had an Unkle or near Kinsman of both his names who was born in the Dioc. of Wells made Master-Fellow of that House in the Year 1513 and this Joh. Hoper whom we are further to mention being sent to the University the Year following might probably be put under his tuition in the said Coll. or at least in St. Albans Hall of which he was then notwithstanding Fellow of Mertâ—n Coll. Principal But these matters remaining yet uncertain I shall proceed to what is extant on record In the latter end therefore of 1518. he was admitted Bach. of Arts which was the highest Degree he took in this University and about the same time compleated it by Determination What became of him afterwards I cannot justly say Howbeit there is not wanting an Author who reports that he was of the number of Cistercians commonly called White Monks and had so continued for some Years Which report I presume is true because in all my searches I cannot find him a Curat Vicar or Parson But so it was that he being weary of that Order he left it and repairing to Oxon was as the R. Catholicks say infected with Lutherisme by Books brought from Germany and in short time became a thorow-pac'd Protestant if not worse as they further add In the Year 1539 or thereabouts at which time the Statute of six articles came forth he left what he had and got himself into the service of Sir John Arundel a very Catholick Knight afterwards put to death with the Protector by the Duke of Northumberland in K. Edwards days and was his Chaplain and Steward of his House But being discovered by him to be a Protestant he was forced to leave that harbour and to go into France where staying for some time in dislike of many matters there he returned into England and lived with a Gentleman called Seintlow But at length his living with him being known he was sought after to be apprehended Whereupon he put on a Mariners habit made himself Master of a Boat and went into Ireland and from thence took a larger journey into Zuitzerland where he became acquainted with Bullinger Scholar and Successor of Zuinglius's Chair first at Basill and afterward at Zurich where also by his Council and Doctrine be married a Wife which was a Burgundian and applyed very studiously the Hebrew tongue When K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown he returned soon after into England and settling for a time in London Preached to the People there very frequently and sometimes against pluralities In 1549. he became an accuser of Bishop Bonner when he was to be deprived of his Bishoprick which made him fare the worse when Qu. Mary came to the Crown In 1550. he by the help of his former Master Sir Joh. Arundel who could do all at that time with the Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland was nominated and elected Bishop of Glocester but when he should come to be consecrated or invested by Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury and Rydley B. of London who maligned him for his worse than Calvinistical Principles they would not do it except he would conform himself in all points to them both in apparel and opinions but he obstinately refusing a Rochet was thereupon confin'd to custody At length by the Earl of Warwick's intercession to Cranmer and the King's Letters to dispense with those matters and ceremonies which J. Fox usually calls trifles and superstitions he was consecrated Bishop of the said See 8. March 1550. At which time as 't is said Hoper after much hanging off did take the Oath of Supremacy and afterwards when he Preacher at Court he did once for formality sake appear in a Shymar with a white linnen rochet under it but much ashamed at the strangeness thereof as Fox saith Being settled in the See of Glocester which was looked upon as a poor pittance for so great a Clerk who had suffered so much for the Cause the Earl of Warwick got for him another Bishoprick much better than the former called Worcester of which place being declared Bishop 20. May 6. Ed. 6. Dom. 1552. the Bishop thereof N. Heath being then a Prisoner in the Fleet had liberty then given to him to keep it in Commendam with Glocester While he was Bishop he Preached often visited his Diocesses kept good hospitality for the poorer sort of People and was beloved by many But when Qu. Mary began to Reign which was in July 1553 he was pursevanted up to London in the latter end of August and on the first of Sept. following was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where remaining some Months was at length examined several times and required to recant his opinions But standing constant and resolute to them was condemned first to be burnt in Januar. 1554 and then in Feb following was degraded The next day he was conducted towards Glocester where being arrived he suffered death soon after with great courage He was a Person of good parts well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew tongues a tolerable Philosopher but a better Theologist had not his Principles been too rigid and dissenting from the English Church as appointed by King Edw. 6. His Writings are mostly these Answer to the Lord Winchester's Book entit A detection of the Devils Sophestry wherewith he robbeth the unlearned of the true belief in the Sacrament of the aultar Zurich 1547. qu. A declaration of Christ and his office Zur 1547. oct Dedicated to Edw. Duke of Somerset 8. Dec. 1547. Afterwards corrected by Christoph Rosdell and reprinted in twelves Lesson of the Incarnation of Christ Lond. 1549. oct Sermons on Jonas Lond. 1550. oct A godly confession and protestation of the Christian Faith wherein is declared what a Christian Man is bound to believe of God his King his Neighbour and himself Lond. 1550. oct Homelie to be read in the time of the pestilence and a most present remedy for the same Print 1553. qu. Various Letters written in Prison See in Joh. Fox's Book of The Acts and Monuments of the Church under the Year 1555. Epistola ad Episcopos Decanos Archidiaconos caet Cleri ordines in Synodo Londinensi congregatos an 1554. The beginning is Non vos latet c. Printed by Ja. Fox at the end of the Book of Acts and Mon. Exhortation to patience sent to his Wife Anne See there in Fox under the Year 1555. Certain sentences written in Prison Lond. 1559. oct Speech at his death An apologie against the untrue and slanderous report made of him that he should be a maintainer and encourager of such that cursed the Queens Highness that then was Queen Mary c. Lond. 1562. oct To which are added two or three of his Letters written in Prison Comfortable expositions on the 23 62 73 and 77 Psalmes Lond. 1580. qu. Annotations on the 13 Ch. to the Romans Lond. 1583. Twelve Lectures upon the Creed Lond. 1581. oct Confession of the Christian Faith containing 100
Bekinsau did dedicate it to K. Hen. 8. with whom as also with K. Ed. 6. he was in some value but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown and endeavoured to alter all what her Father and Brother had done as to the reformation of the Church then did he wheel about change his mind and became a zealous Person for the Church of Rome and a hater of Protestants After Queen Elizabeth was fetled in the Throne he retired to an obscure Town called Sherbourne in Hampshire where giving way to fate in great discontent was buried in the Church of that place 20. year 1559 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine aged about 63 years leaving then behind him this character among the R. Catholicks that As he was a learned Man so might he have been promoted according to his deserts had his principles been constant ALBAYN HYLL was a Britaine born as one that knew him tellus partly educated in this and partly in another University beyond the Sea as it seems where applying his studies to the faculty of Physick he proceeded Doctor and became famous for it at London not only for the Theoretic but practick part and much beloved and admired by all learned Men especially by Dr. John Cay and Dr. Joh. Fryer two eminent Physicians of Cambridge One that lived in his time stiles him Medicus nobilissimus atque optimus in omni literarum genere maxime versatus and tells us that he wrot several things on Galen which are printed and by others cited This is all that I know of this learned Person only that he died 26 Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 and that he was buried not far from the grave of his friend and contemporary Dr. Edw. Wotton in the Church of St. Alban situated in Woodstreet in London in which Parish he had lived many years in great respect and was esteemed one of the chief Parishioners Alice his Widow who died on the last day of May 1580. was buried by him and both had a substantial Grave-stone with an inscription on it laid over them but that of it which was left part in 1666. was utterly consumed in the grand conflagration of London NICHOLAS BRIGHAM Esquire was born if I mistake not at or near to Caversham in Oxfordshire where his elder Brother Thom. Brigham had lands of inheritance and died there 6. Ed. 6. but descended from those of Brigham in Yorks received his Academical education in this University particularly as I conceive in Hart Hall wherein I find several of his Sirname without Christian names before them to have studied in the time of Hen. 8. but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear in our registers that are somewhat imperfect in the latter end of that King's Reign When he continued in the University and afterwards in one of the Inns of Court he exercised his muse much in Poetry and took great delight in the works of Jeffry Chaucer For whose memory he had so great a respect that he removed his bones into the South cross Isle or trancept of St. Peters Church in Westminster in the Year 1556. Which being so done he erected a comely Monument over them with Chaucers Effigies and an Epitaph in Prose and Verse which to this day remains against the East Wall of the said Isle At riper years our Author Brigham addicted himself much to the study of the municipal Law became noted for it and without doubt had not death snatched him untimely away he would have communicated some Specimen of that faculty to the World His genie also was much inclin'd to English History in which faculty he published a Book which some entitle De venationibus rerum memorabilum It contains the discovery or finding out of several memories of eminent Men of and things done in England Which being perused by John Bale he hath cull'd out many things thence for his purpose and quotes it when he hath occasion to mention several eminent Writers See in his Book De Scriptorib Maj. Britan. cent 10. nu 72. cent 11. num 6. 42. 52. 95. c. and in cent 12. nu 24. 79. 82. 95. c. Memoires by way of Diaâ—e in 12 Books And wrot also his youth Miscellaneous Poems with other things which I have not seen being as I suppose irrecoverable and quite lost This ingenious and curious Person who was admirably well vers'd in Histories and Antiquities yeilded up his last breath to the great regret of all those that knew his worth within the City of Westminster in the month of Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the second year of Queen Elizabeth but where buried unless near to the bones of Chaucer I cannot tell JOHN WHYTE Brother to Sir Joh. Whyte L. Mayor of London an 1563. Son of Rob. Whyte of Farnham in Surrey Son of Joh. Whyte of the same place Son of Thom. Whyte of Purvyle in Hampshire was born at Farnham before mentioned educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1527 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated 23 March 1533-4 left his Fellowship in 1534. being about that time Master of the said School in the place of Rich. Tuchiner Afterwards he was made Warden of the College near to Winchester was elected Bishop of Lincolne upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Tayler the Temporalities of which were restored to him 2. May 1554 he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of Octob. 1555. he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty and soon after upon the death of Dr. St. Gardiner he was translated to Winchester the Temporalities of which were also restored to him 30. May 1557. Of some of which gradual rises Dr. Christoph Johnson one of his successors in the Mastership of Winchester School made this distick Me puero custos Ludi paulo ante Magister Vitus hâc demum praesul in urbe fuit He was a Man of an austere life and much more mortified to the World than Step. Gardiner his Predecessor He was eminent also for piety and learning was an eloquent Orator a solid Divine a nervous Preacher poetica facultate ut tempora ferebant tolerabilis as Camden tells us His fame and actions did well answer his name and so did all Men say how contrary soever to him in Religion only for one black Sermon that he made he gave offence yet for the colour it may be said he kept decorum because it was a funeral Sermon of a great Queen by birth and marriage I mean Qu. Mary The offence taken against him was this His Text was out of Eccles 4. 2. Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes feliciorem utroque judicave qui nec dum damnatus est And speaking of Qu. Mary her high parentage her bountiful disposition her great gravity her rare devotion praying so much as he
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
Carey He left behind him two Sons or more one was named Thomas of whom I shall speak elsewhere and the other Henry Lyte Gent. a teacher sometimes of Arithmetick in London who published a book entit The art of Tens and Decimal Arithmetick Lond. 1619. oct GABRIEL POWELL Son of Dev. Powell mentioned under the year 1590. was born at Ruabon in Denbighshire of which place his Father was Vicar and baptized there 13. Jan. 1575. educated in Grammar learning in those parts entred into Jesus coll in Lent term 1592. took the degree of Bach. of Arts and then departed for a time It must now be known that Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster having founded a Free School at Ruthyn in Denbighshire in 1595. he appointed one Rob. Griffith to be the first Master thereof To him succeeded Rich. Parry afterwards Dean of Bangor and B. of St. Asaph and to him as 't is said Gabr. Powell our author but in what year I find not Sure 't is that while he remained in the Country he did exercise himself much in the reading of the Fathers and in the studies of Philosophy and laid a foundation for several books that he intended afterwards to publish But being not in a possibility of compleating his endeavours where he remained he therefore retired to Oxon became a Commoner of St. Maries hall published certain books while he was there and supplicated to be Bach. of Divinity but whether really admitted it appears not So that his name being famous for those things he had published especially among the Puritans Dr. Rich. Vaughan B. of London called him thence and made him his domestick Chaplain gave him a Dignity and would have done much for him had he lived but he dying in 1607. our author lived not long after He was esteemed a Prodigie of Learning in his time being but a little above 30 years of age when he died and 't is thought had he lived to the age of man he would have gone beyond Jo. Rainolds or any of the learned Heroes of that age His works are these The resolved Christian exhorting to resolution c. Lond. 1602. oct third edit There again 1616. c. Prodromus A Logical resolution of the first Chapter of the Epist of St. Paul to the Rom. Lond. 1600. Ox. 1602. oct Printed there again in Lat. 1615. oct Theological and Scholastical Positions concerning Usury Pr. with Prodromus The Catholicks supplication to the King for toleration of Catholick Religion with Notes and Observations in the Margin Lond. 1603. qu. A Supplicatory parallel-wise or Counterpoise of the Protesatants to the said King Printed with the Cath. supplic Reasons on both sides for and against toleration of divers religions pr. with the Cath. suppl A consideration of Papists reasons of state and religion for a toleration of Popery in England intimated in their supplication to the Kings Maj. and the state of the present Parliament Oxon 1604. qu. The unlawfulness and danger of toleration of divers religions and connivance to contrary worship in one monarchy or kingdom printed 1605. qu. Refutation of an Epistle Apologetical written by a Puritan-Papist to perswade the permission of the promiscuous use and profession of all sorts of Heresies c. Lond. 1605. qu. Consideration of the deprived and silenced Ministers arguments for their restitution to the use and liberty of their Ministry exhibited in their late supplication to this present Parliament Lond. 1606. qu. Disputationes Theologicae de Antichristo ejus Ecclesiae lib. 2. Lond. 1605. 06. oct In the Preface to this book dedicated to the University of Oxford the author doth enumerate all those of the said University that have wrote or acted against the Pope and Court of Rome But therein having fixed most of them on certain colleges and halls as if they had studied and been educated in them hath committed many errours Among them are 1 That Gualo Britannus studied in the Kings hall in Oxon before 1170. 2 That John Baconthorpe was of Oriel college which cannot be because he was a Carme and was in great renown before that coll was founded 3 That Cardinal Philip Repingdon was of Merton coll whereas it appears from Record that he was of Broadgates hall now Pemb. coll 4 That Pet. Payne and Hen. Parker were of All 's coll whereas they were in great renown and far in years before that coll was erected c. De Adiaph â—is these Theologicae Scholasticae c. Lond 1606. Translated into English by T. J. of Oxon. Lond. 1607. qu. Rejoinder unto the mild defence justifying the consideration of the silenced Ministers supplication to the Parliament Comment on the Decalogue Printed in oct This I have not yet seen and other things which probably he hath written He departed this mortal life at London in sixteen hundred and seven year 1609 but where buried I know not yet His Patron Dr. Vaughan Bishop of London died in the beginning of that year and Gabr. Powell died very shortly after as I have been informed by one or more ancient Divines that remembred him JAMES BISSE a Somersetshire Man born was elected Demy of Magd. coll in 1570. aged 18. made Fellow when Bach. of Arts in 74. and proceeding in that degree three years after became a noted Preacher here and at London Subdean and Canon Residentiary of Wells where he was much followed for his fluent and eloquent way of Preaching and well beneficed in that Diocess This person who proceeded D. of D. in 1596. hath published several Sermons and perhaps other things but all that I have hitherto seen are only Two Sermons One at Pauls Cross on John 6. 27. The other at Ch. Ch. in London on the same subject Lond. 1585. oct He died about the beginning of Dec. in sixteen hundred and seven year 1607 and was buried as I presume at Wells He had a Son or near Kinsman of both his names who became Rector of Croscombe in the said Dioc. 1623. on the death of Will. Rogers RICHARD PARKS a Lancashire Man born was chosen Scholar Kings Scholar of Brasnose coll 1574. aged 16. entred into Holy Orders when Bach. of Arts and proceeding in that degree 1585. became a godly Divine a noted Preacher and admirably well read in Theological and Polemical authors His works are An Apology of three Testimonies of Holy Scripture concerning the Article of our Creed He descended into Hell first impugned by certain objections sent in writing by a Minister unto a Gent. in the Country and lately seconded by a printed Pamphlet under the name of Limbomastix Lond. 1607. qu. Answered by Andr. Willet of Cambridge in his Loidromastix A second book containing a Rejoinder to a reply made against the former book lately published in a printed Pamphlet intit Limbo-Mastix Lond. 1607. qu. The same year was published at Cambr. in qu. A Scourge for a Railer written by the said Willet against our author Parks What else he hath written it appears not nor any thing besides
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
expulsion wherein he disclaimeth the aforesaid Libel beginning thus Jenkin why Man Why Jenkin fie for shame c. But the Reader must know that none of these were printed JOHN DOVE a Surrey Man born of Plebeian Parents was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1580. aged 18. and after he had taken the degrees in Arts became a Preacher of note in the University In 1596. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time well beneficed if not dignified but where I cannot yet tell His works are A perswasion to the English Recusants to reconcile themselves to the Church of Rome Lond. 1603. qu. Confutation of Atheism Lond. 1605. and 1640. oct Defence of Church-Government wherein the Church Government in England is directly consonant to the Word of God c. Lond. 1607. qu. Defence of the Cross in Baptism as 't is used in the Church of England Printed with the Defence Advertisement to the English Seminaries and Jesuits shewing their loose kind of writings and negligent handling the cause of Religion c. Lond. 1610. qu. The conversion of Salomon A direction to holiness of life handled by way of Commentary upon the whole book of Canticles c. Lond. 1613. qu. Sermons on Ezek. 33. 11. and S. Matth. 19. 9. Lond. 1597. 1601. oct c. See more in Alb. Gentilis an 1611. where you will find him author of another book but whether printed I know not He concluded his last day in Apr. about the 19. day in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 but where buried I know not as yet I find one John Dove to be author of Polydorian or a miscellany of Moral Philosophical and Theological Sentences Printed 1631. oct But whether he was the same with the Doctor or another I cannot tell unless I see the book it self which I have not yet done RICHARD MOKET was born in Dorsetshire in the Dioc. of Salisbury elected from Brasnose to be Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1599. being then near four years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts. Afterwards he proceeding in that Faculty took on him the Sacred Function became Domestick Chaplain to George Archb. of Canterbury Warden of Allsouls Rector of Monks-Risborow in Bucks and of Newington near Dorchester in Oxfordshire D. of D. and one of the Kings Commissioners concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs He published in the Latin tongue Lond. 1616. fol. The Liturgy of the Church of England Greater and Lesser Catechisms Thirty nine Articles Book of ordination of Bishops Priests and Deacons Doctrinal points extracted out of the Book of Homilies To which he added his own book written in Latin intituled De politiâ Ecclesiae Anglicanae Reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct Which collection he published in a pious zeal for gaining honour to the Church of England amongst Foreign Nations But this his zeal was so little accompanied in the Constitutions of the said Church or so much byassed towards those of Calvins Platform that it was thought fit not only to call it in but to expiate the errours of it in a publick flame And the true cause which was conceived why the book was burn'd was that in publishing the twentieth Article concerning the authority of the Church he totally left out the first clause of it viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus caeremonias statuendi jus in controversiis fidei authoritatem By means whereof the Article was apparently falsified the Churches authority disowned and consequently a wide gap opened to dispute her power in all her Canons and Determinations of what sort soever He yielded up his last breath with grief as 't is thought for what had been done to his book on the day before the nones of July year 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried at the upper end of Allsouls coll chappel just below the steps leading to the high Altar In his Wardenship succeeded Richard Astley D. of D. who dying in Febr. 1635. was succeeded by Gilb. Sheldon who was afterwards Bishop of London and at length Archbishop of Canterbury JOHN GOLDESBURG descended originally from those of his name living at Goldesburg in Yorkshire was born 18. oct 1568. spent some time among the Oxonians for form-sake about 1584. went thence to the Middle Temple were after he had continued in the degree of Barrester and for some years been resorted to in matters relating to his profession was made one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas. He wrote and left behind him fit for the Press Reports or collection of cases and matters agitated in all the Courts in Westminster in the latter years of the reign of Qu. Elizabeth with learned arguments at the Barr and on the bench Lond. 1635. c. qu. Published by Will. Shepphard Esq Upon which cases and matters Sir Edm. Anderson and Sir Jo. Popham Judges wrote Resolutions and Judgments year 1618 Our author Goldesburg concluded his last day on the 9. oct in sixteen hundred and eighteen Whereupon his body was buried near to the high Altar of the Church belonging to the Temples He left behind him other things as 't is said fit for the Press but in whose hands they are I could never learn WALTER RALEIGH a person in his time of a good natural wit better judgment and of a plausible tongue Son of Walt. Raleigh Esq by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Philip Champernoon Kt. was born at a place called Hayes in Parish of East-Budeleigh in Devonshire an 1552. Which Hayes is a farm and his Father having had a remnant of a Lease of 80 years in it came after the expiration thereof to one Duke unto whom afterwards our author W. Raleigh having a desire to purchase it wrote a Letter dated from the Court 26. July 1584. wherein he says that for the natural disposition he has to that place being born in that house he had rather seat himself there than any where else c. His Father was the first of his name that lived there but his ancestors had possessed Furdell in the same County for several Generations before where they lived in gentile estate and were esteemed antient Gentlemen In 1568 or thereabouts he became a Commoner of Oriel coll at what time C. Champernoon his kinsman studied there where his natural parts being strangely advanced by Academical learning under the care of an excellent Tutor became the ornament of the Juniours and was worthily esteemed a proficient in Oratory and Philosophy After he had spent about 3. years in that house where he had laid a good ground and sure foundation to build thereon he left the University without a degree and went to the Middle-Temple to improve himself in the intricate knowledge of the municipal Laws How long he tarried there 't is uncertain yet sure I am from a Epistle or copy of Verses of his composition which I have seen that he was abiding in the said Temple in Apr. 1576. at which time his vein for ditty and amorous Ode was esteemed
his Countryman and another by a Scot. Which last stiles our author Carew another Livie another Maro another Papinian and highly extolls him for his great skill in History and knowledge in the Laws Besides the Rich Carew was another but later in time author of Excellent helps by a warming-stone Printed 1652. qu. RICHARD KILBYE was born at Radcliff on the River Wreake in Leicestershire elected Fellow of Lincoln coll 18. Jan. 1577. being then about three years standing in the University Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted Preacher in the University In 1590. he was elected Rector of his College took the degrees in Divinity was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln and at length Hebrew Professor of this University He hath written Commentarii in Librum Exodi Part. 2. MS. in the hands sometimes of Will. Gilbert Fellow of Linc. coll The chief part of which is excerpted from the Monuments of the Rabbins and Hebrew Interpreters He also continued Jo. Mercers notes on Genesis and would have printed them but was denied had a hand also in the translation of the Bible appointed by K. Jam. 1. an 1604. and did other very laudable matters relating to learning Serm. in S. Maries Church Oxon 26. Mar. 1612. at the Funeral of Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity in this Univ. on 1 Cor. 5. 55 56 57. Oxon. 1613. qu. He the said Dr. Kilbye was buried in that Chancel in Allsaints Church in Oxon. which is commonly called The College Chancel because it belongs to Linc. coll on the 17. year 1620 Nov. in sixteen hundred and twenty aged 60. or thereabouts Whereupon Paul Hood Bac. afterwards D. of Divinity succeeded him in his Rectorship and Edward à Meetkerk Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in his Professorship Besides this Rich. Kilbye was another of both his names and a writer too as I have under the year 1617. told you JOHN CARPENTER received his first breath in the County of Cornwal was entred a Batler in Exeter coll about 1570. where going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy for the space of four years or more with unwearied industry left the University without a degree and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon He hath written and published A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct Remember Lots Wise two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct Preparative for Contentation Lond. 1597. qu. Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard or two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599. oct Christian Contemplations or a Catechism Lond. 1601. oct K. Soloman's Solace Lond. 1606. qu. Plain Man's Spiritual Plough Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh before-mentioned in the latter end of the year viz. in March in sixteen hundred and twenty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there before the 25. of the said month as it doth partly appear in the Register of that place leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accompts by way of Debtor and Creditor Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian WILLIAM TOOKER second Son of Will. Tooker by Honora Eresey of Cornwall his Wife Son and Heir of Rob. Tooker was born in the City of Exeter educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1583. in which year he shewd himself a ready Disputant before Albertus Alaskie Prince of Sirad at his being entertained by the Oxonian Muses in S. Maries Church In 1585. he left his Fellowship being about that time promoted to the Archdeanconry of Barnstaple in his own Country Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth and Prebendary of Salisbury took the degrees in Divinity 1595. became Canon of Exeter and at length Dean of Lichfield on the death as it seems of Dr. George Boleyne in the latter end of 1602. He was an excellent Grecian and Latinist an able Divine a person of great gravity and piety and well read in curious and critical authors as may partly appear by these books following which he wrote and published Charisma sive donum Sanatiâ—nis seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilium Sanitatum gratiâ c. Lond. 1597. qu. In this book he doth attribute to the Kings and Queens of England a power derived into them by Lawful Succession of healing c. Which book is reflected upon by Mart. Anton. Delrius the Jesuit who thinks it not true that Kings can cure the Evil. With him agrees most Fanaticks Of the Fabrick of the Church and Church mens livings Lond. 1604. oct Singulare certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuitâ futiliter refutante apologiam monitoriam praefationem ad Imperatorem Reges Principes quaedam Orthodoxa dogmata Jacobi Regis Magnae Britaniae Lond. 1611. oct This learned author Dr. Tooker died at Salisbury on the 19. of March or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there 21. of the said month in sixteen hundred and twenty leaving behind him a Son named Robert Tooker of East-Grinsteade in Surrey In June following Dr. Walt. Curle of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanry of Lichfield and him Dr. Augustin Lindsell another Cantabrigian an 1630. HENRY SWINBURNE Son of Thomas Swinburne of the City of York was born there spent some years in the quality of a Commoner in Hart hall whence translating himself to that of Broadgates took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law married Helena Daughter of Barthelm Lant of Oxon and at length retiring to his native place became a Proctor in the Archbishops Court there Commissary of the Exchecquer and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York He hath written Brief Treatise of Testaments and last Wills In 7 parts Lond. 1590. 1611 35. 40. 77. c. qu. Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts c. Lond. 1686. qu. In which two books the author shâ—ws himself an able Civilian and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty He paid his last debt to â—â—â—ure at York and was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral there Soon after was a comely Monument fastned to the wall near to this grave with his Effigies in a Civilians Gown kneeling before a deske with a book thereon and these verses under Non Viduae caruere viris non Patre Pupillus Dum stetit hic Patriae virque paterque suae Ast quod Swinburnus viduarum scripsit in usum Longius aeterno marmore vivet opus Scribere supremas hinc discat quisque tabellas Et cupiat qui sic vixit ut ille mori There is no day or year on the Monument to shew when this H. Swinburne died
oct To which he added a fourth book published with the former three at Oxon. 1616. and at Lond. 1617. qu. But these 〈◊〉 coming soon after into the hands of Joh. Drusius an old 〈…〉 whom I have before mentioned he grâ—w angry and jealous as one tells us 〈◊〉 he should be out-shined in his own sphere Whereupon he spared not to cast some drops of ink upon him for being his Plagiary and taking his best notes from him without any acknowledgment But our author knowing himself guiltless as having never seen Drusius his works added a fifth and sixth book to the former intit Miscellanea Sacra cum Apologia contra V. Cl. Johan Drusium Lugd. Bat. 1622. qu. and at Argent 1650. c. All which Miscellanies are remitted into the ninth vol. of the Criticks and scattered and dispersed throughout the whole work of M. Poole's Synopsis He hath also written Exposition of Rabbi Mordochie Nathans Hebr. roots with notes upon it MS. in the Archieves of Bodies Library Which book doth shew his excellent skill in the Hebrew and in other Philological learning Lexicon MS. Which had he lived he would with his Exposition have published At length breathing out his divine Soul at Allington before-mentioned about the tenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred twenty and two was buried in the middle of the Chancel of the Church there on the 13. of the same month and thereupon his Prebendship of Sarum was conferred on one Tho. Clerk 28. Apr. 1623. Besides this Nich. Fuller was another of both his names and time Son of Nich. Fuller of the City of London Merchant younger Son of Thom. Fuller of Neats hall in the Isle of Shepy which Nich. having received education in one of the Universities in Cambridge as it seems where he was a Benefactor to Eman. coll went afterwards to Grays Inn of which he was at length a Counsellour of note and a Bencher But being always looked upon as a noted Puritan and Champion of the Nonconformists pleaded in behalf of his two Clients Tho. Lad and Rich. Maunsell who had been imprisoned by the High Commission and endeavoured to prove that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had no power by virtue of their Commission to imprison to put to the Oath ex officio or to fine any of his Majesty's Subjects Whereupon a legal advantage being given to Archb. Bancroft Fuller was imprisoned by him and continued in custody several years He hath written An argument in the case of Tho. Lad and Rich. Maunsel his Clients proving that Ecclesiastical Commissioners have not power by virtue of their Commission to imprison to put to the Oath ex officio or to fine any of his Majesty's Subjects Lond. 1607. and 1641. qu. He died in durance on the 23. of Feb. 1619. aged 76 years and was buried towards the east end of the south Isle joyning to the Church of Thatcham in Berks in which Parish his Seat called Chamber-house is situated leaving then behind him two Sons Nicholas and Daniel besides Daughters Nicholas who had been a Student in Queens coll in this Univ. of Oxon was a Knight while his Father lived but dying 30. of July 1621. was buried near to the grave of his said Father JOHN COMBACH Combadius was born in Wetteraw a part of Germany educated in the Academy of Marpurg within the dominion of the Lantgrave of Hesse retired to Oxon to compleat that learning which he had begun in his own Country about 1608 and the next year I find him a â—â—journour of Exeter college where he was then noted to be a very good Philosophical Disputant and a great admirer of Holland and Prideaux especially the lâ—st After he had laid the foundation of one or more books there he retired to 〈◊〉 of which being M. of A. he became Ordinary Professor of Philosophy thereof and much fam'd for the books that he published in that Faculty Among which are some of these following Antidotum oppositum M. Joh. Hâ—sselbeinio in quo epriscae Philosophiae Schâ—asticorum dâ—triâ—â— 1 Fâ—rrâ—rum divisio cruitur 2. Propriâ—rum communicatio destruitur c. Marpurg Cattorum 1608. oct Antidoti lib. 2. circa 〈◊〉 partium integrantium Marp Cat. 1608. oct Metaphysicorum lib. singuâ—â—â— Marp Câ—t 1613. 20. oct c. Dedicated by the fast Epistle before it to the Vichancellour Heads of Colleges and Halls in Oxon and the rest of 〈…〉 theâ—e The 2 Epist is written to his 〈…〉 Rector of Exeter coll Liber de homine 〈…〉 Physicorum libri iv juxta 〈…〉 Marp 1620. oct Actus solennis promotionis xiii 〈…〉 bitae in Acad. Marpurgeâ—sâ— c. 〈…〉 things as 't is probable he hath 〈…〉 have not yet seen While he studied in Exeter college where he contracted friendship with Will. Helme the Sub-rector a man of rare piety and with G. Hakewell R. Vilvaine and others studied also one of his Countrymen a quick Disputant who writes himself Henr. Petreus afterwards a learned man Doctor of Philosophy and Physick and Dean of the faculty of Philosophy at Marpurg for a time about 1613. WILLIAM PEMBLE the Son of a minister of Gods word was born in Kent at Egerton as I have been informed sent to Magd. coll in the beginning of the year 1610. aged 18 where continuing a severe student under the tuition of R. Capell till after he had compleated the degree of Bach. by determination which was in Lent 1613. he retired to Magd. hall adjoyning became a noted reader and a tutor there took the degree of M. of A. entred into sacred Orders made Div. reader of that house became a famous preacher a well studied Artist a skilful Linguist a good Orator an expert Mathematician and an ornament to the Society among whom he lived All which accomplishments were knit together in a body of about 32 years of age which had it lived to the age of man might have proved a prodigy of learning Adrian Heereboord sometimes professour of Philosophy in the University of Leyden is very profuse in his commendations of this our author and his works and good reason he hath for so doing for in his book entit Maletemata Philosophica wherein he takes upon him to confute the commonly entertained and old Aristotelian opinion asserting the substantiality of the vegetative and sensitive Souls to be different and distinct from that of matter he hath taken a great quantity from them especially in his four disputations De formis which are mostly composed from our athour Pemble's book De formarum origine The works of the said W. Pemble are these Vindiciae gratiae A plea for grace more especially the grace of faith Ox. 1629. qu. sec. edit Vindiciae fidei A treatise of justification by faith Ox. 1625. qu. published by Joh. Geree sometimes M. A. of Madg. hall Our authors mind did run so much upon this subject that he said when he was upon his death bed that he would dye in it viz. in his perswasion of justification by
of proceedings in matters of Justice he briefly repeated the heads of his charge to the Grand Jury in good and elegant Latin and thereby informed the Strangers and Scholars there present of the ability of the Judges and the course of proceeding in matter of Law and Justice He understood the Greek very well and the Hebrew was vers'd in the Jewish Histories and excellently knowing in the Histories of his own Country and in the Pedigrees of most persons of honour and quality in England and much conversant also in the study of Antiquity and Heraldry He was not by any exceeded in the knowledge of his own profession of the Common Law of England wherein his knowledge of the Civil Law was a help to him as his learned arguments both at the Bar and Bench have confirm'd it for a truth His works are these Reading in the Middle Temple hall In which was so much solid Law and excellent learning express'd that copies were desired and taken of it but whether printed I cannot tell Several Speeches in Parliament One of which is extant in a book intit The Soveraign's Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3. and 4. of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. Of the antiquity use and ceremony of lawful Combats in England MS. The beginning of which is Combats are distinguished to be lawful and unlawful c. This MS. which I saw and perused in the choice Library of MSS. of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq had the name of James Whitlock set and subscrib'd to it and so consequently I took him to be the author who dying on the 22. of June in sixteen hundred thirty and two the King did lose as good a Subject his Country as good a Patriot the People as just a Judge as ever lived c. as his Son Bulstrode Whitlock tells us His body was afterward buried at Falley or Fawley not far from Great Wycomb in Bucks over which his Son before-mentioned not only erected a stately monument but also a Chappel which serves for a burial place for those descended from him ISAAC WAKE Son of Arthur Wake Rector of Billyng in Northamptonshire Master of the Hospital of St. John in Northampton and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon third Son of John Wake Esq of the ancient and honourable Family of his name living at Sawcy Forest was born in the said County of Northampton at Billyng as it seems became a Member of this University in the beginning of the year 1593. aged 18. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll 1598. Orator of the University 1604. being then Regent ad placitum publickly known to the K. and Court at Oxon in the year following by his Orations of a Ciceronian stile delivered before them when entertained there travelled into France and Italy 1609. and after his return was entertained in the quality of a Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton one of the Secretaries of State and from his was advanced to the King 's service by being imployed Embassador to Venice Savoy and elsewhere The time when he went to Savoy was in the middle of Apr. 1619. being in few days before made a Knight whose Escocheon then or soon after which was hung up in all publick places where he came had this inscription written under it Sir Isaac Wake Knight Embassador Extraordinary in Savoy and Piemont Ordinary for Italy Helvetia and Rhetia select for France In 1623. he was elected Burgess by the Members of this University to serve in that Parliament which began the 19. Feb. the same year in which he was much admired for his excellent elocution I have been informed by some of the Ancients of Merton coll that this our author Wake had his Pen more at command in the Latin English and French tongue than any of his time in the University Also that his speaking was Majestick that he was better for Orations than disputing and that he employed his time more in reading political and civil matters than Philosophy or the great Faculties Further also that he was a gentile man in behaviour well spoken and therefore put upon Speeches at all Receptions and Funerals There is no doubt but that he was a man of exquisite learning strong parts of nature and of a most refined wit He hath written Rex Platonicus sive de potentiss Principis Jacobi Regis ad Academ Oxon. adventu an 1605. Oxon. 1607. qu. afterwards printed in oct Oratio funebris habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon quum maesti Oxinienses piis manibus Johannis Rainoldi parentarent Oxon. 1608. in tw c. Translated into English by Thom. Fuller in his Abel redivivus Lond. 1651. qu. Oratio funebris habita in Schola Theologica in obitum Clariss Equitis Tho. Bodley Oxon. 1613. qu. Wake 's name is not set to it only said in the title to be made by the publick Orator of the University which office Wake then injoyed 'T is reprinted in a book published by Will. Bates D. D. a Nonconformist-Minister intit Vitae selectiorum aliquot virorum qui doctrina dignitate aut pietate inclaruere Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Discourse of the 13 Cantons of the Helvetical League Lond. 1655. oct Discourse of the state of Italy as it stood about the year 1625. Printed with the former discourse Discourse upon the proceedings of the Kings of Sweden Printed also with the former These three last discourses were printed at Lond. in oct with this title put before them A threefold help to political observations I find another book going under his name that bears this title Disquisitions upon the Nativity of our Saviour Jesus Christ When printed I know not for I have not yet seen it And another called A relation of what hapned in the Dutchies of Mantoua and Montferrat from the beginning of the year 1628. unto the end of the year 1629. MS. among those given by the learned Selden's Executors to the publick Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of it is In the year of our Lord 1627. was closed with the death of Vincenzo Gonzaga c. He hath also Several Letters of State in the book called Cabala or Mysteries of State c. Lond. 1654. qu. and Several Letters in that intit Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. He took his last farewel of this World at Paris during his being there in the service of his Majesty Whereupon his body being embalmed was brought over into England and inter'd on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Chappel in Dover Castle in the month of July in sixteen hundred thirty and two At which time Mr. John Reading Minister of S. Maries Church in Dover preached his Funeral Sermon wherein he took occasion to speak very honourably of the person that laid dead before him whom he knew and well remembred in the University of Oxon. THOMAS ALLEN or Alleyn the Father of all learning and vertuous industry an unfeigned lover and furtherer of
