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
coll to which he was partly in his life time but more at his death a special benefactor Afterwards he became Chancellor of the diocess of Worcester in the place of Dr. Thomâ— Hanybal an 1518. and about that time Archdeacon of Glocester and Warden of the collegiate Church of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire At length his abilities being made known to K. Hen. 8. he was by him employed beyond the Seas concerning state affairs was made Doctor of the Laws there one of the Kings Counsellors at his return a chief agitator for the King in defence of his divorce from his first Wife Qu. Catherine especially in the University of Oxon by endeavouring to gain the opinion of the members thereof concerning that matter as I have told you elsewhere and in 1531. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty as he had stood beyond the Seas In 1539. he was elected Bishop of Worcester the temporalities of which being restored to him on the fourth of Aug. the same year he was soon after consecrated In 1543. he abdicated or rather resigned his See but for what cause is yet uncertain Whereupon retiring to Clerkenwell near London lived there for some years year 1556 and dying on the eleventh day of August in fifteen hundred fifty and six was buried on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Islyngton near London By his last will k and test dated 10. of Aug. 1556. he bequeathed very liberally to the poor people of Stratford upon Avon before-mention'd to the poor of Bromesgrave in Worcestershire Tadcaster Wymbersley c. at which places 't is probable he had been beneficed He also gave 100 marks to certain poor Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge in which last University he seems to have received a part of his education One Joh. Bell D. D. was Dean of Ely and dying 31. of Octob. 1591. was buried in the Cath. Ch. there but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell HENRY MAN was bred a Carthusian Monk and of the Carthusians at Shene in Surrey became Prior which Monastery he with his brethren surrendring into the Kings hands at the dissolution of Religious houses had a Pension allowed to him for some years In 1539. he took the degrees in Divinity in this University of Oxon and in the latter end of Hen. 8. was made the second Dean of Chester in the place of one Tho. Clerk and about that time tho the year when appear not was promoted to the Episcopal See of the Isle of Man He departed this mortal life at London on the 19. of Oct. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 and was buried in the chancel of the Church of S. Andrew Vndershaft within that City In his Deanery succeeded VVill. Clyve or Clyffe LL. D. who had been Chantor and afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at York but the year when I cannot justly say or whether the said Dr. Man kept the said Deanery in commendam with his Bishoprick and in the See of Man succeeded Thom. Stanley as I shall hereafter tell you JOHN BYRDE was made Bishop of Bangor in 1539. and translated thence to Chester in 1541. but deprived of that See by Qu. Mary for being married in the year 1553. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded George Cootes of whom I have made mention before but died about an year before Byrde JOHN CHAMBERS a Benedictine Monk was partly educated in Oxon but more in Cambridge in which University he was as it seems admitted to the reading of the sentences In 1528. he was made Abbat of Peterborough in which Town he was born upon the decease of one Rob. Kirton and living to see his Monastery dissolved was by the favour of K. Hen. 8. nominated the first Bishop of that place when the said King by his charter dated 4. Sept. 1541 erected an Episcopal See there On the said day the temporalities of it were delivered to him and on the 23. of Oct. following was consecrated thereunto which is all I know of him only that he was a worldly man and that dying in the winter time before the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Peterborough The reader is now to know that Dr. Fr. Godwin doth in his Commentary of English Bishops tells us that the said Joh. Chambers was Doctor of Physick bred up in Merton college and afterwards Dean of S. Stephens cell in Westminster but very much mistaken for that John Chambers Bach. of Div. and Bishop died in 1556. as 't is before told you and the other who was Dr. of Physick and Dean died 1549. Pray be pleased to see more in the Fasti under the year 1531. among the incorporations ROBERT KYNGE was descended from the ancient Kings of Devonshire as the posterity of his brother Thomas say but where he was born unless in Oxfordshire I cannot justly tell While he was young being much addicted to religion and learning was made a Cistercian Monk and among those of that order did he for some years live in Rewley Abby in the West suburb of Oxon and partly as I conceive for the sake of learning among the Bernardins in their coll in the North suburb of the said City In 1506. he as a Cistercian Monk was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in 1510. 13. and 15. he supplicated to be licensed to proceed in Divinity by the title of a Monk of the order of S. Benedict in the last of which years he occurs Abbat of Bruerne near to Burford in Oxfordshire anciently founded for Monks of Cisteaux which is a branch of the Benedictine order as the Bernardins are In 1518. he proceeded in Divinity in an Act celebrated on the last of Febr. and afterwards was made Abbat of Thame in Oxfordshire the Monks of which were also Cistercians About the time that the Abbey of Osney near Oxon was to be dissolved he was made Abbat commendatary thereof being then a Suffragan or titular Bishop under the title of Roven Rovenesis in the province of Athens by which name or title I find him to occur in 1539. In 1542. when Oxford was made an Episcopal See by K. Hen. 8. and the Abbey of Osney appointed to be the place of habitation of the Dean and Canons of the Cathedral to be there he the said Rob. Kynge was made and constituted the first Bishop in the beginning of Sept. the same year at which time Glocester coll was appointed his Palace or place of residence the Abbats lodgings at Osney for the Dean and the other lodgings in that Abbey for the Canons and Officers belonging to the Cathedral In 1546. when the said Cath. Ch. at Osney was translated to Cardinal coll alias Kings coll or the coll of K. Hen. 8. in
of D. 1518. Mar. Richard Ferys a Carme See among the D. of D. 1513. Besides these three were seven more admitted of whom John Combe a Cistercian was one Doctors of the Civil Law June 28. Brian Hygden LL. Baâ—â— of Broadgates Hall now Pembroke Coll. was then admitted Doctor On the 26 May 1515 he was admitted Archdeacon of York or of the West Riding in Yorkshire on the Resignation of John Carver LL. D. On the 20. of June 1516 he was admitted Prehendary of Vlleskelf in the Church of Yorkâ— and on the 27 of the same Month Dean thereof in the place of John Young LL. D. Master of the Roâ—ls deceased He paid his last debt to Nature 5 June 1539 having before been a Benefactor to Learning as I have elsewhere told you and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of York In his Deanery succeeded Rich. Layton or Leighton LL. D. on the 26 of July the same year who on the 31 of June going before was admitted to the said Prebendship of Vlleskelf purposely to capacitate him for the Deanery This Dr. Layton was Chaplain and Counsellor to K. Hen. 8. and did act much to please the unlimited desire of that King In Oct. 1541 he under pretence of his Majesty's Pleasure converted the Silver Capsula gilt in which were then the bones of the head of S. William Archbishop of York reposed with the Jewels and Ornaments of it to the public use and benefit of the Church of York In 1544. Dec. 24. Nich. Wotton LL. D was installed by proxy Dean of York in Dr. Layton's place and in Wotton's Dr. Matthew Hutcon 8 Apr. 1567. Feb. 29. Rob. Froost was then admitted Dr. of the Civil Law but never stood in the Act to compleat that degree This year March 29. John Ashdowne mentioned before did supplicate just after he had been admitted Bac. of the Canon Law to be licensed to proceed in that Faculty but was not granted Robert Coke also LL. B. and Principal of Henxsey Hall in S. Aldates Parish did supplicate to be licensed to proceed in the Civil Law but was then denied Doct. of Div. May 12. John Heskins a Preaching or Black Fryer June 26. Edward Powell of Oriel Coll. stiled in his Admission perdoctus vir Oct. 24. Rob. Holyngbourne a Benedictine Monk and Warden or Guardian of Canterbury Coll. now part of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Dec. 13. Will. Gylbert a Canon regular and Prior of the Monastery at Brewton in Somersetshire Dec. 13. Tho. Mychell of Exeter Coll. Canon of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and of Wells Will. Fauntleroy of New Coll. was admitted the same day His Sister Elizabeth was Abbess of Amesbury Jan. 22. John Smyth a Minorite or Franciscan These also supplicated this year for the said degree viz. 1. Will. Gydyng M. of