book written by the hand of Blackwell and subscribed by him as fit for the Press So that no other name being put to it hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it whereas he was not but rather Franc. Tresham as I have told you elsewhere He the said Blackwell died suddenly having been much troubled with swooning fits on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried as I conceive in some Church in London This next person according to time and order that must crave place is one who tho no writer worth the remembrance yet hath he been the greatest promoter of learning that hath yet appeared in our Nation THOMAS BODLEY another Ptolomey eldest Son of John Bodley of the City of Exeter by Joan his Wife Daughter and Heir of Rob. Hone of Otterie S. Mary in Devon Esq Son of Joh. Bodley of Tiverton second Son of John Bodley of Dunscumbe near Crediton in Devon Gent. was born in the said City of Exeter 2 Mar. 1544. partly educated in Grammar learning in the said City but mostly in Geneva while his Father lived there as a voluntary Exile in the time of Q. Mary where tho he was then very young yet he was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew of Berealdus in Greek of Calvin and Beza in Divinity and of some other professors in the University there then newly erected besides his domestical teachers in the house of Philebertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City with whom he was boarded where Rob. Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon read Homer to him After the death of Q. Mary he returned into England with his Father and was sent to Magd. coll in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Laur. Humphrey was admitted Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1563. and soon after being elected Probationer of Merton coll determined in the Lent following In 1565. he by the perswasion of some of the Fellows of that house and for his private exercise did read publickly for some years a Greek Lecture in the hall of that coll without expectation of any reward or stipend for his labour Nevertheless it pleased the Society to allow him soon after of their own accord four Marks by the year In 1566. he was admitted Master of Arts which degree being compleated he read Nat. Philosophy for an year in the Pub. Schools then situated on the East side of Schoolstreet In 1569. he was elected Junior Proctor of the University which office he performing with great commendations bestowed some time in the study of sundry Faculties without any inclination to profess any one above the rest At length being desirous to travel beyond the Seas for the obtaining of knowledge of some special modern tongues and for the increase of his experience in the managing of affairs to no other end but to imploy himself and all his cares in the publick Service of the State did with leave from the Warden and Society of his coll depart England with the allowance belonging to a traveller an 1576. and continued near 4 years in Italy France and Germany Afterwards returning to his coll he remained there for some time in studying politicks and historical affairs and in 1583. he was made Esquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth At length in 1585. having about that time married Anne the Daughter of… Carew of the City of Bristow the rich Widdow as I have heard of one Ball was imployed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark Julius Duke of Brunswyke William Lantgrave of Hesse and other German Princes Which imploymnet being faithfully performed he was sent to K. Hen. 3. of France at what time he was forced by the Duke of Guise to leave Paris In 1588. he was sent to the Hague for the better conduct of the Queen's affairs in the Vnited Provinces where making his residence for some years was admitted one of their Council of State took place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and gave a suffrage in all that was proposed In 1593. he returned into England for a time to look after his private Estate but was soon after remanded to the Hague again by the Q. where continuing near one year returned again to deliver some secret overtures to her and to perform thereupon an extraordinary service Soon after the applauding the fruit of his discoveries he was presently commanded to return to the States with charge to pursue those affairs to performance which he had secretly proposed At length all things being concluded and brought to the desired issue he procured his last revocation in 1597. At his return as before in his absence Burleigh the Lord Treasurer did several times tell the Queen that there was not any Man in England so meet as Bodley to undergo the office of Secretary by reason of his well-tryed Wisdom in the Low-Country affairs intending that he should be Colleague with his Son Rob. Cecill But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner not without biting calumniations of Cecill Burleigh found means to divert the Queens mind from him supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecill So that Mr. Bodley being eased of ever expecting that troublesome office he retired from the Court and wholly commended himself to the care and provision for learning worthy indeed the care of the greatest King For about that time setting up his staff at the Library door in Oxford did restore or rather new found it the particulars of which I have elsewhere told you After K. Jam. came to the Crown he received the Honour of Knight from him and a few years before his death wrote His Life an 1609. Which being kept as a choice rarity in the archives of his Library was published at Oxon. 1647. qu. But this little thing is not the reason that I put him among the Oxford Writers but because by his noble and generous endeavours he hath been the occasion of making hundreds of publick Writers and of advancing in an high degree the Commonwealth of learning in which respect he should have craved the first place but I have put him here according to the time of his death which is the method I observe Letters of State Some of which I have seen published not in one vol. but scatteredly Letters relating to Books and Learning Written to Mr. Tho. James MS. in his Lib. He paid his last debt to nature 28. Jan. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll Choire The manner of which you may see at large in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 320. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that Dr. Joh. Morris Canon of Ch. Ch. did bequeath to the University of Oxon. a Rent-charge of 5 l. per an to be given to a Master of Arts that should make
Vicar General to Gilbert Bishop of that place and at length Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Sarum He died about the month of Feb. in 1575 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Wells Oct. 18. John Croke of New Coll. He was now an eminent Advocate in the Court of Arches and about this time dignified in the Church Doct. of Div. July 6. John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. He was made Dean of Lichfield in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign in the place of one Rich. Willyams deprived for having married a Widow in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. But the said Ramridge leaving England without any compulsion in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth being much troubled in mind upon a foresight of the alteration of Religion he went into Flanders where in wandring to and fro in great discontent he met with Thieves who first rob'd and afterwards murder'd him Only two supplicated for the said Degree this year viz. Will. Wetherton M. A. and Bach. of Div. and Edw. Sepham M. A. and Student in that Faculty but were not now or after admitted Incorporations Apr…Nich Grimoald Jul. 19. Laur. Nowell B. of A. of Cambr. Nov. 8. George Dogeson or Dogâ—on Chantor of Wells and M. A. of the University of Paris was then incorp M. of A. Which being done he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood in the said University of Paris An. Dom. 1543. An. 35 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Estwyke Will. Pye again Elected the first day of Easter Term. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 12. Tho. Godwyn of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bathe and Wells Dec. 14. Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. The Cat. of Fellows of that House saith that he was afterwards Dean of Dublin and Bishop of Meath in Ireland whereupon recurring to the Commentary of Irish Bishops written by Sir James Ware I could find no such Person nor Dr. Johnson of Christs Coll. in Cambridge who is reported by Th. Fuller the Historian to be Archb. of Dublin Feb. 20. Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Lichfield and Coventry In all about 35 besides about 7 who were Supplicators or Candictates for the said degree of Bac. of Arts. Bach. of Civ Law Jan. 4. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll. Mar… John Plough The former was afterwards a zealous Writers for the Rom. Catholic the other for the Protestant Cause Besides these two were about twelve more admitted Mast of Arts. Jun. 6. Joh. Fox Hen. Bull Tho. Cooper Will. Dounham of Magd. Coll. The two last of which were afterwards Bishops At the same time was one John Redman or Redmayne of Magd. Coll. admitted But whether this be the same John Redman who was afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton or another mentioned under the year 1508 and 1524 or a third mention'd among the Writers an 1551 I cannot justly say June 6. Will. Hugh 20. George Ethoridge John Morwen of C. C. Coll. Feb. 21. Joh. Pullayne Mar. 18. Laur. Nowell 24. Nich. Grimoald In all thirty nine of New Brasn Mert. Coll. Bach. of Div. June 30. Gilb. Bourne of All 's Coll. Nov. 21. John Somer He was Can. of Winds in the time of Qu. Mary where he died 1573. Tho. Slythurst was admitted the same day He was made Canon of Winds and the first President of Trin. College in the time of Qu. Mary of which being deprived in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died about 1560. Feb. 8. Will. Pye of Oriel College now one of the Proctors of the University In 1534 he seems to have been admitted Bach. of Physick Besides these were ten more admitted and five that supplicated among whom was William Peryn one lately a Dominican or Black Fryer who was I suppose admitted because in a Book or Books which he soon after published he writes himself Bach. of Div. Doct. of the LL. Jul. 2. John ap Harry or Parry He was soon after Principal of Broadgates Hall and seems to be the same John ap Harry who was Successor to Gilb. Smith in the Archdeaconry of Northampton This Dr. Parry died in the beginning of 1549 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Castor in Northamptonshire John Williams lately Principal of Broadgates Hall was admitted the same day Doct. of Div. June 1. Philip Brode about this time a shagling Lecturer of Divinity in this University He was afterwards a Prebendary of the Church of York beneficed in the Diocess thereof and died in 1551. or thereabouts John Robyns the Astrologer and Mathematician sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. and now Canon of Windsore did supplicate that he might be admitted to proceed in Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not Rich. Cox also a D. of D. of Cambridge did supplicate that he might sit and take a place among the Doctors of Divinity tho it was unusual and out of order as being not incorporated See in the year 1545. Incorporations This year or thereabouts John Cheek of Cambridge was incorporated but in what degree unless in that of Master of Arts I cannot justly tell because of the imperfectness of the Registers He had studied before for some time in this University and was now one of the Canons of Kings Coll. in Oxon. I mean of that College founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Card. Wolsey which continued from the year 1532 to 1545 at which time he was about to translate the See of Oxon from Osney to his said Coll. intended then by him to have it known by the name of Christ Church which was effected accordingly in the year following When the said Kings Coll. was dissolved by Hen. 8. in the beginning of the year 1545 he allowed most of the then Canons yearly Pensions in lieu of their Canonries and to Jo. Cheek who was then Tutor to his Son Prince Edward he allowed six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence He was afterwards a Knight and most famous for his Learning exprest in his Introductio Grammatices his Book De ludimagistrorton officio in another De pronunciatione Linguae Graeâ—â—c and in many more besides Translations the Catalogue of which mostly taken from Baleus you may see at the end of Sir John Cheeks Life written by Ger. Langbaine put by him before a Book written by the said Cheek entit The true Subject to the Rebel or the heart of Sedition c. Oxon. 1641. qu. This Sir John Cheek died at Lond. in the house of Pet. Osbourne Esq a great Comforter of afflicted Protestants in the month of Sept. 1557 and was buried in the Church of S. Alban in Woodstreet within the said City An. Don. 1544. An. 36 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. Nich. Alambrygg of All 's Coll. Will. Smyth of Brasn Coll. again Elected about the Ides of May. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. In an Act then celebrated Will. Fitzjames Dean of We'ls was
Compounder Jun. 26. Rich. Heyrick of S. Joh. Joh. Lewgar of Trin. Coll. Jul. 4. Geor. Stinton of Ball. Coll. He was the eldest Son of an Esq was born and educated in Grammar Learning in the City of Worcester and after he had taken the degree of M. A. he became Vicar of Claynes in the Bishop of Worcester's gift and Rector of Speechley both near to the said City He hath published A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Worcester in the time of the pestilence on 1 Kings 8. ver 37 38 39. Oxon 1637. oct and hath written others fit for the press which go from hand to hand to this day He died at Speechley about 1654 and was buried in the Church there Joh. Biddle of Ball. Coll. was adm on the said 4 of July but whether he ever took the degree of Bach. of Arts in this University it doth not appear in the publick Register I set this J. Biddle down here to distinguish him from another of both his names a grand Socinian and Arrian whom I shall at large mention in the second Vol. but whether he hath published any thing I cannot yet tell One John Beadle M. of A. Minister sometimes of Barnstone in Essex wrot The Journal or Diary of a thankful Christian presented in some Meditations upon Numb 33. v. 2. Lond. 1656 oct Which Author I presume was of Cambridge See more of him in an Epist to the Reader before the said Journal written by Joh. Fuller Minister of S. Martin Ironmonger lane wherein he speaks much of the said Author Oct. 29. Rich. Bâ—field of Qu. Coll. Dec. 11. Matthias Turner of Broadgates Hall lately of Balliol Coll. He was an excellent Philosopher had great skill in the Oriental Languages and wrot as he himself professed all his Sermons which he preached in Greek Jan. 23. Tho. Hieks of Ball. Coll. Obadiah Sedgwick of Magd. Hall Feb. 21. Tho. Blake of Ch. Ch. Adm. 141. Bach. of Div. May 10. Thomas Vicars of Queens Coll. Besides him were admitted 8 more but not one of them was a Writer or Bishop Doct. of Law Jul. 4. Will. Bird of All 's Coll. This learned Doctor who was Son of Thom. Bird of Littlebury in Essex Brother to Sir Will. Bird mention'd before under the year 1587. was afterwards Custos or Master of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and died in the latter end of 1644. One Will. Bird hath written The magazine of honour or a treatise of the several degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdom c. which was afterwards perused and enlarged by Sir John Doderidge as I have in him told you before among the Writers But what relation this Will. Bird had to the former I know not Doct. of Phys May 27. Rich. Spicer of Exet. Coll. who accumulated the degrees in Medicine He was afterwards an eminent Physitian in London where he died in the beginning of the year 1640. Doct. of Div. June 27. Tho. Jackson Christop Green of C. C. Coll. The first is largely mention'd elsewhere the other who was also a learned and godly man was now Prebendary of Bristow where dying 5 March 1658 aged 79 was buried in the Yard belonging to the Cath. Ch. there Jul. 1. Thom. Benson of Ch. Ch. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. Incorporations On the 9 of July being the day after the conclusion of the Act were these Cantabrigians following incorporated being part of the number of about 24 that were taken into the bosom of this University Charles Lord Stanhope of Harington M. of Arts. Timothy Thurscross M. A. Afterwards being Bach. of Div. he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Hen. Thurscross resigning 16. Nov. 1635. And afterwards resigning that dignity Joh. Neile Bach. of Div. was installed therein 27 Oct. 1638 I mean the same Neile who was made Dean of Rippon in the place of Dr. Joh. Wilkins promoted to the See of Chester One Tim. Thurscross D. D. died in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in Lond. in Novemb. or thereabouts 1671 which perhaps may be the same with the former Quaere Thom. Aylesbury M. of A. See among the Incorporations 1626. Will. Fenner M. A. of Pembroke Hall He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and exercised his Ministry for a time in Staffordshire At length upon the invitation of the Earl of Warwick he became Rector of Rochford in Essex where he was much admired and frequented by the puritannical party He gave way to fate in 1640 or thereabouts aged 40 and had several theological Tracts of his writing published after his death by Tho. Hill whom I shall anon mention the Titles of most of which you may see in Oxford Catalogue but more in that publised by Will. London a Bookseller an 1658. Thom. Hill M. A. of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Tychmersh in Northamptonshire one of the Assembly of Divines a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber ejected and Vicechancellour of the said University He hath published several Sermons as 1 The trade of truth advanced preached before the H. of Commons at a Fast 27 Jul. 1642 on Prov. 23. ver 23. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Militant Church triumphant over the Dragon and his Angels Serm. before both Houses 21 Jul. 1645 on Rev. 12. 11. Lond. 1643. qu. 3 The reason for Englands self-reflection an extraordinary Fast-sermon 13 Aug. 1644 before the two Houses on Haggai 1. 7 8. 4 The right separation encouraged Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 27 Nov. 1644 on 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. Besides others as also his Best and worst of Paul an Exercise in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. printed 1648 and his collecting into one quarto Vol. several of the theological Tracts of the aforesaid Will. Fenner printed at Lond. 1651. You may see more of him the said Th. Hill in Anth. Tuckney's Sermon at his Funeral with an account of his Life and Death printed in 1654 in oct Besides this Dr. Tho. Hill was another also who was Minister of Brodfield in Suffolk and died there in the Winter time 1638 but hath nothing extant as I can yet see and a third Dr. Tho. Hill you may see in my discourse of Dr. George Abbot among the Writers an 1633. num 612. Thom. Thorowgood M. A. He was afterwards Bach. of Div. Rector of Grymston in Norfolk and one of the Assembly of Divines Among several things that he hath published are 1 Jews in America or probabilities that Americans are of that race c. Lond. 1650. qu. 2 Moderation justified c. Fast-serm before the H. of Commons 26 Dec. 1644 on Phil. 4. 5. Lond. 1645. qu. c. All which Cantabrigians with many more besides 13 Bachelaurs of Arts were incorporated on the 9 Jul. before mention'd Feb. 28. Thom. Freaer or Fryer Doct. of Phys of the University of Padua He was at this time a practitioner in the City of London and dying in the beginning of 1623 about two months
