and published Disticha classis Epigrammatum sive carminum inscriptorum Centuriae duae The first part was printed at Oxon 1611. in oct and containes an 110. Epigrams concerning the British and English Kings each Epigarm consisting but of two Verses The other part was printed at the same place in 1612. in oct Besides which Epigrams he hath much of his Poetry printed in divers books particularly in that made by certain fellows of New coll on the death of Ralph Warcup Esq an 1605 wherein he flourishes in his Greek Poetry He ended his days in the prime of his years in sixteen hundred and fourteen and was buried year 1614 as it seems in New coll Cloyster I find another of both his names and equal almost in time with him who was born within the City of Excester and by the books that he published had gained a famous name among the vulgar Scholars Gentlemen and Women of love and mode The titles of them are 1 The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying and execrable sin of Murder c. Lond. 1621. qu. the first book Five more came out afterwards at several times mostly taken from French printed copies which he had gathered in his Travels into France All the six books were printed at London in one fol. 1635. and several times after At length the sixth edition being adorned with Cuts was published at Lond. 1679. fol. by Sam. Pordage of Lincolns Inn Son of Joh. Pordage Rector of Bradfield in Berks. and formerly Head Steward of the lands to old Philip Earl of Pembroke 2 Gods revenge against the abominable sin of Adultery containing ten several Histories Lond. 1679. fol. This being never printed before was illustrated with Cuts and published by the said Sam. Pordage with the former book 3 The flower of fidelity Displaying in a continuate history the various adventures of three foraigne Princes Lond. 1650. oct Dedicated to his Father-in-law Rich. Waltham Esq Justice of Peace of Devon and other things which I have not yet seen Among the translations that he hath made from French into English is A Treatise of the Court written by Monsieur de Refuges and by the Translator dedicated to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 1. Whether the said John Reynolds was ever a Student in Oxon I cannot in my searches yet find However some of the Antients of Exeter coll who knew the man have averred it several times that he had received some Accademical education but before he could take a degree was call'd away to travel into France He was living in the times of Usurpation but whether in those of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. I cannot tell ARTHUR HOPTON fifth Son of Sir Arth. Hopton Knight of the Bathe by Rachell his Wife daughter of Edm. Hall of Gretford in Lincolnshire Son of Sir Owen Hopton sometimes Leivtenant of the Tower near London was born in Somersetshire at Wytham as it seems became a Gent. Commoner of Lincoln coll in Michaelmas Term an 1604. aged 15. or more where falling under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor became the miracle of his age for learning In 1607. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and then left the University to the great sorrow of those who knew the wonderful pregnancy of his parts Afterwards he setled in London in one of the Temples as I conceive where he was much admired and beloved by Selden and all the noted men of that time who held him in great value not only for his antient and gentile Extraction but for the marvellous forwardness of his Mathematical genie which led him to perform those matters at one or two and twenty years of age which others of forty or fifty could not do as in these Books following of his composition may appear Baculum Geodaticum sive Viaticum Or the Geodetical Staff containing eight books Lond. 1610. in a pretty thick qu. Speculum Topographicum Or the Topographical Glass containing the use of the Topographical Glass Theodelitus plain Table and Circumferentor c. Lond. 1611. qu. A Concordancy of years containing a new easie and a most exact computation of time according to the English accompt Lond. 1616. oct To which were additions made by Joh. Penkethman Lond. 1635. in qu. in one sh and half He hath also divers copies of verses scattered in books which shew that he was a tolerable Poet of his time He ended his days in the prime of his years within the Parish of St. Clements Danes without Temple-Bar near to London in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred and fourteen year 1614 and was buried if I mistake not in the Church there His untimely death as I have been informed by those that remember him was much regretted by all those who were acquainted with him and knew his extraordinary worth His Nephew Ralph Hopton Son of his Brother Robert was a Gent. Com. also of Linc. coll and after the Rebellion brake out in 1642. he was a General of an Army under K. Ch. 1. and by him made a Baron ROBERT COOKE who writes himself Cocus was born at or near to Beeston in Yorkshire was entred a Student in Brasenose coll in 1567. aged 17. or thereabouts where with unwearied diligence travelling through the various Classes of Logick and Philosophy he became the most noted Disputant of his time On the 2. Dec. 1573. he was unanimously elected Probationer-Fellow of that coll and three years after took the degree of M. of A. About which time entring into Holy Orders and being noted for his admirable learning was therefore elected one of the Proctors of the University In which office he behaved himself so admirably well that his house gained credit by it In 1584. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in the beginning of June 1590. resigning his Fellowship retired to his new obtained Vicaridge of Leedes in Yorkshire where making the best advantage of his time became a Man learned in the Church singularly well studied in the disquisition of antiquity especially for the discerning of the proper works of the Fathers from the forged and counterfeit as it may appear in a book which he wrote intit Censura quorundam Scriptorum quae sub nominibus Sanctorum veterum auctorum à Pontificiis passim in eorum Scriptis sed potissimum in quaestionibus hodie controversis
Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there or at least in that County became a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of leâ—rning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellour a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉 and in the Saxon Language In the latter â—nd of Q Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple and about that time one of the Justices Itinerant for S. Wales He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity which being crept into private hands the publick is thereby rob'd of the benefit of them However some of them I have seen which bear these titles Nomina Hydarum in com Northampton MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire I have a copy of this lying by me Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book Used also the by said Vincent who after he had been Rouge Croix and Windsore Herald as also had published A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility written by Raphe Brook did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls Wharf in London The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire but where they are now I know not His opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England See more in Joh. Doderidge under the year 1628. Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen He lived a single Man and dying so on the 16. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 was buried I suppose in the Church belonging to the Temples He had a Nephew Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre called Zouch Tate who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year where siding with the Factious Crew took the Covenant and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause Two or more Speeches of his are printed one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queens Cabinet of Letters Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle where the King was worsted Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell RICHARD FIELD received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford was entred a Student in Magd. coll in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book till he was about Bachelaurs standing retired to Magd. hall took the degrees in Arts and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy but also a Moderator and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine and other Pontificians before his Fellow-Aularians and many others Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester and afterwards in Lincolns Inn and when Doctor Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsore on the death of Jo. Chamber an 1604. but also the Deanry of Gloucester in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanry of Winchester Both which he kept with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy a powerful Preacher a profound Schoolman exact Disputant and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists that few or none went beyond him in his time as it doth plainly appear in these his labours Of the Church four books Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against or wrested to the maintenance of the Romish Errours All which were reprinted at Oxon 1628. fol. He also published A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall on Jude ver 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendred up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it on the 21. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 being then reviewing the said books and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them and was buried in the outer Chappel of St. George at Windsore a little below the Choire Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastned thereunto Richardus Field hujus olim coll canonicus Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus verè Doctor Theologiae author librorum quinque de Ecclesia Vna cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima Charissima conjuge ex qua sex reliquit filios filiam unicam Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum qui faelicitatem quam ingressi sunt adventu suo perficeat ac consummet Obierunt in Domino ille an sal 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an sal 1614. aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanry of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land and in his Canonry of Windsore Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School in 1570. took the degrees in Arts lived for some time in the Middle Temple where I presume he studied the Municipal Law Afterwards he entred into holy Orders and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster an 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this that his Genie urging him to the study of History especially to the Marine part thereof which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London From whom and many small Pamphlets and Letters that were published and went from hand to hand in his
à Jesu printed at S. Omer in 1613. quarto Curry-comb for a Coxcombe Or Purgatories Knell In answer to a Libel by Jebal Rachel against Sir Edw. Hobies Counter-snarle intituled Purgatories Triumph over hell Lond. 1615. qu. Several motions speeches and arguments in the four last Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth Published in the Historical collections of Hayw. Townsend Esq He translated from French into English Politique discourses upon truth and lying An instruction to Princes to keep their faith and promises Lond. 1586. qu. Composed by Sir Mart. Cognet Knight one of the Privy-Councel to the most Christian King master of the Requests to his Houshold and lately Embassador to the Cantons of Zwitzers and Grisons And also from Spanish into English The Origine and practice of War Lond. 1597. oct Written by Don Bernard de Mendoza At length he giving way to fate in Queenburgh Castle on the first day of March St. David's day in sixteen hundred and sixteen his body was conveyed to Bysham before mentioned and buried there in a Chappel called Hoby's Chappel on the south side of the Chancel of the Church there near to the body of his Father Sir Thomas The said Sir Edward left behind him a natural Son named Peregrin Hoby born of the body of one Katherin Pinkney an 1602. From which Peregrin are the Hobyes now of Bysham descended THOMAS EGERTON the natural Son of Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire was born in that County applyed his Muse to learning in this University about 1556. particularly as 't is said in Brasnose coll of which he was a Commoner in the year of his age 17 or thereabouts where continuing about 3 years laid a foundation whereon to build profounder learning Afterwards going to Lincolns-Inn he made a most happy progress in the municipal laws and at length was a Counsellour of note In 1581. June 28. he was constituted by the Queen her Solicitor General and soon after he became Lent-reader of the said Inn. In 1592. June 2. the said Queen made him her Attorney General in 1594. he being then a Knight he was made Master of the Rolls and two years after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal In which emiment office he continued during the whole remainder of Qu. Elizabeths happy Reign On 21. of Jul. 1603. he was raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of L. Ellesmere and upon the 24. of the said Month he was made Lord Chancellour of England In the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was unanimously elected Chanc. of the University of Oxon. and in 14. Jac. 1. dom 1616. he was advanced to the dignity of Vicount Brackley He was a most grave and prudent man a good Lawyer just and honest of so quick an apprehension also and profound judgment that none of the Bench in his time went beyond him He hath written Speech in the Exchequer Chamber touching the Post-nati Lond. 1609. in qu. in 16. sheets Certain observations concerning the office of Lord Chancellour Lond. 1651. oct and left behind him at his death four MSS. of choice collections fit to be Printed concerning 1 The prerogative Royal. 2 Priviledges of Parliament 3 Proceedings in Chancery 4 The power of the Starr-chamber He resigned up his last breath in York-house in the Strand near London 15. March in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church of Dodleston in Cheshire His memory was much celebrated by Epigrams while he was living and after his death all of the long Robe lamented his loss We have his Picture drawn to the life in the habit of Lord Chancellour setting in a Chair hanging in the Gallery belonging to the Bodleian Library called the School-gallery WILLIAM MARTYN Son of Nich. Martyn of the City of Exeter by his first Wife Mary Daughter of Leonard Yeo of Hatherley in Devon Son of Rich. Martyn of the said City and he the second Son of William Martyn of Athelhampton in Dorsetshire Knight was born and educated in Grammar learning within the said City of Exeter where making early advances towards Academical learning was sent to Broadgates hall now Pomb coll an 1579. aged 17. In which place falling under the tuition of a noted Master laid an excellent foundation in Logick and Philosophy Afterwards going to the Inns of Court he became a Barester and in 1605. was elected Recorder of Exeter in the place of John Hele Serjeant at Law But his delight being much conversant in the reading of English Histories he composed a book of the Kings of England as I shall tell you anon Upon the publication of which K. James as 't is said taking some exceptions at a passage therein either to the derogation of his family or of the Realm of Scotland he was thereupon brought into some trouble which shortned his days He hath written Youths instruction Lond. 1612. qu. dedicated to his Son Nich. Martyn then a Student in Oxon. In the said book is shewed a great deal of reading and consequently that the author was no loser of his time The History and Lives of the Kings of England from William the Conquerour to K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1616. and 28. fol. usher'd into the world with the copies of Verses of Nicholas William and Edw. Martyn the Sons of the author and by Pet. Bevis his Son-in-Law To this History was afterwards added the History of K. Edw. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth by B. R. Master of Arts Lond. 1638. fol. At the end of all the impressions was Printed The succession of the Dukes and Earls of this Kingdom of England from the Conquerour to the 12. of James 1. with the then Viscounts Barons Baronets c. which was drawn up by the author and continued after his death by R. B. before-mention'd What other books the said Will. Martyn hath either written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of S. Petrock in the City of Exeter 12. year 1617 Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen The inscription which was on the Stone supposed to be laid for him is worn out and a new inscription cut thereon for one of the same family buried there The next who must follow according to time was a severe Puritan as Martyn was FRANCIS BUNNRY Younger brother to Edmund whom I shall anon mention was born in an antient House called the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks on the 8. of May 1543. became a Student in the University in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Mary an 1558. and perpetual Fellow of Madg. coll in 1562. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders and began to preach Gods word on the first of Nov. 1567. Whose Sermons being noted among many he became soon after Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford but continuing with him not long he left his Fellowship in 1571. and retiring into the north parts of
several Sons whereof two were R. Cath. Priests WILLIAM WYRLEY Son of Augustin Wyrly of Netherseile in Leicestershire by Mary his Wife Daughter of Walt. Charnells Son of Will. Wyrley of Handsworth in Staffordshire descended from an antient family of his name sometimes living at Rowley in the said County was born in Staffordshire and in those parts educated in Grammar learning This person whom we are farther to mention having from his childhood had an excellent Genie for Arms and Armory was entertained in the family of Sampson Erdswyke of Sandon Esq mentioned under the year 1603. called then by some the Antiquary of Staffordshire where making a considerable progress in Heraldical and Antiquarian studies under his inspection published a book under his own name entitled The true use of Armory shewed by History and plainly proved by example c. Lond. 1592. qu. Reported by some to be originally written by the said Erdeswyke but he being then an ancient man thought it fitter to have it published under Wyrley's name than his However the reader is not to think so but rather to suspend his thoughts being only a bare report that came originally from Erdeswykes mouth and to know this that Wyrley was an ingenious man and fit to compose such a book and that Erdeswyke being often times crazed especially in his last days and fit then for no kind of serious business would say any thing which came into his mind as 't is very well known at this day among the chief of the college of Arms. Soon after the publication of that book Wyrley left him and retired to Balliol coll purposely to obtain Academical learning where being put under the tuition of a good tutor and in great hope to obtain the grounds of the said learning was matriculated in the University as a member of that house in Act term an 1595. he being then about 29. years of age How long he continued there or whether he took a degree it appears not However for diversion sake he employed his time so admirably well during his abode in that house that he made several collections of Arms from Monuments and Windows in Churches and elsewhere in and near Oxon which have given me much light in my searches after things of that nature in order to the finishing the great work that I have been many years drudging in He also made divers remarks and collections from various Leiger books sometimes belonging to Monasteries in these parts and elsewhere The Original of which written with his own hand I have in my little Library which tho partly perished by wet and moisture yet I shall always keep them as monuments of his industry On the 15. May 2. Jac. 1. dom 1604. he was constituted Ronge-Crâ—ix Officer or Pursivant of Armes Which place he holding several years was always reputed among those of the coll of Arms a knowing and useful person in his profession and might had a longer life been spared have published several matters relating thereunto but being untimely cut off in the midst of his endeavours about the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred and seventeen we have enjoyed only besides the printed book and collections already mentioned various collections of Arms and Inscriptions made in and from which several Churches and Gentlemens habitations in his own Countie Leicestershire have assisted Burton the Antiquary thereof and in other Counties and from Churches in and near to London Some of which I have seen and perused in the Sheldonian Library I mean in that Library which belonged sometimes to that most worthy and generous person my friendly acquaintance never to be forgotten Raphe Sheldon of Boely Esquire the same Raphe for there are several of his family of both his names who died on Midsomer-day an 1684. aged 61. or thereabouts Which Library the MSS. only to the number of about 300. besides very many Parchment rolls and Pedegrees he bequeathed to the Coll. of Arms situated on Bennet-hill near to St. Paul's Cathedral in London where they yet remain As for the body of Wyrley 't was buried as I have been informed in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls Wharff EDMUND BUNNEY elder brother to Francis Bunney before mentioned was the Son of Rich Bunney of Newton otherwise called Bunney-hall in the Parish of Wakefield and of Newland in the Parish of Normanton in Yorkshire Esq by Bridget his Wife Daughter and coheir of Edw. Restwold of the Vache near to Chalfont St. Giles in Bucks who died 1547. descended from Richard and Philipp de la Vache Knights of the illustrious Order of the Garter in the time of K. Rich. 2. These Bunneys by the way it must be known pretend that their Ancestours descended from the Bunneys of Bunney a Town so called near to the ripe of the River Lâ—ir by Orleans in France came with William the Conquerour into England and setled themselves at a place in Nottinghamshire called from them Bunney rise but how they can make that out seeing their name is not in the original and genuine Copy of Battle-Abbey roll I cannot yet understand This our author Edm. Bunney whom I am farther to mention was born at a house called the Vache before mention'd being then imparted an 1540. sent to this University at 16 years of age in the fourth year of Q. Mary and about the time he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he was elected Probationer Fellow of Madg. coll being then noted to be very forward in Logick and Philosophy Soon after he went to Staple Inn and thence to Greys Inn in either of which he spent about two years for his Father intended him for the Common-Law being his eldest Son but he resolving for Divinity was cast off by his Father tho a good man as he the Son faith and one that fled for his Religion in Qu. Marys days so that returning to Oxon he took the degree of Master in the latter end of 1564. and in the year following was elected fellow of Merton coll at which time Hen. Savile was elected Probationer For which a act tho the Society had no preceedent yet there was a necessity for it because there was not one then in that Society that could or would preach any publick Sermon in the college turn such was the scarcity of Theologists not only in that House but generally throughout the University In the year 1570. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time became Chaplain to Dr. Grindall Archbâ— of York who gave him a Prebendship of that Church and the Rectory of Bolton Percy about six Miles distant thence Which Rectory after he had enjoyed 25. years he resigned and maintaining himself with the profits of his Prebendship being also Subdean of York and other Dignities mention'd in his Epitaph following he preached and catechized where there was most need I have heard Dr. Barten Holyday say that when he was a Junior in the University this