A. and Bac. of Div. 2. Sim. Pykeryng a Carme 3. John Wetwang B. D. a Cistercian c. Incorporations June 28. Will. Smyth Commissary to the Bishop of Lincoln and Doctor of Decrees in another University was then incorporated He was Nephew or near of kin to Dr. Will. Smyth Bishop of Lincoln was Archdeacon of Lincoln and dying in 1528 was succeeded in that Dignity by Rich. Pate M A. of Oxon as I have told you elsewhere among the Bishops An. Dom. 1507. An. 22 23 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Will. Warham before mentioned Commiss Will. Fauntleroy again John Thornden again John Avery D. D. of Linc. Coll. John Kynton again Proct. John Lane of New Coll. as it seems Austr Will. Thomson of Vniv. Coll. Bor. Apr. 15. But the junior Proctor dying in the Long Vacation Mr. Hugh Pole or Pool of All 's Coll. about this time Principal of Biham Hall supplied his place as senior Regent in the University till the fourth day of Nov. following and then Mr. Thom. Bentley of New Coll. being elected Proctor served out the remaining part of the year Bach. of Arts. June 19. John Blysse He hath this Character added to his Name in the Cat. of Fellows of Mert. Coll. he being of that Society Medicus Astronomus quam doctus Feb. 27. Rog Egworth or Edgworth of Oriel Coll. whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1560. Besides these two were at least 55 Bachelaurs admitted this year and 23 that supplicated for that degree that were not this year admitted Bach. of Law Four in the Civil and eight in the Canon Law were admitted Nine in the Civil and five in the Canon Law supplicated for that degree One was admitted Bach. of both the Laws and one to the Volumes One Hen. Rawlyns occurs Bach. of the Civil Law this year but his Admission is omitted and therefore all that I can say of him is that he became Archdeacon of Salisbury 10 Apr. 1524 upon the death of James Bromwich who had that dignity confer'd upon him 2 March 1523 after the decease of George Sydenham This H. Rawlyns who was Prebendary of Faringdon and had been thrice Preb. of Combe and Harnham in the said Church within the space of four years was made at the same time 10 Apr. 1524. Preb. of Husborne and Burbach in the said Church of Sarum He was also dignified in the Church of Wells Mast of Arts. Oct. 13. Hugh Aston Ashtyn or Ashton so many ways I find him written He became Archdeacon of York that is of the Westriding of Yorkshire upon the resignation of Brian Hygden in Sept. 1516 and dying in Decemb. 1522 was succeeded in that dignity by Tho. Winter in the year following as I shall tell you under the year 1525. I have made mention of one Hugh Aston a Musitian in Will. Forest among the Writers under the year 1558. Mar. 8. Thom. Makerel of Vniv. Coll. One Dr. Makerel Prior of Berlings in Lincolnshire headed the Commons of that County under the Name of Capt. Cobler when they rose against the King in 1536 upon the beginning of the desolution of Religious Houses or as some say because they would not pay a certain Tax Whether this Tho. Makerel be the same I cannot tell till I know the Christian Name of the Doctor John Stow saith that Dr. Makerel an Abbat and a Suffragan Bishop was drawn and hang'd at Tybourne about 29 March 1537 for denying the Kings Supremacy which I suppose is the same with him who was Prior of Berlings and the same perhaps who was incorporated Doctor of Cambridge 1516. Besides these two were eleven more that were admitted and four that supplicated that were not admitted this year Opponents in Div. May 10. Peter de Campo a Portuguese Dec. 10. Walt. Goodfield a Minorite See under the year 1510. Feb. 4. Edm. Vessy or Veysey a Benedictine Besides seven that supplicated who were all except one Benedictineâ— and Black Fryers Bach. of Div. Jun. 22. John Claymond the most deserving President of Magd. Coll. stiled in his Admission Vir discretus gravis multa doctrina percelebris Feb. 6. Gerardus Smyth a Minorite and others of no great account
following 12. Rich. Creke of Magd. Coll. Jan. 19. John Barefoot of C. C. Coll. Chaplain to Ambrose Earl of Warwick In 1581 he became Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of Dr. John Robinson mention'd among the Incorporations an 1566 and dying in 1595 was succeeded in that Dignity by Rich. Cleyton D. D. collated thereunto 29 August the same year After Cleyton followed John Hills D. D. Master of S. Catherins Coll. or Hall in Cambridge who was collated to it 21 Sept. 1612. He died in 1626 about the month of Sept. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Horsheath in Cambridgeshire where there was if not still a Monument in the Wall over his grave Jan. 19. Barthelmew Chamberlayne of Trin. Coll. Edmund Bunney of Mert. Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree in February but was not admitted Incorporations July 7. Edward Chapman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was soon after admitted Doctor as I have before told you 14. William Whitaker or Whittaker Bach. of Divinity of the said University This famous Divine for Learning and Life was born at Holme in the Parish of Burndâ—ey in Lancashire initiated there in Grammar learning taken thence by his Uncle Alexander Nowell Dean of Pauls and by him maintained in his house and put to the Free School there At eighteen years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge took the Degrees in Arts and the first thing that made him known for his excellency in the Gr. Tongue was the turning his Uncles Catechism into that Language Afterwards being famous for Theology he was made the Kings Professor in that Faculty and stood up in defence of the Protestant Religion and Church of England against Edmund Campian Nicholas Saunders William Rainolds Robert Bellarmine Thomas Stapleton c. At length having much impoverished his weak Body by continual study even at that time when the Question was so rise among the Divines Whether a true and justifying faith may be lost he was freed from this Body of flesh and lost his life having left behind him the desire and love of the present times and the envy of Posterity that cannot bring forth his parallel He gave way to Fate 4 December an 1595 aged 47 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge of which Coll. he had several years before been Master His Works are printed in Latin in two folio's at Genev. 1610. July 15. Gâ—vase Babington M. of A. of the same University of Cambridge He was a Nottinghamshire man born was Fellow of Trinity Coll afterwards Chaplain to Henry Earl of Pembroke Treasurer of Landaff and successively Bishop of Landaff Exeter and Worcester He published several Books of Div. which were all printed in one Volume in fol Lond. 1615 and go under the name of his Works He died in the year 1610 at which time he enriched the Library belonging to the Church at Worcester with many choice Books Brute Babington B. of A. of this University was incorporated the same day so also was William Cotton M. A. This person who was Son of John Cotton Citizen of Londâ—n third Son of Richard eight Son of John Cotton or Coton of Humpstable Ridware in Staffordshire was partly educated in Guildford School in Surrey afterwards in Queens Coll. in Cambridge and took the usual Degrees Some years after he became Archdeacon of Lewis Canon residentiary of S. Pauls Cath. Church and at length Bishop of Exeter He died at Silverton in Devon 26 August 1621 and was buried on the south side of the Choire or Presbytery of the Cath. Church at Exeter One William Cotton Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Oxon was admitted M. of A. in June 1577 but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell This year also Sept. 1. Edward Stanhope Doct. of the Civ Law of Trinity Coll. in the said University did supplicate in a Convention called simile primum that he might be incorporated in the said Degree which tho granted simpliciter yet it appears not that he was incorporated He was afterwards a Knight Chancellour to the Bishop of London and Vicar General to the Archb. of Canterbury He paid his last debt to Nature on the sixteenth day of March an 1608 and was buried near to the great north door within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London He was Brother to John Lord Stanhope of Harrington An. Dom. 1579. An. 22 Elizab. An. 22 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leicester Vicechanc. Tobie Mathew D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. July 14. Proct. Will. Zouch of Ch. Ch. Isaac Vpton of Magd. Coll. Elected in Congregation 29 April Bach. of Arts. May 16. Robert Abbot of Ball. Coll. Afterwards a deep Divine and Bishop of Salisbury 19. John Philipps The same I think who was afterwards B. of the Isle of Man June 3. Robert Sackvile of Hart Hall See among the Masters following Oct. 16. Edwyn Sandys of C. C. William Tooker Roger Hacket of New Coll. 22. Edward Philipps of Broadgates Jan. 14. Henry Perry of Glocester Hall 26. John King of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of London Feb. 12. Thomas Hariot of S. Maries George Carleton of S. Edm. Hall The first of which two was afterwards an eminent Mathematician and the other a Divine and B. of Chichester 17. Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall March 9. Lawr. Hyde of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a Knight and Attorney to Queen Anno the Consort of King Jam. 1. Thomas Savile was admitted the same day See among the Masters an 1584. Admitted 128 or thereabouts Bach. of Law Eight were admitted of whom Gervase Carrington was one who in 1576 had been installed Prebendary of Worcester on the resignation of Arth. Dudley M. of A. Mast of Arts. June 3. Robert Sackvile of Hart. Hall He was now three years standing in the University and was in honour to his noble Race admitted Bach. and Master of Arts in one and the same Congregation On the 13 of July following he was Senior of the Act then celebrated and in 1608 succeeded his Father in the Earldom of Dorset July 6. George Peele of Ch. Ch. 9. Hen. Smith of Hart Hall See among the Masters in 1583. 10. John Bond of New Coll. Thomas Hethe or Heath of All 's Coll. was adm the same day Adm. 75. Bach. of Div. May 4. Hieronim Schlick Count of Passan or Passaun Lord in Weiskirden and Slackenward who had studied two years in the University of Prague and five in Lips where he professed Divinity and twice in one year elected Rector of the Univ. of Marpurg was then admitted to the reading of the Sentences or as 't was now call'd to the reading of any book of S. Pauls Epistles that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity This the Members of the University did readily grant not only because he was an honorable person but also for that his Parents and Relations had suffered much in the Smalcaldic War for
He was a perfect hater of all indirect or fraudulent dealings being sincerely faithful to his Friends and well belov'd of all ranks and degrees of Men c. As for the two Physick Lectures which he gave to the University of Oxon I have largely mentioned elsewhere and upon what account they came to be settled in Merton Coll. and how the Readers whether Superior or Inferior are to read in the common Hall there to any of the University that will bestow the pains to be Auditors Those that have read the Superior Lecture who are called the Superior Readers and have received 12 l. per an for their pains have been these 1 Rob. Barons or Barnes Fellow of Mert. Coll. and a Learned Physician who was appointed after several others had read it by the nomination of the Feoffees of Tho. Lynacre by the Society of Merton Coll. with the consent of Cuhbert Tonstall the last surviving Feoffee an 1558. He the said Dr. Barnes died the 26. Oct. 1604. 2 Tho. Dotchen Med. D. of Magd. Coll. was elected by the Warden and Society of that of Merton Coll. 4. Nov. 1604. He died 29. Jan. following 3 Henry Bust M. D. of Magd. Coll. Elected 15. Feb. 1604. 4 Bartholomew Warner M. D. of St. Johns Coll. 12. Apr. 1617. Buried in Magd. Parish Church in the North Suburb of Oxon. 26. Jan. 1618. by the Body of Anne Dobson his sometimes Wife 5 Edw. Lapworth M. D. of Magd. Coll. originally of St. Albans Hall 9. Aug. 1619. He died at Bathe about the 23. May 1636. and was buried in the Church of St. Peter and Paul there having before resign'd this Lecture 6 John Bainbridge M. D. 25. May 1635. 7 Edw. Greaves M. D. of Allsouls Coll. 14. Nov. 1643. 8 Dan. Whistler M. D. of Merton Coll. 1. Aug. 1650. 9 Rich. Lydall M. A. of Mert. Coll. and Student in Phys 1. Aug. 1653. 10 Edm. Dickinson Med. D. of Mert. Coll. succeeded Dr. Lydall and after him hath been two or three or more THOMAS NIGHTINGALE who writes himself Philomelus was born in London and educated if I mistake not under Will. Lilye before he taught in Pauls School by whose endeavors he became excellent for the Latin Tongue and Poetry Afterwards being sent to this University he made proficiency in Logicals Philosophicals and the Civil Law Which last being the faculty he was noted for was admitted Bachelaur thereof in January 1515. Hence he retired to his Native place where for his wit and innocent mirth he was held in admiration by his contemporaries especially for the things he published as De obitu Johannis Colet Carmen In mortem Gulielmi Lilii Elegiae With other matters of the like nature which I have not yet seen He was in great esteem among Men in the sixteenth Year of King Hen. 8. but when he died I know not JOHAN de COLORIBUS by Birth an Outlander by Profession a Black Frier was a Reader of Divinity in this University several Years in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. and proceeded in Divinity 1517. Afterwards he became a favourite of Cardinal Wolsey by whose power he was appointed one of the learned Doctors of the University to write against Luther and in 1525. he was by him promoted to be a Member of his new erected Coll. at Oxon but in what capacity I know not He hath written Tract contra doctrinam M. Lutheri an 1521 with other things which I have not yet seen written when he was in great esteem among the Oxonians in Fifteen hundred twenty and five 17. of Hen. 8. and after WILLIAM de MELTON was a Yorkshire Man born as it seems had part of his Education among the Oxonians and at length being fam'd for his great knowledge in Philosophy Divinity and for his admirable way of Preaching became Chancellor of the Cathedral Church at York on the resignation of William Langton D. D. in the Month of January 1495 to which Office the Prebendary of Laghton in the said Church being annex'd he was admitted thereunto by the Name of Will. Multon 15. Jul. 1498. This Person whom some call Gul. Melitona report withal that he was Chancellor of Paris and by Order a Dominican but how true it is seeing that Baleus mentions no such thing I cannot yet discern His writings are Postilla in XII Prophetas MS. in the Library of the Dominicans at Bononia in Italy Comment in Epist ad Hebraeos MS. in the said Library the beginning of which is Narrabo nomen tuum c. Sermons in Evangelia Com. in Pentateuchum with other things mentioned by Baleus He concluded his last day in the latter end of the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 and was buried either in the Cathedral Church at York or in the Church of Acklam in which Town he made his Will 20. Aug. 1528. whereupon his Chancellorship was bestowed on Hen. Trafford a Licentiat in Divinity in Feb. the same Year JOHN SKELTON the eminent Poet of his time was originally if not nearly descended from the Skeltons of Cumberland and having been educated in this University as Job Baleus attests who stiles him Oxonii Poeta laureatus became highly renowned among Men for his Poetry and Philology Afterwards taking holy Orders he was made Rector of Dysse in Norfolk where and in the Diocess he was esteemed more fit for the Stage than the Pew or Pulpit The Reader is now to know that one John Skelton was made Vicar of Dultyng in the Diocess of Bath and Wells an 1512 upon the promotion of Hugh Ynge to the See of Meath in Ireland where having continued some Years without a degree as some Chancellors Archdeacons nay Priors Abbats and Deans have so done in their respective times and places did retire to Oxon study there with leave from his Diocesan and in July 1518. 10. Hen. 8. was admitted to the extraordinary reading of any Book of the Decretals that is to the degree of Bach. of Decrees which some call the Canon Law The next Year I find him to be made Rector of Westquamtoked in the said Diocess by the Name and Title of John Skelton Bach. of Decrees and in 1525. Rector of Clotwortley there But this Joh. Skelton I cannot take to be the same with him that was the Poet and Rector of Dysse who having been guilty of certain crimes as most Poets are at least not agreeable to his coat fell under the heavy censure of Rich. Nykke Bishop of Norwich his Diocesan especially for his scoffs and ill language against the Monks and Dominicans in his Writings In which also reflecting on the actions of Cardinal Wolsey he was so closely pursued by his Officers that he was forced to take Sanctuary at Westminster where he was kindly entertained by John Islipp the Abbat and continued there to the time of his Death Erasmus in an Epistle to King Hen. 8. doth stile this Poet Britannicarum Literarum lumen decus and