acknowledgement of his Supremacy in this Realm would be in danger and in the 25. of the said King was judgment given on his behalf for taking place before the Lord Dcres of Gilsland His younger Years were adorned with all kind of superficial Learning especially with Drammatick Poetry and his elder with that which was divine and therefore worthily characterized to be vir liter is clarus ac genere nobilitate conspicus His writings have been Several Comedies and Tragedies Declaration of the Psalm 94. Deus ultionum Dominus Lond. 1539. oct Lives of Sectaries With other things which I have not yet seen He was living an Ancient Man and in esteem among the Nobility in the latter end of Henry 8. The Reader is now to know that there was another Hen. Parker who wrot a Book intit Dives pauper A compendious treatise an exposition upon the ten Commandments Lond. 1496. fol. There again in 1538 and 1586. oct Which Henry being a Carme of Doncaster in Yorkshire and D. of D. of Cambridge in the time of Ed. 4. must not be taken to be the same with the former EDWARD POWELL was born of British blood within the Principality of Wales educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals in Oxon and was afterwards if I mistake not Fellow of Oriel Coll. for one of both his names occurs Fellow of that House in 1495. After he had taken the Degrees in Arts he gave himselfe solely up to Divinity and in that faculty he became a noted Disputant On the 2. of Nov. 1501. he was admitted to the rectory of Bledon in the of Wells on the death of Mr. Micb. Clyffe and afterwards took the Degrees in Divinity In 1508. he by the favour of Edm. Audley B. of Sarum was collated to the Prebendship of Bedmyster and Redclyve having a little before been admitted Preb. of Lyme and Halstock in the said Church This E. Powell was the Person who for his great learning and undaunted courage was entertained as an Advocate by Qu. Catherine when K. Hen. 8. sought cause for a divorce from her and the same who before had shewed himself very zealous in disputing and writing against M. Luther his Disciples and Doctrine for which the University of Oxon did not only congratulate him for his pains but also in an Epistle to the said Bishop Audley they thus honorably speak of him res ea Oxoniensium quorundam ingeniis discutienda permittitur inter quos eximius ille Edoardus Powell Theologiae condidatus tuae Sarisburiensis Ecclesiae ut vocant Canonicus connumeratus est Is enim ex quo res primum in Literarium certamen venit tam assiduus semper fuit tantum operae ac diligentiae impendit tam denique eruditè adversus eas hereses invectus est ut ex suis immensis laboribus vigilantissimisque studiis nostrae Academiae nonnihil attribui laudis facile auguramur c. Farther also when the University wrot to K. Hen. 8. to certifie him of certain Doctors of Divinity of their own Body that had lately written each of them a Book against M. Luther they make this especial mention of our Author Powell and his Book Editionem tamen Doctoris Poveli tanquam praecipuam lucidam quendam gemmam visum est nobis seligere is siquidem ut est vir summâ gravitate eruditione praeter immensos labores frequentiaque ejus itinera tantam in hâc re exhibuit vigilantiam ut nisi eum eximiâ efferemus laude videamur plane injurii aut potius inbumani Hanc suam editionem in duos potissimum digessit libellos quorum prior de summo extat pontifice Eucharistiaeque Sacramento Posterior de reliquis sex Sacramentis Hunc tuae celsitudini sic commendamus virum ut quamvis eum habeas perquam gratum habeas quaesumus nostrâ tamen commendatione gratiorem c. As for the title of the said Book it runs thus Propugnaculum summi sacerdotii Evangelici ac septenariâ— sacramentorum adversus Mart. Lutherum fratrem fumosum Wiclefistum insignem lib. 3. Lond. 1523. qu. Another Book of his making is intit Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Regis cum Catherinâ matrimonio lib. 1. and other matters as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen At length for his denial of the King's Supremacy over the Church of England whereby he despleased him far more than before he pleas'd him by writing against Luther he was committed to Prison and having received sentence to dye was on the 30. July in Fifteen hundred and forty hang'd year 1542 drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield near London with Tho. Abel whom I am about to name and Rich. Fetherston guilty of the same crime This Dr. Edw. Powell bestowed at least 30 l. about the time when he was licensed to proceed for the making of a double roof with painting gilded knots and lead for the Congregation house house which is now the upper room in St. Maries Church-yard joining on the North side to the Chancel of St. Mariâ—â— Church 22. Hen. 7. Dom. 15 6 7. THOMAS ABEL or Able took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1516 but what Degrees in Divinity I cannot find He was afterwards a Servant to Qu. Catherine the Consort of K. Hen. 8. and is said by a certain Author to be vir longe doctissimus qui Reginae aliquando in Musicorum tacta inguis operam suam navaret In 1529. and 30 he shewed himself a zealous Advocate against the divorce of the said Queen and a passionate enemy against the unlawful doings of the King At which time he wrot Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Catherinae matrimonio In 1534 he by the name of Tho. Able Priest was attainted of Misprision for taking part with and being active in the matter of Elizabeth Barton the holy Maid of Kent Afterwards denying the King's Supremacy over the Church was hang'd drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield year 1540 30. Jul. in Fifteen hundred and and forty having before as 't is thought written other things but lost I find another Tho. Able who hath written against the Gangraena of Tho. Edwards but he being a hundred Years later than the former for he lived in 1646. he must not be taken to be the same Person CHRISTOPHER SEINTGERMAN called by some Senyarmayn or Seyngerman Son of Sir Hen. Seintgerman Knight by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. Tindale Esq was born as I conceive in Warwickshire particularly at Shilton near to the City of Coventry in the Chappel or Church of which place his Father and Mother received Sepulture In his juvenile Years he was educated in Grammatical and Philosophical Learning among the Oxonians from whom by the advice of his Parents he was taken away and sent to the Inner Temple where by the benefit of his Academical Learning certain instructors in the municipal Laws and by his forward Genie and industry he became a
Guade a pious Priest and Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. This Preface with the Book it self all in the like Verse was published at Oxon. about 1584. in oct by George Etheridge a Physician sometimes Pupil to the said Joh. Shepery Vita Epicedion Johannis Claymondi Praesidis Coll. Corp. Chr. MS. in C. C. C. Library The beginning of which is Tristia quisquis ades c. written in long and short Verses He also translated from Greek into Latin several Books as Euripides his Hecuba and Seneca's Hercules furens something of Basil c. besides compositions in Poetry and Prose which after the Author's death came into the hands of George Etheridge before-mention'd who promised in the Year 1584. to make them publick but what hindred him unless death I know not As for our Author Sheperey he gave way to fate at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks in the Month of July in fifteen hundred forty and two year 1542 and was buried I persume in the Church there Soon after his death being known in Oxon divers ingenious and learned Men made Verses to his memory in Greek and Latin and caused them to be stuck up on St. Mary's Church doors to be read by the Academians as they passed by Some Persons whether for the sake of his memory or for Poetry I know not got copies of them very greedily and gathered all they could get to the end that with the help of Etheridge they might be published At length being put into the hands of Herman Evans a Stationer for that purpose he kept them till he could get more to be added to them but what hindered their birth I know not WILLIAM THYNNE otherwise Botevill was as it seems a Solopian born and educated among the Oxonians for a time Afterwards retiring to the Court became through several petite employments chief Clerk of the Kitchin to K. Hen. 8. and is stiled by Erasmus Thynnus Aulicus This Person who was poetically given from his Youth did make a search after all the works of Jeffery Chaucer the Prince of our English Poets many of which were then in MS. At length having collected all the ancient Copies of that Author he took great pains to correct and amend them Which being so done he put notes and explanations on and printed them altogether in one Volume in Folio not in double columns as they have been since and dedicated them to K. Hen. 8. an 1542 having been partly and imperfectly done several Years before by Will. Caxton Afterwards Joh. Stow the Chronologer did correct increase and publish them with divers ample notes collected out of several records and monuments All which he delivering to his Friend Tho. Speght a Cantabrigian he drew them into good form and method mixed them with his own and published them 1597. See more in Franc. Thynne under the Year 1611 who was as it seems descended from him Whether this Will. Thynne whom I have mentioned before be the same with Will. Thynne Esq one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth and master of the Houshold of K. Hen. 8. the same Will. Thynne I mean who died 10. Aug. 1546. and was buried in the Church of Allhallowes Barkin in London I am yet to learn I find another Will. Thynne Esq Brother to Sir John Thynne Knight who after he had travell'd through most parts of Europe