month of Decemb. or thereabouts an 1666. leaving Issue behind him a Daughter RICHARD MARTIN Son of Will. Martin by Anne his Wife Daughter of Rich. Parker of Sussex fourth Son of Rich. Martin of the City of Exeter second Son of Will. Martin of Athelhampton in the Parish of Puddle-towne in Dorsetshire Knight was born at Ottertâ—n in Devonshire became a Commoner of Broadgates hall now Pembroke coll in Michaelmas Term 1585. aged 15. and not in Trinity coll as I have formerly by a mistake told you where by natural parts and some industry he proved in short time a noted disputant But he leaving the said honse before he was honoured with a degree went to the Middle Temple where after he had continued in the state of Inner Barrester for some years was elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament 1601. was constituted Lent-Reader of the said Temple 13. Jac. 1. and upon the death of Sir Anth. Benn was made Recorder of the City of London in Sept. 1618. Which place he enjoying but little more than a month was succeeded therein by Sir Rob. Heath There was no person in his time more celebrated for ingenuity than R. Martin none more admired by Selden Serjeant Hoskins Ben. Johnson c. than he the last of which dedicated his Comedy to him called The Poetaster K. James was much delighted with his facetiousness and had so great respect for him that he commended him to the Citizens of London to be their Recorder He was worthily characterized by the vertuous and learned Men of his time to be Princeps amorum Principum amor legum lingua lexque dicendi Anglorum alumnus Praeco Virginiae ac Parens c. Magnae orbis os orbis minoris corculum Bono suorum natus extinctus suo c. He was a plausible Linguist and eminent for several Speeches spoken in Parliaments for his Poems also and witty discourses All that I have seen of his are Speech and Discourses in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Q. Elizab. Speeches delivered to the King in the name of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex Lond. 1603. 1643. qu. Various Poems He died to the great grief of all learned and good men on the last day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 and was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples Over his grave was soon after a neat Alabaster Monument erected with the Effigies of the Defunct kneeling in his Gown with 4 verses engraven thereon under him made by his dear Friend Serjeant Hoskins before-mentioned a copy of which you may see elsewhere This Monument was repaired in 1683. when the Choire and Isles adjoyning belonging to the Temple Church were new-wainscoted and furnished with seats He gave by Will to the Church of Otterton where he received his first breath 5 l. and to the Church of Culliton-Raleigh in Devon where his House and Seat was 5 l. ROBERT MANDEVILL a Cumberland Man born was entred either a Batler or Servitour of Queens coll in the beginning of the year 1595. aged 17. where remaining a severe Student till he was Bach. of Arts he retired to St. Edmunds hall and as a Member of it proceeded in that Faculty In July 1607. he was elected Vicar of Abby-Holme commonly called Holm-Cultram in his own County by the Chancellour and Scholars of this University Where being setled he exercised with great zeal his parts in propagating the Gospel against its Oppugners not only by Communication and Preaching but by his exemplary course of Life and great Piety He shewed himself also a zealous Enemy against Popery and the breaking of the Lords day by prophaning it with merchandizing and sports and endeavoured as much as in him lay for he was a zealous Puritan to perswade his Parishioners and Neighbours to do those things on Saturday which they used to do on the Lords day The truth is he was in the opinion of those of his Perswasion a great Man in his profession for he solely bent himself to his studies and discourses for the promotion of Religion and the word of God He hath written Timothy's Task two Sermons Preached in two Synodal Assemblies at Carlile on 1 Tim. 4. 16. and on Acts 20. 28. Oxon. 1619. qu. published by Tho. Vicars Fellow of Qu. coll Theological Discourses He died in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 and was buried at Holm-Cultram before-mentioned Here you see I have given you a character of a zealous and religious Puritan The next in order who is to follow is one who was a most zealous R. Catholick but far more learned than the former and not to be named or compared with him RICHARD STANYHURST Son of James Stanyhurst Esq was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland of which City his Father was then Recorder educated in Grammar learning under Peter Whyte mentioned under the year 1590. became a Commoner of Vniversity coll in 1563. where improving those rare natural parts that he was endowed with wrote Comment arises on Porphyry at two years standing being then 18 years of age to the great admiration of learned men and others After he had taken one degree in Arts he left the College retired to London became first a Student in Furnivals Inn and afterwards in that of Lincoln where spending some time in the study of the Common Law he afterwards went into the Country of his Nativity for a time But his mind there changing as to his Religion he went beyond the Seas being then a Married Man and in the Low Countries France and other Nations he became famous for his learning noted to Princes and more especially to the Archduke of Austria who made him his Chaplain his Wife being then dead and allowed him a plentiful Salary He was accounted by many especially by those of his Perswasion an excellent Theologist Grecian Philosopher Historian and Orator Camden stiles him Eruditissimus ille Nobilis Rich. Stanihurstus and others of his time say that he was so rare a Poet that he and Gabr. Harvey were the best for Iambicks in their age He hath written and transmitted to Posterity Harmonia sive catena Dialectica in Porphyrianas constitutiones Lond. 1570. fol. Which book being communicated to Eam Campian of St. Johns coll before it went to the Press he gave this character of the author Mirificè laetatus sum esse adolescentem in Acad. nostra tali familia eruditione probitate cujus extrema pueritia cum multis laudabili maturitate viris certare possit De rebus in Hibernia gestis lib. 4. Antw. 1584. qu. Dedicated to his Brother P. Plunket Baron of Dunsany Rerum Hibernicarum appendix ex Silvestro Giraldo Cambrensi collecta cum annotationibus adjectis Printed with De rebus in Hib. c. Descriptio Hiberniae Translated into English and put into the first vol. of Raphael Holinsheds books of Chronicles Lond. 1586. fol. De vita S. Patricii Hyberniae
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
ministers of the reformed Churches beyond the Seas maintained against the Donatists Oxon. 1641. qu. Taken I presume by the publisher from our authors book intit A vindication c. At length our author Mason surrendring up his pious soul to him that first gave it not without the great grief of those who well knew his learning and piety in the month of Dec. in sixteen hundred twenty and one was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Orford before-mentioned year 1621 Over his grave was soon after a Monument put with an Inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by In his Archdeaconry of Norf. was installed Tho. Muriel M. A. 30. Dec. 1621. After him was installed Writhington White 19 Oct. 1629. and after him Rob. White Bach. of Div. 23. Sept. 1631. who dying in the times of usurpation Philip Tenison was installed in his place 24. Aug. 1660. who dying Edw. Reynolds M. A. and Son to Dr. E. Reynolds B. of Norwich was installed therein 15. Apr. 1661. HENRY JACOB was a Kentish man born entred a Commoner or Batler in S. Maries hall 1579. aged 16 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became beneficed in his own Country particularly as I have been informed at Cheriton but upon search into that Parish register wherein are the names of all the Rectors of that Church set down since 1591. H. Jacob. occurs not as having been perhaps Rector before that time He was a person most excellently well read in Theological authors but withal was a most zealous Puritan or as his Son Henry used to say the first Independant in England His writings against Francis Johnson a Brownist exile for Jesus Ch. as he stiles himself and Tho. Bilson Bishop of Winton speak him learned With the former he controverted concerning the Churches and Ministers of England and with the other concerning Christs suffering and descention into Hell Which controversie though eagerly bandied to and fro between them yet it was afterwards plyed more hotly in both the Unisities in 1604. and after where Bilsons doctrine was maintained and held up yet publickly opposed by many of our Zealots both at home and abroad At home by Gabr. Powell a stiff Puritan mentioned under the year 1607. and abroad by Hugh Broughton and Rob. Parker I mean that Robert a Divine sometimes of Wilton in Wilts who leaving the Nation for conscience sake died at Deusbourgh in Gelderland in Autumn time or after an 1630. leaving behind him a Widdow named Dorothie and a Son named Thomas author of De traductione peccatoris There were two more brethren at least of the separation who opposed Bilson's doctrine but their names I cannot now justly tell you The works of our author Hen. Jacob are these Treatise of the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption c. written against certain errours in these points publickly preached in Lond. 1597. Lond. 1598. oct The points weâ—e 1 That Christ suffered for us the wrath of God which we may well term the pains of Hell or hellish sorrows 2 That Christ after his death on the Cross went not into Hell in his Soul Defence of the Church and ministry of England against Francis Johnson Brownist Middleburg 1599. qu. They had several disputes in Amsterdam about the Church of England being a true Church Defence of a treatise touching the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption Printed 1600. qu. Reasons taken out of Gods word and the best humane testimonies proving a necessity of reforming our Churches of England c. Printed 1604. qu. A position against vain glorious and that which is falsly called learned preaching Printed 1604. oct The divine beginning and institution of Christs true visible and material Church Leyden 1610. oct Plain and cleer exposition of the second commandement Printed 1610. oct Declaration and opening of certain points with a sound confirmation of some others in a treatise entit The divine beginning c. as before Middleburg 1611. He hath written and published other things as the Counter poyson c. which being printed by stealth or beyond the Seas year 1621 are rare to be either seen or procured He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred twenty and one or thereabouts aged 60. years or more but where buried unless in London where he began to gather a congregation in the year 1616. I cannot tell He left behind him a Son of both his names who was afterwards Fellow of Mert. coll and a prodigy for curious and critical learning as I shall tell you at large when I come to him HENRY SAVILE second Son of Hen. Savile by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Rob. Ramsden Gent. second Son of Joh. Savile of New hall in Yorksh Esq was born at Bradley alias Over-Bradley near to Halifax in the same County on the last day of Nov. an 1549. 3. Ed. 6. made his first entry into this University in the beginning of the year 1561. and then according to the fashion had a Tutor to teach him Grammar and another Dialect or else one and the same person did both In the beginning of Lent 1565. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and forthwith determined to the admiration of his Auditors who ever after esteemed him a good Philosopher About that time an election of Bach. Fellows of Merton coll then in a very poor condition for good Scholars as most places in the University were being made he was chosen one of the number as was Edm. Bunney afterwards a learned Theologist In 1570. our author Savile proceeded in his faculty and read his Ordinaries on the Almagest of Ptolomy Whereby growing famous for his learning especially for the Gr. tongue and Mathematicks in which last he voluntarily read a Lecture for some time to the Academians he was elected Proctor of the University for two years together with Joh. Vnderhill of New college afterwards Rector of that of Lincoln and Bishop of Oxon. For then and after those that executed the Procuratorial office were elected by the Doctors and Masters of the University for learning worth experience and magnanimous Spirits but when the Caroline Cicle was made in 1629. they were elected in their respective Coll. by a few notes In 1578. he travelled into France and other Countries and thereupon improving himself in learning languages and the knowledge of the World and Men became a most accomplished person at his return About that time he was instituted Tutor to Q. Elizab. for the Gr. tongue who taking a liking to his parts and personage was not only the sooner made Warden of Merton coll tho a noted person Bunney before-mentioned was elected with him and presented to the Archb. of Cant. for confirmation but also by her favour was made Provost of Eaton coll in the year 1596. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Day to the See of Winton While he governed the former which was 36 years Summâ curâ as 't is said diligentiâ
Brayntrey in Essex which was the best preferment I think he had He was a person esteemed by most men to have been replenished with all kind of vertue and learning to have been profound in Philosophical and Theological learning a great Canonist and so familiar and exact in the Fathers Councels and Schoolmen that none in his time scarce went beyond him Also that none have written with greater diligence I cannot say with a meekermind because some have reported that he was as foul-mâ—â—ched against the Papists particularly M. Ant. de 〈…〉 was afterwards against them and the Prelatists or with better truth or faith than he as by those things of his extant do appear the titles of which are these Sermons As 1 Serm. of Sanctification preached on Act Sunday 12. Jul. 1607. on 1 Thes. 5. 23. Lond. 1608. qu. 2 Inaugurat Serm. of K. Jam. at Pauls Cross 24. Mar. 1608. on 2 Chron. 9. 5 6 7 8 9. Ibid. 1609. qu. 3 Serm. of Predestination on 2 Pet. 1. 10. Lond. 1620. 23. qu. Justinian the Emperour defended against Card. Baronius Lond. 1616. in 7 sh in qu. Introductio in Metaphysicam lib. 4. Oxon. 1619. in a little oct Defence of Constantine with a treatise of the Popes Temporal Monarchy Lond. 1621. qu. Logicae libriquinque de praedicalibus praedicamentis c. Lond. 1622. c. Ox. 1677. in a large qu. Appendix de Sillogismo Sophistico Tractatus de providentia Dei Cantab. 1622. c. qu. Defensio Eccl. Anglicanae contra M. Anton. de Dominis Archiep Spalatensis injurias Lond. 1625. qu. Published by Dr. Joh. Barcham Which book was held to be the most exactest piece for controversie since the time of the Reformation Virgilius dormitans Or a treatise of the first General Councel held at Constantinople an 553. under Justinian the Emperour in the time of Pope Vigilius Lond. 1631. fol. Popish falsifications Or an answer to a treatise of a Popish Recusant intit The first part of Protestants proofs for Catholicks Religion and Recusancy taken only from the writings of such Protestant Doctors and Divines of England as have been published in the Reign of K. James an 1607. MS. This book I saw at Oxon in the hands of Mr. Edw. Benlowes the Poet who in his younger days was a Papist or at least very Popishly affected and in his elder years a bitter Enemy to that Party Whether the said book was ever printed I cannot tell Animadversions on Cardinal Baronius his Annals MS. Either lost or embezil'd after the authors death MSS. The copies of which were formerly if not still in the Tabarders Library in Qu. coll De caelo Physica In Aristotelis Organon I have seen also several of his Epistles written to Dr. Hen. Airay Provost of Qu. coll stitch'd up with Dr. Joh. Rainolds his Declamations and other things among the MSS. in the Library of Dr. Thom. Barlow afterwards B. of Lincoln What else he hath written I find not nor any thing more of him only that he dying at Blacknotly before-mentioned for want of a Bishoprick as K. Jam. 1. used to say was buried in the Chancel of the Church there 25. year 1624 Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and four At which time Dr. Joh. Barchem Dean of Rockyng in Essex did Preach his Funeral Sermon before several Gentlemen and Ministers of the neighbourhood shewing to them in the conclusion the great piety and learning of him who then lay as a spectacle of mortality before them Had that Sermon been printed I might have thence said more of this worthy author but it being quite lost I presume after that Doctors death we must be content with those things that are already said of him PETER BOWNE or Bounâ—â—u as he is sometimes written was a Bedfordshire man born admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Apr. 1590. aged 15. of which he was afterwards Fellow and M. of Arts. This person having a great Genie to the Faculty of Medicine entred on the Physick line practiced in these parts and at length became Dr. of his Faculty Afterwards he wrote Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia Lond. 1624. qu. At which time he practiced Physick in the great City and was much in esteem for it in the latter end of King Jam. 1. and beginning of King Ch. 1. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing of his last days GEORGE MORE Son of Sir Will. More beloved of Q. Elizabeth for his many services done in the Common-wealth was extracted from the Mores of Devonshire but whether born there or in Surrey in truth I cannot tell After he had spent some time in Oxon particularly as it seems in Exeter coll he went to the Inns of Court but took no degree there or here In 1597. he had the honour of Knighthood conâ—erâ—ed upon him being about that time a frequent Speakâ—â— in several Parliaments and much in esteem for his excellent parts In 1604. he being about that time Treasurer to Henry Prince of Wales did by the name of Sir George More of Surrey give several MSS. to the Publick Library at Oxon and 40 l. to buy printed books and in the year following he was actually created Master of Arts. In 1610 he became Chancellour of the most Noble Order of the Garter and about 1615. Lievtenant of the Tower in the place of Sir Jervase Elwaies imprisoned for the consenting to the poysoning of Sir Thom. Overbnry He hath written A demonstration of God in his Works against all such that deny either in word or in life that there is a God Lond. 1598. 1624. qu. Parliamentary Speeches and other things which I have not yet seen He was living at Losely or Lothesley near Guildsord in Surrey where he had a fair Estate descended to him from his Father in sixteen hundred twenty and four and after and there died and was buried He had a Son named Rob. More who was a Knight and a Daughter who was married to the famous Dr. Joh. Donne afterwards Dean of Pauls I have made mention of another George More in the Fasti an 1573. WILLIAM BROWNE Son of Tho. Br. of Tavystock in Devonsh Gent. was born there spent some time among the Muses in Exeter coll after K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown whence retiring to the Inner Temple without any degree confer'd upon him became famed there for his Poetry especially after he had published Britannia's Pastorals Esteemed then by judicious persons to be written in a sublime strain and for subject amorous and very pleasing The first part of it was printed at Lond. 1613. fol. and then usher'd into the World with several copies of verses made by his learned acquaintance as by Joh. Selden Mich. Drayton Christoph Brook c. The second part or book was printed at Lond. 1616. fol. and then commended to the World by various copies made by John Glanvill whom I shall mention elsewhere for his sufficiencies in the Common Law Joh. Davies of Hereford George Wither of Linc.