a secular or of any religious Order I cannot tell nor whether justly he took a degree in this University Certain it is that being made Suffragan Bishop of Hull under the Archbishop of York was made Prebendary of Langtoft and VVistow in the Church of York 1541. and in 1549. January 31. was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham on the death of Cuthbert Marshall D. D. who had succeeded Will. Fell D. D. in that dignity in Jan. 1527. He either died in the beginning of Q. Maries reign 1553. or was deprived because then or soon after I find one Rob. Pursglove to occur by the title of Bishop of Hull as I shall at large tell you under the year 1579. JOHN STANYWELL or Stonywell was born in the Parish of Longdon in Staffordshire within which Parish is a small Hamlet called Stonywell from a Well wherein is at the bottom a large stone which seems to be no more than a little Rock whence springs the water that supplies that Well This person being much addicted to learning and religion when a Youth was taken into a certain Monastery that at Pershore in Worcestershire as it seems and was bred a Benedictine Monk Thence he was sent to Glocester College in Oxon where the Monks of Pershore had an apartment for their Novices to be trained up in Academical learning of which College he was when in his elder years Prior for a time and was then noted among those of his profession for his learning and strict course of life Afterwards being Doctor of divinity he became Lord Abbat of the said Monastery of Pershore and at length a Bishop suffragan only as it seems under the title of Episcopus Poletensis He paid his last debt to nature after he had arrived to a great age in the beginning of fifteen hundred fifty and three year 1553 and was burled according to his Will in a new chappel built by him within the Parish Church of S. James in Longdon he bequeathed all his books his two Chalices his Crewetts holy water stock Vestmens Albes Altar-clothes with other things belonging to his private chappel in Longdon JOHN HOPER or Hooper sometimes either of Merton coll or S. Albans hall or of both successively was consecrated Bishop of Glocester in the latter end of the year 1550. and about two years after had the Bishoprick of Worcester given to him to keep in Commendam with the former He yielded up his last breath in the flames in the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Glocester succeeded him James Brokes and in Worcester Rich. Pate Of the former you may read more among the writers under the year 1559. and of the other among the Bishops following an 1560. GEORGE BROWNE an Austin Frier of the convent of that order in London was educated in Academicals among those of his order in Oxon. Afterwards growing eminent among them was made Provincial of the said order in England and about the same time supplicated the Regents of this University that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1523 but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards taking the degree of Doctor of divinity in an University beyond the Seas as it seems was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon 1534. and soon after at Cambridge On the 19. of March 1535. he was consecrated in England Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland and in 1551. he obtained leave from K. Ed. 6. that he and his successors for ever in that See may be Primates of all Ireland but recalled soon after by Queen Mary who in 1554. caused him to be deprived of his Archbishoprick for being married What became of him afterwards I know not nor when he died EDWARD STAPLE received his first breathings in this World in Lincolnshire studied Logic and Philosophy for a time in this University and went afterwards to Cambridge where he took the degree of Master of Arts. Thence returning to Oxon was incorporated in that degree and in the latter end of 1525. supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences being then one of the canons of Card. Wolseys college but whether he was really admitted it dot not appear In 1530. he by provision from P. Clem. 7. became Bishop of Meath in Ireland being at that time Warden or Master of S. Bartholomews Hospital in London which for some time he kept in commendam with his Bishoprick At length Qu. Mary coming to the Crown he was deprived of the said Bishoprick for being married as I suppose in the year 1554. and soon after died In the said See succeeded one Will. Walsh D. D. of whom I shall speak more under the year 1576. ROBERT FERRAR was born within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire within four miles of which place he gave Lands to his near relations and when a young man was made a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin but in what Priory or Abbey I know not Sure I am that he having partly received his Academical education in Cambridge did when he had entred into the same order retire to a nursery for the Canons thereof in Oxon named S. Maries college situated in the Parish of S. Michael and S. Peter in the Bayly where I find him in 1526. in which year Tho. Garret Curate of Honey lane in London and a forward and busie Lutheran did supply him with prohibited books or books which were written against the R. Cath. Ch. and the members thereof he being then esteemed one of that party that then opposed the established Church and Doctrine In 1533. he as a member of the said coll of S. Mary was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity and about that time became chaplain to Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury by whose example as one saith he learned to get himself a woman also under the name of a wife and by his endeavours had some preserment in the Church In 1547. he being then in great favour with Edward Duke of Somerset he was by him appointed Bishop of S. Davids upon the removal of W. Barlow to the See of B. and Wells and accordingly was consecrated thereunto the same year But upon the fall of the said Duke in 1549. who was an upholder of him and his unworthy doings were 56. Articles drawn up against him by some of his neighbours viz. Hugh Rawlins Clerk and one Tho. Lee accusing him as an abuser of his authority a maintainer of superstition to be covetous wilfully negligent foolish c. All which he being not able to answer was committed to safe custody in London during the remaining part of the reign of K. Ed. 6. After Qu. Mary came to the Crown it being fully understood that he was a Lutheran Heretick as the men of those times stiled him
July and November yet not set down as admitted In a certain writing dated this year he is written thus John Incent LL. Bac. Episcopi Winton commissarius ejusdem consistorii Episcopalis Praesidens He became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in 1537 in the place of Richard Sampson promoted to the See of Lichfield and about the same time was made Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near Winchester He founded a Free-school at Berchamsted the place of his nativity in Hertfordshire for 120 Scholars to be taught therein allowing to the Master Ushers and School it self a very ample salary 33. Hen. 8. The visitor of which is the Warden of All 's College and several of its Masters have been of that society In the old hall belonging to Doctors Commons near St. Pauls Cathedral were in one of the Windows his Arms viz. Argent on a bend gules a fair and innocent Virgin stark naked with her hair loose about her shoulders or her right hand is extended above her head holding a Chaplet of roses therein and her other hand covers her privities The other four who supplicated were 1 Matthew Knightley 2 Richard Browne 3 William Marbull 4 Peter Ligham all Bachelers of the Civil Law Doct. of Can. Law May 25. Edmund Horde sometimes by a mistake written Forde of Allsouls College This Person whom I have mention'd among the Civilians in 1510 was about this time a noted Advocate in the Court of Arches and Procurator of the Charter house near London William Fleshmonger of New Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Chichester in the place of John Young Bishop of Callipolis who died 1526 and a Benefactor to New College See Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. a. There also supplicated for this Degree 1 Ailnoth Arscot sometimes Principal of Perkwaters Inn now involv'd within the limits of Christ Church 2 Michael Wogan or Ogan Both which were Bachelers of the Canon Law Doct. of Div. Apr. ult William Goderyche May 4. Fr. Henry Osbourne a Dominican 13. The ven Father Hugh Whitehead a Benedictine Monk In 1512 he succeeded Thomas Castell in the Wardenship or Gardianship of Durham College in Oxon and in 1524. he succeeded another Thomas Castell in the Priorship of the Church of Durham See more in the year 1511 among the Doctor of Div. This Hugh Whitehead living to see his Priory dissolved he was soon after made the first Dean of Durham by the foundation Charter of King Hen. 8. dat 12. May an reg 33. Dom. 1541. In which Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Horne of Cambridge by the donation of King Ed. 6. dat 20. Nov. an reg 5. Dom. 1551. The said Whitehead dying at London was buried in the Church of the holy Trinity called the Minories but when I cannot yet tell May 15. Kobert Hyll of Merton Coll. June 27. Fr. Thomas Anyday Robert Saunderson Gilbert Saunders John Smythe John Browne Minorites or Grey-fryers Nov. 19. Nov. 25. Richard Ferys the Provincial of the Carmes or White fryers He was now or lately Prior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon. January 22. John Baker 23. Edm. Forest Prior of Langthony See among the Bach. of Divinity 1509. 25. Laurence Stubbes of Magdalen Coll. Afterwards President of that house in the room of Dr. John Hygden 29. John Hygden of Magdalen Coll. In 1516 he became President of that College in 1524 Dec. 2. he was admitted Prebendary of Wighton in the Church of York and the year following Dean of Cardinal College in Oxon. In 1529 he was made Prebendary of Wetwang in the said Church of York and in 1532 Dean of the Coll. in Oxon. founded by King Henry 8. on the site of that of Cardinal in which year dying he was succeeded by Dr. John Oliver in the said Deanery Feb… John Byrde a Carme In the year 1516 he succeeded the aforesaid Richard Ferys in the Provincialship of the Carmes and was at length Bishop of Chester as I have told you in 1510. Four also supplicated this year to be admitted Doctors of Div. of whom Robert Cheltenham a Benedictine was one and Simon Mollonde Bach. of Div. of Mert. College another but were not admitted The other two were afterwards admitted as I shall tell you when I come to them Incorporations Jul… John Wythers of Magd. Coll. M. of A. and sometimes Proctor of the University afterwards made Doctor of the Canon Law by the Popes Bull was then incorp Dr. of the Canon Law Oct… Thomas Hanyball or Hannyball Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge In the year 1504 May 14. he was installed Prebendary of Gevendall in the Church of York upon the resignation of John Hatton Bishop of Nigrepont and in the year 1514 he became Chancellour of the Diocels of Worcester in the place of one Rob. Hallesworth Doctor of Decrees who succeeded Tho. Alcock LL. D. in that office 1508 and Alcock Tho. Wodyngton Dr. of Dec. 1503. In 1522. 14 Hen. 8. I find the said Tho. Hanyball to be living in Rome in the quality of the King of Englands Orator and in that of Agent or Factor for Cardinal Wolsey to the last of which he ever and anon gave an account by Letters of the Affairs of Rome In one dated 13 Dec. 1522 he told the Cardinal that his Holiness hath sent for Erasmus Rot. under a fair colour by his brief and if he come not I think saith he the Pope will not be content c. In 1524 the said Dr. Hanyball was made Master of the Rolls in the place of Dr. John Clerke which honorable Office he keeping till 1528 was succeeded therein by Dr. John Taylor of whom I shall speak at large in 1522. Nov. … Robert Byse or Bysse Dr. of the Civil Law in the Court of Rome In the year following 1514 he occurs by the Name of Rob. Besse LL. D. Principal of Henxsey Hall and in 1524 he became Vicar General to the Bishop of B. and Wells by the death of Roger Church Dec. Doctor and Canon of Wells as also a great Pluralist in the Dioc. of Wells and elsewhere He died in the month of Dec. or thereabouts 1546. Nov. 18. William Latymer Bach. of Art of this University and Mast of Arts beyond the Seas was then incorporated M. of A. Perhaps this William Latymer may be the same whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1545 where you 'll find another Will. Latymer who was Dean of Peterborough This year also supplicated to be concorporated 1 John Buke D. D. beyond the Seas 2 John Dolman Dr. of Civ Law of Cambridge 3 Charles Lucy Bach. of Phys of Cambridge but whether any of them were accordingly incorporated I cannot yet find I think Dolman was because his Supp was granted simpliciter There was also a Supplication made that Richard Mayster M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge might be incorporated but whether granted I know not I take this Rich. Mayster to be the
of Physicians in London See more among the Incorporations an 1600. Jan 6. or thereabouts Thom. Sackvile M. A. of Cambridge and Chancellour of this University was incorporated in his Lodgings at London by certain Offices appointed by the Venerab Convocation He was originally of this University as himself confesseth in his Letters sent thereunto dat 21. March following running partly thus I am given by common report to understand that contrary to your own statutes c. very few retain the old Academical habit which in my time was a reverend distinction of your Degrees c. The place wherein he studied was as is supposed Hart hall but took no Degree before he left us See among the Writers an 1608. An. Dom. 1592. An. 34 Elizab. An. 35 Elizab. Chanc. Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst Knight of the Garter afterwards Lord Treasurer of England Vicechanc. Dr. Nich. Bond President of Magd. Coll. Jul. 13. Proct. Tho. Savile of Mert. Coll. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. Apr. 5. But the Senior Proctor dying at London 12. January Mr. Richard Fisher of Mert. Coll. succeeded 15. of the same month Bach. of Musick Jul. 7. Giles Farnabie of Ch. Ch. who for 12 years had studied the fac of Musick was then admitted Bach. of Musick This Person who was of the family of Farnaby of Truro in Cornwall and near of kin to Tho. Farnaby the famous Schoolmaster of Kent was an eminent Musician and Author of Cansonets to four voices with a song of eight parts Lond. 1598. qu. dedicated to his Patron Ferdinando Heabourne Grome of her Majesties privy chamber What other things he hath published I find not Rich. Read who had studied the musical faculty 22 years was admitted the same day He hath composed certain Church Services and other matters for instruments which are scattered in several books George Waterhouse of the Queens Chappel who had spent there several years in the practical and theoretical part of Musick supplicated for the Degree of Bachelaur but was not as I can find admitted Bach. of Arts. May 5. George Andrew of Magd. hall Afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland 27. Nich. Hill of St. Johns Coll. Afterwards an eminent Chymist 30. Henry Savile of Mert. Coll. commonly called Long Harry Savile Jun. 26. Pet. Smart of Ch. Ch. He is to be remembred among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work George Ferebe of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day See among the Mast of Arts an 1595. Oct. 25. Rich. Deane of St. Albans hall lately of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Ossorie in Ireland 27. Rob. Bagnold or Bagnall of Ch. Ch. This Person who took no higher Degree in this University was matriculated as a Staffordshire Man born 1589 aged 18. and is the same as I suppose with Rob. Bagnall who was afterwards Minister of Hutton in Somersetshire and Author of The Stewards last account in five Sermons on Luke 16. 1. and 2. Lâ—nd 1622. qu. Dec. 16. Thom. Allen an eminent Grecian Feb. 9. Tho. Floyd of New Inn. 21. Sirach Hilton of Oriel Coâ—l Son of Will. Hilton Baron of Hilton Admitted 122. Mast of Arts. Jul. 5. Edm. Griffith of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bangor Jan. 18. Will. Thorne 22. Benj. Heydon of New Coll. The first of which was afterwards Dean of Chichester and a Writer and the other Dean of Wells Admitted 100. Bach. of Div. Apr. 6. Will. Sutton of Ch. Ch. Rob. Wright of Trin. Hen. Parry of C. C. Coll. Jun. 5. John Lloyd of New Coll. 14. Rich. Field of Magd. hall Nov. 20. John Buckridge of St. Johns Coll. Adm. 11. Doct. of Law Jun. 5. John Favour Franc. Betts Hen. Marten of New Coll. The last was now Official to the Archdeacon of Berks. Jul. 11. Evan Morice of All 's Coll. He was about this time Vicar Gen. in spirituals and principal Official of the Episcopal consistory of Exeter He died 1605 leaving behind him a Son named William Morice afterwards a Knight and Principal Secretary of State to K. Ch. 2. as I shall tell you at large among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work Doct. of Phys Aug. 17. Tho. Doâ—hym of Magd. Coll. In 1604. Nov. 4. he was elected superior Lecturer of Lynacres lectures on the death of Dr. Rob. Barnes and dyed 29. Jan. following Doct. of Div. July 14. George Clerke of Magd. Coll. He was a learned Divine but hath not published any thing Incorporations Jul. 7. Edw. Gibbons Bach. of Musick of Cambridge was then incorporated in the same Degree He was now or about this time the most admired Organist of the Cathedral Church at Bristow was Brother to the incomparable Orlands Gibbons whom I shall mention elsewhere and Brother also to Ellis Gibbons who hath several compositions in The triumphs of Oriana mention'd before in Tho. Morley As for this Edward Gibbons he made several compositions in his faculty some of which I have seen in the Musical Library reposed in the publick School of that profession in Oxon. John Bull Doct. of Musick of the said Univ. of Cambridge and one of the Gentlemen of her Maj. Chappel was incorporated the same day Jul. 7. This is the same Person who was admitted Bach. of Musick of this University an 1586 as I have told you under that year and would have proceeded in the same place had he not met with clowns and rigid Puritans there that could not endure Church Musick He was afterwards the first Musick lecturer of Gresham Coll. at London and one of three Will. Bird and Orlando Gibbons being the other two that composed and published a book intit Parthenia or The maydenhead of the first Musick that ever was printed for the Virginals Printed at London in fol. but not said when either in the title or at the end The book contains 21 lessons printed off from copper cuts and was the prime book for many years that was used by Novices and others that exercised their hands on that Instrument There is no doubt but that this Dr. Bull hath published other things besides the making of very many compositions to be sung and play'd which being thrown aside upon the coming out and publication of others by other hands have been since in a manner lost such is the fate of Musick as well as of Poetry After the death of Queen Elizab. he became chief Organist to K. James 1. was so much admired for his dexterous hand on the Organ that many thought that there was more than Man in him At length being possess'd with crotchets as many Musicians are he went beyond the Seas and died as some say at Hanborough or rather as others who remembred the Man have said at Lubeck His picture hangs at this day at the upper end of the publick Musick School in the University of Oxon. Jul. 11. Nich. Gibbons M. A. of Cambridge One Nich. Gibbens or Gibbons hath published Questions and disputations on Genesis printed 1602. qu. which some call An
two parts 1. of Divines 2. of Novility c. Lond. 1683 fol. before which is a canting narrative of his own life He died at Thistleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex 25 Dec. 1682. 3 Sam. Clark of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge who published certain matters in 1649 and after c. Jun. 25. Will. Kingsley of All 's Coll. 26. Joh. Flavell of Broadgates Hall July 4. Hen. Seward of Brasn Coll. Compounders The first of these three was at this time Archdeacon of Canterbury and died about the beginning of the year 1648. The second was a Dignitary and Rector of Tallaton in Devonshire where he died in 1623. Another of both his names was a Writer of Wadham Coll. as you may see among the Writers an 1617 and a third who was a Devonian born and Son or at least near of kin to him of Tallaton hath published several things some of which are mention'd in Joh. Flavell of Wadh. Coll. and was living divers years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but whether he was of the Univ. of Oxon I cannot yet tell Jo. Flavell of Tallatâ—n had a Son named Thomas who was Bach. of Arts of Trin Coll. in this University afterwards Vicar of Mullian and Rector of Great Ruan in Cornwal also Prebendary of Exeter and died 1682 aged 77 years 9. Edw. Gee of Brasn 15. Edw. Chetwynd of Exet. Oct. 23. John Moseley of Magd. Nov. 7. Hâ—nr Beaumont of All 's Coll. The last of which was a Compounder being at this time Dean of Peterborough and Canon of Windsore In 1622 May 18. he was installed Dean of Windsore in the room of Marc. Anton. de Dominis who in Feb. going before had left England This Dr. Beaumont died 30 June 1627 and was buried in S. George's Chap. there on the right side of the grave of Tho. Danett one of his Predecessors in that Deanery See more in the Incorporations an 1571. Feb. 10. Rich. Carpenter Joh. Standard of Ex. Coll. Both of these were learned men and so taken to be by Dr. Joh. Prideaux as I have elsewhere told you Dr. Standard was afterwards a Justice of Peace for Oxfordshire being Lord of Whithill and dying 16 Dec. 1647 aged 66 was buried in the Churchyard at Tackley in the said County Incorporations Apr. 24. Tho. Farnabie M. A. of Cambr. sometimes of Merton Coll. in this University and afterwards the eminent Schoolmaster of Kent I shall mention him at large in the second Volume of this work Jul. 2. Ralph Rand M. A. of S. Andrew in Scotland 9. Joh. Hacket M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. About this time he wrot a Latin Comedy called Loiola printed at Lond. 1648. in oct was afterwards D. of D. Parson of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London Chaplain to K. Charles 1. Residentiary of S. Pauls and a great sufferer in the time of the Rebellion At length after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. to whom he was Chaplain in ordinary he became Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry to which being consecrated at Lambeth 22 Dec. 1661 sate there to the time of his death 28 Oct. 1670 aged 79. Afterwards came out under his name Christian Consolations taught from five heads in Religion printed 1671 in tw and A century of Sermons c. Lond. 1675 fol. Rob. Farsereus or Faisereus M. A. of Lovaine was incorporated the same day Jan. 14. Edw. Kellet M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. He was at this time Rector of Ragborough and Crocombe in Somersetshire and afterwards Canon residentiary of Exeter His Writings speak him a learned man some of which are 1 Miscellanies in Divinity in 3 books c. Camb. 1633 fol. 2 The threefold supper of Christ in the night that he was betrayed Lond. 1641 fol. besides Sermons of which one is entit A return from Argier preached at Minhead in Somersetshire 16 Mar. 1627 at the readmission of a relapsed Christian into our Church on Gal. 5. 2. Lond. 1628 qu. This was preached in the morning of the third Sunday in Lent and in the Afternoon preached Dr. Hen. Byam on the same occasion but not on the same subject He the said Kellet was a sufferer if I mistake not in the time of the Rebellion which began 1642. Febr. 20. Joh. Foxeroft Bach. of Arts of Cambr. See more among the Masters in the year following This year was a Supplicate made for one John Hayward LL. D. and Historiographer of Chelsey Coll. near to London to be incorporated in the same Faculty but whether he was really so I cannot tell In the year 1619 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall being then accounted a learned and godly man and one better read in Theological Authors than in those belonging to his own profession The Titles of all or of most of the Books that he published you may see in the Oxford Catalogue As for those of History which he hath published the phrase and words in them were in their time esteemed very good only some have wish'd that in his History of Hen. 4. he had not called Sir Hugh Lynne by so light a word as Mad-cap tho he were such and that he had not changed his Historical stile into a Drammatical where he induceth a Mother uttering a Womans passion in the case of her Son This Sir Joh. Hayward ended his days in his house in the Parish of Great S. Barthelmew in London on Wednesday 27 June 1627 and was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish You may see more of him in Camdens Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1601 where you 'll find him punished by a tedious Imprisonment for an unseasonable Edition of one of his books Creations Jul. 9. Francis Stewart of Ch. Ch. Knight of the Bath one of the Sons of the Earl of Murrey was actually created Master of Arts. He was a learned Gentleman was one of Sir Walt. Raleigh's Club at the Meremaid Tavern in Friday street in London and much venerated by Ben. Johnson who dedicated to him his Comedy called The silent Woman He was a person also well seen in marine Affairs was a Captain of a Ship and as I have been informed by those who remember him did bear the office for some time of a Vice or Reer Admiral Nov. 13. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. was then actually created D. of D. as the Register saith which was as I suppose no more than the completion of that degree which should have been done in the Act preceeding had he not been absent In the latter end of Aug. this year Prince Charles came honorably attended to the University and after he had been entertained with Ceremonies and Feasting sutable to his Dignity and Merit he was pleased with his own hand writing to matriculate himself a Member of the said University Aug. 28. with this Symbole or Sentence Si vis omnia subjicere subjice te rations To say no more he was afterwards a King of great Religion and Learning but
down to Selden and Dugdale that his Title to that name might well be disputed if he should be without it 2ly The management of such a Work as this must necessarily depend as upon a search into ancient Records so upon a Commerce with those Relations and Friends of the deceased Authors which had survived them Those of the Ch. of Rome to which this Author applyed himself have been communicative and industrious in furnishing Materials for this Work and therefore if any thing more largely be said of the Members of that Communion than may be thought necessary it ought to be imputed to the ready concurrence of that party towards a Work of this nature rather than to any propensity of the Author to that Religion The Nonconformâ—sts who bear some sâ—are in this Work have been as usually so little Friends to the carrying on of a publick design and to that free intercourse which ought to be maintainâ—d between all learned Men that very few and those unsatisfactory relations could be obtain'd from them and therefore a true but no very large nor favourable account of their Writings ought to be expected from him And lastly as to those of the Church of England they have generally behaved themselves so well that they have no need to desire flattery noâ— have any reason hâ—â—e to complain of Calumny It is to be hoped therefore since this Author hath endeavoured to shew himself just and indifferent to Men of all professions his love of impartiality will not be mistaken for want of Religion All good Antiquaries Men of enlarged Souls and of an even temper however of divers professions have always been of the same Principle They all equally sacrificed to Truth and Learning and suffered not their private Opinions to put a biass on their History And whoever will compare the Cento's of Bale and Pits with the excellent Works of Leland and Camden must necessarily discern how near an Alliance there is between Zeal and Ignorance and between Learning and Moderation 3. As to the Language the Reader may expect such Words as are suitable to the character of the Work and of the Person It is impossible to think that men who always converse with old Authors should not learn the dialect of their Acquaintance An old Word is retain'd by an Antiquary with as much Religion as a Relick and few are by him receiv'd as English but such as have been naturaliz'd by Speneer Language is the dress of the Thoughts as well as Cloaths of the Person and therefore the Expressions of an Antiquary ought to be priviledg'd as well as his Garb. Words are neither good nor bad if abstracted from Things and therefore they as all Ornaments have no beauty in themselves but receive it by accidents as gracefully suited and apply'd to the Subject Originals are best express'd as found without Alteration and it is not only a mispent but ridiculous labour to change the old Expressions of a Deed and to put a new Stamp upon a Medal Thus much hath in short been said of the Book and somewhat that may prevent Objections may without suspicion of Vanity be added concerning the Author of it When this Work some years since was first undertaken he not only consulted all the Registers relating to the Vniversity but all other Writings and Records MS. and printed whether in the Bodleian Norfolk or Cottonian Libraries whether in the Tower Exchequer Paper Office or elsewhere that could give him any notice of these Authors or let him into the true knowledge of their Lives Preferments and Writings The Registers of the ancient Churches and Cathedrals were diligently consulted the Wills of the deceas'd persons were at the Prerogative Office examin'd the Windows of Churches Epitaphs and Inscriptions have been search'd the Genealogy of the Authors at the Heralds Office hath been nquir'd into and no method hath been unattempted which could contribute to a true History of these Writers or ascertain the least date and circumstance of their Lives This extraordinary care and unwearied industry was undertaken without any other motive than a love to Truth and without any other prospect than the benefit of Posterity The Author never enjoy'd any Preferment nor pursu'd any he liv'd as a Recluse from the World so independent of it and therefore it is not to be wonder'd if he takes such a liberty of Speech as most other Authors out of Prudence Cunning or Design have usually declin'd It might be fit perhaps that some harsh Expressions might be allay'd that a few severe Reflections might be softned and that some Passages at last which seem too hardly charg'd on men otherwise creditable might be wholly omitted but at the same time it is not to be denied That Faults ought no more to be conceal'd than Virtues and that whatever it may be in a Painter it is no excellence in an Historian to throw a veil on Deformities If lastly There should be any defect or failure if Truth which is often too strictly pursued should in one single instance or some little circumstance be mistaken it is at least certainly a just Request that in so great and tedious a Work which oftentimes and almost every where deserves praise any small Errors may be entitled to Pardon A farther discourse of the nature of these Books in general and of the use of this in particular is reserv'd to the second Volume in the mean time all judicious men must be satisfied that the History of Learning which hath hitherto been so much wanting in England is now at last so far advanced and that the Materials at least of so great and so useful a Work are ready and prepar'd In other Countries particularly in France Italy and the Northern Nations now above fifty years the most famous Writers have employ'd their care in the account of Authors and Books and have thought it more necessary to number and marshal than to increase the Forces of the Commonwealth of Learning In England in the mean time an Account of Learning was more defective even than our Civil History Our Authors had been as famous as our Heroes our Writings were as successful as our Battels and yet the Annals of both were so imperfect that either generally we had no representation of them at all or such an one as traduc'd the Original As to our Heroes indeed Tho an universal History to the discredit of this Nation be yet to be desired and in all probability will be long expected yet some independent Relations that give account of one great Action or perhaps of one particular Reign may with honour be remembred but as to our Author's after the ancient Discoveries of Boston and Leland there hath been nothing attempted but some rude and disproportionable draughts of mean and ignorant Designers However now at last it must be own'd That if this Essay may not be just and compleat yet the first Lineaments are so faithfully and exactly drawn that the finishing strokes may without difficulty
then wore was valued at a Thousand pounds besides a Collar of SS about his Neck which weighed Eight hundred pounds in Nobles In the 1. Hen. 8. he was made Lieutenant of the Castle of Guisnes in Picardy and in the 5th of that Kings Reign he was at the Seige of Turwyn In the 10th he was one of the Ambassadors then sent into France for confirming the Articles of Peace between King Hen. 8. and the French and in the 11th was one of the Commissioners appointed to make preparation for that famous interview near Guisnes between King Hen. 8. and the King of France After which he grew into such high esteem at Court that in the 15. Hen. 8. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Name and Title of Nicholas Lord Vaux of Harwedon It is reported by a certain Author that his fancy laid chiefly in the facility of his meeter and the aptness of his descriptions such as he takes upon him to make namely in sundry of his Songs wherein he sheweth the counterfeit action very lively and pleasantly His Book or Books of Poetry I have not yet seen only many of his Copies of Verses in a Book Intit The Paradise of dainty devises c. Printed at Lond. 1578. in qu. Among them I find some which have these Titles set to them 1 A Copy made In his extream sickness which is the eighth Copy in that Book 2 His desire to exchange life numb 17. 3 Of sufferance cometh ease numb 41. 4 No pleasure without some pain fol. 36. b. 5 A lover disdained complaineth fol. 51. a. 6 Of a contented mind 7 Trie before you trust 8 He renounceth all the effects of love 9 Bethinking himself of his end he writeth thus c. There goes a doleful dutty also under his Name beginning thus I loath that I did love c. which was thought by some to be made upon his Death bed At length after this learned and valiant Lord had enjoyed his Honor but a very little time he gave way to fate in May or June in Fiveteen hundred twenty and three year 1523 whereupon his Body was buried as it seems at Harwedon before-mention'd where he founded a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass for his Soul in the Parish Church there or else in the Church of the Black Friers at London THOMAS LYNACRE born as 't is said at Canterbury but descended from the Lynacre's of Lynacre Hall in the Parish of Chesterfield in Derbyshire which may be the reason why Holinshed and others that follow him say that he was born in the Town of Derby was chosen Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1484 where by his close retirement he improved himself very much in Literature and in few Years after much more by his Travels into Italy where taking I suppose the Degree of Doctor of Physick became intimate with Persons famous for learning there The chief Cities of his residence were at Rome and Florence at the last of which places being countenane'd by Laurence Medices Duke thereof had for his instructors Demetrius and Politian and at Rome he became familiar with the learned Hermolaus Barbarus who directed him very freely in his Studies After his return into his own Country he was incorporated Doctor of Physick in this University read a shagling Lecture in that faculty became Tutor to Prince Arthur and to his Princess Catherine for the Italian Tongue Physician to King Hen. 7. as some say afterwards to King Hen. 8 one of the chief Founders of the Coll. of Physicians in Knightridersstreet in London of which he was the first President and at length in Holy Orders and a Priest In 1519. Apr. 29. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of York in the place of Joh. Perot who died in Febr. going before but Lynacre resigning that place in Nov. following was succeeded therein by Rich. Wyatt D. D. who was admitted thereunto 13. of the same Month. At the same time our Author Lynacre had other Dignities in the Church but at what place I cannot justly say He was great with and highly admired by Sir Tho. More whom formerly he had taught Greek Erasmus Grocyn Latimer Tonstall and who not He was one of the first English Men that brought polite learning into our Nation and it hath been justly question'd by some of the Goliahs of learning whether he was a better Latinist or Grecian or a better Grammarian or Physician Sure it is that he being a general Scholar of his time and esteemed the Honor of the Nation was much reverenc'd by the Oxonians especially upon reading his Medicinal Lectures among them gratus and generally by all Persons of Honor and others for his happy practice among them He hath written The Rudiments of Grammar Lond. in aedib Pynsonianis Turn'd into Latin by George Buchanan a Scot Par. 1533. and 50. in oct Which Book hath ever since been the Cynosura for many of our best Grammarians Compendious Regiment or a Dietarie of health used at Mountpillour Lond. by Rob. Wyer in 8vo De Emendatâ Structurâ Latini sermonis libri sex Several times Printed as at Paris 1532. 43. 50 c. Col. Agrip. 1555 c. all in 8vo recognised and amended by Joachim Camerarius Lips 1591. oct The said 6 Books were originally made for the use of the Lady Mary the Kings Daughter the same I think who was afterwards Queen and are much commended by Jo. Leland He also translated from Greek into Latin several of the works of Claud. Galen among which were those De temperamentis de inaequali temperie lib. 3. Venet. 1498. Which Latin Translation as 't is said speaks better than the Original He also translated into the said Language Procli Diadochi Sphaera Venet. 1500 fol. Dedicated to Prince Arthur by a large Epist or Praef. dat at Lond. 6. cal Sept. with other things which you may see in Baleus and Pitseus This Dr. Lynacre died 20. Octob. year 1524 in Fiveteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Paul within the City of London before the Rood of the North Door between the long Form and the Wall directly against the said Rood Over his Grave was afterwards a comely Monument erected at the charge of that eminent Physcian and Antiquary Dr. John Cay of Cambridge out of the Epitaph of which I am instructed in these matters concerning Lynacre viz. That he was a most skilful Critick in the Greek and Latin and an excellent Physician besides being Physician to King Hen. 8. who in his Generation did many miraculous Cures and restored several to life when help was past and even at the very point of death He translated Galen's works out of Greek into Latin with singular perspicuity and clearness He also compil'd a most excellent piece for the rectifying of the frame and module of the Latin Tongue He gave two Lectures to the University of Oxon and one to Cambridge
c. These two bound together are in Bodlies Library Vulgaria de institutione Grammaticulorum opusculum libello suo de concinnitate Grammatices accommodatum in quatuor partes digestum Printed at Lond. by Wynand de Worde 1524 in Lat. and Engl. having been printed several times before 'T is the same if I mistake not with his Grammar printed at Lond. 1500. qu. Secunda pars Grammatices de syllaba ejus quantitate Lond. 1516 qu. With which is bound up this following Whittintoni editio cum interpretamento Francisci Nigri Diomedes de accentu in pedestri oratione potius quam soluta observando Printed there the same Year De nominum appellativorum Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroinarum locorumque synonimis Lond. 1514 qu. De Epithetis Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroin clar virorum Animalium De variandi formulis tam pedestri quam soluto sermone Experientiae de virtutis immortalitate De veterum Romanorum Magistratibus These four last were printed with his De nominum appellativorum c. De octo partibus orationis Lond. 1513. 23. c. qu. De nominum generibus Lond. 1521. 24 c. qu. De preteritis supinis Lond. 1524. qu. De nominum declinatione Lond. 1522. qu. De Heteroclitis Lond. 1524. qu. Syntaxis Lond. 1524. qu. Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum Lond. 1521. qu. Responsiva contra Gul. Hormanni invectivas literas Lond. 1521. qu. in long and short verses with other things which may be seen in Baleus who tells us that he was in great renown for his learning in Fifteen hundred and thirty 22. Hen. 8. but when he died or where he was buried I cannot yet find See more of him in W. Lilye and Will. Horman ROBERT SHIRWODE received his first breath in the City of Coventry whence being translated to the University of Oxon made a considerable progress in Logicals but more by far in the Hebrew and Greek Languages Thence in his mature Years he went to Lovaine in Brabant where about the Year 1519. he succeeded Rob. Wakfeld an English Man in the reading the Hebrew Lecture to the Academians of that place But he reading there only for a Month went to other Universities and had a Book of his composition published bearing this title Liber Hebraeorum Concionatoris seu Ecclesiasticen nuper ad veritatem Hebraicam recognitus cum nonnullis annotationibus Chaldaicis quorundam Rabbinorum sententiis textus obscuros aliquos litteraliter explanantibus Antw. 1523. qu. Dedicated to one Joh. Webe whom he calls Monachorum decus Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictins at Coventry In the title of which Booke he is not stiled Doctor and therefore I presume he had that degree conferr'd on him after that time but in what University I cannot yet tell Job Baleus and his follower Pitseus do stile him Doctor Oxoniensis but the truth is in all my researches I cannot find that he took that degree there unless under another name He the said Dr. Shirewood hath also various Sermons extant as those Authors report who also tell us that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and thirty but when he died or where he was buried I am altogether as yet ignorant JOHN SKUISH a Cornish Man born was conversant for a time among the Oxonian Muses either in Exeter Coll. or in Hart Hall but whether he took a degree it appears not However by the help of an happy Genie accompanied with industry prudence and dexterity he obtained a Name among Men and was held in great esteem by several of the Nobility for his proficiency in various sorts of Learning At length being received into the Family of the great Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was by him entrusted with many matters of consequence All which he performing with singular fidelity was made one of his Cabinet Council and by him promoted to places of trust At leisure times he improved his natural Genie by the reading of Histories as well Ancient as Modern which at length being made easie to him by the help of a good memory composed several little Books as Chronicorum Epitome in one Book De bello Trojano lib. 1. and as 't is probable other things in the time of Hen. 8 and before and after the said Cardinal's fall The time when he surrendred up his last breath is yet unknown as also the place of his Sepulâ—ure SIMON FISH a zealous Man for the Reformation of abuses in the Church was born in Kent and after he had been instructed in Academical Learning he retired to Greys Inn in Holbourn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law About which time one Mr. Roo or Roe having composed a Play wherein one part deeply reflected on Cardinal Wolsey he undertook when divers refused to act it For which being soon after forced to leave the Nation he found out Will. Tyndale in Germany with whom for a time he sorted himself In 1527 or thereabouts he made a little Book entit The supplication of Beggars The beginning of which is Most lamentably complaineth their woful misery c. It containeth a great deal of bitter stuff against Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Fryers c. and indeed against the generality of the Clergy In 1528 a Copy of it was sent to the Lady Anne Bulleyne which after perusal she gave it to the King who did not dislike it and soon after were divers Copies scattered in London streets which was complained of by the Cardinal to the said King Afterwards the Cardinal being out of favor the Author Fish was sent for home and graciously countenanced by the King for what he had done About which time he translated from Dutch into English The summ of the Scriptures which was also published and well approved At length being overtaken by the Pest year 1531 died of it in Fifteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Church of St. Dunstan in the West Afterwards James Baynham Son of Sir Alex. Baynham of Glocestershire Knight Married his Widow which James being a zealous Protestant suffer'd death soon after in the Flames as you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Church written by Jo. Fox JOHN BATMANSON a Person most noted while living for his great Piety and Learning did after he had been instructed in Sophistry enter into the most holy Order of the Carthusians abiding in the House commonly called the Charter-house near to London In his elder Years he became the Head or Prior of that House and about that time or rather before was conversant in the Theological faculty with us but whether he took a degree therein tho supplicate he did to oppose in Divinity it appears not This Person being intimate with Dr. Edw. Lee afterwards Archbish of York did at his intreaty write Animadversiones in annotat Erasmi in Nov. Testam Which animadversions he retracted in another piece Tract contra a Doctrinam M. Lutheri This also he retracted in
continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
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.