return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and in the 1. Edw. 6. Dom. 1547. went into Scotland under the command of Edward Duke of Somerset to which Duke his Brother Sir John was Secretary where as an Eques catafractus that is a Chevalier arm'd cap a pee he performed excellent service in the Battel at Muscelborough against the Scots This Person I take to be the same to whom K. Hen. 8. by his Letters Pat. dat 8. May 38. of his Reign Dom. 1546. gave the office of general Receiver of two Counties in the Marches of Wales commonly call'd The Earl of Marches Lands At length when the infirmities of Age came upon him he gave himself solely up to devotion and was a daily Auditor of divine service in the Abbey Church at Westminster He surrendred up his Soul to him that gave it 14. March 1584 and was buried in the said Church opposite to the door leading into the Cloister Over his Grave was soon after erected a Monument of Alabaster and 100 Years after was another stately Monument erected near to it Westward for one descended from Sir Joh. Thynne beformention'd namely for Tho. Thynne of Langleat in Wilts Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. who was barbarously murder'd in the Pall-mall by a German Sweed and Pole on Sunday in the Evening 12. Feb. 1681. For whom was a large inscription made to be engraved on the said Monument but for certain passages therein reflecting on Justice and I know not what was not suffer'd to be put thereon JOHN HOKER was first Demie or Semicommoner afterwards Fellow of St. Mary Magd. College and in 1535. Master of Arts being then accounted excellently well read in Greek and Latin Authors a good Rhetorician and Poet and much commended for his facete fancy Leland is pleased to mention him in one of his works and to stile him not without desert Nitor artium bonarum He hath written Piscator or the Fisher caught a Comedy An Introduction to Rhetorick Poema de vero crucifixo Epigrammata varia and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Magd. Coll. in Fifteen hundred forty and three being then Bach. of Divinity of three Years standing as it appears in the Bursars accompts of that House I presume he died shortly after and not in 1541 as Bale and Pits do tell you EDWARD LEE Son of Rich. Lee of Lee-magna in Kent Esq Son of Sir Rich. Lee Knight sometimes twice Lord Mayor of the City of London was born in Kent particularly as I suppose at Lee before-mentioned sent to St. Mary Magd. Coll. about 1499 and took as 't is said one Degree in Arts but whether true I cannot justly affirm because the Register of that time and other writings are imperfect In the Year 1523 one Ed. Lee was admitted Bachelaur of Arts but him I take to be too late for this Edw. Lee whom we are further to mention Afterwards he went to Cambridge as one reports being probably driven hence by Pests that frequently then hap'ned in Oxon. Yet the Reader is to know that he is not reckoned among the Archbishops and Bishops which have been educated in that University by Dr. Matthew Parker in his Catalogue of them at the end of his Cat. of Chancellors Proctors c. thereof in his Edition of Antiquitates Britannicae c. Printed an 157 2-3 Howsoever it is I shall not dispute it only say that afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and his Almoner being then a violent Antagonist of Erasmus but whether greater in Learning than he or his equal was then
jus civile pertinent lib. 1. Lond. 1583. oct De legationibus lib. 3. Lond. 1585. qu. Hannov. 1607. oct Legalium comitiorum Oxoniensium actio Lond. 1585. oct De nascendi tempore disputatio Witeberg 1586. oct De diversis temporum appellationibus liber Witeberg 1586. oct Condicionum lib. unus Lond. 1587. oct De jure belli cemmentatio prima Lugd. Bat. 1588. qu. c. De jure belli com sec Lond. 1588. qu. c. De jure belli com ter Lond. 1589. qu. c. De injustitiâ bellicá Romanorum actio Ox. 1590. qu. Before which is an Epistle dedic to Rob. Earl of Essex wherein the author saith that he had then lying by him fit for the Press Defensio Romanorum disputatio de ipsorum justitia bellica But whether afterwards printed I cannot tell De Armis Romanis libri duo Hannov. 1599. oct c. Disputationes duae 1. De Actoribus Spectatoribus fabularum non notandis 2. De abusu mendacii Hannov. 1599. oct c. Duae literae ad Joh. Rainoldum de Ludis Scenicis Middleb 1599. Ox. 1629. qu. They are at the end of a book called The overthrow of Stage-plays See more in Jo. Rainolds and Will. Gager Ad primum Macbaeorum disputatio Franc. 1600. qu. It follows the notes of Joh. Drusius made on the said book De linguarum mixturâ disputatio pà rergica This disputation with the other immediately going before are remitted into the fifth vol. of Criticks p. 8073 8093. Disputationum de nuptiis libri vii Hannov. 1601. oct c. Lectionis Virgilianae variae liber Hannov. 1603. Written to Rob. Gentilis his Son Ad tit cod de Maleficis Math. de caeteris similibus commentarius Hannov. 1604. Item Argumenti ejusd commentatio ad lib. 3. cod de professoribus medicis Han. 1604. Laudes Academiae Perusianae Oxoniensis Hanov. 1605. oct Dedicated to Dr. Ralph Hutchinson President of S. Johns coll by Rob. Gentilis his Son then a Student in that house Disputationes tres 1. De libris juris Canonici 2. De libris juris Civilis 3. De latinitate veteris Bibliorum versionis male accusatâ Hannov. 1605. oct Disp 3. 1. De â—â—testate Regis absolutâ 2. De unione Regnorum Britanniae 3. De vi Civium in Regem semper injustâ Lond. 1605. qu. In Titulos codicis si quis Imperatori maledixerit ad legem juliam majestatis disputationes decem Hannov. 1607. Epistola ad Joh. Howsonum S. T. P. In which Epistle our author doth learnedly interpose his judgment concerning Dr. Pyes book of divorce Printed at the end of Dr. Burhills book intit In controversiarum c. an 1606. qu. See more in Tho. Pye an 1609. and in Rob. Burhill an 1641. The Reader is to note that besides the answers of Pye and Gentilis one Joh. Dove did prepare a third answer but whether it was ever printed I cannot tell Hispanicae advocationis libri 2. Hannov. 1613. qu. Comm. in tit Digestorum verborum significatione Hannov. 1614. qu. Discourse of Marriages by proxy Written to Egerton L. Chancellour of England These are all and enough too that I have seen written by this eminent Doctor Gentilis and whether any title is omitted I cannot justly say it He concluded his last day in the beginning of the year either in the latter end of March or beginning of Apr. in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 but where buried unless in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon is yet uncertain I have seen a copy of his Will written in Italian dat 14. June 1608. wherein he desires his body to be buried in the place and in such manner as his Fathers was as deep and as near to him as may be c. Where his Father Matth. Gentilis died or was buried it doth not yet appear to me Sure it is if the information of Sir Giles Sweit LL. D. who well remembred Alb. Gentilis be right it is evident that he the said Alb. Gentilis died in Oxon. He left behind him a Widdow named Hester who afterwards lived at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire where she died in 1648. ult Car. 1. and two Sons Robert and Matthew the first of which being afterwards a translatot of books I shall elsewhere remember RICHARD MULCASTER Son of Will. Mulcaster of Carlile in Cumberland Esq was born in that City or at least in the County educated in Grammaticals in Eaton School near Windsore elected Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge in 1548. took one degree in Arts there retired afterwards to Oxon where he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. an 1555. and the next year being incorporated Bach. of Arts here was licensed to proceed in that Faculty in Dec. 1556. Which degree being compleated by his standing in the Act celebrated 5. Jul. in the year following he became eminent among the Oxonians for his rare and profound skill in the Greek tongue Afterwards spending more than 4 years in Oxon in a continual drudgery at his book made so great proficiency in several sorts of learning which was exceedingly advanced by his excellencies in Grammar Poetry and Philology that he was unanimously chosen Master of the School erected in London 1561. in the Parish of St. Lawrence Pountney by the worshipful Company of the Merchant-Taylors of that City In which place exercising his gifts in a most admirable way of instruction till 1586. 28. Elizah in all which time it happily prospered under his vigilancy St. Johns coll in Oxon was supplied with such hopeful plants that it soon after flourished and became a fruitful Nursery In 1596. he succeeded one Joh. Harrison in the chief Mastership of St. Pauls School in London being then Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Sarum and soon after if not happily before had the rich Parsonage of Stanford-Rivers in Essex bestowed on him by Q. Elizabeth which he kept to his dying day He hath written Positions wherein those primitive circumstances be examined which are necessary for the training up of Children either for skill in their book or health in their body Lond. 1581. 87. qu. The first part of the Elementary which intreateth chiefly of the true writing of the English tongue Lond. 1582. qu. Whether there was a second part published I know not for I have not yet seen such a thing Catechismus Paulinus in usum Scholae Paulinae conscriptus Lond. 1599. 1601. c. oct Written in long and short vers He died at Stanford-Rivèrs before-mentioned 15. Apr. in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 having resign'd Pauls School 3 years before and was buried 26. of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there under a stone which he two years before had laid for his Wife Katherine on which he caused to be engraven that she was Wife to Richard Mulcaster by ancient parentage and lineal descent an Esquire born who by the most famous Q. Elizabeth's prerogativegift was made Parson of this Church c. JAMES COOK