the Summer time before August in Fifteen hundred thirty and eight year 1538 30. Hen. 8. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Norbury before-mention'd Soon after was a blew Marble-stone laid over his Grave with an Inscription thereon which is now remaining His name and posterity are yet as I conceive living at Norbury Tissington and Somersal in Derbyshire and elsewhere JOHN HILSEY or Hildesley was of the same Family with those of Beneham in Berks. and they originally of the Hildesleys of Hildesley in the same County who being much addicted from his Childhood to Learning and Religion nothing was wanting in his sufficient Parents to advance them Whereupon falling under the tuition of a Dominican or Preaching or Black Frier was entred in his manly Years among the Brethren of that Order at Bristow and thence for a time was removed to the House of the Dominicans in the S. Suburb of Oxon purposely to initiate him in the supreme faculty and in some smattering of Philosophical Learning In the Month of May 1527 he supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences but whether he was admitted it does not appear through neglect in the publick Register and in Nov. 1532. he by the name and title of Pater Johannes Hylsey de ordine praedicatorum Bac. SS Theol. supplicated to proceed in Divinity Which being granted he was admitted but did not stand in the Act following to compleat that Degree So that how it comes to pass that a certain Author of note should say that he was Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge I cannot perceive seeing that his name doth not occur in the Catalogue of the Doctors of all faculties who proceeded at Cambridge from 1500 to 1571. Printed at the end of the first Edition of Antiquitates Britannicae Ecclesiae This Doctor Hilsey being elected Bishop of Rochester after the decollation of John Fisher had restitution made to him of the temporalities of that See 4. Oct. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535 where being settled he wrot A Manual of Prayers or Primer with the Epistles and Gospels Which Book being dedicated to Thomas Lord Cromwell was at his command published at Lond. 1539. in 8. He also wrot De veri corporis esu in Sacramento Ded. also to the said Cromwell Of which Book and its Author see in a piece of Lat. Poetry intit Diacosio-Martyrion written by Job White Warden of the College near Winchester afterwards successively B. of Linc. and Winchester As for our Author Dr. Hilsey I know not yet to the contrary but that he hath written other things having always been accounted a Learned Man but what the titles of them are I cannot tell nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying towards the latter end of the Year Fifteen hundred thirty and eight was year 1538 I presume buried in the Cathedral of Rochester In the said See succeeded Nicholas Heath as I shall tell you elsewhere among the Bishops JOHN MAJOR was born at Haddington within the Province of Lothaine in Scotland and trained up from his Youth in the Study of good Letters For some time he heard Philosophy taught in the Universities of England and in Cambridge by his own confession he studied for three Months space in Christ's College but upon what account he continued there no longer he tell us not In a certain note under the hand-writing of our Antiquary Brian Twyne it doth appear that he was conversant among the Oxonian Muses for a time but in what House unless in the Abbey of Osney whose melodious ring of Bells he doth familiarly commend I cannot tell After he had satisfied himself with the curiosities of both the Universities he retired to that of Paris settled in the College of Montacute passed his course there became Doctor of the Arts and of the holy Writ a most Scholastical Doctor of the Sorbon and in Scholastical Divinity Philosophy and Sophistry equal with any of his time His works are Liber fallaciarum part 2. Par. 1516. fol. The matter of this Book which by certain Authors is called Sophisticalia Parisiensia and by others his Opera Logicalia was read and discussed in publick in the Coll. of Montacute before-mention'd In quartum sententiarum quaestiones utilissimae Par. 1516. and 19. fol. dedicated to Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld and Rob. Cockbourne B. of Ross Comment in Mathaeum When printed I know not De auctoritate concilii supra Pontificem Maximum Par. 1518. Excerpted from his comments on Matthew and was reprinted in the first part of Job Gersons works at Paris 1606. fol. In primum sententiarum Par. 1519. fol. Dedicated to George Hepbourne Abbat of Arbroth and of the Privy Council to the King of Scots Historia Majoris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae lib. 6. Par. 1521. qu. Written in a Sorbonick and barbarotis stile yet very truly and with great liberty of spirit not sparing the Usurpation of Rome and taxing in divers places the laziness and superfuity of the Clergy In quatuor Evangelia expositiones luculentae disquisitiones disputationes contra a Hereticos plurimae Par. 1529. fol. He hath also written Placita Theologica and Sermones per an which I have not seen and hath translated Will. Caxton's Chronicle but whether into the Scotch or English Language I know not At length after or about the Year 1530. he retired into his own Country and professed Theology in the Coll. of S. Salvator at S. Andrews whereof he was made Provost and died there being of good Age but when I cannot yet find George Buchanan was his Scholar and bestoweth on him this Charater in studio Theologiae magnum nomen me puero habuit yet in his Epigrams he speaks slightly of him and his works Besides this Job Major I find two of both his names one was Author of In Psalmos Davidis Regis Prophetae paraphrasis heroicis versibus expressa Witeberg 1574. oct and another who was a Licentiat in Grammar of this University an 1452 but whether he hath written any thing in his faculty I know not HENRY PARKER Son of Sir Will. Parker Knight living sometimes at Halingbery morley in the Diocess of London by Alice his Wife Daugh. of Will. Lovell Esq by Alienour his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Rob. Lord Morley was with several other Nobles of his time educated in most kinds of Literature in this University Afterwards retireing to his Estate in Northamptonshire became so much in favour with K. Hen. 8. that he had summons to Parliament in the 21. Year of that King's Reign by the title of Lord Morley and in the 22. of the said Reign Dom. 1530. being one of the Peers at that time sitting in Parliament subscribed that Declaration then sent to P. Clement 7. whereby intimation was given to his Holiness that unless he would comply with K. Henry in the cause of his divorce from Qu. Catherine the farther
character given of him by one the knew him in Ireland I shall here insert for a conclusion of those things I have said of him which is this He was stately without disdain familiar without contempt very continent and chast of body no more than enough liberal learned and a great lover of learning perfect in blazoning of Arms skilful of Antiquities of wit fresh and lively in consultations very temperate in utterance happy which his experience and wisdom hath made artificial a preferrer of many a Father to his Servants and both in war and peace of commendable courage WILLIAM GOOD was born in the ancient Town of Glastenbury in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. Feb. 1545 afterwards Fellow Master of Arts 1552 and about that time Humanity reader in the said College After Queen Mary came to the Crown being then a most zealous R. Catholick he was promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice in his own Country called Middle Chinnoke and to a little Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Comba octava in Nov. 1556 besides the rectory of a School in the said City All which he keeping till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and for some time after he voluntarily left them and his native Country for Religion sake and retiring to Tourney in Flanders entred himself there into the Society of Jesus in 1562 aged 35. After he had served his probationship he went into Ireland with Father David the titular Archbishop of Armagh who left no stone unremoved there for the settling of that Kingdom in the Catholick faith and obedience Four years being spent in that Country not without some danger he went to Lovaine where he met with Rob. Persons about to enter into the said Society whom he strengthned with many arguments in order thereunto In 1577 he was called to Rome to take upon him the profession of the four vows which being done he went into Sweeden and Poland in the company of Anth. Possevin to settle certain affairs relating to the society Two years after he returned to Rome and became Confessor to the English Coll. there newly converted from an Hospital dedicated to the Holy Trinity to a Seminary for the educating the youth of England that profess the R. Cath. Religion Vir fuit probatae virtutis doctrinae as one of his society saith atque imprimis in historiis Sanctorum Angliae optimè versatus quorum res gestas in templo collegii Anglicani curavit coloribus exprimi quae subinde in aes incisae prodierunt tacito ipsius inscriptae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea Robnae 1584. fol. In the Library also of the English Coll. at Rome there is extant a Manuscript digested according to the years of Christ and Kings of Britaine containing the Acts of the Saints of Britain Which book is said there among those of England to have been composed and written by our Author Good who dying at Naples 5. July according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 was buried in the College of the Jesuits there who have yet a great respect for his name One or more of whom have promised me a copy of his Epitaph if there be any but no answer have I yet received PHILIP SIDNEY the short-liv'd Ornament of his noble Family and the Marcellus of the English Nation hath deserv'd and without dispute or envy enjoyed the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding Ages The Poets of his time especially Spencer reveren'd him not only as a Patron but a Master and he was