homine Written and finished at Lovaine 1518. Pompeius fugiens Liber in Pseudo-Dialectios Veritas sucata seu in triumphum prae lectio Written at Lovaine 1519. Praelectio in somnium Scipionis apud Ciceronem Written at Lovaine 1520. Declamationes septem Finished at Bruges In Suetonium quaedam Finished at Lovaine 1521. De consultatione Fin. at Oxon. 1523. De institutione feminae Christianae lib. 3. Written to Catherine Qu. of England from Bruges 1523. De ratione studii puerilis Dedicated by his Epist dat at Oxon. non Oct. an 1523 to Catherine Qu. of England his only Patroness Introductio ad sapientiam Written at Bruges 1524. Satellitium animi vel symbola Ded. to Princess Mary Dau. of K. Hen. 8. from Bruges 1524. Epist ad Hen. 8. dat Ox. 12. Mar. 1525. De concordia discordia lib. 4 De subventione pauperum Written at Bruges 1526. De passione Christi meditatio De sudore Jesu Christi sacrum diurnum At Bruges 1529. De corruptis artibus Tom. 3. De disputatione lib. 1. At Burges 1531. De ratione dicendi lib. 3. At Brug 1532. De communione rerum ad Germanos inferiores At Bruges 1535. Exercitationes animi in Deum At Antw. Aug. 1535. Preces meditationes diurnae At Bruges 1535. Exercitatio linguae latinae Written at Breda 1538. De anima vita lib. 3. At Bruges 1538. With many other things which for brevity sake I shall now omit He also translated into Latin Isocrates his Nicocles dedicated to Card. Wolsey by his Epist dat at Oxon 15. Dec. 1523. with other translations which I also shall omit As to the time of this worthy Authors death many Writers differ and the just day or year is yet uncertain Anton. Postevin saith he died at Bruges in Flanders 1536. or therebouts having left off writing in 1535. Ludovic Guicciard in his description of Bruges reports it an 1540. Thuanus who saith he was a Professor at Lovaine tells us that he died there 1541 and Job Whyte in his Diacosio-Martyrion printed 1553 would have it at Bruxels 1545. Which last Author being before all the former in time and perhaps may know or remmeber Vives ought therefore to be believed before the rest But these matters notwithstanding being uncertain I shall venture to put his death under Fifteen hundred forty and four year 1544 which being at Bruges was buried in the Church of St. Donantius there See more of him in a Book intit Bibliotheca Hispanica Printed at Rome in two Tomes in fol. 1672. Tom. 1. p. 552 553 c. Both which Tomes were written by Nicholaus Antonius Hispalensis J. C. Kt. of the Order of St. James ROBERT SHYNGLETON descended from a good Family of his name living in Lancashire was always esteemed an ingenious Man while he resided in the University but whether he was honored with a Degree it appears not Afterwards being a Priest and a Requent Preacher he took occasion to reflect on the times and certain Persons in his Sermons For which being called to an account and committed was forced with two other Persons to make his Palinodie before a Convention of certain Bishops at London an 1543. 35. H. 8. His works are these Treatise Of the seven Churches Of the Holy Ghost Comment on or explanation of certain Prophecies The two first were formerly perhaps still in the King's Library at Westminster The last giving high offence as containing many treasonable matters and most severe reflections the Author was hanged for it at London in Fifteen hundred forty and four year 1544 Anton. Possevinus stiles him a Martyr for the Rom. Cath. Cause and John Pitseus omits him as being an Heretick or at least for the honorable mention made of him by Jo. Bale WILLIAM LATYMER became Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1489 whence after he had spent some Years in Logicals and Philosophicals he travelled into Italy and settling at Padöua for a time did much advance his learning especially in the Greek tongue After his return he was incorporated M. of A. as it seems became most eminent and was worthily numbered among the lights of learning in his time by Jo. Leland as I have elsewhere told you About the beginning of Hen. 8. he was Master or Tutor to Reynold Pole afterwards Cardinal and Archb. of Canterbury by whose endeavours he had some preferment in the Church confer'd upon him He was learned in all sacred and profane Letters and as Erasmus saith was verè Thologus integritate vitae conspicuus 'T is said also that he hath written several things but what they are except Epistolae ad Erasmum I know not However he with Lynacre and Grocin did undertake the translation of all Aristotles works into Latin but the latter being taken away by death before they were half finished Latymer desisted and would not go any farther as being perhaps terrified with the immense labour to be taken therein He died very aged at his Rectory of Seyntbury near to Camden in Glocestershire which he kept with that of Wotton under Edge and a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury about the Month of Sept. year 1545 in Fifteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there dedicated to St. Nicholas Over his Grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with a large Inscription on a brass plate fastned thereunto which hath been long since taken away and defaced I have seen a Copy of his Will whereby he gave with certain conditions all his Greek and Lat. Books to Allsouls and Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. yet whether they received them it appears not I find one Will. Latymer D. D. to have been Dean of Peterborough in the place of Job Boxhall ejected an 1560 and Archdeacon of Westminster who dying in the Summer time after 29. July 1583 was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough beneath the Pulpit but of what kin he was to the former I know not He was succeeded in the said Deanery by Rich. Fletcher D. D. of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge afterwards B. of London THOMAS SOLME called by some Sulmo Sowlman and Solimont was born in the Isle of Gernsey educated for a time in this University and was afterwards Secretary of the French tongue to King Hen. 8. This Person who was much conversant in English History wrot The acts and ghests of St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury Select antiquities relating to Britain And dying in fifteen hundred forty and five year 1545 was buried in the Monastery of the Carmes or Carmelites at London leaving behind him the Character of a learned Man I find one Tho. Solme to be Author of a Treatise entit The Lords Flaile being an exposition on the commandments Printed at Basil in oct but when unless in the time of Qu. Mary the beginning or end of the Book shews not One Tho. Somus a Preacher in the time of Ed. 6. hath English Verses at the end of Will.
find another Tho. Talbot to have been born in the said County of Lancaster and entred into the Society of Jesus an 1598. aged 26. who after he had wrot several Books died in 1652 but this Person was not as I can yet learn originally bred among us HENRY Lord STAFFORD the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks attained and executed for treason in 1521. was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time and tho not the inheritor of his Fathers honours yet he was a Man of great virtue learning and piety In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge to which his Father had been a benefactor where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue and in that language he wrot several things as 't is said as well in verse as prose but such I have not yet seen He translated into English a Book intit De vera differentia regiae potestatis ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque c. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford This translation was printed in oct but when it appears not in the Book He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans c. Lond. 1553. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This noble Lord gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell nor in what County born unless in Staffordshire wherein he was possessor of many Lands ROBERT BROKE or Brook Son of Thom. Broke of Claverley in Shropshire year 5121 by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Hugh Grosvenor of Farmot in the said County was born as I conceive at Claverley laid a foundation of Literature at Oxon which was a great advantage to him when he studied the municipal Laws in the Middle Temple where he became the compleatest Lawyer of his time In 1542 he was elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that House and in the latter end of the Year in Lent 1550 he was elected Double-Reader In 1552 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1553 being the first Year of Qu. Mary he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas and not of the Common-bench as some say and about that time received the honor of Knighthood from that Queen In whose Reign and after he was held in high value for his profound knowledge in the Law and for his just and upright dealing in all matters relating to the profession thereof He hath written An abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Bookes till the time of Qu. Marie Lond. 1573. fol. 76 86 c. qu. Certain cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marie from 6. Hen. 8. to the 4. of Qu. Marie Lond. 1578. 1604. 25. c. in oct The original title of this Book is in French Ascuns novel cases c. Reading on the Statute of limitations 32. H. 8. c. 2. Lond. 1647. oct Printed I think before that time This Sir Rob. Broke who was a zealous Cathol died as it seems in Aug. or Sept. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell In his Will proved 12. Oct. the same Year he several times remembers the Church and Poor of Putney near London I find another of both his names who is written Esquire Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London under whose name was published Reading upon the statute of Magna Charta chap. 16. Lond. 1641. qu. before which time the Author was dead Whether the same with Rob. Brook of Brasenose who was admitted Master of Arts 1584. I think not As for Sir Rob. Broke the Judge he obtained a fair estate by his endeavours which he left to his posterity remaining at Madeley in Shropshire and at one or two places in Suffolk PAUL BUSH was born of honest and sufficient Parents became a Student in this University about the Year 1513 and five years after took the Degree of Bach. of Arts being then numbred among the celebrated Poets of the University Afterwards he applied his mind to the supreme faculty entred into the Order of the Bonhom's studied among the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin now Wadham Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and at length became Provincial of his Order that is of Bonhoms This Person being noted in his time for his great learning in Divinity and Physicks was by K. Hen. 8. made the first Bishop of Bristow after he had placed an Episcopal See there an 1542 and by the name and title of Paulus Bush capellanâ—s Regis S. Theologiae Bacalaureus had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging to that See 16. June in the same Year But he taking to him a Wife whom one calls a Concubine in the days of K. Ed. 6. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary an 1553 whereupon he spent the remaining part of his days at Bristow He hath written several things in Divinity and Medicine as well in verse as prose of which number these are some An exhortation to Margaret Burges Wife to Jo. Burges Clothier of Kingswood in the County of Wilts Lond. temp Ed. 6. in oct Notes on the Psalm beginning with Miserere mei Deus c. Treatise in praise of the Cross Dialogues between Christ and the Virgin Mary Treatise of salves and curing remedies besides Poems of divers kinds which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this World on the eleventh of Octob. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 68 years was buried on the North side of the choire near to the entrance leading into the North Isle of the Cath. Church at Bristow Over his grave was soon after erected a low altar tomb and on it was fastned his statue in his Episcopal Robes lying on his back On the 4 corners of the Tomb were erected four small Pillars bearing a Canopy about which is this written Hic jacet D. Paulus Bush primus hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus qui obut undec die Octob. an Dom. 1558. aetatisque suae 68 cujus animae propitietur Christus About the tomb beneath the statue are certain verses engraven on three sides thereof the fourth joyning to the Wall some of which follow Agnus qui primam nostrum sua tempora miram Indueret jacet hic Bristoliense decus A patre Bush dictus Paulum baptisma vocavit Virtus implevit nomen uterque Pari. Paulus c. Ille animos verbis impensos pavit egenos Hinc fructum arbusto portulit ille suo Ut madidos arbusta tegunt sic foedere rupto Inter discordes pacificator erat This Monument was erected near to the stone under which his sometimes Wife called Edyth Ashley was buried who died 8. Oct. 1553. ROBERT WARDE a native of the Dioc. of Durham was elected
in Italy then most flourishing in Literature where he became noted to all ingenious men for his forward and pregnant parts After his return being then as it seems Doctor of the Lawes but not of Cambridge he had divers dignities and places of trust confer'd upon him successively Among which I find the Archdeaconry of Chester to be one a Prebendship in the Church of York another the Vicarship General to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury a third Afterwards he was Master of the Rolles keeper of the Privy Seal was employed in one or more Embasies made Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Longland in the Month of June 1521 and at length Bishop of London to which See he was consecrated 19. Octob. 1522. Whereupon his Deanery was bestowed on one Reymund Pade in January following Two years after he with Sir Rich. Wingfield Knight of the Garter and Chancellour of the Duchy of Lanc. were sent Embassadors into Spayne and in 1530. he was translated to Durham From which See being ejected for his Religion in the time of K. Ed. 6. was restored by Queen Mary in the beginning of her Reign but thrust out thence again in 1559. when Qu. Elizabeth was settled in her Throne He was a Man passing well seen in all kind of more polished literature a Person very rare and admirable and in whom no Man in his time did reprehend any thing but his Religion except foul-mouth'd Bale who calls him Melancholicus Saturninus somniator atque excogitator omnium malorum and another as bad as he who run's upon the same strain a still dreaming Saturn a plotter of Mischief and I know not what There was scarce any kind of good literature in which he was not excellent He was a very good Grecian and Ebritian an eloquent Rhetorician a skilful Mathematician a noted Civilian and Canonist and a profound Divine But that which maketh for his greatest commendation is that Erasmus was his friend and he a fast friend to Erasmus in an Epistle to whom from Sir Thom. More I find this character of Tonstall that As there was no Man more adorned with knowledge and good literature no Man more severe and of greater integrity for his life and manners so there was no Man a more sweet and pleasant companion with whom a Man would rather choose to converse He hath written and published De arte supputandi lib. 4. Lond. 1522. qu. dedic to Sir Tho. More Afterwards it was printed at several places beyond the Seas I find honorable mention of it in the Preface of Sim. Grynaeus to Euclid in Greek with the Scholia of Theon on it Which Book was published by the said Grynaeus and dedicated to Tonstall In laudem matrimonii Oratio habita in sponsalibus Mariae filiae Hen. 8. Francisci Francorum Regis primogeniti Lond. 1518. qu. Sermon on Palm-Sunday before K. Hen. 8. on Philippians 2. from ver 5. to 12. Lond. 1539. and 1633. qu. De veritate corporis sanguinis Domini in Eucharistiâ lib. 2. Lutet 1554. in qu. Concerning the printing and authenticalness of the said Book you may see at large in Dr. George Carleton's Life of Bern. Gilpin printed at Lond. 1628. p. 12. 13. 33. Compendium in decem libros Ethicorum Aristotelis Par. 1554. oct Contra impios Blasphematores dei predestinationis opus Antw. 1555. qu. Godly and devout prayers in English and Lat. Printed 1558. in oct His and the Letter of Joh. Stokesley B. of Lond. to Cardinal Reginald Pole Lond. 1560. and 79. qu. The beginning is For the good will we have born to you c. It shews the Bishop of Rome to have no special superiority over other Bishops He hath also made two thousand faults and noted many corruptions in William Tyndales translation of the New Testament and hath written several Epistles to Budeus and a Book against the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome as Bale saith which as I conceive is his Letter to Card. Pole before-mentioned But that or his faults on Tyndale or Epistles I have not yet seen At length being deprived of his Bishoprick of Durham as I have before told you about Midsomer in 1559. was then as 't is said committed to free custody at Lambeth with Mathew Archb. of Canterbury but how that can be seeing that the said Mathew was not consecrated Archbishop till 17. Dec. 1559. I cannot yet perceive With him also 't is farther said that he continued four Months and that dying on the 18. year 1559 of Nov. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine which was a full month before Dr. Mathew Parker was consecrated was buried at the charges of the said Mathew in the Chancel of the Parochial Church of Lambeth in Surrey Over his grave was a fair Marble stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon made by Dr. Walter Haddon an admirer of his learning and virtues Joh. Leland who calls him Dunostallus hath bestow'd a collation not without desert upon him as also upon his Friend Budaeus before-mention'd which you may see in his Encomia Trophaea c. p. 45. JOHN BEKINSAU a younger Son of Joh. Bekinsau an inhabitant of Hampshire but a native of Bekinsau in Lancashire where his name was ancient and gentile received his first breath at Broadchalke in Wilts and his Grammatical education in Wykeham's School near Winchester At which place being made soon ripe for the University was sent to New Coll. where after he had served two Years of probation was admitted perpetual Fellow in 1520. In 1526. he compleated the degree of M. of A. being that year about to take a journey beyond the Seas for the sake of study as one of the University registers informs me at which time he was esteemed in his Coll. a most admirable Grecian But whether he did then or after perform his journey it doth not farther appear there Sure I am that I find it entred upon record that John Beconsaw second Son of John Beconsaw of Hartley-Wespell in Hampshire born at Beconsaw in Lancashire was Reader of the Greek Lecture at Parys and afterwards came over and died at Sherburne in Hampshire In 1538. John Bekinsau left his Fellowship of New Coll. because he had then taken a Wife but what preferment or employment he had afterwards I know not At that time he was acquainted with and had in veneration by the most learned Men of the Nation among whom was John Leland the famous Antiquary and Historian who in his Poetry doth speak several things to his honor of his being bred in Oxon and of his studying at Parys with several other things which shew him to have been a great Scholar In 1546. when he saw that the Pope's power was quite exterminated he wrot a Book entit De supremo absoluto Regis imperio Lond. 1546. oct Printed also in the first vol. of Monarchia S. Romani imperii c. by Melchior Goldast Hamensfeldius Franc. 1621. fol. The Author
3. Oct. 1543 upon the death of Joh. Southwode LL. D. When King Hen. 8. had extirpated the Popes power he seemed to be very moderate and also in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. but when Qu. Mary succeeded he shew'd himself a most zealous Person for the Roman Catholick Religion and a great enemy to Luther and Reformers His works are Sermons fruitful godly and learned Lond. 1557. qu. containing 1 A declaration of the seven gifts of the holy ghost 2 A Homely of the articles of Christian Faith 3 Homely of Ceremonies and of mans Laws 4 A perfect exposition of St. Peters first Epistle in XX treatises or Sermons What other things he hath published I cannot yet find neither should I have known any thing of the said Fruitful Sermons had I not accidentally seen them in that choice collection of Books in Balliol Coll. Library given thereunto by the no less curious than learned Sir Thom. Wendy Knight of the Bath sometimes Gentleman-commoner of the said House This Dr. Edgeworth took his last farewell of this World in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred and sixty year 1560 and was directly buried before the choire door in the Cathedral Church at Wells Whereupon Dr. Gilbert Bourne Bishop of that place did present or collate to the said Chancellourship of the Church of Wells one Gilbert Bournford Bachelaur of Divinity on the second day of April in the same Year THOMAS PHAYER was born in Wales particularly as it seems in Pembrokeshire had his Academical education among the Oxonians whom after some years he left and retired to the Inns of Court Lincolns Inn as I conceive where at length he attained to a considerable knowledge in the municipal Laws Afterwards being a Person of a mutable mind he eagerly addicted his Muse to the study of Medicine took the Degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in an Act celebrated 21. Mar. 1558-9 at which time he was much famed among the Academians for his sufficiencies in the Art of Poetry which afterwards were made publick He hath committed to posterity these Books following of his writing and translation Of the nature of Writts Whether the same with that written by the great Lawyer Anth. Fitzherbert who lived before Phayers time I know not Exemplars of common places for the writing of several sorts of Instruments It is the same which we now call A Book of precedents I have a MS. lying by me written on parchment in the time of H. 6. or Ed. 4. containing Copies of all matters to be used by Lawyers but who the compiler of it was I cannot tell In the beginning of it is written in a pretty ancient character George Hardley A goodly bryefe treatise of the pestylence with the causes signs and cures of the same Lond. 1544. and 46. oct Declaration of the veynes of mans body and to what dyseases and infirmities the opening of every one of them doe serve This is printed with the former Book an 1544. c. A Book of children And this also which treats of the grief and diseases of Children Remedies or prescriptions of Physick for the Body Published by Hen. Holland 1603. whom I shall mention at the end of Hen. Holland under the Year 1625. He also translated from French into English The regiment of Life Lond. 1544. and 46. oct and from Lat. into English Nine Books of Virgils Aencidos The three first of which were by him finished in the Forest of Kilgarran in Pembrokshire in the Year 1555. The fourth at the same place an 1556. The fifth in 1557 being ended 3. May just after the translator had undergone a great danger at Caâ—rmerden The sixth and seventh were also finished by him in the same Year and in the same place The eighth there also in Kilgarran forest an 1558. The ninth was ended 3. Apr. 1560. The tenth was begun by him in the said Year but died as it seems before he could go through it Afterwards a young Physician named Tho. Twyne meeting with the aforesaid translations in MS. he finished the said tenth Aeneid 23. May an 1573. Which being done he translated the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth Aeneidos and published them altogether an 1584. as I shall tell you elsewhere As for Dr. Phaer he ended his days at Kilgarran before-mentioned after the 12. of Aug. on which day his last will and testament was dated in Fifteen hundred and sixty year 1560 and was buried in the Parish Church of that place Over his grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon made and devised by his good friend Mr. George Ferrers of Lincolns -Inn but what the contents of it are I know not nor of any other Epitaph made for him only that by Sir Thom. Chaloner a most noted Latine Poet of his time who having been well acquainted with the Doctor doth in a pathetical manner highly commend him for his learning and great skill in Physick He the said Doctor left behind him a Widow named Anne and two Daughters Eleanor the Wife of Gruffith ap Eynon and Mary THOMAS ROBERTSON was a Yorkshire Man born either at or near Wakefeild was originally I think of Queens afterwards Demie or Semicommoner of Magdalen College Master of the School joyning to it in the place of Joh. Stanbridge Master of Arts 1525 at which time he was a great Oppugner and Vilifier of the Questionists in the University and at length Fellow of the said House In 1539 he being about that time Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Rich. Sampson supplicated the venerab congreg of the Regents to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then esteemed Flos decus Oxonii but whether he was admitted it appears not and in 1540 he by the favour of Longland Bishop of Lincolne was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Will. More Suffragan Bishop of Colchester deceased in which dignity being installed 5. March the same Year enjoyed it to 1560. as I shall anon tell you In 1546. Jun. 3. he was instituted Vicar of Wakefield before-mention'd on the death of Dr. Tho. Knolles by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Chambre M. D. Dean and the convent of the Kings Chappel of the Virgin Mary and St. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Whereupon in the beginning of 1548. he gave up the Treasurership of Salibury in which Dignity Thom. Stevens succeeded 28. May the same Year He the said Robertson was an exact Grammarian and Humanitian and went as 't was thought beyond his two Predecessors in Magd. College School in the education of Youth In 1532 he Printed a Comment on the rules which Will. Lilye wrot in verse and added thereunto Quae Genus and the versifying rules dedicating it to Bishop Longland before mention'd with reference to Henley School which some think was founded or at least inlarged by Longland From whose pains I mean of Robertson and also the
1566. 80. Translated into Engl. by Charles Glemham Gent. De votis monasticis coeleb Socerdotum Defensio sui contra R. Smithaei duos libellos de coelibatu sacerdotum vot monast Bas. 1559. oct Aristotelis Ethicae cum illis in Sacra Scriptura collatae c. Comm. in Lament Jer. Prophet Tig. 1629. qu. corrected and published by Joh. Rodolph Stuckius of Zurich somtimes a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. He the said P. Martir also wrote an Epist to Edward L. Protector of England translated into Engl. by Tho. Norton Lond. 1550. oct Also of The use and abuse of Dancing translated into Engl. by J. R. printed at Lond. in oct and lastly An Exposition on the Creed translated by T. E printed at Lond. in qu. At length after many Rambles and changes of Places he having been as it evidently appears a person of an unsetled Brain resigned up his last breath at Zurich on the 12th day of Nov. in fifteen hundred sixty and two year 1562 and was buried there with all the Solemnity fitting for so learned and great a Clerk as he was THOMAS GIBSON a noted Physitian of the Age he lived in was born at Morpeth in Northumberland and for a year or years was as I conceive educated here because that several of both his Names and Time were conversant with the Muses in this University but whether he took a degree or was licensed to practice Physick it appears not Afterwards he being noted for his extraordinary success in curing Diseases was very much resorted to by great as well as ordinary People especially by those of the reform'd Party he being one himself and a great Enemy to the R. Cath. Bishops in spite and envy to whom he wrot A History of the Treasons of the Bishops from the Norman Conquest to his time Whether this was printed I know not because had it been so there 's no doubt but inveterate Prynn would have found it to gain matter thence when he compos'd his Book of the same Subject He also wrot An Herball Treatise against unskilful Alchymists Treat of curing common Diseases Of the Ceremonies used by Popes besides other things and had laid the Foundation of a little Book to shew the Various States that Britanie hath been in which he divided into five Parts but whether he compleated it is uncertain He lived after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown being then in his middle Age but when he died it appears not 'T is said that because divers Persons had medled with the applying of dark Prophecies purposely to advance the Fame and Glory of Charles then Emperour so one Tho. Gibson did endeavour to do the like to promote the Glory of Hen. 8. of England which Th. Gibson we are to understand to be the same with Th. Gibson before mention'd PETER de SOTHO or Soto was born in a certain City in Spaine called Cordova became when young a Dominican in the House or Coll. of that Order dedicated to St. Stephen within the famous University of Salamanca where prosecuting his natural Genie with unwearied industry in the Faculty of Divinity became a Doctor thereof and a most eminent ornament to his Order Afterwards his fame being spread in the Royal Court he became Confessor to the King of Spaine and at length to Charles the Emperour of the Romans with whom going into Germany he shew'd himself in many respects very serviceable against such that were call'd Hereticks there At length Philip K. of Spaine marrying with Mary Qu. of England he was one of those noted Divines that came with him having then obtained Eminency among the Learned for his Books written against John Brentius accounted among the R. Catholicks a Person very well vers'd in matters of controversie Afterwards he with Joh. de Villa Garcia and one or more being sent to the University of Oxon by publick authority to read preach and teach there to the end that they might undo and invalidate all what Pet. Martyr and others had done in the Reign of King Ed. 6. he accordingly went preached often read Lectures on St. Thomas whose works had been with scorn cast out from all or most Libraries in this University in the time of Ed. 6. and was ready upon all turns and occasions to instruct and resolve doubts nay and for some time did read the publick Hebrew Lecture to the Academians while Mr. Bruerne the Reg. Professor was absent In a word there was nothing wanting on his part and tho he had no Canonry of Ch. Ch. or Headship bestowed on him yet he had a considerable revenue allow'd him out of the Kings Exchecquer His works are Institutiones Christianae Aug. 1548. Antw. 1557. in 16 o divided into 3 Books Adversus Job Brentium Antw. 1552. in 16o. Defensio Catholicae confessiouis Scholoiorum circa confessionem illustriss Ducis Wirtembergensis nomine editam adversus prolegomena Brentit Antw. 1557. Doctrinae Catholicae compendium in usum plebis Christianae recte instituend Diling 1560. in tw De sacerdotum institutione libri 3. With other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen After the death of Qu. Mary he return'd with K. Philip into Spain and thence went according to command to the great Council or Synod held in the City of Trent called commonly among Forreigners Trento sometimes a part of Italy but since of Germany where by too much agitation and concernment he contracted a disease which brought him to his grave in that City in the Month of Apr. in Fifteen hundred sixty and three About three days before his death year 1563 and some time before the Synod began to be troubled among themselves for a small cause and did give much matter of discourse Which coming to the knowledge of Sotho he thereupon did dictate and subscribe a Letter to be sent to the Pope in which by way of confession he declared his opinion concerning the points controverted in Council and did particularly exhort his Holiness to consent that residence and the institution of Bishops might be declared to be de jure divino The Letter was sent to the Pope and Frier Ludov. Soto his companion kept a Copy of it who thinking to honor the memory of his Friend began to spread it which caused offence in some and curiosity in others to get a Copy of it when called in I find one Frater Petrus a Soto Major who wrot a Book entit Prima secundae Divi Thomae quam quarto nonas Junii interpretandum suscepit an 1563. The beginning of which is Quastio prima quae est de ultimo fine hujus vitae in communi c. But this Peter who was Author of the said Book which is in MS. in Bodley's Library must not be taken to be the same with the former Peter whom I have at large mention'd because as 't is before told you in the title the said Peter began to write the said Book on the fourth of the nones of June 1563
Academical learning either in St. Albans or Broadgates hall or both Thence he went to an Inn of Chancery in Holbourne near London called Thavies Inn where he studied and made sufficient progress in the common Law and thence as 't is probable to Lincolns Inn. Afterwards he applied his muse to the searching of Histories especially those belonging to his own Country wherein he became so curious and critical that he wrot and published A Dictionary in English and Welsh much necessary to all such Welshmen as will speedily learn the English tongue thought by the Kings Majesty very meet to be set forth to the use of his gracious Subjects in Wales Lond. 1547. qu. whereunto is prefixed A little treatise of the English pronunciation of the Letters From the said Dictionary and treatise Dr. Joh. Davies obtained many materials when he was making his Dictionarium Britannico-latinum A playne and familiar introduction teaching how to pronounce the Letters in the Brytish tongue now commonly called Welsh whereby an English Man shall not only with ease read the said tongue rightly but c. Lond. 1550. qu. Afterwards perused and augmented by the Author Lond. 1567. in 7. sh in qu. Battery of the Popes bottereulx commonly called the High Aultar Lond. 1550. in oct He also published The Laws of Howell Da and other things relating to his own Country which I have not yet seen He was living in the house of Humph. Toy a Bookseller in St. Pauls Ch. yard in London in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven which was part of the ninth and tenth years of Qu. Elizabeth being then esteemed a Person to be much meriting of the Church and British tongue but when he died I find not ARMIGELL WADE or Waad a Yorkshire Man born spent some years in Logick and Philosophie in St. Mary Magd. Coll. as it seems took a Degree in Arts 1531 went afterwards to one of the Inns of Court travelled into various Countries and after his return became Clerk of the counsel to K. Hen. 8. and afterwards to K. Ed. 6. He is charactariz'd thus Qui in maximarum artium disciplinis prudentiaque civili instructissimus plurimarum linguarum callentissimus legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus inter Britunnos Indiarum Americâ—rum explorator primus He made many observations in his travels especially in America being the first English Man that discovered it which are remitted into the Volums of voyages collected and published by another hand This Person who was a Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex died at Belsie or Belsise in the Parish of Hampsted in the said County 20. June in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Hampsted Soon after was a fair Monument of Alabaster erected over his grave by Sir Will. Waad his eldest Son Clerk of the Counsel to Qu. Elizabeth WILLIAM TURNER a noted and forward Theologist and Physician of his time was born at Morpeth in Northumberland educated in Cambridge in Trivials and afterwards for a time in the study of Medicine This Person who was very conceited of his own worth hot headed a busie body and much addicted to the opinions of Luther would needs in the height of his study of Physick turn Theologist but always refused the usual ceremonies to be observed in order to his being made Priest And whether he had orders confer'd upon him according to the R. Cath. manner appears not Sure it is that while he was a young Man he went unsent for through many parts of the Nation and Preached the Word of God not only in Towns and Villages but also in Cities In his rambles he settled for a time in Oxon among several of his Countrymen that he found there purposely for the conversation of Men and Books which is one reason I put him here the other I shall tell you anon But whether he took a Degree in Arts or Medicine I cannot yet find At the same time and after following his old trade of preaching without a call he was imprison'd and kept in close durance for a considerable time At length being let loose and banished he travelled into Italy and at Ferrara he was made a Doctor of Physick and as much there in esteem for his faculty as after his return into England he was among the reformed party In the latter end of K. Hen. 8. he lived at Colen and other places in Germany where he published one or more Books and returning to his native Country when K. Ed. 6. reigned had not only the Prebendship of Botevant in the Church of York bestowed on him by the Archb. of that place but a Canonry of Windsore and the Deanery of Wells by the King About which time tho the day or month or scarce the Year appears he was incorporated Doctor of Physick with us which is another reason I put him here for if I could have found the certain time which appears not because the Register of that Kings Reign is imperfect I would have remitted him into the Fasti About that time he procured a licence to read and to preach as many Lay-men did that were Scholars practised his faculty among the Nobility and Gentry and became Physician to Edward Duke of Somerset L Protector of England After Q. Mary came to the Crown he left the Nation once more went into Germany with several English Theologists thence to Rome and afterwards for a time settled in Basil But when Qu. Eliz. succeeded he return'd and was restored to his Deanery and had other spiritualities I presume confer'd upon him being then a Person had in much esteem for his two faculties and for the great benefit he did by them especially in his writings to the Church and common-wealth The titles of those Books published under his name are these The hunting of the Romish Fox which more than 7 years hath been hid among the Bishops of England after that the Kings highness had commanded him Turner to be driven out of his Realm Basil 1543. oct Published under the name of Will Wraughton Avium praecipuarum quarum apud Plinium Aristotelem mentio est brevis succincta historia Colon. 1544. in tw Rescuing of the Romish Fox otherwise called the Examination of the hunter devised by Steph. Gardiner Doctor and defender of the Popes Canon Law and his ungodly Ceremonies Printed 1545. in oct published also under the name of W. Wraughton The hunting of the Romish Wolfe Printed beyond the Sea in oct Dialogue wherein is contained the examination of the Masse and of that kind of Priesthood which is ordained to say Mass and to offer up for the remission of sinne the body and blood of Christ againe Lond. in oct New Herball wherein are contained the names of herbs in Greek Lat. Engl. Dutch French and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries with the properties degrees and natural places of the same Lond. 1551. and 68. fol. It must be now noted that after this
either in London or Westminster leaving then all his wealth to his heir called Benedict Hudson alias Vannes This Peter Vannes being well known to Joh. Leland he is therefore by him numbred among the famous Men living in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. He was also much in favour with Cardinal Wolsey to whom he wrot divers letters while he continued in Rome an 1528 giving him an account of the affairs of that place and how matters went relating to the divorce between K. H. 8. and Qu. Catherine JOHN CLEMENT had his original education in this University but in what house it appears no more than the place where he was born which is altogether as yet unknown to me Afterwards being acquainted with Sir Tho. More for the pregnant parts that were visible in him was by him appointed to be tutor to his Children and afterwards to Margaret his Daughter About the Year 1519 he settled in Corp. Ch. Coll. being about that time constituted by Card. Wolsey his Rhetorick reader in the University and afterwards that of Greek both which he performed with great applause to the benefit of the Academians In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being then one of the Coll. of Physicians at London he left his native Country for Religion sake and then if I mistake not he took the Degree of Doctor of Physick beyond the Seas Afterwards returning in the time of Qu. Mary he practised his faculty with good success in Essex near London but when Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown and a reformation of Religion followed he left England once more and spent the remainder of his days beyond the Seas He hath written Epigrammatum aliorum carminum lib. 1. And did translate from Gr. into Lat 1 The Epistles of Greg. Nazian 2 The Homelies of Nicephorus Calixtus of the Greek Saints 3 The Epistles of Pope Celestin the first to Cyrill Bishop of Alexandria besides other matters which I have not yet seen He died at Mechlin in Brahant the place wherein he had lived several years and had practised his faculty on the first day of July in Fifteen hundred seventy and two year 1572 and was buried near to the tabernacle in St. Rumbolds Church there and close to the grave of his sometimes beloved Wife Margaret who died 6. July 1570 I mean that Margaret on whose Marriage with Jo. Clement the Antiquarian Poet hath bestowed a Song THOMAS HARDYNG was born at Beconton in Devonsh educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1536 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1542 at which time being esteemed a knowing Person in the Tongues he was by the favour of K. Hen. 8. made Hebrew Professor of the University and shortly after became Chaplain to Hen. Grey Marquess of Dorchester afterwards Duke of Suffolk In the Reign of Ed. 6. he was a Protestant and seemed forward for a reformation but after his death and Qâ— Mary's settlement in the throne he wheeled about became Prebendary of Winchester proceeded in Divinity and on the 17. Jul. 1555 was made Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Rich. Arche After Qu. Elizabeth had for some time swayed the Scepter he was deprived of his Treasureship and Tho. Lancaster the same Person I think who had been deprived of the Bishoprick of Kildare in the Reign of Queen Mary for being married was put into it in the beginning of Jan. 1559. So that our Author Hardyng relinquishing his other spiritualities all matters being then involved in controversies he upon pretence of some danger that was likely to ensue went beyond the Seas to Brabant where settling at Lovaine he became the target of Popery and a zealous assertor of his Religion in writing these Books following An answer to Mr. Jewells challenge Lov. 1564. qu. Whereupon Jewell came out with a Reply Rejoynder to Mr. Jewells reply By perusing whereof the discreet and diligent reader may easily see the answer to his insolent challenge justified and his objections against the Masse c. Antwerp 1566. in a thick qu. Another rejoynder to Mr. Jewells reply against the sacrifice of the Mass Lov. 1567. qu. Confutation of a book called An Apologie of the Church of England Ant. 1563. 65. qu. Which Apologie being written by Mr. Jewell he came out with his Defence as I have before told you Detection of errours and lyes in Mr. Jewells Book called A Defence of the Apologie c. Lov. 1564. Answer touching certaine untruths which Mr. Jo. Jewell charged him with in his late Sermon at Pauls cross 8. Jul. 1565. Antw. 26. Jul. 1565 in qu. and oct with other things which I have not yet seen Most of the afore mentioned books were by his Countryman Will. Rainolds turned into Latin but money being wanting their publication was therefore hindred This learned Man Dr. Hardyng died at Lovaine in the sixtieth Year of his Age or thereabouts year 1572 in Fifteen hundred seventy and two whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Gertrude there on the 16 day of Septemb. the same year Soon after was a monument with a large inscription thereon set over his grave a Copy of which I have seen as also a great Encomium of him by one who well knew him which for brevity sake I shall now omit JOHN HALES or Hayles a younger Son of Tho. Hales of Halesplace in Halden in Kent was born in that County and commonly called Club-foot Hales because in his younger days he had got that deformity by a wound from his own dagger at the bottom of his foot This Person being very much addicted to Letters from his childhood was sent to this University for a time but to what Coll. unless to that of Brasnose wherein several of his Sirname and time studied I know not Yet so it was that he having a happy memory accompanied with incredible industry became admirably well skill'd in the Lat. Greek and Hebrew tongues and at length in the municipal Laws and in Antiquities which made him admired by all ingenious Men of his time In the Reign of K. Hen. 8. he was Clerk of the Hemper for several years obtained a fair estate in Warwickshire and elsewhere upon the dissolution of Monasteries and Chantries founded a Free-School at Coventry and for the use of the youth to be taught there did write Introductiones ad Grammaticam partly in Engl. and partly in Latin He wrot also High way to Nobilitie Lond. in qu. And about that time translated into English Precepts for the preservation of good health Lond. 1543. oct written by Plutarch When Qu. Mary came to the Crown he fled beyond Sea as a voluntary Exile and settling at Frankfort in Germany we find him a zealous Man for the uniting of the Exiles there in peace See more in a book entit A brief discourse of the