Whereupon he wrote a vindication of himself in MS. now in the hands of a near relation of his At length after a great deal of pains taken for the benefit of the Church he gave up the Ghost at Horninger before mention'd otherwise called Horningshearth whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there under a rough unpolished and broken Gravestone without name or Epitaph 22. Febr. in sixteen hundred and fifteen as the Register of that Church tells us which I presume follows the English accompt and not the common as many country Registers do I find one Tho. Rogers a Cheshire man born to have been admitted Student of Ch. Ch. 1547. aged 24. or more being then Bac. of Arts and soon after made Master What relation he had to the former Th. Rogers I know not Another Tho. Rogers I find who was born in Glocestershire in or near to Tewksbury lived mostly in his latter days in the Parish of S. Giles in the fields near London and published a Poem entituled The tears or lamentations of a sorrowful Soul Lond. 1612. qu. written by Sir Will. Leighton Knight one of his Majesties band of Pensioners To which the said Tho. Rogers added of his own composition a Poem called Glocesters mite But this Tho. Rogers is quite different from the Divine before mention'd RICHARD NICCOLLS esteemed eminent for his Poetry in his time was born of Gentile Parents in London and at 18 years of age an 1602. was entred a Student in Mag. coll in Michaelmas-Term but making little stay there he retired to Mag hall and took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1606. being then numbred among the ingenious persons of the University After he had remained there for some time he retired to the great City obtained an employment suitable to his faculty and at length honoured the Devoto's to Poetry with these things following The Cuckow a Poem Lond. 1607. in qu. Dedicated to Mr. after Sir Thom. Wroth a favourer of his Muse The fall of Princes Lond. 1610. qu. A winter nights Vision Lond. 1610. qu. being an addition of such Princes especially famous who were exempted in the former History meaning in the History called The mirrour of Magistrates written in Verse by John Higens of Winceham an 1586. qu. This mirrour which was esteemed the best piece of Poetry of those times if Albions England which was by some preferred did not stand in its way contained the lives of some of our Kings and Queens and was exceedingly admired by ingenious Scholars and others Momodia Or Walthams complaint upon the death of the most vertuous and noble Lady late deceased the Lady Honor Hay Lond. 1615. oct I find another Rich. Niccolls who is stiled the Elder and of the Inner Temple Gent. who wrote 1 A Treatise setting forth the mysterie of our Salvation 2 A day Star for dark wandring souls shewing the light by a christian controversie Both which were published after the authors death at Lond. 1613. in oct But whether this R. Niccolls the Elder was ever of this University I find not as yet EDWARD EVANS a noted preacher of his time in the University was born in Denbighshire applyed his eager mind to Academical studies in Ch. Ch. an 1598. aged 16. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1607. and afterwards published Verba dierum Or the days report of Gods glory in four Sermons or Lectures upon one text in the University of Oxon. on Psal. 19. 2. Oxon. 1615. qu. Another of both his names I find to have been born at Westmeane in Hampshire admitted fellow of New coll 1595. and that he took the degree of M. of A. 1602. But this person leaving his fellowship in 1604. and so consequently the University he is not to be taken for the same who published the four Sermons before mention'd JOHN HEATH more famous for his Poetry than the former for his preaching was born at Stalls whether a hamlet or House I know not in Somersetshire educated in Wykehams School admitted Perpetual fellow of New coll 1607. aged 22. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1613. and three years after left his Fellowship But before that time when he was Bach. of Arts he wrote and published Two centuries of Epigrams Lond. 1610. in tw and had verses printed in several books that occasionly were published particularly in that on the death of Sir Th. Bodley Kt. He hath also made a translation from Spanish into English which I have not yet seen and wrote other matters fit for the Press but whether ever printed I cannot tell THOMAS BILSON Son of Harman Bilson the same I suppose who was fellow of Merton coll an 1536 Son of Arnold Bilson son and heir of Arnold Bilson a Native of High Germany by his Wife the Daughter natural or legitimate I know not of the Duke of Bavaria was born in the City of Winchester fitted for the University in Wykeham's School there admitted Perpetual fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1565. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a most solid and constant preacher in these parts and elsewhere Afterwards he was Schoolmaster say some then Prebendary of Winchester Warden of the coll there Doctor of Divinity and at length Bishop of Worcester to which See being consecrated 13. June 1596. was translated thence to Winchester in the year following and made one of his Majesties Privy Councellours He was as reverend and learned a Prelate as England ever afforded a deep and profound Scholar exactly read in Ecclesiastical authors and with Dr. Rich. Field of Oxon. as Whittaker and Fulke of Cambridge a principal maintainer of the Ch. of England while Jo. Rainolds and Tho. Sparke were upholders of Puritanism and Non-conformity In his younger years he was infinitely studious and industrious in Poetry Philosophy and Physicks and in his elder in Divinity To which last his genie chiefly inviting him he became so compleat in it so well skill'd in Languages so read in the Fathers and Schoolmen so judicious in making use of his readings that at length he was found to be no longer a Souldier but a Commander in chief in the spiritual warfare especially when he became a Bishop and carried prelature in his very aspect His works are Of the true difference between Christian subjection and unchristian rebellion wherein the Princes lawful power to command and bear the Sword are defended against the Popes Censure and Jesuits Sophismes in their Apology and defence of English Catholicks Also a demonstration that the things reformed in the Church of England by the Laws of this realm are truly Catholick against the late Rhemish Testament Oxon. 1585. Lond. 1586. in 4. parts in a thick oct In the third part of which is answer'd Dr. Will. Allens Defence of Engl. Cath. before mention'd It must be now noted that whereas in England the interest of the State had
month of Decemb. or thereabouts an 1666. leaving Issue behind him a Daughter RICHARD MARTIN Son of Will. Martin by Anne his Wife Daughter of Rich. Parker of Sussex fourth Son of Rich. Martin of the City of Exeter second Son of Will. Martin of Athelhampton in the Parish of Puddle-towne in Dorsetshire Knight was born at Ottertâ—n in Devonshire became a Commoner of Broadgates hall now Pembroke coll in Michaelmas Term 1585. aged 15. and not in Trinity coll as I have formerly by a mistake told you where by natural parts and some industry he proved in short time a noted disputant But he leaving the said honse before he was honoured with a degree went to the Middle Temple where after he had continued in the state of Inner Barrester for some years was elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament 1601. was constituted Lent-Reader of the said Temple 13. Jac. 1. and upon the death of Sir Anth. Benn was made Recorder of the City of London in Sept. 1618. Which place he enjoying but little more than a month was succeeded therein by Sir Rob. Heath There was no person in his time more celebrated for ingenuity than R. Martin none more admired by Selden Serjeant Hoskins Ben. Johnson c. than he the last of which dedicated his Comedy to him called The Poetaster K. James was much delighted with his facetiousness and had so great respect for him that he commended him to the Citizens of London to be their Recorder He was worthily characterized by the vertuous and learned Men of his time to be Princeps amorum Principum amor legum lingua lexque dicendi Anglorum alumnus Praeco Virginiae ac Parens c. Magnae orbis os orbis minoris corculum Bono suorum natus extinctus suo c. He was a plausible Linguist and eminent for several Speeches spoken in Parliaments for his Poems also and witty discourses All that I have seen of his are Speech and Discourses in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Q. Elizab. Speeches delivered to the King in the name of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex Lond. 1603. 1643. qu. Various Poems He died to the great grief of all learned and good men on the last day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 and was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples Over his grave was soon after a neat Alabaster Monument erected with the Effigies of the Defunct kneeling in his Gown with 4 verses engraven thereon under him made by his dear Friend Serjeant Hoskins before-mentioned a copy of which you may see elsewhere This Monument was repaired in 1683. when the Choire and Isles adjoyning belonging to the Temple Church were new-wainscoted and furnished with seats He gave by Will to the Church of Otterton where he received his first breath 5 l. and to the Church of Culliton-Raleigh in Devon where his House and Seat was 5 l. ROBERT MANDEVILL a Cumberland Man born was entred either a Batler or Servitour of Queens coll in the beginning of the year 1595. aged 17. where remaining a severe Student till he was Bach. of Arts he retired to St. Edmunds hall and as a Member of it proceeded in that Faculty In July 1607. he was elected Vicar of Abby-Holme commonly called Holm-Cultram in his own County by the Chancellour and Scholars of this University Where being setled he exercised with great zeal his parts in propagating the Gospel against its Oppugners not only by Communication and Preaching but by his exemplary course of Life and great Piety He shewed himself also a zealous Enemy against Popery and the breaking of the Lords day by prophaning it with merchandizing and sports and endeavoured as much as in him lay for he was a zealous Puritan to perswade his Parishioners and Neighbours to do those things on Saturday which they used to do on the Lords day The truth is he was in the opinion of those of his Perswasion a great Man in his profession for he solely bent himself to his studies and discourses for the promotion of Religion and the word of God He hath written Timothy's Task two Sermons Preached in two Synodal Assemblies at Carlile on 1 Tim. 4. 