almost the only Person in any age I will not except Mecaenas that could teach the best rules of Poetry and most freely reward the performances of Poets He was a Man of a sweet nature of excellent behaviour of much and withall of well digested learning so that rarely wit courage breeding and other additional accomplishments of conversation have met in so high a degree in any single Person It is to be wish'd that his life might be written by some judicious hand and that the imperfect essay of Sir Fulk Grevill L Brook might be supply'd In the mean time I am forc'd to consider him only as an Author and to give him these short notes of his life and education He was Son of Sir Hen. Sidney before-mention'd by the Lady Mary his Wife eldest Daughter of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland was born as 't is supposed at Penshurst in Kent 29. Nov. 1554 and had his Christian name given to him by his Father from K Philip then lately married to Qu. Mary While he was very young he was sent to Christ Ch. to be improved in all sorts of learning and was contemporary there with Rich. Carew Author of The Survey of Cornwall where continuing till he was about 17 years of age under the tuition of Dr. Tho. Thornton Canon of that house he was in June 1572 sent to travel for on the 24 Aug. following when the Massacre fell out at Paris he was then there and at that time as I conceive he with other English Men did fly to the house of Francis Walsingham Embassadour there from the Queen of England Thence he went through Loraine and by Strasburgh and Heydelburg to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following as his said life written by Sir Fulk Grevill his companion and friend attesteth But what is added there that Hubert Languet accompanied him in the whole course of his 3 years travels is a great mistake as will appear by Languets Epistles to our Author Philip Sidney printed more than once For so it was that in the next spring in May 1573 Larguet removed to Vienna where our Author met him again and stayed with him till September when he went into Hungary and those parts Thence he journied into Italy where he continued all the Winter following and most of the Summer an 1574 and then he returned into Germany with Languet and next spring he returned by Frankfort Heydelberg and Antwerp home into England about May 1575. The like mistakes are in the said life concerning Languets coming into England in Februar 1578 at which time 't is said he was about 66 years of age whereas he was but 61 that also he and Sidney parted at Sea which could not be for Duke John Caâ—â—mire with whom he came went away so suddenly that Languet could not take leave of him In the Year 1576 he was sent by the Queen to Rodolph the Emperour to condole the death of Maximilian and also to other Princes of Germany at which time he caused this inscription to be written under his Arms which he then hung up in all places where he lodged Illustriss generosiss virs Philippi Sidneii Angli Proregis Hiberniae filii Comitum Warwici Leycestriae nepotis sereniss Reginae Angliae ad Caesarem Legati The next year in his return he saw that gallant Prince Don John de Austria Vice Roy
from Rome was made Archdeacon of Richmond on the resignation of Tho. Winter In 1531. he was incorporated Doctor of the Laws as he had stood in an University beyond the Seas and was afterwards made Archdeacon of Chester In 1541. May 29. he was consecrated Bishop of Bathe and Wells and had restitution of the temporalities of that See made to him the day following year 1547 He gave way to fate on the 29. Sept. in fifteen hundred forty and seven and was buried in the nave of the Cath. Ch. at Wells By his last Will and Test dated 12. Aug. and proved on the eleventh of November an 1547. he bequeathed an hundred pounds for the conveying his body from London to Wells for the interring it in the Cath. Ch. there and for a Tomb to be laid or set over it To New coll he gave 40. l. and to Wykehams coll near Winchester 20 l. The next person immediately going before who was B. of B. and Wells was one Joh. Clerk of the Univ. of Cambridge Chapl. to Card. Wolsey Doctor of the Laws of Bononia afterwards Master of the Rolls and Dean of Windsore who after he had undergone several Messages and Embassies for and from Card. Wolsey and the King was at length sent Embassador to the Duke of Cleve to give a reason why K. Hen. 8. did divorce from him his Sister Anne Which being done he fell extremely sick at Dunkirk in Flanders in his return thence in the month of Sept. 1540. occasioned as some say by poyson given to him Whereupon making his last Will at that place on the 23. of the same month and in the same year within few days after which he died he bequeathed his body to be buried in the principal or chief Church of the Town of Calais and withal that there be a stone laid over his grave with this inscription to be put thereon Hic jacet Johannes Episcopus Bathonienfis Wellens Anglus qui cum obiisset plures insignes legationes tandem obiit diem suum in legatione Clevensi anno doon Millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo Which Will was proved 17. January the same year So that how it comes to pass that there should be almost the same inscription on a grave-stone sometimes in S. Botolphs Church near Algate London wherein most authors hitherto have reported that he was buried I know not In the Pallace-Treasury at Westminster I have seen a bundle of books written as is supposed by Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury and this Dr. Clerk B. of Bathe and Wells Which books contain a defence of the Kings title of Supreme Head and of the divorce from his first Wife Queen Katherine and several matters against Cardinal Pole He the said Clerk is numbred by Leland among the learned and famous men of his time having written and published several things among which is his Oratio pro Henr. 8. Angliae Reg. Defens apud Leonem x. in Exhibitione operis regii 'T is against Luther but where or when printed it appears not only that it was published in qu. I have seen many of his letters which he wrote while he continued in Rome 1524. c. to Card. Wolsey giving him an account of the affairs of that place he being then one of that Cardinals Agents to obtain the Papacy for him WILLIAM MIAGH or Meagh Upon the death of Walt. Wellesley before-mentioned one Donald O-Beachan a Minorite was by the Popes provision declared Bishop of Kildare in July 1540. but within few days after he died In Nov. following one Thaddeus Reynold LL. D. was elected upon the like provision but the election being rejected by the King Will. Miagh before-mentioned an Irish-man born as I conceive who had spent some time among the Civilians in Oxon was promoted to the said See of Kildare and afterwards became one of the Privy Council to K. H. 8. in Ireland He yielded up his last breath on the 15. Decemb. in fifteen hundred forty and eight and was succeeded after the See had laid void one year and seven months by Thomas Lancaster who about that time obtained liberty of keeping the Deanry of Kilkenny in Commendam with it ROBERT WAKEMAN a Worcestershire man born and a Benedictine Monk was educated for a time among those of his Order in Gloucester coll and afterwards became the last Abbat of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire and the Kings Chaplain In the year 1541. Sept. 20. he being then as 't is said Bach. of Div. was consecrated the first Bishop of Gloucester where sitting about 8 years gave way to fate about the beginning of Decemb. in fifteen hundred forty and nine In his life-time he erected a Tomb for the place of his burial in the Abbey Church of Tewkesbury in the north side of a little chappel there but buried at Worthington saith a certain author meaning as I suppose Wormington in Glocestershire yet I am more apt to believe at Forthampton in the said county where he had a house and private chappel there Qu. MILES BARON alias Fitz-Gerald an Irish man-born or at least of Irish extract was bred a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin and among those of his order in Oxon where they had three Monasteries was for a time educated in Theological learning Afterwards returning into Ireland became Prior of Inistiock in the county of Kilkenny and in 1527. was consectated Bishop of Ossory with liberty then given to him to keep his Priorship in commendam Before his consecration he built a new Campanile in his Monastery as also a cloyster adjoyning and after his consecration he repaired the house at Kilkenny belonging to his See and was a benefactor to his Church He died in a good old age in fifteen hundred and fifty year 1550 or as others say in fifty one and was buried in the Monastery of Inistiock before-mentioned among his predecessors EDMUND BUTLER an Irish man born natural Son of Peter Earl of Ormond was bred a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin and for some time studied as is supposed among those of his Order in Oxon but what degree he took in divinity in this University it doth not appear Afterwards he became Prior of the Canon regulars of S. Edmund of Athassell in the county of Tipperary and at length Archbishop of Cashills to which See being consecrated in 1527. became one of the privy council to K. Hen. 8. in the Kingdom of Ireland and had then liberty allowed him to keep his Priorship in Commendum He died on the 5. of March in fifteen hundred and fifty and was buried in his Cath. Church at Cashills near the Archbishops Throne See more of him in Sir Jam. Wares book entit Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae p. 172. In the said See succeeded one Rowland Baron alias Fitz-Gerald descended from the antient Family of his name living in Ireland ROBERT SYLVEstER was a northern man born but whether