in the Lâ—wcountries for the K. of Spain and William Prince of Aurange or Orange by the former of which tho at first he was lightly esteemed upon the account of his youth yet after some discourse he found himself so strucken with him that the beholders wondred to see what tribute that brave and high minded Prince paid to his worth giving more honour and respect to him in his private capacity than to the Embassadours of mighty Princes In the Year 1579 he tho neither Magistrate or Counsellour did shew himself for several weighty reasons opposite to the Queens matching with the Duke of Anjou which he very pithily expressed by a due address of his humble reasons to her as may be fully seen in a book called Cabola The said address was written at the desire of some great personage his Uncle Robert I suppose Earl of Leycester upon which a great quarrel hapned between him and Edw. Vere Earl of Oxford This as I conceive might occasion his retirement from Court next Summer an 1580 wherein perhaps he wrot that pleasant Romance called Arcadia In 1581 the treatise of marriage was renewed and our Author Sidney with Fulk Grevill were two of the tilters at the entertainment of the French Embassadour and at the departure of the Duke of Anjou from England in Febr. the same year he attended him to Antwerp On the 8. Janu. 1582 he with Peregrine Bertie received the honour of Knighthood from the Queen and in the beginning of 1585 he designed an expedition with Sir Francis Drake into America but being hindred by the Queen in whose opinion he was so highly prized that she thought the Court deficient without him he was in Octob. following made Governour of Flushing about that time delivered to the Queen for one of the cautionary towns and General of the Horse In both which places of great trust his carriage testified to the world wisdom and valour with addition of honour to his country by them and especially the more when in July 1586 he surprised Axil and preserved the lives and honour of the English Army at the enterprise of Gravelin So that whereas through the fame of his high deserts he was then or rather before in election for the Crown of Poland the Queen of England refused to further his advancement not out of emulation but out of fear to lose the jewel of her times What can be said more He was a Statesman Soldier and Scholar a compleat Master of matter and language as his immortal Pen shews His Pen and his Sword have rendred him famous enough He died by the one and by the other he 'll ever live as having been hitherto highly extolled for it by the Pens of Princes This is the happiness of art that although the sword doth archieve the honour yet the arts do record it and no Pen hath made it better known than his own in that book called Arcadia Certain it is he was a noble and matchless Gentleman and it may be justly said without hyperboles of fiction as it was of Cato Uticensis that he seemed to be born to that only which be went about His written works are these The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia Several times printed at London in quarto and fol. Which being the most celebrated Romance that was ever written was consecrated to his noble virtuous and learned Sister Mary the Wife of Henry Earl of Pembroke who having lived to a very fair age dyed in her house in Aldersgate-street in London 25. Sept. 1621. whereupon her body was buried in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury among the graves of the Pembrochian Family This Arcadia tho then and since it was and is taken into the hands of all ingenious Men and said by one living at or near the time when first published to be a book most famous for rich conceipt and splendor of courtly expressions yet the Author was not so fond a B. Heliodorus was of his amorous work for he desired when he died having first consulted with a Minister about it to have had it suppressed One who writes himself G. M. wrot the second and last part of the first book of the said Arcadia making thereby a compleat end of the first History Lond. 1613. qu. And in the eighth edit printed at Lond. 1633. Sir W. A. Knight made a supplement of a defect in the third part of the History and R. B. of Linc. Inn Esq added then a sixth book thereunto In 1662 came out the said Arcadia again in 6 books with several of his other works added to them In 1624 it was printed in French in 3. vol. or parts in oct and hath as I have been informed undergone several impressions in France It hath been also printed once or more in the Dutch language and in others Sir Philip also wrot A dissuasive Letter to Queen Elizab. her marriage with Monsier of France c. 'T is in a book called Scrinia Ceciliana Lond. 1663. qu. Astrophel and Stella wherein the excellencie of sweet poesie is concluded Lond. 1591. qu. Said to be written for the sake of one whom he entirely loved viz. the Lady Rich by whom was understood Philoclea in the Arcadia An Apologie for poetry Lond. 1595. qu. in prose There is a book in being called The Art of English Poesie not written by Sidney as some have thought but rather by one Puttenham sometimes a Gentleman Pensioner to Qu. Elizab. Sonnetts Remedie for love At the end of the 11th edit of Arcadia Lond. 1662. fol. Ourania a Poem Lond. 1606. published by N. B. An Essay upon valour so I find it mention'd in Cottoni posthuma yet others say it was written by Sir Thom. Overbury Quaere Almonzor and Almanzaida a Novel Lond. 1678. oct This book coming out so late it is to be enquired whether Sir Philip Sidneys name is not set to it for sale-sake being a usual thing in these days to set a great name to a book and to enhance the price of it by the esteem of the supposed Author Englands Helicon or a collection of Songs Sir Philip Sidneys name is also put to it as being the Author of most of the said Songs 'T was printed at Lond. in qu. Instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all nations states and countries This book which is printed in 12 o hath the names of Robert Earl of Essex and Sir Philip Sidney put to it but may be question'd whether either had a hand in it He also translated from French into English A work containing the trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists c. written originally by Philip Morney But the said translation being left imperfect by Sidney Arthur Golding finish'd it Lond. 1587. qu. He also Sidney turn'd the Psalmes of David into English verse which are in MS. in the Library of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton curiously bound in a crimson velvet cover left thereunto by his Sister Mary
Norfolk where remaining for some time was the first Man as 't is said that ever preached the Gospel in that place even when the Roman Catholick Religion was in great strength But Gardiner Bishop of Winchester having notice of caused search to be made after him Whereupon the said Duke being careful of sent him safely into Germany where in the City of Basil he became a most painful labourer at his Pen in the house of Operinus a learned Printer Being then about 30 years of age he had read over all that either the Greek or Latin Fathers had left in their writings the Schoolmen in their disputations the Councils in their Acts or the Consistory in their Decrees and acquired no mean skill in the Hebrew tongue After King Hen. 8. had been dead some time he returned to Magd. Coll. whence after a little stay he went again to his charge at Riegate and there remaining till after Queen Mary came to the Crown left England once more and retired to his old Landlord at Basil where continuing a severe drudge at his book till Queen Elizabeth was settled in the Throne he returned to his Country and was received by the said Duke then living at his mannour place called Christ Church in London who very bountifully entertain'd him From that house he travelled weekly every Munday to the house of John Day the Printer to consummate his Acts and Monuments of the Church and other works in English and Latin But as for the preferments he then enjoyed for he was offer'd to accept in a manner what he pleased were only the Prebendship of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury which he obtained on the death of Peter Vannes in the month of May 1563 and as some say the Vicaridge of St. Giles near Cripplegate in London but this last I suppose he kept if he had it at all but a little while in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth being always averse to subscribe to the Canons tho tendred to him by Parker Archbishop of Canterbury and to the ceremonies in some part of the Church He was a Person of good natural endowments a sagacious searcher into historical antiquity incomparably charitable of exemplary life and conversation but a severe Calvinist and a very bitter enemy in his writings exceeding the rules of charity as 't is conceived by some against the Rom. Catholick party He hath written De Christo triumphante Comaedia Lond. 1551. Bas 1556. oct c. Written at Basil in the house of Operinus before-mention'd translated into English by Rich. Day or D'aiia Son of John Day the noted Printer in Queen Elizabeths Reign with this title Christ Jesus triumphant wherein is describ'd the glorious triumph and conquest of Christ over sin death and the Law c. Lond. 1579 and 1607 oct Which Ric. Day by the way it must be noted was bred a Scholar in Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwads exercis'd the place of Minister at Riegate in Surrey in the room of our Author Fox but soon after leaving that profession followed the trade of Printing and lived several years near to Aldersgate in London where his Father had lived before In 1672 it was published again at Lond. in oct and dedicated to all Schoolmasters to the end that it might be admitted into their respective Schools for the eminent elegance of its style by T. C. Mast of Arts of Sydney Coll. in Cambridge De censurâ seu excommunicatione ecclesiasticâ interpellatio ad Archiep. Cantuar. Lond. 1551. oct Tables of Grammar Lond. 1552. Commentarii rerum in Ecclesia gestarum maximarumque per totam Europam persecutionum à Wiclevi temproibus ad hanc usque aetatem descript Argent 1554. oct in one book To which the Author added 5 more books all printed together at Basil 1559. fol. Articuli seu Aphorismi aliquot Job Wiclevi sparsim ex variis illius opusculis excerpti per adversarios Papicolas ac concilio Constantiensi exhibiti Collectanea quaedom ex Reginaldi Pecoki Episc Cicestrensis opusculis exustis conservata ex antiquo psegmate transcripta Opistographia ad Oxonienses These three last are printed with his Commentarii Locorum communium Legicalium tituli ordinationes 150 ad seriem praedicamentorum decem descripti c. Bas 1557. qu. Probationes resolutiones de re materiâ sacramenti Eucharistici Lond. 1563. or thereabouts Acts and Monuments of matters most special and memorable hapning in the Church with an universal historie of the same Wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course from the primitive age to these later times of ours c. Lond. 1583. in two vol. in fol. the 4th edition There again 1596 c. Printed also in 3. Volumes 1632 c. In the Year 1684 the said book came out again in 3 volumes with copper cuts the former editions having only wooden The undertakers of which impression had in a manner obtained a promise from King Charles 2. to revive the order in Queen Elizabeths time of placing the said book of Acts and Monuments in the common Halls of Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons Heads of Colleges c. according to the Canons of Dr. Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury an 1571 to the end that they might not be losers by the said impression c. As our Author Fox hath taken a great deal of pains in the said volumes and shew'd sometimes much judgment in his labours so hath he committed many errours therein by trusting to the relations of poor simple People and in making such Martyrs that were living after the first edition of his book came forth tho afterwards by him excused and omitted Nay Father Parsons if he may be believ'd tells us of his wilful corruptions and falsifications of Authors particularly Ven. Bede of his tergiversation impertinent and ignorant arguments contempt of antiquity his rejection of our ancient Historiographers and I know not what But these matters being beyond my Province to mention I shall only refer the reader to the two parts of conversions in the first volume of those three called A treatise of three conversions of England c. where he may not only find much discourse concerning the said book or volumes of Acts and Mon. but also of the Author of them as the index at the latter end will direct him See also the said Parsons his Relation of a trial held in France about religion Printed 1604. p. 59. 60. De Christo crucifixo Concio in die Paracev in 2. Cor. cap 5. ver 20. 21. Lond. 1571. qu. Printed also in English Lond. 1609. oct De Olivâ Evangelica Concio in baptismo Judaei habita Londini 1. Apr. cum narratione capitis XI D. Pauli ad Romanos Lond. 1578. Translated into English by Jam. Bell. To which Latin Sermon is an appendix De Christo triumphante which is the same I have mentioned before Concerning mans election to salvation Lond. 1581. oct Certain notes of election added to Beza his
Historical description of the Island of Britain with a brief rehearsal of the nature and qualities of the People of England and such commodities as are to be found in the same In 3. books They were first published in the first and second volume of Chronicles that go under the name of Raphael Holinshed printed at Lond. 1577. in fol. and there again in 1587 with augmentations by Jo. Hooker alias Vowell The collection is made from divers choice Authors many of which were then in MS. A Chronologie Gathered and compiled with most exquisite diligence after the example of Gerardus Mercator and other late Chronoligers So saith Raph. Holinshed in his Preface to the third volume of Chronicles What he hath written besides I know not nor any thing else but that he was living in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven I find one Will. Harrison born in the Dioc. of London elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1557 admitted M. of Arts in 1560 being then beneficed near to Northampton but he dying 1564 cannot be understood to be the same with the writer Another Will. Harrison I find to be installed Canon of Windsore 1586. being about that time Rector of Radwynter in Essex who dying 1593 was buried at Windsore leaving behind him several Children which he had by his Wife Marian Daughter of Will. Isebrand of Anderne near to Guisnes in Picardie Whether this Will. Harrison be the same with the writer I cannot tell WILLIAM WATKINSON was educated in Ch. Ch. became Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts afterwards he was one of the Proctors and Bach. of Divinity of this University He hath translated into English 1 Of the happiness of this our age and the ingratitude of Men to God for his benefits Lond. 1578. qu. Written by Joh. Rivius 2 Meditations on the 32. Psalm Lond. 1579. oct and other things which I have not yet seen How long he lived beyond Fifteen hundred eighty and seven 29. Elizab. in which year he took the Degree of Bach. of Div. I know not ULPIAN FULWELL a Somersethire Man born and a Gentlemans Son became a Commoner of St. Maries Hall in the Year 1578 aged 32 but whether he took any Degree among us it appears not While he continued in the said House where he was esteemed a Person of ingenuity by his contemporaries he partly wrot The eighth liberal science called Ars adulandi or the Art of flattery Printed 1579. qu. Afterwards having learned the art of Poetry among the Academians he wrot and published A pleasant enterlude intit Like will to like quoth the Devil to the Collier Wherein is declared what punishment follows those that will rather live licentiously that esteem and follow good counsel Lond. 1587. qu. Written in time and printed in an English Character The name of Ulp. Fulwell stands quoted by Jo. Speed in his life of K. Ed. 6. in his Chronicle and therefore I suppose he hath other things printed for I cannot conceive that Joh. Speed should quote him for any thing out of the two former books ROBERT CROWLEY or Croleus as he writes himself a very forward Man for reformation in the time of K. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizab. was born in Glocestershire became a Student in the University about 1534 and was soon after made Demie of Magd. Coll. â—â— 1542 he being then Bach. of Arts was made Probationer-fellow of the said House by the name of Rob. Crule but whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts it appears not for likely it is that he left the University when K. Hen. 8. began to settle a mongrel Religion in the Nation When K. Ed. 6. began to Reign he exercised the profession of Printing in Ely rents in Holbourn near to London sold books and at leisure times exercised the gift of Preaching in the great City and elsewhere But upon the succession of Queen Mary he among several English Protestants lest the Kingdom went to Frankfort in Germany and setled there purposely to enjoy the Religion which had been practised in England in the days of K. Ed. 6. After her decease he returned and had several benefices bestowed on him among which was the Vicaridge of St. Giles by Criplegate in London of which Church he wrot himself Vicar 1566. where continuing his pretended gifts in preaching was followed and respected by the neighbourhood of those parts and by others for his skill in rimes and poetry He hath written The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the sixth of John and the XI of the 1 Epist to the Corinthians c. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Mr. Tho. More against Joh. Frith Printed 5. Apr. 1533 in a small oct Confutation of Nich. Shaxton Bishop of Sarum his recantation of 13 Articles at the burning of Mistris Anne Askew Lond. 1546. oct Explicatio petitoria ad Parliamentum adversus expilatores plebis Printed in the Engl. tongue 1548 in oct Translated into Lat. by John Heron. Confutation of Miles Hoggard's wicked ballad made in defence of transubstantation of the Sacrament Lond. 1548. oct The voice of the last Trumpet blown by the seventh Angell c containing 12 several lessons Lond. 1549. oct Written in meter Pleasure and pain heaven and hell Remember these four and all shall be well Lond. 1550 51. in oct Written in meter Way to wealth wherein is plainly taught a most present remedy for sedition Lond. 1550. oct One and thirty Epigrams wherein are briefly touched so many abuses that may and ought to be put away Lond. 1550. in tw This was printed by the Author Crowley in his house in Ely rents before-mention'd An apologie of those English Preachers and Writers which Cerberus the three-headed dog of hell chargeth with false doctrine under the name of Predestination Lond. 1566. qu. Of which book you may see more in Canterburies doome written by Will. Prynne p. 169. Of the signes and tokens of the latter day Lond. 1567. oct A setting open of the subtile sophistry of Tho. Watson D. D. which he used in his two Sermons preached before Qu. May in Lent 1553 concerning the real presence in the Sacrament Lond. 1569. qu. Sermon in the Chappell at Gilde hall in London 29. Sept. 1574. before the Lord Mayor and the whole state of the Citie on Psalme 139. ver 21. 22. 23. 24. c. Lond. 1575. oct Answer to Tho. Pound his six reasons wherein he sheweth that the Scriptures must be judged by the Church Lond. 1581. qu. Brief discourse concerning those four usual notes whereby Christs Catholick Church is known c. Lond. 1581. qu. Replication to that lewd answer which Frier Joh. Francis of the Minimies order in Nigeon near Paris hath made to a letter that his Mother caused to be sent to him out of England Lond. 1586. qu. Deliberate aunsweare to a Papist proving that Papists are Antichristian Schismaticks
and that religious Protestants are indeed right Catholicks Lond. 1587. qu. The Schoole of vertue and book of good nurture teaching Children and Youths their duties Lond. 1588. oct c. This book is composed in Engl. meter hath at the end of it certain prayers and graces and is at this day commonly sold at the stalls of Ballad singers Dialogue between Lent and Libertie wherein is declared that Lent is a meer invention of Man Lond. in oct He also translated into English the Psalter of David The Letany with Hymnes and turned into meter Davids Psalmes All printed in the time of Ed. 6. in qu. an 1549. c. He also first of all published The Visions of Pierce Plowman Lond. 1550. qu. Which hath since been once or twice made extant with corrections At length this most zealous Person having lived to a fair age mostly spent in continual action for the settlement and propagation of the Protestant Religion submitted to the stroke of death in Fifteen hundred eighty and eight year 1588 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church dedicated to St. Giles situated and being near to Cripplegate in Lond. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with this inscription engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth the body of Robert Crowley Clerk late Vicar of this Parish who departed this life the 18 day of June an dom 1588. GEORGE ETHRYG or Etheridge or as he writes himself in Latine Edrycus was born in a mercate town in Oxfordshire called Thame admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. in Nov. 1534 being then put under the tuition of John Shepreve and in Feb. 1539 was made Probationer-Fellow In 1543 he was licensed to proceed in Arts and two years after was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Aphorismes of Hypocrates At length being esteemed by all to be a most excellent Grecian he was made the Kings Professor of that language in the University about 1553 and kept that lecture till some time after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown and then because he had been a forward Person against the Protestants in Qu. Maries Reign was forced to leave it So that following the practice of his faculty of Medicine with good success in and near Oxon especially among those of his opinion gained a considerable stock of wealth He mostly lived and kept a Family in an antient decayed place of literature called George hall opposite almost to the South end of Catstreet in St. Maries Parish in Oxon in which he took to him in the condition of Sojournours the Sons of divers Catholick Gentlement to be instructed in several arts and sciences among whom was Will. Gifford afterwards Archbishop of Rheimes who received from him rudiments in Grammar Musick and partly in Logick He constantly adher'd to the R. Catholick Religion wherein he had been zealously educated for which he suffer'd at the reformation by losing his lecture perhaps his Fellowship too and by continual imprisonments to be great impoverishment of his health and estate In a word he was esteemed by most Persons especially by those of his opinion a noted Mathematician well skill'd in vocal and instrumental Musick an eminent Hebrician Grecian and Poet and above all an excellent Physician as it appears in certain books of his composition the titles of which follow Musical compositions Diversa Carmina MS. Acta Henrici octavi carmine Graec. Presented in MS. to Qu. Elizabeth when she was in Oxon. 1566. Hypomnemata quaedam in aliquot libros Pauli Aeginetae seu observationes medicamentorum quae hâc aetate in usu sunt Lond. 1588 oct He also turn'd the Psalmes of David into a short form of Hebrew verse and translated most if not all of the works of Justin Martyr from Greek into Latin with other things which I have not yet seen He was living an antient Man in fifteen hundred eighty and eight but when or where he died I know not nor where buried unless in the ayard of St. Maries Church in Oxon in which his Father and Mother were before buried John Leland who was his familiar friend did celebrate his memory by verse while he lived and told him thus Scripsisti juvenis multâ cum laude libellos Qui Regi eximiè perplacuere meo PETER LEVENS or Levins was born at or near Eske in Yorkshire became a Student in the University an 1552 was elected probationer-Fellow of Madg. Coll. into a Yorkshire place 18. Jan. 1557. being then Bach. of Arts and on the 19. Jan. 1559 was admitted true and perpetual Fellow In 1560. he left his fellowship and one Thomas Dunne M. A succeeded him but whether our Author Levens proceeded in Arts or took a degree in Physick or was licensed to practise that Faculty it appears not in our Registers Afterwards he taught a Grammar-School and practised Physick which is all I know of him only that he wrot and published these things following A Dictionary of English and Latine words c. the English going before the Latine necessary for Scholars that want variety of words and for such as use to write in English metre Lond. 1570. in 18. sh in qu. A right profitable book for all diseases called the Path-way to health wherein are most excellent and approved medicines of great vertue as also notable potions and drinks and for the Distilling of divers waters and making of Oyles and other comfortable receipts Lond. 1587. qu. The Author is stiled in the title page Master of Arts of Oxon. and student in Physick and Chirurgerie This Book was afterwards several times printed with corrections and one Edition came out at Lond. 1664. what else Peter Levens hath written I cannot yet tell THOMAS SAMPSON was born about the year 1517 educated in Grammar and Academical learning amongst the Oxonian Muses afterwards studied the municipal Laws in one of the Temples where being converted to the Protestant Religion did shortly after as 't is said convert John Bradford the Martyr Whereupon they both taking Orders from Nich. Ridley Bishop of London became noted Preachers in the Reign of Ed. 6 and about that time Sampson as 't is said was made Dean of Chichester In the beginning of Qu. Mary he absconded at which time being well acquainted with one Rich. Chambers a zealous Protestant they collected moneys in the City of London from the well affected there to be distributed among such poor Scholars of each University that were haters of the Roman Catholick Religion Which matter being at length discovered he with his wife the Neice of Hugh Latimer were forced with Chambers to go beyond the Seas to Strasburge where wholly applying himself to the study of Divinity as much advanced in the knowledge thereof by his often associating himself with learned Tremelius After Queen Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his native country and became a frequent Preacher in London and much followed by the reformed party there and afterwards in
in the society of Jesus about 25 years to their great renown and honour The next Person in order to be mention'd is one as famous in his way as the former but of the reformed Religion THOMAS MOUFET or Muffet was born in London in or near St. Leonards Shoreditch as I conceive because his name and relations lived in that Parish and one John Muffet died there in 1596. After he had been educated in Grammar learning in that City he spent some time in this University afterwards travelled into divers Countries in Europe where he became known to the most eminent Men especially Physicians and Chymists of that time and was doctorated in Physick in some noted University in his travels After his return he fell into very great practice within the City of his nativity became much honoured and beloved by Peregrine Bertie Lord Willoughby of Eresbie and esteemed the famous ornament of the body of Physicians and the true pattern of all polite and solid Literature He hath written De jure praestantia Chemicorum Medicamentorum dialogus Apologeticus Francof 1584. Ursell 1602. oct and in the first volume of Theatrum Chemicum Argent 1623. oct pag. 70. Epistolae quinque Medicinales Most of which werâ— written to one whom the Author calls Philalethes a German Chymist They were printed with the former book in that impression of 1602 and I think elsewhere Nosomantica Hippocratea sive Hippocratis prognostica cuncta ex omnibus ipsius scriptis methodicè digesta c. Franc. 1588. oct in 9 books He also by his great labour and charge did enlarge and finish Insectorum sive minimorum Animalum Theatrum olim ab Edw. Wottono Conrado Gesnaro Thomaque Pennio inchoatum Which Book the Author leaving behind him in MS. at his Death it came some years after into the hands of Sir Theod. de Mayern Knight who published it in Fol. at Lond 1634. with an Epistle Dedicatory before and Preface to it But before that time some imperfect Copies of it were published by Laur Scholzius an 1598 c. This Book was published in the English Tongue at Lond. 1658. Fol. by J. R. M. D. Dr. Moufet hath written also Healths improvement or Rules comprising and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of Food used in this Nation This was corrected and enlarged by Christoph Bennet Lond. 1655. 4to Whatelse our Author Moufet hath written I know not nor any thing more of him only that in his latter days he lived much at Bulbridge near Wilton in Wilts as a retainer to the Pombrochian Family from which he had an yearly Pension allowed to him to his last day mostly by the favour of that incomparable Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke He concluded his last day towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth and was as I have been credibly informed by one or more ancient Men that belonged to the said Family buried at Wilton Contemporary with him was Joh. Securis an eminent Physician of Sarum whom I have mentioned before PETER WHITE noted for his excellency in Humane Learning while he continued in the University was born in the Diocess of Waterford in Ireland elected Fellow of Oriel Col. An. 1551. and in the year 1555. was admitted Master of Arts. About the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign he returned to his Native Country and became the Happy Schoolmaster of Mâ—ster and Dean of Waterford for a time From which last place being ejected for his Religion about 1565. he continued notwithstanding in his beloved Faculty of Pedagogy which was then accounted a most excellent Employment in Ireland by the Catholicks especially for this Reason that the Sons of Noblemen and Gentlemen might be trained up in their Religion and so consequently keep out Protestancy His School was during his time in a flourishing condition and by his care and industry many learned Persons issued thence Among such not that I shall mention Rich. Stanyhurst of whom I shall speak hereafter was one Peter Lombard born in Waterford who afterwards studied at Lovaine in Brabant where after he had spent two years and an half in Philosophy he was chosen when he proceeded Master of Arts Primus Vniversitatis by the uniform consent of the Four Principals which preferment did not happen in such sort for many years before About that time the said Lombard wrote Carmen heroicum in Doctoratum Nicholai Quemerfordi with other things afterwards which were much valued at Lovaine but such I have not yet seen See another Pet. Lombard in my discourse of Will. Camden As for P. White he hath written Epitome copiae Erasmi lib. 1. Epit. figurarum Rhetoricarum lib. 1. Annotationes in Orat. pro Archiâ poetâ Annot. in Orat. pro T. A. Milone Epigrammata diversa lib. 1. He lived as I guess to the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but the particular time when he died I find not Equal in time with the said Pet. White was another of both his Names an English-Man born and a severe Calvinist who among several things that he hath written published a Book intitled An Answer to certain crabbed Questions pretending a Real Presence in the Sacrament together with a discovery of the Jesuitical Opinion of Justification guilfully uttered by Sherwin at the time of his Execution Lond. 1582. oct Also A Sermon against Idolatry on Apoc. 1. 12 13. Lond. 1581. oct c. Whether he was an Oxford Man I cannot yet find THOMAS NEALE was born at Yeate in Glocestershire sped a Child into the College near Winchester by the endeavours of his Mother's Brother Alex. Belsire Fellow of New College where profiting exceedingly in Grammer Learning in the School there was chosen Probationer of New College in 1538. and two years after was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of the said House Afterwards prosecuting his Studies with great industry took the degree of Master of Arts in 1546 Holy Orders and soon after became an able Theologist and admirably well skill'd in the Greek and Hebrew Languages the last of which he read to several young Scholars in the University particularly to Bern. Gilpin of Queen's College About that time Sir Tho. Whyte who was afterwards Founder of S. John's College having had notice of his pregnant Parts and Vertues did for an encouragement allow unto him an yearly Pension of 10. l. In the beginning of Q. Mary he became Chaplain to Dr. Bonner Bishop of London and in 1556. being newly returned from Paris and other places in France he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then Rector of Thenforth in Northamptonshire But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and he thereupon bereft of his Lord and Patron Bonner he betook himself to Oxon and in 1559. he was made the Queen's Professor of the Hebrew Lecture entred himself a Commoner of Hart Hall and built little Lodgings opposite thereunto joyning to the West end of New Col. Cloister wherein he lived several years but his Religion
another hand but not without the help of that translation of Turbervile though not acknowledged The person that performed it was Tho. Harvey who writes himself Gent. But whether the same Tho. Harvey who was Master of Arts the first Master of Kington School in Herefordshire founded 1620. and the author of The Synagogue in imitation of divine Herbert I know not As for George Turbervile he lived and was in great esteem among ingenious men in fifteen hundred ninety and four 36. Reg. Elizab. but when he dyed I cannot yet learn I find one George Turbervile to be author of 1 Essays politick and moral Printed 1608. in oct 2 The noble art of Venery or hunting and hawking Printed with figures in 1611. in qu. c. Whether George Turbervile before-mentioned was the author of the said two books or another of both his names who was a Dorsetshire man born and a Commoner of Glouc. Hall An. 1581. aged 18. or a third G. Turbervile who was born in the said County and became a Student in Magd. Hall 1595. aged 17. I cannot justly tell you unless I could see and peruse the said two books of which I am as yet totally ignorant HENRY WALPOOLE elder Brother to Mich. and Rich. Walpoole Jesuits was born in the County of Norfolk educated in both the Universities but in what College or Hall in Oxon it doth not appear because not matriculated so that his stay here being I persume but short nothing occurs memorable of him only that he was inclined to Puritanism which made Pasquil in his Apology to challenge Oxford men to enquire and tell him whether the said Walpoole was not a Puritan when he forsook them Soon after his retirement from the University he became so zealous a Roman Catholick that endeavouring to perswade others to his Opinion he was forced to leave his station whereupon going to Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus in 1584. aged 25 years where continuing for some time he went afterwards into Spain and when he had spent certain years there he journeyed into Holland where he suffer'd much upon account of Religion In 1593. he was sent into England was seized on at his first entry therein and carried to York where he was imprisoned for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England The next year he was sent to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower where he suffered much misery After an years durance there in which time several Ministers were with to persuade him to recant but in vain he was sent back to York where he suffered death as I shall tell you anon He hath written in English Verse The Martyrdom of Edm. Campian the Jesuit and other things that are not printed having been secured by certain Protestants when the author was imprisoned at York at which place he was hanged drawn and quartered for Treason on the 17. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 See more of him in a book intit Bibl. Script Soc. Jesu written originally by Pet. Ribadeneira Lugd. 1609. in oct continued by Philip Alcgambc Antw. 1643. fol. and at length by Nath. Sotvellus commonly called Southwell of the Family of the Southwells in Norfolk Rom. 1676. fol. See also in Historia Provinciae Anglicanae Soc. Jesu lib. 5. nu 33 34. written by Henry More an English-man a descendant from Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England Which Hen. tells us that the said Hen. Walpoole was educated in Cambridge without any notice taken of Oxon. The learned Camden in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth doth make mention of one of the Walpooles an 1598. but which I cannot yet tell JOHN HARTE was educated in most kinds of literature in Oxon but in what College or Hall I cannot find One Mr. Harte was a Sojournour of Exeter College An. 1551. 5. Ed. 6. but him I take to be too soon for our author who was but a young Man when he encountred Dr. Jo. Rainolds in a disputation What degrees he took here it appears not though those of his Profession the Jesuits tell us that he was Bachelaur of Divinity of Oxon yet upon the strict perusal of our Registers I cannot find the least authority for it After he had left this University being then and before very unsettled and wavering in mind he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion took priestly Orders and was sent into the Mission of England but soon after taken and committed to Prison to a filthy dungeon as a noted author tells us who adds that after he whom he calls the happy young Confessor had been often by Famine tormented was unexpectedly brought out to encounter Joh. Rainolds before-mentioned An. 1583. or thereabouts Which disputation being smartly held on both sides those of Harte's Persuasion say that Rainolds was foiled though the opposite not upon some years after was published The summ of a conference between Joh. Rainolds and Jo. Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church c. Lond. 1588. qu. See more in Jo. Rainolds under the year 1607. Afterwards our Author Harte who is stiled by a learned Author Vir praecaeteris doctissimus being banished with divers other R. Priests in 1584. he went to Verdune where he entred into the Society of Jesus Thence he was called to Rome where making some stay till authority commanded him thence he went into Poland and settled for a time at Jareslaw At length giving way to Fate on the 14. of the Cal. of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 or thereabouts was buried at Jareslaw or Joreslaw Seven years after his Body was taken up and translated to another place belonging to the Jesuits who had an high esteem for his Person while living sanctity of Life and Learning and when dead for his memory I find another John Hart who was Chester Herald and wrote and published An Orthography containing the due Order and Reason how to write or paint the Image of Man's Voice most like to the Life or Nature Lond. 1569. And another Jo. Hart of later time who among other Books did publish The burning Bush not consumed wherein one may judge whether he be the Child of God or not Lond. 1641. 2. fourth edit But whether this last who was a zealous Puritan if not worse or the former who was an Herald were of this University I know not as yet THOMAS DIGGES Son of Leonard Digges mentioned before under the year 1574. by Sarah his Wife Sister to Jam. and Tho. Wilford two most valiant Knights of Hartridge in the Parish of Crainbrook in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated among the Oxonian Muses but in what House I cannot yet tell neither whether he be the same Mr. Digges which the famous Lampoon or Libel made by Th. Bulkley in the time of Q. Elizabeth on several Scholars and others of Oxon points at However of this I am sure he the said Tho. Digges did spend
Writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law and about that time made the Queen's Serjeant and at length one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and not of the King's Bench as one falsly tells us which last place he executed for 5 years with great integrity equity and prudence He was a learned man and a great lover of learning and those that professed it but all the Writings which I have seen of his that are extant are only Reports in the Common Pleas wherein are many choice Cases most of them throughly argued by the learned Serjeants and after argued and resolved by the grave Judges of those times with many Cases wherein the differences in the Year-books are reconciled and explained Lond. 1656. fol. What else is published under his Name I know not nor any more of him only that he dying 21. Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 was buried on the S. side of the Choire of St. Peter's Church in Westminster Over his grave was soon after erected a noble monument of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold with his Image in scarlet robes lying thereon which remains to this day He left behind him a Son named named Roger who was a Knight and for his manifold learning a right Worthy Son of so Good a Father This Sir Roger who had been a Gent. Com. of Ch. Church and a great Friend to the Clergy by vindicating them when aspersed in open Parliament 11 Jac. 1. dyed in a distracted condition to their great reluctancy 29. May being Holy Thursday in 1617. MICHAEL MASCHIART a most excellent Latin Poet of his time was born in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City of Salisbury educated in Wykeham's School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1562. became Vicar of Writtle in Essex in 1572. being then Bach. of the Civil Law and two years after proceeded Doctor of that Faculty at which time he was not only esteemed an able Civilian but also excellent in all kind of Humane learning He hath written Poemata varia This book I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether that be the true title Nor indeed should I have known that he had written any thing had not the learned Camden told me so in his Britannia wherein are by him inserted several Verses taken from Maschiart to adorn his discourse of Clarindon Park in Wiltshire This learned Doctor dyed at Writtle before-mentioned in the latter end of the year about Christmas of fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed In that Vicarige succeeded a learned Doctor of Divinity named John Lloyd whom and his Works I shall mention among these Writers under the year 1603. STEPHEN GOSSON a Kentish man born was admitted Scholar of C. Ch. coll 4. Apr. 1572. aged 16. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts four years after left the University without compleating that degree by Determination and went to the great City where he was noted for his admirable penning of Pastorals being so excellent therein that he was ranked with Sir Ph. Sidney Tho. Chaloner Edm. Spencer Abrah Fraunce and Rich. Bernfield noted Poets of their time Thence as he saith he went to a worshipful Gentleman in the Country to teach his Sons where he continued till he shewed his great dislike of Plays having his mind then quite alienated from them So that the Gentleman being weary of his company Gosson left him took Orders and at length became Parson of Great Wigborow in Essex He hath written and published The School of abuse containing a pleasant invective against Poets Pipers Players Jesters and such like Caterpillers of the Common-wealth c. Lond. 1579. and 1585. in oct dedicated to Sir Ph. Sidney Plays confuted in five actions proving that they are not to be suffered in a Christian Common-wealth By the way both the cavils of Tho. Lodge and the Play of Plays written in their defence and other objections of Players Friends are truly set down and directly answered Dedicated to Sir Franc. Walsingham but when printed it appears not The Trumpet of War Serm. at Pauls Cross 7. May 1598. on 2 Chron. ch 20. ver 20. Lond. 1598. oct As for the Pastorals Comedies Tragedies or Poetry some of which he hath written I have not yet seen either printed or In Manuscript JOHN LYLIE or Lylly a Kentish man born became a Student in Magd. coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 16. or thereabouts and was afterwards as I conceive either one of the Demies or Clerks of that house but always averse to the crabbed studies of Logic and Philosophy For so it was that his genie being naturally bent to the pleasant paths of Poetry as if Apollo had given to him a wreath of his own Bays without snatching or strugling did in a manner neglect Accademical studies yet not so much but that he took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1575. At which time as he was esteemed in the University a noted Wit so afterwards was he in the Court of Q. Elizabeth where he was also reputed a rare Poet witty comical and facetious His Works are these Gallathea Love's Metamorphosis Midas Endimion or the man in the Moon Mother Bomby Maids Metamorphosis Sapho and Phao. Woman in the Moon Warning for fair Women Alexander and Campaspe All which are Comedies and most of them having been published in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth six were re-printed at London in oct an 1632. by the care of Hen. Blount Esq afterwards a Knight under the title of Court Comedies which before had crowned the author with applause and the Auditors of them with pleasure Euphues and his England containing his voyage and adventures mixed with sundry pretty discourses of honest love the description of the Country the Court and the manner of that Isle c. Lond. 1580. and 82. in two parts in a large oct The first part is dedicated to Edw. Vere E. of Oxon a noted Poet and encourager of learning in his time and the last to the University of Oxon. These two parts were published again with corrections and amendments at Lond. 1606. and 1636. qu. Euphues The Anatomy of Wit or the delights of Wit in Youth c. Lond. 1581. qu. corrected and amended Lond. 1606. 1623. and 30. qu. To these books of Euphues 't is said that our Nation is indebted for a new English in them which the Flower of the Youth thereof learned All the Ladies then were Scholars to them and their author and that Beauty in Court which could not parly Euphuism was as little regarded as those now there that cannot speak French What other Books Comedies or Trag. our author hath written I cannot find nor when he dyed or where buried only that he lived till towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth if not beyond for he was in being in 1597. when the