16. and on Acts 20. 28. Oxon. 1619. qu. published by Tho. Vicars Fellow of Qu. coll Theological Discourses He died in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 and was buried at Holm-Cultram before-mentioned Here you see I have given you a character of a zealous and religious Puritan The next in order who is to follow is one who was a most zealous R. Catholick but far more learned than the former and not to be named or compared with him RICHARD STANYHURST Son of James Stanyhurst Esq was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland of which City his Father was then Recorder educated in Grammar learning under Peter Whyte mentioned under the year 1590. became a Commoner of Vniversity coll in 1563. where improving those rare natural parts that he was endowed with wrote Comment arises on Porphyry at two years standing being then 18 years of age to the great admiration of learned men and others After he had taken one degree in Arts he left the College retired to London became first a Student in Furnivals Inn and afterwards in that of Lincoln where spending some time in the study of the Common Law he afterwards went into the Country of his Nativity for a time But his mind there changing as to his Religion he went beyond the Seas being then a Married Man and in the Low Countries France and other Nations he became famous for his learning noted to Princes and more especially to the Archduke of Austria who made him his Chaplain his Wife being then dead and allowed him a plentiful Salary He was accounted by many especially by those of his Perswasion an excellent Theologist Grecian Philosopher Historian and Orator Camden stiles him Eruditissimus ille Nobilis Rich. Stanihurstus and others of his time say that he was so rare a Poet that he and Gabr. Harvey were the best for Iambicks in their age He hath written and transmitted to Posterity Harmonia sive catena Dialectica in Porphyrianas constitutiones Lond. 1570. fol. Which book being communicated to Eam Campian of St. Johns coll before it went to the Press he gave this character of the author Mirificè laetatus sum esse adolescentem in Acad. nostra tali familia eruditione probitate cujus extrema pueritia cum multis laudabili maturitate viris certare possit De rebus in Hibernia gestis lib. 4. Antw. 1584. qu. Dedicated to his Brother P. Plunket Baron of Dunsany Rerum Hibernicarum appendix ex Silvestro Giraldo Cambrensi collecta cum annotationibus adjectis Printed with De rebus in Hib. c. Descriptio Hiberniae Translated into English and put into the first vol. of Raphael Holinsheds books of Chronicles Lond. 1586. fol. De vita S. Patricii Hyberniae
will tell you He dyed in that parish in 1649. as I think but was not of the University of Oxon. PETER ALLIBOND an ingenious man in the opinion of all that knew him was born at Wardenton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where his name and family had for some generations lived became a Student of Magd. hall in the beginning of 1578. aged 18. years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts travelled for some time beyond the Seas and at his return became Rector of Cheyneys in Bucks Where continuing many years did much improve the ignorant with his found doctrine What he hath written I know not nor translations which he hath made only these two from French into English viz. 1 Comfort for an afflicted conscience wherein is contained both consolation and instruction for the sick c. Lond. 1591. oct written by John de L'espine 2 Confutation of the popish transubstantiation together with a narration how that the Mass was at sundry times patched and pieced by sundry Popes c. Lond. 1592. oct And a translation from Lat. into English entit The golden chain of Salvation Lond. 1604. qu. written by Harman Renecher This Pet. Allibond died on the sixth day of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Cheyneys before mention'd leaving then behind him three Sons one of which was called John a witty man of Magd. coll whom I shall mention elsewhere another named Peter of Linc. coll Proctor of this University in 1640. and a third Job who changing his Religion to which he had been carefully brought up for that of Rome which was the reason I presume why his name was omitted in his Fathers Will did at length get a place in the Post Office which kept him and his in a comfortable condition This Job was Father of Rich. Allibond a Barrester of Grays Inn who being also a Roman Catholick was not only Knighted by K. James 2. but also made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench to which Office he was sworn by the name of Rich. Allebone 28. Apr 1687. He dyed at his house near to the back part of Grays Inn 22. of Aug. 1688. aged 47 years of thereabouts and was buried on the fourth of Sept. following at Dagenham in Essex near to the grave of his Mother JAMES LEY a younger Son of Henry Ley of Teffont-Evias in Wilts Son of Henry Ley of Ley in the parish of Bere-Ferres in Devonsh Esq was born at Teffonts-Evias became a Commoner of Brasenose coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 17. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and on the first of May 1577. he was admitted a Student of Lincolns Inn where making great proficiency in the Municipal Law which was much advanced by his Academical learning he became a Councellour of great repute was call'd to the Bench. 22. Eliz. and in the 44. of that Qu. was Lent reader of that Inn. After which his profound learning and other great abilities deservedly rais'd him to sundry degrees of honour and eminent employment For in the 1. of Jac. 1. he was called to the state and degree of Serjeant at Law and in the year following he was constituted Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in Ireland in which place he continued till Mich. term 6. Jac. 1. and then being a Knight he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries in England Shortly after he obtained a Privy Seal from the Kings Maj. dat 15. May 7. Jac. 1. to take place in the said Court of the Kings Attorney General which till then was never used but since hath constantly been observed By virtue of that Seal and by appointment of Rob. Earl of Salisbury then Master of the said Court he took the place the same day of Sir Hen. Hobart Knight then Attorney General to his Majesty During his continuance in that place he was made a Baronet and in the 18. Jac. he was removed from that Court having been Attorney 12 years and upwards and was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in England In 22. Jac. he was made Lord High Treasurer of Engl. and a Counsellour of State and on the last day of the same month he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron by the title of Lord Ley of Ley before mentioned In the 1. of Car. 1. he was created Earl of Marlborough in wilts and in the fourth of that King he resign'd his place of Treasurer and was made Lord President of the Council He was a person of great gravity ability and integrity and of the same mind in all conditions He hath written Treatise concerning Wards and Liveries Lond. 1642. oct composed by the author while he was Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Reports of divers resolutions in Law arising upon cases in the Court of Wards and other Courts at Westminster in the Reigns of King James and King Charles Lond. 1659. fol. He also collected with intentions to publish some of the historical writers of Ireland for which end he caused to be transcribed and made fit for the Press the Annals of John Clynne a Friâ—r Minor of Kilkenny who lived in the time of K. Ed. 3. the Annals of the Priory of St. John the Evangelist of Kilkenny and the Annals of Multifernan Resse and Clonmell c. But his weighty occasions did afterwards divert his purpose After his death the copies came into the hands of Henry Earl of Bathe who also did intend to make them publick but what diverted him I cannot tell Our author Sir Jam. Ley E. of Marlborough ended his days in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 14. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church of Westbury in Wilts in which Parish he had purchased an Estate Over his grave was soon after a stately monument erected by Hen. Ley his Son who succeeded him in his honour begotten on the body of his Father's first Wife named Mary Daughter of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach and Tetsworth in Com. Oxon Esq THOMAS VICARS who writes himself Vicarsus and de Vicariis was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland made his first entry into Queens coll in the beginning of 1607. aged 16. where after he had been a poor serving Child Tabarder and Chaplain he was elected Fellow 1616. being then M. of A. Six years after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he being esteemed an able Theologist Preacher and well qualified with other learning was taken into the Family of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester and by him preferr'd after he had married his Daughter Anne to the Vicarage of Cockfield near Horsham in Sussex and as it seems to a Dignity in the Church of Chichester His works are Manuductio ad artem Rhetoricam ante paucos annos iâ— privatum quorundum Scholarium usum concinnata c. Lond. 1621. oct there again 1628.