cause both short and wearisome afterwards unto him Thus Dr. Will. Allen in his Answer to the Libel intit The execution of justice in England The said Dr. Ogelthorp was deprived of his Bishoprick about Midsomer in the year 1559. and about the beginning of the next year died suddenly of an Apoplexy year 1560 otherwise had he lived 't is thought the Queen would have been favourable to him He founded at Tadcaster before-mention'd a Free-School and Hospital dedicated to our Saviour Jesus Christ called The School and Hospital of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of Tadcaster The School is endowed with 40 l. per an and the Hospital with revenues for 12 poor People each to have one shilling every week In the beginning of Ch. 1. there were but six in pay how many now I know not The said Bishop built a fair house in Headley upon Bramham in Yorkshire where there is a memory by verses and his Arms over the door I think yet remaining After his deprivation and death Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle was designed to succeed him in Carlilâ— but vhe refusing tho much pressed to it the Bishoprick was confer'd on one Joh. Best a learned and pious man RICHARD PATES an Oxfordshire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 1. June 1522. and the year following Bach. of Arts. Which degree being compleated by Determination he went to Paris where he was made Master of Arts and at his return Archdeacon of Winchester on the resignation of Joh. Fox in 1526. In 1528 he resigned that dignity being that year made Archd. of Lincoln upon the death of Will. Smyth Doctor of decrees By which title as also that of Bach. of Arts of this University and Master of Paris he supplicated on the 17. Jan. 1530. that he might not be bound to be present at Exequies in S. Maries Church which shews that he was not then incorporated Afterwards he was imployed in several Embassies and in 1534. I find him resident in the Emperours Court and there again in 1540. in which year wss a pass-port made for him by Secretary Cromwell to Calais in order to reside with the Emperour as Embassador for the K. of England In which pass-port he is stiled Dr. Rich. Pates Archdeacon of Lincoln In 1542. he was attained of High Treason whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on George Heneage and his Prebendship of East-Harptre in the Church of Wells on Joh. Heryng LL. D. In the year 1554. he being preferr'd by Q. Mary to the Episcopal See of Worcester had restitution made to him by the name of Rich. Pate only of the temporalities belonging thereunto 5. March the same year at which time Hooper his Predecessor had been dead about 3 weeks After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was not imprisoned in the Tower of London as Jo. Fox saith but being deprived he went beyond the Seas sate in the Council of Trent uninvited as one saith as he had done before and whether he died there or at Rome I cannot tell He was a learned man of a peaceable disposition zealous in the Faith he professed yet always against inflicting corporal punishments on such that were opposite in Religion to him In the said See of Worcester succeeded Edwin Sandys Son of Will. Sandys of Furnes in Lancashire Justice of the Peace and the Kings Receiver of that County by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Joh. Dixon of London To which See being elected upon Pates his deprivation by the name and title of Edwin Sandes Capellanus regius SS Thol Professor had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging to it 23. March 2. Elizab. dom 1559. JAMES TURBERVYLE a younger Son of Joh. Turbervyle son and heir of Richard second son of William first son of Sir Robert Turbervyle of Bere and Anderston in Dorsetshire Knight who died 6. Aug. 1424. by Margaret his Wife of the Family of the Carews Barons was born at Bere before-mentioned which is now a little Market Town in the said County educated in Wykchams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1514. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated in July 1520. and on the 8. of March following was elected the publick Scribe or Registrary of the University on the resignation of Tho. Fykes M. A. and Fellow of the said coll In 1529. he left his Fellowship which he kept with his Scribes place being then promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice as he was soon after to a Dignity and taking the degree of Doct. of Div. in another University was incorporated here in 1532. In 1555. he being then Preb. of Winchester and elected to the Episcopal See of Exeter on the death of Joh. Harman was consecrated thereunto in St. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London with Will. Glynn to Bangor on the eighth day of Sept. the same year and on the 21. of the said month had the temporalities of the said See delivered to him and there sate with due commendations for about four years In 1559. 2. Elib he was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and afterwards lived a private life saith one and another that he lived at his own liberty to the end of his life adding that he was an honest Gentleman but a simple Bishop and a third that he lived a private life many years and died in great liberty But at length a fourth person who comes lagg as having lately appeared in print I mean Richard Izack then Chamberlain of Exeter tells us in his Antiquities of the City of Exeter full of mistakes that he died on the first of Nov. 1559. and in another place in the said book that after his deprivation he lived a private life ANTHONY DUNSTAN a Benedictine Monk of Westminster received his Academical education in Glocester coll in the N. W. Suburb of Oxon in an apartment therein built for such young Monks of Westminster that were designed for the University In 1525. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity in the School of that faculty and in the year following he occurs by the name and tit of Anth. Dunstan Prior of the Students of Gloc. coll before-mentioned In 1538. he proceeded in divinity being then Abbat of the Benedictine Monks of Einsham near to and in the County of Oxon and in 1545. he by the name and title of Anthony Kechyn the Kings Chaplain and Bishop elect of Landaff received the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 8. of May the same year being then about 68 years of age He is much blamed by one of his successors in the See of Landaff for impoverishing his Bishoprick accounted by some to have been before his time one of the best in England and since to be the worst He gave way to fate 31. Oct. in fifteen hundred sixty and
writers under the year 1537. Feb. 21. John Robyns John Mason of All 's Coll. Only twelve more were admitted and about four supplicated Bach. of Div. Four only were admitted to and eleven or more supplicated for that Degree whom I cannot find admitted this or some years after Among them were 1 William Sandwych a Benedictine Monk afterwards Warden of Canterbury College in Oxon. 2 Robert Carter of Magdalen College about this time Steward of the Houshold of Cardinal Wolsey and afterwards Canon of the College of King Hen. 8. in Oxon. 3 Oswald Benson Minister of the House of St. Robert near to Knaresborough of the Order of the Holy Trinity Doct. of Civ Law June ult Edwarde Carne or Kerne now or lately Principal of Greek hall in St. Edwards Parish He was the Son of Howell Carne of Cowbridge in Glamorganshire by his Wife Cicely Daugh. of William Kemys of Newport and lineally descended from Thomas Le Câ—rne second Son of Ithyn King of Gwent He was a wise Man learned in the Civil Law and afterwards Knighted by the Emperour Charles 5. In 1530 I find him the Kings Orator at Rome to remonstrate to his holiness that the King was not bound by the Law to make his appearance either by Person or by proxy in the Court of Rome according to a citation which was coming to him for his appearance in the matter of his divorce from Queen Catherine In the Reign of Queen Mary who valued him he was Ambassador there for her as also for Queen Elizabeth but when the Pope was stirred with anger upon the resolution of the last to expel his power from England he commanded Sir Edward Carne to lay down his Office of Ambassador and to take upon him the Government of the English Hospital at Rome Yet as 't is thought by some this crafty old Knight did voluntary chuse his banishment out of a burning zeal to the Roman Catholick Religion and eagerly desired to continue there though sent for to come home by the Queen rather than return to his Country which