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
am that after he had continued many years there and had taken the degrees in Divinity he was promoted to the See of Landaff upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort where he behaved himself so admirable well to the credit of our Nation as some Ch. Historians will tell you that after his return he was upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich elected to the See of Chichester confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgment and of various reading a bitter Enemy to the Papists and a severe Calvinist which may farther appear in some of these books following of his composition Heroici Characteres ad illustriss equitem Henricum Nevillum Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sydney in Bodleiomnema and in other books Tithes examined and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right Lond. 1606. 1611. qu. Jurisdiction Regal Episcopal Papal Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes and of the Church c. Lond. 1610. qu. Consensus Eccles Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scripturis Ecclesia fide gratia c. Lond. 1613. oct Dedicated to the Mertonians A thankful remembrance of Gods mercy in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts Short directions to know the true Church Lond. 1615. c. in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords the States General Lond. 1619. in one sh and an half in qu. The madness of Astrologers or an examination of Sir Christop Heydons book intit A defence of judiciary Astrology Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. who had married the authors Daughter It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651. Examination of those things wherein the author of the late Appeale holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians to be the doctrines of the Church of England Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination made to the Appeale of Rich. Mountague who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester came out six more viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter a second by Dr. Dan. Featly a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates hall in Oxon a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Div. sometimes of Eman. coll in Cambridge afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London A joynt attestation avowing that the discipline of th Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort Lond. 1626. qu. Vita Bernardi Gilpini vere sanctiss famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries and Episcopal government in England Printed several times in qu. and oct The edit in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet Latin Letter to the learned Camden containing some notes and observations on his Britannia MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper Mi Camdene Brittaniam tuam c. Several Sermons viz. one that is joyned to the English life of Bern. Gilpin Another on Luke 2. from ver 41. to 50. in tw A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct c. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations and in the New Translation of the Bible which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken yet were not compleated and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Choire near to the Altar of his Cath. Church at Chichester on the 27. of the same month By his first Wife named Anne Daughter of Sir Hen. Killegrew Knight and Widdow of Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere in Berks he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton living sometimes in the Parish of Furâ—e in Sussex elected Burgess for Arundel to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nov. following he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain in which office and command he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Bishops JOHN DODERIDGE or Doddridg was born at or near to Barnstaple in Devonshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1572. took one degree in Arts about 4 years after and compleated it by Determination About that time being entred into the Middle Temple he made great proficiency in the Common Law became a noted Counsellour and in 45. Eliz. Lent Reader of that Inn. In 1603. Jan. 20. he was made Serjeant at Law being about that time Prince Henry's Serjeant but in the year following he was discharged of his Serjeantship and became Solliciter Gen. to King James 1. In 1607. Jun. 25. he was constituted one of the Kings Serjeants and on the 5. July following he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. at Whitehal In 1612. Nov. 25. he was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas afterwards of the Kings Bench and in Feb. 1613. he was actually created Master of Arts in Serjeants Inn by the Vicechanc both the Proctors and five other Academians Which degree was conferred upon him in gratitude for his great service he had then lately done for the University in several Law suits depending between the said University and City of Oxon. While he continued in Exeter coll he was a severe Student and by the help of a good Tutor he became a noted Disputant So that by the foundation of learning which he had laid in that coll forwarded by good natural parts and continual industry he became not only eminent in his own profession but in the Arts Divinity and Civil Law insomuch that it was difficult with some to judge in which of all those Faculties he excelled But being mostly taken up with the Common Law he could not be at leisure to honour the World with his great knowledge only with these things following The Lawyers light or due direction for the study of the Law c. Lond. 1629. qu. A compleat Parson or a description of Advowsons and Church-livings c. Lond. 1630. qu. Delivered in several
Thursday March 2. S. Ceddes day the Lord Brook shot in the left Eye and killed in the place at Lichfield going to give onset upon the Close of the Church he ever having been fierce against Bishops and Cathedrals His bever up and armed to the knee so that a Musket at that distance could have done him but little harm Thus was his Eye put out who about two years since said he hoped to live to see at S. Pauls not one stone left upon another c. This Lord Brook who did often bragg that he should live to see the millinary fools paradice begin in his life time did give occasion by words that he uttered to certain observing persons to think that his death was near viz. that at his going out of Coventry when he went towards Lichfield he give order to his Chaplain that he should preach upon this Text If I perish I perish being the words of Ester in a different but a far better cause Est 4. 16. Also that in a prayer of above an hour long which he conceived before his setting on the Close he was heard to wish that if the cause he was in were not right and just he might be presently cut off using the like expressions to his Souldiers also JOHN BEAUMONT Son of Francis Beaumont one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth was born of and descended from an ancient and noble family of his name living at Gracedieâ— in Leicestershire became a Gent. Com. with his Brethren Henry and Francis in Broadgates hall in the beginning of Lent-term an 1596. aged 14. Whence after he had spent about three years he retired to one of the Inus of Court and afterwards to his native Country where taking to Wife one of the family of Fortescue was at length in 1626. made a Baronet The former part of his life he successfully employed in Poetry and the latter he as happily bestowed on more serious and beneficial Studies And had not death untimely cut him off in his middle age he might have prov'd a Patriot being accounted at the time of his death a person of great knowledge gravity and worth He hath written Bosworth Field A Poem Lond. 1629. oct A taste of the variety of other Poems Printed with the former Poem He hath also made translations into English from Horace Virgil Lucan Persius Ausâ—nius Claudian c. All which were collected together after the authors death by his Son Sir Joh. Beaumont Bt. and were printed with the former Poems in 1629. being then usherd into the world by the commendation-Poems of Tho. Nevill Tho. Hawkyns Benj. Johnson Mich. Drayton Philip King Son of the B. of London c. This Sir John Beaumont the Poet departed this mortal life in the Winter time year 1628 in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Church at Gracedieu leaving behind him a Son named John beforemention'd who died without issue another called Francis afterwards a Jesuit and a third named Thomas who succeeded his brother in his estate and honour As for Francis Beaumont who with his elder brother Sir John came to Broadgates hall in 1596. as I have before told you he must not be understood to be the same with Francis Beaumont the eminent Poet and Comedian for tho he was of the same family and most of his name studied in Oxon yet he was educated in Cambridge and after he had made himself famous over all England for the 50. Comedies and Tragedies which he with Joh. Fletcher Gent. had composed made his last exit in the beginning of March and was buried on the ninth of the same month in 1615 at the entrance of St. Benedicts Chappel within the Abby Church of St. Peter within the City of Westminster As for John Fletcher Son of Rich Fletcher B. of London he was also a Cambridge man and dying of the Plague was buried in the Church or yard of S. Mary Overey in Southwark 29 Aug. 1625. aged 49. Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet hath in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Pr. 1658. in oct an Epitaph on Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church in Southwark yet the register of that Church saith that Massinger was buried in one of the four yards belonging to that Church as I shall tell you when I come to him under the year 1639. Later in time than Sir Jo. Beaumont hath appeared another of both his names who hath written and published Observations upon the Apology of Dr. Hen. More Cambr. 1685. qu. And is at present the Kings prof of Div. there JOHN DENISON who in his time was cried up for an eminent preacher became a Student in Balliol coll at the beginning of the year 1590. and when M. of A. entred into orders preached frequently in these parts was made Chaplain of K. James 1. chief moderator of the Free-School in Reading in Berks and at length Vicar of St. Maries Church there In which last he was succeeded by Tho. Bunbury of Ball. coll but thrust out thence by the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil Wars Denison was a learned man well read in Theological authors and wrote and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Christian Petitioner preached on Act Sunday 7 Jul. 1611. on Nehem. 13. 22. Lond. 1611. qu. 2 The sin against the Holy Ghost at Pauls Cross on Heb. 10. 26 27. Ib. 1611. qu. 3 Christians care for the Souls safety on Mark 8. 36. Lond. 1621. oct 4 Heavenly Banquet or the doctrine of the Lords Supper set forth in seven Sermons on 1 Cor. 11. from verse 23. to 29. Lond. 1619. oct 5 Blessedness of Peacemakers two Sermons on Matth. 5. 9. Lond. 1620. oct 6 The Sinners acquittance before the K. at Greenwich on Isa 53. 4. Lond. 1624. oct 7 Check to curiosity and The safest service two Serm. at Whitehall on Joh. 21. ver 22. Lond. 1624. oct 8 Heavens joy for a sinners repentance on Luke 15. 7. Ibid. 1623. oct c. A threesold resolution concerning earths vanity hells horror and heavens felicity Lond. 1616. oct 4th edit Justification of the gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1619 oct On the two Sacraments Baptism and the Lords Supper Lond. 1621. qu. De confessionis auricularis vanitate adversus Card. Bellarmini Sophismata Ox. 1621. qu. De sigilli confessionis impietate contra Scholasticorum Neotericorum quorundam dogmata disputatio Printed with the former He dyed in the latter end of January and was buried on the first of Feb. in the Church of St. Mary at Reading before mentiond in sixteen hundred twenty and eight He had a Brother or near Kinsman called Stephen Denison D. D. and many years Minister of St. Catherine Kree Church in London who hat published several things of Divinity as the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue
Philosophy of the Stoicks Lond. 1598. oct And published Two short Treatises against the orders of the begging Fryers written by Joh. Wicliffe Also as 't is said a book intit Fiscus Papalis Sive Catalogus indulgentiarum reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae ex vet MS. discriptus Lond. 1617. qu. The Latine out of the MS. is set down in one Colum and the English in another by the publisher This I say is reported to have been published by our author James tho others tell us that it was done by Will. Crashaw of Cambridge Howsoever it is sure we are that it hath supplyed with matter a certain scribler named Henry Care in his Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome when he was deeply engaged by the Fanatical party after the popish Plot broke out in 1678. to write against the Church of England and the members thereof then by him and his party supposed to be deeply enclining towards Popery c. I say by that Hen. Care whose breeding was in the nature of a petty Fogger a little despicable wretch and one that was afterwards much reflected upon in the Observators published by Rog. L'estrange which Care after all his scribbles against the Papists and the men of the Church of England was after K. James 2. came to the Crown drawn over so far by the R. Cath. party for bread and money-sake and nothing else to write on their behalf and to vindicate their proceedings against the men of the Church of England in his Mercuries which weekly came out intit Publick occurrences truly stated The first of which came out 21. Feb. 1687. and were by him continued to the time of his death which hapning 8. Aug. 1688. aged 42. was buried in the yard belonging to to the Black-friers Church in London with this inscription nailed to his Coffin Here lies the ingenious Mr. Henry Care who died c. This person I can compare to none more than to Marchemont Nedham whose parts tho he wanted yet they were Weather-Cocks both alike as I shall tell you more at large when I shall come to that person which will be in the 2d Vol. As for our learned and industrious author Dr. James he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the north Suburb of Oxon in the month of Aug. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged about 58. years and was buried towards the upper end of New college Chappel leaving behind him this character that he was the most industrious and indefatigable writer against the Papists that had been educated in Oxon since the Reformation of Religion Which character being made manifest by his writings it would have been esteemed as generous an act for the Society of that House to have honoured his reliques with a Mon. and Epitaph as they did those of Tho. Lydiat the Mathematitian I shall make mention of another Thomas James in my discourse of Hen. Gellibrand under the year 1637. ROBERT WAKEMAN Son of Tho. Wakeman of Fliford-Flavel in Worcestershire Minister of Gods word was born in that County became a student of Ball. col in the beginning of 1590 aged 14. made Chaplain-Fellow thereof 17. Jul. 1596. being then Bach. of Arts. About that time entring into Orders was a frequent preacher for some years in these parts At length being made Rector of Beer-Ferres and afterwards of Charlton in Devon took the degrees in Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Christian practice at S. Maries in Oxon. on Act. Sunday 8. Jul. 1604. on Acts 2. 46. Lond. 1605. in oct 2 Solomons exaltation before the King on 2 Cor. 2. 8. Ox. 1605. oct 3 The Judges charge on 2 Cor. 19. 6. printed 1610. oct 4 Jonahs Sermon and Ninevehs repentance at Pauls Cross on Jonah 3. ver 4. 5. Ox. 1606. oct 5 The true Professor opposed against the formal Hypocrites of these times on Luke 10. 28. Lond. 1620. oct and others which I have not seen among which is a Serm. on Eccles 11. 1. printed 1607. he gave up the ghost in Septemb. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of the Church at Beer-Ferres on the nineteenth day of the same month leaving then behind him several Children who were all in the beginning of the civil war as the Tradition goes there perswaded from their Religion to that of Rome by one Capt. Rich. Read as 't was supposed who quarter'd in the house where they lived and married one of the Doctors Daughters Afterwards they retired into Worcestershire where they or at least their issue now live JOHN SANFORD Son of Rich Sanford of Chard in Somersetshire Gent. descended from those of his name in Devon was born in Somersetshire entred a Commoner of Ball. college about the time of the Act in 1581. where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was then made one of the Chaplains of Magd. coll At length having contracted a friendship with John Digby Commoner of that House did travel with him into France Spain and Italy whereby he did much advantage himself in the modern languages Afterwards he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the said Digby then known by the name of Sir John Digby at which time he as sent into Spain to treat of a marriage between the Infanta Sister of the King of that Realm and Prince Charles of England After his return Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. made him his domestick Chaplain and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and Rector of Ivychurch in Kent He was a person of great learning and experience and a Solid Divine well skill'd in several languages and a tolerable Lat. Poet. His works are Gods arrow of Pestilence serm on Psal. 38. 2. Oxon. 1604. oct Le Guichet Francois Janicula scu introductio ad linguam Gallicam Ox. 1604. qu. A brief extract of the former Lat. Grammar done into English for the easier instruction of the Learner Oxon. 1605. qu. Grammar or introduction to the Ital. tongue Oxon. 1605. qu. An entrance to the Spanish tongue Lond. 1611. and 1633. qu. and other things as 't is probable with I have not yet seen year 1629 He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the 24. Septemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 60. and more and was buried in the middle almost of the north Isle joyning to the nave er body of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over his Grave was soon after laid a white free-stone with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 199. b. wherein is mention'd his great charity to Widdows Orphans and the Poor EDWIN SANDYS Second Son of Edwin sometimes Archbishop of York was born in Worcestershire particularly as I suppose within the City of Worcester when his father was Bishop of that Diocess before his translation to York admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Sept. 1577. and