one County three such Divines as Jewel Hooker and Rainolds of the second of which hear I pray what the learned Camden saith In this year meaning 1599. which is false dyed too many in that one Rich. Hooker born in Devonshire and bred in C. C. coll in Oxford a Divine very moderate temperate and meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and besides very famous for his learned works as his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy set forth in the English but worthy to speak Latin do testifie of him c. At Boscomb he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy which were entred into the Register in Stationers hall 9. March 1592. and afterwards came out with this Title The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in four books Lond. 1594. fol. To which he added a fifth book which is larger than the first four printed by its self at Lond. 1597. fol. Part of the first four being read by Dr. Tho. Stapleton in Latin to P. Clement 8. who before had heard much in their commendation he the said Pope in conclusion said thus There is no learning that this Man hath not searched into nothing too hard 〈◊〉 his Vnderstanding This man indeed deserves the Name of an Author His books will get reverence by age for there are in them such seeds of Eternity that if the rest bâ— like this they shall last till the last Fire shall consume all learning c. At the same time K. James of Scotland afterwards of England did put an high esteem upon the said books and usually said They were the pictures of a Divine Soul in every page of Truth and Reason King Ch. 1. had read them over several times was well vers'd in and commended them to be read by the Prince afterwards K. Ch. 2. and his other Children next to the Bible The learned Vsher Primate of Ireland Morton B. of Durham Hales of Eaton c. had the same high opinion of the author and his Works and Gauden Bishop of Worcester said he had been highly esteemed of all prudent peaceable and impartial Readers But before the fifth book had been extant two years was published a Pamphlet intit A Christian Letter of certain English Protestants unfeigned Lovers of the present state of Religion authorized and professed in England unto that reverend and learned man Mr. Hooker requiring resolution in certain matters of Doctrine expresly contained in his five books of Ecclesiastical Polity Printed 1599. in qu. which matters of Doctrine as they say seem to overthrow the foundation of Christian Religion and of the Church among us But therein it doth appear that their ignorant malice hath done him great honour who in an argument so distasted by them and coming with a proud confidence to reprehend have only carped sillily at some things neither of moment or importance whereof humility and charity would have craved no answer But these being willing and desirous to find something to oppose have only discovered Mr Hookers great mature and grave judgment and their own small undigested and shallow learning Soon after came out an answer to the said letter entit A just and temperate defence of the 5 books of Ecclesiastical polity c. against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants c. Lond. 1603. qu. written and published by Will. Covel D. D. born in Lancashiâ—e near the place where Dr. Chaderton B. of Lincoln received his first breath bred in Christs and Queens coll in Cambridge and a writer of other books that came out soon after As for the other three books of Ecclesiastical Policy which our author Hooker compleated before his death they with the consent of his unlucky Widdow were seized on in his study soon after his decease by Will. Charke a noted Puritan and another Minister that lived near to Canterbury who making the silly Woman believe that they were writings not fit to be seen did either burn them in the place or convey them away secretly So that the foul copy being only remaining with many interlinings Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll in Oxon. his ancient and entire Friend got it into his hands who using the assistance of Hen. Jackson of the said coll as an Amanâ—ensis and otherwise did compleat it as much as could be and kept it by him till his latter end with an intent that it should be published but upon what account he was hindred I cannot tell Sure it is that when he lay on his death-bed he bequeathed the said copy containing the three last books fairly transcribed by the hand of the said H. Jackson to Dr. Jo. King B. of London After his death the copy rested in the hands of his Son Henry who became B. of Chichester 1641. till Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury commanded them out of his custody authorizing Dr. Joh. Barcham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth which accordingly was done The said Archbishop esteeming them as rarities did put them into the Library there where remaining till the decollation of Archb. Laud were then by the Brethren of the Predominant Faction given with the Library to that most notorious Villain Hugh Peters as a reward for his remarkable service in those sad times of the Churches confusion And though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was to subject the Soveraign Power to the People From the said copy several transcripts were taken not only I presume while it remained in the said Library but while it continued in the hands of Peters differing much in words There was a copy of the sixth and eighth books published at London in 1648. in qu. and said by the Editor of them to be collected and compared with five copies viz. with that in Bodley's Library that at Lambeth that in Bish Andrew's that in Archb. Vsher's Library and in that of the Lord Edw. Conway at Ragley but whether the publisher may be believed I know not Sure I am that the said three last books which are said to be true and genuine but from whence obtained I cannot tell were published by Dr. Joh. Gauden under this title The Works of Mr. Rich. Hooker that learned godly judicious and eloquent Divine vindicating the Church of England as truly Christian and duly reformed in eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity now compleated as with the sixth and eighth so with the seventh c. out of his own MSS. never before published with an account of his holy Life and happy Death Lond. 1662. fol. But whether the said MSS. were of his own hand-writing we have good reason to question as also the greater part of his Life which he the said Gauden hath falsly written who with great confidence hath used divers arguments to satisfie the World that the before-mentioned three books were pen'd by Mr. Hooker
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
1 The Song of Songs which was Solomons metaphrased in English heroicks by way af dialogue Lond. 1621. qu. dedic to Hen. King Archd. of Colchester Son to the Bishop of Lond. 2 The Brides ornament Poetical Essayes upon a Divine Subject In two books Lond. 1621. qu. The first dedic to Jo. Argall Esq the other to Philip Brother to Henry King 3 Funeral Elegy consecrated to the memory of his ever honoured Lord John King late B. of London c. 1621. He also wrote a Book of Meditations of Knowlege Zeal Temperance Bounty and Joy And another containing Meditations of Prudence Obedience Meekness God's Word and Prayer Which two books of Meditations were intended by the author for the Press at the same time with the former Poetry But the ever lamented loss of his most honoured Lord which did change all his Joys into Sorrows and Songs to Lamentation did defert their publication and whether they were afterwards published I know not HENRY BILLINGSLEY Son of Roger Billingsley of the City of Canterbury did spend some time among the Muses in this University as others did who were afterwards Traders in London particularly Benedict Burnham of St. Albans hall afterwards a rich Citizen Sheriff and Alderman of London But before our author Billingsley had continued there three years in which time as 't is probable he became known to an eminent Mathematician called Whytehead then or lately a Fryer of the Order of St. Augustine in Oxon he was taken thence and bound an Apprentice to an Haberdasher as it seems in London Afterwards setting up for himself he became so rich that he was made successively Sheriff Alderman one of the Queen's Customers in the Port of London and at length 1596. Lord Mayor thereof and a Knight But the chief matter which I am to let the Reader know concerning him is that when the said Whytehead was put to his shifts after the demolition of his house in the latter end of Hen. 8. he was received by Billingsley into his Family and by him maintained in his old age in his house in London In which time he learned Mathematicks of him and became so excellent in them that he went beyond many of his time whether Lay-men or profess'd Scholars When Whytchead died he gave his Scholar all his Mathematical observations that he had made and collected together with his notes on Euclids Elements which he had with great pains drawn up and digested Afterwards our author Billingstey translated the said Elements into English and added thereunto plain Declarations and Examples manifold additions Scholias annotations and inventions from the best Mathematicians both in time past and in the age he lived in Which being done he published them under this title The Elements of Geometry of the mos ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara faithfully translated into the English tongue Whereunto are added certain Scholias annotations c. Lond. 1570. fol. To which book Dr. Joh. Dce did put a large Mathematical Preface containing a great deal of Learning pertaining to that Science As for Billingsley he departed this mortal life in a good old age 22. year 1606 Nov. in sixteen hundred and six and some weeks after his body was buried in a little Vault under his Pew in the Church of S. Catherine Colman in London What or where was the end of Whytehead I cannot tell yet thus much I know that what I have said relating to him and Billingsley concerning Mathematicks I had from the Mathematical observations of our Antiquary Brian Twyne and he from the information of that noted Mathematician Mr. Th. Allen of Glouc. hall and he from an eminent Physician called Reb. Barnes M. D. who was elected Fellow of Merton coll 29. Hen. 8. dom 1537. and remembred and had some acquaintance with Whytehead and Billingsley I find also one Rob. Billingsley who was not long since a teacher of Arithmetick and Mathematicks and author of a little book of Arith. and Algebra called An Idea of Arithmetick c. Whether he was descended from or related to Sir Henry I know not JOHN SAVILE elder Brother to Sir Henry Son of Henry Savile of Over-Bradley in Staneland near to Eland not far from Halifax in Yorkshire Esq was born in that County particularly as it seems at Over-Bradley became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1561. or thereabouts where laying a considerable foundation of Acad. learning was taken thence before he could attain to a degree in the University and sent to the Middle-Temple where making great proficiencie in the Municipal Laws was called to the Bar fell into considerable Practice became Autumn-reader of that house 28 Elizab. dom 1586. Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield in his own Country called to the degree and honour of the Coif in 1594 made one of the Barons of the Exchequer 98. and about that time one of the Justices of Assize When K. James came to the Crown he not only continued him in his Barons place 4. Apr. but also conferred on him just before his Coronation the honour of Knighthood 23. July following an 1603. being then one of the Judges that was to attend that Solemnity He left behind him at his death certain things fit for the Press of which only this following is as yet made publick Reports of divers special Cases as well in the Court of Common Pâ—eas as of the Exchequer in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1675. in a thin fol. Printed in old French in a black character and published by John Richardson of the Inner-Temple Sir Jo. Savile paid his last debt to nature at London on the 2. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and six aged 61. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet London and his heart carried to Medley in Yorkshire where it was buried in an Isle joyning on the South side of the Church belonging to that place Soon after was a very fair Monument erected over it with the Effigics thereon of the Defunct in his Judges Robes cut out from stone laying thereon The Reader is to know that there was one John Savile a great pretender to Poetry in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. patronized in his studies by his kinsman a young Spark called George Savile Son of Sir George Savile Knight which John wrote among several things K. James his entertainment at Theobalds with his welcome to London and a salutory Poem Lond. 1603. qu. This I thought fit to let the Reader know lest Posterity may take him to be the same with Sir Jo. Savile before-mentioned The Name and Family of the Saviles are numerous in Yorkshire and pretend to be descended from the Savelli in Italy a Family accounted by some to be the ancientest in the World having been in Italy about 3000 years some of which have been Consuls before and after the time of our Saviour But how any of our Saviles in England can make it out that
and said to be printed at Middelberg in 1599. qu. Printed also at Ox. 1629. qu. whereunto are added certain latin Letters between him and Dr. Alb. Gentilis concerning the same matter See more in Will. Gager under the year 1610. Apologia Thesium de Sacra Scripturâ Ecclesiâ Lond. 1602. oct Epistle to Tho. Pye at the end of Rob. Burhills book intit In controversiam c. in sex commentationes Oxon. 1606. qu. written upon Pyes submitting his lat Epistle against Dr. Howson's Thesis to his censure and approbation It containes also several emendations and corrections of Pyes Epistle before it went to the Press See more in Tho. Pye under the year 1609. Defence of the judgment of the reformed Churches that a man may lawfully not only put away his wife for her adultery but also marry another wherein Rob. Bellarmine the Jesuits latine treatise and an English pamphlet of a nameless author maintaining the contrary are confuted printed 1609. qu. Consura librorum Apocryphorum veteris Testamenti adversus Pontificios imprimis Robertum Bellarmin c. Oppenhiem 1611. Tom. 2. Which book was consulted by Matthew Poole when he composed his third volume of Sinopsis who saith that the said Censura c. was written multijugâ stupendâ eruditione c. which is very true for the author was seven years in writing and composing it The prophesie of Obadiah opened and applyed in sundry learned and gratious Sermons preached at Allhallows and S. Maries in Oxon. Oxon. 1613. qu. Published by Will. Hinde of Queens coll Letter to his friend containing his advice for the study of Divinity dat 4. Jul. 1577. Lond. 1613. in tw in one sheet Orationes duodecem in C. C. C. Oxon. 1614. and 28. in oct Among which are the two before mention'd printed The rest were corrected and published by Hen. Jackson Bach. of Divinity The first of those which Jackson published which is the third of the said twelve and hath this beginning Si quis adsit in hoc conventu c. was translated into English by Joh. Leycester of Cheshire for the use all such that affect the studies of Logick and Philosophy Lond. 1638. in tw Epistolae ad Guliel Rainoldum fratrmm suum Guliel Whitakerum Elizab. Reginam Printed with Orationes duodecem The discovery of the man of sin a Sermon on 2 Thes 2. 3. Ox. 1614. qu. published by Will. Hinde before mentioned Letter to Sir Franc. Knollys concerning some passages in Dr. Rich. Bancrofts Serm. at Pauls-cross 9. Feb. 1588. Lond. 1641. qu. The original of Bishops and Metrapolitans briefly laid down Ox. 1641. qu. 'T is but a little thing and included in Archb. Vshers discourse of that matter Other titles have it thus Dr. Rainolds his jugment touching the original of Episcopacy more largly confirmed out of antiquity by James Vsher Archbish of Armagh Judgment concerning Episcopacy whether it be Gods ordinance In a Letter to Sir Franc. Knollys Kt. 19. Sept. 1598. Lond. 1641. qu. which Sir Franc. was Son of Sir Fr. Knollâ—s Knight Prophesie of Haggai interpreted and applyed in 15. Sermons Lond. 1649. qu. Published by Edw. Leigh Esquire who had the Copy from Nath. Hinde a Minister of Staffordshire Son of Will. Hinde before mention'd who had view'd and perfected it What else is printed under Rainolds name unless a Treatise against the Racovian Catechism as some say which I doubt I know not Among the MSS. which he left behind him I find these Commentarii in tres lib. Aristot de Rhetorica Answer to Nich. Saunders his books De Schismate Anglicano in defence of our reformation c. Defence of our English Liturgy against Rob. Browne his Schismatical book This Browne who was a Knights Son of Rutlandshire and educated in Cambridge and afterwards Father of the Sect called Brownists did use to say that the true Protestants had no Church in England yet afterwards he found the way into their Church and became Pastor of a place in Northamptonshire called Aychurch Bonum nomen bonum omen quantum mutatus ab illo And then he used to say that there was no Church in England 〈◊〉 his and that was A Church He died in Prison in 〈…〉 after he had been in very many before about the year of his age 80. and the year of our Lord 1630. or as some say 34. Treatise of the beginning and progress of Popish errors and that for the first 300. years after Christ Bishops ruled their own Dioceses without subjection to the Pope Collectayeâ— quaedam potissimè Theologica MS. in the Libr. of Dr. Tho. Barlow Collectanea continent diversa Rhetorica Theologica MS. in oct in the same Library Where also I have seen some of his Orations and Declamations which have not been yet printed He also translated into Latin Plutarchs two books viz. 1 De utilitate ex hostibus capienda 2 De morbis animi corporis This last was also translated by the before-mentioned Hen. Jackson some time after Rainolds's death but differs much by the comparing which I have made between them Our author Rainolds also translated into Latin Maximus Tyrius his Three Disputations Which Translations with his Epistles to his Brother William Will. Whittaker and Q. Elizabeth are printed at the end of his Orationes duodecem Oxon. 1628. oct The translation of Plutarchs two books were also printed at Ox. 1614. in oct At length after he had lived many years a severe Student and a mortified devout person he surrendred up his last breath to him that first gave it 〈◊〉 Thursday next after the Ascension being then the 21. of May in the year sixteen hundred and seven On the Monday following his corps was carried to S. Maries Church where a Funeral Sermon was Preached by Dr. Hen. Ayray the Vicechancellour Which being ended the corps was removed into the Chancel of the said Church where Isaac Wake the Orator of the University made an elegant Oration in praise of the Defunct Which being ended also it was carried to C. C. coll where the Chappel being not spacious enough an Oration was excellently well delivered from a Pew covered with mourning in the middle of the Quadrangle by Dan. Featley Fellow of that house containing a brief History of the life and death of our most admired author He was buried in the inner Chappel of the said coll under the North wall and had a Monument with his bust fastned to the said Wall by Dr. Joh. Spenser his Successor in the Presidenship of the said coll with an inscription thereon in golden letters a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. THOMAS COGAN a Somersetshire Man born of the same Family with those of Chard was elected Fellow of Oriel coll 1563. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he entred on the Physick line and took a degree in that Faculty 1574. The year after he resigned his Fellowship being about that time
others to advance the Romish affairs with power then given by P. Greg. 13. for moderating the severe Bull of P. Pius 5. While he continued there which was in the quality of a Superior he travelled up and down in the Country to Gentlemens houses disguised in the habit sometimes of a Souldier sometimes like a Gentleman and at other times like a Minister and an Apparator And being a person of a seditious and turbulent spirit and armed with a confident boldness tampered so far with the R. Catholicks about deposing Qu. Elizabeth that some of them as they afterwards confessed thought to have delivered him up into the Magistrates hands About which time Campian being seized and committed he made haste out of England for fear of being snap'd also and forthwith went to Rome where making profession of the four vows he was constituted Rector of the English coll there an 1587. Afterwards he went into Spain where by his great learning expressed in disputing writing and promoting the Cause he became known to and respected by the King of that place About 1597. he returned to Rome in hopes of a Cardinals Cap but missing it died as 't is said with grief He was a restless active man and tho of a violent fierce nature and rough behaviour yet he was more zealous for the promoting of the Jesuits interest than any of and perhaps before his time witness his unwearied endeavours of instituting Novices of the Society at Sevill Valladolid Cadiz Lisbon Doway S. Omers and at Rome Also his continual publishing of books as well in the Latin as in the English tongue which did no great good to the Church of England and the noted professors thereof And lastly his endeavours of keeping Spain and England in difference and of his inciting the Spaniard to invade England or Ireland again of breaking the lawful Succession of the Crown by confirming the right of it to a Daughter of Spain and what not to promote the interest of that Country and his Society As for those books which he hath written published either without a name or else in the names of other persons I shall here give you the titles of as many that have come to my hands and they are these A brief discourse containing the reasons why Catholicks refuse to go to Church Said to be Printed at Doway but really at Lond. 1580. in oct Published under the name of Jo. Howlet and dedicated to Q. Eliz. with a large Epist subscribed by the said J. Howlet See more in the Fasti 1569. I have seen a book in Bodlies Lib. being one of the Copies which was seized before the title page was printed intituled in the first page of the book it self thus Reasons that Catholicks ought in any wise to abstain from heretical conventicles The running title at the top of every leaf of the book is A Treatise of Schisme Printed at London by Will. Carter executed for Treason in the year 1584. who confessed when that book came to be seized on in his house on Tower-hill near London that there had been printed 1250. Copies of the said book At that time the Searchers found the original sent from Rheimes and allowed under Dr. Will. Allens own hand to be truly Catholick and fit to be published This book without doubt is the same which a certain author stiles Nine reasons why Catholicks should abstain from heretical Conventicles said by him to be written by Rob. Parsons The same year that the Brief discourse containing c. was published came out an answer to it intit A check to Mr. Howlets Shreechings to her Majesty c. but whether any reply followed I know not The next books that F. Parsons wrote were Reasons for his coming into the mission of England with a proffer or challenge to dispute with the Protestants This book or Treatise tho afterwards put under the name of Rob. Persons in the Bib. Soc. Jesu yet in the answer to it made by Mer. Hanmer and Will. Charke it is by them said to be written by E. Campian Brief Censure given upon the two books of W. Charke and M. Hanmer written against the Reasons and Proffer Lond. 1581. oct To which W. Chark made a reply Printed in oct A discovery of Joh. Nichols Minister misreported a Jesuit Printed 1581. in octav Answered by Tho. Lupton in a book intit Answer against a Jesuits book entit A discovery c. Lond. 1582. qu. See more in Joh. Nicholls an 1583. A defence of the Censure given upon two books of Will Charke and Meredith Hanmer Ministers which they wrote against Mr. Edmund Campian Priest of the Society of Jesus and against his offer of disputation Printed 1582. oct Taken in hand since the death of Campian Against this book came out another intit A treatise against the defence of the censure c. Cambr. 1586. oct De persecutione Anglicanâ Epistola Quâ explicantur afflictiones aerumnae calamitates gravissimae c. Rom. Ingolst 1582. Printed also in a book intit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Angliâ c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct p. 79. Both which editions the former I am sure were published under the name of the English coll at Rome See more in Joh. Bridgewater an 1594. A Christian directory or exercise guiding men to eternal Salvation commonly called The Resolution First published in 1583. in oct From which edition and book were framed two more published An. 1584. One of which was done by a catholick Gent. living at Roan in Normandy full of errors but in sense the same Another by Edm. Bunny of Merton coll in Oxon but all altered to the Protestant use as may be seen in the Preface to Rob. Persons's edition of the same book in the year 1585. The second part of a Christian directory or exercise c. Lond. 1594 92. in tw Printed also in 1650. in a large oct But these two parts as it seems being falsly printed at London the author came out again with them bearing this title A Christian directory guiding men to their Salvation divided into three books The first thereof pertaining to Resolution is only contained in this volume and divided into two parts and set forth now again with many corrections and additions by the author himself with reproof of the falsified edition lately published by Mr. Edm. Bunny Lovaine 1598. in a thick oct c. These books of Resolution won our author Persons a great deal of praise not only in the judgment of R. Catholicks but of very learned Protestants Yet not to heap more praises upon him than he justly deserves his Enemies and those of the Protestant party say that he was but a Collector or Translator at most and that the book was not of his own absolute invention but taken out of other authors They say farther also that his praise was for well translating close couching and packing it up together in a very smooth stile and singular good method
and add that the platform of the said Resolution was laid to his hand by L. de Granada who gave him the principal grounds and matter thereof and the penning by one Brinkley c. Responsio ad Elizabethae Reginae edictum contra Catholicos Rom. 1593. in oct c. Published under the name of Andr. Philopater A conference about the next succession of the Crown of England in two parts Printed 1593 94. in oct under the name of N. Doleman and is known by the name of The book of titles The first part is for chastising of Kings and proceeding against them c. and was reprinted before the time that K. Ch. 1. was beheaded by Rob. Ibbotson living in Smithfield under this title Several Speeches made at a conference or Several Speeches delivered at a conference concerning the power of Parliament to proceed against their King for mis-government The second part was to prove that the Infanta of Spain was the legal Heir to the Crown of England the penning whereof did much endear him to the K. of Spain But so soon as this book peeped forth which was accounted a most hainous and scandalous thing the Parliament enacted 35. Elizab. that whosoever should be found to have it in his house should be guilty of High Treason And whether the Printer of it was hang'd drawn and quartered as some say he was I cannot affirm it K. Charles 1. in his Messages for Peace doth mention and insist upon that book called Several Speeches c. and Mr. W. Prynne in his Speech to the Committee 4. Dec. 1648. affirmed that he himself and others did complain of it but nothing was done to vindicate the houses from that gross imputation c. The said Conference about the next Succession c. put out under the name of Doleman was answered by Sir Joh. Hayward Knight LL. D. an 1603. under this title The right of Succession asserted c. Which answer was reprinted for the satisfaction of the zealous promoters of the Bill of Exclusion Lond. 1683. oct The Conference it self also was reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct purposely to lay open the author's pernicious Doctrines in that juncture of time when the Parliament was zealously bent to exclude James D. of York from the Imperial Crown of England And how much some of the then Fanatical applauded pieces in Politicks have traded with and been beholding to that Conference written by Doleman alias Persons notwithstanding their pretendedly great hatred of and seeming enmity to Popery by asserting many of the self same most damnable and destructive Principles laid down therein is at large by a just and faithful comparing of them together made apparent in a piece intit The Apostate Protestant in a Letter to a Friend occasioned by the late reprinting of Doleman Lond. 1682. in 8 sh in qu. Said to have been wrote by Edw. Pelling Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate in London Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset and a Wiltshire man born Among the said Fanatical applauded pieces in Politicks before-mentioned must be reckoned a Pamplet intit A brief History of Succession collected out of the Records and the most authentick Historians Written for the satisfaction of George Earl of Hallifax in 5 sh in fol. To which tho no place or time was set to shew when or where 't was printed yet as I then observed 't was published in 1680. It was answered by Rob. Brady Doctor of Physick Master of Gonvil and Caius coll and the Kings Professor of Physick in the University of Cambridge and Burgess for that University to sit in the Parliament that began at Oxon. 21. March 1680. in a book intit The great point of Succession discussed c. Lond. 1681. in a thin fol. and by another excellent tract written by Anon called Religion and Loyalty supporting each other Another Pamphlet also which was mostly borrowed from Doleman alias Persons was that intit The great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York or Successor of the Crown c. considered Lond. 1680. in 9 sh in fol. which is quoted also in the Brief History of Succession before-mentioned Which Great and weighty considerations c. consisidered were reprinted at Lond. 1682. in oct and annexed to the second edition of the Postscript written by Thom. Hunt of Grays Inn Esq who therein tho he makes use of Doleman'S Principles yet in a new Epistle before the said second edition of the Considerations he owns them to be his This person Tho. Hunt who had an ingenious Pen and was commonly called Postscript Hunt was forced to leave England in the Fanatical Plot which broke out 12. June 1683. Afterwards setling at Vtrecht in Holland we heard no more of him till Sept. 1688. and then an express coming to my hands dated 13. of that month I was thereby instructed that he then died lately at Vtrecht before-mentioned being big with expectation of returning shortly after to his native Country under the conduct of the Prince of Orange then about to make his expedition into England But to return I find other noted Pamphlets which were about that time published by some ill designed Scriblers who are shewn to have taken many of their dangerous tenets thence I mean from Doleman alias Persons which is a well furnished common-place-common-place-book for such turbulent authors to enlarge on as their respective projects and interests should suggest Also that John Bradshaws long Speech spoken at the condemnation of K. Ch. 1. and also the Treatise concerning the broken Succession of the Crown of England c. to make way for Oliver the Usurper were mostly taken out of Doleman alias Persons may be seen in Dr. George Hicks's Sermon on the 30. Jan. 1681. before the L. Mayor of London The truth of this as to the last a note placed at the end of the said Treatise hath put beyond all doubt At length several positions in the said Conference written by Persons being looked upon as dangerous and destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes their State and Government by the University of Oxford particularly that which saith Birthright and Proximity of Blood do give no title to Rule or Government c. the Members thereof condemned them and that in particular by their judgment and decree passed in Convocation 21. July 1683. Which being so done they caused the book it self to be publickly burnt in their School-quadrangle As for the other books that our author Rob. Persons hath written are these following A temperate Wardword to the turbulent and seditious Watchword of Sir Franc. Hastings Knight c. Printed 1599. qu. under the name of N. Dolman that is Vir dolorum in respect of the grief and sorrow that Fa. Persons bore in his heart for the affliction and calamity of his Country as a certain author tells me tho others say that the reason why he put the name of Doleman to some of his books was because he bore great malice
might be proposed in the first Parliament and National Council of our Country after God of his mercy shall restore it to the Catholick Faith for the better establishment and preservation of the said Religion Lond. 1690. oct To which the said Edw. Gee hath put before it an Introduction and added some Animadversions Controversiae nostri temporis in Epitomen redactae MS. in Baliol coll Library written with the authors own hand In the front of which is this written Compilator hujusce Epitomes est Robertus Personius ut patet ex Johanne Rainoldâ— in censura librorum Apochryphorum praelectione secunda pag. 22. ex editione Hieronimi Galleri in nobili Openhemio He also translated from English into the Spanish tongue A relation of certain Martyrs in England Madrid 1590. oct At length after he had spent his life in continual agitation for the cause gave up the ghost at Rome 15 Ap. according to the accompt there followed which is the fifth day of the same month with us in sixteen hundred and ten and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the English coll year 1610 there Soon after was a monument put over his Grave with a large inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by In the Rectorship of the said English coll succeeded Tho. Owen a Welsh-man RICHARD KNOLLES of the same family with those of his name living at Cold-Ashby in Northamptonshire made his first entry into this University in 1560. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts four years after and then was elected Fellow of Lincoln college where after he had proceeded in that faculty did purpose to perform if God granted him life something that might be profitable to the Christian Commonwealth as in time God should give him means and occasions In the mean while Sir Peter Manwood of S. Stephens near to Canterbury Knight of the Bath minding to be a favourer of his studies called him from the University and was by 〈◊〉 preferred to be Master of the Free-School at Sandwich in Kent where being settled he did much good in his Profession and sent many Young men to the Universities And tho he was there in a world of troubles and cares and in a place that afforded no means of comfort to proceed in great works yet he performed much for the benefit of History at his vacant hours upon the desire of the said Sir Peter as it doth appear by these his works following The history of the Turks Lond. 1610. c. fol. which book he composed in about 12 years time And tho it all goes under his name yet some there be that think he was not the sole author of it because therein are found divers translations of Arabick Histories in which Language he was not at all seen as some that knew him have averr'd In other editions of this book for there have been at least five it beareth this title The general History of the Turks from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Ottomaâ— Family c. It hath been continued from Knolles's death by several hands and one continuation was made from the year 1628. to the end of the year 1637. collected out of the dispatches of Sir Pet. Wyche Kt. Embass at â—onstantinople and others by Tho. Nabbes a writer for the most part comical to the English Stage in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. A continuation of the Turkish Hist from 1623. to 1677. was made by Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul at Smyrna Lond. 1679. The Lives and Conquests of the Ottoman Kings and Emperours to the year 1610. Lond. 1621. Continued from that time 1610. to 1621. by another hand A brief discourse of the greatness of the Turkish Empire and where the greatest strength thereof consisteth c. Grammat Latine Graecae Hebr. compendium cum radicibus Lond. in oct He also translated from the French and Lat. copies into English The six books of a Common-wealth Lond. 1606. fol. written by Joh. Bodin a famous Lawyer At length this our author Knolles dying at Sandwich before he had quite attained to the age of Man in sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 was buried in St. Maries Church there on the second of July the same year leaving behind him the character of an industrious learned and religious person FRANCIS HASTINGS fifth Son of Francis Earl of Huntingdon was born as it seems in Leicestershire where his Father mostly lived educated in Madg. coll under the tuition of Dr. Laur. Humphrey in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign from whom sucking in many Calvinistical Opinions proved when he was ripe in years a severe Puritan and Predestinatian as his elder Brother George was who was trained up at Geneva under Theod. Beza and a most zealous Man for the reformed Religion Two other Brothers also were as zealous for the Church of Rome yet all for a time lived friendly together Afterwards our author Francis was Knighted by Q. Elizabeth and being several times chosen a Parliament-man in her Reign became a frequent Speaker in them and at first a violent Man against the Papists tho afterwards a favourer especially at that time when he and Sir Rich. Knightly of Northamptonshire presented a Petition to the Parliament for favour or a toleration to be given to them Whereby it appeared then to the observer that the Putitan could joyn with the Papist against the Church of England He was a learned Gentleman well read in authors especially in those relating to the controversies between the Protestants and Papists as it appears by his works the titles of which follow The Watchword to all true-hearted English-men Lond. 1598. oct Which title did imitate that belonging to a book printed at Lond. in qu. an 1584. running thus A Watchword to England to beware of Traytors and treacherous practices c. But the Watchword of Sir F. Hastings being answered by Nic. Doleman alias Rob. Persons in his Temperate Wardword our author came out with An aâ—â—logy or defence of the Watchword against the virulent and seditious Wardword published by an English Spaniard under the title of N. D. Lond. 1600 qu. In which year came out also another book in defence of Hastings intit A brief reply to a certain odious and scandalous Libel lately published by a seditious Jesuit calling himself N. D. c. entit A temperate Wardword Printed at Lond. in qu. but who the author of it was I know not Another also who writes himself O. E. published a second reply the same year against the said Temperate Wardword Against which or another book relating to the said controversie came out A confutation of a vaunting challenge made by O. E. unto N. D. Pr. 1603. in oct written by W. R. a Rom. Catholick Our author Sir Francis also wrote The Wastword c. Pr. at Lond. 1601. oct Answer'd by Persons's book called The Warnword an 1602. Meditations Printed several times in 16o. Several Speeches in Parliament Some of which are
most lofty insolent and passionate As for the remaining part of his life it was sometimes low and sometimes in a middle condition and often tossed by fortune to and fro and seldome at rest He was one that fortune had pickt up out of purpose of whom to make an example or to use as her Tennis-Ball thereby to shew what she could do for she tost him up of nothing and to and fro to greatness and from thence down to little more than to that wherein she found him a bare Gentleman not that he was less for he was well descended and of good alliance but poor in his beginnings and for the jest of Edw. Earl of Oxon. the Jack and an upstart Kt. all then knew it savoured more of emulation and his humour than of truth France was the first School wherein he learn'd the rudiments of War and the Low Countries and Ireland the military Academies of those times made him Master of that discipline for in both places he expos'd himself afterwards to Land-service but that in Ireland was a Militia which then did not yeild him food and raiment nor had he patience to stay there tho shortly after in 1580. he went thither again and was a Captain there under Arthur Lord Grey who succeded Sir Will. Pelham in the Deputy-ship of that Kingdom Afterwards gaining great credit he was received into the Court became a person in favour and had several boons bestow'd on him afterwards particularly the Castle of Shireborne in Dorsetshire taken from the See of Salisbury In the latter end of 1584. he discovered a new Country which he in honour of the Queen called Virginia received the honour of Knighthood from her and was afterwards made Captain of her Majesties Guards Senceschal of the Duchies of Cornwall and Exeter Lord Warden of the Stanneries of Devon and Cornwall Lord Leivtenant of Cornwall and Governour of Jersey In 1588. he shew'd himself active against the invincible Armada of the Spaniards and in 1592. being about that time a Parliament man wherein as in other Parliaments in the latter end of Q. Eliz. was he a frequent Speaker he went to America with 15. men of War to possess himself of Panama where the Spaniards Ship their riches or to intercept them in their passage homewards but returned successless and was out of favour for a time not only for that but for divirginating a maid of Honour Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Nich. Trockmorton whom he afterwards married and for some few months being kept under custody was at length set free but banished the Court. Afterwards to follow the directions of of his own Genie that was always inclined to search out hidden regions and the secrets of nature he undertook a navigation to Guiana that bears Gold in 1595. purposely for the improvement and honour of his Country both by getting store of wealth and by molesting the Spaniard within the inward coasts of America which he thought would be more profitable than on the Sea coasts where there are never any Towns laden with any riches but when they are conveyed thither to be carried over into Spain He set out from Plymouth on the 6. of Febr. and arrived at the Island Trinidada 22. March There he easily took a little City called S. Joseph and the Governour thereof Don Antonio de Bereo but sound not so much as a piece of Silver there Having enquired many things of this Antonio about the mines of Gold in Guiana he left his Ship in Trinidada and entred the vast River Orenoque with little Barks and some hundred Souldiers He searched up and down Guiana for the space of 4 Miles among the crooked and short turnings of the water several ways where being parched with the reflecting beams of the Sun just over his head and too much wet sometimes with Showers and having long wrestled with such like difficulties he yet continued so long till that it growing wintry cold in Apr. the waters all over-spread the earth insomuch that now he could pass away in no less danger of the waters than he came thither in danger of his enemies After his return he was constituted one of the chief persons in the expedition to Cadiz where he performed notable service and obtained to himself at home a great name In 1603 he presented to K. James at his entrance to the Crown of England a Manuscript of his own writing containing valid arguments against a peace to be made with Spain which was then the common discourse But the King being altogether for peace 't was rejected and the same year just after he had been deprived of the Captainship of the Guard which K. James bestowed on Sir Tho. Erskin Viscount Fenton in Scotland we find him in a plot against the King generally called Sir Walter Raleighs Treason for which being brought to his Tryal with others at Winchester in 1603. was at length found guilty and condemn'd to die But being repreived he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for life where he improved his confinement to the greatest advantage of learning and inquisitive men In Apr. 1614 he published the History of the World a book which for the exactness of its Chronology curiosity of its contexture and learning of all sorts seems to be the work of an Age. In 1617. power was granted to him to set forth Ships and men for the undertaking an enterpize of a golden Mine in Guiana in the southern parts of America and on the 28. March in the year following he left London in order for that Voyage notwithstanding Didacus Sarmiento de Acunna Earl or Count of Gundamore the Spanish Embassador to the K. of England endeavoured to hinder him with many arguments proposed to his Majesty But at length Sir Walter going beyond his Commission in taking and sacking the Town of St. Thome belonging to the Spaniard which was much aggravated by Gundamore the K. on the 9. June 1618 published his Royal Proclamation for the discovery of the truth of Raleigh's proceedings and for the advancement of justice Whereupon when Raleigh arrived at Plymouth Sir Lewis Steukeley Vice-Admiral of the County of Devon seized him and brought him up to London 9. Aug. following But Raleigh finding the Court wholly guided by Gundamore as 't is said notwithstanding I find elsewhere that he left England 16 July going before he could hope for little mercy Whereupon wisely contriving the design of an escape was betrayed by Steukley taken on the Thames and committed to a close Prison Afterwards being often examined by the Lord Chancellour and Privy-Councel was at length on the 24 Oct. warned by them as they had been commanded by the King to prepare for death The particulars of which proceedings as also of his Voyage to Guiana you may see at large in a book intit A Declaration of the demeanour and carrige of Sir W. Raleigh Knight as well in his Voyage as in and sithence his return and of the true