was then ready to be overspread with Heresie as he call'd it He died at Rome on the 14 of the Cal. of Febr. according to the accompt there followed in 1561 about which time the Abbat of Martinego the Popes Nuncio was denied entrance into England and was buried there in the Church belonging to the Monastery of St. Gregory in Coelo He was always accounted the last Ambassadour of the Kings of England to the Pope till Roger Earl of Castlemain was sent thither by King James 2. an 1687. Jim ult Richard Gwent of Allsouls College Principal or Chief Moderator of Canon Law School situated near St. Edwards Church He was about this time Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards of London in the place as it seems of one William Clyffe Dean of the Arches and at length in 1542 Archdeacon of Huntingdon upon the promotion of William Knyght to the See of Bath and Wells He gave way to sate in 1543 being then Archdeacon of two places at least London and Huntingdon and was buried in the middle of St. Pauls Cathedral in London This Person who was a Welsh Man born was well known to John Leland the Antiquary who in his Encomia illustrium eruditorum virorum in Anglia doth highly celebrate him by the name of Richard Ventanus Juridicus for his virtues and learning Feb. 13. Henry Morgan about this time Principal of St. Edwards hall situated in the Church-yard of St. Edward and near to Canon Law School He was afterwards Bishop of St. David Doct. of Can. Law Mar. 10. Richard Muge or Mugg of Allsouls College He was now beneficed and dignified in the Church and was accounted by all that knew him a learned Canonist Doct. of Div. Not one was admitted this year nor one supplicated for the said Degree only Richard Stubbs or Stubbys Master of Arts Bachelaur of Divinity and Master of Balliol College Incorporations May… William Middleton Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine June…Richard Brynckley a Minorite or Franciscan Fryer Dr. of Divinity of Cambridge and as our publick register saith General Minister of the Minorites throughout England His supplication which was granted simpliciter and his incorporation are set down in the said register under this year 1524 yet perusing Cambridge tables containing the names of such who were admitted Doctors of that University he is put down there under the year 1527 as being then admitted D. of D. In the said Generalship or Provincialship he succeeded Dr. Henry Standish whom I have mention'd among the Writers and was succeeded by Steph. Baron a Cambridge Man Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and an eminent Preacher of his time This year but the day or month appears not was a Supplicate made for one Rowland Lee Doctor of the Canon Law of Cambridge to be incorporated into that degree but whether he really was so I cannot justly tell his Incorporation having perhaps been neglected to be registred This Rowl Lee was the Son of Will. Lee of Morpeth in Northumberland Treasurer of Barwick by Isabel his Wife Daughter and Heir of Andr. Trollop Kt. who after he had been educated in Academical Learning in S. Nicholas Hostle in Cambridge became first Chancellour to Dr. Jeffr. Blythe Bishop of Lichfield and afterwards Prebendary of Corburgh in that Church At length for the several Services which he had done to please the unsatiable desire of K. Hen. 8. one of which was the marrying him to the Lady Anna Bulleyne was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Lichfield to which being elected by the Name and Title of Rowl Lee Decretorum Doctor Canonicus Prebendarius Eccles Cath. Lichf was consecrated thereunto 19 Apr. 1534 and on the 8 of May following received the Temporalities belonging thereunto In the year following he was made President of the Marches of Wales and dying at Shrewsbury 24 Jan. 1543 was buried there He had a Brother named George Dean of S. Chadds in Shrewsbury who dying without issue as his Brother the Bishop did the Sister of them named Isabel Wife of Rog. Fowler of Staffordshire became Heir to them both An. Dom. 1525. An. 17 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Musgrave Proct. Anthony Sutton of Magd. Coll. John Tooker lately of Exeter now of Cardinal Coll. Bach. of Arts. July 17. Robert Talbot of New Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Antiquary Besides him were about 68 that were admitted and about 10 that supplicated several of whom were afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Bach. of Civ Law Octob. ult Robert Dobell See more among the Bachelaurs of Can Law following Bach. of Can. Law July 11. Arth. Bokeley or Bulkley of New Inn as it seems He was admitted Doctor the next day as I shall anon tell you and was afterwards Bishops of Bangor Oct. ult Robert Dobell He is sometimes written Dovell and Davel and therefore I take him to be the same with Robert Dovell or Davell who
and in his Chauntorship by Rich. Boughton Besides these were four that supplicated for the said degree among whom were Thomas Summaster of All 's Coll. and John Chandler Incorporations July 11. Lancolot Andrewes M. A. of Cambridge He was of Pembr Hall in that University and lately one of the honorary or tituler Scholars of Jesus Coll. in this University Afterwards he became Master of the said Hall Doct of Div. and Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Richard Bancroft promoted to the See of London an 1597 Dean of the said Church of Westminster in the room of Gabriel Goodman deceased 1601. Soon after he was made Bishop of Chichester then of Ely and at length on the 22 Feb. 1618 was translated to Winchester He died in Winchester House in Southwark 26 Sept. 1626 and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Saviour there Several Authors having made mention of this worthy person I shall forbear to speak any farther of him only say this that he was the most eminent Divine of our Nation in his time William Pembertom M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day This person who was second Son of Hen. Pemberton of Moreton in Châ—shire Gent. was afterwards Parson of High Ongar in Essex Doctor of Div. and a Publisher of several Sermons among which are 1 The godly Merchant preached at Pauls Cross on 1 Tim. 6. 6. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Sermon on Deut. 1. 16. 17. Lond. 1619. oct He died 10 March 1622 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at High Ongar In the same month of July was a Supplicate made for one Will. Temple M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated but whether he was so it appears not He was the same person who was Fell. of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Master of the Free School in the City of Lincoln Secretary to Sir Philip Sidney when he received his Deaths Wound at Zutphâ—n and after his death to Will. Davison one of the Secretaries of State and at length to Rob. â— of Essex Earl Marshal of England whom if I mistake not he served while he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In 1609 he upon the importunate Solicitations of Dr. James Vsher accepted of the Provostship of Trinity Coll. near to Dublin after which he was knighted and made one of the Masters of the Chancery in Ireland He hath written 1 Pro Maldupetti de unica methodo defensione contra Diplodophilum commentatio Lond. 1581 oct 2 Nonnullarum â— Physicis Ethicis quaestionum explicatio pro Petro Ramo contra a Lieblerum 3. Epistola de Rami dialectica ad Johannem Piscatorem Argentinensem 4. Analysis Anglica triginta psalmorum à primo scilicet ad tricesimum primum Lond. 1611. oct He gave way to fate an 1626 or thereabouts aged 72 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of the Holy Trinity leaving then behind him the Character of à person of great piety and learning An. Dom. 1582. An. 24 Elizab. An. 25 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rob. Hoveden D. D. Warden of All 's Coll. July 12. Proct. Robert Cook of Brasn Coll. John Browne of Ch. Ch. The day when they were elected appears not because of the imperfectness of the Registers Bach. of Arts. March 28. Simon Presse of Broadgates Hall He was afterwards Minister of Egginton in Derbyshire and published A Sermon concerning the right use of things indifferent on 1 Cor. 8. ver 10 11 12 13. Oxon 1597 oct What other things he hath published I know not April 31. Geo. Abbot of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury July 4. John Buckridge of S. Johns Coll. He was made Bishop of Ely in 1627. 10. Tim. Willys of S Johns Coll. He was afterwards ejected from his place in that House for certain Misdemeanours but getting soon after into the favour of Qu. Elizabeth he was by her diploma made a Doctor Bullatus of the Laws I suppose and by her sent Embassador into Muscovy Nov. 15. Ralph Winwood lately of S. Johns now of Magd. Coll. See more among the Masters an 1587. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day March 18. Philip Jones One of both his names was Author of Three Sermons on Jam. 1. 9 10. Lond. 1588 oct Whether written by him or by Philip Jones who was admitted Bach. of the Civ Law an 1562 or by a third Phil. Jones who as a Bristol man born and a Member of Ch. Ch. was matriculated in 1581 aged 18 I know not Adm. 152. Mast of Arts. Mar. 30. Will. Warford of Thin May 4. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. June 18. John Harmar John Terry of New Coll. July 2. Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. 4 Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall Oct. 12. Will. Wâ—gge of New Coll. One Will. Wygge sometimes called Way was executed for being a Seminary and denying the Oath of Supremacy at Kingston in Surrey on the first day of Octob. 1588. Whether the same with him who was M. of A. I know not I have mention'd another Will Wygge or Wygges under the year 1566. Feb. 6. Edw Philipps of Broadgates Hall 7. Rob. Abbot of Baâ—l Coll. 15. John King of Ch. Ch. Mar. 23. Hen. Perry of Gloc. Hall Adm. 60. Bach. of Div. July 5. John Garbrand of New 10. Hen Robinson of Queens 13. Thomas Holland of Balliol Coll. Feb. 19. Dav. Powell of Jesus Coll. Joh. Argall of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. Will. Merick of New Coll. Chancellour of Bangor c. Clement Colmer of Brasn Coll. Chancellour of the Diocess of Durham was admitted the same day Miles Lee and Rich. Bellyngham both Bachelaurs of the Civ Law did supplicate for the said degree but were not admitted Doct. of Phys July 5. Anthony Aylworth of New Coll. the Kings Professor of Physick and Physitian to Queen Eliz. He died 18 Apr. 1619 and was buried in New Coll. Chappel 21. Will. Donne of Exeter Coll. Doct. of Div. July 5. William Souch or Zouch of Ch. Ch. On the 14 of Feb. 1583 he became Chauntor of Salisbury on the resignation of Tobie Mathews D. D. John Garbrand of New Coll. was admitted the same day He accumulated the degrees in Divinity Meredith Hanmer of C. C. Coll. was also admitted the same day On the 2 Apr. Tho. Blague a Student in Divinity and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to the Queen supplicated for the said degree of Doct. of Div. but whether admitted it appears not In 1591 Feb. 1. he being then D. of D. and about that time Master of Clare Hall in Cambridge was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of John Coldwell M. D. promoted to the See of Salisbury and in 1604 or thereabouts he became Rector of Bangor upon the Translation of Dr. Rich. Vaughan from Chester to London He died in Octob. 1611 and was succeeded in his Deanery by Rich. Miâ—bourne D. D. who was installed in that Dignity on the 11
Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated the degrees in Divinity … Rich. Lloyd of Linc. Coll. He was about this time dignified in Wales and dying at Ruabon in Denbighshire of which place I think he was Minister about 1642 was buried there Jun. ult Samps Price of Exet. July 7. Rich Tillesley of S. Joh. Joh. Tapsell of Mert. Coll. This Joh. Tapsell who was the Son of Rob. Tapsell was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon about the begining of Febr. 1571 admitted prob Fellow of the said house of Merton an 1593 took the degrees in Arts being then accounted a most excellent Disputant and Orator and a person of prodigious memory In 1599 Jul. 9 he according to the Statute of his Coll. did publickly dispute and speak speeches against the opinion of Aristotle which the said Satute stiles varying in the common Refectory of that house on these three Thâ—ses 1 Juvenis est idoneus auditor moralis philosophiae 2 Probanda est in sene verecumdia 3 Bonus à malo per dimidiam vitae partem differt Which Speeches being esteemed most admirable in their kind and of a Ciceronian stile were upon the desire of many of the Auditors printed in an octavo vol. but in what year I know not for few Copies being printed I could never see one He was afterwards a Lecturer in the City of York and at length in London where he died about 1630. July 9. John Holt 12. Dan. Featley of C. C. Coll. The first of these last two was Prebendary of Westminster and afterwards President of the said Coll. of C. C. He died 10 Jan. 1630 and was buried in the Church of S. Peter at Westminster whereupon Dr. Lodowick Weems or Wemmys succeeded him in his Prebendship As for the other Dr. Featly alias Fairclough will be large mention made of him in the second vol. Dec. 16. Francis Gibbons of Ch. Ch. He died in the Parish of S. Cross of which he was Parson near to Shrewsbury in 1639 or thereabouts Incorporations July 14. Arthur Lake M. A. of Cambridge He was Son if I mistake not to Sir Tho. Lake one of the Secretaries of State These following Masters of Cambr. were incorporated on the 15 July being the next day after the Act had been concluded Thomas Goad Mast of Arts of Kings Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Archb. Abbot Rector of Hadley in Suffolk Doct. of Div. Prebendary of Canterbury c. a great and general Scholar exact Critick and Historian a Poet Schoolman and Divine This pâ—rson who was Son of Dr. Roger Goad Provost of Kings Coll. before mention'd died in the year 1636 or thereabouts Another Tho. Goad was Doctor of the Laws and the Kings Professor of that Faculty in Cambridge who died about the beginning of 1666. Of one Tho. Goade see in the Pamphlet entit A Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 27. Benj. Laney M. of Arts. He was the fourth Son of a wealthy Merchant of Ipsuâ—ych named Joh. Laney Esq who sparing nothing that might advance his education took him from School and caused him to be admitted a Student in Christs Coll. in Cambr. Where making great proficiency in his studies was removed to Pembroke Hall of which he became Fellow and contemporary there with Ralph Brownrig Afterwards he was made Master of that house Doct. of Div. Vicechancellour of the University Chaplain in ordinary to K. Ch. 1 Prebendary of Winchester and about the same time of Westminster in the place of Lambert Osbaldeston deprived an 1638 and afterwards upon the restauration of Osbaldeston by the Long Parliament in the place of Griffith Williams an 1641. Soon after he was outed of his Mastership of Pembroke Hall for his Loyalty and about that time did attend in his Majesties Service in the Treaty at Vxbridge being then esteemed a learned Divine Afterwards when his Majesty Ch. 2. was in exile he did in a most dutiful manner attend him and for several years after suffer'd great calamity as innumerable Royalists did Upon his Majesty's return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his Headship and in recompence of his sufferings he was first made Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Turner in which Dignity he was installed 24 of July 1660 and soon after had the Bishoprick of Peterborough confer'd upon him with liberty to keep his Mastership in commendam to which he received Consecration in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster on Sunday Decemb. 2. an 1660. Afterwards upon the death of Dr. Rob. Sanderson he was translated to Lincoln and on the death of Dr. M. Wrenn to Ely where he sate to the time of his death in the latter end of 1674. Five of his Sermons preached before the King were printed in 1668 9. And after his death were published his Observations on a letter about liberty and necessity c. Lond. 1676 in tw which Letter was written to the Duke of Newcastle by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury Rich. Holdsworth M. A. of S. Johns Coll. This most eminent and loyal person was a Native of Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland where for some time he was educated in Gramaticals afterwards being sent to the said Coll. he made wonderful proficiency in Arts and Theology became successively Divinity Professor of Gresham Coll. being about that time D. of D. Master of Emanuel Coll. several times Vicechancellour of Cambridge Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Dr. Owen Gwynn Master of S. John's Coll. before mention'd deceased an 1633 which Dignity Gwynn had confer'd upon him in 1622 upon the resignation of Dr. Laud and at length upon the grant of the Deanery of Durham to Dr. Christopher Potter in the latter end of 1645 had the grant of the Deanery of Worcester made unto him having in the beginning of the grand Rebellion refused the Bishoprick of Bristow But the principles of this reverend Doctor being wholly orthodox he suffered therefore very much during the miserable condition which the Members of the Long Parliament had brought this Kingdom to lost most if not all his Spiritualities was several times imprison'd yet afterwards being at liberty he attended his Majesty in his disconsolate and afflicted condition at Hampton Court and in the Isle of Wight At length after he had seen him crown'd with Martyrdom he surrendered up his pious soul to him that gave it on the 22 Aug. 1649. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Peter le poore in London of which Church he had been Minister till the violence of the Presbyterians forced him thence an 1642. After his death were published some of his Works viz. 1 Valley of vision in 21 Sermons printed 1651. qu. 2 Praelectiones Theologicae habitae in Collegio Greshamensi apud Londinenses Lond. 1661. fol. which last book was published by Dr. Pearson his Nephew who hath set an account of his life before that book Henry Burton Abraham Gibson Of these two who were