trial of a Christian's sincere love to Christ in four Sermons ca 1 Cor. 16. 22. on Ephes 6. ver ult c. Oxon. 1630. c. in tw He died much lamented in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 30. year 1629 or thereabouts and was buried in Magd. coll leaving then beâ—â—â—â— him other things fit to be printed as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man HENRY YELVERTON Son â—f Sir Christop 〈◊〉 of Eston-Manâ—uit in Northamptonshire one of the Justices of the Kings 〈◊〉 and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at 〈◊〉 in Norfolk was born on S. Peters day in 1566. educated for a time 〈◊〉 the Oxonians and afterwards among the Students 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Inn near London where after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrâ—ster he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religiâ—us Gentleman and a person well read in the Municipal 〈◊〉 In 1613. he was made Solicitor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the endeavours of Carr Earl of 〈◊〉 March 1616. he was constituted Attorney 〈◊〉 that time committed Prisoner to the Tower for denying to appear and plead publickly against his Patron Carr in the matter of Sir Thomas Overbury's death In 1621. May 5. he was discharged of his office of Attorney fined and committed Prisoner to the Tower again upon a late sentence in the Star-Chamber for passing some clauses in the City-Charter of London when he was Attorney Gen. not agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant These things being mostly done by the power and aggravation of the D. of Bucks who hated him because he had been a friend to Somerset Yelverton continued where he was without any hopes of release or future advance At length upon some things utter'd in Buckingham's care when he came incognito to speak with and examine him concerning certain matters in the Tower he was afterwards released taken into favour and in 1625. was made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and afterwards of the Common Pleas which last he enjoyed to the time of his death and had not the Duke been untimely cut off he would in all probability been made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Under his name goes Several Speeches spoken in Parliament One of which was in answer to matters charged against him by the Commons before the H. of Lords in 1621. Soon after the Lords declared that for sundry things uttered in the said Speech which touched the Kings honour he should be fined to the K. ten thousand marks be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure and make a submission to his Majesty And for the scandal committed in some words against Buckingham he should pay him five thousand marks and make his submission to him Several years after his death was published under his name this book following Reports of divers special cases in the Court of Kings Bench as well in the latter part of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth as in the first ten years of K. James Lond. 1661. and 74. fol. It was printed by the original in French written with the authors own hand remaining with Sir Tho. Twisden Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and published by Sir Will. Wild Knight and Baronet then 1661. Serjeant at Law the Kings Serjeant and Recorder of the City of London and since one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench He died near Westminster 23. Nov. or thereabouts 1679. Rights of the People of England concerning impositions Lond. 1679. oct He also gathered and published 32 Sermons of Edw. Philips a zealous and Puritannical Preacher as I have told you under the year 1603. and other things as 't is probable of the like nature but such I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 in winter time before February and was buried I suppose where his chief Seat was viz. at Eston-Manduit or Maudet in Northamptonshire leaving then behind him a Son named Robert and a Brother called Sir Christopher who was about that time one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. From this Sir Hen. Yolverton was descended Charles Yelverton who was called up to the House of Lords by the name of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen as being the Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Yelverton Baronet by Susan his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen JOHN ELYOTT or Elliot â— Cornish man born and an Esquires Son became a Gent. Com. of Exeter Coll. in Mich. Term an 1607. aged 15 years left the University without a degree after he had continued there about 3 years went to one of the Inns of Court as it seems and was made a Barrester In 1618. May 10. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj at Whitehall and ever after to the time of his death was either elected a Knight of his County or a Burgess for some Borough therein to serve in all Parliaments But so it was that he shewing himself in them an active man for the publick a generous assertor as he pretended of the ancient liberty of the Subject and an enemy to the incroachments made by rising Favourites was several times committed to custody He hath going under his name Several Speeches spoken in Parliament as 1 Speech against George Duke of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 grievances 2 Sp. by way of Epilogue concerning the Duke of Bucks impeachment These two were spoken in 1626. and soon after he with Sir Dud. Digges who spoke the Prologue to the said impeachment were committed both prisoners to the Tower but soon after were released whereupon Elyott spoke 3 A Sp. to clear himself as to the particulars charged against him In the same year he was imprison'd in the Gatehouse at Westm for refusing to part with money on the Loan and thereupon in a Petition to the King he set forth the illegality of the said Loan or of any Tax without a Parliament Which way he took when his Council would not assist him otherwise alledging farther that his conscience could not submit to it and prayed for his liberty but could not obtain it 4 Speech upon the Kings giving notice to both Houses that he did intend shortly to end the Session of Parliament an 1628. 5 Sp. against the D. of Bucks interrupted in it by the Speaker 6 Sp. concerning Religion an 1628. This was printed in 1641. in one sh in qu. 7 Sp. against particular persons spoken in 1628. and therefore a little before the dissolution of the Parl. he with other Members were committed to the Tower All which Speeches with Certaine Debates of the said Sir Joh. Elyott you may see in the first vol. of Historical Collections made by John Rushworth What more to be added is that about the same time 1628. was an information exhibited against Sir John in the Court of the Kings Bench for a sower of discord for his murmurings seditions c. against the King Nobles Prelates
or caused to be printed but such I have not yet seen As for the youngest Brother Rob. Sherley before-mentioned whether he was of Hart hall I know not for his name occurs not in the Matricula only that of John Sherley a Sussex man and the Son of a Gent. matriculated as a Member of that hall in 1582. aged 14. The said Robert whom also I find to occur by the title of Knight was a great man of his time and so highly valued by the Emperour of Persia that he not only sent him Embassadour to Sigismond the 3. King of Poland as also to K. Jam. 1. of England an 1612. for he arrived at London 26. June that year but was pleased to give him his Neice in Marriage and to confer upon him honour and riches As to the general performances of the aforesaid 3 Brothers I know the affidavit of a Poet carrieth but a small credit in the Court of History and the Comedy made of them intit The travailes of three English Brothers Sir Thomas Sir Anthony and Rob. Sherley printed at Lond. 1607. in qu. is but a friendly foe to their memory as suspected more accommodated to please the present spectators than inform posterity The before-mentioned Sir Thomas the elder Brother and Traveller had a Son named Thomas who was a Knight also and suffer'd much in the time of the Rebellion for adhering to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. of ever Blessed Memory And that Sir Thomas the Sufferer had to his eldest Son another Thomas commonly called Dr. Tho. Sherley born in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster and baptized there 15. Oct. 1638. lived when a boy with his Father in Magd. coll during the time that Oxon was a Garrison for the King and was bred up in Grammar learning in the Free-School joyning to the said College Afterwards he went into France studied Physick and was graduated in that Faculty there After his return he became noted for his practice therein and at length was made Physician in Ordinary to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. and I think Doctor of his Faculty He hath published A Philosophical Essay declaring the probable causes whence stones are produced in the greater World From which occasion is taken to search into the original of all bodies being a prodromus to a medicinal truth concerning the causes and cure of the stone in the Kidneys and Bladder of Man Lond. 1672. oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical transactions num 81. p. 1030. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Cochlearia Curiosa or the Curiosities of Scurvy-grass Lond. 1676. oct written by Dr. Andr. Molimbrochius of Leipsig An account of which book you may also see in the said Phil. Transact nu 125. p. 621. 2 Medicinal Councels or Advices written originally in French by Theod. Tarquet de Mayerâ—e put into Latin by Theoph. Bonettus M. D. Lond. 1676. and translated from French into Engl. A treatise of the Gout Lond. 1676. written by the said Tarquet de Mayerne He the said Dr. Tho. Sherley died of grief 5. Aug. 1678. and was buried in the S. W. Vault under part of St. Brides Church near to Fleet street in London His grief arose upon a just suspicion that he should be totally defeated of an Estate in Sussex worth about 3000 l. per an descended to him from his Great-Grandfather Sir Tho. Sherley mostly detained from him by Sir Joh. Pagge Baronet Concerning which matter the two Houses of Parliament were engaged in a quarrel a little before Dr. Sherley's death SAMUEL AUSTIN Son of Tho. Austin of Lystwithiel in the County of Cornwal was born there became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1623. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1630. About which time being numbred among the Levites was beneficed in his own Country He hath written Austin's Urania Or the heavenly Muse in a Poem full of meditations for the comfort of all Souls at all times Lond. 1629. oct dedicated to Joh. Prideaux D. D. a favourer of the studies of the author then Bach. of Arts. What other things he hath written or published besides various copies of verses printed in Lat. and English in other books I know not nor any thing else of him only that he had a Son of both his names a conceited Coxcomb who endeavoured to Patrizare but through his exceeding vanity and folly he was made use of as another Tho. Coryate by certain Poeâ—s of Oxon in their respective copies of verses set before his Naps on Parnassus c. printed 1658. as I shall tell you in my other volume of writers JOHN BAYLY Son of Dr. Lew. Bayly Bish of Bangor was born in Herefordshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1611. aged 16 years or thereabouts made Fellow the year following and by the help of a good Tutor Dr. Prideaux did advance himself much in Academical learning After he had compleated the degree of M. of Arts he took holy orders from his Father by whose procurement he had one or more Benefices confer'd upon him At length being made one of his Maj. Chaplains and Guardian of Christ's-Hospital in Ruthym took the degrees in Divinity and published Several Sermons as 1 The Angel-Guardian on Psal. 34. 7. Lond. 1630. qu. 2 The light enlightning on Joh. 1. 9. Printed at Lond. the same year I have been informed he had published other things but such I have not yet seen JOHN BARNES or Barnesius as he writes himself was descended from those of his name in Lancashire but whether born in that County I know not was educated for a time in this University but being always in animo Catholicus he left it and his Country and going into Spain was instructed in Philosophy and Divinity by the famous Doctor J. Alph. Curiel who was wont to call Barnes by the name of John Huss because of a spirit of contradiction which was always observed in him After he had finished his course of studies he took upon him the habit of S. Benedict with a resolution then to live and dye in it and about that time was sent into the Mission of England to strengthen the Brethren but being taken and imprisoned was sent into Normandy with certain Priests and Jesuits Soon after he was by his Superior sent into Lorain where he taught Divinity in the English Monastery of Benedictines called Dieuward or Dieuleward and was there by the fraternity and others too esteemed profound in that great faculty tho he cared not to make shew of it much less to have any thing of his composition published After he had left Dieuleward he became a Professor either of Div. or Philosophy in Marchein college in Doway where also he gained to himself the name of an eminent Divine and Philosopher Thence he crossed the Seas and setled for a time in England where he fell out with his Superiors for refusing to submit to the Union
Poems and Epistles before mentioned and at the end are Elegies on the authors death Six Sermons Lond. 1634. qu. Fasciculus Poematum Epigrammatum Miscellaneorum Translated into English by Jasp Mayne D. D. with this title A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams Lond. 1632. oct Ignatius his Conclave or his inthronization in a late election in hell c. Lond. 1635. in tw there again in 1653. An edition of this came forth in 1626. in oct intit Ignatius his Conclave viz. of establishing a Church in the Moon Apology for the Jesuits Pr. with the former Eighty Sermons Lond. 1640. fol. Among which are involved the six Sermons before-mentioned These eighty Sermons are called The first vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Declaration of that Paradox or Thesis that self homicide is not so naturally a Sin that it may not be otherwise Lond. 1644. 48. c. qu The original under the authors own hand I have seen in Bodley's Library dedicated to Edward L. Herbert of Cherbury Essays in Divinity c. Lond. 1651. oct Published by his Son John who tells us that they were written before his Father had entred into holy Orders Prayers Pr. with the former Paradoxes Problems Essays and Characters Lond. 1652. oct In which book are involv'd several or most of the Paradoxes Problems c. before-mentioned Various Sermons Lond. 1649. fol. vol. 2. Six and twenty Sermons never before published Lond 1660. 61. fol. This is called the Third vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Letters to several persons of honour Lond. 1651. qu. Some of which I think were before printed He had also lying by him at his death many Sermon notes and other papers containing an extract of near fifteen hundred authors All which as his last Legacy he left to Dr. Hen. King afterwards B. of Chichester but what became of them after that Bishops death in 1669. I know not He also translated from Greek into English The ancient history of the Septuagint Lond. 1633. in tw written originally by Aristeus Which translation was revised and very much corrected by another hand Lond. 1685. oct He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of March year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the South Isle behind the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul near to the Monument of Dr. Jo. Colet Both whose Epitaphs with the Pictures of their respective Monuments you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale lately Garter K. of Arms. Our Author Dr. Jo. Donne left behind him a Son of both his Names but of none of his virtues manners or generous qualities and therefore by many his memory is condemn'd to utter Oblivion while that of his Father flourisheth in the History of his life written by Isaac Walton the first edition of which printed 1653. coming into the hands of the best critick of the last age I mean Jo. Hales of Eaton he affirmed to his friends that he had not seen a life written with more advantage to the Subject or more reputation to the writer than it JOHN RAWLINSON a fluent and florid Preacher of his time was born in London educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns coll 1591. aged 15. and was afterwards Fellow M. of A. and so great a frequenter of the Pulpits in Oxon that his name being cried up for an excellent Theologist became successively Rector of Taplow in Bucks Vicar of Asheldam in Essex Prebendary of Sarum D. of D. Principal of S. Edmunds hall Chaplain to Tho. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere L. Chanc. of England and in Ordinary to K. Jam. 1. Rector of Celsy in Sussex and of Whitchurch in Shropshire In all which places he was much followed for his frequent and edifying preaching great charity and publick Spirit He hath published Divers Sermons as 1 The four Summons of the Shulamite preached at Pauls Cross on Cantic 6. 12. Oxon. 1606. in oct 2 Fishermen Fishers of Men on Matth. 4. 19. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The Romish Judas preached on the 5. Nov. 1610. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Mercy to a Beast on Prov. 12. 10. Oxon. 1602. qu. 5 Vnmasking of the Hypocrite preached at S. Maries in Ox. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1616. qu. 6 Vivat Rex Let the King live or God save the King on 1 Sam. 10. 24. Ox. 1619. qu. 7 The Dove-like Soul on Psal 55. 6. Oxon. 1625. qu. 8 Lex Talionis on Judg. 1. 7. Ox. 1625. qu. 9 Surprising of Heaven on Mat. 11. 12. lb. 1625. qu. 10 The Bridegroom and Bride on Cant. 4. 8. lb. 1622. c. qu. Which four last Sermons viz. the 7 8 9 and 10. were all published together under the title of Quaâ—riga Salutis or Four Quadragesimal Sermons c. These are all the Sermons of his publication that I have yet seen and whether he be author of an Explication of the Creed Ten Commandments and Lords Prayer which is published under the name of Rawlinson in oct I know not He departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch in Shropshire before-mentioned where his name continues precious to this day among the inhabitants of that place and in the neighbourhood In his Prebendship of Salisbury called Netherbury in Ecclesia succeeded Thom. Fuller 18. Jun. 1631. the same who was afterwards the author of divers historical books and him Tho. Henchman 17. Aug. 1661. JOHN BUCKRIDGE Son of Will. Buckridge by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Tho. Keblewhyte of Baselden Son of John Keblewhyte Uncle to Sir Tho. Whyte the Founder of S. Johns college and he the Son of Henry some say John Keblewhyte of Fawley was born as I conceive at Draycot near to Marlborough in Wiltshire educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of the said coll in 1578. soon after Fellow and through the degrees in Arts Doctor of Divinity in the latter end of 1596. about which time he was Chaplain to Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury After he had left the University I find him to have been first of all Rector of North-Fambridge in Essex afterwards Chaplain to Robert E. of Essex Rector of North Kilworth in Leicestershire Vicar of S. Giles Church without Cripplegate London Archdeacon of Northampton Canon of Windsore and Hereford Chaplain to K. James and at length President of S. Johns college 1605. At which time his eminent abilities in the Pulpit had brought him into great credit with K. James insomuch that he was chosen to be one of the four Dr. Andrews B. of Chichester Dr. Barlow B. of Rochester and Dr. Jo. King then Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon were the other three who were appointed to Preach before his Maj. at Hampton Court in the month of Sept. 1606. for the reduction of the two Melvins and other Presbyterian Scots to a right understanding of the Church of England In
Religion which is set before it and Discourse concerning such Englishmen as have either been or in our histories reputed Cardinals of the Church of Rome which is put at the end of it But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses being very full of faults and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader he put them forthwith into Latine entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius c. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of Bathe Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire who dying near to the Bishops Pallace of and in London 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Pauls Cathedral and he the Son of Alex. Harrington descended from a younger brother of the Harringtons of Brierley in Yorkshire I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eaton Scholar and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry wrote a discourse for his private use intit A brief view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Qu. Elizabeths and King James's raign to the year 1608. c. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times and was written to the said Prince Henry as an additional supply to the before mention'd Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin upon occasion of that Proverb Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells In the said book the author Harrington doth by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth shew himself a great enemy to married Bishops especially to such that had been married twice and many things therein are said of them that were by no means fit to be published being as I have told you before written only for private use But so it was that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind Grandson by a Daughter to the author a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenents did when the Press was open print it at London 1653. in oct And no sooner it was published and came into the hands of many but 't was exceedingly clamour'd at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy condemning him much that published it The truth is that tho it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit The Court and character of K. James which was publish'd three years before yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Diffenters And there is no doubt but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned he would have raked out many things thence and aggravated them to the highest to furnish his Common Place book when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. Our author Godwin wrote also Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh in qu. Râ—rum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII Edwardo VI. Maria regnantibus Annales Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr coll Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty Which English translation hath been several times printed The man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither Lond. 1638. and 57. oct written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the seigned name of Domingo Gozales and published some years after the authors death by E. M. of Ch. Ch. This book which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies men of solid judgments have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity Among which Dr. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester composed by hints thence given as 't is thought a learned piece called A discovery of a new World in the Moon Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct Translated into English by Anon. who intitles it The mysterious Messenger unlocking the secrets of mens hearts Printed with The man in the Moon Lond. 1657. oct in two sheets only At length after our authors many labours wherein he aimed mostly at the publick he was taken with a long lingring disease which bringing him to his desired haven year 1633 in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred thirty and three was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne which with the mannour thereof belongs to the Bishops of Hereford situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City To the said See after his death was elected Dr. William Juxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London as I shall tell you elsewhere That which I have forgot to let the Reader know is that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff A treatise on the blessed Sacrament printed in oct and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin but to his predecessor as I suppose in Landaff called Gerv. Babington Sed de hoc quaere HUGH HOLLAND Son of Rob. Holland by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh Son of Lewys Holland Son of Llewellin Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre by Gwervilla his Wife Daughter of Howell ap Madock ap Jem ap Einion was born at Denbigh bred in Westminster School while Camden taught there elected into Trinity coll in Cambridge an 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow Thence he went to travel into Italy and was at Rome where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher and in his return touch'd at Constantinople where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador for the former freedom of his tongue At his return into England he retired to Oxon spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library and as I have been informed had his Lodging in Ball. coll which is partly the reason why I insert him here He is observed by a Cambridge man to have been no bad English but an excellent Latine Poet and by some thought worthy to be mention'd by Spencer Sidney and others the chiefest of our English Poets His works are these MSS. Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. raign Life of Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Armes A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of
the English Benedictines at Doway as one of them hath told me At length Doctor Pits coming into England for health sake left his preferment beyond the Seas and setled in the house of a R. Catholick named Stoner of Blounts Court near to Henley in Oxfordshire a younger family of those of Stomer near to Watlington year 1634 where dying about sixteen hundred thirty and four was buried in the Church of Rotherfield Pipard commonly called Pepper near to Henley before mention'd as I have been informed by an antient Catholick Gentlewoman who was born within a mile of and well acquainted with him yet in the register of that Church his own name appears not His Father Art Pits died at Eifley in 1579. and was buried on the north side of the Chancel there leaving a fair estate behind him to be enjoyed by four Sons then living viz. Robert Thomas Arthur and Philip. ROBERT JOHNSON a Londoner born became a Student in Magd. coll an 1595. and in the year after Demy aged 18. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1601. Afterwards he entred into the sacred function became one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary and Bach. of Divinity which is all I know of him only that he published The way to glory or the preaching of the Gospel is the ordinary means of our Salvation Sermon in St. Pauls Cathedral 10. Decemb. 1620. on 2 Thes. 2. 14. London 1621. qu. A confutation of our Adversaries opinion of the Popes defining and expounding Scriptures Ex Cathedra is to be believed as undoubted truth Printed with the former book Various Sermons as 1 The necessity of faith before the Prince at S. James on Heb. 11 6. Lond. 1624. qu. 2 Serm. on Psal. 119. 33. Pr. in qu. 3 Serm. on 1 Cor. 9. 14. London 1633. and a fourth if I mistake not intit Davids Teacher on Psal. 19. 30 Printed 1609. Besides this Robert Johnson hath been several of both his names that have been writers as 1 Robert Johnson Gent. author of Essaies Lond. 1607. oct dedicated to Will Earl of Pembroke whom I cannot say to be the same with Rob. Johnson of Qu. coll born in the County of Durham and Bach. of Arts 1599. 2 Rob. Johnson of York one of the Assembly of Divines an 1643. author of several Sermons preached before the members of the Long Parliament as one intit Lux Lex or the light of the Law of Jacobs house Fast Serm. before the H. of Com. 31. Mar. on Isay 2. 6. Lond. 1647. qu. Another preached before the Lords 24. Jun. 1646. being a Fast Sermon but I have not yet seen it 3 Rob. Johnson LL. Bac. who with Hen. Jolliffe sometimes Dean of Bristow wrote against Bishop Joh. Hooper a I shall tell you in the Fasti an 1551. 4 Rob. Johnson an eminent Musician living in the raign of Ch. 1. who with Tho. Ford were accounted famous and excellent in their faculties as matters of their composition which are extant shew 5 Robert Johnson author of Relations of the most famous Kingdoms and Commonwealths through the world Lond. 1616. qu. which is all I know of him as yet See another Rob. Johnson who was a benefactor to learning in the Fasti an 1564. JOHN DAVIES the fourth person of both his names whom I have mentioned among these writers was a Denbighshire man born bred up at the feet of Will. Morgan afterwards B. of S. Asaph became a Student in Jesus coll in 1589 took one degree in Arts four years after left the University without compleating it by Determination studied Divinity in the Country and in the year 1608. was admitted to the reading of the Sentences as a member of Linc. coll having been fourteen years a Minister of Gods Word and dispenced with for not ruling in Arts. But before that time he was Rector of Malloyd or Maynlloyd in Merionithshire which occasioned as I presume Sir Leolyne Jenkyns to tell me that he was that Countryman born and afterwards a Canon of S. Asaph by the gift of Doctor Parry B. thereof to whom he was Chaplain and a Dignitary if I mistake not in some other Church In 1616. he proceeded in his faculty as a member of the said coll of Lincoln being then esteemed by the Academians well vers'd in the History and Antiquities of his own Nation and in the Greek and Hebrew Languages a most exact Critick an indefatigable searcher into antient Scripts and well acquainted with curious and rare authors His works are Ant quae linguae Britannicae nunc communiter dictae Cambro-Britannicae à suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae ab aliis Wallicae rudimenta c. Lond. 1621. oct Dictionarium Britannico-Latinum Lond. 1632. fol. With this is printed Dictionarium Latino-Britannicum Which was in a manner finish'd by Tho. Williams a Physitian before the year 1600. Afterward compleated and published by Dr. Davies I have been informed that in the Library of MSS. sometimes belonging to Rob. Vaughan of Hengwrt in Merionithshire is a Welsh Dictionary that contains about two thousand words more than in the former Lond. 1632. printed at the end of the Dict. before mentioned Adagia Britannica Authorum Britannicorum nomina quando floruerunt Adagiorum Britannicorum Specimen MS. in bib Bod. He also assisted Will. Morgan B. of Landaff and afterwards of S. Asaph and Rich. Parry who succeeded him in the See of S. Asaph in translating the Bible into Welsh I mean in that corrected edition that came out temp Jac. 1. 1620. and also translated into the same language which he had studied at vacant hours for thirty years the book of Resolution written by Rob. Persons a Jesuit On the first of Feb. 1626. was one Joh. Davies a Doctors Son admitted Bac. of Arts as a member of Glouc. hall which I take to be Son of Doctor John Davies before mention'd at which time Sir John Davies the Mathematician had a Son of both his names who was Gent. Com. of that house ROBERT GOMER SALL the eldest Son of an Esquire was born in London applied his muse to Academical Literature in Ch. Ch. 1614. aged 14 of which house he was afterwards made a Student and at about seven years standing taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders and became a very florid preacher in the University In 1628. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time he was esteemed excellent for Dramatick Poesie especially upon his publishing of The Tragedy of Ludov. Sforsa Duke of Millan Lond. 1628. oct Dedic to Mr. Fr. Hyde of Ch. Ch. Proctor of the University He wrote also The Levites revenge containing Poetical meditations on the 19. and 20. Chapters of Judges Lond. 1628. oct Dedic to Mr. Barten Holyday Archd. of Oxford Sermons on 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15 16. London 1634. Dedicated to Sir John Strangwayes of Melbury in Dorsetshire who seemed to be a favourer of the authors studies Poems Lond. 1638. oct
he left the coll tho then Fellow and Bach. of Lawes standing his friends relations and Country went into Spain and being made a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict at Compostella changed his name to Leander de Sancto Martino and at length became D. of D. Thence he went to Doway where he executed the office of publick professor of his faculty and of the Hebrew tongue in the coll or cenobie of S. Vedastus for several years He was Prior of the Benedictine coll of S. Gregory there and the design'd Abbat of Cismar in Germany Vicar General also to the English Benedictines of the Spanish congregation living out of Spain twice President or chief Superior of the Benedictines in England and titular Prior of the Catholick Ch. of Canterbury He was a person of extraordinary eloquence generally knowing in all arts and sciences beloved of all that knew him and his worth and hated by none but by the Puritans and Jesuits Towards his latter end he was invited into England by Doctor Laud Archb. of Canterbury to consult with him about certain important points of Controversie in Religion as those of our authors profession say but W. Prynne who was always an inveterate enemy to Laud tells us that he sent for him into England to reconcile us to Rome or to make a reconciliation between the Church of Rome and England But how true those matters were let such that have read that Archbishops trial judge while I tell you that our author hath written Sacra ars memoriae ad Scripturas divinas in promptu habendas memoriterque ediscendas accommodata Duac 1623. oct At the end of which is this book following Conciliatio Locorum communium totius Scripturae Besides the said two he hath other things which I have not yet seen He also set forth the Bible with glosses in six large volumes the works also as 't is said of Ludov. Blosius and had a hand in that elaborate work intit Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia c. published by Clem. Reyner 1626. But a greater hand I have heard had Aug. Baker of whom more hereafter As for our author Leander he paid his last debt to nature on the seventeenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 having been much vexed in his time by the Jesuits and was buried in the Chappel of the Capuchins situate and being in Somerset-house in the Strand near to London He had been Ordinary of the Dames or Nunns of our Lady of Comfort of Cambray of the Order of S. Benedict and spiritual father to them for many years CHRISTOPHER WHITE a Worcestershire man born as it seems was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. about 1606 took one degree in Arts and became a preacher In 1620. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he was Rector of Letley in Hampshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at Ch. Ch. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1622. qu. 2 Of Oathes their Object form and bond c. in three Sermons in Oxon. on Joshua 9. 19. Lond. 1627. qu. and others which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in winter time before the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Letley before-mentioned leaving behind him the character of a good and edifying preacher a charitable man and a loving neighbour JAMES PERROT natural son of Sir John Perrot sometimes L. Deputy of the Kingdom of Ireland was born in Pembrokshire became a Gent. Com. of Jesus coll in 1586 aged 15 left it without a degree retired to the Inns of Court for a time and afterwards travelling return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman lived on his estate at Haroldston in Pembrokshire was dub'd a Knight and elected a Burgess for several Parliaments in the raign of King James 1. in which shewing himself a frequent and bold if not a passionate speaker especially in that dissolved 6. January 19. Jac. 1. Dom. 1621. and therefore numbred among the ill temper'd spirits therein as the King usually call'd them he was not imprison'd in London or Southwark as some of them were but was sent with Sir Dudley Digges and others into Ireland for their punishment joyned in commission with certain persons under the Great Seal of England for the inquiry after certain matters concerning his Majesties service as well in the government Ecclesiastical and Civil as in point of revenue and otherwise within that Kingdom He hath written The first part of the consideration of humane conditions wherein is contained the moral consideration of a mans self as what who and what manner of man he is Oxon. 1600. qu. Dedic to Tho. Lord Buckhurst Chancellour of the Univer of Oxon Whether any other parts followed I know not Meditations and Prayers on the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandements Printed 1630. in tw besides other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days at Haroldston before mention'd on the fourth day of Feb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six and was buried in the parish Church of S. Mary in the Town and County of Haverford-west to which place Haroldstone adjoyns This Sir James Perrot intermarried with Mary Daughter of Rob. Ashfield of the parish of Chesham in Bucks Esq but died without issue by her CHARLES FITZ-GEFFRY or Fitz-Geoffry Son of Alex. Fitz-Geoffry was born of a gentile family in the County of Cornwall became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1592. aged 17 took the degrees in Arts entred into the Theological function and at length became Rector of S. Dominick in his own Country where he was esteemed a grave and learned Divine as before he was while resident in the University an excellent Latine Poet. His works are The life and death of Sir Francis Drake Which being written in lofty verse when he was Bachelaur of Arts he was by those of his time called The high towering Falcon. Affaniae sive Epigrammata lib. 3. Cenotaphia lib. 1. Oxon. 1601. in oct Divers Sermons as 1 Deaths Sermon unto the living delivered at the funerals of Philippa late Wife of Sir Anth. Rous of Halton in Cornwall on Eccles. 7. 2. Lond. 1620. qu. dedicated to Jo. Pym Esq 2 Elisha his lamentation c. Sermon at the funeral of Sir Ant. Rous late of Halton in Cornwall Knight on 2 Kings 2. 12. Lond. 1622. qu. 3 The curse of Corn-horders with a blessing of seasonable selling in three Sermons on Prov. 11. 26. Lond. 1631. qu. 4 The blessed birth day celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angels anthem Luke 2. 14. Oxon. 1634. and 36. qu. second edition To which are added Holy Transportations in contemplating some of the most observable adjuncts about our Saviours nativity 5 Compassion towards captives chiefly towards our brethren and countrymen who are in miserable bondage in Barbary urged and published in three Sermons on Heb. 13. 3. at Plymouth in Octob. 1636. Oxon. 1637.
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
he was transplanted first to Christs coll and afterwards to Clare hall in Cambridge where proceeding in Arts took holy Orders was afterwards Archdeacon of Stafford and in 1535. did commence D. of divinity In 1539. Apr. 4. he was consecrated B. of Rochester being then chief Almoner to the King and on the 14. of the same month the temporalities of that See were delivered to him On the 22. of Decemb. 1543. he was elected B. of Worcester upon the resignation of Dr. Bell and in Feb. following being translated thereunto the temporalities also of that See were restored to him on the 22. March following where continuing till the beginning of K. Ed. 6. was soon after committed Prisoner to the Fleet as being no Friend to that King or reformation Afterwards Q. Mary coming to the Crown he was restored to his Bishoprick which Jo. Hooper had for some time occupied and became so great in the favour of that Queen that he was not only made by her President of Wales but also Archbishop of York to which See being elected P. Paul the fourth by his Bull dated xi Cal. Jul. 1555. did confirm it Afterwards being translated the temporalities of that See were given to him 8. Jan. following and on the 22. of that month was enthronized or installed in the person of Robert Bishop of Hull Heath being then Lord Chancellour of England While he sate Archbishop Q. Mary gave to him Suffolk-house against S. George's Church in Southwark to be a habitation for him and his Successors for ever in that See when their occasins called them to London done in recompence for York-house near Westminster which her Father had taken from Card. Wolsey But the said house being remote from the Court Archb. Heath sold it to a Merchant and bought Norwich-house or Suffolk-place near to Charing-cross for him and his Successors for ever When Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown which was in Nov. 1558. Cardinal Pole Archb. of Canterbury and Primate of all England being then dead he the said Heath not only refused tho it appertained to his office to anoint and Crown Q. Elizab. as all the Bishops besides did except one but also about the beginning of the year following refused to take the Oath of her Supremacy over the Church Whereupon being deprived of his Archbishoprick about Midsomer in the same year as also of his Chancellourship was for a time committed to custody Jo. Fox saith to the Tower where he died but being a person of great moderation quiet behaviour and modest disposition was soon after set at liberty So that retiring to his estate at Chobham in Surrey which he before had purchased spent the remaining part of his days there in great security retiredness good studies and devotion being then in such great grace with Q. Elizabeth that she several times visited him with marvellous kindness At length arriving to a fair age died in the beginning of fifteen hundred seventy and year 1579 nine as it should seem for on the 5. of May that year one Tho. Heath next Kinsman to the said Archbishop had a Commission then granted to him from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts chattels c. of him the said Nich. Heath S. T. P. sometimes Archb. of York lately deceased He was buried in the middle of the Chanc. belonging to the Ch. of Chobham before-mentioned and over his grave was soon-after a plain marble stone laid with an inscription thereon which stone was since broken and made shorter and the inscription engraven on a brass plate taken away His brother Will. Heath as he is at Chobham so called was also buried in the said Chancel some years as it seems before the Archbishop where there was lately if not still some memory of him on a grave-stone But who are now the possessors of the Archb. lands there which he left to his relations I cannot tell The picture drawn to the life of the said Archbishop I have many times seen which shews him to have been proper in person black hair'd pale-faced thin and macerated somewhat like the picture of Fisher B. of Rochester but his nose not so long I say this picture I have often beheld among many other choice pictures hanging in the large Gallery belonging to Weston-house near to Long-Compton in Warwickshire now in the possession of my worthy acquaintance Raphe Sheldon Esq whose Ancestor of both his names of Beoly in Worcestershire who died 21. Dec. 1546. married Philippa daughter and coheir of Baldwin Heath by his Wife Agnes the eldest daughter and coheir of Joh. Grove of Ford-hall in Wotton in Warwickshire Son of Thomas Heath of Aspley in the Parish of Tamworth before-mentioned which Thomas is supposed by those of the Sheldonian Family who quarter with their Arms those of Grove and Heath to be Great Grandfather to the Archbishop This hath been several times told me by my never to be forgotten friend and generous acquaintance Raphe Sheldon of Beoly and Weston Esq who deceased 1684. a person always very curious and industrious in Genealogies ROBERT PURSGLOVE received his first breath at a Market Town in Derbyshire called Tideswall bred in puerile learning for some time there afterwards in Grammar learning in S. Pauls School in London by the care and charge of his Uncle Will. Bradshaw where continuing three years was afterwards placed in the Abery called S. Mary Overhee in Southwark In which place being fitted for the University he was sent to Corp. Ch. coll in Oxford and maintained there by his said Uncle for the space of fourteen years but whether he took a degree in all that time it doth not appear in our Registers neither indeed of hundreds more that have studied 7 or more years in Oxon and therefore for that reason and because we have no matriculation books above the time of Q. Elizab. the memory of many eminent Men in Church and State is lost After he had left the University being then esteemed an eminent Clerk he was received into the Monastery of Gisbourne alias Gisburgh in Yorkshire where taking upon him the habit of a Canon Regular was at length elected Prior of that house Afterwards upon a willing surrender of the said Monastery into the Kings hands he had a considerable pension allowed to him was made Provost of Rotheram coll in Yorkshire and on the death of Rob. Sylvester about the beginning of Q. Maries Reign was made Archdeacon of Nottingham and Suffragan B. of Hull under the Archb. of York and had other dignities and spiritualities confer'd on him After Q. Elizabeth had been setled in the Throne for some time the Oath of Supremacy was offered to him but he denying to take it was deprived of his Archdeaconry and other spiritualities Whereupon the said Archdeaconry being given to Will. Day M. A. he was installed therein 24. Apr. 1560. as about the same time he was in the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York on
Pentrerpant or Pentrepant near to Oswestrey in Shropshire 23. July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried the next day in the Church at Sillatin or Selattyn To the poor of which place as also of Oswestrey and S. Asaph he gave to each five pounds In his Prebendship succeeded Giles Thornborough M. of A. afterwards D. D. Nephew to Dr. John Thorborough B. of Worcester who kept it to the time of his death 1663 and in the See of S. Asaph succeeded Joh Owen D. D. of Cambridge and Archdeacon of S. Asaph who was consecrated thereunto 20. of Sept. 1629. He died at Perthkinsey 15. Oct. 1651. and was buried on the 21. of the said month in the Cath. Church of S. Asaph under the Bishops Throne This Dr. Owen who was the Ministers Son of Burton-Latimers in Northamptonshire and born there as also bred Fellow in Jesus coll in Cambridge hath written Herod and Pilate reconciled Or the concord of Papists Anabaptists and Sectaries against Scripture Fathers Councils and other Orthodox Writers for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings Published 1663. and by the author dedicated to the Loyal Subjects of Great Britain What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he was a great Loyalist a true Son of the Church of England and had been much respected by Laud Arch. of Canterbury who obtained for him from his most gracious King the said Bishoprick of S. Asaph which lying void after his death till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Dr. George Griffith was consecrated thereunto JOHN BUCKRIDGE sometimes Fellow afterwards President of S. Johns college became B. of Rochester in 1611. and from thence was translated to Ely in 1627. He was conducted to the habitation prepared for old age in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt Curle and in Ely Dr. Francis White both Cambridge men by education JOHN HOWSON sometimes Student and Canon of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Oxford in the month of May 1618. was translated thence to Durham in 1628. and departed this moral life towards the latter end of sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631-2 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Durham succeeded Dr. Thom. Morton B. of Lichfield and Coventry the temporalities of which he received from the King 12. Jul. 1632. and dying in the house of Sir Hen. Yelverton of Easton-Manduit in Northamptonshire on the morrow after S. Matthews day in 1659. aged 95 years was succeeded in the year following by Dr. Joh. 〈◊〉 of Cambridge LEWES BAYLY sometimes a Member of Exeter coll was consecrated Bishop of Baâ—ger in 1616. and departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of 〈◊〉 succeeded a Native of Segroet near Denbigh a certain learned Doctor of div named David Dâ—lben of S. Johnâ— coll in Cambridge a younger Son of Robert 〈◊〉 Dâ—lben of 〈◊〉 before-mentioned in Denbighshire who dying in Bangor-house situated in Shoe-lane near S. Andrews Church in 〈◊〉 in the Suburb of London on the 27. of Nov. 1633. was buried in the Church at 〈◊〉 which he kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick He was succeeded in the See of Bangor by Edm. Griffith of whom I shall speak by and by JOHN RIDER sometimes a Student in Jesus coll was consecrated Bishop of 〈◊〉 in Ireland on the 12. of Jan. 1612. and concluded his last in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and two 〈◊〉 which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said Bishoprick succeeded one Lewes Jones a Welshman sometimes a Student in this University whom I shall mention at large among the Bishops in the second vol. of this work FRANCIS GODWIN sometimes a Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Landaff in 1601 thence translated to Hereford in 1617 and died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among ther writers To the said See after Goodman of Glocester had endeavoured to obtain was elected Dr. Will. Juxon of Oxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London whereupon Dr. Augustin Lindsell Bishop of Peterborough was translated thereunto in Dec. 1633. After him followed Mathew Wren D. of D. of Cambridge the temporalities of which See Hereford were given to him 24 March 10. Car. 1. Dom. 1634-35 But he being soon after translated to Norwych Theophilus Field of Pembroke hall in Cambridge born in the parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond. succeeded The temporalities also of which were restored to him 23. Janu. 1635. This Dr. Field dying soon after George Cook sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge brother to Sir Joh. Cook Secretary of State succeeded and had the temporalities thereof given to him 7. July 1636. He was the Son of Rich. Cook of Trusley in Derbyshire by Mary his wife daughter and heir of Tho. Sacheverell of Kirby in Nottinghamshire and he the Son of Will. Cook of the same place by his wife the daughter of Ralph Fitzherbert of Tyssyngton in the said county of Derby Which George Cook dying in 1646. 22. Car. 1. the see of Hereford laid void till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and then 't was supplied by Dr. Nich. Monk of Oxon of whom I shall make large mention in his proper place GEORGE ABBOT sometimes of Balliol college afterwards Chaplain to Thomas Lord Buckhurst and then to the Earl of Dunbar with whom he was solemnly sent into Scotland for an effecting of an Union in the Hierarchie was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 3 Dec. 1609 translated to London about the latter end of January following and in 1610 he was translated to Canterbury on the death of Dr. Richard Bancroft He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Canterbury succeeded Dr. William Laud as I shall tell you at large when I come to the next Vol. of this work JOHN PHILIPPS was a Welsh-man born as it seems and having received his Academical education in Oxon became afterwards Parson of Thorp Basset and Slingesby in Yorkshire which last he obtained in the latter end of March 1591. About that time he being Chaplain to Henry Earl of Derby became Archdeacon of Clievland on the resignation of Rich. Bird Bach. of div in Apr. 1601 also Archdeacon of the Isle of Man and at length about 1614. Bishop of that place but in whose room I cannot tell for between the translation thence of Dr. George Lloyd to Chester 1604. some person yet unknown to me did succeed
which being very worthy of perusal I refer the Reader for his farther satisfaction In Waterford and Lismore succeeded Dr. Archibald Adair a Seer and him Dr. George Baker who died in Octeb or thereabouts an 1668. JOHN BANCROFT Son of Christ 〈…〉 by Andrey Andrews his Wife eldest Son of 〈…〉 of Farnworth in Lancashire by Mary his Wife daughter of John Curwyn brother to Hugh Curcoyn sometimes Bishop of Oxford was born in little Village called Astell or Eâ—well lying between 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 was admitted a Student of 〈…〉 more took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a Preacher for some years in 〈…〉 being newly admitted to proceed in Divinity was by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. a younger Son of John Bancroft before-mentioned elected Master of Vniversity college where he continued above 20 years In which time he was at great pains and expence to recover and settle the antient Lands belonging to that foundation In 1632. he was upon the translation of Dr. Corbet to Norwych nominated Bishop of Oxford whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter in April the same year had the temporalities of that See given to him on the 6. of June following being about that time consecrated In 1640. when the Long Parliament began and proceeded with great vigour against the Bishops he was possessed so much with fear having always been an Enemy to the Puritan that without little or no sickness he surrendred up his last breath in his lodging at Westminster Afterwards his body was carried to Cudesden in the diocess of Oxon and was buried near to and under the south wall of the Chancel of the Church there on the twelfth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred and forty leaving then behind him the character among the Puritans or Presbyterians then dominant of a corrupt unpreaching Popish Prelate The Reader is now to know that before this Mans time the Bishops of Oxford had no house left belonging to their Episcopal See either in City or Country but dwelt at their Parsonage-houses which they held in Commendam tho Dr. Jo. Bridges who had no Commendam in his diocess lived for the most part in hired houses in the City For as I have before told you in Dr. Rob. Kynge tho at the foundation of the Bishoprick of Oxford in the Abbey of Osney the King appointed Gloucester coll for the Bishops Pallace yet when that foundation was inspected into by K. Edw. 6. and a recital thereupon made of the foundation thereof done by his Father that place was left out of the Charter as being designed then for another use So that from that time till this Man Dr. Bancroft came to be Bishop there being no settled House or Pallace for him or his Successors he did resolve by the perswasions of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. to build one Wherefore in the first place the impropriate Parsonage of Cudesden before-mentioned five miles distant from Oxon which belonged to the Bishop in right of his See he let the lease thereof run out without any more renewing that in the end it might be made an improvement to the slender Bishoprick The Vicaridge also of his own donation falling void in the mean time he procured himself to be legally instituted and inducted thereunto All which being done he thro the power and favour of Dr. Laud before-mentioned obtained an annexation of it to the See Episcopal the design of bringing in the impropriation going forward still and soon after began with the help of a great deal of timber from the Forest of Shotover given to him by his Majesty to build a fair Pallace which with a Chappel in it being compleatly finished an 1635. was then out of curiosity visited by the said Dr. Laud which he remits into his diary thus Sept. 2. an 1635. I was in attendance with the King at Woodstock and went thence to Cudsden to see the house which Dr. Jo. Bancroft then Lord Bishop of Oxford had there built to be a house for the Bishops of that See for ever he having built that house at my perswasion But this house or Pallace which cost three thousand and five hundrend pounds proved almost as short liv'd as the Founder being burn'd down by Col. Will. Legg during the short time that he was Governour of the Garrison of Oxford in the latter end of 1644. for fear it might be made a Garrison by the Parliament Forces tho with as much reason and more piety as one observes he might have garrison'd it for the King and preserved the house Being thus ruined it laid so till Dr. Joh. Fell became Bishop of Oxon and then with monies out of his own purse and the help of timber which one of his Predecessors named Dr. Will. Paul had laid in in his life-time for that purpose did rebuild it upon the old foundation with a Chappel in it as before The outside of which being finished in 1679. the inside followed soon after METROPHANES CRITOPYLUS a Greecian born came into England to be instructed in the doctrine and discipline of the Church and in order thereunto to learn the Latin and the English tongues To these ends he addressed himself to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent him forthwith to Baliol college where he had for his interpreter the noted Grecian Mr. Edw. Sylvester and continued there till the time of his departure from England which was about 1622. at which time he was Chancellour to the Patriarch of Constantinople After his return to his own Country he became Patriarch of Alexandria in the place of Cyrill Lucaris translated to Constantinople and wrote as some suppose The Confession of Faith which went under the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople published in the Greek tongue 1629. Which Confession was with a censure upon it printed at Rome 1632. the title of which rendred into English is this The condemnation of the confession of the Calvinists as it was set forth in the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople With this condemnation and confession is printed an answer to the Anathematisms of Cyrill Patriarch of Alexandria Predecessor to Critopylus wherein the said Anathematisms are acknowledged to be genuine tho they decry the said Confession as spurious This Critopylus was in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred and forty but when he died I cannot yet find FASTI OXONIENSES THESE Oxonian Fasti or Academical Annals contain in exact Order Method and Time from the Year of our Lord 1500 to the end of 1640. 1. A Catalogue of the Chancellours Commissaries oâ— Vicechancellours and Proctors of the Univ. of Oxon 2. The Names and Characters of eminent Grammarians Rhetoricians and Musicians who have been admitted to One or two Academical Degree or Degrees with the Titles of such Books if any that they have written The Names of 3. Writers Archbishops and Bishops Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 4.
the month of May or thereabouts an 1552 lest much of his substance to pious uses On the 2 of June the same year he being then dead Leonard Bilson succeeded him in the Prebendship of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the Church of Salisbury John Feyter of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day John Tregoâ—well sometimes of Broadgates afterwards Principal of Vine hall alias Peckwaters Inn was admitted also the same day June 23. He was an eminent and learned Man in his profession and therefore was employed to be Proctor for K. Hen. 8. in that long and costly cause of his divorce from Qu. Catherine wherein shewing himself very diligent was by him Knighted and for an inconsiderable sum of money had settled on him and his heirs for ever the rich demesne and site of the mitred Abbey of Milton alias Middleton for Benedictine Monks in Dorsetshire He gave way to fate in the latter end of the year 1564 7. Elizab. and was buried in the Church there Doct. of Can. Law June 23. Father John Burton a Canon Regular Prior of St. â—rideswydes Monastery in afterwards Abbat of Osney near to Oxford John Prynne a Secular Chaplain was admitted the same day He was afterwards Subdean and Can. resident of Lincolne and dying 29. Apr. 1558 was buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincolne Anthony Draycot lately Principal of White hall involved afterwards within the limits of Jesus Coll. and of Pirye hall adjoyning was admitted also the same day In 1542 he was made Archdeacon of Stow in the place of Edward Darbye sometimes of Linc. Coll. deceased and in the year following Archdeacon of Huntington in the place of Dr. Richard Gwent deceased He was Chancellour for a time to Dr. Longland Bish of Linc. and to Dr. Ralph Bayne Bish of Lichfield in which Offices he acted much against the Protestants as John Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. will tell you In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths Reign he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet and suffer'd much upon account of Religion Nich. Saunders tells us that one Draycot Archdeacon of York was ejected from that Dignity or left it of his own accord in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth but I find no such Man in my Catalogue of Archdeacons of that place which is punctually made from the registers of the Church of York Doct. of Div. Jul. 3. Fath. Peter Lee a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict This year Jun. 2. Rowland Philips M. of A. supplicated for the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity and was as it seems admitted Soon after by the power of the Archbishop of Canterbury he was thrust in Warden of Merton College He was now Vicar of Croyden in Surrey one of the Canons of Pauls a famous and notable Preacher and a forward Man in the Convocation of the Clergy an 1523 in acting and speaking much against the payment of a Subsidie to the King Incorporations May 2. George Henneage Bach. of the Canon Law of Cambridge Archdeacon of Oxford and Chaplain to John Bishop of Lincolne With him it was then dispensed that he might uti palliis ac sumptuoso omni vestitu pellibus ac serico pertinent In Apr. 1521 he was installed Archdeacon of Oxford on the death of Christoph Vrswyke in 1528 he became Dean of Lincolne on the death of John Constable who dyed 15. July in the same year and in 1542 Archdeacon of Lincolne upon the attainder of Richard Pates I mean him who was afterwards B. of Worcester This G. Henneage died in 1549 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Linc. near to the tomb of Mr. Sim. Fotherbie sometimes Chanc. of that Church directly before the image of the Virgin Mary without her Chappel In the Archdeaconry of Line succeeded Nich. Bullyngham in Sept. 1549. and the same year succeeded John Tayler D. D. in the Deanery Feb. 18. Nich. de Burgo a Minorite Bach. of Divinity of the University of Paris He was an Italian born did succeed Dr. Tho. Brynknell in the reading of Card. Wolsey's Divinity Lecture lately erected in this University And when the matter of the divorce of K. H. 8. from Qu. Catherine was in agitation in the University he shewed himself so forward for it that the Women of Oxon did not only scold at him publickly but threw stones after him as he passed along the street Whereupon complaining of their rudeness thirty of them were the next day imprisoned in Bocardo where they continued 3 days and as many nights I find one Nicholaus Italus to be Sub-commissary of this University in Aug. 1534. whom I take to be the same with Nich. de Burgo beforemention'd a very learned Man of his time Feb. 19. Nich. Cracher or Kratzer Bach. of Arts of Colen and Wittenburgh In the month of May one John Taylor Dr. of Decrees and of the sacred Canons beyond the Seas having been lately incorporated at Cambridge supplicated for incorporation in this University which being granted he was as it seems taken into the bosome thereof This Person who was Archdeacon of Derby and Bucks and had been Rector of Sutton Colfield in Warwickshire was Clerk of the Parliaments that sate in 1515. 7. Hen. 8. and prolocutor of the Convocation of the Clergy that was dissolved 21. Dec. the same year In which Parliaments and Convocation arose those most dangerous seditions between the Clergy and Seculars concerning several Ecclesiastical Liberties In 1528. the said Dr. Taylor who had been employed in several Embassies beyond the Seas succeeded Thomas Hanyball in the Mastership of the Rolls and dying in 1534 was succeeded in that office by Thomas Cromwell This Dr. Taylor who was a learned Canonist and a Statesman was born being the Son I suppose of a Taylor in a poor Cottage at Barton in the Parish of Tatinhills in Staffordshire and being the eldest of the Tremelli which his Mother had at one birth were by command of the King to whom they were presented as he rode in hunting in that Country carefully educated in good Letters Afterwards in gratitude to the place that gave him birth he built a fair Chappel upon or near the site where the Cottage stood In his rectory of Sutton Colfield succeeded George Henneage beforemention'd An. Dom. 1523. An. 15. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Tho. Moscroff or Musgrave M. D. now or lately Fellow of Merton Coll. Proct. Tho. Canner again Edm. Campion Apr. 19. The Senior was soon after preferred to be one of the first Canons of Cardinal Coll. of which he became Subdean 1527. and the other who was of Linc. Coll. had a Dignity soon after confer'd upon him Grammarians Mar. 14. Jam. Davenport a Secular Chaplain One Joh. Wooddys another Sec. Chapl. supplicated to be admitted to inform but whether he was so it appears not Bach. of Arts. Dec. 15. Richard Pates or Patys of Corp. Ch. Coll. He was afterwards through several preferments Bishop of Worcester Besides
John Mason Knight sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. lately Ambassadour for K. H. 8. into several Foreign Countries and now Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester Vicechanc. or Prochanc James Brokes D. D. of C. C. Coll. for the first part of the year and Rich. Martiall D. D. of Ch. Ch. for the other part being elected in Convocation Prochanc 3. oct In his absence Dr. Tresham officiated and is sometimes stiled Procancellarius Proct. The Spencer of Ch. Ch. Maur. Bullock of New Coll. Both elected on the day before the Cal. of Octob. Bach. of Arts. Jun… John Rastell Oct. 4. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. Both afterwards writers and the last an eminent Physician About 26 were admitted this year one half of which are omitted in the Register Bach. of LL. Ellis Heywood of All 's Coll. He was afterwards a Jesuit and a writer Griffyth Willyams of New Coll. In 1554 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Rob. Johnson resigning and whether he be the same Williams who was Chancellour to the Bishop of Glocester about the same time remembred by Joh. Fox for his strange fearful and sudden death which befel him in 1558 after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and therefore esteemed as a judgment on him for condemning a blind boy to be burnt in 1556 I cannot justly tell you In 1557. Will. Turnball LL. Bac. succeeded Griffyth Willyams in the Chancellourship of Worcester In the publick register which is very imperfect in the beginning of this year it partly appears that one John Bodye supplicated to be admitted Bach. of LL. See in the year 1554. Mast of Arts. Alan Cope Lawr. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. Hieron Philippides Joh. Abulines or ab Vlmis of Ch. Ch. Whether either of these two last was a writer I cannot yet tell Qu. Will. Good of C. C. Coll. Jam. Calfill John Bavant of Ch. Ch. The last of the said Masters was afterwards one of the first Fellows of St. Johns Coll. and the first Greek reader there He was Tutor in the said house to Edm. Campian and Greg. Martin but upon the alteration of Religion leaving the Coll and his Country was made a Ro. Cath. Priest and afterwards was one of those that endured a tedious imprisonment in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire upon account of Religion Twenty Masters stood in the Act celebrated 18. July this year but how many were admitted it appears not in the register Bach. of Div Thom. Hardyng of New Coll. Thom. Bickley Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. The two last were afterwards Bishops Gilbert Burnford In 1554 he had the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells granted to him under the Seal of the Bishop and Chapter thereof But when he craved admission thereunto in 1560 he was denied because he refused the oath of Supremacy For the same reason he was deprived of the Prebendary of Hasilbere in that Church and of a rectory in the Dioc. of Wells Note that whereas always before this time when any Bach. of Div. was admitted he was registred as admitted ad lecturam libri sententiarum so now during the Reign of K Ed. 6. they are registred as admitted ad lectionem Paulinarum Epistolarum And this year those that were admitted are registred as admitted ad enaâ—rationem Epistolarum Apostolicarum in ipsis comitiis hoc anno viz. 18. Julii Doct. of Civ Law Hen. Jones of All 's Coll. This Person was one of the learned Doctors of the Civ Law whom Qu. Elizabeth consulted concerning the matter of Lesley Bishop of Ross who while he was Embassador from Mary Qu. of Scots to Qu. Elizabeth consulted and promoted a Rebellion against her See in Camdens Annalls of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1571. This Dr. Jones died in or near Doctors Commons about the beginning of Feb. in 1591 and was buried as it seems in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Rich. Martiall of Ch. Ch. Soon after he was made Prebendary of Winchester and Dean of his Coll. by the intercession of the Lord Arundell to whom he was Chaplain made to the Queen In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he seem'd to be a great Reformer and retracted what he zealously had held in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. After the death of K. Ed. 6. he returned to his former opinions and was more zealous for the Cath. cause than before But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he absconded for a time and went from place to place At length being taken and conveyed to London retracted again in hopes of being setled in his Deanery of Ch. Ch. which might have been had he behaved himself moderately in the Reign of Qu. Mary Afterwards as 't is said he went into Yorkshire where he died obscurely In his Deanery succeeded G. Carew as I have told you before under the year 1522. Hen. Pendleton of Brasn Coll. was also admitted this year and stood with Martiall in the Act that followed Henr. Syddall LL. B. and Canon of Ch. Ch. who had studied sacred letters for 18 years did this year supplicate that he might put on or be honour'd with the cap of Doct. of Divinity This desire of his was granted conditionally that he be inaugurated and dispute in Divinity in the next Act that should follow But whether he was so or did dispute it appears not in the publick register or in the Catalogues of Inceptors Incorporations Nov. 12. Brian Baynes Bach. of Arts of Cambridge The next year he proceeded in the said faculty being then a member of Ch. Ch. which is all I know of him Nov …Valentine Dale of All 's Coll. Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas at Oreleans I think seems to be incorporated in that month because he had supplicated more than once for that Degree He was afterwards Master of the Requests Dean of Wells 1574 and about that time Embassadour to the French King upon the calling home of Sir Franc. Walsingham to be Secretary of State c. He died in his house near St. Pauls Cathedral 17. Nov. 1589. and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Gregory near to the said Cathedral leaving behind him a Daughter named Dorothy who being coheir to her Father was married to Sir John North Son and Heir to Roger Lord North. Dec. 2. Walter Haddon President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. and Doctor of the Civil Law at Cambridge This Person who was a Buckinghamshire Man born and educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School was chose Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1533 where arriving to great eminence in the Civil Law was made the Kings Professor of that faculty in the said University and much esteemed for his eloquence and learning especially by Leland who calls him Heveddunus Afterwards being a Man much addicted to reformation he was by virtue of several letters written by the King in his behalf elected tho contrary to statute
Sir Tho. Windebank of Haines hill in the Parish of Hurst in Berks. Knight sometimes one of the Clerks of the Signet and became intimately acquainted with Dr. Will. Laud while he studied in the said Coll. of St. John by whose endeavours when Bish of London he obtained for him of his gracious Master K. Ch. 1. the secretaryship of State in the place of Sir Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester deceased to which office he was sworn 15. June 1632 and about that time received the honour of Knighthood Afterwards he became ungrateful to his promoter and much hated by the Puritan for his high acting in his office Which being by that Party made notorious several articles were drawn up against him and presented to that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. Whereupon flying beyond the Seas wrot a Letter to the Lord Chamberlain in his own defence dat at Calais XI Jan. 1640 which was soon after printed When K. Ch. 1. retired to Oxon after Edghill battel Sir Francis returned înto England went to and endeavoured to speak with his Majesty but his Maj refusing to have any communication with him he went beyond the Seas again and died at Paris 1 11 Sept. 1646. Among the Sons he had Sir Thomas Windebank the eldest was one who was of the Privy Chamber to His Majesty and another called Colonel Franc. Windebanke Governor of Blechingdon house in Oxfordshire who for surrendring it to Col. Oliver Cromwell upon first summons about the 24. Apr. 1645 was shot to death in Broken hayes near Oxon whereupon his body was buried in one of the Chancels of the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of that City on the third of May following Feb. 11. Sam. Turner of St. Maries hall See among the Masters 1604. 13. Daniel Fairclough Joh. Bery or Bury George Webbe of C. C. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Canon Fairclough Bury and Webbe will be mention'd in the second vol. Admitted 177 Mast of Arts. May 17. Thom. Winniff of Exeter Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch. He published a Sermon entit A Summons to judgment on Job 31. 14. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps others which is all I know of him only that he was a Cheshire Man born and that in seeking after the Rectory of the Church of St. Sepulcher in London found a sepulcher therein being buried there on which his pleasant friend Tho. Freeman the Poet hath an ingenious Epigram 25. Mich. Boyle Joh. Sandsbury of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 1. Henry Tilson of Vniv. 10. Robert Johnson of Magd. Jan. 21. Robert Pink of New Coll. Adm. 86. Bach. of Physick Not one was admitted to the said Degree only some to practise Physick among whom were Nov. 28. Henr. Savile M. A. Edm. Deane B. A. Both originally of Merton Coll. now of St. Albans hall Bach. of Div. Dec. 17. Joh. Howson of Ch. Ch. Besides him were but 4 admitted among whom Ralph Ironside of Vniversity Coll. was one Father to Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow an 1660. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Sampson Hussee of New Coll. He was Brother to Jam. Hussee mention'd in the year before ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. John King John Howson of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated and both were afterwards Bishops Feb. 15. Charles Ryves of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 6. Rob. Dallyngton M. of A. of Cambridge He was born in Northamptonshire educated in Pembroke hall of which he was Greek-Scholar and after became a Schoolmaster in Norfolk where having gained some money he travelled all over France and Italy was exact in his observations and after his return became first Secretary to the Earl of Rutland then one of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles Master of the Charter-house into the School at which place he brought the custome of Chapter verses or versifying on passages of Holy Scripture and at length a Knight He hath written 1 A survey of the great Dukes state in Tuscany an 1596. Lond. 1605. qu. 2 A method for travel shewed by taking view of France as it stood in the year 1598. printed at Lond. in qu. 3 Aphorismes Civil and Military amplified with authorities and exemplified with history out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine Lond. 1615. fol. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died in the latter end of the year 1637 and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the Charter house By his will dated 25. Apr. 1636 and proved 1. March 1637 he gave to the poor People of Geddington in Northamptonshire the place of his nativity 300 l. for the buying of an annual pension of 15 l. per an for their relief At which place in his life time he built a Free-school and was a benefactor in other respects July 16. Walt. Curle M. of A. of Cambridge This Person who was born at Hatfield in Hertfordshire was now Fellow of Peter house in the said University was promoted first in the Church by the Cecillian Family afterwards he became Chaplain to His Majesty Doctor of Divinity Dean of Lichfield in June 1621 upon the death of Dr. Will. Tooker Bishop of Rochester in 1627. upon the translation of Buckridge to Ely translated thence to B. and Wells in 1629 upon the death of Dr. Maw and thence to Winchester upon the removal of his Patron Dr. Neile to York being about that time made Lord Almoner Afterwards he suffered much for the Kings and his own cause was among the Royalists when they were besieged in Winchester whence marching in safety after its surrender for the use of the Parliament lived retiredly at Subberton in Hampshire till the time of his death which hapned in the Spring or Summer time an 1647 leaving then behind him a Widow named Elizabeth and certain Children All that I have yet seen which goes under his name is A Sermon preached at Whitehall 28. Apr. 1622 on Heb. 12. 14. printed in qu. Rich. Boyle M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland Richard Parker another M. of A. of that University was also then incorporated Whether he be the same R. Parker who was bred in and became Fellow of Caius College and Author of Sceletos Cantabrigiensis MS. I cannot justly say or the same Richard Parker who was second Son of John Parker first Son of Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury which Richard was born at Cambridge 20. May 1577 I cannot also tell Quaere On the same day also were 13 more Masters of that University incorporated among whom Miles Spencer was one and Andrew Perne another the same I suppose who was Proctor of Cambridge 1616. See before in these Fasti an 1553. Aug. 7. Will. Barlow Doct. of Div. of the said University was also then incorporated in the
Member of that Coll. he was admitted to practice his Faculty 13 July 1604. After he had been admitted Doctor he retired to London became one of the Coll. of Physitians and eminent for his practice One Will. Turner Doct. of Phys wrot a Pamphlet entit Ad nobilem Britannum or an abstract of Englands Royal Peers When written I cannot tell sure I am 't was printed at London in 1641. qu. Whether this Will. Turner be the same with the former of Ball. Coll. I cannot justly say nor whether he was one of the Sons of Dr. Pet. Turner mention'd among the Incorporations an 1599. yet that he was descended from William Father of the said Dr. Peter Turner 't is not to be doubted Doct. of Div. May 12. Sebast Benefield of C. C. June 1. Joh. Lea of S. Johns Coll. The last of these two who was of the gentile Family of the Leas or Lees of Quarendon in Bucks and of Dichley in Oxfordshire was Chaplain to the most noble Knight Sir Hen. Lea was beneficed in the said Counties and dying about 1609 was buried in S. Johns Coll. Chappel to the adorning of which he was an especial Benefactor He gave also many Books to that Coll. Library Rich. Thornton Canon of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day In the beginning of Sept. an 1611 he became Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Gervace Carrington deceased and dying 1 Jan. 1614 was buried in the Cath. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Jun. 6. Will. Laude Joh. Rawlinson of S. Joh. Rob. Wakeman of Ball. Coll. 25. Edw. Wickham of Ball. Coll. now Prebendary of Winchester and Archdeacon of Dorset This person who was of the Family of the Wickhams of Swacliff near Banbury in Oxfordshire died in 1620 or thereabous and was if I mistake not buried in the Chancel of the Church of Storington in Sussex near to the Bodies of his Father and Mother In his Archdeaconry succeeded as I suppose Rich. Fitzherbert Thom. Higgons of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day He was Father to Sir Tho. Higgons of Grewell in Hampshire 30. Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. who accumulated He was now Prebendary of Canterbury where dying in 1609 left behind him a Son named John who was afterwards D. of D. and Preb. of the same Church and dying 1630 aged 51 left behind him a Son named Nicholas who also was Prebendary there This last who was of C. C. Coll. in Oxon died 22 Aug. 1680. aged 56 and was buried in or near the graves of his Father and Grandfather in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over their Sepulchres was a stone soon after put with an Inscription thereon which for brevity sake I now pass by Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was now Prebendary of Canterbury and dying 7 Oct. 1613 aged 63 being then Subdean of that Church was buried therein 3 days after at which time Thomas Wilson a Member thereof preached his Funeral Sermon entit Christs farewel to Jerusalem on Luke 23. 27 28 29 c. To which a Testimony is added concerning the said Rich. Colfe of his great piety and learning June 30. Joh. Browne of Vniv. Christop Sutton of Linc. Tho. Alleyn of C. C. Coll. July 7. Tho. More 12. Will. Leonard of Exet. Coll. Mar. 11. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards nominated Bishop of Chester but died before consecration 14. David Ellis of Jesus Coll. These two last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations May 30. Rich. Butler Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was formerly of S. Joh. Coll. in Oxon and now Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty which is all I yet know of him Jun. 14. Christop Musgrave Bach. of Arts of Cambr. One of both his names was about this time a Carthusian at Leige in Germany and afterwards wrot Motives and reasons for his secession and dissevering from the Church of Rome Lond. 1621. qu. But this last I cannot affirm to be the same with him who was Bach. of Arts because he saith that before he seceeded from the Church of Rome he had been a Carthusian Monk for the space of twenty years David Owen M. of A. of Clare Hall in the same University was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and Chaplain to John Ramsey Lord Viscount Hadington afterwards D. of D. and Chaplain to the said person when he was Earl of Holderness He hath written and published 1 The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings Cambr. 1610. qu. 2 Anti-Paraeus sive determinatio de jure regio habita Cantabrigiae in scholis Theologicis 19 Apr. 1619 contra Davidem Paraeum caeterosque reformatae religionis Antimonarchos Cantab. 1632. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was born in the Isle of Anglesey July 8. Will. Eire Eierus Doct. of Phys of Leyden Will. Cavendish M. of A. of Cambr. Son and Heir of Will Lord Cavendish was incorporated the same day in the house of Convocation He was afterwards the second Earl of Devonshire of his name 12. Walt. Curle M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated again See among the Incorporations an 1601 and in 1636. Eliazer Hodson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day See among the Incorporations 1615. Joh. Williams M. A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated This noted person who was the Son of Edmund Williams of Conway commonly called Aberconway in Caernarvanshire by his Wife Mary Daughter of Owen Wynn of Eglarsnache the sixth Son of William Williams of Cogh-Williams was educated in S. Joh. Coll. in the said University of which he was Fellow Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Lord Egerton Lord Chanc. of England and in 1611-12 one of the Proctors of the University of Cambridge in which Office he gave so noble and generous Entertainment as well in scholastical Exercises as in edibles and potables to the Spanish Embassadors conducted thither by his Patron the Lord Chancellour that when they took their leaves of him the Chancellour with the approbation of the Embassador told him that he had behaved himself so well in his Entertainment that he was fit to seâ—ve a King and that he would be glad to see him as welcome at the Court as they were in the Vniversity About that time he had several Benefices confer'd upon him of which the Rectory of Waldgrave in Northamptonshire was one Dinam and Grafton two more a Residentiaryship in the Church of Lincoln one or more Prebendships therein and the Office of Chauntor besides a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough and a Donative in Wales Afterwards he was made sacerdotal Rector of the Savoy Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and on Sept. 10 an 1619. Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Gourdon deceased Whereupon giving up the Savoy upon his Majesties desire it was by him confer'd on M. Ant. de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato
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
with excellent notes of a book entit Concilii Florentini exactissima narratio c. written by Sylvest Sguropulus Hag. com 1660 fol. dedicated to K. Ch. 2. which being animadverted upon by Leo Allatius a Jesuit Creyghton came out with an Answer He hath also one or more Sermons extant and dying 21 Nov. 1672 aged 79 or thereabouts was buried in a Chappel joyning to the Cathedral Church of Wells Over his Grave was soon after erected a fair tomb of Alabaster with his Effigies at length in his pontificalia lying thereon and on the wall over it is a large inscription part of which runs thus Robertus Creyghton c. Natus Dunecaledoniae in boriali Scotia per patrem Thoman ex antiquis Râ—veniae Toparchis per matrem Margaretam Stuart Johannis Jacobidae filiam ex illustriss familiâ Stuartorum comitum Atholiae Johannis secundi Scotiae regu à trarre pronepos c. Frances the Widow of this Dr. R. Creyghton who was Daughter of Will. Waldrond Esq died on the third of the Kal. of Nov. 1683 aged 68 and was buried near to the said tomb over whose grave was a monument with a large Inscription thereon put at the charge of Rob. Creyghton her Son Chauntor and Canon of Wells Doctor of Divinity Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and Author of The vanity of the Dissenters plea for their separation from the Church of England Sermon on 1 Cor. 1. 10. Lond. 1682. qu. Robert Sheringham M. of A. of Gonvil and Caies Coll. This learned Gentleman who was if I mistake not a Cambr. man born was ejected or at least left his Fellowship of that House in 1643 and afterwards retiring to London for a time went thence into Holland where he taught the Hebrew and Arabick Tongues to young men at Roterdam and in other places After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship and lived in a very retired and studious condition being then esteemed a most excellent Linguist especially for the Oriental and Gothick Languages as also admirably well vers'd in the original Antiquities of the English Nation as it fully appears in his book De Anglorum gentis origine disceptatio c. Cantab. 1670 in a large octavo and in his translation from Hebrew into Latin with an illustration by Commentaries of a Talmude book called Joma wherein are several matters treating of Sacrifices Lond. 1648 in qu. He hath also published Two sermons preached as S. Maries Church in Cambridge Lond. 1647 qu. Also The Kings Supremacy asserted printed 1660 in qu. and other things He died of an apoplectical fit which caused him to fall on the fire in his Chamber in Caies College in the Winter time an 1677. Nich. Bernard M. of A. He was at this time Chaplain to the learned Dr. James Vsher Primate of Ireland from whom he had received his Ordination in S. Peters Church in Drogheda an 1626. Afterwards he was made by him Dean of Ardagh some say of Kilmore and intrusted in making useful Observations and Collections for him In the time of the Rebellion in Ireland he being then Doctor of Divinity he suffered much and was often in danger of his life At length having lost all there he returned safe into England to attend on his Lord became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire by the gift of the Earl of Bridgwater Chaplain to Oliver Lord Protector one of his Almoners and Preacher to the Society of Greys Inn. After the Kings Restauration in 1660 being possess'd with just doubts concerning the settlement of Ireland he refused to return to that Country to take possession of his Deanery and perhaps of a Bishoprick Whereupon he continued at Whitchurch before mention'd to his dying day He hath written 1 The penitent death of a woful sinner or the penitent death of John Atherton late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland who was executed at Dublin 5 Decemb. 1640 with some Annotations on several passages Lond. 1641 qu. 42 oct 2 Sermon preached at the burial of Joh. Atherton the next night after his Execution 5 Decemb. 1640 in S. Johns Church in Dublin on Acts 26. part of the 17 verse and all the 18. Lond. 1641 quart 42 octav 3 Letter from the siege of Drogheda to a friend in Dublin 7 Jan. 1641. 4 The whole proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda in Ireland Lond. 1642. qu. To which is added an Appendix concerning other occurrences fallen out since He was present all the time during the said siege and was several times in jeopardy of his life 5 Dialogue between Paul and Agrippa on Acts 26. 17 18. printed 1642. in oct 6 Farewel sermon of comfort and concord preached at Drogheda on 2 Cor. 13. 11. printed 1651 in octav There was another Farewel sermon preached but that I have not yet seen 7 Life and death of Dr. James Vsher late Archb. of Armagh c. in a sermon at his funeral at the Abbey at Westminster 17 Apr. 1656 on 1 Sam. 25. 1. Lond. 1656. oct To which are added some enlargements 8 The judgment of the late Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland concerning first the extent of Christs death secondly of the sabbath c. Lond. 1657. Whereupon Dr. Pet. Heylyn came out with an Answer to it called Respondet Petrus 9 Several Letters between him and Dr. Heylyn See more in Dr. Heylyn among the Writers in the 2 Vol. of this work under the year 1662. 10 Devotions of the antient Church in seven pious Prayers with 7 administ c. printed 1660 in oct 11 Clavi trabales or nailes fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies confirming the Kings Supremacy and Church Government under Bishops c. Lond. 1661. qu. See more in Dr. Rob. Sanderson among the Writers in the 2 vol an 1662. With other books he hath written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Whitchurch in the winter time an 1661. leaving behind him a Son named James Nathan Bernard M. of Arts. Among my searches I find one Nathaniel Bernard to be Lecturer of St. Sepulchers in London an 1629 who for uttering certain words in his prayer before Sermon at Antholines concerning the Queen was brought into the High Commission Court Also for preaching against his Majesties Declaration at St. Maries Church in Cambridge 6. May 1632 and using certain dangerous expressions therein was suspended excommunicated fined and committed to the New-prison near to London where he continued several months c. It doth farther appear also that one Nathaniel Bernard was beneficed in Essex but in the beginning of the grand rebellion in 1642 he was sequestred from his calling and charge there by several Committees sitting at Westminster banished from his dwelling and society of his Wife and Children and they turned out of doors c. Whereupon retiring for safety to Oxon published A looking-glass for rebellion Sermon preached 16. June 1644. in St. Maries Church
Arts John Milton not that it appears so in the Register for the reason I have told you in the Incorporations 1629 but from his own mouth to my friend who was well acquainted with and had from him and from his Relations after his death most of this account of his life and writings following 1 That he was born in Breadstreet within the City of London between 6 and 7 a clock in the morning of the ninth of Decemb. an 1608. 2 That his Father Joh. Milton who was a Scrivner living at the Spread Eagle in the said street was a Native of Halton in Oxfordshire and his Mother named Sarah was of the antient Family of the Bradshaws 3 That his Grandfather Milton whose Christian name was John as he thinks was an Under-Ranger or Keeper of the Forest of Shotover near to the said Town of Halton but descended from those of his name who have lived beyond all record at Milton near Halton and Thame in Oxfordshire Which Grandfather being a zealous Papist did put away or as some say disinherit his Son because he was a Protestant which made him retire to London to seek in a manner his fortune 4 That he the said John Milton the Author was educated mostly in Pauls School under Alex. Gill senior and thence at 15 years of age was sent to Christs Coll. in Cambridge where he was put under the tuition of Will. Chappell afterwards Bishop of Ross in Ireland and there as at School for 3 years before 't was usual with him to sit up till midnight at his book which was the first thing that brought his eyes into the danger of blindness By this his indefatigable study he profited exceedingly wrot then several Poems paraphras'd some of David's Psalms performed the collegiate and academical exercise to the admiration of all and was esteemed to be a vertuous and sober person yet not to be ignorant of his own parts 5 That after he had taken the degrees in Arts he left the University of his own accord and was not expelled for misdemeanours as his Adversaries have said Whereupon retiring to his Fathers house in the Country he spent some time in turning over Latin and Greek Authors and now and then made excursions into the great City to buy books to the end that he might be instructed in Mathematicks and Musick in which last he became excellent and by the help of his Mathematicks could compose a Song or Lesson 6 That after five years being thus spent and his Mother who was very charitable to the poor dead he did design to travel so that obtaining the rudiments of the Ital. Tongue and Instructions how to demean himself from Sir Hen. Wotton who delighted in his company and gave him Letters of commendation to certain persons living at Venice he travelled into Italy an 1638. 7 That in his way thither he touched at Paris where Joh. Scudamoure Vicount Slego Embassador from K. Ch. 1. to the French King received him kindly and by his means became kuown to Hugo Gâ—otius then and there Embassador from the Qu. of Sweden but the manners and genius of that place being not agreeable to his mind he soon left it 8 That thence by Geneva and other places of note he went into Italy and thro Legorne Pisa c. he went to Florence where continuing two months he became acquainted with several learned men and familiar with the choicest Wits of that great City who introduced and admitted him into their private Academies whereby he saw and learn'd their fashions of literature 9 That from thence he went to Sena and Rome in both which places he spent his time among the most learned there Lucas Holsteinius being one and from thence he journied to Naples where he was introduced into the Acquaintance of Joh. Bapt. Mansus an Italian Marquess to whom Torquatus Tassus an Italian Poet wrot his book De amicitia who shewed great civilities to him accompanied him to see the rarities of that place visited him at his Lodgings and sent to the testimony of his great esteem for him in this Distich Vt mens forma decor facies mos si pietas sic Non Anglus verum herculè Angelus ipse fores And excus'd himself at parting for not having been able to do him more honour by reason of his resolute owning his Protestant Religion which resoluteness he using at Rome many there were that dated not to express their civilities towards him which otherwise they would have done And I have heard it confidently related that for his said Resolutions which out of policy and for his own safety might have been then spared the English Priests at Rome were highly disgusted and it was question'd whether the Jesuits his Countrymen there did not design to do him mischief Before he left Naples he return'd the Marquess an acknowledgment of his great favours in an elegant copy of Verses entit Mansus which is among the Latin Poems 10 That from thence Naples he thought to have gone into Sicily and Greece but upon second thoughts he continued in Italy and went to Luca Bononia Ferrara and at length to Venice where continuing a month he went and visited Verona and Millan 11 That after he had ship'd the books and other goods which he had bought in his travels he returned thro Lombardy and over the Alpes to Geneva where spending some time he became familiar with the famous Joh. Deodate D. D. Thence going thro France he returned home well fraught with Knowledge and Manners after he had been absent one year and three months 12 That soon after he setled in an house in S. Brides Churchyard near Fleetstreet in London where he instructed in the Lat. Tongue two Youths named John and Edw. Philips the Sons of his Sister Anne by her Husband Edward Philips both which were afterwards Writers and the eldest principl'd as his Uncle But the times soon after changing and the Rebellion thereupon breaking forth Milton sided with the Faction and being a man of parts was therefore more capable than another of doing mischief especially by his pen as by those books which I shall anon mention will appear 13 That at first we find him a Presbyterian and a most sharp and violent opposer of Prelacy the established ecclesiastical Discipline and the orthodox Clergy 14 That shortly after he did set on foot and maintained very odd and novel Positions concerning Divorce and then taking part with the Independents he became a great Antimonarchist a bitter Enemy to K Cb. 1. and at length arrived to that monstrous and unparallel'd height of profligate impudence as in print to justifie the most exercable Murder of him the best of Kings as I shall anon tell you Afterwards being made Latin Secretary to the Parliament we find him a Commonwealths man a hater of all things that looked towards a single person a great reproacher of the Universities scholastical degrees decency and uniformity in the Church 15 That when Oliver
tuas Novit eloquii Phaenix utriusque Melancthon Quam te Phaebus amet pieriusque chorus Parga tuas cecinit cecinitque Lutetia Laudes Urbs ergo doctos officiosa viros Talia cum constent c. In the Year 1540. 32. Hen. 8. I find that he was living at Carleon in his native Country where I think he taught School and the same Year to publish Commentaries on Will Lily's construction of the eight parts of Speech Besides which he had before in the said Year translated from Greek into Latin Marcus Eremita de Lege Spiritu and from Lat. into English The paraphrase of St. Paul's Epistle to Titus written by Erasmus Roterod. with whom he was well acquainted Baleus tells us that the said Cox was from his Youth instructed in all liberal arts that he was a Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Divine and a Preacher of God's word Also that he had written against those who in his time wrot of Justification by works and that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and forty All which works besides Verses of divers kinds and Epistles were by him written before the end of that Year as also Latin Verses occasionally set before Books that were published particularly before John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement an 1530. He was living in the Reign of Ed. 6. but when or where he died I cannot yet tell He left behind him a Son named Francis Cox who proceeded D. of D. as a Member of New Coll. in the Year 1594 and he a Son named William who was a Divine of Chichester in Sussex THOMAS WYATT the delight of the Muses and of Mankind Son of Henr. Wyatt of Allington Castle in Kent Knight and Banneret by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Skinner of Surrey was born of an ancient and gentile Family in the said County of Kent sent to Cambridge to be initiated in Academical Learning transplanted thence to Oxon purposely to advance himselfe in knowledge by the hearing of the Cardinals Lectures then lately settled there but whether he took a Degree with us or at Cambridge I find not as yet Afterwards he being sent to travel he return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and was esteemed by all those that knew him to be a Person adorn'd with the endowments as well of body and mind as of fortune By the dayly and unwearied practice of the two former while he was in his travels and after his return he became not only well skill'd in military matters but also in several Arts and Tongues And as esteemed strong and valiant in body so powerful in mind and counsel At length he with Hen. Haward or Howard Earl of Surrey who also had travel'd into Italy and there tasted the sweet and stately measures and style of the Italian Poesie being esteemed to be the first refiners of the English Tongue Wyatt was introduced into the Court was beloved of K. Hen. 8. who honored him with the Degree of Knighthood and sent him in several Embassies beyond the Seas which he very prudently performed with great trust to the honor of his Master But that which is here to be in a special manner marked was his admirable skill in Poetry which in his first Years of reason he expressed in several amorous Songs and Poems With which as also his witty jests the King himself being in an high manner delighted they were so much admired by the Men of that and the next Age tho I persume they are now lost that some have not stuck to report that as Mecaenas Ovid Tibullus c. have been among the Latins most famous for Elegie So Sir Tho. Wyatt the elder Henry Haward Earl of Surrey Sir Franc. Brian of the Privy Chamber to K. Hen. 8. and a Traveller in 1528 Sir Phil. Sydney George Gascoigne Esq c. have among the English been most passionate to bemoan the perplexities of Love For his translation also of David's Psalms into English meeter and other of his Poetry Leland the Antiquarian Poet forbears not to compare him to Dant and Petrarch thus Bellum suo merrito c. translated by another hand as followeth Let Florence fair her Dante 's justly boast And royal Rome her Petrarchs numbred feet In English Wyatt both of them doth coast In whom all grateful eloquence doth meet In his younger Years as I have told youbefore he composed Several Songs and Poems Many of which are in the Songs and Sonnets of Hen. Haward Earl of Surrey Son of that victorious Prince the Duke of Norfolk and Father of that learned Howard sometimes his most lively Image Henry Earl of Northampton Which incomparable Earl of Surrey who entirely loved our Author Sir Tho. Wyatt hath among other things translated Virgils Aeneids the first and second Book whereof he hath admirably rendred almost line for line Sir Th. Wyatt also in his elder Years translated into English meeter 1 The penitential Psalms in one Book 2 The whole Psaltery of David in praise of which last is an Encomium in the Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey before-mention'd At length our Author Wyatt being sent by the King towards Falmouth in Cornwall to conduct Montmorantius sirnamed à Courriers thence to London for he came from Spain in an Embassie did by endeavouring and labouring to please the King rather than to consult his own health make more hast than good speed For by too much riding which was not necessarily requir'd in a very hot season he fell into a violent Feaver Whereupon putting in at a Mercate Town call'd Shirebourn in Dorsetshire was within few days after cut off from among the living in the 38 Year of his Age to the great reluctancy of the King Kingdome his Friends and all that knew the great worth and virtues of the Person He was buried in the great Church there year 1541 in Summer time in Fifteen hundred forty and one and the next Year was a little Book of Verses published on his death by his great admirer John Leland entit Naenia Before the first page of which is Sir Thomas's face with a long curl'd beard like to a Man of 80 Years of Age printed from a wooden cut engrav'd from his face which was painted by a Dutchman commonly call'd Hans Holbin At the same time was an Epitaph made on him by the Earl of Surrey as it seems another also by Sir Tho. Chaloner in long and short Verses and a third which was a large one in Prose by his entire Friend Sir Joh. Mason Chancellor of this University 1553. a Copy of which I have seen and in some things do follow it in my aforesaid discourse This Sir Tho. Wyatt left behind him a Son of both his names begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thom. Brook Lord Cobham who being a Commotioner in the Reign of Qu. Mary lost his Head and left issue by Jane his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Will. Hawte of Bourn Kt.
a Son named Geor. Wyatt of Boxley in Kent Esq restored 13. Elizab. I find another Tho. Wyatt to have been a Student in Cambridge 1587 in which Year he had a Copy of Verses put into Acadedemiae Cantabrigiensis Lachrymae tumulo D. Philippi Sydneii sacratae Published by Alex. Nevill RICHARD TURPIN was descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Knaptoft in Leicestershire extracted from that of the Turpins of Whitchester in Northumberland and educated for a time in Grammatical and Academical Learning in this University Whence being taken before he was honored with a Degree spent afterwards his chief time in Military Affairs at Calice in France under King Hen. 8. He hath written A Chronicle containing matters only of his time and dying at Calice before mention'd in Fifteen hundred forty and one 33. Hen. 8. was buried in the Church of St. Nicholas there leaving then behind him the Character of a Worthy Gentleman RICHARD WHYTFORDE who in his Writings stiles himself the Wretch of Sion was educated for a time among the Oxonians but whether he took a Degree we have no record that shews it Afterwards he was received into the Family of Rich. Foxe Bishop of Winchester and by him was made his Chaplain about the latter end of Hen. 7. at which time he became acquainted with Sir Tho. More then a Young Man between whom was great amity Afterwards Whytforde being minded to leave the World and all hopes of preferment entred himself a Monk of the Order of St. Brigit in the Monastry called Sion near to Brentford in Middlesex About which time being known to Scholars for his divine learning for in Philosophy he was but little vers'd and most sincere holiness he became acquainted with that great light of learning Erasmus who sometimes mentions him in his Epistles and advises him thus Cura at valeas teque tua Philosophia oblectes c. But such was his ill fortune that he lived to see himself turn'd out of his Cell and the Cell it self converted to a profane use Whereupon one Will. Mountjoy descended of a noble race received him into his Family and made him his Confessor which is all that I know of him at present only that he wrot and translated these things following Work of preparation unto the Communion and also for Housholders to govern their Families Lond. in oct When printed I know not for the Copy that I saw was imperfect A Boke called the Pype or Tonne of the life of perfection A work of the three Vows of Religion contrary to the great Hereticks the Lutherans Lond. 1532. qu. The reason of the title is this The Author compares the life of perfection to precious Wine kept in a Pype or Tonne made as it were of three plain boords viz. the three Vows of Obedience wilful poverty and chastity which are bound together as with hoops by their rules as of St. Austine Benedict Francis Basil Which hoops are knit as with wykers with the holy ceremonies of Religion contained in the Statutes Constitutions Injunctions and Customs of every Monastery This allegory he seems to prosecute throughout the whole work His main aim is to commend and defend the religious Orders and those three monastick Vows against the objections of the Lutherans Treatise of patience Also a work of divers impediments and lets of perfection Lond. 1541. qu. The Martiriloge after the use of the Church of Salisbury and as it is read in Sion with additions Lond. in qu. Solitary Meditations Psaltery of Jesus Printed several times in Engl. and French He also translated from Latin into English 1 St. Austin's rule Lond. 1525. qu. to which also he put notes This was done before by another hand but being not well understood by the Nuns of Sion they desired him to do it better which he accordingly did and dedicated it to them 2 St. Bonaventure his lessons entituled Alphabetum Religiosorum Lond. 1532. qu. with other things as 't is probable The Reader is now to know that there was another Richard Whytforde a wealthy Clerk possessed of Lands in Hope Hopedale and Whytforde in Flintshire as also of Lands in Farnworth and Widdous in Lancashire who in his last days entring himself a Brother into the Monastery of Sion before-mention'd died and was buried there 3. Hen. 8. Dom. 1511. But this R. Whytforde who seems to have been born in Flintshire was no writer only Unkle to Rich. Whytforde before mention'd who upon his Unkles account and because of his benefaction to Sion was entred a Brother there being originally as I suppose of Whytforde in Flintshire JOHN SHEPREVE or Shepery was born in or near to the Parish of Radley about a mile or two distant from Abendon in Berks admitted Probationer-Fellow of Corpus Ch. Coll. in the Year 1528. aged 19 or thereabouts took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1533 about which time he was Greek Reader in the said College and afterwards Hebrew Professor of the University in the place of Rob. Wakfeld about 1538. Three Years after he did with leave from the chief Members of the University begin to expound in the publick Schools the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Language and would have gone forward with the Books that follow had not death prevented him He was one of the skilfullest Linguists his Age being considered that ever was in Oxon before his time and was thought to surpass Origen in Memory So excellent a Poet also he was that his equal scarce could be found it having been an ordinary matter with him to compose 100 very good Verses every day at vacant hours some of which are extant Several Authors have celebrated his Memory in their respective Books of Poems particularly John Leland in his Encomia illustrium eruditorum in Angliâ virorum c. and in his Cygnia Cantio in the last of which he stiles him Decus atriusque linguae Also Dr. Joh. White in his Diacosio-Martyrion who entitles him trium Linguarum peritissimus and others Among the Books that he hath written these only I have seen viz. Summa synopsis Novi Testamenti disticis ducentis sexaginta comprehensa First of all published by John Parkhurst at Strasburgh about 1556. in oct with some of his Serious Epigrams at the end taken from his Ludicra or Epigram Juvenilia which I shall hereafter mention under him the said Parkhurst Afterwards the said Summa synopsis were printed at Lond. 1560. and at Oxon. 1586. in oct which last edition was reviewed and corrected by Dr. Laur. Humphrey They are also printed if I mistake not in a Book called Gemma Fabri Lond. 1598. and were by the Author composed to no other end but to assist the memories of Novices and Candidates in Divinity Hyppolitus Ovidianae Phaedrae respondens Before which our Author hath a Preface to the Epistle of Hyppolitus to Phaedra contained in about 350 long and short Verses written to one Mr.