Tileherst in Berks received his first breath at East Hildesley or Ildesley near to Wantage in the said County where his name yet continues educated in Grammar learning at Reading entred a Commoner in S. Johns coll 1574. or thereabouts continued there till near Bachelaurs standing and then he retired to the Middle Temple where after severe encounters had with the crabbed parts of the municipal Laws he became a Barrester and noted for his great proficiency in his profession and integrity in his dealings In the latter end of Qu. Elizab. and beginning of K. James he was several times elected a Burgess in set in Parliaments in which he was a frequent Speaker Afterwards he was Counsellor and under-steward for several years to this University the members of which confer'd upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1612. Two years after he was made Serjeant at Law and in 1616. March 17. received the honour of Knighthood at Theobalds from his Majesty K. James 1. After his death some of his works were published which bear these titles Cases collected and reported Lond. 1663. fol. printed from the original in French that then remained in the hands of Sir Jeff. Palmer Attorny General to K. Ch. 2. which is the same as I take it written fairly with the authors own hand in fol. that was lately in the Library of Arth. E. of Anglecy These cases were abridged by Will. Hughes Esq Lond. 1665. oct His learned reading 4. Jac. 1. in Middle Temple hall concerning charitable uses abridged by himself Lond. 1676. fol. published by George Duke of the Inner Temple Esq Our author F. More was a member of that Parliament as it seems wherein the Statute concerning charitable uses was made and was as 't is farther added the Penner thereof At length paying his last debt to nature on the 20. Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and one aged 63. was buried in a Vault under the Church of Great Fawley near to Wantage before-mention'd year 1621 in which Vault his posterity who are Baronets living in that Parish have been since and are hitherto interred as I have been instructed by his Grandson Sir Hen. More Bt. I find another Franc. More to have published certain matters among which is The sinners guide or the regiment of a Christian life Printed 1614. qu. and certain Sermons but whether this person who was a Divine was of Oxford University I know not as yet FRANCIS MASON who is worthily stiled Vindex Ecclesiae Anglicanae was born in the County Palatine of Durham and there educated in Gram. learning began to be conversant with the Oxonians in the beginning of the year 1583. aged 17 and making a hard shift to rub out till he was Bach. of Arts being the Son of a poor Plebeian was elected probationer-Fellow of Merton coll in the latter end of 1586. After he had proceeded in his faculty he entred into the sacred function and when full standing he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1597. About which time he was made Rector of Orford a Market Town near to the Sea-side in Suffolk Chaplain to K. James 1. who usually stil'd him a wise builder in Gods house and at length upon the death of Rich. Stokes LL. Bach. was installed Archdeacon of Norfolke 18. Decem. 1619. which Dignity the said Stokes had held from the month of Apr. 1587. Our author Mason hath written The authority of the Church in making Canons and constitutions concerning things indifferent c. Sermon on 1 Cor. 14. 40. Lond. 1607. Ox. 1634. qu. From which as also from the Epist dedic before it made to his patron Rich. Archb. of Cant. it appears that the author was a zealous conformist to the Ch. of Engl. This Serm. was answered by Anon. in a book entit The second part of the defence of the Ministers reasons for refusall c. See in Tho. Hutton an 1639. Vindication of the Church of England concerning the consecration and ordination of the Bishops c. as also of the ordination of Priests and Deacons in five books Lond. 1613. fol. Framed in form of a conference between Philodox a Seminary Priest and Orthodox a Minister of the Church of England From which book it appears that the author was a general-read-Scholar thorough-pac'd in the councils and all sorts of Histories whether divine civil or profane The next year he as a greatful Son sent a copy of it to be reposed in the Library of his tender Parent Mert. coll with this note at the end of it written with his own hand Whereas Mr. Fitzherbert hath lately sent a book from Rome against the most rev Bishop of Ely to which he hath annexed an appendix concerning the records and registers by me produced desiring that some of their discreet Catholicks might view and consider whether they be true or counterfeit Know therefore that upon the 12. of this present May an 1614. his Grace of Canterbury sent for Mr. Colleton the Archpriest Leake a secular Priest as also one Jesuit called Lathwait c. and shewed unto them the register and other records of his predecessor Matth. Parker which they perused over and over and found that the said Parker was consecrated in Lambeth Chappel and not at the Nags head in Cheapside by certain Bishops that had been ejected in Qu. Maries reign c. This book of the Vindication of the Church of England coming at length into the hands of Anthony Champney an English man born a Rom. Cath. Priest and a Doctor of the Sorbon was by him answered in English and dedicated to George Archb. of Canterbury not without some reproaches and scoffes given to him in the Epistle But afterwards Champney recollecting himself thought that he had not sufficiently consulted his own reputation by publishing his answer in English Wherefore he translated it into Latine intit Tractatus de vocatione Ministrorum Par. 1618. in oct that his pretended victory over Mason might by this means be spread over all Europe Soon after our author to be even with him translated his own book also and entitled it Vindiciae Eccles Anglicanae c. and therein interweaves answers to Thom. Fitzherbert Priest Hen. Fitzsimons Jesuit Dr. Matth. Kellison A. Champney c. and withal dedicated it to Hen. de Gondy Bishop of Paris without any aspersions at all thrown upon him All this he did in the year 1619. or 20. at farthest but before he could conveniently put it in the Press he died Whereupon at the desire of the Archbishop of Cant. Dr. Nath. Brent Wardeâ— of Mert. coll did review it examine the quotations compare them with the originals and at length printed the copy as he had found it under the authors hand an 1625. â—ol printed again at Lond. 1646. fol. The said author also wrote Two Sermons preached at Court concerning David adultery and his publick practices on 2 Sam. 〈…〉 13. Lond. 1621. oct The vadility of the ordination of the
not a little pleasing and delightful But that which I must farther note of him is that being always troubled with the disease that attends Poets indigence he was received into the patronage of his countryman and Kinsman Dr. Jo. Williams B. of Lincoln and L. Keeper of the great Seal who for several years exhibited to his wants He hath written Epigrammatum lib. 3. ad Mariam Nevill comitis Dorcestriae filiam dicati Lond. 1606. oct printed twice that year Epigrammatum lib. singularis ad doctiss Heroinam D. Arbellam Stewart Epigram lib. 3. ad Hen. Principem Cambriae duae ad Carolum Ebor. unus Epigram ad tres Maecenates libri tres Ad Car. Noel Eq. Baronettum unus Ad Gul. Sedley Eq. Bar. alter Ad Rog Owen Eq. aur tertius Monostica quaedam Ethica Politica veterum sapientum All which coming out as successive additions to the several editions of the three first books of Epigrams were at length published all in one vol. in oct and twelves not only in England but beyond the Seas In the year 1619. Joh. Vicars Usher of Ch. Church hospital in London and a puritanical Poet having selected many of them from several of the books that were then extant did tanslate them into Engl. verse and were that year printed at London in oct Thomas Pecke also of the Inner Temple Gent. did translate 600. of the said Epigrams in Eng. verse which were printed with Martial de spectaculis or of the rarities to be seen in Rome and with the most select Epigr. of Sir To. More To which is annexed a Century of Heroick Epigrams c. All published under the general title of Parnassi puerperium at Lond 1659. in oct And lastly Tho. Harvey hath Englished most or all of them but these I have not yet seen The first Latin impressions of the author Owen being greedily bought and taken into the hands of all ingenious Scholars and forthwith conveyed beyond the Seas they came at length into the hands of the Romish Inquisitors after Heretical matters in printed books who finding dangerous things in them especially these two verses following the book was put into the the Index expurgatorius An 〈…〉 Romae sub judice lis est 〈…〉 Romae nemo suisse negat For which verses and others of the like nature Owen's Uncle who was a Papist or at least Popishly affected from whom he expected Legacies dashed his name out from his last Will and Testament which was the chief reason that he ever after lived in a poor condition He died in sixteen hundred twenty and two year 1622 and two and was buried in St. Pauls Cathedra within the City of London at the charge of the before-mentioned Dr. Williams who also soon after caused a monument to be erected to his memory on a pipâ—â—â— next to the Consistory stairs with his Effigies a shoulder-piece in brass crown'd with Laurel and six verses to be engraven under it The two first of which runs thus Parva tibi status â—st quiae parva statura supellex Parva volat 〈◊〉 magna per ora liber The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 144. a where the Reader is to note that by the errour of the Printer 't is said that Joh. Owen died 1623. and not in 1622. as before 't is told you As for the generosity of Dr. Williams done to the memory of this little Poet Richard â—rach hath an Epigram in his Epigrammatum Hâ—catontades duâ— Lond. 1627. oct num 3. But that which I must note of him farther is that whereas he had made many Epigrams on several People so but few were made on or written to him Among which few one was written by Joh. Stradling and another by Joh. Dunbar a Scot. CLEMENT EDMONDS Son of Sir Tho. Edmonds Comptroller of the Kings houshold was born in Shropshire at Shrawardine as 't is said became either Clerk or Chorister of Allsouls coll in 1585. aged 19. took one degree in Arts and then was chosen Fellow of that house 1590. Four years after he proceeded in that Faculty and then leaving the coll was mostly by his Fathers endeavours made successively Secretary as 't is said for the French tongue to Q. Elizab. about 1601. Remembrancer of the City of London Master of the Requests Muster-Master at Brill in Zeland one of the Clerks of the Council and in 1617. a Knight He was a learned person was generally skill'd in all Arts and Sciences and famous as well for military as for politick affairs and therefore esteemed by all an ornament to his degree and profession He hath written and published Observations upon the five first books of Caesars commentaries c. Lond. 1600. fol. Observat on the sixth and seventh book of Caesars com Lond. 1600. fol. Observat on Caesars com of the Civil Wars in 3 books Lond. 1609. fol. On which or the former observat Ben. Johnson hath two Epigrams All or most of these observations are reprinted with an addition of an eighth commentary on the Wars of Gallia written by A. Hirâ—â—us Paâ—sa beginning where Caesar left and deducing the History to the time of the Civil Wars with our authors short the observâ—◠〈◊〉 upon them Printed at the 〈◊〉 in the Strand 〈◊〉 London 1677. fol. Before which edition is the life of 〈◊〉 with an account of his Medals 〈◊〉 conected and enlarged In 1565. Arthur Golding of 〈…〉 published 〈◊〉 English translation of Caesars commentaries but whether he made any observations or notes on them 〈…〉 Our learned author Sir Clem. 〈◊〉 died within the Perish of Sr. Martin in the Fields near to London on the twelfth day of Odoâ— in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the little Chappel belongâ—â—â— to his Mâ—nnour of Preston near to the ancient Bâ—rough of 〈◊〉 Over his grave is a comely mon. erected having an English and a Lat. epitaph inscribed thereon The last of which being already printed you shall therefore have the other as most proper for this place Here lyeth Sir Clement Edmonds Knight one of the Clarks of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council His dextrous Pen made him worthily esteemed excellent in his own vocation and in the art Military ly Caesars confession an understanding Souldier He lived faithfully industrious in his place and died religiously constant in the belief of the resurrection c. One Sir Tho. Edmonds Knight a Member of the Privy Council died in Nov. 1639. and left behind him a Daughter named Muriel the Wife of Rob. Mildmay Esq Which Sir Thomas I take to be the same with Tho. Edmonds Brother to Sir Clem. who being made Treasurer of the Kings houshold 19. of Jan. 1617. was about that time sent by his Majesty Embassadour to Bruxells and elsewhere NICHOLAS BYFIELD Son of Rich. Byfield who became Minister of Stratford upon Avâ—n in Jan. 1596. was born in Warwickshire became a Batler 〈◊〉 a Servitour of
who was well known to John Sâ—â—w was living in Northampton in sixteen hundred twenty and three 21. J. c. 1. In his time was one Samuel Wastell a Master of Arts of New Inn 1628. but him I find not to be a writer or publisher of books WILLIAM BISHOP Son of John 〈◊〉 who died 1601. aged 92. was born of a gentile family at Brayles in Warwickshire sent to this University in the 17 year of his age in 157â— or thereabouts particularly as I conceive to Gloucester hall at which time it was presided by one who was a R. Catholick or at least suficieâ—tly addicted to the R. perswasion and that therein did then and especially after study 〈…〉 or else in 〈…〉 who was in anino Catholicus After he had continued in Oxon. about 3 or 4 years he left it his paternal estate which was considerable and all his friends and his native Country which was more So that setling himself in the English coll at Rheimes he applyed himself partly to the study of Divinity Soon after he was sent to Rome where making a fruitful progress in Philosophy and Divinity he was made Priest and sent into England to convert Souls but being taken in the haven was kept prisoner several years as one of his perswasion reports Afterwards being set at liberty an 1584. he went to Paris where he was honorably received and worthily numbred among the Sorbon Doctors At length he took another journey into England and laboured 9 years in the R. C. harvest Upon the expiration of which he was sent for to Rome about certain matters depending between the Jesuits and Secular Priests of which business a certain author hath a large story all which being determined he return'd the third time into England and after 8 years labouring therein to advance his religion was taken and committed prisoner to the Gate-house in Westminster where he was remaining in 1612. Afterwards being released and sent back beyond the Seas again lived at Paris in the Arras or Atrebatian coll newly rebuilt for Benedictin Monks by Philip Caverell Head or Prefect of the Monastery of S. Vedastus at Arras About the year 1622. our author being made Bishop of Chalcedon by the Pope he was sent into England to execute the office of a Bishop among the Catholicks and was by them received with great honour and respect He hath written Reformation of a Catholick deformed by Will Perkins Print 1604. in qu. Part 1. The second part of the reform of the Cath. c. Printed 1607. qu. An answer to Mr. Perkins's advertisement Pr. with the former A reproof of Dr. Rob. Abbots Defence of the Cath. deformed by W. Perkins Pr. 1608. in 2. parts in qu. Disproof of Dr. R. Abbots counter-proof against Dr. Bishops reproof of the defence of Mr. Perkins reform Cath. Par. 1614. in oct part 1. Defence of the Kings honour and of his title to the Kingdom of England He also published and added several things besides a Preface to Joh. Pits his book De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus and was one of the principal authors of the Libels written against the Archpriestship in England mentioned in George Blackwell an 1612. I find a book written by the Bp. of Chalcedon entit A treatise of the best kind of Confessors pr. in oct but whether written by this Bishop or Dr. Ric. Smith who was his Successor in that titular See I know not At length after this learned person who was in his latter time of the order of S. Benedict had lived 71. years he paid his last debt to nature near to London on the thirteenth day of April in sixteen hundred twenty and four year 1624 but where buried unless in S. Pancras Church near to the said City I know not One that remembers the man hath told my friend that he died at Bishops Court in London but where that place is unless in the Parish of S. Sepulchre I am yet to seek A Latine Manuscript containing the obits and characters of many eminent Benedictines since the reformation hath this character of Dr. Will. Bishop that he was carceribus exilio Apostolicis sudoribus inclitus qui a Sancta sede in patriam ad solamen Catholicorum missus clericis Religularibus ac ipsis laicis ob innatum unionis ac pacis affectum juxta charus extitit c. This obitat book which I have in my little Library was written by a Benedictin Monk of Doway named Tho. White alias Woodhop who having spent several years in the Sheldonian family at Beoly in Worcestershire in which County he was born retired at length in the time of the civil War to Doway was chosen Prior of the coll of English Benedictines and died there of the Plaâ—ue in 1654. From the said book wherein 't is said that Dr. Bishop died near to London was another composed in English with additions and therein is this said of that Doctor he was sent into England by the holy See for the comfort of Catholicks where he so modestly behaved himself that he was by all both Clergy and Seculars dearly beloved and honoured And after imprisonments and all sorts of afflictions patiently endured for the true religion died in peace near London c. This English obital was pen'd by another Benedictine named Tho. Vincent alias Vincent Sadler author of The Childes Catechisme c. pr. at Paris alias London 1678. in oct who died as I remember much about the time that K. Jam. 2. came to the crown He was nephew or near of kin to Fath. Vincent Sadler of the same order who died at Lond. 11. June 1621. after he had been Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury for some years MILES WINDSORE Son of Thomas Son of Andrew Lord Windsore was born in Hampshire at Stanwell I think elected from Balliol coll Scholar of that of Corp. Ch. in Jan. 1556. aged 15 or thereabouts made Probationer-Fellow 16 Feb. 1560 took the degrees in Arts left the coll soon after because popishly affected and spent the remaining part of his time within the City of Oxon. in a most retired condition He was a tolerable Latine Poet but a better Orator as was sufficiently witnessed by his speech intended to have been spoken in C. C. C. when Qu. Elizab. was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses 1566. and more especially by that which he most admirably well delivered before her at the Lord Windsores house at Bradenham a little after she left Oxon. Which giving the Queen great content she in an high manner did commend it before Dedicus Gosemannus de Sylva the Spanish Embassador then present and looking wistly on Windsore who then had a beard according to the fashion said to Goseman is not this a pretty young man At riper years he applyed himself to the study of Histories and Antiquities and had a hand as 't was frequently reported in the Apologia of B. Tuyne who stiles our author Windsore Antiquae Historiae artifex
Inn Ben. Johnson Thom. Wenman of the Inner Temple c. which last I take to be the same that had been Fellow of Ball. coll and Publick Orator of this University These two books or parts in fol. were also printed in two vol. in oct 1625. which I have not yet seen Our author Browne hath also written a Poem intit The Shepard's Pipe in 7 Eglogues Lond. 1614. oct The fourth Eglogue is dedicated to Mr. Tho. Manwood who died about that time Son of Sir Pet. Manwood and the fifth to his ingenious Friend Mr. Christop Brook mentioned elsewhere in this work Elegy on the never enough bewailed c. Prince Henry Lond. 1613. qu. and other Poems as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen However the Reader is to know that as he had honoured his Country with his elegant and sweet Pastorals so was he expected and also intreated a little farther to grace it by drawing out the line of his Poetick Ancestors beginning in Josephus Iscanius and ending in himself but whether ever published having been all or mostly written as 't was said I know not In the beginning of the year 1624. he retired to Exeter coll again being then about 34 years of age and was Tutor or Gov. to Rob. Dâ—rmer of that house the same who was afterwards Earl of Caernarvon and killed in Newbury fight 20. Sept. 1643. In the same year he was actually created Master of Arts as I shall tell you elsewhere in the Fasti and after he had left the Coll. with his Pupil he became a retainer to the Pembrochian Family was beloved by that generous Count William E. of Pembroke and got wealth and purchased an estate which is all I know of him hitherto only that as he had a little body so a great mind In my searches I find that one Will. Browne of Otterie S. Mary in Devon died in the Winter time 1645. whether the same with the Poet I am hitherto ignorant After the time of the said Poet appeared another person of both his names author of two Common law-Law-books written in English intit Formulae bene placitandi and of Modus intraadi placita generalia and of other things pertaining to that Faculty JOHN DAVIES an excellent Mathematician as the learned Camden stiles him was the Son of John Davies of London in which City he was born at about six of the clock in the evening of the eighth of Feb. in 1559-60 and educated in Gramaticals there In 1574. he made his first entry into this University and setling in Gloucester hall under the tuition of one that was much enclined to the Rom. Perswasion made great proficiency in his studies and Mr. Tho. Allen of that house finding that his Genie was much addicted to the Mathematicks instructed him therein and gave him all the incouragement imaginable to proceed in that noble Science In 1581. he proceeded M. of A. as a Member of Glouc. hall continued there for some time after and then retiring to the great City was instructed in Astrological matters by one Dr. Sim. Forman a very able Astrologer and Physician as it appears by the MS. books he left behind him when he died tho a certain author tells us he was a very silly fellow In Feb. 1587. he was first of all introduced into the Royal Court where he was made known to and received with great courtsie by that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex In 1589. he travelled into France and made a voyage into Portugal whereby he advanced his knowledge as to men and the Languages of those Countries very much In 1596. after he had been married 3 years he went under the conduct of the said Count towards Spain where doing most admirable service at the taking and sacking of Cadiz he received the honour of Knighthood and of Baneret In 1597. he travelled to the Islands of Terceres where he performed that employment he went about to the great honour of himself and in 1598. Jan. 31. he was made Surveyor of the Ordnance by the endeavours of his singular good Lord the E. of Essex under whom in the year following he went as a prime Officer into Ireland where his service was much remarkable against the Rebels In 1600. he was deeply ingaged in that Earls Teasons for which he was taken and committed to custody on the 8. Feb. the same year About the eleventh of the same month the Archbishop of Canterbury issued out a Direction for the Ministers and Preachers in his Province to the end that they give the People a right understanding what the Earl of Essex intended by his treasonable conspiracy in which Direction I find these matters of Sir Joh. Davies viz. that he was brought up in Oxford and was by profession a seller of figures and on whom that hateful Earl hoth to God and man did repose great affiance insomuch that he made him chief Officer about the Ordnance in the Tower and thought him one of the faithfull'st Servants he had to make his Keeper c. This Davies was one that favoured nothing less than the Gospel for being in hold the chiefest motion that he made to the Gentleman that had the custody of him for that time was that if it were possible he might have a Priest to confess him c. In March following he was tried among other Conspirators for his life and being in a manner convicted by his own Conscience and confession held his peace and then being taunted by the way that he was a Papist he denied not but that in Oxon he was instructed in the Romish Religion by his Tutor and confirmed in the same by Sir Christop Blount one of the Conspirators while he was in the Irish Wars At which words when he perceived Blount was moved he straight appeased him affirming that he was confirmed in that Religion not by Blounts perswasion but by the example of his Christian and Religious life Afterwards being condemned to be hang'd drawn and quartered he requested that altho he was no Nobleman yet he might suffer as they did that is by beheading if not not to be quarter'd in pieces but to be buried Christianly After sentence he was remanded to his prison but by the intercession of Friends the Queen signed his Pardon 5. Feb. 1601. which was allowed by the Judges in Westminster hall on the 12. of the same month So that being free he purchased an Estate in the Parish of Pangborne in Berks where he spent the remainder of his days in a retired and studious condition This person who is stiled in literis Mathematicis apprime eruditus hath written many things of Mathematicks and Astrology but hath nothing as I can yet find that is extant There went from hand to hand a volume of Letters which were written by this Sir Joh. Davies Dr. Joh. d ee and Dr. Mat. Gwinne concerning Chimical and Magical secrets which as some say tho I cannot yet be satisfied in it
was given by Dr. T. B. to Cosmo Prince of Tuscany when he was received and entertained by the Univ. of Oxon 1669. But let this report remain with the author while I tell you that this Sir John Davies giving way to fate in his House called Berecourt in the parish of Pangbourne in Berks 14. May in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 was buried in the North side of the Chancel of the Church at Pangbourne Over his Grave was a very sair Mon. erected whereon his Statue in Armour lies between the Statues of his two Wives He left behind him a Son of both his Names who was a Gent. Com. of Glouc. hall 1626. and afterwards a Knight but neither he nor his Father was author of the History of the Caribby Islands printed 1666. fol. but another Joh. Davies WILLIAM BARLOWE Son of Will. Barlowe sometimes B. of Chichester mentioned among these writers under the year 1568 was born as it seems in Pembrokâ—shire while his Father was Bishop of S. David became a Com. of Ball. coll about 1560 and four years after took a degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University before he proceeded in that faculty and afterwards travelling became very well skill'd in the Art of Navigation About the year 1573. he entred into the Sacred Function was afterwards Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Easton near to that City Chaplain to Prince Henry and at length Archdeacon of Salisbury To which last he was collated on the death of Dr. Ralph Pickover on the 12. of March 1614. This was the person who had knowledge in the Magnet 20 years before Dr. Will. Gilbert published his book of that subject and therefore by those that knew him he was accounted superiour or at least equal to that Doctor for an industrious and happy searcher and finder out of many rare and magnetical secrets He was the first that made the inclinatory instrument transparent and to be used pendant with a glass on both sides and a ring on the top whereas Dr. Gilberts hath but of one side and to be set on a foot And moreover he hang'd him in a Compass-box where with two ounces weight it was made fit for use at Sea Secondly he was the first that found out and shewed the difference between Iron and Steel and their tempers for Magnetical uses which hath given life and quickning universally to all Magnetical Instruments whatsoever Thirdly he was the first that shewed the right way of touching Magnetical Needles Fourthly he was the first that found out and shewed the piecing and cementing of Loadstones And lastly the first that shewed the reasons why a Loadstone being double capped must take up so great weight The books which he hath published for use are these The Navigators supply containing many things of principal importance belonging to Navigation with the description and use of divers instruments framed chiefly for that purpose c. Lond. 1597. qu. Dedic to Rob. Earl of Essex Magnetical advertisements or divers pertinent observations and approved experiments concerning the nature and properties of the Loadstone c. Lond. 1616. qu. Ded. to Sir Dudley Digges Knight because of his rare learning joyned with piety and accompanied with a pleasing carriage towards every man which were the chief reasons that caused all good men to love him Upon the publication of this book a certain Cantabrigian named Mark Ridley Doctor of Physick and Philosophy sometimes Physician to the English Marchants trading in Russia afterwards chief Physician to the Emperour of that Country as he entitles himself and at length one of the eight Principals or Elects of the coll of Physicians at London made Animadversions upon it whereupon our author came out in vindication of himself with this book A brief discovery of the idle animadversions of Mark Ridley Doct. in Physick upon a treatise entit Magnetical Advertisements Lond. 1618. qu. What other things he hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of the said books only that seven years before the Magnetical Advertisementt were published he sent a copy of them in MS. to the learned Sir Tho. Chaloner which he mislaying or embesling he sent him upon his desire another copy and that being imparted to others the author afterwards before its publication met with many portraitures of his Magnetical implements and divers of his propositions published in print in another mans name and yet some of them not rightly understood by the party usurping them He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Easton before mentioned To his Archdeaconry of Salisbury was collated Tho. Marler on the 27. of June the same year but who to his Prebendship of Winchester I know not as yet Soon after was an Epitaph put over Mr. Barlows Grave running thus Depositum Gulielmi Barlowe Archideaconi Sarisburiensis Prebendarii Ecclesiae Cath. Winton Rectoris Ecclesiae de Easton qui cum sedulam per annos 52. aedificationi corporis christi navasset Operam ad meliorem Vitam migravit Maii 25. An. Dom. 1625. EDWARD CHALONER second Son of Sir Tho. Chaloner of Steeple Claydon in Bucks Knight whom I have before mentioned was born in the County of Middlesex particularly as it seems at Cheswick where his Father and Mother lived and both were buried applyed his muse to Academical studies in the condition of a Commoner in the coll of S. Mary Madg. 1604. aged 14. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1610. and the next year was chosen Fellow of Allsouls coll Afterwards entring into the sacred function he became Chaplain in Ordinary to K. James Doctor of Div. Principal of St. Albans hall and Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. He was reputed considering his age a very learned man able for the Pulpit and well read in polemical Divinity as some of his lucubrations shew There was nothing of his composition so mean which the greatest person did not value and those Sermons of his making which were published after his death were looked upon as several choice pieces or at least such as would prove serviceable to the Church and Common-wealth His works are Six Sermons as 1 Babel or the confusion of Languages on Gen. 11. 7. 2 Naioth or the Vniversity Charter on Am. 4. 14. 3 Ephesus Common-Pleas 4 Judah's prerogative 5 The Gentiles creed 6 Paul's peregrination or the travellers guide c. Lond. 1623. oct Vnde Zizania The orig and progress of Heresie Serm. before K. Jam. at Theobalds on Mat. 13. 27. Lond. 1624. qu. â—b 1638. in tw Credo Ecclesiam S. Catholicam I believe the holy Cath. Church the authority universality and visibility of the Ch. handled and discussed Lond. 1625. quarto and 38. in tw Six Sermons as 1 The Creâ—ians conviction and reformaon on Tit. 1. 13. 2 The ministers charge and mission on Mat. 20. 6. 3 Gods bounty and Gentiles
the Doctors of Physick resident in Oxon. This Dr. Anthony died in S. Barthelmews Close where he had lived many years on 26. May 1623. and was buried in the Isle joyning to the north side of the Chancel of St. Barthelmew the Great in London leaving then behind him two Sons by Elizabeth his second Wise viz. John Anthony M. D. who succeeded his Father in his practice in London and Charles a Physitian of Bedford living there 1634. and after I find another Francis Antony to have been a writer of the same time with our author Dr. Anthony but he was by birth a Portugues and by profession a Jesuit and therefore the books of his composition must not be attributed to the other Our author Dr. Gwinne hath also written a book of Travels various Letters concerning Chymical and Magical secrets and also divers copies of Verses in English Italian and French occasionally set by way of commendation before the books published by his friends and acquaintance but none of these have I yet seen only some of the said verses He deceased in the month of Octob. or in the beginning of Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven in his house situate and being in S. year 1627 Mary Magdalens parish in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and was as I suppose buried in the Church there He had a Son named John Gwinne and lest behind him a Widdow called Susanna who had a Commission from the Prerogative Court dated 12. Nov. 1627. to administer the goods debts chattels c. of her Husband Dr. Gwinne then lately deceased RICHARD CARPENTER a Cornubian born became a Batler of Exeter coll in the beginning of of 1592. and four years after Fellow being then B. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he solely dedicated his studies to Theology by the advice and directions of Holland the Rector of his college and proved in few years after learned and profound in that faculty and an excellent preacher In 1611. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time was made Rector of Sherwill and of Loxhore adjoyning near to Barnestaple in Devonshire both which he kept without any other preferment except the Benefice of Ham near unto Sherwill which he enjoyed for some years to the time of his death Afterwards he proceeded in Divinity and became much esteemed for his learning by Scholars and by others for those things that he published which are Various Sermons as 1 The Souls Sentinel c. at the funeral solemnities of Sir Arthur Acland Kt. 9. Jan. 1611. on Job 14. verse 14. Lond. 1612. oct 2. A Pastoral charge faithfully given and discharged at the Triennial visitation of William B. of Exon. at Barnstaple 7. Sept. 1616. on Acts. 20. 28. Lond. 1616. oct 3 Christs Larambell of love resounded c. on Joh. 15. 12. Lond. 1616. oct 4. The conscionable christian c. Three Assize Sermons at Taunton and Chard in Somersetshire 1620. on Acts 24. 16. Lond. 1623. qu. Which three Sermons are mostly concerning the keeping of a good conscience He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. year 1627 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven aged 52. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Loxhore before mentioned Over his grave is a large Epitaph in Prose and Verse some of which runneth thus Richardus Carpenter S. Theol. D. ab eruditione multiplici venerandus pietate vitae integritate morumque comitate valde clarus Hujus Ecclesiae Sherwillensis pastor fidus c. The reader is now to know that there was another Rich. Carpenter a Divine both after the former in time and much inferior as to learning He was educated in the School at Eaton coll near Windsore and thence was elected Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 1622. where continuing about two or three years left it his friends and Country went beyond the Seas and studied in Flanders Artois France Spain Italy and at length received holy Orders at Rome from the hands of the Popes substitute Soon after he was sent into England to gain Proselites being then as I have been told a Benedictine Monk In which employment continuing an year and upward return'd to the Protestant Religion and had by the Archbishop of Canterburies endeavours the Vicaridge of an obscure and small Village called Poling by the Sea side near Arundel Castle in Sussex bestowed on him But before he was warm in that Seat he received many abuses and affronts from certain Rom. Priests and Lay-men of their profession living in those parts particularly by Franc. a S. Clara who being sometimes in the neighbourhood by the name of Hunt would be very free with and expose him to scorn before his parishioners In the year 1642. and that of his age 33. or rather more he published a treatise intit Experience History and Divinity in five books Printed at Lond. in a thick oct and by the said author dedicated to the Parliament then sitting In which Treatise p. 32. 37. c. are many things spoken of himself This book came out again or rather had a new title to it of The Downfal of Antichrist c. an 1648. What preferment he had afterwards I cannot tell yet sure I am that in the time of the Civil War he left the Nation and retired to Paris where he became a railer against the Protestants Afterwards he return'd to his old trade of Independancy in England and about that time published The perfect Law of God being a Sermon and no Sermon preached and yet not preached Printed 1652. in oct He lived then and after at Aylesbury in Bucks where he had kindred living and would preach there very fantastically to the great mirth of some of his Auditors After his Maj. Restauration he published a Comedy intit The Pragmatical Jesuit with his picture before it represented in very gentile Lay-habit whereas his picture before his Experience History and Divinity represents him to be a formal Clergy man with a mortified countenance He was living at Aylesbury before mention'd in 1670. But before his death which was elsewhere he was as some of his acquaintance hath told me returned to Popery and caused his pretended Wife to be of his perswasion in which Faith he died Those that knew him have often told me that he was an impudent fantastical man that changed his mind with his cloaths and that for his juggles and tricks in matters of Religion he was esteemed a Theological Mountebank I find one or more of both his names that have been writers which I shall now pass by and one Rich. Carpenter who had a publick dispute with one Gibs concerning Infant Baptism in the times of Usurpation which probably may be the same with him before mentioned ADAM REUTER who intitles himself in some of his books Cotbusius L. Silesius did for his improvement in all kind of Literature retire to the University of Oxon in the beginning of 1608. being then
in tw being the third edit This book is the effect of certain Lectures in Queens coll publick Refectory when he bore the office of Rhetorick Reader Brief direction how to examine our selves before we go to the Lord's Table how to behave our selves there and how to try our selves afterwards Lond. 1622. or thereabouts in oct Confutatio cujusd libelli de amplitudine regni caelestis sub ementito C. Secundi Curionis nomine in lucem emissi Ox. 1627. qu. He hath also translated from Lat. into English A Manuduction to Theology Lond. 1622. or thereabouts and 26. in oct written by Barthelm Keckerman Before which translation is a copy of verses made by Mich. Drayton the Poet an attestation by Ad. Airay B. D. and a dedication to Aâ—â—e the Wife of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester One Tho. Vicary published The Surgeons directory in 1651. oct who was as I suppose a Chirurgion by profession and therefore not to be taken to be the same with Tho. Vicars before mentioned SIXTIN AMAMA was born in the Province of Westsricsin in Holland educated for a time in the University in Franaker where obtaining considerable knowledge in Oriental tongues took a journey into England and about 1613. setled in Oxford taught the Hebrew tongue and for the sake of Dr. Prideaux Rector of Exeter coll whose person and doctrine he much admired became a Sojournour of that house and a zealous Student in the Sacred Faculty After he had continued there some years he retired 〈◊〉 a degree conser'd on him to his native Country where at Franaker he was made Hebrew Profess 〈…〉 length D. of D. and held much in esteem for his great learning He hath written 〈…〉 quinque librorum Mosis c. Franak 1620. qu. Supplex 〈◊〉 ad Synodos Episcopos Super-intendentes 〈…〉 〈…〉 Franak 1625. oct Coron ad Gram. Martino-Buxtoâ—sianum Ibid. Anti-Barbarus Biblicus in 3. libros distributus c. Amstel 1628. oct To which was added a fourth book Franak 1656. qu. De Decimis In the first Tome of the Criticks p. 1326. Responsio ad censuras D. Marini Marsenni Theologi Paris Franak 1628. oct See in the first Tome of the Criticks p. lx De nomine Tetragrammato dissertatio cum responsione ad argumenta cl viri D. Nich. Fulleri Angli quibus pro vulgatae lectionis Jehovah certitudine disputavit Fran. 1628. oct He hath also written the Preface before Joh. Drusius his Commentary on the more difficult places of the Pentateuch an 1617. which is remitted into the first Tome of the Criticks p. 50. and corrected and published with some additions his Commentary on the 12 Minor Prophets and his Com. de Sectis Judaicis He hath also written and published certain Dissertations and Orations in Latin but these I have not yet seen He was living and in great renown at Franaker in sixteen hundred twenty and eight having then as always before a natural Genie to enlighten the Text of Scripture and to find the notion of the Sacred Language When he died and what other books he hath written I cannot yet tell WILLIAM VAUGHAN Son of Walt. Vaughan of the Goldon Grove in Caermerthenshire Esq and younger Brother to Sir John Vaughan the first Earl of Carbury was born at the Golden Grove became a Commoner of Jesus coll in Mich. Term an 1591. aged 14. took the degrees in Arts and entred on the Law line but before he took a degree in that Faculty he went to travel and performing some exercise in order thereunto at Vienna did proceed Doctor there and at his return was incorporated at Oxon in the same Faculty an 1605. In which tho indifferently learned yet he went beyond most men of his time for Latin especially and English Poetry Afterwards spending much time in rambling to and fro did take a long journey for the honour and benefit of his Nation and became the chief undertaker for the Plantation in Cambriol the southermost part in New-found-land now called by by some Britaniola where with pen purse and person did prove the worthiness of that enterprize He hath written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pium continens canticum canticorum Solomonis Psalmos aliquot selectiores una cum quibusdam aliis poematis e Sacrae Scripturae fontibus petitis Lond. 1597. oct Elegia gratulatoria in honorem illustriss Herois Caroli Howard Comitis Nottingham 23. Oct. 1597. meretiss creati Printed with the former Varia Poemata de Sphaerarum ordine c. Lond. 1589. oct Poemata continent Encom Roberti Comitis Fssex Lond. 1598. oct The Golden Grove moralized in 3 books A work very neeessary for all such as would know how to govern themselves their houses or their country Lond. 1600. and 1608. oct This book which is written in prose was commended to the World by some Poets or at least pretenders to Poety then 1600. living in the University as Dr. Joh. Williams Marg. Professor Will. Osbourne one of the Proctors Hen. Price Bac. of Div. of S. Johns coll Griffin Powel of Jesus Joh. Budden LL. D. Nich. Langford and Tho. Came Masters of Arts Gabr. Powel B. A. Sam. Powel Tho. Storer and Jo Rawlinson Masters of Arts Charles Fitzjeffry of Broadgates Tho. Michelbourne c. Cambrensium Carolcia Quibus nupiae regales celebrantur memoria regis pacifici renovatur praecepta necessaria ad rempub nestram faeliciter administrandum intexuntur reportata a Colchide Cambriola ex australissima Novae Terrae plaga Lond. 1625. oct 'T is a Latin Poem and dedicated by our author Vaughan under the name of Orpâ—eus Junior to King Charles 1. The Golden Fleece divided into three parts under which are discovered the errours of Religion the vices and decays of the Kingdom c. Lond. 1626. qu. in prose Transported from Cambrioll Colchos out of the southermost part of the Island commonly called New-found-land by Orphcus jun. alias Will. Vaughan There is no doubt but this our ingenious author hath other things extant but such tho with great scrutiny I cannot yet discover nor can I find any thing else relating to the author only that he was living at Câ—â—â—â—iol before-mentioned in sixteen hundred twenty and eight I find one will Vaughan a Physician who among several things that he hath published is a book intit Directions for health natural and artificial derived from the best Physicians as well modern as ancient c. Printed several times as in 1617. oct Lond. 1626. qu. the sixth edit and there again 1633. c. Another book also he wrote called The Newlanders cure with rules against the Scurvey Coughs c. Printed 1630. oct c. Whether this Physician was originally of Oxon. I cannot tell notwithstanding we have had several of both his names and time matriculated as Members of Ball. coll Jesus c. There is also another Will. Vaughan a Physician who published Disputatio medica de febre continuata Printed 1671. qu. GEORGE CAREW Son of Mr. George Carew sometimes
of the Spanish and Italian Monks into one Congregation While he continued there he wrote Dissertatio contra Aequivocationes Par. 1625. oct c. dedicated to P. Vrban 8. at which time the author was the prime person of the English Mission for assisting the Spanish Congregation In 1627. I find him in Oxon again in the condition of a Gentleman and a Sojournor to the end that he might obtain materials from the Bodleian Library towards the composition of a work by him then in hand and about that time published a book against the Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia published by Clem. Reyner D. D. and Secretary to the Congregation of the Benedictines an 1626. fol. Which being esteemed a piece savouring of too much impudence and contradiction if not Heresie it was prohibited the reading by the Brethren and thrown aside among unlicensed and heretical books and soon after had a reply published against it which in some copies of the Apostolatus is put at the end without a name to it or any naming of Barnes It must be now known that this learned person being a very moderate man in his opinion and deeply sensible by his great reading and observation of several corruptions of the Romish Church and doctrine which partly were expressed in his discourse but mostly in a book which he wrote called Catholico-Romanus Pacificus became for that tho not printed and his answer to Apostol so much hated by those of his Order that endeavours were made to seize upon and make him an example Whereupon Barnes perceiving a storm approaching he fled to Paris and was there protected by the English Embassador But so it was that by the endeavours of Clem. Reyner before-mentioned and his interest made with Albert of Austria he was carried out from the midst of that City by force was divested of his habit and like a four-footed Brute was in a barbarous manner tyed to a Horse and violently hurried away into Flanders Where continuing for some time was thence soon after carried to Rome where by command of the Pope he was as a contriver of new doctrine thrust into the dungeon of the Inquisition Soon after being distracted in mind as a certain Jesuit saith was removed to a place for the reception of Mad-men behind the Church of S. Paul the less there to continue till he came to his senses Afterwards several copies in MS. of Cath. Rom. Pacificus flying abroad a true copy of it was made up by comparing it with others and printed at the Theatre in Oxon an 1680. oct Several years before that some of the sections therein were made use of by another person as that 1 Of Councils Popes Schism 2 Of the priviledges of the Isle of Great Britain 3 Of the Pope's Supremacy and the Supreme Power of Kings both in Temporals as also in Spirituals c. Our author Barnesius hath written also a Tract of the Supremacy of Councils which I have not yet seen and other things and also hath translated from the Spanish into the Latin tongue Pugna Spiritualis c. written by Joh. Castiniza a Benedictine Monk It was also afterwards translated into the same tongue by Jodochus Lorichius D. D. of Friburg Duac 1625. in sixt By those of the reformed party he the said Barnes who was living in sixteen hundred and thirty is stiled the good Irenaeus a learned peaceable and moderate man but by the R. Catholicks especially by those of his Order a person of a turbulent and contradictory Spirit occasioned by too much confidence and presumption of his own parts and wit which was greater than his humility and so consequently did expose him to great danger as they say of Apostacy and disobedience to his Superiours as also unworthy gratitude towards some who had deserved better returns from him The time of his death or place of burial I cannot yet obtain nor any thing else of him only this that certain fierce People at Rome being not contented with his death have endeavoured to extinguish his fame boldly publishing that he died distracted JOHN DONNE a person sometimes noted for his Divinity knowledge in several languages and other learning was born of good and vertuous Parents in London became a Commoner of Hart hall with his younger Brother Henry in the beginning of Michaelmas-Term an 1584. being then but eleven years of age where continuing about three years in which time Sir Hen. Wotton had a Chamber there he went to Cambridge and spending three more there he was transplanted to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the Municipal Laws where he had for his Chamber fellow for some time Mr. Christop Brook an eminent Poet of his time After he had continued there two years in exercising his poetical fancy he began to survey the Body of Divinity wherein he made very good notes and observations Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas advanced himself much in the knowledge of countries men manners and languages and was at his return made by Egerton L. Chanc. of England his chief Secretary and soon after was admitted M. of A. of this University as I shall tell you elsewhere But continuing not long in that beneficial imployment he did upon the solicitations of some of his Friends especially upon the motion of K. James 1. enter into the Sacred Function and not long after was made one of the Kings Chaplains Doctor of Div. of Cambridge and at length in 1621. Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London upon the promotion of Dr. Val. Carey to the See of Exeter He was a person of great wit virtue and abilities learned in several Faculties and religious and exemplary in his life and conversation In all which being eminent he was therefore celebrated and his memory had in great veneration by the Wits and Virtuosi of his time among whom were Ben. Johnson Sir Lucius Cary afterwards L. Faulkland Sydney Godolphin Jasp Mayne Edward Hyde afterward L. Chancellour Enâ—ymion Porter Arthur Wilson c. As for those things by him written few of which were published in his time are these Pseudo-Martyr a treatise shewing from certain propositions and gradations that those that are of the Rom. Religion in England may and ought to take the Oath of Allegiance Lond. 1610. qu. See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. Devotions upon emergent occasions and several steps in his sickness Lond. 1624. in tw second edit An anatomy of the World Wherein by occasion of the untimely death of Mrs. Elizab. Drury the frailty and decay of this whole World is represented Lond. 1625. oct a Poem in two anniversaries The second anniversary is intit The progress of the Soul c. which is a Poem also Juvenilia or certain Paradoxes and Problems Lond. 1633. and 1652. in qu. Divine Poems with Epistles to Sir H. Goodeere Lond. 1633. qu. Poems Songs Sonnets Satyrs Letters Funeral Elegies c. Lond. 1633. qu. 35. oct In which are involved Divine
this University but in Cambridge and after he had taken the degrees in Arts he was presented by his Majesty to the Sub-deanry of Wells in the latter end of May 1638. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Roberts to the See of Bangor In 1644. he among other Loyal Ministers retired to Oxon and in the month of Aug. was incorporated Master of Arts and afterwards had the degree of D. of D. confer'd upon him In 1646. I find him with the Marquess of Worcester in Ragland Castle which as a Commission-Officer he help'd to defend against the Parliamentarians But that Castle being surrendred on the 19. Aug. the same year upon good Articles mostly of Bayly's framing he travelled afterwards into France and other Countries where spending that considerable stock of money which he had gotten from the said Marquess he returned into England and published a book intit Certamen religiosum or a conference between K. Ch. 1. and Henry late Marquess of Worcester concerning Religion in Ragland Castle an 1646. Lond. 1649. oct but blamed by the true Sons of the Church of England for so doing because the Romish cause is there set out in great pomp he being then warping towards if not altogether drawn over to the Church of Rome and it was looked upon by some as nothing else but his Prologue in order to the declaring himself a Papist and thereupon the said conference was suspected by the Orthodox party to have nothing therein of the stile of K. Ch. 1. and that the Marquess had not those abilities in him to maintain a discourse of religious matters with the said King There was An answer with considerations on Dr. Bayly's parenthetical interlocution printed at Lond. 1651. in tw made unto it by Ham. L'estrange and also answered upon account as being fictitious by Christop Cartwright of York About the same time an Advertisement was put cut against it as a counterfeit thing by Dr. Pet. Heylyn in his Epistle to the Reader before his collection of his Majesty's works wherein the said conference is put intit Bibliotheca Regia c. but omitted in other impressions of it as also in the works of the said King printed in folio The same year 1649. Dr. Bayly published The Royal Charter granted unto Kings by God himself c. To which he added A treatise wherein is proved that Episcopacy is jure divino Both which were afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1656. and 1680. oct But in them the Doctor doth in many particulars egregiously err and as an unskilful builder diruit aedificat for what he rears with one hand he pulls down with the other And amongst many stories of his travels having freely rail'd at all the Commonwealths in Europe doth at last fall desperately on the new erection of that in Eng. Which angry and unpleasing history provoked strict examination whereupon the author being found out he was committed prisoner to Newgate where being kindly and easily used he penned a book intit Herba parietis Or the wall Flower as it growes out of the Stone-Chamber belonging to the metrapolitan Prison c. being a History which is partly true partly Romantick morally divine Whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by Divinity Lond. 1650. in a thin fol. In the Epistle before which he falls foul on P. Heylyn whom he calls a fellow without a name c. for his advertisement before mention'd which charged him with six matters the first for wronging the late K. Ch. 1. very much and another that he composed the said Conference himself c. Bayly also tells us there of his great sufferings in the late Civil War that he had not only lost 1000 l. per an for his Majesties sake but also blood and liberty that he was a Peers Son and his Mother a Knights Daughter c. As soon as this book was published he made an escape out of Prison went into Holland and having rambled abroad much more in his mind than he had in his body he at last declared himself a Rom. Catholick and became a grand zealot in that interest wherein if he met with any occasion he would break forth into rage and fury against the Protestant Religion which he before had preached and professed Thence he went into Flanders and setling for a time at Doway he published this book The end to Controversie between the Rom. Catholick and Protestant Religions justified by all the several manner of ways whereby all kind of Controversies of what nature soever are usually or can possibly be determined c. printed at Doway 1654. in qu. and dedicated to Walt. Montague Abbot of Nanteul afterwards L. Abbot of Pantoise There also goes under his name The life and death of that renowned John Fisher Bishop of Rochester c. Lond. 1655. oct but he was not the author of it The true and genuine writer thereof was one Rich. Hall D. D. sometimes of Christs coll in Cambridge the same of which B. Fisher was a member afterwards Canon and Official of the Cathedral Church at St. Omer who leaving it behind him in MS. at his death an 1604. 't was as a choice rarity reposed in the Library of the English Benedictines at Dieuward in Lorain Afterwards several Copies of it going abroad one came into the hands of a person who call'd himself West From him it came into the possession of Franc. a Sancta Clara an 1623. and from his as he himself hath told me divers times to Sir Wingfield Bodenham who keeping it in his hands several years with an intention to print it in the name of the true author did impart it for a time to Dr. Tho. Bayly So that forthwith he taking a Copy of it and making some alterations therein he sold the said Copy to a Bookseller for a small sum of money who caus'd it to be printed at London under the name of Tho. Bayly D. D. I have seen a MS. containing the said Bishops Life beginning thus Est in Eboracensi comitatu octogesimo a Londino lapide ad aquilonem Beverleiae oppidum c. But who the author was I cannot tell 'T was written before Halls time and 't is not unlikely but that he had seen it There also goes under Tho. Baylys name The golden Apothegmes of King Ch. 1. and Henry Marquess of Worcester c. Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. All which were taken from a book intit Witty Apothegmes delivered at several times and upon several occasions by K. James K. Ch. 1. and the Marq. of Worcester c. Lond. 1658. oct published by Anonymus After Dr. Bayly had left Flanders he went into Italy where as several Rom. Catholicks have told me he was received into the service of Cardinal Ottobon and that he died in his family while the said Cardinal was Embass or Nuntio at Ferrara from the Pope and also that Prince Cajetan had a care of his Son whom he took with him after his death But an English
the late Soveraign K. James Lond. 1625. a Poem and other things which I have not yet seen but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops as one or more think He died within the City of Westminster having always been in animo Catholicus in sixteen hundred thirty and three whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter there near to the door entring into the Monuments or the door thro which people enter to see the Monuments on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator musarum amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus c. and another made by a second person which for brevity sake I now pass by In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington afterwards a Jesuit in Mich. Term an 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll an 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house but whether any of them were authors I cannot yet tell or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu. GEORGE ABBOT younger brother to Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was bred also in the same School under Mr. Franc. Taylor entred a student in Ball. coll 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow thereof 29. Nov. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into holy Orders and became a celebrated preacher in the University In 1597. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in the same year being elected Master of Vniversity coll gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship In the latter end of 1599. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Glocester On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 29. of the same month In Febr. following he was translated to London and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury had the Kings consent to it 29. March 1610. On the 9. of Apr. 1611. he was translated to the said See of Canterbury and on the 4. of May following had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto On the 23. of June ensuing he was sworn a member of his Majesties Privy Council and accordingly took his place So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of Gods word was the cause as some think why he was harsh to them and why he shew'd more respect to a Cloak than a Cassock He was a person pious and grave and exemplary in his life and conversation He was also a learned man and had his erudition all of the old stamp He was stiffly principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine which they who understand it not call Calvinism and therefore disrelish'd by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets Those that well remember him have said that tho he was a plausible preacher yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar and tho an able Statesman yet Robert was a deeper Divine The things that he hath written are these which shew him to be a man of parts learning vigilancy and unwearied study tho overwhelm'd with business Questiones sex totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae pro formâ habitis discussae disceptatae an 1597 in quibus è sacra scriptura Patribus quid statuendum sit definitur Oxon 1598. qu. Francof 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah Scultetus Exposition on the Prophet Jonah contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613. The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry unmasked and shewed to be very weak c. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion with as many brief answers of refusal Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome He was also answer'd by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Div. of Cambridge in a book intit A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered and proved a quartron of follies Cambridge 1603. qu. Preface to the examination of George Sprot London 1608. qu. Sermon at Westminster 26 May 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu. Brief description of the whole world Lond. 1617. qu the 9th edition Other editions in oct followed and the book is commonly called Abbots Geography Treatise of perpetual visibility and succession of the true Church in all ages Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it and 't is generally reputed to be his and none but his History of the Massacre in the Valtoline At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox hs book of Acts and Mon. of the Church Lond. 1631. 41. c. His Judgment of bowing at the name of Jesus Ham. 1632. oct Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere At length he being found guilty of casual homicide the particulars of which are mention'd by Historians he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey the place of his nativity where he had erected an Hospital for men and women Afterwards removing to Croyden he gave way to fate in his Pallace there on the fourth day of August year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three aged 71. Whereupon according to his desire his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady within Trinity Church in Guildford Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar or Table-monument with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon supported by six pillars of the Dorick order of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books with a large inscription thereon beginning thus Sacrum memoriae honoratiss Archipraesulis c. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript which begins also thus Aeternae memoriae Sacrum Magni hic Hospes Hospitis monumenta vides c. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury I find another of both his names to have been a writer also but later in time and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased c. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to
his Father-in Law Will. Purefey Esque as also of Vindiciae Sabbathi c. Lond. 1641. qu. as I shall tell you farther in Tho. Broad under the year 1635. And of Brief notes upon the whole book of Psalms c. Lond. in qu. besides other things But whether this George Abbot was ever of Oxford I cannot as yet tell A third George Abbot I find to have been elected Probationer Fellow of Merton coll 1622. and admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1630. but he hath written nothing and nothing else do I know of him only that he was Son of Sir Maurice Abbot sometimes Lord Mayor of London brother to Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury HENRY CARY Son of Sir Edw. Cary of Aldenham and Berchamsted in Hertfordshire Knight Master of the Jewel house to Q. Elizabeth and K. James by Katherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Hen. Knevet Knight was born in that County and at about 16 years of age was sent to obtain Academical learning in this University particularly as it seems to Exeter coll where by the help of a good Tutor and extraordinary parts be became a most accomplished Gentleman 'Ts said that during his stay in the Vniversity of Oxford his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time but how true it is seeing Henry was then a young man and not graduated I cannot in the least perceive Had those things been spoken of Lucius Cary his Son who retired several times to and took commons in Exeter coll while his Brother Lorenzo studied therein 1628. and after I should have rather believed it But let the matter rest as 't is Sure I am that after Hen. Cary had left the University where he had obtained a celebrated name he was introduced into the Royal Court was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold one of his Privy Council Lord Deputy of Ireland an 1622. and about the same time Viscount Falkland in Scotland being then in much esteem by that King for his great abilities and experience in state affairs He wrote several things but not printed and is supposed to be author of The History of the most unfortunate Prince K. Edw. 2. with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites Gaveston and Spencer containing several passages of those times not found in other Historians Lond. 1680. oct Which book being found among the Papers of the said Henry Visc Falkland was published therefore as his when the Press was open for all such books that could make any thing against the then Government with a Preface to the Reader patch'd up from very inconsiderable authors by Sir Ja. H. as is supposed The Reader is to know that in 1628. was published at Lond. in oct an historical Poem intit The deplorable life and death of Edward the Second K. of England together with the downfal c. written by one Rich. Hubert which Poem being printed without the knowledge of the author and so consequently full of faults and not according to his mind a true copy was printed at Lond. in the year following in oct bearing this title The History of Edw. 2. sirnamed Carnarvon one of our English Kings together with the fatal downfal of his two unfortunate Favourites Gaveston and Spencer Published by the authors own copy with the Addition of some other observations both of use and ornament written by his elder Brother Sir Franc. Hubert or Hobert Knight As for Henry Lord Falkland he gave way to fate occasioned by the breaking of his Leg on a stand in Theobald's Park in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 but where he was buried I cannot tell He left behind him a Son named Lucius Cary begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfield L. Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had the Mannor of Great Tew the Priory with the Rectory and Demesnes of Burford in Oxfordshire and other Lands Whether this Lucius was born at Burford as some think he was the publick Register of that place which commences about the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. takes no notice of it However that he was mostly nursed there by a wet and dry Nurse the Ancients of that Town who remember their names have some years since informed me So that the place of his Nativity being yet doubtful to me I must tell you that when his Father became Lord Deputy of Ireland he carried his Son Lucius then a wild Youth with him into that Country where he caused him to be educated in Academical learning in Trinity coll near to Dublin and afterwards sent him to travel under the tutelage and protection of a discreet person who making a very great reformation in him as to life manners and learning Lucius had ever after a great respect and veneration for him Upon his return he retired several times to Oxon to enlarge that learning which he had acquir'd as I shall anon tell you His first years of reason were spent in Poetry and polite learning into the first of which he made divers plausible sallies which caused him therefore to be admired by the Poets of those times particularly first by Ben. Johnson who hath an Epigram on him in his Vnderwood in the second vol. of his works 2. By Edm. Waller of Beconsfield who highly extols his worth and admirable parts and 3. By Sir John Suckling who afterwards brought him into his Poem called The Session of Poets thus He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost forgot his Poetry Though to say the truth and Apollo did know it He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. Much about the time of his Fathers death he became one of the Gent. of his Majesty's Privy Chamber had frequent retirements to Great Tew and sometimes to Oxon as he had done very frequently before his Marriage for the company of and conversation with learned and witty men Among whom were Will. Chillingworth of Trinity coll John Earle and Hugh Cressy of Merton coll George Aglionby of Ch. Ch. Charles Gataker of Pembroke coll Son of Thom. Gataker of Redriff or Ridrith near to London who I think was afterwards his Chaplain Thom. Triplet a very witty man of Ch. Ch. and others He had also intimate acquaintance with George Sandys the Poet who usually lived at Caswell near to Witney in the house of Sir Franc. Wâ—nman who married his Sister whose company was usually frequented when Lucius retired to his house at Burford In 1639. he was put in Commission for his Majesty in the expedition against the Scots and upon his safe return thence Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and a great admirer of him hath an excellent copy of verses wherein are several things honourably mentioned of him and his learning In the
resigning his Archdeaconry of the East-riaing of Yorksh Will. Poteman sometimes Warden of All 's coll as I guess was installed on the 16. of the same month in the same year who dying 25. March 1493. Hen. Cornbull succeeded him Afterwards Edm. Audley was translated to the See of Hereford upon the death of Thom. Myllyng sometimes a Student among the Benedictines of Gloucester coll in the Suburbs of Oxon the temporalities of which were given to him 26. Dec. 1492. and from thence to Salisbury the temporalities of which See also were put into his hands on the 2. of April 1502. and about that time was made Chancellour of the most Noble Order of of the Garter In 1518. he gave 400 l. to Linc. coll to purchase lands for the use thereof and about that time bestowed upon the said house the Patronage of a Chauntry which he had lately founded in a Chappel built by him in the north part of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury He also was a Benefactor to the reparation of the Congregation-house sometimes a Library on the north side of S. Maries Chancel in Oxford to the erection of that curious piece of workmanship the stone Pulpit in the said Ch. finished 1508. at the bottom of which were his Arms a Fret impaled by the See of Sarum and gave 200 marks for the supply of Chichleys chest belonging to the University which had before been robb'd of its treasure But whether he built the choire or chancel of S. Maries church or gave the old Organs as a certain author is pleased to tell us I find it no where to appear At length departing this mortal life in a good old age at Ramsbury in Wilts year 1524 on the 23 of Aug. in fiveteen hundred twenty and four was buried in the chappel before-mention'd built by him in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary within the cath ch of Sarum to the reparation of which cathedral he bequeathed threescore pounds After his death Laur. Campegius Cardinal of S. Anastasius was made Bishop of Salisbury but whither he being almost continually absent or any of his Successors till the time of Dr. Seth Ward an 1671. were ever chancellours of the order of the Garter in doth not appear THEODORICK O-BRIEN sometimes written Terence and Terlach O-brien was descended from an ancient and noble family of his name in Ireland and after he had spent some time in good letters here in Oxon became Bishop of Killaloe in the said Country and a person of great name there for his liberality and hospitality yet addicted to warfare more than became his coat He paid his last debt to nature in fiveteen hundred twenty and five Several years before his time was another of both his names Bishop of that place and another after him whereupon by writers this Bishop was commonly written and called Terence O-Brien the second JOHN YOUNG received his first breath in this world at Newton-Longvill in Bucks was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1482. and left it in 1502. being then or about that time Doct. of Div. and Rector of S. Martins Church in Oxon. Afterwards he became well known to Cardinal Tho. VVolsey by whose endeavours he was made Dean of Chichester Bishop titular of Callipolis or Galipoli a City in Thrace about 1517. Judge as 't is said of the Prerogative of Canterbury and Warden of New coll in 1521. He died 28. year 1526 March in fifteen hundred twenty and six and was buried as I suppose in the Chappel of the said College under a Marble-stone that he had lain there some time before his death with an inscription thereon and a blank for the time of his death to be filled up by his Executor or Overseer of his last Will and Testament but was never performed The reader is to know that there was another John Young who from being Prebendary of Apesthorpe in the cath ch of York was admitted Dean of that Church by the name and title of Jo. Younge LL. D. on the 17. of May 1514. being at that time Master of the Rolls But he dying 25. Apr. 1516. and buried in the chappel of the Rolls in chancery-lave near London must not be taken to be the same with the former Besides the said two I find others of both their Names as 1 John Young a Monk of Ramsey who being well skill'd in the Hebrew tongue saved many books of that Language that were in the Library of that Monastery when 't was dissolved in 1535. or thereabouts 2 Joh. Young Giovanus a native of Yorkshire educated in Trin. coll in Cambridge afterwards Master of Pemb. hall and Vice-chancellor of that University of whom and his writings Baleus and Pitseus will inform you 3 Jo. Young one of the Bonhoms or Good men of the Monastery of Ashrugg in Bucks Who being turn'd out thence at the dissolution by K. Hen. 8. entred himself a Sojourner in Exeter coll about 1539. He was of kin to Jo. Young B. of Galipoli but what name or eminence there was in him I find not 4 Jo. Young born at Newton Longvill before mention'd Fellow of New coll 1512. Rector of his native place in 1525. and died therein 1545. which Jo. was nearly related to the Bishop WILLIAM HOW a Buckinghamshire man born as it seems or at least descended from those of his name living at or near the Wycombs was educated in all kind of Learning in this University and by the title of Master of Arts thereof and the Kings chaplain did supplicate the Ven. congregation of Regents in 1512. that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards he travelled was admitted Doct. of Div. in an University beyond the Seas and at his return retir'd to the University in the beginning of the year 1526. where by the name of Will. How Episcopus Aurensis supplicated the said congregation that whereas he had been created Doct. of Divinity beyond the Seas and had been a student in this University many years he might be incorporated in the same faculty which being granted simpliciter he was forthwith incorporated This Bishoprick in the same I presume with Auriensis or Orensis commonly called Orense under the Archbishoprick of Compostella in Spain to which courtry as 't is probable this W. How was sent about business by Catherine of Spain Queen of England the Royal consort to K. Hen. 8. I find one Will. How M. of A. presented by the King to the Church of Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Reynold West in the beginning of Aug. 1516. and about that time became Rector of Alre or Aller in the same county but this Will. How dying in 1521. or 22. must not be understood to be the same with the former To this last was Joh. How prior of Plympton in Devonshire related who living to see
on the south side of the choire or presbytery of his Cathedral Over his grave was soon after put an Epitaph the beginning of which is this Hic jacet haud jacet hic tumulo quem credis inesse Terra nequit tantum contumulare virum See more of him among the writers under the year 1593. THOMAS COOPER sometimes fellow of S. Mary Magdalens coll was made Bishop of Lincolne in 1570. translated thence to Winchester in 1584. and died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred ninety and four year 1594 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Winchester succeeded Will. Wickham Son of John Wickham of Enfield in Middlesex Son of Tho. Wickham of Swaclive in Oxfordshire by Joyce Sandbury his Wife which Will. Wickham was born at Enfield before-mention'd educated in Eaton school near Windsore became a member of the foundation of Kings coll in Cambridge an 1556. fellow of Eaton college Prebendary of the fourth stall in the collegiat ch of S. Peter in Westminster in the place of Rich. Morley an 1570. Canon of Windsore 1571. Dean of Lincolne 1577. and afterwards Bishop thereof preached at the burial of Mary Q. of Scots at Peterborough 1. Aug. 1587. translated from Lincolne to Winchester about the latter end of March 1595. and died in Winchester house in S. Mary Overhees parish in Southwark on the 12. of June following You may see his epitaph in Jo. Stow's Survey of London printed 1633. p. 452. and more of him in Antimartinus sive monitio cujusdam Londinensis c. Printed 1589. p. 52. JOHN ELMER or Aylmer was born of and descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living in Norfolke spent some time in this University while young but more in Cambridge where if I mistake not he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he became chaplain to Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk and Tutor to his daughter the Lady Jane Grey while she lived at Bradgate in Leycestershire who taught her so gently so pleasantly and with such fair allurements to learning that she thought all the time nothing whilst she was with him And when she was called from him she would fall a weeping because that whatsoever she did else but learning was to her full of grief trouble fear and altogether misliking to her And thus her book was so much her pleasure and brought daily to her more pleasure and more that in respect of it or other pleasures were in truth but trifles and troubles to her In 1553. he by the name of Joh. Aylmer was made Archdeacon of Stow in the place of Christop Massingberd who died 8. March in that year and soon after we find him one of the Protestant Disputants in the Convocation house at S. Pauls when certain Theologists of each party met to solve such scruples and doubts as any of them might pretend to have He spake but little on the first day but the next day he read certain authorities out of a note-book which he had gathered against the real presence Afterwards shewing himself nonconformable he was deprived of his Archdeaconry whereupon Joh. Harryson being put into his place an 1554. he the said Elmer went as a voluntary Exile into Germany where he was miraculously preserved from several dangers After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was appointed one of the Protestant Disputers against the seven R. Cath. Bishops concerning matters of religion when that Q. was about to make a reformation and in 1562. he by the name of Joh. Aylmer M. of A. was made Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of one Tho. Marshall who had succeeded Nich. Bullyngham in 1554. In the year 1573. he retired to this University again and there as a member of it took the degrees in divinity that of Doctor being compleated in an Act celebrated on the 12. of Octob. the same year On the 24. of March 1576. he was consecrated Bishop of London being then accounted a learned and an honest man and about 1588. he was made the Queens Almoner at which time he was a great enemy to the Puritanical party then numerous in the nation He died at Fulham in Middlesex on the third of June in fifteen hundred ninety and four and was buried in S. Pauls Cathedral before the chappel of S. George By his last Will year 1594 and Test which I have seen he desires to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul on the north side in some convenient place within the wall with a Tomb of his Picture after the manner of Dean Collet which as he saith is on the south side of the Choire He then left behind him several Sons the second of which named Theophilus succeeded Jo. Molyns in the Archdeaconry of London 1591. being about that time well beneficed in Hertfordshire and esteemed a learned and reverend divine His father also the Bishop was well learned in the Languages was a ready Disputant and a deep Divine and wrote as 't is said a book called The Harborough of Princes which I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you where or in what Vol. 't was printed He was a man but of mean stature yet in his youth very valiant which he forgot not in his age When he first became a Preacher he followed the popular phrase and fashion of the younger Divines of those times which was to inveigh against the superfluities of the Church men and thereupon he is remembred to have used these words in a Sermon before a great auditory Wherefore away with your thousands you Bishops and come down to your hundreds c. But this was but a heat of his spirit of which not long after by reading and conference he was throughly cured insomuch as being asked by one of his own rank after he was Bishop of London what he meant to preach of the brainsick fashion he answer'd with the words of S. Paul Cum essem parvulus loquebar ut parvulus sapiebam ut parvulus But certain it is no Bishop was more persecuted and taunted by the Puritans of all sorts than he was by libels by scoffs by open railing and privy backbiting He used for recreation to bowl in a Garden and Martin Marprelate thence took this taunting scoff that the Bishop would cry Rub rub rub to his bowl and when 't was gone too far say the Devil go with it and then quoth he the Bishop would follow Thus he was rub'd as he rub'd others till they were all gall'd sometimes and the B. was so weary of the place that he would gladly have removed to Ely and made great suit and was put in some hope for it He was diligent in Preaching at his cure where he was first beneficed and when his auditory grew dull and unattentive he would with some pretty and unexpected conceit move them to attention Among the rest was this He read a long text in Hebrew whereupon all seemed to
Gam or Game of Allsoules Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University He was now Principal of Biham commonly called Beame Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. Which Principality he resigned this year to make room for Hugh Pole of the same Coll. Doct. of Div. John Thornden or Thornton did proceed in Divinity about this Year He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University and a Bishop as I have before told you This year one John Newland a Black or Regular Canon of the Order of S. Augustin supplicated for a Degree in Divinity but whether granted which is very imperfect or not at all tells us not This is the same John Newland who was born at Newland in the Forest of Deane in Glocestershire and was commonly called and written John Naileheart alias Newland He was the last Abbat saving one of the Monastery of S. Austin at Bristol in which Monastery as also in the Church belonging thereto he expended much Money in building and adorning He was called the Good Abbat being a Person solely given up to Religion and Almsdeeds and after he had ruled 33 years or thereabouts he gave way to Fate in a good old Age and was buried on the south side of the Choire of the Church of S. Austin now the Cath. Church at Bristol Over his Grave is his Statua in Pontificalia graven or carved out from Stone laying on the Back with a Crosier in his Hand and a Miâ—re on his Head His Arms do now or did lately continue in the Church and other Buildings of that Monastery which are a Man's heart pierced thro from top to bottoâ—â— with three nails which is as 't were a Rebus for Naileheart An. Dom. 1503. An. 18 19 Hen. 7. Chanc. Rich. Mayhew D. D. Archdeacon of Oxford c. at length Bish of Hereford Commiss John Thornden or Thornton D. D. John Kynton D. D. a Minorite Sim. Greene alias Fotherbie D. D. of Linc Coll. Proct. John Stokesley of Magd. Coll. Rich. Dudley of Oriel Coll. The Senior who was the Northern Proctor was afterwards Bish of London and the Junior who was the Southern Proctor was afterwards Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury He was Master of Arts of this University but whether he took any Degree in Divinity therein I find not See more in 1508. Bachelaurs of Arts Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Arts of the Logick of Aristotle Edward Lee of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. seems to have been admitted Bach. of Arts this year among twenty or thereabouts that were admitted within the compass of the same year We have no Register that shews it only certain imperfect and broken Scripts containing sums of money received for the taking of Degrees which I have seen but I think are now perish'd Bach. of Physick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Rich. Barthlet Master of Arts and Fellow of Allsoules Coll. See more among the Doctors of Physick under the year 1508. Doct. of Div. Will. Salyng or Selling Lord Prior of Martyn or Merton in Surrey Rob. Tehy or Thay of Magd. Coll. Rich. Sydenore of the same Coll. about this time Archdeacon of Totness In 1518 he was made Canon of Windsor and in 1524 constituted Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter He died 1534 and was I presume buried in the Chap. of S. George at Windsor In his Canonry and Registrary's place succeeded Rob. Aldridge who was afterwards Bish of Carlisle and in his Archdeaconry of Totness succeeded as it seems George Carew This year was a Supplication made in the ven Congregation of Regents for one Rich. Bere a Benedictin Monk to be graduated in Divinity but whether in the Degree of Bach. or Doct. it appears not or whether he was admitted to either 'T was the same Rich. Bere who was installed Abbat of Glastenbury on the Death of John Selwood the former Abbat 20 January 1493 after the Election of another Person named Tho. Wasyn a Monk of the same Order had been cassated by Rich. Fox Bish of B. and Wells on the 12. of Nov. going before This Rich. Bere who was well known to and reverenced by Erasmus died 20. Jan. 1524 whereupon Rich. Whyting was elected Abbat in his place on the third of March following there being then in the Monastery of Glastenbury 47 Monks If you are pleased to know more of this Bere you may read what Leland saith of him and his Benefaction to the said Abbey thus Rich. Bere Abbat built the new Lodgings by the great Chamber called the Kings Lodgings in the Gallery He builded also new Lodgings for Secular Priests and Clerks of our Ladies Chappel He also arched on both sides the East part of the Church He built Edgar's Chappel at the East end of the Church Abbat Whyting performed part of it Abbat Bere made the Vault on the Steple in trancepto He also made a rich Altar of Silver and guilt and set it afore the high Altar And coming from his Embassadry out of Italy made a Chappel of our Lady of Loretto joyning to the North side of the Body of the Church He made the Chappel in the South end Navis Ecclesiae Glaston whereby he is buried sub plano mannore in the South Isle of the Body of the Church He made an Almshouse in the North part of the Abbey with a Chappel for seven or ten poor Women He also made the Mannor place at Sharpham in the Park two miles by West from Glaston It was before a poor Lodge c. An. Dom. 1504. An. 19 20 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Mayhew by whose Persuasion K. Hen. 7 gave 10l yearly Revenue to the Univ. of Oxon conditionally that the Members thereof celebrate a solemn Maâ—s for him yearly in S. Maries Church Commiss Sim. Greene again John Kynton again Rob. Tehy or Thay D. D. of Magd. Coll. Proct. Laur. Stubbes of Magd. Coll. Bor. elected 17. Apr. John Beverston of Mert. Coll. Principal of S. John Bapt. Hall Austr elected 17. Apr. Mast of Arts. Edward Finch Of what Coll. or Hall he was a Member I cannot yet find sure I am that on the 23 Sept. 1517 he became Predendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury on the death of Andrew Ammonius an Italian whom I have mention'd among the Writers in Will. Grocyn an 1522. that also he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Christoph Vrshwyke 12 May 1522 and Preb. of Chermister and Bere in the said Church of Sarum on the death of Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll in this University 30. June 1524. Philip Dense Fellow of Mert. Coll. He hath this Character added to his Name in the Album of that Society Medicus Astronomus cum primis doctus In the Act wherein these two proceeded were about 14 Masters but whether any of them were afterwards Bishops Writers or
Dignitaries I cannot yet find The said Philip Dense who was a learned man as certain Writings which he left behind him shew'd died of a pestilent Disease 4 Sept. 1507 and was buried in the choire belonging to the Church of the said Coll. Doct. of Div. John Colet the most learned and religious Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral in London I have largely mention'd him before John Adams of Merton Coll. He was afterwards a Dignitary in the Church This year was a Supplicat made in the ven Congregation of Regents in behalf of Father William Byrd a Benedictine Monk to be admitted Bach. of Div. or licensed to proceed in that Faculty but whether either was granted I cannot tell I take this Father to be the same William Byrd who was elected Prior of the Monastery of Benedictines at Bathe in Aug. 1499 after the death of John Cantloâ— the preceeding Prior. For what Benedictine of both those Names it should be but he I cannot tell It is reported by one who pretended to know him well that this Will. Byrd was given much to Chemistry and chemical Operations that he found out the Stone or discovered the Elixir and at the Suppression of Abbeys he hid it in a Wall And ten days after he went to fetch it out And there he found the stople of a Clout This put the Father into so great an Agony that he became almost frantick as the same Author tells us who adds that he ever after wandred about had no setled place that he became blind had a Boy to lead him about lost his Ecclesiastical Preferments and died poor with other the like fabulous Tales which are commented upon forsooth by a certain Rosacrucian as if they were as true as Gospel I find this Person Will. Byrd to have expended much money in finishing his Church at Bathe which is now the great Church there dedicated to S Peter and S. Paul but before he could finish it he gave way to Fate which hapning on the 22. of May 1525. John Holway of the same Order was elected Prior on the first of July the same year and was Prior thereof at the dissolution or suppression of Abbeys and not W. Byrd as several Authors report Towards the upper end of the Choir of the said Church dedicated to S. Peter and Paul was by the Appointment of this Person erected between two of the South Pillars a neat tabernacular Edifice which I presume he intended to be the Seat of the Prior at Divine Service His Arms on the Roof of it are curiously carved out in Stone which are a Chevron between three Spread Eagles on a chief a Rose between two Lâ—zenges and on the outside of the said Seat is a Memorial of his name viz. a W and a Bird carved in Stone in which Seat or else near to it he was as I conceive buried As for John Cantlow beforementioned who was his Predecessor and graduated in this University he built in a certain Village near Bathe called Holloway in the Parish of Widcomb a pretty little Chappel dedicated to S Mary Magd. as also as 't is said there the little Hospital adjoyning for Lunaticks An. Dom. 1505. An. 20 21 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Mayhew again Commiss Sim. Greene again Jo. Roper D. D. who proceeded in Div. this year John Adams D. D. of Mert. Coll. Proct. Will. Patenson or Batenson of Queens Coll. Bor. John Goolde of Magd. Coll. Aust The Junior was afterwards Principal of Bâ—ham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. Bach. of Musick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Musical Books of Boetius June vlt. Dominus John Goodman now noted for his Compoâ—â—â—â—s in that Faculty which are I presume somewhere still in being Bach. of Arts Of above 27 who were admitted this year none of any note do yet appear or are worthy to be remembred only Mathew Smyth of Oriel Coll. who was afterwards the first Principal of Brasnose Coll. and a Benefactor to Learning and another named John Cottisford of Linc. Coll. afterwards Rector of that House and a Dignitary Both whom were admitted the last of June Bach. of the Civil Law Or such who were admitted to the reading of any book of the Institutions About 10 were admitâ—ed this year among whom Dionis Calakan an Irish Man was one June ult Twenty or more also supplicated for the said Degree who were not admitted this year among whom Tho. Bennet was one but whether the same Tho. Bennet who became Chauntor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury in Jan. 1541 I dare not affirm it Bach. of the Canon Law Or such who were admitted to the reading extraordinary of any Book of the Decretals or Volumes About 17 were admitted this year of whom Rich. Wykeham and John Colchester Benedictine Monks were of the number ult June and Nelanus Neal a Carme or White Fryer another Twelve also at least supplicated for the same Degree but were not admitted among whom Thom. Cbeltenham a Benedictine was one Mar. 16. Mast of Arts Jan. 25. Thom. Southerne He was afterwards Proct. of the University Treasurer of the Cath. Church at Exeter and Fellow of Eaton Coll. near to Windsor He died in 1557. Besides him were about 20 more admitted Masters of Arts but none of any note that I can yet find among them Bach. of Physick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hippocrates John Parkhouse of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Principal of Hart Hall and taking holy Orders became Canon of Exeter Cath. and a Dignitary elsewhere which is all I yet know of him Bach. of Div. June 20. William Godmersham a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict He was about this time either a Prior or an Abbot Jan. 18. The venerable Father Thom. Charde a Monk of the Cistercian Order and Abbat of the Monastery of Foord in Devonshire was then admitted See more under the year 1507. Doct. of the Civil Law None were admitted this year only several supplicated in order to be admitted among whom were John Wardroper Bach. of both the Laws Feb. 6. Doct. of Div. Apr……John Rooper or Roper of Magd. College who after he had proceeded became Commissary this year Jan… Rog. Vanghan or Vachan a Black Fryer or Dominican Prior of the Coll. of Black Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon. Feb. 3. John Aslaby was then admitted which Degree he compleated in an Act celebrated on the 15. of the same Month at which time ten Masters of Arts proceeded Incorporations Or such who have taken a Degree in another University and have been embodied or taken into the bosom of this of Oxon and have enjoyed the same Liberties and Privileges as if they had taken their Degree here Jul. 2. Walt. Peers Doct. of the Civ Law of Bononia in Italy where he was held in great Admiration for that Faculty was then solemnly incorporated into the same Degree in the House of Congregation Jan. 24. Rich.
East riding of Yorkshire upon the resignation of John Mey who some years before had been promoted to the See of Carlile and he upon the death of Martin Parkynson Bach. of Div. in Aug. 1569. Oct. 30. Rob. Fletcher of Mert. Coll. One of both his names hath made several Translations as 1 The Song of Salomon into English Verse c. Lond. 1586 in tw to which he added Annotations 2 Of the introduction to the love of God out of English prose into English verse Lond. 1581. oct c. Whether he be the same with him of Mert. Coll. I cannot tell unless I could see the said Translations which I have not yet done As for the said Rob. Fletcher of Mert. Coll. who was a Warwickshire man born he was for several misdemeanors turn'd out from his Fellowship of that House in June 1569 whereupon being out of employment for the present he was soon after made Schoolmaster of Taunton in Somersetshire and at length became a godly Minister and Preacher of the Word of God Joh. Tatham of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Rector of Linc. Coll. Adm. 43. Bach. of Div. Only one was admitted this year viz. John Withyns of Brasn Coll. which is all I know of him Doct. of Civ Law Apr. 10. Hen. Berkley of New 21. Will. Constantine of All 's Coll. Jul. 4. Joh. Belly Provost of Oriol Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Diocess of Lincoln and one of the Masters of the Chancery Tho. Sammon of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day 7. Rob. Leech of Ch. Ch. Chancellour of Chester Doct. of Physick Jul. 12. Henry Wotton of Ch. Church See more of him in Edward Wotton among the Writers under the year 1555. p. 78. Doct. of Div. Jul. 7. John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester Incorporations Jul. 9. Robert Horne Doct. of Div. of Cambridge and now Bishop of Winchester was incorporated Doctor in the house of Congregation and took the Oath requisite to be taken by such that are incorporated He was the Son of John Horne Son of Will. Horne of Cletor in Copland in the County of Cumberland educated in S. John's Coll. in the aforesaid University made Dean of Durham in Nov. 1551 was an Exile for his Religion in 1553 returned in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth an 1558 restored to his Deanery in the year following and in 1560 he was made Bish of Winchester He hath written An answer made to a Book entit The declaration of such scruples and staies of Conscience touching the Oath of Supremacy as Mr. Jo. Fekenham by writing did deliver unto the said L. Bishop with his Resolutions made thereunto Lond. 1566 qu. and also A preface to Calvins two sermons one against Idolatry the other to suffer persecution c. He died on the first of June 1579 and was buried in his Church at Winchester near the pulpit I find another Rob. Horne to be a Writer and Publisher of several books relating to Divinity but he was a Minister of God's Word at Ludlow in Shropshire in the Reigns of Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. Jul. 15. Rich. Howland M. of A. of Cambridge This person being the Son of Rich. Howland of London by his Wife Anne Greenway of Clay in Norfolk was baptized at London I think 26 September 1540 afterwards educated in Peter House of which he was Fellow made Master of Magd. then of S. Johns College in Cambridge and at length Bishop of Peterborough as I have elsewhere told you An. Dom. 1568. An. 10 An. Elizab. An. 11 An. Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Cooper designed to that Office by the Chancellours Letters with the consent of Convocation 3 May. Proct. Jam. Charnock of Brasn Coll. Edm. Campian of S. John's Coll. elect 18. Apr. I find another Edm. Campian who was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in 1563 and proceeded M. of A. 1567. Gramm Jul. 10. Thom. Ashbroke a Scholar of or a Student in Grammar for twenty years stiled in the Register Ludimagister Vxelli was admitted to instruct in Grammar He is the last of all that occurrs admitted to instruct Youths in Grammar in our Records Bach. of Arts. Apr. 5. Adam Hyll May 31. Rob. Persons of Ball. Coll. Tho. Heth of All 's Coll. was adm the same day Jul. 9. Rob. Gwinne Oct. 15. John Rainolds Nov. 18. Meridith Hanmer of C. C. Coll. John Chamber of Merton College was admitted the same day Feb. 12. John Norden of Hart Hall 16. Franc. Trigge of Vniv. Coll. Mar. 23. Thom. Cottam of Brasn Coll. This person who was a Lancashire man born left Oxon soon after and taught a Grammar School at London Afterwards he went to Rome where he studied Divinity thence to Rheimes where he was made a Priest and at length into England to serve those of his profession but being taken at his arrival in the Haven at or near to Dover in 1580 was imprison'd tormented and tortur'd for about two years in which time he was received into the Society of Jesus At length being not to be prevailed with to take the Oath of Supremacy he was executed at Tyburne with others of his persuasion 30 May 1582. March 24. George Pettie of Ch. Ch. Admitted 102. Bach. of Law Only five were admitted this year and three that supplicated for the said Degree among whom James Charnock Proct. of the University was one Mast of Arts. Jul. 10. Thomas Twyne of C. C. Coll. See more in the year 1593. Nov. 3. John Vnderhill of New Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Oxford Admit 27. Bach. of Div. Only one admitted namely Will. Cole of C. C. Coll. afterwards Dean of Lincoln and five that supplicated for the said Degree among whom Edm. Campian one of the Proctors was one Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 14. Vincent Denne of All 's Coll. Official of Canterbury John Langford of the same house was admitted on the same day being about this time Chancellour of the Diocess of Worcester He died about the beginning of Nov. in 1579 and was buried in the Cath. Church at Worcester He did succeed in that Office as it seems one Will. Turnbull LL. B. and was succeeded by Dr. Rich. Cosin the eminent Civilian by the favour of Dr. Joh. Whitgift Bish of Worcester Doct. of Phys March 9. Oliver Wythyngdon of Brasnose Coll. now or soon after Dean of Battell in Sussex He died in 1590 and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations Apr. 19. Will. Hughes Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph Henry Haward or Howard M. A. of Cambr was incorporated the same day This Hen. Howard who was second Son of Henry Earl of Surrey the learnedst among the Nobility and the most noble among the learned was born in the County of Norfolk educated in Kings Coll. afterwards in Trinity Hall travelled beyond the Seas and became a very
antient copies particularly with a MS. in Vniversity Coll. Library entit Octoteuchus two Greek MSS. translated into Arabick in the Bodlcian Library and an antient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton but lost in the hands of a French Man to whom it was lent the said Pat. Young did promise to publish with notes added thereto and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers and no farther if Dr. Br. Walton saith right The effect of this undertaking being much expected and desired by learned Men especially beyond the Seas certain Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to have the business encouraged Whereupon in the latter end of the year 1645 they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it but what hindred them in going on with the work I find not In 1649 P. Young who had sided with the Presbyterians left his place of Library keeper to the King the books there being mostly embezell'd whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in Essex where I think he died an 1652 for in Sept. that year his next relation administer'd Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed Youngs notes and annotations with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from Youngs edition and Latine translation with some short running notes added thereunto Oxon. 1669. in tw In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum in qu. written by Gilb. Foâ—iot Bishop of London in the time of Hen. 2. and was one of the three Gottefridus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius being the other two who interpreted S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians Lond. 1687. oct After his death all or most of his Greek and Latine MSS. collected and written with his own hand came into the possession of Dr. John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Oct. 21. Daniel Calendar M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland These Persons following were incorporated while K. James 1. was entertain'd at Oxon. Aug. 30. Alexander Serle LL. Bach. of Cambridge To whose name is this added in the publick register ad causas negotia ecclesiastica civilia maritima forinseca Procurator regius generalis Thom. Howard Earl of Suffolk Rob. Cecill Earl of Salisbury M. A. of Cambr. The first of these two Counts was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Kings houshold L. Treasurer of England after Cecill Knight of the Garter and founder of the stately house called Aâ—dley Inne near to Walden in Suffolk He died in 1626 and was buried at Walden The other Ro. Cecill who was Son of Will Lord Burleigh was now Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge afterwards Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter He died in 1612 and was buried at Hatfield in Hertfordshire George Thomson M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland He was born in that City and afterwards became Pastor of the reformed Church at Chastegneraye in France He hath written several books among which are 1 De pompa in Jac. 1. introitâ— in Londinum Sylva Lond. 1604. oct 2 Vindex veritatis adversus Lipsium lib. 2. Lond. 1606. oct 3 Quatre harmonies sur la Revelation print 1607. oct 4 La Chasse de la Beste Romaine etc. Rochel 1611. oct c. Tho. Dempster in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam hath two George Thomsons that were Writers viz. George Thomson a Priest an 1595 and George Thomson a Heretick as he calls him an 1599 which last I presume is our Author who was incorporated at Oxon and the same whom Joh. Dunbar a Scot doth celebrate for his learning in his book of Epigrams George Ruggle M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge One Ruggle of the said hall was Author of that celebrated Comedy called Ignoramus acted before K. Jam. 1. at Camb. 8. Mar. 1614. Whether the same with George I cannot yet affirm … Craig a Scot Doctor of Phys of the University of Basil This is all that appears of him in the publick register So that whether he be the same with Dr… Craig the Kings Physician who died in Apr. 1620 I know not or whether he be Joh. Cragg Dr. of Phys Author of a MS. intit Capnuraniae seu Comet in 〈◊〉 subâ—mationis refutatio written in qu. to Tycho Brahe a Dane I am altogether ignorant One Dr. Joh. Cragg was buried in the Church of St. Martins in the Fields near London about 1653. Barnab Gouge Goch or Gooche Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr He was about this time Master of Magd. Coll. in that University afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Worcester and died at Exeter where he had an office or dignity in the latter end of 1625. One of both his names translated into English The pâ—pish Kingdom or Reign of Antichrist Lond. 1570. qu. written in Latine verse by Tho. Naogeorgius and Four books of husbandry Lond. 1586. qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius and something of Palengenius But this translator if I mistake not was Barnab Gooche of Albin 〈◊〉 or Alvingham in Lincolnshire Grandfather to Barnab Gooche living there in 1634 and after John Hammond Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was now Physician to Prince Henry and Father to Henr. Hammond afterwards the learned and celebrated Theologist Creations Jun. 28. Henry Rowlands Bach. of Div. and Bishop of Bangor was actually created Doctor of that faculty Aug. 13. Hen. Ashworth of Oriel John Cheynell of C. C. Coll. These two who were eminent and learned Physicians were then actually created Doctors of Physick because they were designed by the Delegates appointed by Convocation to be Opponents in the disputations to be had before the King at his entertainment by the Muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug. John Gourden Gordonius of Balliol Coll. was created D. of D. the same day Aug. 13. because he was to dispute before the King his kinsman After his disputation was ended he had his Degree compleated by the Kings Professor of Divinity purposely not that there was a necessity of it to shew unto His Majesty the form of that Ceremony This noble Person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley was instructed in his youth in the Schools and Colleges as well in Scotland as in France in liberal Arts and Sciences and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages and other Orientals Afterwards he was Gentleman of three Kings Chambers in France viz. Charles 9. Hen. 3. and 4 and while he was in the flower of his age he was there assailed with many corruptions as well spiritual
incorporated Masters again I have made mention among the Incorporations in an 1612 and 1615. Will. Isaacson M. A. He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of S. Andrews Church in the Wardrobe in London and of Wodford in Essex but whether he hath published any thing I know not He was younger Brother to Henry Isaacson the Chronologer sometimes Amanuensis to Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester Son of Rich. Isaacson Sheriff elect of London who died 19 Jan. 1620 and he the Son of Will. Isaacson of Sheffield in Yorkshire by Isabel his first Wife This Hen. Isaacson by the way I must let the Reader know was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Coleman in London in Sept. 1581 but what Academical Education he received I cannot yet tell Sure it is that he arrived to great knowledge in Chronology as his large book of that subject doth sufficiently attest and dying about the 7 of Decemb. 1654 was buried in the Church of S. Catherine Coleman before mention'd having before been a considerable benefactor to the poor of that Parish Will. Beale M. A. of Pemb. Hall See among the Incorporations an 1645. Dan. Horsmanden M. A. He was afterwards D. of D. and Rector of Vlcomb in Kent and accounted by his Contemporaries a learned man but he being a zealous person for the Church of England and a high Loyalist was thrown out of his Living by the Committee of Religion an 1643 as you may see in the Pamph. entit The first century of scandalous malignant priests c. p. 36 37 He lost other Spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause during the time of the Rebellion Humphrey Henchman M. A. This loyal and religious person who was Son of Tho. Henchman of London Skinner and he the Son of another Thomas of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire in which Country his name and family had for several generations before lived was afterwards D. of D. Chauntor of Salisbury on the death of Hen. Cotton in January 1622 and Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church an 1628. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Bishop of that place upon the translation of Dr. Duppa to Winchester Whereupon being consecrated in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. within the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster 28 Oct. 1660 sate there three years and then upon the translation of Dr. Sheldon to Canterbury he was translated to London in Sept. 1663. About that time he was made Bishop Almoner and died as it seems in the month of Octob. an 1675. He was for his wisdom and prudence much valued by K. Ch. 2. whose happy escape from the battel at Worcester this pious Prelate did admirably well manage especially when his Majesty came in a disguise near Salisbury He was born as I have been informed within the Parish of S. Giles Cripplâ—gate London and educated in Clare Hall in Cambridge of which he was Fellow Arthur Jackson M. A. Afterwards he was a frequent and puritanical Preacher and sided with the Presbyterians when the Rebellion began an 1642. About which time he was Minister of S. Michael Woodstreet in London where I find him in 1649. He hath written Expositions on various parts of the Scripture as 1 An help for understanding the holy Scriptures the first part being an exposition upon the five books of Moses viz. Gen. Levit. Numb Deut. c. Camb. 1643. qu. 2 Annotations on the remaining part of the Old Testament viz. Jâ—sh Judges Sam. Kings Chron. Ezra Nehem. Estheâ— the second part 3 Annotations on the five poetical looks of holy Scripture viz. Job Psalms Prov. Eccles and Cant. Lond. 1658. Besides several other things which for brevity sake I now omit See more of him in Ch. Love among the Writers an 1651. The said Masters of Arts viz. Th. Goad Ben. Laney R. Holdsworth Hen. Burton Ab. Gibson W. Isaason W. Beale Dan. Horsmanden H. Henâ—hman and A. Jackson were incorporated as I have before told you 15 July as they had stood before at Cambridge Besides them were about 27 more incorporated of whom Sam Carter was one but not one of them being then or after men of note as I can yet find are here omitted On the same day also one Rob. Newton M. A. of the Univ. of S. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated of whom I know no more Creations March 5. Will. Stafford a Student of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the Congregation house by vertue of a dispensation obtained in that of Convocation on the second day of the said month This person who was a Norfolk man born and nobly descended was a Member of the House of Commons for a time and wrot a little thing as I have been informed by those that knew him entit Reasons of the War c. which I suppose is the same with a Pamphlet entit An orderly and plain narration of the beginning and causes of this War with a conscientious resolution against the Parliament side printed 1644 in 3 sheets in qu. He died at Thornborough in Glocestershire where he had a plentiful Estate about the year 1683 and in the ninetieth year of his age leaving behind him a Son named John Father of Rich. Stafford lately Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall Author of Of happiness c. Lond. 1689. qu. An. Dom. 1618. An. 16 Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. the same again July 17. Proct. Daniel Ingoâ—l of Qu. Coll. â—ch Drope of Magd. Coll. Apr. 15. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. San. Hoard of S. Maries Hall May 8. Meric Casaubon Son of Isaac of Ch. Ch. June 9. Wiâ—l Paul Tho. Laurence of All 's Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 10. Thom. Coâ—man of Magd. 12. Alexand. Griffith of Haâ—t Hall The last did not take the Degree of M. of A. till 1631. 18. Hen. Blount of Trin. Coll. July 2. Joh. Pointer of Brasâ— Coll. He was matriculated and took the degree of Bach. of Arts as an Esquires Son Afterwards departing without any other degree became a puritanical Preacher and acquainted with Oliver Cromwel who when Protector gave him a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon as a reward for the pains he took in converting him to Godliness i.e. to canting Puritanisâ— and Saintism After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was ejected and living many years after in Oxon in a retired and studious condition died 2 Jan. 1683 aged 84 or thereabouts whereupon his body was buried at the lower end of the north 〈◊〉 joyning to the Church of S Peter in the Baylie Oxon. Oct. 15. Humph. Chambers of Vniv. Edw. Reynolds of Mert. Coll. The laâ—t was afterwards Bishop of Norwich Dec. 3. Phâ—â—ip King of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Dr. King B. of London See among the created Doctors of Div. 1645. 15. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. 17. Rob. Bedingfield 19 George Morley Rob. Gomersall Zouch Townley of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last four you may
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ— 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâ—th right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
degenerate into madness and frenzie and that the endeavours of others under the pretence of reformation was to bring in Anarchy and Sacrilege he published a learned Tract called by a certain Author notwithstanding P. Heylyn published a book with the same title A coal from the Altar And another learned book entit Noli me tangere Or a thing to be thought of printed 1641. qu. Against Anarchy he also declared himself for Episcopacy and the establish'd Liturgy and published another book entit Communion comeliness Wherein is discovered the conveniency of the Peoples drawing near to the table in the sight thereof when they receive the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book by many impregnable arguments he proves a high conveniency if not a necessity for that most laudable custome of having railes about the Lords Table So that this Person being discern'd by the faction to be a friend to the Protestant Religion established in the Church of England was look'd upon as their enemy and was by them branded with Popery or as popishly affected Yet his former reputation in the City bore him up against the obloquy of private discontent for a time At length when they came openly to defie their Sovereign the Lords anointed it was a fit time to silence and remove Mr. Vdall for neither Dr. Gouge his Church in the Black-friers or Mr. Jo. Goodwins in Colemanstreet were half so full before the Long Parliament began as Mr. Vdalls had been since First therefore they plunder his house take away his Library and Houshold stuff then remove him from the execution of his Ministry and sequester the profits thereof for a Levite of their own Afterwards they sought to commit him to Prison tho aged and very weak and infirm in body and at length carried his aged and decrepid Wife out of her doors by force and set her in the open street to shift for her self This most pious and meek Man who had been favoured in his Ministry by the Vincents of Stoke-Dawbernon in Surrey Baronets hath written other things among which is The good of peace Sermon on Psal 29. 11. Lond. 1642. qu. He surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to God about the latter end of May 1647 at which time he desired that his body might be buried in the Chancel of Allhallows in Honey-lane in Cheapside in Lond. unless the Parishioners of St. Austin desire to have the disposing of it In a most unworthy Pamphlet entit The first century of scandalous malignant Priests c. print 1643. I find these matters of Ephraim Vdall viz. that he hath affirmed that the great reformers of the Church now are Hypocrites and hath made framed and published a book intit Noli me tangere without license charging the Parliament with Sacrilege in endeavouring to abolish Episcopacy and to take away the Lands of Deans and Chapters to amend therewith the maintenance of preaching Ministers and that thereby they have brought a national sin on the Land as was formerly done by them in taking away Monasteries c. For which and other passages in the said book he was thrown out of his rectory by the blessed Parliament as it was then called An. Dom. 1631. An. 7. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Bishop of London Vicechanc. Dr. Smith of Wadh. Coll. again July 16. Proct. Atherton Bruch of Bras C. John Doughty of Mert. C. Apr. 20. Which Proctors being removed from their places by the Kings command in the month of August as I have told you at large elsewhere were elected for the remaining purt of the year Mr. Joh. Earle of Mert. Coll. Laur. Washington of Brasn Coll. Presented 26. Aug. Bach. of Musick Jul. 8. Will. Child of Ch. Ch. He was now one of the Organists of his Majesties Chappel at Windsore having before been one of the Gentlemen thereof I shall speak more largely of him in the year 1663. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 27. Thom. Wood Will. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 30. George 〈◊〉 of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester June 20. Rich. Allein of St. Alb. Oct. 20. Walt. Bushnell Joh. Wilkins Nich. Clagett of Mert. of Magd. Hall Dec. 10. Daniel Whitby of Brasn Jan. 17. Dudley Digges of Vniv. Feb. 9. Christop Fowler of Magd. Coll. The last of which was afterwards of St. Edm. Hall Mar. 22. Anth. Sadler of St. Edm. Hall 24. Joh. Shaw of Brasn Will. Rowland of Ex. Coll. All these will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 249. Bach. of Law Oct. 11. Tho. Reade of New Coll. See more of him among the Doctors of this faculty an 1638. Besides him were 18 admitted among whom Will. Dowdeswell of Pemb. Coll. was one often commended by Sir Tho. Bâ—owne the Physician for a learned Man and Franc. St Barbe of Ball. Coll. another Tho. Heath of All 's Coll. was also admitted the same year but whether he was afterwards Doctor of his faculty of this Univ. I cannot tell When Dr. Sheldon became Archbishop of Canterbury he was made if I mistake not Controller of his Family and a Knight but after the said Archb. death he retired to Stoke near Guilford in Surrey and died in the beginning of the year 1680. Mast of Arts. Apr. 30. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. May 4. Will. Sedgwick of Pemb. Coll. Jun. 18. Rich. Busby Jasp Mayne of Ch. Ch. Joh. Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall 22. Joh. Gregory of Ch. Ch. 25. Joh. Gough or Goffe of Magd. 30. Thom. Good of Ball. Coll. Oct. 17. Mirth Waferer of St. Albans Hall lately of Merton Coll. Nov. 10. Abraham Woodhead of Vniv. Dec. 10. Edm. Chilmead of Magd. Alex. Griffith of Hart Hall Coll. Jan. 24. Allan Blane Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll. 27. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. C. Admitted 128. Bach. of Phys Six Bachelaurs of Physick were admitted this year of which Nich. Lamie a French Man of Pemb. Coll. was the junior who before this time had spent 7 years in the studie of the said faculty in the University of Caen in Normandy There was also one admitted to practise Physick and another Chirurgery named Will. Manowrier a French Man who in the publick register is stiled Dominus de Pratis Bach. of Div. March 30. Nathan Simpson of Trin. Coll. Apr. 21. Christopher Newstead of St. Alb. Hall May 12. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. June… Will. Sherley of Ch. Ch. This learned Divine who was a Dorsetshire Man born became Rector of Huish Comb flower in the Dioc. of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Atherton to the See of Waterford in Ireland in Feb. 1636 and about the same time beneficed in his own Country He is Author of The excellency of the order of the Church of England under Episcopal Government set forth in a Sermon at the Visitation at Blandsord an 1640 on 1. Cor. 11. 34. Lond. 1662. qu. Published by Rich. Harris of the Inner Temple after the
Chaplain of All 's Coll. 14. Anth. Clopton of C. C. Coll. June 25. Gilb. Sheldon of All 's Coll. Compounders 26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. C. He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity July 1. Thom. Leigh Rich. Parr of Bras Coll. The first of these two was a Compounder the other was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man 5. Will. Page of All 's Coll. 10. Edw. Willimot of Magd. Hall 26. George Eglionby of Ch. Ch. This Person who was sometimes Master of Westminster School and afterwards Tutor to Geor. the young Duke of Buckingham was made Canon or Preb. of the twelfth stall in St. Peters Church in Westminster on the death of his Uncle Dr. John King an 1638 Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Isaac Bargrave deceased an 1642 and dying in the beginning of Nov. 1643 was buried on the eleventh of the same month in the Isle joyning on the South side of the Choire of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Nov. 4. Geor. Griffith of Ch. Ch. Incorporations May 4. Robert Bostock D. of D. of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland This Robert Bostock who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Oxon was installed Archdeacon of Suffolk in the place of Dr. Rob. Pearson deceased on the fourth day of Feb. an 1639 and dying soon after Richard Mileson M. of A. succeeded Dr. Bostock also was Canon residentiary of Chichester where dying in Nov. 1640 was there buried July… Roger Goodiere Will. Goddard John Hodge Doct. of Phys of Leyden Padua Mountpelier in Holland Italy France In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. lived in London one Will. Goddard a fantastical Poet among the Templers a sit seems Author of 1 A mastiff whelp with other ruff-Island-like curs from among the Antipedes alias London in 85 Satyrs 2 Dogs from the Antipedes in 41. Satyrs Both printed at London in qu. in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. But these I cannot say were made by Will. Goddard who was afterwards Doct. of Phys Oct. 21. John Ellis D. D. of the University of S. Andrew lately of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. Jan. 29. Joh. Spencer Doct. of Phys of Leyden One Rich. Lloyd M. of A. of Cambridge was incorporated this year but the day or month when I know not nor any thing else of him An. Dom. 1635. An. 11 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Pinke of New Coll. again Jul. 22. Proct. Joh. Edwards of S. Joh Coll. Guy Carleton of Qu. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 23. Will. Creed of S. Joh. Jan. 4. Anth. Hodges of New Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1638. 16. Rich. Whitlock of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. July 4. Franc. Bampfield of Wadh. Obadiah Walker of Vniv. 11. Thomas Smith of Queens Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Carlile Oct. 15. Joh. Godolphin of Gloc. 20. Nath. Hardy of Magd. Rich. Hooke of New Inn Hall One Rich. Hooke M. of A. and Minister of Lowdham in Nottinghamshire hath written The laver of regeneration and the cup of salvation in two treatises concerning Baptism and the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1653. Whether this Rich. Hooke who hath also one or more Sermons extant besides the said book be the same with Rich. Hooke of New Inn who was a Northamptonshire man born but not M. of A. of this University I cannot yet tell One Rich. Hook Vicar of Halyfax in Yorkshire is Author of The Nonconformists Champion c. pr. 1682. oct Oct. 23. Obadiah How Nov. 28. Hen. Wilkinson jun. of Magd. Hall Dec. 3. Rob. Cary Jun. 19. Rich. Burney of C. C. Coll. All these except Hodges and Hook will be mention'd elsewhere Adm. 234. Bach. of Law Nine were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or a Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 15. Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Joh. Bishop of Ball. Coll. One John Bishop was Author of The survey of Man on Job 14. 10. printed 1652. qu. and perhaps of other things Whether this Joh. Bishop be the same with Joh. Bishop of Ball. Coll. M. of A. before mention'd or the same with another Jo. Bishop who was Bach. of Arts of Hart Hall and a Wiltshire man born I cannot tell unless I could see The survey of man which I have not yet done May 12. Humph. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 4. Will. Eyre of Magd. Hall 16. Joh. Michel of Qu. Coll. Esquire a Compounder which is all I know of him 27. George Ashwell of Wadh. John Owen of Queens Coll. Oct. 15. Dudley Digges of Allsoules lately of Vniv. Coll. Jan. 19. Edward Gamage of S. Edm. Hall I take him to be the same Gamage who was afterwards Archdeacon of Landâ—ff in which dignity he was succeeded by Dr. George Bull an 1686. Adm. 128. Bach. of Physick Seven were admitted of whom Steph. Bridges of C. C. Coll. was the senior and Leonard Traherne of Pemb. Coll. was the junior but not one of them can I yet find that was then or afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. June 6. Will. Evans of S. Maries Hall He had before this time published The translation of the book of nature into the use of grace Sermon on Rom. 12. 4 5. Oxon 1633. qu. Which is all I know of him only that he was living in 1660. 8. Edw. Stanley of New Jul. 22. Joh. Gauden of Ward Coll. Dec. 12. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. Hall Adm. 7. Doct. of Law Jun. 13. George Riddell or Riddle of Qu. Coll. Dec. 8. James Littleton of All 's Coll. When he was Bach. of Law he succeeded Dr. Christop Helme in the Chancellourship of the Diocess of Worcester and dying in the times of Usurpation was succeeded in that office by Tim. Baldwin LL. D. Oliver Lloyd of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jun. 8. Edward Stanley of New Dec. 8. John Littleton of Jes Coll. The first of these two accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations Jun. 16. John Bugges a Londoner born and Doctor of Phys of Leyden Jun… Mathew Thoris M. of A. of Franaker in Westfriezen This person who was formerly of Pemb. Coll. was also a Londoner born and Son of Mich. Thoris which is all I know of him Jul. 10. Joh. Silvius Kentigern Moravius These were both Scots and Masters of Arts of the University of S. Andrew July… Will. Day M. A. of Cambridge He was a Native of Windsore in Berks and being educated in Eaton School was thence transplanted to Kings Coll. in the said University Afterwards he became Minister of Mapledurham near Henley in Oxfordshire and Author of An exposition of the book of the Prophet Isaiah Lond. 1654 fol. and of other things Oct. 20. Jeremiah Taylor M. A. of Cambr. soon after Fellow of All 's Coll. He will be at large mention'd in the other Volume 30. Joh. Munlossius M of A. of Bordeaux in France This year was incorporated Master of
by me viz. of Sir Joh. More the Father and his Lady Sir Thomas the Son and his Lady John the Grandson Margaret Elizabeth and Cicely the Grand Daughters c. were most admirably well depicted by the curious hand of Hans Holbin well known to and acquainted with Sir Thomas More Which piece being an original remaineth to this day 1689 in the House â—f the Lenthals at Besills-Lee near to Abendon in Berks. Round which is an Inscription shewing the names and matches of those that are there depicted but now scarce legible To conclude if any curious Person is desirous to know more of this noted Author Sir Tho. More who hath been and yet is wonderfully celebrated throughout the learned World let him consult 1 His life written by Will. Roper before-mention'd 2 Dr. Tho. Stapleton his Book entit De tribus Thomis mostly as to this Sir Tho. More taken from that written by Roper 3 His life written by Thom. More before-mention'd much of which is taken from the former two 4 His life written by J. H. Haddesdon I think collected from Stapleton and More especially the last which was and is scarce to be had 5 A Book written by Maur. Channey or Chawney sometimes a Carthusian near London intit Historia aliquot nostri saeculi c. which Book and its Author I shall mention elsewhere 6 His life intit The mirror of virtue in worldly greatness Paris 1616. in oct 7 A MS. of his life whether a Copy of that MS. written by Roper I know not in the Library of the Free-School at Colchester The Reader is now to know that Will. Roper before-mentioned who married Margaret More was born in Kent and educated for a time in one of the Universities Afterwards he succeeded his Father John Roper in the Office of Prothonotary of the Kings Bench which after he had kept and faithfully performed 54 Years he resign'd it to his Son Thom. Roper The said William was very bountiful both at home and abroad merciful meek and a Staff to such that were poor oppressed and imprison'd At length after he had lived a Widower 33 Years and 82 in this vain World he submitted to fate 4. Januar. 1577. Whereupon his body was buried next to that of Margaret his Wife in a Vault under a Chappel joining to the Chancel belonging to the Church of St. Dunstan in Canterbury The life of Sir Tho. More before-mentioned written by this Will. Roper I have several times perused the beginning of which is Forasmuch as Sir Tho. More Knight c. HENRY STANDISH descended from a right Ancient Family of his Name in Lancashire became when young a Franciscan or Greyfrier but in what convent I know not as yet studied for some time in the convent of his Order at Oxon and partly at Cambridge proceeded D. of D. of this University as a certain Register belonging to his Order tells us made Guardian of the Franciscan convent in London Provincial of his Order and in 1519. being nominated Bishop of St. Asaph received consecration thereunto in the conventual Church of the Franciscans at Oxon before-mention'd on the eleventh of July the same Year In 1526 he with Sir John Baker were sent Ambassadors to Denmark and in 1530 he was one of the Bishops that assisted and directed Qu. Catherine in the sute concerning her divorce from K. Hen. 8. He was esteemed a learned Man of his time and a most zealous favourer and assertor of the Catholick Religion for which had he lived longer he would have suffer'd much He hath written Several Sermons preached to the People Treatise against Erasmus his translation of the New Testament With other things as 't is probable He gave up the Ghost at London in the beginning of August in Fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans commonly called Greyfriers in the said City now known by the name of Christ-Church Over his Grave was soon after a Tomb erected with the 13 l. 6. s. 8 d. which he bequeathed for that purpose He gave 40 l. to pave the Choir of the Cath of St. Asaph and for other necessaries five marks to the Franciscans of Oxon to be prayed for ten marks also for the reparation of their Church and for the building of an Isle joining to the said Church forty pounds For exhibition of Scholars in Oxon forty pounds besides legacies to Ralph Standish Lord of Standish in Lancashire his near Kinsman to Agnes Worthington his Sister and Will. Standish his natural Brother See more of this H. Standish in Rich. Kedermyster under the Year 1531. JOHN KYNTON was by rule or order a Minorite or Greyfrier and being a Man of parts and noted for his proficiency in Divinity the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Reader of that faculty within their House Which Office he performing with great honour for several Years the Doctors and Bach. of Div. of the University elected him Margaret Professor in the place of Joh. Roper being then D. of D. and a Person of great note in the University He wrot at the command of the King an 1521. Tract contra doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Whether this or any thing else that he did write were ever printed I know not He died in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was as I conceive buried in the Chappel of Durham now Trinitie College in Oxon. for on a little Grave-stone there yet remaining is written this Obiit Johannes Kynton Frater minor sacrae Theologiae professor 20. Januar. 1535. WILLIAM TYNDALE otherwise called Hitchins was born on the borders of Wales brought up from a Child in Grammar Logick and Philosophy in this University particularly for the most part in St. Mary Magdalens Hall where having sucked in the Doctrine of Luther read it privatly to certain Students and to some of the Junior Fellows of Magd. Coll. adjoining Whether he took a Degree either by the name of Tyndale or Hitchins it doth not appear in our Registers and whether he was one of the Junior Canons of Cardinal Wolseys Coll. as some think there is no ground or footstep left to perswade us to it From Oxon he went to Cambridge where being well ripened in Gods word he was entertained by one Sir Joh. Welch a Knight of Glocestershire and by him made Tutor to his Children While he continued there he shewed himself so much a friend to Luther and foe to the Pope before several Abbats Doctors and other Men of the Clergy living in the neighbourhood that he was forced merely for the security of his Person to leave that place So that journying to London he endeavoured to get into the Family of Cuthb Tonstall Bishop thereof but being frustrated of his design he was desirous for the good of his Country to translate the New Testament into English but finding no place to do it in England he left his native Country and