extracta necnon Medicorum Ethnicorum dictis authoritate comprobata Hoc est portionis tertiae pars tertia de pulsuum scientia Printed with the Catholicon Medicorum c. before-mentioned Philosophia Moysaica In qua sapientia scientia Creatoris Creaturarum sacra verèque christiana utpote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille lapis angularis Jesus Christus ad amussim enucleatè explicatur Goudae 1638. fol. Printed in English at Lond. 1659. fol. Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-spongum Mri-Fosteri Presbyteri ab ipso ad unguenti Armarii validit atem delendam ordinatum Hoc est spongiae M. Fosteri Presbyteri expressio elisio c. Goud 1638. fol. This book was printed at London in qu. in 1631. with this title The squeezing of Parson Foster's sponge ordained by him for the wiping away of the Weapen-salve See more in Will. Foster an 1633. Our author R. Fludd departed this mortal life in his house situate and being in the Parish of S. Katherine in Colman-street within the City of London on the eighth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven year 1637 whereupon his body being afterwards attended by an Officer or Herald of Arms to Bearsted before-mentioned was buried in the Chancel of the Church there under a stone which he before had laid for himself On which or else on a monument which he designed by his last Will to be made after the fashion of that of William Camden in the Abby Church of S. Peter at Westminster and to be set in the wall near to his grave was an Epitaph put a copy of which being printed elsewhere shall now for brevity sake be omitted HENRY GELLIBRAND received his first breath in the Parish of S. Botolph near to Aldersgate in London 17. Nov. 1597. became a Commoner of Trin. coll in 1615. took one degree in Arts about four years after being then esteemed to have no great matter in him At length upon the hearing of one of Sir Hen. Savile's Mathematick Lectures by accident or rather to save the sconce of a Groat if he had been absent he was so extreamly taken with it that he immediately fell to the study of that noble Science and conquered it before the time he proceeded in Arts. Soon after his name being up for his wonderful sufficiencies in Geometry and Astronomy he was elected Astronomy-Professor of Gresham coll in the place of Gunter deceased where tho he wrote and published many useful things yet he suffer'd Conventicles being himself a Puritan to be kept in his lodgings His works are Trigonometria Britannica Goudae 1633. fol. Appendix concerning longitude Lond. 1633. qu. Which is at the end of Capt. Tho. James his Strange and dangerous Voyage in his intended discovery of his northern-east passage into the South Sea A discourse Mathematical of the variation of the Magnetical Needle Together with its admirable diminution lately discovered Lond. 1635. qu. The institution Trigonometrical explaining the doctrine of dimension of plain and spherical Triangles c in oct Epitome of Navigation c. Lond. 1674. c. oct Several necessary Tables pertaining to Navigation A triangular Canon Logorithmical or a table of artificial Sines and Tangents c. Two Chiliads or the Logorithms of absolute numbers from an unite to 2000. Append containing the use of the Forestaff Quadrant and Nocturnal in Navigation These last 4 Treatises are printed with the Epitome of Navigation Treatise of building of Ships MS. Which after its authors death came into the hands of Edward Lord Conway Almanack for the year 1631. This was published under the name of his Servant Will. Beale But the author thrusting into it the Martyrs mentioned by John Fox and omitting divers Saints allowed by the Church of England as the Epiphany Annunciation of our Lady c. he and his man were called into question for it in the High Commission Court and brought into trouble The particulars of which you may see in a book intit Canterbury's Doom But the author of that book Will. Prynne endeavouring all the ways imaginable to bring envy on Dr. Laud then B. of London who did discountenance that Almanack very much the Reader therefore is not to believe every matter which that implacable person doth there set down Our author Gellibrand also wrote a Preface to and published Sciographia or the Art of Shadows c. Lond. 1635. in a large thick oct written by John Wells of Hampshire Esq a Rom. Catholick He also intended other matters but was untimely snatch'd away to the great loss of the Mathematical Faculty in the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven His body was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Broad-street within the City of London at which time Dr. Hannibal Potter his sometimes Tutor in Trinity college preached his Funeral Sermon shewing therein to the auditory the piety and worth that was sometimes in the body that lay dead before them His memory is preserved in the said coll by a Dial set up by him when he was there a Student on the east side of that Quadrangle which is now called the Old Quadrangle HENRY RAMSDEN a Yorkshire man born was admitted a Commoner of Magd. hall in 1610. took the degrees in Arts was elected Fellow of Linc. coll in 1621. and five years after leaving that place wherein he had advanced himself much in the Theological Faculty he became a Preacher in London was much resorted to for his edifying and puritanical Sermons and at length upon the death of Mr. Hugh Ramsden his Brother he was made Vicar of Halifax in his own Country After his death were published under his name Several Sermons as 1 The gate to happiness on Rom. 6. 8. 2 The wounded Saviour on Esay 53. 5. 3 Epicures caution on Luke 21. 34. 4 Generation of Seckers on Col. 3. 1. which four Sermons are intit A Gleaning of God's Harvest Lond. 1639. qu. Published by Joh Goodwin with his Epist before them He ended his days on the seventh of the Cal. of March in sixteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Halifax Over his grave is an inscription to his memory which being large I shall for brevity sake pass by In his Vicarage of Halifax succeeded Rich. Marsh D. D. afterwards Archdeacon and Dean of York JOHN HOSKYNS Senior elder Brother to Joh. Hoskyns whom I have mentioned under the year 1631. both the Sons of Joh. Hoskyns by Margery his Wife Daughter of Tho. Jones of Lanwarne was born at Mownton in the Parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire formerly belonging to the Priory of Lantony near Gloucester to the Prior of which place his Ancestor bore the office of Pocillator While this Jo. Hoskyns was a Child and intended by his Father for a Trade he was very importunate with him to make him a Scholar wherefore at 10 years of age he began his A B C and in
of Qu. Dec. 14. Geor. Warburton of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Div. created 1636. Feb. 1. Tobie Venner of S. Alb. Hall 16. Will. Higford of C. C. Coll. Winniffe Venner and Higford are to be remembred at large in the second Voll Adm. 111. Mast of Arts. June 26. Will. Laud of S. Joh. July 4. Thom. Thompson of Qu. 6. Rich. Lloyd of Linc. lately of Oriel 8. Rob. Fludd of S. Joh. Coll. Thom. Cheast of S. Maries Hall lately of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day He hath published 1 The way to life serm at Pauls Cross on Amos 5. 6. Lond. 1609. qu. 2 The Christian path-way Serm. at Pauls Cross ult June 1611 on Ephes 5. 1. Lond. 1613. qu. and perhaps other things Oct. 17. Jam. Mabb of Magd. Coll. 20. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Dorset by which Title he occurs in 1640. 31. Nath. Brent of Mert. Coll. Nov. 7. Rich. Carpenter Edw. Chetwind of 〈◊〉 Coll. Feb. 5. Tho. James Tho. Lydyat of New Coll. 19. Will. Chibald or Chiball of Magd. Coll. Adm. 88. Bach. of Div. May 29. Christoph Sutton June 28. Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. Jul. 19. Will. Bradshaw of Vniv. Coll. lately M. of A. of Balliol I set him down here not that he was a Writer but to distingtuish him from another of both his names who was sometimes Fellow of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a writer and publisher of several Theological Tracts the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue ☜ Not one Doct. of the Civ Law was admitted Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Gifford of New Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick did afterwards practise in London and was one of the College of Physicians He died in a good old age in 1647 and was buried in the Parish Church of Hornchurch in Essex near to the body of his Wife Doct. of Div. Jul. 8. Thomas Maxfield of St. Edmunds hall He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity was about this time dignified in the Church and dying about 1604 was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ashe in Kent of which Church he was Rector Incorporations Jun. 7. Thom. Ridley Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge This learned Person who was the Son of Thomas Son of Lancclot Son of Nicholas Ridley of Willymonds Wyke in Northumberland Esq was born in the City of Ely educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near to Windsore in Academical in Kings Coll. in Cambridge of which he was Fellow Afterwards he became Schoolmaster of Eaton one of the Masters of the Chancery a Knight Chancellour to the B. of Winchester and Vicar-general to George Archb. of Canterbury He was a general Scholar wrot A view of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law and dying 23. of January 1628 was buried on the 27. of the same month in the Parish Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London Jul. 8. Sam. Heron D. of D. of the same University was then incorporated Doct. of that faculty He was Fellow of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge and dying about the latter end of the yeare 1615 was buried either in the Chap. belonging to that Coll. or in the Chancel of Market Fankenham in Norfolke where he had some cure A Person of eminent note who writes himself Samuel Hieron was born at or near to Epping in Essex educated in Eaton School elected Scholar of Kings Coll. 1590 where while he was Bach. of Arts he became eminent for his Preaching About that time he had a pastoral charge confer'd upon him by Mr. Hen. Savile Provost of Eaton College but the Church of Modbury in Devonshire soon after falling void he was presented thereunto by the Provost and Fellows of Kings Coll. where being setled he was much admired and resorted to for his practical way of preaching While he continued there he published several Sermons which with many others lying by him he remitted into one volume printed at London with certain Prayers at the end an 1614. fol. He died at Modbury in 1617 aged about 45 and was buried in the Church there After his death many of his Sermons and Lectures that had not before seen the light were collected together by one Rob. Hill whom I shall mention among the Incorporations 1604 who causing them to be printed in fol. 1620 are known by the name of the Second vol. of Mr. Sam. Hierons works These things I thought good to let you know to the end that what was written by Sam. Hieron might not be attributed to Sam. Heron. Jul. 10. Roger Manors Earl of Rutland M. A. of the said Univ. of Cambridge He was an eminent Traveller and a good Soldier was afterwards sent Embassador by K. Jam. 1. to the King of Denmark and dying 26. June 1612. was buried at Botsford in Leycestershire Jul. 11. Edw. Aubrey Joh. Bladworth Christop Wyell Bac. of Law of Camb. Joseph Hall M. of A. of the same Univ. was then also incorporated In 1611. Oct. 30. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. King to the See of London and in Dec. 1616 he became Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Arth. Lake promoted to the See of Bathe and Wells He was afterwards first the most learned and religious Bishop of Exeter and afterwards of Norwych Laurence Bend Doct. of Div. of the said Univers was also then Jul. 11. incorporated Creations On the tenth of July these Knights and Esquires following were actually created Masters of Arts with one Lord. Thomas Lord Burgh Sir Christoph Blount Kt. He was beheaded on Tower-hill an 1601 for being deeply engaged in the treasons of Robert Earl of Essex Anthony Pawlet Francis Knollis Knights The last was Son of Sir Franc. Knollis mention'd among the Creations an 1566 and among the Writers an 1596. He was sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. and was now valued for his learning by Dr. Joh. Rainolds Rob. Osbourne Rob. Digby Rob. Vernon Esquires About this time Abraham Scultetus was a Sojouâ—nour in Oxon and much favoured by both the Abbots George and Robert He was afterwards a most eloquent Preacher a learned Divine and Author of several books which shew him to have been profound in Divinity Antiquity and Ecclesiastical History He died at Embden in E. Frislandt 24. Oct. 1626. and was there buried An. Dom. 1599. An. 41 Eliz. An. 42 Eliz. Chancellour the same Vicechanc. Dr. Tho. Thornton again Jul. 16. Proct. Will. Osbourne of All 's Coll. Franc. Sidney of Ch. Ch. Apr. 18. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 24. Barnab Potter of Qu. Coll. He was afterward Bishop of Carlile Jun. 18. Anth. Duck Jul. 8. George Hakewill of Exet. Coll. 23. Brian Twyne Tho. Jackson of C. C. Coll. Oct. 25. Norwych Spackman of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1602. Thom. Broad of St. Alb. hall was admitted the same day Jan. 29. Barthelm Parsons of
Physick of Leyden in Holland was then incorporated In the year following he was admitted candidate of the College of Physicians at London afterwards Fellow Censor Anatomy Reader Elector Register and Consiliarius but never President of the said College He hath certain Theses of the Quinsie in print and is stiled by those of his faculty Musarum Apollonis deliciae This Person who was Son of Baldwin Hamey alias de Hame Doctor of Phys of Bruges in Flanders by Sarah his Wife Dau and Heir of Pet. Oeyles of Antwerp Merchant died on the 14. May 1676 aged 76. years and was buried in the middle Isle or Nave of the Church of Chelsey St. Luke near London Feb. 27. Griffin Higgs made D. of D. of the University of Leyden in Holland about three weeks before this time was also then incorporated He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield This year but the day or month appears not was incorporated Doctor of Div. one Hen. Wickham of Kings College in Cambridge He was Son of Will. Wickham Bishop of Winchester was now Archdeacon of York or of the West-riding of Yorkâ—hire which Dignity he had obtained in the latter end of 1623 on the resignation of Dr. H. Hook and Residentiary of the Church there besides Prebendary of Southwell Chaplain in Ord. to K. Char. 1. and Rector of two Churches in Yorkshire In his Archdeaconty succeeded Dr. Rich. Marsh who was afterwards Dean of York Creations Oct. 10. Edm. Manwaring Bach. of Law and a Civilian belonging to the Kings Council in the North parts of England was actually created Doctor of the said faculty He was originally of Allsouls Coll. and as a member thereof took the Degree of Bach. of that fac 1605. Afterwards he was Chancellour of Chester and Father to Sir William Manwaring Serjeant Major to Col. Francis Gamuls Regiment in 1643 against the Forces raised by the Parliament against K. Ch. 1. Nov. 12. Thom. Dacres an Esquires Son of Exeter Coll. was actually created M. of Arts being then about to go with his Majesties Embassador into Foreign parts March 6. Raphael Throckmorton of Ch. Ch. was created M. of A. See among the created Doctors of Div. in 1660. An. Dom. 1630. An. 6. Car. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke who dying 10. Apr. as Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. Hall had several years before predicted Will. Laud D. of D. sometiâ—â—â— President of St. Johns Coll. now Bishop of London was elected into his place the 12. and confirmed the 28. day of the same month Vicechanc. William Smith D. of D. Warden of Wadham Coll. July 17. Proct. Ralph Austen of Magd. Coll. Hen. Stringer of New Coll. Presented Apr. 7. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 10. Edw. Fisher of Brasn June 3. Joh. Eedes of Oriel George Kendall of Ex. Coll. June 3. Hen. Jeanes Will. Durham of New Inn. 14. Hen. Hunt of Pembr Coll. 30. Lorenzo Cary of Ex. Coll. Son of Hen. Viscount Falkland and younger Brother to Lucius July 8. Oliver St. John of Trin. Coll. This Person who was Son of Sir Joh. St. John of Lydâ—ard Tregose in Wilts I set down here not that he was a Person afterwards eminent but only to distinguish him from Oliver St. John Son of Oliv. St. John of Caishoe in Bedfordshire Esq descended from the Family of the Earl of Bullingbrook educated in Catherine Hall in Cambridge afterwards in Lincolns Inn where he was a Counsellour of note especially after he had shewn his parts in arguing the case of Ship-money in behalf of Joh. Hamden Esq who refused the payment of it an 1637. In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totnes in Devâ—nshire to serve in the two Parliaments that began that year wherein shewing his activeness and readiness in speaking against several abuses he was first made Sollicitor and afterwards Attorney General purposely to mollifie his humour and to make him have a good opinion of the Kings cause But all God wot operated little or nothing in him as having been posses'd to the contrary by O. Cromwell whose kinswoman Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir of… Cromwell of Vpwood in Huntingdonshire he had before taken to his second Wife So that proceeding very zealously against the Prerogative and all that looked that way was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas was sent Embassador into the Netherlands an 1652 he being then commonly called Cromwells Dark-lanthorn Chancellour of the University of Cambr. c. and signally antimonarchical till the usurpation of Oliver Cromwell yet notwithstanding was one of the Lords of the other house After his Majesties restauration he being excepted to certain forfeitures which the Parliament then declared he retired to an estate at Long Thorp in Northamptonshire which he before had purchased and resided mostly there till the time of his death which hapned on the last of Dec. 1673 aged 75 years or thereabouts He hath Several speeches Arguments of Law and other things extant July 24. Thomas Barlow Gerard Langbaine of Qu. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Oct. 26. Joh Hulett of New Inn. Dec. 16. Thom. Granthan of Hart Hall Quaere Edward Gee of Brasn Jan. 19. Will. Stampe 27. John Toy of Pemb. Coll. Feb. 1. Lisâ—ibon Long of Magd. Hall This Person who was the eldest Son of Will. Long of Stratton in Somersetshire Esq went afterwards to one of the Temples become a Barrister sided with the rout in the time of the rebellion made Master of the Requests and Recorder of the City of London in the Reign of Oliver from whom he received the honour of Knighthood 15. Dec. 1656. He afterwards supplied the place of Speaker in the absence and indisposition of Chaloner Chute Esq in the months of Febr. and March an 1658 but Long being taken with a sudden disease in the last of those two months died on the sixteenth day thereof and Chute died not till the 14. Apr. 1659. As for Long he was esteemed by the Men of those times a Person of great integrity in the profession of the Law and for his particular affection to the service of Oliver Protector and to the Common-wealth Feb. 11. Tho. Widdowes of Magd. Tim. Taylor of Qu. Coll. 17. Rich. Kentish of Hart Hall I take him to be the same Rich Kentish who published a Sermon on Ephes 5. 2. Printed 1649. qu. 19. Thomas Greaves of C. Christi Mar. 3. Nich. Monke of Wadh. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Hereford All these Bachelaurs some few excepted will be largely mention'd in another volume Adm. 212. or thereabouts Bach. of Law July 1. Will. Sandbrook of Gloc. Hall Nov. 15. Rich. Napier of Alisouls Coll. 16. Will. Burton of Gloc. Hall lately of Qu. College Admitted 19. Mast of Arts. Apr. 15. John Barret of St. Edm. Hall This Person I here set down not that he was a writer but only to distinguish him from another of both his names and time who was educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards